Chapter 261

The Randall family kept transporting high-quality wood, cowhide, ox horn, animal tendon, fish glue and iron materials to the hill camp. The finished armaments flowed out of the hill camp and distributed them to the soldiers. Everyone thought the hill camp was the Lord's armament workshop. In fact, the mountain fortress is Victor's largest military production base.

In the dead of night, the villagers hid in safe villages and towns, while the alchemy militia quietly transported materials to the mountains under the cover of the night, and pulled the prepared armaments into the hill camp. The number of guards led by Randall is limited after all. Even with all alchemists, there is still a lot of surplus weapons and equipment produced by the fortress.

Over the past three years, the mountain fortress has stored a large number of arms and materials. Four cellars store hundreds of barrels of purple cane wine, while the 12 rooms on the first floor are weapons storage rooms, which are neatly stacked with all kinds of weapons and armor.

"My Lord, we have made 240 heavy crossbows with the tendons of the ant man leader, equipped with 6000 fine steel crossbows, 7000 fine iron crossbows, 200 fine gold crossbows, 150 fine silver crossbows, as well as 3 double silver heavy crossbows and 50 fine gold double silver crossbows for your special use."

"90 Silver crossbows, 300 ordinary crossbows, equipped with 40000 fine iron crossbows. 20 Silver Long bows, 80 yew long bows, equipped with 10000 fine iron long arrows. 500 composite hard bows, 60000 fine iron arrows. In addition, there are 2 double silver composite bows and 100 fine gold double silver arrows for your special use."

"There are 80 sets of silver ant man armor. According to your requirements, we will save the remaining ant man armor, which is enough to make 16 pairs of double silver full body armor."

"There are 2100 sets of refined iron body lock armor and 105 sets of refined steel half body lock ring armor. Each pair of lock armor is equipped with a set of rattan hard armor, refined iron helmet, refined steel hand armor and hard leather boots, as well as an iron oak round shield, a refined iron long sword and a refined iron single handed spear."

Hundreds of green sand candles shine brightly in the storage room, with blue and white silver, blue refined iron and silver-white refined steel. Under the reflection of the candle light, the brilliance flows and glitters.

Ignoring the precious gold and silver equipment, Victor picked up a fine steel half body lock and looked at it carefully.

The so-called refined steel is actually an alloy forged by adding a little refined iron into iron. Refined steel is much stronger than pure iron, and its performance is directly proportional to the content of refined iron. However, refined steel of any degree is not as strong and corrosion-resistant as pure refined iron, but its weight is much lighter than refined iron.

This steel ring half body lock armour is silvery white with blue light and weighs 12 kg. It is made of refined steel with double-layer riveting process. The ring eyes are dense and compact, and the workmanship is appalling.

"Beautiful! Worth at least 30 kingsol." Victor nodded, shook his head and sighed, "it's still too heavy. How much refined iron did you add?"

"The ratio of refined iron to iron is 1:1.5." Bousso replied, "Sir, we need more iron materials to complete the production of 500 sets of steel ring armour."

Steel ring armor with hard leather inner armor can effectively resist various types of physical damage, including puncture, chopping and blunt attack. It is the standard configuration for elite soldiers. The defense performance of refined iron lock armour is better than that of steel ring lock armour, but its heavy weight is a great burden for elite soldiers, not to mention ordinary soldiers of Randall family. Therefore, few people use refined iron lock armour.

Victor has thousands of fine iron lock armours, one set of alchemy militia, and there are still more than 2000 sets left. These expensive locks are not appreciated by knights and elite soldiers, and almost become waste. In order to meet the needs of ordinary soldiers, Victor purchased many old lock armor from the York family. However, purchasing armaments is not a long-term plan after all. Randall's army expansion is imminent. Victor mobilized iron materials and ordered cloth to build 500 sets of steel ring half body armor, each weighing no more than 15kg.

The normal whole body steel ring armour, with a 1:3 refined iron ratio, can be called excellent, with a total weight of 15kg. The half body steel ring armour made by the alchemy auxiliary soldier has a ratio of refined iron to iron of 1:1.5 and weighs 12 kg. Although Bousso tried to increase the proportion of refined iron, there was still not enough iron.

Renma hills are rich in refined iron and lack of iron ore resources. Although iron is not a scarce resource, the Lords of Gambis are dissatisfied with the York family's dominance of fine iron. Without the leadership of the royal family, the Lords spontaneously restricted the flow of iron materials into the Renma hills, only to force the York family to open the trade of refined iron for iron materials, and the exchange ratio was 1:1.

