Chapter 51 Steel Is the Foundation of Industry

There are indeed many dwarves in Raindale.

After more than half a year of construction, the new tribe of dwarves has basically taken shape.

Now, in addition to most of the dwarves from the Norman tribe and the Angolan tribe who have migrated to live here, there are also several dwarf tribes that Xu Yi asked Chief Shiluo and Chief Monto to contact.

Now, the number of dwarves in this new tribe has reached an astonishing two thousand, and almost all the completed parts of this new tribe have been inhabited.

A month ago, when President Cruise saw the sight of the dwarves relocating in with his own eyes, he was almost dumbfounded, because he had never seen so many dwarves together in his life.

You must know that even if all the dwarves in the Lampari Kingdom are gathered together now, it is very likely that it will not exceed 50,000, and a small settlement here has already exceeded 2,000.

No wonder the city lord of Satsuma also specifically told Xu Yi that he must be optimistic about these dwarves and not let them make trouble because they live together.

Xu Yi naturally agreed to this, and the way to deal with it was also very simple, that is, to arrange work for all these dwarves.

For a race like dwarves who are straightforward and honest, they can be satisfied if they have food to eat and drink to drink, and as long as they accept the work arranged by Xu Yi, they will not only have enough food, but also a salary. , so that they can use those salaries to buy some good things that improve their lives.

Although because of work, Xu Yi strictly restricted them and did not allow them to drink at will, but this was only restricted during work. I don't care about time outside of work.

What's more, every once in a while, Xu Yi will have people bring a few carts of wine from Saatchi Manor. Pick a nice night for a reception. Let them enjoy their drinks.

Such a life is a perfect life that all dwarves could never dream of hiding in the mountains before!

If that's the case, how could they possibly have any idea of ​​making trouble.

On the contrary, I am grateful to Xu Yi for helping them achieve such a good life, whether it is the dwarves of the Norman tribe and the Angolan tribe, or the other dwarves who migrated later, they are all in the work when completing the work that Xu Yi explained. It can be said to do their best.

And as President Cruise commented, the dwarves are powerful. With a good physique and more dexterous hands than ordinary people, he is the most perfect worker.

With the efforts of these dwarves, the development of Falling Rain Valley is progressing extremely fast, almost the same every day.

Before the Luoyu Highway was completed and opened to traffic, the dwarves had already leveled the ground of the Luoyu Valley and prepared to build the factory.

When the rainy road was completed, a large amount of materials were quickly transported in through the rainy road. The dwarves and the workers of the Amri Chamber of Commerce who joined later worked together to make the rainy valley bigger in a short period of time. changed.

Compared to when Xu Yi first came here to inspect the Falling Rain Valley. Now the Falling Rain Valley has become a large construction site.

In addition to the new dwarf tribe that is still under construction in the living quarters at the far end, in a section near the rainy road. Huge factories are rising from the ground.

According to Xu Yi's plan, the Falling Rain Valley is used as the production base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

In the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi also arranged a special production workshop for each household magic machine.

And any of these production workshops is several times larger than the current household magic machinery production workshop in Thornton Manor, enough to accommodate hundreds of workers working in it at the same time.

When building these production workshops, President Cruise asked Xu Yi a question.

He felt that even with the scale of the factory of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in Sangqiton Manor, it was enough to produce household magic machinery that could fully meet the needs of Bangta City and several surrounding cities. So many, such a large production workshop?

Xu Yi repelled his doubts in one sentence.

"Could it be that the goal of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just Bangta City and the surrounding cities?"

However, no matter how many factories were newly built, no matter how large they were, it was of course impossible to fill up the Falling Rain Valley, which was more than ten square kilometers in size.

In addition to the living area and the light industrial base, in fact, in Xu Yi's plan, the largest area in Luoyu Valley should be the heavy industrial base under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

It's just that the so-called heavy industry is only in its infancy, both for the entire Sainz Continent and for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Apart from the mechanical production represented by the magic machine tool workshop, the heavy industry under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now the steelmaking plant of the Norma tribe.

The current monthly output of this steelmaking plant has just exceeded 6,000 tons, which is a long way from the smallest steelmaking plant on earth.

As for Xu Yi's vision of becoming a large-scale steelmaking plant capable of supporting the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the entire Kingdom of Lampari, it is still a long way off.

At present, this steelmaking plant is mainly refining silver leaf steel to meet the needs of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to produce automatic magic rice cookers, magic bread machines and a new generation of magic air conditioners.

And if this output is maintained, it will undoubtedly fail to meet the requirements in Xu Yi's mind, and even gradually cannot keep up with the needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after the expansion of production.

Therefore, after Xu Yi and President Cruise entered the Rainfall Valley, the first thing they saw was a group of dwarves holding up a huge iron furnace that was more than three meters high and nearly two meters in diameter, and then turned the iron furnace toward a Push it on the tall stand.

"This thing is really spectacular." President Cruise was the first to see this thing and couldn't help but admire.

"This is still small, and you will see more spectacular things in the future." Xu Yi despised President Cruise's ignorance in his heart.

Indeed, compared to the large converters in the large steel mills on Earth with specifications reaching dozens of tons or even hundreds of tons, Xu Yi designed it by himself, and then worked with the dwarves to study the final converter, which could only be smelted once. Just over ten tons of raw materials are not at the same level in terms of steelmaking capacity.

