Transmigration of the bastard lord

It's just a trivial matter that Mr. Guangda moved out of the city hall and moved into the mansion in Zhengli.Before the autumn harvest began, a very exciting event happened in Hyderside: a substitute for rubber was developed.

On the last day of July, Fu Youguang, who received the news, dropped all the affairs at hand and ran to the Andrew Research Institute in Hein Farm. As soon as he entered the door, he was stunned by the scorching smell that filled the room.

"Fuck...Andrew, what are you doing?!" Brother Guang squeezed his nose and coughed, and it took him a long time before he remembered to show his fighting spirit, covered his body with a transparent shell of radiance, frowned and squeezed into the alchemy room .

"Don't make a fuss, sir, I'm just testing the refractoriness of this new thing..." In front of the long table full of various instruments, Andrew, who also had the spiritual field shield on, carefully put the liquid-like thing When it was poured into a pot-bellied flask, a mass of blue flame rose up suddenly, and the mass of liquid immediately emitted a violent and pungent stench.

Fu Youguang looked at it strangely for a while, then stared at Andrew suspiciously, "Wait a minute, this is the rubber you made? Are you sure you understand me correctly?"

Andrew rolled his eyes: "It's not good to be too impatient, Your Excellency. And I think what I made is much better than what you described."

The liquid in the pot-bellied flask was ignited by the flames, and the stench and thick smoke kept coming out. The corners of Brother Guang's eyes twitched, "I said, I need something that can be used to make earthquake-resistant tires, anti-corrosion hoses, and waterproof clothing." Kind of... hmm?"

Halfway through the talk, Brother Guang realized something was wrong, and leaned in front of the pot-bellied flask, "Isn't this thing on fire? Didn't it happen?"

"It's less. When I put it in, the capacity was 20 cards, but now it's 18 cards." Davis said, and glanced at Brother Guang, "Excuse me, I forgot that you don't know how to use the spiritual field."

"..."

The mental field of an alchemist is equivalent to a cheating device when operating experiments, and can affect the spiritual field of actual matter with spiritual touch, and the degree of precision monitoring of the experimental process is not lost to modern instruments at all.

"Burning 2 calories of substance, you can get close to 180 ounces of heat energy. If it weren't for the smell that can't be eliminated...this is really good fuel." Andrew rubbed his chin, this incomprehensible old man is just doing alchemy During the experiment, I could see a little bit of the caster's demeanor.

"...Are you sure you understand my request?" Fu Youguang remained expressionless.

"Follow me!" Andrew snapped his fingers to turn off the running alchemy platform, waved his hand heroically, um, then turned around and kicked the sundries piled up on the ground, making a loud bang...

"...Do you dare to be handsome for 3 minutes?" Brother Guang complained helplessly.

In the sealed warehouse behind the research institute, Andrew went to the shelf and took out five square hard boards, spread them out on the table one by one according to the model; pointed to the colorless and translucent one, "This is the original body. What you said...Natural rubber? It is made of solidified pure extract. It is extremely processable, but it is not heat-resistant. If you want to make the kind of pneumatic anti-vibration tires, shoe soles, and rubber hoses you mentioned, I think this original body is enough gone."

Fu Youguang touched this colorless rubber plate, and it was indeed very similar to natural rubber in the modern world in terms of touch, faint rubber smell, and elasticity.

"It really came out?" Playing with this piece of natural rubber fondly, Brother Guang was so excited that he wanted to hug Andrew and kiss him. "I checked the information, and there are no rubber trees in this world at all. How did you make it out?"

Andrew despised Brother Guang with contemptuous eyes, and snorted coldly: "For a master alchemist like me...how difficult is this kind of thing? Don't you just want to do some low-cost and not too ugly shoe promotion? I directly used the ground vines to extract..."

"Wait a minute, Diman?!" Fu Youguang was terrified immediately, just that thing that is everywhere in the mountains and plains, used to weave straw sandals?

"Hehe... You said it mysteriously, and you even gave something with a confusing name like rubber. Isn't it just a plant extract? It has strong processing properties, strong physical properties, and elasticity. According to records, more than 3000 years ago, alchemists tried to extract it from the ground vines." Andrew looked at the expression of a "stupid mortal", and his face was full of beatings, "But this thing is not heat-resistant. , not wear-resistant, half a bottle of water in hardness and softness, and smelly, calling it a product of alchemy is simply blasphemy."

"..." Fu Youguang was completely speechless.The role that rubber plays in industrial development, as long as anyone who has completed compulsory education understands it; this fucking world discovered a substitute for rubber thousands of years ago, but they thought it had a strong taste and discarded it... This shit ...

Wiping his nose sheepishly, Fu Youguang found that his enthusiasm for rubber substitutes had been lost: "...Since you made rubber early in the morning...then what have you been doing all this time? Half a month has passed along the mountain range, right?"

Andrew said positively: "You plan to use the rubber. As an extractor, of course I have to research it to perfection." Lifting up the second gray rubber plate, the alchemist beamed with joy, "Did you see this piece? ? I mixed the original solution of Mercadura in it, the heat resistance and wear resistance increased ten times, and the softness is close to the spring in the sofa..."

