Sui Xiong was a person who attached great importance to relationships. Since he had decided to make friends, he would not do things with the attitude of doing business.
"Are you interested in seeing my factory?" He smiled and invited the Rune God. "I just started it a few days ago."
The Rune God was, of course, interested. The Void Mask had always been mysterious and unpredictable, but he never spoke without thinking. For "Him" to be so proud to introduce it to others, there must be something special about the "factory."
So, they went to the newly built mineral processing plant and carefully looked around.
"How magical!" Before the Rune God became a god, he was also an expert in mining, smelting, and forging, so he immediately saw through the secrets of this factory. "Through this method, we can select the best quality iron ore. This way, when we refine iron, the quality will definitely be very good! "
"That's right." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "Generally speaking, if you want to make high-quality equipment, you need very good steel, so of course, you need high-quality iron ore. This required experienced miners and blacksmiths to carefully select the best ores before smelting. Only then would they be able to obtain good iron and forge good equipment. However, the iron ores selected by my ore processing plant are definitely the best, and the time spent on them is very short. This is equivalent to having a group of the best ore processing workers helping me to filter the ores. When they come out of the furnace, they will definitely be the best steel! "
"Of course!" The Rune God nodded, his eyes bright. "The best steel comes from the best ores!"
"With all due respect, the quality of the ores from the Republic of Northwest is still not good enough. Even if you use this method of screening, the final smelted iron pieces should still be a little brittle. You have to think of a way to process them again, right?" "But if we use this method to process the iron ore that we dwarves dig out from the depths of the Broken Cloud Mountains, then we will get the best ore in the world, and then smelt the best iron in the world!"
Sui Xiong was stunned. He had never paid attention to the quality of the iron ore.
So he brought the God of Runes to find Palin and the others to understand the situation in detail.
Sui Xiong and the God of Runes did not hide their identities. Knowing that the dwarf god had come to visit, and that it was the famous God of Runes, Palin and the craftsmen were very excited, especially several dwarf craftsmen, who were even more jubilant. If there was wine next to them, they would definitely have a big drink to celebrate.
When the God of Runes voiced out his speculation, Palin and the craftsmen nodded in agreement.
"You're absolutely right! In the past, the iron produced by our four towns has always been somewhat brittle, and this time it is the same. Later, we did a small-scale experiment and mixed various things into the molten iron. Finally, we determined a set of solutions to the problem. " Palin said, "In general, as long as a few special ores are added according to a certain ratio, and then they are melted in the molten iron, the molten iron can be purified, and the steel obtained will not be brittle."
The God of Runes nodded slightly. He did not ask what kind of ores were used, what the ratio was, or how the ores were added.
As a craftsman, he knew the rules and respected them. This set of technology was painstakingly researched by Palin and the others. It was their secret recipe. If he wanted to get it, he should pay a sufficient price in exchange.
Moreover, he did not need this set of technology. The quality of the iron ore obtained by the dwarves from the Mountain of Broken Clouds was far better than that of the Cinder Woods. There was no need to remove impurities in this way.
Then, he visited the smelting of the blast furnace.
The selected iron ore of the highest grade and various carefully calculated ingredients were put into the furnace, and then they were ignited and blasted. With the help of magic, the heat of the coke was fully exerted, and soon the temperature of the furnace rose to a very high level.
The walls of the furnace could block the eyes of mortals, so Palin and the others could only use magic to observe the situation inside the furnace. However, Sui and the God of Runes could see the situation inside the furnace directly. They watched the iron ore gradually melt, and the impurities and the ingredients combined to become foam-like slag, floating on the molten iron.
Every time this slag accumulated to a certain amount, Palin and the others would pour it out. Naturally, some molten iron would be lost in the process, but every time the slag was removed, the molten iron would become a bit purer.
Finally, when Palin and the others were sure that the situation was suitable, they stopped heating and poured the molten iron that was already pure enough into the prepared trough. The fiery molten iron quickly cooled down, turning into dark red hot steel, and finally into a slightly rough steel plate.
This steel plate needed to be polished smooth before it could be used for stamping. In order to demonstrate to the God of Runes, Palin and the others directly used the polished steel plate.
The solid steel plate was firmly stuck on the base, and then the water drove the chain, slowly raising the heavy hammer, and finally falling down heavily.
After a loud bang, the steel plate became the main body of the breastplate.
"… I see!" Seeing this, the God of Runes completely understood. "In terms of technology, it is actually not that difficult to learn, but this kind of thinking, this kind of thinking, is the most valuable!"
He asked curiously, "This method of using water to raise the heavy hammer, and finally using stamping to directly turn the steel plate into armor, who invented it?"
"Of course, Your Majesty," Palin replied.
The God of Runes smiled slightly, and was not particularly surprised.
No matter what the Void Mask did, he would not be surprised.
And … after seeing the wonderful mineral processing plant just now, he had already confirmed that Sui was a master craftsman. What was so strange about a master craftsman who could invent mineral processing machines inventing a hydraulic press?
The main body of the breastplate was naturally the several pieces of armor on the front and back, and the matching shoulder guards were also stamped by the hydraulic press — but this could not be done today, because every time the hydraulic press stamped different pieces of armor, it had to be specially adjusted.
Palin and the others usually adjusted the hydraulic press once every few days to produce many pieces of armor at a time. The good quality pieces were kept and prepared to be assembled into armor, while the bad quality pieces were sent to a smaller blast furnace to be heated again, turned into molten iron, and then processed again into steel plates.
This was already a complete set of procedures, and Sui did not intend to spoil it.
After seeing the hydraulic press stamping the armor pieces, they finally came to the workshop where the armor was assembled. There were several old craftsmen and some young people busy here. There were already a lot of armor pieces and other materials waiting to be assembled, and there were also some finished products.
These finished products were all gray and very simple, just like what Sui had seen before. But when the armor was neatly arranged there, it naturally gave off a kind of cold air, which made people have to respect it.
"National treasure!" The God of Runes looked at the neatly arranged armor, and then looked back at the series of blast furnaces and factories, and could not help but praise, "This is the real national treasure!"
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