How can the York family agree to such outrageous conditions? At present, the neville people control the refined iron and iron material market. According to their pricing, the price of refined iron in Gambis is six times that of iron material. The Duke of York sought a price ratio of 1:5 and resolutely refused to sell refined iron if he failed to achieve his goal. The Duke of York's reason is also very good: once the refined iron price is loosened, it will be difficult to increase the price unless the refined iron is sold to the Sassanians. However, Gambis's own demand for refined iron has not been met. Selling refined iron to the Sassanians is no less than betraying the whole white tower camp.

The York family has a deep heritage. It has iron reserves and ready-made weapons and armor. Sophia's chamber of Commerce helps them transfer iron. Although the trade volume is small, it can also maintain small-scale arms renewal.

Around the price of refined iron, the two sides are still in the game. This is killing victor.

According to the agreement of the notarization before God, the York family is supplying metal ingots to Randall, and the price is also cheap, but the refined iron accounts for a large proportion, and the iron material is poor. In order to save iron, Randall's farm tools are made of copper.

If Sylvia had not increased the supply of iron, Victor would not have been able to produce military equipment for ordinary soldiers.

"Forget it, suspend the production of steel ring lock armour. Refined iron is very valuable. I'll lose my life making steel ring lock armour of 1:1.5. I'd better forge refined steel in the ratio of 1:3 and make lock armour as much as there are materials."

"These refined iron equipment can't be used by ordinary people, so only 500 sets will be reserved for standby, and the rest will be melted back." Victor said reluctantly, "take me to the secret library."

"Yes, sir."

The secret storehouse is on the second floor of the castle. It is dedicated to storing valuable materials, mainly ant man shells and rare materials. Pushing the door open, Victor saw a pile of silver glittering metal ingots. It was silver.

Silver ore, as an associated mineral of secret silver ore, has been refined to 1100 pounds. Victor was dizzy with this small pyramid made of silver ingots.

Four years ago, Victor had so much silver that he could wake up in a dream. Now, the silver is just a hot potato.

Gold, silver and copper, as carriers of money, are strictly controlled. The circulation of these precious metals is not only concerned by the royal family, but also wary of precious metal trading, even if it is only utensils.

Currency flooding will lead to inflation, and kinsol accumulated by local lords will depreciate. For the nobles, this is tantamount to someone stealing their wealth.

The private coiner is the public enemy of everyone. If Victor learns that someone uses privately minted money to extract his resources, he must beat his brains out.

In fact, the issue of money is regulated by the church, or rather, in the hands of the church.

Every 36 years is a cycle. Representatives of all kingdoms carry gold ingots to El kingdom. Under the organization of the church and silver white tower, they conduct fierce consultations and decide how many gold sols to issue. As for the distribution of kinsore, there is another method, which is not directly related to the number of gold ingots carried by each kingdom.

Each kingdom can issue silver sols independently, the number of which is determined by the Senate, but it is also subject to the supervision of the church. The right to issue purple gold coins is the independent behavior of the royal family. However, purple gold coins are actually bonds issued by royal families, guaranteed by the reputation of major royal families, and mixed with precious refined gold, which is of great value in itself.

The church was responsible for casting copper sol. However, the purchasing power of copper sol is basically the same as the value of copper material. The Sassanian empire once melted copper sol into copper ingots to make agricultural tools and arrow clusters to make up for the gap of iron material.

It's hard to forge copper sol. You'd better give it to the church.

Victor cast a little silver sol to test the creation rules of the alchemy tower. Unfortunately, the king did not buy the private silver coins, but only gave the conclusion that four private silver coins were worth 1 copper sol.

No way, Victor can only cast these silver ingots into silverware and handicrafts, and then sell them slowly. Of course, he didn't come to see silver today.

"Puso, where are my secret silver, pure gold and silver?"

"Here you are, my Lord."

Bousso pulled out three boxes made of refined iron from the corner. After opening them, Victor saw three rare metals.

In the leftmost box are four purple gold ingots, which are pure gold.

Refined gold, associated with copper, is the strongest and most corrosion-resistant metal known at present. The refined gold weapon made by craftsmen with refined iron mixed with a little refined gold is sharp, unparalleled, heavy and durable, and will not be broken by other alloy weapons. Refined gold armor is made of refined steel mixed with refined gold. It is indestructible. Non refined gold weapons cannot be cut. The result of collision depends on each other's refined gold content. This is the reason why Victor wanted to build a fine gold crossbow arrow.

The strength of refined gold is unparalleled, but its weight is lighter than the same volume of iron. The four small pieces of refined gold in the box weigh only 3.7 pounds. Their market price is 37000 gold sol, while the king's price is 35913 gold sol.

Refined gold equipment is extremely expensive, and there is no doubt about their importance to Knights. Many small families are unable to provide refined gold equipment to family knights, which leads to brain drain.

In the middle box is a small silver white metal ingot, which is only the size of a thumb and weighs only 75 grams. However, such a small ingot of metal can be exchanged for 7.5 pounds of refined gold ingot. Because it is the king of precious metals, the truly extraordinary metal - Secret silver.

