Alien Knights

　　 Todd rubbed his sore eyes.

　　 Using the perspective power for a long time, looking at the dazzling metal solution in the furnace body, his eyes were overwhelmed, and even the tear glands were baked by the heat and couldn't shed a single tear.

　　 In my previous life, I often saw those who traversed in novels and films and brought scientific and technological achievements and industrial inventions into the new world. Everything seemed so relaxed and comfortable, but the real hardships can only be experienced by actually trying them.

　　 There is already the third furnace of **** smelting in front of him.

　　 For the first time, due to the unreasonable construction method of the furnace roof material, the bearing point was shifted, and finally a partial collapse was caused, which directly polluted the silver-lead solution, and the furnace could only be used again.

The second time, due to the lack of professional temperature monitoring equipment and the unskilled operators, the furnace temperature fluctuated in a short period of time, and the material of the furnace wall was low in temperature resistance, which directly caused the "Fryer accident".

　　 After the first two failures, the craftsmen and apprentices in the smelting site, even Huggins and Edgar, have completely lost hope. Some people persuaded the monk apprentices to give up trying, some took out the cross and began to pray to Heavenly Father, and some even packed up their things and planned to go home to sleep.

　　 However, the smelting is still going on, no matter in the past or this life, Todd's "dictionary" has never given up the word.

　　 Counting from the first opening of the furnace, the smelting continued until eleven o'clock in the middle of the night the next day. In the silent and dark night, only the smelting yard of the San Sidro Monastery was still shining.

　　 30 hours have passed.

　　 The soul who was accustomed to staying up all night in the laboratory in the previous life, in this young body, gradually felt powerless and approaching collapse. But now Todd couldn't stop, the whole "Three Steps of Ash Blowing" had reached the final juncture.

　　Only Todd, Hudgens, Aiden Kerm and his apprentices were in front of the furnace.

Observing the inside of the furnace through perspective, Todd signaled his helpers to first add a small amount of saltpeter to the lead-silver solution to accelerate the oxidation of copper and other impurities, and then evenly sprinkle a thin layer of "bone meal" (main chemical composition) ground from animal bones. It is calcium and phosphorus), the residual **** is adsorbed clean and then pulled out. Finally, a layer of charcoal was added to the silver liquid to cover, the furnace temperature was further increased to 900 degrees Celsius, and the fire was extinguished and cooled to remove a large amount of oxygen absorbed in the liquid. Finally, the finished solution was slowly poured into the mold.

　　 At four o'clock in the morning, the morning bell of the monastery spread everywhere, and the monks' chants rang in the main hall. At the foot of the mountain, a group of soot-faced and exhausted people witnessed a great success.

　　 It took 35 hours to complete, and after two failures, it consumed about three tons of silver ore waste. A "silver ingot" with a length of 4 cm and a width of 3 cm and weighing 23.5 grams has finally been released.

　　 "Success... succeeded!"

　　 The first sound that rang belonged to the big voice of Huggins.

　　 Soon, the sleeping Edgar and other craftsmen and apprentices rushed over after hearing the sound.

Touching the precious metals that still carry the temperature in his hands, Todd has a sense of everything, from mineral selection, chemical equations, industrial design, equipment drawings, to preliminary preparations, furnace modification, three smelting, two failures, and the final The finished product is out. This is really an experience that made him feel hard, but full of accomplishment.

　　 However, when it comes to being happy, some people are more excited than him.

　　 Huggins, who bet all his wealth on this little silver ingot, took up this baby bump, completely without the calm and composure of the past. He closed his eyes, rubbed his rough face and felt the cold touch, and from time to time he could hear a burst of refreshing groans from his nose.

Edgar behind him bounced and jumped like a monkey, grabbing the man's shoulder for a while, kicking the big man's knee with his leg, and shouting in his mouth: "Hey! Let me see! Let me see!"

　　 Ignoring these two yelling guys, Todd has more important things to do.

　　Calculation of smelting profit.

　　 The entire silver refining process took a total of 35 hours. The time it took to remove the two failures, plus the time to remove the slag, repair the furnace body and blow the plate, can carry out about six such refining a week. Assuming that the value of silver refining is fixed each time, the profit for a week is about 140 grams of silver ingots.

Regardless of the church "sacred coins" used by the Papal States, the three most commonly used coins in the Southwestern countries are generally these three coins: "Golden Asahi" made of gold, "Silver Moon" made of silver, and made of copper. The ratio of "Bronze Star" is maintained at around 1:10:1000. The weight of the silver moon is about 2.2 grams, which means that the weekly smelting income is about 63 silver moons.

　　Of course, the final net profit also needs to exclude fuel purchase fees, equipment maintenance fees, spare material purchase fees, black market exchange fees and the salaries of craftsmen apprentices. The net profit (per week) attributable to the monastery is about 38.

Regarding the final expenditure, Huggins, Edgar and Todd disagree. The former thinks that there is no need to spend extra money on craftsmen and apprentices, but the latter insists on his own point of view, not only to For all craftsmen and apprentices, double the standard salary, and added the meal allowance into coins. UU reading www. uukahnshu.com

　　 The end result is naturally that the craftsmen and apprentices are grateful and happy.

　　 After giving orders to the people, leave someone to take care of the stove. With soot and fatigue, Todd fell to the ground directly because of fatigue on the way back to the monastery. In the end, Huggins took the monk apprentice on his back, took him back to the monk's bedroom, and put him on the bed.

　　 When he arrived in his room, Todd slept dimly, from early morning to late at night, unaware of what was happening on the other side of the monastery.

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　　 The moon climbed up the treetops, and the night worms in the early spring made their first call.

　　Master Myris is leaning against the fireplace, facing south, sitting in the north of the room, looking in the direction of the door, motionless.

He has always been frugal. It is rare for him to light three candles in the room, one on the desk, one by the front door, and one in the stairwell. A faint fire fills the entire room, shining every corner of the room. No shadow.

　　 Eight bells came from the bell tower of the monastery, which means that the light has come to an end and the darkness is about to come.

　　 A faint gray mist drifted into the room along the gap between the window ridges, gathered, condensed, and formed on the floor, and a figure slowly stood up straight from the misty smoke.

Master Miles looked at the face that appeared in the fog, his body did not move, and his face was expressionless. He raised one hand to the opposite front door, and said in a deep voice: "Know yourself, Heavenly Father teaches his people How to use doors and windows is a true guide to distinguish civilization from wildness!"

　　 The man in the fog gradually stabilized his posture, his pale and sick face without a trace of blood, his slender fingers took out a charred broken sword from his arms, and hissed, "Mr. Bowen, dead."