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Published at 28th of February 2022 06:14:01 AM


Chapter 1088

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Holy Hiram Empire, the imperial capital, alenmuya, suburb, Poji Town, musket department.

Inside the fire gun department, there are black coal ash everywhere, which seems to be a heat wave to roast people.

The foundation bed is a compacted dry mound with a rectangular bellows furnace made of clay, just like a huge sarcophagus.

On both sides of the bellows furnace are pedal bellows. There are four strong men wearing only shorts and bare upper body, holding the steel rope with both hands. Whenever they step on the thick pedal, the flame in the furnace will ignite high.

The wind that shook the ground repeated over and over again, sounding like the breath of a huge monster.

In order to produce qualified iron, the monster named "bellows furnace" moaned, roared and rolled.

Two years ago, El became rich for no reason. Suddenly, he had a lot of money to buy the equipment needed for the research and development of muskets, and had hired qualified craftsmen.

Originally, the musket department had only three poor craftsmen.

Now, although there are still only three craftsmen led by Oleg, there are five more apprentices in charge of fighting.

At this time, El was also in the musket department.

Standing not far from the stove, El wiped the hot sweat from his forehead and stared at the fire with Oleg.

Over the past two years, El has devoted most of his energy to the research and development of muskets. Because he has watched the work of Oleg and others for many years, El now knows a lot about forging.

"Charcoal!"

Oleg commanded briefly.

An apprentice quickly poured a basket of charcoal prepared long ago into the stove. Immediately, sparks splashed and a blue flame sprang up.

The two apprentices who are specially responsible for pulling the bellows will turn the black charcoal shadow into red whenever they step on some pedals. The temperature in the furnace is getting higher and higher.

The flame turned bright yellow.

After burning like this for a while——

"Remove the charcoal!"

Oleg ordered again.

An apprentice guarding the stove immediately pulled the charcoal aside.

Oleg walked quickly to the stove and, with a special clip, took a long strip out of the stove.

The shape of this long strip is quite strange.

It is neither the body of a long sword nor the barrel of a gun.

Like a stick that is neither too long nor too short.

But the middle of the stick is empty, just like a water pipe.

Outside the "water pipe", the adhesive layer has been burned to dry soil“ The whole body of "water pipe" has been burned into a dazzling red by the flame.

Oleg held out his empty hand and tried the water temperature in the nearby sink.

The water temperature in this tank is just right.

After confirming the water temperature of the tank, Oleg directly immersed the red "water pipe" into the tank.

Hiss!

A large number of bubbles appear in the water tank, the hot gas rises, and the slightly harsh water vapor transpiration sound resounds through this small forging room. The aftersound of bubble sound continues for a long time.

After quenching, Oleg hurried to the processing room and used a grindstone to remove the soil stuck to the "water pipe".

After removing all the soil from the "water pipe", Oleg began to check whether there were defects on the "water pipe".

El also stood aside, looking nervously at Oleg's inspection of the "water pipe".

What they have just started is to quench this "water pipe".

Let this "water pipe" maintain good toughness while having sufficient hardness.

After checking the "water pipe" for a long time, Oleg finally breathed a sigh.

Then he looked up and smiled at El:

"Sir, the barrel made this time is quite perfect. There are no defects. "

"Really?" El's face glowed with uncontrollable joy. "Great!"

This "water pipe" is the barrel of the gun.

For a long time, the research and development of firearms has been quite difficult.

Because they knew nothing about the production principle of fire guns, the craftsmen led by Oleg disassembled the fire guns into parts, and then pushed them back bit by bit to study the production and use principle of fire guns.

It was not until half a year ago that Oleg finally mastered the manufacturing principle of firearm barrel, and then began to make their own barrel.

Understanding principles and being able to make are two different things.

Although the manufacturing principle of firearm barrel has been preliminarily mastered, the manufacturing of firearm barrel is still difficult and problems occur frequently.

Although the barrel looks like a thin and narrow water pipe, it has high requirements for the hardness and toughness of iron.

Making an unqualified barrel will cause the projectile to explode in the gun.

It took half a year. Until today, they have finally made a qualified barrel.

Why isn't El excited?

The research and development of muskets has taken another big step forward, which makes El feel very happy.

The extremely comfortable mood made El feel as if the whole person was floating in the clouds.

El took the black barrel from Oleg's hand and looked at it carefully as he fondled it.

Just then, a familiar male voice suddenly sounded from behind El:

"El! I'll come! "

El turned his head and looked behind him.

"Gabriel?" El raised her eyebrows. "Why are you here?"

"Of course I came to see you." Gabriel said angrily, "do you know how many days you've been here in bogey?"

"Well..." El touched his chin and thought for a while, "a month?"

"It's only one month! You've been here for almost two months! "

"You've been away from home for too long this time, so I came to see you."

"I haven't been home for nearly two months..." El said apologetically and scratched her hair. "I'm so sorry, Gabriel, you're worried."

"Well, don't say so much."

Then Gabriel nuzzled outside.

"El, let's go to the next bar for a few drinks. I have something to tell you."

"What happened?" El wondered.

Gabriel sighed.

"El, do you know - the whole world changed a lot when you lived in this place where birds don't shit for more than two months."

"The reason why I came to see you this time is not only to meet you I haven't seen for a long time, but also to tell you about some major events that happened in the world when you lived."

"If my guess is right - in the past two months or so, you have focused on the research and development of muskets without paying attention to the changes in the world. Am I right?"

"Hahaha..." El smiled awkwardly, "that's it..."




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