The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 68: Level Welder Alchemist

After hearing Feng Yu's request, Clarence threw the two iron pipes in his hand to one of his apprentices and rolled his eyes at Feng Yu. Who are you insulting? This is a job that any alchemist can do. Do I need to do it myself? !

Feng Yu scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

However, when the reconnected gun barrel returned to Feng Yu's hand, Feng Yu was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw that the gun barrel was very smooth inside and out, as if it had never been broken, except for the different color caused by the high temperature.

He felt that he had to re-evaluate the abilities of these alchemists, and even re-evaluate the complementarity between the magic system and modern technology.

This welding technique is enough to put all the top welders on earth to shame, right? !
He felt that with this group of lovely alchemists by his side, he could be a little bolder.

Feng Yu enthusiastically shook Clarence's hand and said affectionately: "Master, do you want to create miracles with me and write history?"

Clarence: “……(⊙⊙?)”

Clarence the alchemist and his apprentices, who had been in the lab all day long, were dragged over by Feng Yu without explanation. To this end, he used extremely extreme means. He threatened that if Clarence did not go, he would treat the dwarf craftsmen to a drink tonight, and then bring 20 or 30 drunken dwarves to destroy the alchemy laboratory in the camp.

Of course Clarence knew that this was nonsense. What excited him was that Feng Yu said he wanted to move the steam engine onto a special large ship and build a steam-powered ship that could sail upstream in the Lengshui River on its own, the Clarence.

After seeing the steam engine, demon hunting rifle and artillery, Clarence had no reason to doubt whether Feng Yu could really do it. He had already started to look forward to it, as did his apprentices.

Lengshui River is a younger brother of the Yangtze River, but due to the impact of ice blocks in spring over the years, the river water is not only cold but also very deep. Going upstream from the Xiangpu City camp, the Lengshui River has a flat surface, and the undercurrents and rapids are almost all hidden under the deep water, which creates favorable conditions for navigation.

However, because the Cattail City Camp was actually a temporary camp, and the elves and halflings who came here to escape the cold did so spontaneously, no one cared about using water as a means of transportation.

Besides, whether it is the elves, halflings, or dwarves, they all appeared on both sides of the Lengshui River a hundred years ago. They are all landlubbers from the mainland and have a subconscious resistance to the deep and cold Lengshui River.

So many years passed, and apart from the dwarves who used long logs to make rafts to cross the river, few people would think of using the river water and building ships.

You know, the Lengshui River flows upward all the time, except when it reaches the tributary of the Longyue Forest. Only then will rapids and waterfalls appear due to the rapid rise of the terrain when it goes north. When the Lengshui River reaches the tributary estuary at the lower left corner of the Longyue Forest, the river surface is flat.

Then, once the automatic steam ship that Feng Yu mentioned can be built, it can go straight up the river and all the way to the mouth of the tributary of the Longyue Forest.

In other words, there is no problem with navigation between the two places from a geographical perspective.

Clarence, who had gone along the river to the Misty Moon Forest and later returned to the camp from the Misty Moon Forest, was very clear about this.

He looked at Feng Yu's drawings, and couldn't imagine what kind of expressions the elves in the Longyue Forest would have when the huge ship with steam coming out and his name written in elven characters, carrying white salt and exquisite porcelain, appeared at the mouth of the Longyue Forest.

Clarence thought that since he couldn't imagine it, he might as well give it a try, since he had nothing to do anyway.

Feng Yu was not one to act recklessly. He used a steam engine forging hammer to forge some small pieces of thin iron plates, made a model, and used proportional counterweights to simulate the steam engine boarding the ship to obtain relevant data.

Of course, no matter how much he tested, conditions such as structure, force, material strength, etc. were all limiting conditions, and he didn't know how to build a large ship.

However, he had already given his students detailed instructions on shipbuilding conditions such as buoyancy and displacement, hoping that a lunatic who liked big things would emerge among these elves and build a 10,000-ton ship to give the continent of Green a surprise.

But that would have to wait until Feng Yu completed the industrial layout. Right now, even transporting some materials is difficult, let alone a 10,000-ton ship.

There was basically no wind on the surface of Lengshui River, and the wind was a horizontal easterly wind, so Feng Yu had no intention of building a sailboat.

He had previously wanted to make a smaller boat, relying on human power to drive the paddle wheel, just like the human-powered boats in the park lake.

But now it is different, with the alchemist's magic seamless welding technology, he can make the ship bigger and make it into a flat-bottomed boat with grids inside, and use the vertical and horizontal iron grids to connect the hull around to increase the strength of the entire ship.

Then, with the help of alchemists, they developed a thinner and lighter steam engine for use on ships. It was driven by a crankshaft and directly realized a vertical downward steam power transmission system on an unsealed grid at the back.

This can avoid the problem of loose sealing of the tail propeller drive shaft, and directly skip the paddle wheel to achieve propeller power.

But don't say that propellers are difficult to process. What is difficult to process are the high-end products with curved sound-absorbing surfaces. This world doesn't even know what sonar is. Just consider what that thing is used for, as long as the ship can move.

With the abilities of the professional blacksmiths in the dwarf blacksmith workshop, it is not difficult to make a three-blade propeller. The worst that can happen is that it is not made to standard and will break after a period of use. That is not a problem for Feng Yu.

There is a lot of flint in the camp, and there are rich open-air coal mines. You can mine them for free and without a license. If they are wasted, they can be recycled.

He has now begun to design a fan driven by a steam engine that can blow air into the furnace. In addition, by using the steam engine to drive a crusher to crush flint, and directly burning coal powder and blowing air like the earth, the temperature in the furnace can be increased, and steel can be directly produced in a large furnace without the need to rely on repeated heating and forging with a hammer to increase the rigidity of the iron embryo.

There were too many things to do, but Feng Yu was not in a hurry. The more anxious he was, the more confused he would become, and he would be more likely to make mistakes. He made a plan and led his students and craftsmen to do the same things, teaching them as they worked, in an effort to produce a group of qualified workers.

Clarence also showed great enthusiasm. He stared at the steam forge hammer every day, watching pieces of iron plates being processed through simple forging. He arranged for people to carry them to the side of the ship, and then he and his apprentices rushed forward to weld the iron plates to the hull.

Watching the hull slowly taking shape, Clarence felt unprecedented satisfaction, and took the initiative to help Feng Yu solve the problem of the light ship steam engine, striving to get this iron thing into the water as soon as possible to see if it was as Feng Yu said, that this big thing made of pure iron would float steadily on the water. As long as flint was added, it could go upstream and all the way to the tributary of the Longyue Forest.

(End of this chapter)