The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Full of doubts, Claude trotted to the first workshop. With excellent eyesight, he saw the old butler and the young man, and at the same time saw the things around them. Make him happy.

It turned out that in addition to the carriage they were riding in, there were also two steam mine carts specially used to transport raw ore.

This kind of steam mine car is a new product only this year. It is said that it was transformed from a rail steam car. No one cared, and finally Leo bought it at a very low price when the seller was considering whether to ship it back.

Two of them were placed in the smelting plant to transport ore, and the other was placed in the machinery factory to transport finished goods to the dock. In order to make these three mine carts work normally, Leo even modified them. Minecarts often need to use several roads, so that the road can bear the weight of these three vehicles.

Originally, the two steam cars of the smelter went to the wharf to load the raw ore from the ship, and sent it to the first smelting furnace for initial decomposition and smelting, but now the two cars are not loaded with raw ore that looks similar to rocks. The ore, on the contrary, is some waste slag that has been discarded.

And these waste slags that no one will pick up when thrown on the side of the road have another meaning in Claude's eyes. This is a signal to him, a signal that his suggestion has been passed and taken seriously, otherwise If you don't, it's impossible for the boss who never showed up to come in person.

Not long ago, when one of Claude's technicians was chatting, he said that with the ultra-high temperature of the new smelting furnace, it is completely possible to carry out secondary refining of the previous waste slag.

At that time, he didn't fully trust the words of his subordinate, but when the furnace was opened, he separated a separate area for some waste slag, and then sent the waste slag and raw ore into the smelting furnace together.

The result was both expected and unexpected. What was expected was that the ultra-high temperature of the new smelting furnace could indeed carry out secondary refining of the waste slag, and the process went smoothly. The unexpected thing was that it was extracted from the waste slag. The amount of metal has far exceeded the estimate, almost reaching 50%.

You must know that other smelters can only extract various metals from raw ore when smelting raw ore, and the highest refining rate is only 60%, and the rest is waste slag that cannot be extracted.

And the new smelting furnace can actually extract about 50% of the total weight of metals from the waste slag. In this way, these waste slags that no one cares about become treasures. The price bought a large amount of waste slag to extract special metals with higher value.

After getting the desired result, Claude immediately wrote an extremely detailed proposal, and personally delivered the proposal to the apartment to the old housekeeper.

However, what disappointed him was that there was no news about his proposal for a while, which made him think that his proposal had failed, but he did not give up and decided to write another proposal and send it over. What he didn't expect was that he had just had this idea, and then things turned around. The boss came to the scene in person and brought two trucks of slag. It seemed that he wanted to see the effect of the on-site operation.

"Hello, Your Excellency, hello, Steward Sanjays." Claude walked quickly to the old butler and the young man, saluted the old butler and the young man very respectfully, and said.

Leo looked at the middle-aged man in front of him. At the beginning, he bought this factory mainly because it was cheap, well-equipped, and the infrastructure was intact, which could save him a lot of trouble and time in the transformation work, but he What I didn't expect was that when I bought the factory, I could get a good talent.

In the beginning, Claude Lee would be appointed as the factory manager, it was entirely out of the selfishness of Butler Sanjays to repay his kindness. Butler Sanjays had mentioned this to Leo beforehand, but Leo didn’t care about it, he only cared about the factory Whether it can complete the reorganization and transformation according to his requirements and start operating again.

After that, Claude Lee's performance was really unexpected. Although he had no experience in managing factories, he was very good at learning, and he was prudent in doing things. He quickly entered the state and successfully completed the reorganization and transformation of the factory. The first factory in normal operation among the several factories he acquired.

So when Butler Sanjays proposed special training for him to work in the management of the machinery group in the future, Leo did not veto it, but nodded in agreement.

"I've read your proposal, and it's very good." Leo gave Claude Li a thumbs-up, and when a smile appeared on the other party's face, he said, "But your proposal has been rejected."

The smile on Claude Lee's face faded before it fully emerged. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask Leo why, but he didn't say it in the end, but nodded in disappointment: "Yes, I know gone."

"Aren't you curious why Mr. rejected your proposal?" Butler Sanjies couldn't help asking.

"Very curious." Claude Li said truthfully: "However, I think sir should have his own opinion. Maybe there are some huge loopholes in my proposal, or maybe the content of the proposal is incomplete."

"Don't think about it, your proposal has no loopholes and is very complete." Before the butler could speak, Leo explained, "It's just that when you wrote the proposal, you probably didn't even think about it if we really follow your suggestion. If the book is implemented, what kind of consequences will there be?"

Claude Lee was stunned for a while, and didn't understand what Leo meant, but soon he woke up, with a flustered look on his face, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead from nervousness.

As Leo said, if they are implemented in full accordance with the proposal, they will soon become the public enemies of the entire Kingdom of England's smelting industry, not only in the Kingdom of England, but even the smelting industries of other kingdoms will also hate them. They, the Kingdom of Marris, whose country is based on smelting, are more likely to regard it as a national enemy. At that time, they will either disclose the technology of the new smelting furnace, or they will encounter endless blows until the entire machinery group completely collapses .

"Don't be nervous, you didn't think that these things are normal. Your proposal is very good, but the execution time is wrong. I have already filed the proposal as a preliminary plan, and I will implement it when the time is right." Leo didn't want to see a Only those who can get him out of the complicated things have lost confidence, so I reached out and patted him on the shoulder, comforted him a few words, and then deliberately changed the subject: "I want to use this smelting furnace today, and today all and the smelting furnace Everything about it is postponed.”

