Chapter 71 Do You Want to Rebel?

Along with the memories, the dwarf Muru fully narrated the process of refining this iron ball.

In the process of his narration, Xu Yi kept asking about the details, not even letting go of how high the temperature of the fire he was using at the time.

"This... temperature?" Mu Lu scratched at the messy hair, a little puzzled. "President Xu, you mean how big the fire is, right? I can't tell you this. I can only tell you that I burned it according to the usual way, and it was not particularly hot."

Xu Yi is a little helpless. Sainz Continent does not have detailed data records of all processes like on Earth. This is actually a major flaw in the process of promoting industrialization. It seems that he must find a way to solve this problem.

Of course, this issue can only be postponed, and the most important thing at present is the iron ball in hand.

After asking Mu Lu several times, Xu Yi was unable to get a satisfactory answer to him, and finally had to ask Mu Lu to simply rehearse the procedure that day.

Hearing that President Xu of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was interested in the iron balls made by Mulu, other dwarves who were originally conducting smelting experiments also gathered around.

In front of everyone, Mulu thought for a while, and a bright fire was lit.

The first half was just a normal smelting process, Xu Yi didn't see anything special, but when the molten iron in the boiler had already started to roll, Mu Lu picked up a can of powder with a little silver light and poured it into it. The situation changed in an instant.

As soon as the silver-leaf grass powder was poured into it, it immediately melted with the molten iron in the boiler. After a while, the molten iron that was already tumbling due to the high temperature tumbled even more violently. It also began to be mixed with a trace of silver light.

The process of making iron is actually quite boring. At first, Sluka was worried that Xu Yi would be bored, but he found that Xu Yi was staring at the molten iron in the boiler from beginning to end, his eyes hardly blinking, and his expression was positive. Focus, can not help but wonder.

Why does President Xu care so much about this strange so-called alloy?

It was already afternoon when Xu Yi came to the dwarf tribe, and by the time this furnace of molten iron was successfully refined, it was already night.

During this period, Xu Yi had been standing beside the boiler. Except for a trip to the toilet in the middle, he remained motionless.

In addition, he also took out a notebook and recorded the entire process, as well as the order and dosage of the materials used by Mu Lu.

After the molten iron cooled and gradually formed a spherical ball in the mold, Xu Yi carefully compared the iron ball this time with the one he had discovered before, and determined that there was not much difference between the two iron balls. It was confirmed that Mu Lu really restored the last smelting process.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shiluka wanted to invite Xu Yi back to the tribe for dinner, but Xu Yi directly refused.

After finally discovering a new type of alloy, Xu Yi was in a state of excitement, his enthusiasm for work as a mechanical engineer was bursting, and he was naturally reluctant to leave at this time.

So Sluka simply asked the clansmen to bring dinner here, and while the dwarves had dinner with Xu Yi, they conducted various tests on the iron ball according to Xu Yi's requirements.

After a series of tests, Xu Yi finally determined that this alloy, which has undergone a strange change due to the addition of silver leaf grass powder, may be slightly inferior in hardness, but it is very close to the ordinary aluminum alloy on earth in terms of ductility and plasticity. Since the pig iron that is generally refined on the continent of Sainz is much stronger.

What's more, the alloy with silver leaf grass powder has been piled up in the corner for nearly two months, but no rust has appeared.

Even without any anti-rust treatment, it automatically has the properties of stainless steel!

Xu Yi was extremely excited as he held the iron ball that was somewhat deformed after undergoing various performance tests.

The reason why he came to the dwarf tribe this time was actually for Patriarch Shiluka to contact the dwarves of other dwarven tribes. He came to try to pull some dwarves back to join the magic machine workshop. Unexpectedly, the dwarves did not see them. , but unexpectedly, discovered such a novel alloy.

Although it has not been identified yet, Xu can be sure that this new alloy, temporarily named Silver Leaf Alloy, may be difficult to apply to large-scale magic machinery due to its hardness, but it will definitely be used in light household magic machinery. Has a very wide range of uses.

For example, the magic rice cooker recently developed and promoted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, if this alloy is used, the weight of the magic rice cooker will be greatly reduced.

This alone will definitely make the magic rice cooker even more popular.

After the various tests of the silver-leaf alloy were completed, Xu Yi immediately put forward a request to Patriarch Shiluka, hoping that he and the dwarves in the tribe would make further tests on this silver-leaf alloy.

