Warm Dragon

After deciding to hire Crooked William to teach at the yet-to-be-established technical school, Russell, accompanied by William and his son, inspected the Black Fire Brick Kiln.

The black oil kilns have begun to operate. There is no standardized equipment customization. These black oil kilns are designed by master craftsmen based on experience, but the effect is quite good, and the burning effect is no worse than coal.

The muck bricks can already be produced in large quantities and are constantly being shipped to the construction site of the New Castle.

"Look, sir." Little William pointed to the smoking chimney. The chimney was very thick and surrounded by a circle of stairs and shelves. "This chimney can not only exhaust smoke, but also dry the adobe. It is dried by the black smoke of burning black oil. "

Little William said proudly: "Our workers discovered it. The black oil smoke contains magic power. This magic power can make the muck bricks stronger and more resilient, and they cannot be broken even if they are knocked."

After a pause, he continued: "Because there is not enough clay residue, the production of clay bricks is intermittent, so we produce more ordinary bricks... After being dried by the magic of black smoke, these ordinary bricks become more When it gets stronger, the color changes from red to black.”

Rows of black bricks are neatly stacked in the open space.

Russell picked up a piece and roughly felt it with his hands. It was indeed more flexible than ordinary bricks.

It's not that the hardness has increased, but the toughness has increased.

Ordinary bricks are brittle and easy to break, but this black brick has extraordinary toughness because of a certain substance incorporated into the black smoke.

"Well, not bad, this kind of black brick is enough to build a castle." Russell said happily.

William with the crooked hat said with a smile: "Lord Russell, your castle must be built with better clay bricks. This kind of black bricks is still a bit inferior to the grade. Black bricks are still more suitable for building ordinary houses."

Little William said: "The Black Fire Erudite Tower over there was built with black bricks. There was an explosion when it was just built. It didn't collapse the wall, but only cracked a few holes."

The formerly humble Blackfire Laboratory has been upgraded into a gorgeous Blackfire Erudite Tower.

The height is only fifty meters, which is not as high as the Great Scholar Tower in the Red Keep, which is over a hundred meters high, but it is already quite gorgeous in the wasteland of Blackfire Land.

The effect of black bricks has been verified in actual combat.

Russell immediately happily gave the black brick a name: "From now on, this kind of black brick made of smoked pottery with black oil will be called black fire brick. This can become another main product of the black fire brick kiln after the muck brick. product."

"Yes, sir!"

"Produce more black fire bricks, and of course, don't forget to cooperate with the Black Fire Erudite Tower to continue to explore more new categories of bricks." Russell said, and then thought of something, "Oh, by the way, which worker figured this out of?"

Young William named a worker.

Russell immediately called the worker over, and then briefly asked him about the process of discovering the black smoked bricks.

Then he rewarded the worker with a gold coin on the spot: "This gold coin rewards not the black fire bricks, but the invention itself. In the future, I will set up a permanent 'I love invention' reward in the territory for anyone who has a new and unique invention." , can all get my reward.”

In the envious eyes of everyone, the worker took the gold coin.

A seed of invention spreads from here.

After planting the seeds casually, Russell ended his inspection of the Blackfire Brick Kiln and walked towards the Blackfire Erudite Tower surrounded by Katie and other knights.

It had just been built and the renovations hadn't even started yet, and the scholars couldn't wait to move in.

soon.

Russell, led by the Great Erudite Placido, stood on the top floor of the Black Fire Erudite Tower. Although it was only more than fifty meters high, he could still overlook the entire Black Fire Land.

"After the black oil distillation tower is completed, I plan to leave, Mr. Russell." Placido said.

Under his design, the first black oil distillation tower in the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy and even the Longmian Continent is about to be born. But Placido didn't seem to understand the significance of this black oil distillation tower, nor could he predict the advent of the industrial era.

In his opinion, this is just a study of magic metal.

"What research are you going back to the Red Keep for?" Russell asked.

"Yes, Mr. Russell, you are qualified to know the research I am going to prepare." Placido explained, "The Round Table of Great Scholars is preparing to research a weapon against snow giants based on lightning guns and detection arrows. equipment.”

"Aiming at the snow giant?" Russell was surprised.

"Yes, it is to use the power of the earth and the magic vibration of the ice cap to locate the traces of the Snow Giant... Of course, it is just a concept at the moment and may not be developed. You also know that the Snow Giant is on the same level as the giant dragon. The presence."

"As long as there is hope, of course you have to try." Russell quickly let go of Placido's departure. "It's a pity that I don't have extra financial resources now, otherwise I would definitely sponsor your research."

Placido smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, the Council of Elders has approved sufficient research funds."

The crisis brought by the snow giant has never been so urgent, so the ministers of the Council of Elders are also panicked. In addition, it was out of the generosity of the Red Fortress that sufficient funds were approved for the Great Erudite Research Society.

"I hope you can produce research results as soon as possible."

"I hope so."

…

After finishing his inspection of the black oil mine, Russell went to the new castle under construction. Like the Fluorescent Castle, this castle covers an area of ​​fifty acres.

However, the fifty acres of land includes several components such as the city wall, the main castle, towers, lawns, galloping roads, and moats.

At present, the new castle is mainly building the main castle.

"My lord, the main castle will be completed within this year, so the name of the castle, as well as the flag and emblem of your family, must be discussed as soon as possible." Charles followed behind Russell and introduced various constructions to Russell.

Although the noble surname was not changed.

But Russell has actually created a new family, so he must have his own Thunder Flame Baron flag and emblem, and can no longer use the fluorescent mushroom family.

"The name of the castle is Cigar Castle." Russell had already prepared, "As for the family flag, based on the flag of the fluorescent mushroom family, draw a silhouette of a unicorn. The emblem uses a combination of three elements: unicorn, black oil dragon and sword."

Charles took the order, and he must arrange someone to design the specific drawing work.

Then Russell said, "How many knights have come to the territory to surrender now?"

"Fifteen great knights, forty-eight knights." Charles replied, "They are currently arranged to lead the reclamation in various places in the Black Fire Land."

"Let's find some time later, let's set it tomorrow night, and summon all the knights, including Eric and others." Russell said, "I plan to recruit a few formal followers tonight... You should also tell me about the performance of the knights."

"Yes, sir." Charles took out a notebook and handed it to Russell, "Sir, I have recorded the performance of the knights in this notebook."

"Well, I am well prepared."

"Hehe." Charles smiled, "How can I not do my best to serve you."

Russell nodded, said nothing more, and began to look through Charles' notebook.

It recorded in detail the work content of each knight and their performance in recent days, both at work and in private.

The notes were written by Charles, so there are inevitably many subjective judgments.

But after reading it, Russell already had a basic understanding of the abilities and character of these knights who had joined him.