Due to the affinity of elements, Mithril can make high-level Knights play a complete combat effectiveness. In their later years, the vast majority of silver Knights will carry out life and death trials, hoping to resonate 36 element bits between life and death and communicate the element sea, so as to obtain the hope of promotion to the peak. Although the secret silver equipment may not enable the great knight to survive the trial of life and death, 100% of the great Knight without secret silver equipment cannot be spared.

Mithril equipment is related to the Silver Knight's hope of promotion. Therefore, Mithril is a strategic material with price but no market. Moreover, the production of secret silver is extremely rare. Victor has dug the secret silver mine for three years and melted half a ton of silver, but the refined secret silver is only 135 grams. Among them, 50 grams of secret silver were exchanged for 5 pounds of refined gold, leaving only 75 grams of secret silver.

No one will sell secret silver. The value of 75 grams of secret silver is difficult to measure in gold coins, but the alchemy tower has made a price for secret silver. The value of 75 grams of secret silver is 210000 gold sol!

Secret silver was of little use to the Randall family. Victor also had double silver equipment, but he did not sacrifice these secret silver to the alchemy tower.

Not everyone of the high-level Knights of the York family has secret silver equipment, and Randall's Secret silver mine will be exposed sooner or later. Leave these secret silver, and Victor can use them to appease the high-ranking Knights of the York family in the future. Victor didn't do this to please the York family, just for Sylvia.

No matter how powerful Sylvia is, Victor regards her as his own woman. He doesn't want Sylvia to be blamed by his men because of the problem of Mithril. Leaving room for his women is Victor's style, which has nothing to do with personal strength.

Victor can buy people's hearts and interests with refined gold and secret silver, but he will never take out silver!

In the material system of the alchemy Empire, refined gold and secret silver belong to class II materials, and silver is class III materials. But in Victor's eyes, the value of silver was immeasurable, far more than pure gold and secret silver.

Silver can fuse with most materials and give them the properties of memory metals. Se Yin equipment is deformed by external force and can be restored to its original state. This is against the sky for industrial civilization.

In fact, the application prospect of Se silver in other world is also quite broad, enough to change an era.

Take the production of yew Longbow as an example. Craftsmen must first choose yew wood with excellent elasticity, supplemented by ox horn, ox tendon and fish glue to make the bow body, and then dry a whole ox back tendon and put it into a special solution to remove fat, which is called tanning. The tanned tendon bow string is enough to make a long bow.

How about the production cost and performance of yew Longbow?

Yew grows slowly and has poor regeneration ability. It belongs to precious wood, and the ox tendon bow string needs a whole cow. If the ox tendon bow string meets water, it will be basically abandoned. Some nobles also use spider silk bowstrings, which is too expensive. Let's not talk about the range and power of yew longbow. Most importantly, the yew longbow, no matter how well maintained, will not take 10 years. In fact, ordinary armaments have a service life. Even refined iron swords will rust, become brittle and become unusable over time.

The silver bow is different.

Silver can be incorporated into most solid materials to replace the perishable part, making it have the characteristics of memory metal. This means that seyin Longbow does not need to choose yew to make the bow body, and any kind of hardwood can become a material with excellent elasticity, such as the common iron fir. As for the bowstring, you don't have to pay attention to it. Beef tendon is OK. Sisal fiber woven hemp rope is also OK. As long as it is integrated with silver, they will immediately become metal bowstrings with excellent performance.

The power and range of Se Yin long bow are far more than that of yew long bow, and it won't break any way. It can also adapt to any environment. Most importantly, the silver bow will not corrode, rust and deform! According to the alchemy auxiliary, ordinary silver equipment can be used for 30 years without maintenance!

As victor knows, the alchemical Empire used silver in infrastructure, such as vehicles.

Victor didn't know whether the alchemy Empire had bearings, but he knew very well that the axles and wheels of the silver carriage would not break easily.

In addition to the silver chariot, there are silver warships. As long as you think of the silver ship sailing across the Jinshui River, Victor is very excited.

There are two semi liquid spherical metals in the third refined iron box. One is cyan white and the other is standard silver white. Although they lean together, they are completely different and never blend.

Victor pointed to the silver white muddy metal ball and asked, "Bousso, what's this?"

Bousso replied, "Sir, the silver one is class I silver. The cyan white one is class II silver. Class I silver is 54 pounds and class II silver is 51 pounds."

"You can already refine a kind of silver?" Victor said in surprise: "it seems that the fire element crystal is indeed a red crystal!"

"Yes." Bousso said, "Sir, the fire element crystal you asked Jack to bring is indeed a red crystal. After we got the red crystal, we immediately transformed the furnace. With a large furnace, we extracted 54 pounds of a kind of silver from the previous silver slag. In the future, your silver will be a kind of silver."