For example, changing the content of the added silver leaf grass powder, changing the temperature of the fire, adding some other materials, etc...

At the same time, he also publicly awarded Muru twenty gold coins in the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as a commendation for his invention of a new type of alloy.

Based on Xu Yi's knowledge of material testing on earth, he believes that any small change may change the final properties of the alloy.

The emergence of this silver leaf alloy is due to an accident. If there are more such accidents, he will definitely support it.

Apart from this silver leaf alloy, Xu Yi rummaged through the pile of discarded iron balls again and found a somewhat special iron ball.

Although this iron ball is not as conspicuous as the silver leaf alloy, and its performance is not so good, but after testing, Xu Yi was surprised to find that this iron ball greatly exceeds ordinary pig iron in terms of hardness and wear resistance.

For heavy machinery, especially large machine tools, such alloy steel is extremely needed.

Xu Yi once again made a request to the Sluka Patriarch, and asked the dwarves of the tribe to conduct further research on this alloy steel at the same time.

This time, the Sluka Patriarch was not as cheerful as he had promised before, but instead looked embarrassed.

"President Xu, I'm afraid there aren't enough clansmen in the tribe now. If you didn't take away Kambi and the others, it would be no problem to conduct research on these two aspects at the same time, but now you can see that these things can still be done in the tribe. All the clansmen are here, and there are only a dozen or so people, I am afraid that I will not be able to fulfill your request."

Xu Yi looked left and right, and found that Patriarch Shiluka was not exaggerating.

Since he pulled the hundred dwarves headed by Camby away from the tribe, most of the remaining dwarves in this tribe are old and weak women and children who can still smelt with high intensity, so there are only ten dwarves left here. Just a few dwarves.

"Well, Patriarch Shiluka, the Angola tribe is not going to come to negotiate with me tomorrow, I will talk to them about this matter, it is best to convince their tribe to take over the research on one of the alloys. Of course, it is best to It's Patriarch Shiluka, you can get in touch with more dwarf brothers. Right now, I am in urgent need of manpower, mainly qualified dwarf craftsmen, as many as you want." Xu Yi thought for a while.

Sluka did not agree, but frowned at Xu Yi.

"President Xu, do you plan to make your factory full of dwarves?"

Xu Yi was startled: "Of course not, there are still more humans in my factory now."

Shluka shook his head: "President Xu, I think I have to remind you that if there are too many of us dwarves in your factory, there may be problems."

Xu Yi was a little puzzled: "What's wrong? What can go wrong? I just let the dwarves work at my place, what can go wrong?"

Sluka sighed: "President Xu, I know you have good intentions, but not everyone of you humans is like you. More importantly, the leaders of your humans may not think the same way. We dwarves have It's okay for a small number to appear in your human society, but if a lot of dwarves appear together, I'm afraid it will cause trouble for you and us dwarves."

Xu Yi couldn't help frowning: "The racial war happened thousands of years ago. Are you still worried about this, Patriarch Shiluka?"

Patriarch Sluka waved his hand: "It's impossible to have another racial war, I'm just worried that it will arouse the vigilance of your human leaders. At that time, our dwarf brothers will not bring you any benefits, but will bring you trouble. ."

Xu Yi pondered for a moment, and finally had to admit that Patriarch Shiluka was right.

Although the Sainz Continent is currently completely led by humans, and other races have no capital that can compete with humans, the racial gap still exists.

It's not a problem for Xu Yi to recruit a hundred or hundreds of dwarves to work for him, but if he recruits a thousand or even a few thousand dwarves, it is very likely to arouse the vigilance of the big men in the Lampari Kingdom.

With so many aliens under your command, do you want to rebel?

"Hey, it seems that no matter which world you are in, business can't completely get rid of political factors." Xu Yi sighed inwardly, thought about it, and nodded to Patriarch Shiluka: "Thank you Patriarch for your reminder, I will pay attention to this issue. Yes. But I don't think there should be such problems at this stage. In addition, my chamber of commerce is indeed very short of manpower, so please pay more attention to this aspect. If it doesn't work, I can't say that there is no such thing at all. Prepare."

President Shluka nodded his head gently: "Okay, President Xu, you are a smart human being, I believe you will have a solution. As for the dwarf brothers of other tribes, there is no need to worry..." Having said that , President Sluka showed a wry smile on his face, looking helpless. "Their life now is not much better than our tribe used to be."