There was no harm in confirming that his soul had traveled to another world. At least he didn't have to think about where his body had gone, and he didn't have to worry about it anymore.
Soon, he put aside the question of "where did my body go?" and began to work on other things.
In fact, he had a lot of things to do, but they were all delayed because he wanted to find his body.
Now that this was over, he could do something else.
The first thing he had to do was to refine steel.
This was all thanks to Palin. After decades of research, Palin had finally touched the threshold of the "blast furnace" technology and found some of the more important keys.
Palin was inspired by the fact that when firewood was burned into charcoal, the temperature would be higher, so he tried to calcine coal. He made a lot of mistakes and wasted a lot of time and materials, but he finally found a way to solve the problem.
As a result, he obtained something called "refined coal", which, when burned, could produce a much higher temperature than ordinary coal.
With this material, the most important step of making a blast furnace was completed. The following design and perfecting work was nothing more than some fine-tuning work. Palin and a group of craftsmen pondered for several years and finally succeeded in building a blast furnace.
This blast furnace was not like what Sui had imagined, where raw materials could be put in and molten iron could be discharged at the same time. It required raw materials to be mixed in advance, put together like building blocks in the furnace, and then opened the furnace to burn. But as long as it didn't take a long time, the high temperature produced by the refined coal would melt iron ore and other auxiliary raw materials, forming molten iron.
Relying on a special design, the molten iron in the lower layer could be poured into the mud trough to cool into iron ingots, while the iron slag in the upper layer had to be removed by special tools, or cleaned after the furnace cooled down again.
Although it took a lot of effort to clean the furnace every time, after Palin's research and experiments, they were able to solidify molten iron flowing out of the blast furnace into steel directly, without further processing.
This saved a lot of effort, and completely made up for the time and manpower wasted in other aspects.
More importantly, the quality of the steel ingots produced by this method was very uniform, so when it was used as raw material to make equipment, there was no need to worry about the uneven quality of the materials.
Moreover, as long as the molten iron was condensed in a suitable mold, various shapes of rough steel could be obtained. It could be turned into a suitable weapon, armor, or tool after some fine processing.
Palin tried to make some steel plates, and then used the hydraulic press invented by Sui Xiong to press the steel plates. Almost without much effort, they made some good steel breastplates.
These breastplates were more uniform and sturdier than ordinary hand-forged steel breastplates. But the time needed to create them was only a fraction of what it used to be.
In the past, a blacksmith master and four or five apprentices would have to work for at least half a month to make such a breastplate. But now, with the help of the hydraulic press, a Blacksmith Master with four to five apprentices could make six to seven pieces of such breastplates in a day.
"This is really a good source of income!" When reporting to Sui Xiong, Palin said happily, "As long as I can find enough iron ore, coal, and mineral veins of those auxiliary materials, find a river with a relatively stable and rapid flow, and give me some manpower, I am sure that I can produce enough weapons and armors to arm an army within half a year!"
Sui Xiong was also very happy, but what he was thinking about was not the problem of making weapons and armor.
What he was happy about was that he could speed up the production of tools.
With the development of the Republic of Northwest, the population was increasing, and the various tools needed were also increasing. But if they relied on imports alone, they would need a lot of money, and they would need to wait for the goods to be produced and shipped over, which would make people's hair turn white.
Now that there was a steel smelting furnace, with enough steel, they could produce enough tools.
At the very least, the Tuya 'an's skeleton laborers could finally stop using bone tools and start using steel tools!
Sui Xiong believed that as the skeleton laborers changed to brand new steel tools, their work efficiency would be greatly improved, and the construction of the Republic of Northwest would be greatly accelerated.
Before he transmigrated, he once saw a saying, "If a country is a machine, then the steel industry is the engine of this machine." This must have been said by some science students, but although Sui Xiong was an art student, he felt that this was very reasonable.
With enough steel, there would be enough better tools, and of course, the construction of the country would become faster!
Not to mention other things, he had already begun to think about whether it was time to develop things like tractors …
Of course, Sui Xiong could not do this research himself. Facts had already proven that art students were really not reliable in scientific research. Although he was resourceful, when it came to research, he was really not as good as the research team led by Palin.
This kind of thing had to be done by professionals.
"Eh? Not weapons and armor, but tools? "When Sui Xiong gave the order, Palin looked very surprised." Tools are not worth much. "
"They are not worth much, but we need them," Sui Xiong said. "I need a few thousand pickaxes, a few thousand hoes, a few thousand axes, and iron hammers … Do you think that any country can supply so many?"
Palin was shocked by this number and asked hesitantly, "When … when did we have so many workers?"
Sui Xiong was also stunned. Only then did he realize that he had been focusing on research all these years. Other than some work that he could not shirk from the Mage Legion and the Association of Magic, he had spent almost all his time on the research of blast furnaces and steelmaking. He did not even know that the Republic of Northwest was using a large number of skeleton laborers.
So he told this to Palin.
"Oh … that's good. Workers who don't need money, don't need to rest, and there are so many of them … Isn't this perfect?" Palin asked. "Your Majesty, why do you seem to think that there is something wrong with them?"
Sui Xiong was silent for a moment and told him about the reactions of various good gods on this matter.
"This is ridiculous! We did not transform human corpses into skeletons. We used the resources that were originally in the Ashes Forest! " Palin suddenly became angry. "When the skeletons in the Ashes Forest caused a disaster, they did not come to purify them! Why are they so angry when we use skeletons to do things? It's simply unreasonable! "
He said angrily, "Your Majesty, I think your plan should be adjusted. Instead of making tools first, we should make a large number of weapons and armor first. We don't need to sell them, just give them to our army and display the rest near the portal to show them our strength! "
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and then could not help but applaud.
"This is a good idea! I like it! "
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