The production capacity and quality of Se silver are not only limited by Se silver ore, but also by melting furnace. At the beginning, busso used charcoal as fuel to extract only three types of silver. Later, he used oil wood fuel to extract two types of silver. However, fire crystal must be used to refine a kind of Cerro silver, otherwise the temperature of the furnace will not be enough.

It takes 30 days to refine class III silver and only 8 days to refine class II silver. Because the purity of class II silver is much higher than that of class III silver, the consumption of making equipment is also 40% lower than that of class III silver. And refining a kind of silver only takes 3 days, and the consumption of silver is 60% less than that of three kinds of silver!

With flame crystal, the production efficiency, quality and quantity of Se silver have been greatly improved. But Victor's focus was not on silver.

"You just said that you use slag to refine a kind of silver?"

"Yes, my Lord." Bousso nodded and said, "after the inner wall of the furnace is inlaid with fire element crystal, the fuel consumption is reduced by 20% and the temperature is increased by 1.5 times. This large furnace is enough to extract silver from the slag."

"Then, can Mithril slag be refined?"

"Yes."

After getting the affirmative answer, Victor couldn't help shouting, "my iron ore can also be refined!"

"Of course."

There is an iron ore vein in the west of Randall collar, but it has poor quality, low iron content and almost no mining value. Otherwise, Sylvia wouldn't give this large territory to victor. They didn't have the friendship they have now.

The smelting technology of the alchemy empire made the iron ore valuable, and Victor was no longer troubled by the shortage of iron materials. This advanced technology will also bring more benefits: Victor can make a lot of money as long as he purchases raw ore and refines all kinds of metals.

However, these are not the reasons for Victor's excitement. There is an amazing idea in his mind, but he hasn't figured it out yet.

"Silver... Fire element crystal... Large melting furnace..."

Victor restlessly circled around the room. He stopped and murmured, "no! Silver is material! Material... Energy... Energy?! material! Energy!"

"I see!" Victor slapped and said, "it's a steam engine!"

Victor suddenly turned his head and asked in a trembling voice at Bousso, "Bousso! Can you make a steam engine?!"

"My Lord, I have no information about the steam engine."

"Well, the steam engine is a kind of machine. It uses fuel to boil water, makes water boil, uses steam to push the piston, and then drives the ship. Silver solves the problem of materials, and flame crystal solves the problem of fuel... Whether there is explosives or not, there is steam when the water boils... Do you understand? Can you do it?"

Victor described it incoherently for a long time, and then looked at busso eagerly.

In Victor's expectant eyes, busso shook his head firmly and slowly, "I don't understand. I won't do it."

"You can make ceryin warships! Don't tell me that the warships of the alchemical empire are propelled by oars or sails?" Cried Victor strangely.

"Sir, we are only responsible for manufacturing the hull. The power part of the warship is completed by the alchemist. In addition, the warship does have masts and sails."

"Alchemy Technology..."

Victor shook his head sadly. He only knew the working principle of steam engine, but he couldn't make steam engine at all.

Every row is like a mountain. If someone can copy a steam engine with only a little superficial physical knowledge, Victor must beat him with a big ear scraper. Victor can make white sugar because he has experience in local sugar making. Nevertheless, the production of white sugar is not plain sailing.

The development of science and technology tree must follow the world law and go through a long period of accumulation. Alchemists master alchemy technology. For them, the steam engine may be just an inefficient machine, or the steam engine may not adapt to the laws of the world at all.

Victor has no way to restore the alchemical civilization system through his knowledge, let alone move the earth's science and technology tree to the world. However, the successful application of fire element crystal gave him new ideas.

"Bousso, other element crystals... Well, let me put it another way! Blue wind element crystal, green water element crystal, yellow ground element crystal, what are the uses of these crystals?"

Bousso could understand Victor's meaning. He said, "my Lord, all kinds of energy crystals are class II collections. I don't know the purpose of other crystals except red crystals."

"Hey, I guess the water element crystal and the wind element crystal are the power of the silver battleship. Directly manipulating the water and air is the alchemist's means." Victor shook his head and sighed, "since this is an energy crystal, the energy of the red crystal always runs out. How long can these flame crystals last?

"Sir, these red crystals are impure in quality and can only be regarded as three types of red crystals. Four of these red crystals need to be embedded in a large furnace and replaced every 50 days. You can only use 17 red crystals for 200 days."

"I see." Victor nodded and asked, "are there any other surprises for me?"

"My Lord, the population of fast birds has expanded to 118. Now, you can transfer 30 adult fast birds to form your fast bird light cavalry."

Victor immediately came to be interested, and despite the fact that it was getting late, he took Bousso and went out.

"Show me."