"Are you going to smelt these two cars of slag?" Claude Lee's nervousness was relieved by Leo's relief, and he quickly returned to his normal work status, pointing to two Car slag, asked.

Leo nodded and said, "Yes."

"I'll arrange someone to do it right away." Claude Lee replied, turning around and pointing to the small office building directly opposite the smelting furnace, and said, "Sir, where can you and Butler Sanjies rest?" , When it is ready, I will inform you, and then you can see the working status of the entire smelting furnace there, and it will be convenient for you to command."

Leo accepted Claude Lee's proposal, ordered a few precautions, and walked to the workshop office with the butler under the eyes of everyone full of curiosity and awe.

At this time, all the people in the office stood up, and when Leo came in, they saluted Leo very respectfully. Although they didn't say anything explicitly, they already knew who the person in front of them was from the attitude of the old housekeeper and the factory manager. .

Leo ignored everyone's flattering and awe-inspiring eyes and signaled everyone to continue their work, then moved a chair, sat by the window of the office, and watched the situation of the melting furnace in front of him.

Originally, Leo didn't come to the smelter with such a big fanfare to smelt those mutated waste slags, but when he cleaned them up, there were too many mutated waste slags, not to mention smelting, and even handling was a problem. It's not something he can solve alone.

Therefore, he called the steam locomotive from the smelter and asked the workers from the smelter to help clean up the waste slag. It took almost two trucks to completely clean up all the mutated waste slag.

In the process of cleaning up the waste slag, Leo also tried repeatedly to use various forces to stimulate this mutated slag, but the result was that the power of the native gods of Velen such as psionic energy and web weavers were useless, but those outer gods Power can have some influence on this ore, such as the fool of chaos, the lord of turbidity and lightness, etc.

It can be seen that the shadow of the god on Clumber's body did not come from the God of Vengeance at all, or it was the God of Vengeance in the past, but after the God of Vengeance disappeared, the shadow of a new god attached to him, and this god was an outer god.

There are quite a few Outer Gods that Leo has come into contact with, but this is the first time he has seen an Outer God who can allow his will body to enter the world of Velen and attach to a person. He does not think that his spiritual impact can What kind of damage would it do to such a powerful will body of the Outer God, so he speculated that the mutated slag might be the last move of the will body of the Outer God.

According to Leo's thinking, he is unwilling to connect with the ancient god Velen and the outer gods. Those are things beyond his imagination. He is just an inconspicuous little bug, but now he has encountered the outer gods. And there was a conflict. He didn't think that once the mysterious Outer God calmed down, he would forgive him for killing one of his will parasites, so what he had to do was to prevent the Outer God from having any chance to attack him.

As Leo fell into thinking, the smelting furnace in front of the office has been ignited under the skilled operation of the workers, and a large amount of fuel has been added to start the furnace. A stream of flames is ejected from the hole above the furnace, forming a two-three The meter-long flame made the entire furnace look like a fire-breathing monster from a distance.

This smelting furnace was remodeled by Leo based on the best steelmaking furnace in the old earth era. In terms of efficiency, it is much worse than the steelmaking furnace in the old earth era, but compared to other furnaces in Vinylon World. , obviously this new furnace that incorporates the earth casting technology is much stronger.

Leo didn't know whether the temperature of this furnace could melt the slag and extract the substance that produced the mutated slag, but he had no other choice, because he believed that in the entire world of Velen, there might not be a furnace whose temperature could match that of the slag. The furnace he transformed is comparable. If he can't do anything about this furnace, then he can only try to find a volcano to see if he can use the power of nature to solve this problem.

At this time, the furnace firing process had been completed, and the workers observing the temperature signaled to Claude Lee, who was waiting not far from the furnace, that they could start feeding.

Claude Lee did not make a decision on his own, but hurried to the office and asked Leo for instructions.

For Claude Lee's unnecessary actions, Leo did not show any impatience, but took the initiative to praise Claude Lee in front of the management of the surrounding factories, and then told him to start feeding.

Although Claude Lee is not lacking in management, he was promoted too fast, and he had never dealt with other people in the factory when he was an accountant, which made some people in the factory think carefully. , So what Leo did was to express his support for Claude Lee, and let some small-minded people in the factory stop that idea.

Following Leo's order, the ore on the steam locomotive was manually shoveled into the feeding car. Because of Leo's instructions, the workers were very careful when cleaning up the slag, even if a small amount of slag fell on the ground, They will also be picked up and put into the feeding cart to ensure that nothing is missed.

Soon two carts of slag were thrown into the crucible of the furnace, and a stone gate made of heavy cold rock was slowly dropped under the control of the workers, covering the feeding port, and a large amount of special charcoal and tree oil were thrown into the furnace. In the fuel tank, raise the temperature in the furnace.

The technician in charge of the observation carefully checked the situation in the furnace through the observation hole, and kept uttering command-like shouts, asking the workers in charge of the air holes to close and close the air holes according to certain rules.

At this time, Leo also stood up from his chair and walked to the window, staring at the furnace with a very serious expression on his face.

The people around thought that Leo was nervous about the effect of smelting the slag, so some people took the data left over from the previous few smelting slags and approached him. , to gain a chance for promotion.

However, before they approached, the old housekeeper stopped them and motioned them to do their own thing, which frustrated these caring people.

However, they didn't know that no matter how well they prepared the documents and data of the previous test smelting slag, it would not arouse Leo's interest, because Leo's attention was not on the furnace at all, but on the furnace. into the air above the furnace, in puffs of green smoke illuminated by the flames below.