Magic Industrial Age.

Chapter 261: 259: Magic Machine Tools and Rifling (Subscription Request)

The city of Brussels, a few miles west of the city.

As far as the eye can see, there are flat and wide roads crisscrossing each other, with square but large factory buildings on both sides.

At the end of the field of vision, there was smoke and dust, and constant noise, and it was obvious that construction was still going on.

Lilia led Roy along the broad avenue, introducing the industrial area of Brussels planned by Count Karl and Sik Cruz.

The total area is as high as one hundred acres, and it can be expanded eastward along the Ruhr River at any time.

It is also close to the civilian area of Brussels, which makes it easy to recruit people and reduces the time needed for commuting, so it is quite convenient.”

"It can be said that the design and planning here is the culmination of the Empire's many years of accumulated experience. It is much better than the disorderly development of those magic power factories in Oakland City."

"Look here, those are the two magic textile factories that have been built in Brussels.

Each factory has 300 workers and can produce a large amount of textiles every day. In terms of output, it is not much worse than the Xiangsheli Magic Textile Factory!"

“Luo Yi, I know you think textiles belong to the low-end market, but for food, clothing, housing and transportation, this is also one of the most indispensable markets.

In those villages, there are always people who don’t have any clothes and cannot go out.

Therefore, this cheap and useful cloth can be regarded as another form of free-flowing goods.”

"what do you mean?"

"We can't stop production, but we can lower the price. We should lower it as much as possible, preferably to a fair price, so as to subsidize the people who receive flowers."

"You make sense! To be precise, the cost of living in the four aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation must all be reduced..."

"Look here, the new Magic Energy Machinery Factory only has one product: the Magic Energy Hammer Forging Machine.

The employees here were all brought from Auckland City. They are all experienced and are very familiar with their work.

So far, they have manufactured five third-generation magic hammer forging machines, but none of them were exported, and they were all used by themselves. "

"Nowadays, due to the shortage of raw materials, the small number of blacksmiths, and insufficient manpower, there is still a long way to go to increase production capacity!"

“However, for the subsequent employee training, I have also made arrangements based on your previous model.

I assigned five assistants to each skilled worker and asked them to teach them mechanical knowledge. After get off work, there were also special literacy classes and basic meditation courses.

In the spacious workshop, only a small part of it is actually used.

Not to mention the thirty blacksmith furnaces, there was a group of blacksmiths with their bare chests, hammering and pounding there, very busy.

Next to them, the ten magic mechanics were relatively idle, mainly because there were not enough parts and they couldn't do much.

However, they were not idle, but were guiding a group of young people aged fifteen or sixteen who were studying there.

The basic knowledge of mechanics, basic meditation, and even the various structures of the magic hammer forge are all part of their teaching content.

The teachers teach seriously and the students study carefully, because, according to the rules set by Luo Yi, how much bonus they can get is closely related to their grades and abilities!

In addition, there is also a group of people hanging around there!
They were wearing robes, with varying levels of strength and curious looks in their eyes. Some were listening to the lecture, some were looking through spare parts, and some were gathering around the half-assembled magic hammer forges.

These are the mages from Ms. Palacios’s Mage Tower. They fired at will in the previous battle in Frostmoon Canyon and made great contributions.

This is also why many people have become interested in magical machinery.

After returning to Brussels, they actually enjoyed wandering around this industrial area.

Lilia wanted to attract talent, so naturally she let them watch.

The arrival of Luo Yi and Lilia naturally caused a burst of exclamations.

Everyone put down their work and wanted to step forward to pay their respects, but Luo Yi interrupted them by waving his hand and told them to continue with their work.

After another round, Luo Yi left the machinery factory and entered the secret medicine factory.

This is different from the Magic Energy Machinery Factory. In order to ensure the secret recipe, each step is actually carried out separately.

Different people are responsible for sorting, cleaning, drying and grinding each raw material.

Only after the materials meet the standards are they sent to the final workshop, where the core pharmacists prepare the secret medicine.

What is produced here is not only the soul-requiting spices, but also Roy Fitz's warrior secret medicine.

That black ointment saved countless lives in this war and was praised by most of the knights.

Most of the secret medicine factory was filled with various herbs drying in the sun, and many people were busy searching and picking them up.

When Luo Yi and Lilia walked in, they smelled a strong medicinal aroma. The various smells mixed together seemed extremely strange.

Lilia added: "Compared to starting from scratch with the magic energy machinery, this secret medicine factory is much simpler.

The pharmacists we brought in were the backbone, and we only trained some of the people we recruited, and then we built the factory.”

