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After hearing Feng Yu's request, Clarence threw the two iron pipes in his hand to one of his apprentices and gave Feng Yu a blank look.Who should I kill? This is a job that an alchemist can do. Do I still need to do it myself?

Feng Yu scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

But when the rejoined barrel returned to Feng Yu's hand, Feng Yu looked at the barrel, which was very smooth inside and out, as if it had never been broken, except for the different colors caused by the high temperature. His mouth was shocked. They can't even close together.

He felt that he had to re-evaluate the abilities of these alchemists, and even re-evaluate the complementarity of the magic system and modern technology.

This kind of welding process can already put all the top welders on the earth to shame.

He felt that with this group of lovely alchemists, he could be a little bolder.

Feng Yu enthusiastically held Clarence's hand and said kindly: "Master, do you want to create miracles with me and write history?"

Clarence: ""

The so-called Clarence Alchemist and his apprentices, who had been in the laboratory all day long, were involuntarily pulled over by Feng Yu. To this end, he used very extreme methods.He threatened that if Clarence did not go, he would invite the dwarf craftsmen to drink tonight, and then lead twenty or thirty drunken dwarves to destroy the alchemy laboratory in the camp.

Of course Clarence knew this was nonsense. What moved him was Feng Yu's plan to move the steam engine onto a specially built ship to create a steam-powered ship that could travel upstream on the Lengshui River, the Clarence.

Clarence, who had seen steam engines, demon hunting guns and artillery, had no reason to doubt whether Feng Yu could really do this. He was already busy dreaming about it, including his apprentices.

Compared to the Yangtze River, the Lengshui River is considered to be the younger brother. However, due to the impact of spring ice over the years and other reasons, the river is not only cold, but also very deep. The Lengshui River flows upstream from the Xiangpu City Camp and is a gentle river surface. , undercurrents and rapids are almost hidden under the deep river water, which creates favorable conditions for sailing.

However, because the Cattail City camp was actually a temporary camp, and the elves and halflings who came to take shelter from the cold did so spontaneously, no one cared about using the water as a means of transportation.

Besides, elves, halflings, and dwarves all appeared on both sides of the Lengshui River a hundred years ago. They are all landlubbers from the mainland, and they have a subconscious resistance to the deep and cold Lengshui River.

So after so many years, except for the dwarves who used long logs to build rafts to cross the river, few people would think of using the river water and building ships.

You know, the Lengshui River goes all the way up, except when it reaches the tributary of the Obsidian Forest. Further north, due to the sharp rise of the terrain, rapids and waterfalls appear. The Lengshui River reaches the mouth of the tributary in the lower left corner of the Obsidian Forest, but they are all Flat river surface.

Then, once the automatic steam ship that Feng Yu mentioned can be built, it can go straight up the river and drive all the way to the mouth of the tributary of the Misty Moon Forest.

In other words, there is no problem with navigation between the two places in terms of geographical environment.

Regarding this point, Clarence, who had gone along the river to the Misty Moon Forest and later returned to the camp from the Misty Moon Forest, was very clear mentally.

He looked at Feng Yu's drawings and couldn't imagine that big steaming ship with his name written in elven characters, carrying white salt and exquisite porcelain, appearing at the mouth of the Misty Moon Forest. What kind of expressions would the elves have?

Clarence felt that since he couldn't imagine it, he might as well give it a try. After all, it would be idle.

Feng Yu was not reckless. He used a steam engine forging hammer to forge some small pieces of thin iron plates, made a model, and used proportional counterweights to simulate the steam engine on board to obtain relevant data.

Of course, no matter how much he tests, the structure, force, material strength, etc. are all restrictions, and he doesn't know how to build a big ship.

However, he had already handed over the shipbuilding conditions in detail to the students regarding buoyancy, displacement, etc. He just hoped that a lunatic who likes big guys would emerge from this group of elves and build a [-]-ton giant ship to surprise the Gerien continent.

But that will have to wait until Feng Yu completes the industrial layout. Now it is difficult to even transport some materials, let alone a [-]-ton ship.

There is basically no wind on the Lengshui River. If there is wind, it is a horizontal east wind, so Feng Yu did not originally plan to build a sailboat.

He previously wanted to make it smaller, relying on human power to drive the paddle wheel, just like the human-powered boats on the park lake.

But things are different now. With the alchemist's magic seamless welding process, he can completely make the ship bigger and make it into a flat-bottomed boat filled with grids. The vertical and horizontal iron grids connect the surrounding hulls to increase the strength of the entire ship.

Then, with the help of alchemists, a thinner and lighter steam engine was developed, which was used on the ship and driven by the crankshaft to realize a vertical steam power transmission system directly on an unsealed grid at the back.

This can avoid the problem of lax sealing of the tail propeller drive shaft and directly skip the paddle wheel to achieve propeller power.

But never say that propellers are difficult to process. What is difficult to process are high-end products with curved surfaces to silence them. People in this world don’t even know what sonar is. Consider what that thing does, as long as the ship can move.

Just relying on the abilities of the professional blacksmiths in the dwarf blacksmith workshop, it is not difficult to knock a three-blade propeller. The worst thing is that it is irregular and will be over after a while, which is not a problem for Feng Yu.

There are too many flints to hold up the camp, and there are rich coal mines in the open pit. You can mine them casually for free and without a license. You just have to re-smelt them once they are used up.

He has now begun to design a fan driven by a steam engine that can blow air into the furnace. In addition, the steam engine drives a pulverizer to crush flint, and directly burns pulverized coal and blows air like the earth. This can increase the temperature in the furnace and directly build a large furnace. In steelmaking, there is no need to rely on repeated heating and forging with a hammer to increase the rigidity of the iron blank.

There were too many things to do, but Feng Yu was not in a hurry. The more he rushed, the more chaotic he would be, and more likely to make mistakes. He made a planning list and led the students to work like craftsmen, teaching them while doing it, and trying to produce a batch that could be used. workers came out.

Clarence also burst out with great enthusiasm. He stared at the steam forging hammer every day, watching pieces of iron plates being worked out after simple forging. He arranged for people to carry them to the side of the ship. Then he and his apprentices swarmed up and lifted the iron plates. welded to the hull.

Seeing the hull slowly taking shape, Clarence felt unprecedentedly satisfied. He took the initiative to help Feng Yu solve the problem of the light ship's steam engine, and tried to get this iron guy into the water as soon as possible to see if it was as Feng Yu said, this big guy of pure iron. It will float steadily on the water. As long as you add flint, you can go upstream and drive all the way to the tributary of the Misty Moon Forest.