But after all, this is the first real converter on the Sainz Continent, which means that this steelmaking plant will gradually get rid of the artificial steelmaking that used to rely solely on dwarves. Steelmaking efficiency will be greatly improved.

According to Xu also estimated. If this converter cooperates with a series of steel-making equipment designed later, it can be put into production smoothly. The output of this steelmaking plant will double several times, even if it exceeds the monthly output of 20,000 tons in one breath, it is very likely.

And this is only the first set of equipment with an experimental nature. If the whole set of equipment is tested and then improved accordingly, the steelmaking plant can invest in several more sets of the same equipment, and the output of the entire steelmaking plant will definitely be reduced. An explosive leap occurs.

Xu also couldn't help being a little excited when he thought of the situation in which this steelmaking plant would continue to produce a lot of steel in the future.

The so-called machinery, no matter how high the technological level it has. The main body is still made of various kinds of steel after all.

If a sufficient supply of steel cannot be guaranteed, then in fact, modern industry is simply a castle in the air, with no basis at all.

If countries on earth want to assess their industrial strength, one of the most important data is steel production.

If a country's steel production is still at a very low level, then there is no discussion of industrial power at all.

Thinking of this, the shadow of the great magician Camilla flashed across Xu Yi's mind.

When studying the steel-making equipment, Xu Yi and the dwarves encountered a very important problem, that is, how to increase the speed of smelting iron ore.

According to the old method of the dwarves, the shaft furnace is used to heat and smelt. Not to mention the speed is slow, but also takes up a lot of space. It is very unfavorable for the planning of the entire steelmaking plant.

So Xu Yi habitually brought up this issue to discuss with the great magician Camilla, but was directly despised by the great magician Camilla.

It turned out that in the eyes of the great magician Camilla, it was not enough for the dwarves to use coal to raise the temperature of the fire.

In fire magic, there are many advanced magics that produce temperatures that are even much higher than what coal burning can provide.

Later, after discussion with Xu Yi, the great magician Camilla finally decided to use the ninth-level fire magic - explosion.

Now, in the melting furnace used by this steelmaking plant, there is an explosion magic circle arranged by the great magician Camilla.

Compared with coal smelting, once the flame explosion magic array is activated, the temperature rises extremely fast, and the speed of smelting ore is far higher, so only one or even smaller smelting furnace is needed to match the steel-making speed of the converter. , greatly improving the overall efficiency.

What's more, using this smelting furnace does not require the consumption of coal, but only magic crystals.

Compared with coal, magic crystal is not only cheaper, but also has no pollution.

Thinking of this is even more convenient than the arc melting furnace on Earth, Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh again.

Even if the Sainz Continent is much worse than the Earth's technological level, having such a thing as magic is inherently better than when Earth began to develop its industry.

Xu Yi was thinking about the various meanings of this steelmaking plant, but there, President Cruise noticed several old magic fans and magic rice cookers that were piled up like hills in the open space next to the steelmaking plant. and magic air conditioner.

"Xu Yi, isn't the trade-in activity of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce just to recycle these old magic fans or something, and then smelt them back in the furnace?" President Cruise asked, pointing to the hills.

"Of course, otherwise why take it back?" Xu Yi said.

President Cruise shook his head: "This is too uneconomical. According to your trade-in activity, just an old magic fan can be worth fifty silver coins, but if it is smelted back in the furnace, it can only be regarded as a few pounds at most. Scrap iron, maybe it's not even worth ten silver coins. If you do this, you might as well buy iron ore directly from the Falco Chamber of Commerce."

"First of all, the price of iron ore has risen a lot now, so this old magic fan can be worth more than 30 silver coins just by selling scrap iron, and we haven't lost much." Xu Yi said with a smile. "Secondly, in fact, the magic fans, magic air conditioners, magic rice cookers, etc. produced by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce last year are all made of old craftsmanship, and the material is also ordinary pig iron, and the quality is actually not good. Take advantage of them now. Recycling them and replacing them with new-generation products of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can prevent them from having quality problems and affect the reputation of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.”

"Reputation?" President Cruise glanced at Xu Yi in surprise, and sighed, "Although the reputation of a chamber of commerce is indeed very important, but you don't take it as seriously as you do?"

"You may not understand the reputation. Well, let me tell you, this is called building a brand, do you understand?"

"I don't understand that." President Cruise immediately shook his head.

"Okay, to put it simply, if there are two magic fans in front of you now, one of which is a Xinfei brand magic fan produced by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the other is a magic fan of other brands produced by other guilds, The price of two magic fans is the same, which one would you choose to buy?" Xu Yi asked.

"Nonsense, of course I bought your new flying card magic fan. How can the magic fans produced by other chambers of commerce have a new flying card." President Cruise replied without hesitation.

"So what if the price of other brands of magic fans is lower than that of Xinfei? Which one would you choose?" Xu Yi then asked.

"It depends on how much lower. If it's just a little lower, I'll definitely choose the new Flying Card Magic Fan. If it's a lot lower..." President Cruise hesitated and replied, "I'll still choose the new fan. Flying card magic fan. Anyway, I must buy this kind of thing in the hope that it is good enough, and if it is not good, it is a pure waste of money for me to buy it.”

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Do you understand the role of the brand now?"

President Cruise was stunned, and then suddenly realized.

When he looked at Xu Yi again, there was a hint of admiration in his eyes. (To be continued..)