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There is actually no harm in confirming that he has traveled through time. At least he no longer has to wonder where his physical body has gone, and there is one less thing to worry about.

Sui Xiong quickly put aside the matter of "where is my body?" and started busy with other things.

He actually had a lot of things to be busy with, but he was delayed just to find his body.

Now that this is over, he can go do other things.

The first thing he had to do was make steel.

This is thanks to Palin. After decades of research by Palin, he finally touched the threshold of the "blast furnace" technology and found some more important keys.

Palin was inspired by the fact that "after burning firewood into charcoal, the burning temperature is higher" and tried to calcine coal. A lot of mistakes were made in the process, and countless time was wasted on materials, but in the end, a solution to the problem was found.

So he got something called "coal essence", which when burned, can produce a much higher temperature than ordinary coal.

With this material, the most critical step in the steelmaking blast furnace is completed. The next design and improvement work is nothing more than some finishing touches. Palin and a group of craftsmen thought about it for several years and finally succeeded in building a blast furnace.

This blast furnace is not like Sui Xiong imagined, which can feed raw materials and discharge molten iron at the same time. It needs to prepare the raw materials in advance, put them together like building blocks in the furnace, and then open the furnace for combustion. But as long as it doesn't take a long time, the high temperature generated by the coal essence will melt the iron ore and those auxiliary raw materials to form molten iron.

Depending on the special design, the molten iron in the lower layer can be poured out and poured into the mud tank to cool into iron ingots. The iron slag in the upper layer needs to be removed with special tools, or it can be cleaned after the furnace is cooled again.

Although it takes a lot of effort to clean the furnace every time, after sufficient research and experiments by Palin and others, they have been able to solidify the molten iron flowing out of the blast furnace and directly form steel without further processing.

This saves a lot of effort and makes up for all the time and manpower wasted in other aspects.

More importantly, the texture of the steel ingots produced by this method is very uniform. When using it as raw material to build equipment, there is no need to worry about problems such as insufficient uniformity of the material.

Moreover, as long as a suitable mold is used when condensing molten iron, crude steel in various shapes can be obtained. With a little refinement, it can be turned into a suitable weapon, armor or tool.

Palin and the others tried to make some steel plates, and then used the hydraulic press invented by Sui Xiong to stamp the steel plates. They made some good steel breastplates with almost no effort.

These breastplates are more uniform and stronger than ordinary hand-forged steel breastplates. But making them takes a fraction of the time it once did.

In the past, making such a breastplate probably required a master blacksmith and four or five apprentices, who would be busy for at least half a month. But now, as long as there are enough materials and with the help of a hydraulic press, a master blacksmith and four or five apprentices can make six or seven such breastplates in a day.

"This is really a good source of money!" When reporting to Sui Xiong, Palin said happily, "As long as we find enough iron ore, coal mines, and veins of auxiliary materials, we can also find a river with a relatively stable and rapid flow rate. , give me some manpower, and I am sure that within half a year, I can produce enough weapons and armor to arm an army!"

Sui Xiong was also very happy, but what he was thinking about was not the issue of making weapons and armor.

He was happy that he could speed up tool production.

With the development of the Northwest Republic, the population is increasing, and more and more tools are needed. However, if you only rely on imports, you will need a huge amount of money, and you will have to wait for the goods to be produced and shipped. The wait will make your hair turn gray.

Now that we have steel-making blast furnaces and enough steel, we can produce enough tools.

Apart from anything else, at least the skeleton workers in Tuyan can finally use steel tools instead of bone tools!

Sui Xiong believed that as the skeleton workers were replaced with brand-new steel tools, their work efficiency would be greatly improved, and the construction speed of the Northwest Republic would be greatly accelerated.

Before traveling through time, he once saw a saying, "If the country is a machine, then the steel industry is the engine of this machine." This must have been said by some science students, but although Sui Xiong was an art student, he also felt that This makes sense.

With enough steel, there are enough better tools, and of course nation-building will become faster!

Among other things, he has now begun to wonder whether it is time to develop things such as tractors...

Of course, Sui Xiong cannot do these scientific research tasks himself. Facts have proved that it is unreliable for art students to engage in scientific research. Although he has great supernatural powers, when it comes to research, he is really not as good as the scientific research team led by Palin.

This kind of thing still needs to be done by professionals.

"Huh? Instead of making weapons and armor, you want to make tools?" When Sui Xiong gave the order, Palin looked surprised, "Tools are not worth much."

"It's not worth much, but we need it," Sui Xiong said. "I need thousands of pickaxes, thousands of hoes, thousands of axes and hammers... Which country do you think can supply so many?"

Palin was startled by the number and asked quietly: "When...when did we have so many workers?"

Sui Xiong was also stunned, then he realized that he had been focusing on research in these years. Except for some unavoidable work in the Mage Group and the Magic Association, he spent almost everything on the research of blast furnaces and steelmaking, even the Northwest Republic. I don’t know about such a big thing as using skeleton labor in large quantities.

So he told Palin about it.

"Oh...it's good. Free workers, no need to rest, and there are so many...isn't this perfect?" Palin asked, "Why do you seem to think there is something wrong with them, Your Majesty?"

Sui Xiong was silent for a moment and told him the reactions of various good gods to this matter.

"This is simply ridiculous! We didn't transform human corpses into skeletons. We used the resources already available in the Ash Forest!" Parin suddenly became angry. "Back then, there was a plague of skeletons in the Ash Forest, and they didn't come to purify it. Ah! Why are they so angry when we use skeletons to do things? "

He said angrily: "Your Majesty, I think your plan should be adjusted. Instead of making tools first, we should make a large number of weapons and armor first. Instead of selling them, we can re-equip our army first and use the rest. Display it near the portal to show them our strength!"

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but applaud.

"This is a great idea! Like it!"