"For example, if I wait for Mbape to make a mistake, then directly bring him to Flower Town? As long as it is not murder, rebellion, rape, or other evil acts, I should be able to protect him. "
Liszt thought.
However, he still had doubts. Coral Island had a well-known architect who was constantly building large buildings for the Tulip family. What kind of mistake could he make to drive Mbape away?
He even maliciously thought that some bad things would happen, but considering that Mbape was already old, he should not be able to do anything too bad.
"So, let Harpagon use the Flower Caravan's spies to pay more attention to Mbape and see what will happen."
One hand grasping the brick factory, the other hand waiting for mistakes.
Liszt quickly arranged it.
He himself also restrained the degenerate life of the past few days and began to work hard.
Now, he had several research topics in his hands — how to compile the chronicle history book "Dragons Fighting in the Wild", how to scientifically take magic potions, and the analysis of the nature of rubber, as well as the research on the technology of fire dragon baking bricks.
The analysis of the nature of rubber.
He wrote more than a dozen sheets of thick bast paper.
Judging from all aspects, the new type of rubber produced by the rubber tree, except for the softness and elasticity of the rubber on earth, was the perfect adhesive in other aspects – light, strong, quick-setting, fire-resistant, cold-resistant, waterproof, insect-resistant, non-toxic, tasteless, not easy to deform, watertight and air-tight.
The buckets made of rubber were surprisingly effective, and there was no need to worry about leakage due to poor craftsmanship.
Liszt also used magic to attack the rubber-bonded items and found a very surprising fact. The rubber did not respond to magic.
It only withstood physical attacks from magic and qi attacks.
The crazy qi flames of the move "Great Fire Wave" caused damage to the rubber-bonded broken shields, which was evenly distributed, and did not cause greater damage to the rubber bonded parts.
"In other words, rubber can be an excellent material for repairing weapons … I can recycle some damaged weapons on the battlefield and then repair them with rubber. They should be able to restore the quality of the weapons by 90%."
After discovering this secret.
Liszt set rubber as a strategic material on the same level as the black blood horse.
Recently, he began to experiment with rubber additives – that is, using rubber as an additive to experiment with various physical effects.
First, there was water. Liquid rubber could be dissolved in water. After stirring, it would become a turbid white liquid — rubber water.
The rubber water would not condense, but after half an hour, it would gradually clear and precipitate a layer of solid rubber at the bottom of the basin. He then experimented with adding sand to the rubber water, or in other words, mixing the sand with the rubber water.
A miraculous result soon appeared in front of him.
A large clump of sand solidified.
It was like a piece of rock that had solidified into a solid block. Even if you used a hammer to hit it hard, you would not be able to smash it. Its hardness was almost the same as the granite used to build the castle. Its effect was far better than the cement blocks that had been solidified.
"So, just like that, I got the new lightweight and powerful quick-setting cement that I've been dreaming of?"
The follow-up experiments had yet to begin.
But he had already thought about what would happen if he used rubber water to mix metal, gravel, wood chips, soil, and so on. Perhaps the era of reinforced concrete had arrived before the era of bricks. The only drawback was that the output of rubber was too low and could not be consumed as casually as cement.
It was imperative to expand the scale of rubber tree plantation.
For now, he put aside the rubber water experiment and began to prepare for the Fire Dragon Brick Baking Experiment.
… …
He ordered the serfs to collect soil from different places in the Flower Town. They were the yellow soil by the seaside, the red sand by the river, the brown soil in the wasteland, and the black slag in the Thorns Ridge area. After mixing the soil with water, he began to knead it into clay bricks, which were then given to the small magic fire dragon to be fired.
Unlike ordinary furnace fires, the small magic fire dragon could be directly calcined from the inside.
Therefore, the speed at which the bricks were fired was remarkable.
Half an hour later, the bricks had been fired into shape. After taking out the bricks, Liszt first tried to cool them down by splashing water on them. Then, the black slag bricks of the Thorns Ridge directly shattered with a few cracking sounds. The red sand bricks by the river, although not broken, showed a few cracks.
In the face of this situation, Liszt did not directly announce the failure of the black slag and red sand bricks. He continued with the second furnace.
This time, he adopted the natural cooling method.
Of the four types of bricks that had cooled, the yellow soil bricks from the seaside were somewhat distorted in shape. The black slag bricks of the Thorns Ridge were not broken, but they were full of cracks and broke with a knock.
He tested the hardness of the other three types of bricks and found that the red sand bricks were not good either. They broke with a knock.
The brown soil in the wasteland performed the best. Its shape could basically guarantee the shape of a brick and its hardness could almost reach the hardness of an ordinary stone.
"In that case, brown soil should be the main raw material for firing bricks. However, I still have to experiment with the firing of the mixed soil."
He fumbled for two days in a row.
He finally determined that the mixed soil mixed with four-fifths of brown soil and one-fifth of yellow soil had a very good viscosity. It could be used as the clay for firing bricks. The fired bricks were grayish-brown in color and slightly less hard than stone.
However, the weight was also a bit lighter.
Because the small magic fire dragon was fired from the inside out, the bricks could be molded into a variety of shapes. Not only could they be fired into bricks, but they could also be fired into tiles, and even stone slabs and culverts.
With the raw materials settled, the next step was how to build the brick kiln.
He could not remember what a brick kiln for red bricks looked like, nor was he clear about its working principle, but it was nothing more than using fire. The brick kilns on earth burned coal. He directly burned the small magic fire dragon, so the structure and shape of the brick kiln should be redesigned.
"Once the small magic fire dragon is released, it will be difficult to take it back … After the bricks are fired, it will not be easy to take them out of the kiln. Maybe I will have to use stonemasons to build a stone cart that can be pushed."
He already had the general shape of the new brick kiln in his mind.
A single kiln could be designed to be the size of a house, and then several rows of kilns would be distributed. The small magic fire dragon would be placed in the kiln, and a stone cart that could be pushed back and forth would be designed at the bottom of the small fire dragon's activity area. After filling the kiln with bricks, the serfs would push the stone cart into the kiln.
When the bricks were fired, the stone cart would be pulled out, and after cooling it with water, the bricks would be unloaded and the bricks would be restacked.
Such a cycle was simple and fast.
The stone cart would need to be large.
"Fortunately, I have rubber water, otherwise I would not be able to build a qualified stone cart … Without iron, industrial development is seriously limited."
With enough iron, it would be more convenient and fast to weld iron carts directly.
Unfortunately, there was no iron, so he could only use stones instead.
His thoughts were all sorted out.
The design drawings were also drawn.
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