Brother Guang's eyes lit up.

"Look at this one again. I added several kinds of mineral materials to it, which increased the mechanical strength and wear resistance by twenty times. It is highly resistant to corrosion. The disadvantage is that the smell has increased..."

Brother Guang vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"There is also this one. After mixing Lakanishu, the smell is completely eliminated!"

Brother Guang's face gradually changed from sunny to cloudy.

"This one! Smells it? It smells like roses! I added..."

Fu Youguang endured and endured, and finally he couldn't hold back and stepped forward to beat Andrew up...

"The premise of industrial supplies is cheap! Production! The smell is a fart! You have been tossing the smell of glue for half a month? How unpursued is your life!!"

Andrew, who was lying on the ground, waved the last piece of rubber plate unwillingly, which was his hard work during this time: "Just add Mercadura stock solution, Lacanishu and several formulas to the stock solution, which not only improves the performance but also It can eliminate the smell, and the cost is only a few dozen gold coins..."

"Believe it or not, I'll dip you in the stock solution, bastard! Your fucking research funds are spent here!" Fu Youguang yelled.

"Wait! Even if you don't add the formula, adding the other two can improve the performance of the rubber!" Andrew shouted after finally understanding Guangge's explosive point.

After a lot of tossing, the dark-faced Brother Guang brought the bruised and swollen Andrew back to Amp City with a box of rubber samples, and went straight to the Hubbard Iron and Steel Company of the dwarves.

In this world, dwarves should be regarded as having industries. They are deeply involved in mining, metallurgy and manufacturing as the basis of industry.But the bad thing is that their industrialization did not take the right path, so that the dwarves who should have become industrial overlords, where their own racial forces could not take care of them, these industrial seedlings with superb skills became the armor weapons of the overlords of all parties. Providers, and the worst ones even became slaves.

Hubbard Steel Company has also undergone internal reorganization after receiving the financing support from the castle. First of all, Fu Youguang can't bear their handicraft workshop-style work mode of teaching from master to apprentice, and a master manufacturer takes care of all the work; the first is investment A dozen lathes were airlifted from the dwarves’ hometown of the Eastern Continent with a lot of money (this is also the main reason why the dwarf tribe is willing to join them sincerely), and then let each master classify his apprentices. The workers do not learn from the master’s eyebrows and beards, but imitate modernization Although it may be difficult for Haidesai to have a famous manufacturing master in the mainland, this batch of specialized types of professional work such as lathe workers, millers, grinders, boring workers, foundry workers, blacksmiths, fitters, etc. The workers who can be trained are better than anything else.

The Hubbard Iron and Steel Company is located at the end of the factory area, and the urban management team has been patrolling for a long time to prohibit outsiders from entering.Fu Youguang and Andrew got off the carriage on the other side of the main road, and walked for more than ten minutes to reach the factory area.When Hubbard, who was a blacksmith, and the patriarch of his tribe dared to arrive after hearing the news, Fu Youguang had already gone to the workshop to talk to the workshop director.

"Good day, Master Guangda, good day, Mr. Andrew."

Hubbard and the dwarf patriarch went in to salute, filling the small office of the workshop director to the brim.Fu Youguang also came this time to meet Hubbard, so it would save trouble if he came on his own initiative.He took out the rubber plate and showed it to the dwarves, and Brother Guang proposed the replacement of the wheels.

The wheels in this world are mostly wooden wheels for ordinary civilian vehicles, and steel is only used for the bearings; wooden wheels have almost no shock resistance, and the wear rate is high, so they must be replaced frequently.The rich man's carriage is only willing to pay the cost. The wheels are covered with a layer of so-called high-end alchemy products, coupled with the multi-wheeled carriage made of not backward manufacturing technology, not to mention flat bottom, it can run on steep mountains stand up.The gap between the tip and the low end is so large that there is simply no room for buffering.

The two dwarves touched the rubber plate, and then heard Fu Youguang's idea of ​​inflating tires, their eyes lit up.

"This is indeed more suitable than other carriage wheels. If it can have the wear resistance and processability mentioned by Mr. Andrew, then I think that the carriage with new wheels will be able to speed up by at least [-]%." Hubbard's stubby and strong fingers Squeezing the rubber plate, he said cautiously, and finally turned to Andrew impatiently without waiting for Fu Youguang's answer, "Mr. Andrew, is this thing processed in the same way as Lusos?"

Luxos, an alchemy product of the same type as rubber used in magic technology in this world, but much taller.

"Basically, the same thing is to masticate first to improve its plasticity, and to shape it by pressing..." Andrew introduced the properties of the rubber he discovered during his research, licking his lips and said, "In terms of performance, it is worse than Lusos, but the rubber The cost is only one percent of that of Lusos; it just smells a little bad, it can’t withstand high temperatures, and it will emit poisonous gas after being burned... er, it’s just a slightly uncomfortable gas.”

"One percent!" The dwarves squeezed in to listen were all excited. The dwarves are a more practical race. The gesture of Hubbard holding the rubber plate is as gentle as holding the hand of a beloved woman, and he doesn't mind the scatter at all. The smell of glue.

