diymy #626 - Shengxieting Scientific Research Division
#626 - Shengxieting Scientific Research Division
The carriage traveled through the wasteland ruins from the river to the Mechanical Palace, and before them were two rows of small courtyards surrounded by walls and weeds.
Each small courtyard covered an area of half an acre to more than an acre, with flags and signs hanging at the entrance. Looking down the line, there was the [Dragon Language Alchemy Society], [Crystal Alchemy Institute], [Hydraulic Engineering Institute], [Flying Shuttle Research Institute], [Sacred Axis Alchemy Development Bureau], and so on.
This area was the "Scientific Research Zone" allocated by Hohen to the scholars, specializing in scientific research output.
There were even public carriages near the bridge for these alchemists and engineers to use for free.
According to Witt, a batch of seven-story brick and stone houses will be built on both sides of the Insula district in the city, specifically for these scholars and alchemist priests to live in.
The [Dragon Language Alchemy Society] and [Crystal Alchemy Institute] are mainly engaged in alchemy research, while the [Hydraulic Engineering Institute] is responsible for researching and designing water conservancy facilities, as well as how to make hydraulic industrial devices.
For example, Hohen's water-powered version of the scroll spinning machine is being invented and researched by them.
After all, in the future, after the two outward rivers of Daze Township are dredged and opened, they will definitely be able to provide abundant water power.
At that time, it can be used as a supplement to the rotary holy machine, after all, the number of star-forged gears is limited.
The [Flying Shuttle Research Institute] is mainly responsible for researching the flying shuttle on the loom. This small device that automatically rebounds through a spring can greatly improve the efficiency of manual and rotary holy machine weaving.
Hohen thought that making a spring would be easy, but the fact proved that it was very difficult. This small spring has a really high technological content.
For example, the hairspring can be made by hammering low-carbon steel and then gilding it with orichalcum.
According to the dwarves' calculations, the spring requires high-carbon steel plus a special alloy. Ordinary steel gilded with orichalcum does not have any good effect.
It's not that the dwarves' forging skills can't create a spring, but the cost is too high.
Putting down the car curtain, Hohen lowered his head and recalled the manufacturing method of spring steel in his hometown.
In Hohen's hometown, the mass production of this spring steel required waiting for the popularization of the Bessemer converter process before qualified spring steel could be produced.
Even if Jeanne used lightning to melt it, she couldn't successfully make spring steel every time.
Hohen rubbed his forehead. Alchemical industry is good in every way, but the only problem is that his steel industry has made almost no progress so far.
Lightning melting is definitely more efficient than the medicine vat ironmaking method, but the problem is that this lightning is almost only available to Jeanne.
Could he create a lightning furnace?
I wonder how the translation of Sylph's 《Emerald Tablet》 is going. It would be great if there was an alchemical substance that could control and release lightning.
Finally, one of the more important ones is the [Sacred Axis Alchemy Development Bureau].
This department is responsible for two parts: one is the cooperation with the Black Serpent Bay Secret Party in alchemy and magic technology, and the other is responsible for industrialization and commercialization.
In Hohen's eyes, this is a relatively important department, but people at this time do not pay much attention to it, and have not even opened a single order so far.
Passing through this scientific research zone, and further ahead are patches of flower gardens and trees, which were planted and arranged by Sylph.
In spring and summer, looking out from the terrace of the Mechanical Palace, you can see a sea of flowers at a glance.
It's a pity that Hohen is in the golden autumn season, so he can't see such a scenery.
Some of the newcomers are very curious about the figure that appears on the terrace of the Mechanical Palace on time every morning, but the Mechanical Palace is heavily guarded, and they can't easily get close.
So the Holy See of Mechanics has recently spread the rumor of the "two-wheeled monster", which is known as the Holy See of Mechanics' three major horror stories along with the "electric shock ghost" and the "long-haired zombie".
The number of old citizens who had seen Sylph at the New Year's Festival was too small, but they couldn't refute the rumors, so they had to let them go.
As the slope gradually increased, Hohen could feel his back beginning to stick to the carriage wall, and he knew that he was getting closer and closer to the Mechanical Palace.
After walking up a small slope less than 10 meters high, the Mechanical Palace arrived.
Getting out of the carriage, Hohen looked around.
Sylph's original gear rooster had been repaired, and the clown puppet on the gable had also been repainted.
When Hohen pushed the door open, he could see Sylph and others in the center of the courtyard.
In a corner of the spacious courtyard, seven or eight white and red vertical jars stood under the eaves, clearly pottery, but with a metallic luster.
"What is this?" Hohen knocked on the reaction vessel with his knuckles and asked a middle-aged man next to him who had shaved his beard and hair.
"Your Majesty, this is a peat alchemy reaction vessel. Through this reaction vessel, we can greatly save the manpower consumed by peat and build more peat workshops."
He was fine if he didn't speak, but as soon as he spoke, Hohen recognized him: "Isn't this Robert? I thought who it was, it turns out it's you, boy. Why is your mouth so smooth?"
Robert pursed his lips and smiled: "I went back to Black Serpent Bay a while ago, and my hair and beard were burned by a wizard in a tavern, so I simply shaved them off. It's cool."
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Robert was originally a member of the White Mountain Hermitage, and stayed on Autumn Twilight Island because he had a lot of research on alchemy.
"This reaction vessel doesn't look like pottery? What did you add?"
"It's red salt, I added red salt." Robert proudly gathered his sleeves.
Different from the past when a pit was dug on the spot to extract peat, this extraction method also added a white but dark red lustrous giant crucible.
Hohen walked around this man-high vertical furnace-shaped crucible, but couldn't see anything special, just cast a doubtful look at Robert.
Robert quickly explained to His Majesty the Great-Grandson: "Red salt is considered to be a substance that can gather spirituality, and alchemists waste a lot of mana during alchemy.
So I wondered if I could combine red salt with the crucible to slow down the dissipation of mana.
Fortunately, I succeeded after trying more than fifty materials. This mountain white clay mixed with red salt mud can be used to make this terracotta crucible.
Placing the peat in the terracotta crucible and directly connecting it through the wand and pottery basin can save a full 4 manpower."
As he spoke, he handed a detailed data report to Hohen.
Picking up the report, Hohen only glanced at it twice, and his eyes couldn't help but straighten. According to this report, the terracotta crucible can reduce the original 10-person peat team to a 6-person team.
Almost halved!
You must know that an alchemist priest needs to rest for two hours after casting a spell, and each peat extraction ceremony requires 10 people together.
So a peat workshop works 10 hours a day, but in fact only extracts peat 5 times, and can produce a total of about 6400 pounds.
Although the red salt pottery jar and wand add some cost, they reduce the manpower of each peat extraction ceremony by 40%.
Originally, Hohen was worried that if the peat production was rashly increased with the current speed and frequency of the appearance of Holy Favorites, the alchemist priests would not be able to keep up.
But now it seems that there is no such problem, and even the peat can be reduced in price again, completely bringing down the price of firewood and other fuels.