"Most importantly, the environment in Flower Territory is suitable, with abundant plants and trees, and the raw materials needed for secret medicine are also abundant, so it can naturally support large-scale production."

"If I remember correctly, there should be at least 50,000 pieces of Soul-Calming Spices and no less than 3,000 boxes of Warrior Secret Medicine stored in the warehouse."

"I know you have great use for these, but I didn't let them touch them except for a few small amounts."

“However, there are only a few secret medicinal materials in the wild, and they are difficult to collect.

If you still want to expand the scale, I’m afraid you’ll have to use the method you mentioned before, called artificial breeding!!!” “Not bad! Not bad! This secret medicine factory is quite well-organized, but the personnel training must be done well.

If we expand production, we will always need professional talents.”

Lilia rolled her eyes: "You're back now, do you still need me to take care of these things?"

"I think you're doing a good job!"

"But I don't like it! I want to study magic machinery and practice, and I don't want to be distracted."

"That's okay too."

"Come on, let's go. I'll take you to see the construction of the magic steel plant."

"it is good!"

The construction of the Magic Energy Steel Plant is another situation.

This was not originally within the scope of cooperation with the Empire, not to mention that from the principle to the design, everything was proposed by Loy and was unique.

After the Empire got the blueprints, it was very interested and even specially selected some people to study and try them out.

The reason is simple. Even the Habsburg Empire was limited by steel production.

If this magical steel furnace can greatly increase the production of steel, even the Empire will be in trouble.

As for Luoyi, this is considered a pilot project, and the empire has sent quite a few people for this purpose.

So, even though this huge project takes the longest time, in fact, the progress is really not slow.

What Luo Yi saw was that the main construction work had been almost completed, with the huge blast furnace standing tall like a chimney.

However, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that Lilia has her own laboratory here.

That was a separate workshop. A universal power machine was right at the door, and the air was filled with gears and connecting rods of varying sizes.

The ground was paved with lapis lazuli, and the flowing magic made the engraved magic patterns flicker, like fluorescent lights.

This scene reminded Luo Yi of what he saw when he first entered the Xiangsheli Magic Textile Factory. There was a sense of grandeur and shock brought by the beauty of the machinery.

Of course, what shocked Luo Yi the most was that in the deepest part of the factory, a horizontal magic mechanical machine tool was lying there quietly.

It is more than three meters high and six meters long, and looks top-heavy, with all the main parts on the left side, and a three-claw chuck appears abnormally large.

In the middle are the slide rail and the screw, the tailstock is a top cone, and there is a tool disc in the front that can move back and forth.

The entire machine was covered with lapis lazuli, with layers of magic patterns crisscrossing each other, and the light it emitted was so dazzling that it was dizzying.

Luo Yi stuttered a little: "Okay, okay? But why do you want to make it so big?"

“That’s of course because it’s my first time making something and I don’t have much experience!

I also didn't expect that it would be so troublesome to achieve what you call fine control.

Therefore, I can only continue to increase the size, add more lapis lazuli, and achieve various surprise operations through more magic pattern connections."

"This one is just a test machine, and it still has many problems. But..."

Luo Yi asked: "But what?"

"However, the effect you wanted to achieve has already been achieved!"

At this moment, Luo Yi's eyes finally brightened up, surprisingly bright, and he asked: "So, you really processed the rifling?"

“The finished product is there, you can go and see for yourself.”

Luo Yi's eyes moved and he saw a pile of round tubes. He took a step forward and suddenly appeared next to the round tubes.

These round steel pipes are thick and thin, and the thin ones are about the same size as the barrel of an ordinary magic pistol.

The thickest one is more than 100 millimeters, which can be used as the barrel of a magic cannon.

And with a quick touch, Luo Yi was able to feel the layers of fine spiral lines inside the steel pipe.

That's rifling!

Guns and artillery with rifling and those without rifling are completely different levels of creation.

Whether it is a bullet or a shell, it will be affected by wind resistance when flying in the air.

If you are a little bit careless, the trajectory will deviate, let alone finding the target.

But if bullets and shells can rotate during flight, they can maintain a relatively stable trajectory when leaving the barrel and have a longer range.

However, this kind of concave and convex spiral pattern on the inner wall is notoriously difficult to process.

The difference between the second and third generation magic cannons, standard firearms and those handmade by masters, lies in the presence or absence of rifling!

In the past, only mechanical mages of at least the second level, such as Lilia, could produce such rifling. Only a skilled worker of Douglas Hill's level could produce it by hand using magic.

You can imagine how slow the efficiency is!

But now, Loy already has a stable and efficient manufacturing method.

All that is needed is a magical mechanical machine tool and a machine tool operator at the mage apprentice level!
(End of this chapter)