"Okay, don't be so busy getting excited, I still have a plan here... Well, Andrew, let me explain, you draw." Fu Youguang said and handed the pen and paper to Andrew. He didn't think about it. It's better to draw the blueprints by yourself... But seriously think about my painter, uh, it's still less ugly.

Fu Youguang has seen the real thing with his own eyes and actually used it, so it is easy to describe it now; Andrew drew on the paper two wheels with a seat and a weird object that looks like a handlebar according to the instructions, so that Heba De, the old patriarch and the owner of the dwarf workshop were all taken aback.

"This thing is called a bicycle. The principle is very simple. People step on the pedals to turn the chain as power to make the body move forward. I have estimated the cost a little. The chain and bearings are made of steel, and other parts are made of wood. Including the labor costs of manufacturing, sales and transportation and Taxes, one car does not exceed six silver coins." Fu Youguang gestured to the drawings and talked, "We didn't do this before. If one was made of wooden wheels, it would be troublesome to make and replace. Now we have rubber wheels; the other It’s this thing that picks the road, and now we’ve almost finished repairing the main road…”

Of course, what Fu Youguang didn't say was that the biggest problem with not considering bicycles was that there were not enough qualified workers; don't underestimate chains and bearings, large-scale production requires a large number of skilled technicians.Now the workers in the iron and steel plant have gone through more than a year of actual operation. Among other things, at least this kind of low-tech bearings can be mass-produced.

After talking in the steel factory for more than an hour, Hubbard followed Fu Youguang and Andrew directly to the city hall.Next, Andrew must try again to find a suitable mastication method to improve the performance of rubber and control the cost as much as possible. Under the name of Andrew Research Institute, another rubber factory will be established to mainly produce tires in batches; the alchemy apprentice brought back by Steven There are people who help to extract rubber from the vines for experiments, just take a few and go to the master.As for Hubbard, he has already made up his mind to grab the first batch of orders after the establishment of the rubber factory - the so-called wheel replacement is not a small business, which means that at least [-]% of Hyderside's existing carriages will be replaced; The Everbright people made it clear that the new generation of tires use steel for the inner liner and tires for the outside. This business is a win-win for both the steel company and the rubber factory that is only on paper.

There is no doubt that the new rubber factory is also public-owned, and the castle will be the major shareholder; as for the directors who actually control it, they must be selected from the followers.

Fu Youguang's work was carried out in a hurry, but on Sieg's side, the office of the Ministry of Supervision was in a haze.

The Earl was sitting on the office chair, leaning against the back of the chair and sitting fairly upright. He seemed to be resting with his eyes closed. He looked expressionless, but his fingers were tapping on the desktop one after another.

The slight sound of knocking on the table made Miss Mary's heart beat fast and fast, and she secretly turned her lowered head to the left. Seeing that Mr. Davis sitting there also had a dark face, she sighed inwardly.

"Count, if you let Your Excellency Guang deal with this matter... it may become more serious." Davis really didn't want to say this, but he has the title of the Supervision Department, and he can't treat himself as a bystander and stay out of the matter , "I have already sent Hydesy's invitation back to the headquarters of the Spellcasters Association, now... is not the time for such a scandal."

Sig, who had closed his eyes for a long time, slowly opened them, and a cold light flashed in his icy blue eyes.He turned his head slightly and looked at Miss Mary, "The person who told them to come to me...is you, Mary."

"...Yes, Earl." Miss Mary said bravely, "Please forgive me, this is the best way I can think of."

"Hehe." The Earl's lips curled up slightly, with a half-smile, "Whether it's harsh punishments...whether it's good words or good words, the damned guy will always want to die wholeheartedly."

Miss Mary pursed her lips slightly, and Mr. Davis also looked restless; the two official members of the Supervision Department seemed to agree with the earl's words.

"What's Kevin's opinion?" Seeger asked.

Miss Mary shrugged helplessly: "He... doesn't want to make things big. But you know, he is the hub of our friendship with the Snow Wolf Clan, and he himself is one of the followers of Lord Guangda; we can't just sit back and watch like this Watching things happen and not caring."

Sig frowned: "You woman... Even if he is not an important figure in Hydesy, it does not mean that I will not sympathize with his situation, nor does it mean that I will act according to my own preferences, favor him or ignore him. "

Miss Mary and Davis scowled, fearing not to be able to resist blurting out their objection to the phrase "doesn't mean I'll do as I like."

Putting his elbows on the armrest of the sofa chair, the Earl clasped his hands in front of his chest, and said expressionlessly: "Throw away all the unnecessary emotions and deal with it according to the rules. This matter can be big or small..." Silently With a sneer, Sig's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent, "But the things that are entrusted to me cannot be trivial, Mary, you'd better be mentally prepared."

"..." Miss Mary swallowed her saliva, and said bravely, "Earl, your brother...but he will come to visit Hydside soon."

Before Seeger said anything, Davis was startled; the old man stared at Miss Mary in surprise for a while, and compared his thumbs sincerely, "You have become a good woman, Mary, and dare to threaten the Earl."

Miss Mary: "..." Point this out, do you want me to die, Mr. Davis!Have I ever offended you!