The Holy Xiran Empire, the imperial capital Alianmuya, the suburbs, Poji Town, and the Musket Department.

There were black coal ash everywhere in the musket, as if the heat waves were about to be burned.

The base bed is a compacted dry mound with a rectangular bellows made of clay, which looks like a huge sarcophagus.

On both sides of the bellows are foot-pedal bellows, each with four strong men wearing shorts and exposed upper body, holding steel ropes with both hands. Whenever they step on the thick pedals, the flames in the furnace ignite high.

The sound of the wind that shook the ground repeated over and over again, sounding like the breathing of a huge monster.

In order to produce qualified iron, the monster called "Bellbox stove" moaned, roared, and rolled.

Two years ago, El had become wider inexplicably, and suddenly he added a lot of money to purchase the equipment needed to develop the musket, and had hired craftsmen with qualified skills.

Originally, there were only three poor craftsmen in the Musket Department.

Now, although there are still only the three craftsmen in the musket department headed by Oleg, there are five more apprentices who are specifically responsible for the attack.

At this time, El was also inside the musket department.

El, who was standing not far from the stove, wiped the hot sweat that kept coming out of his forehead, and stared at the flames in the stove with Oleg beside him.

Over the past two years, El has devoted most of his energy to the development of muskets. Because he has been watching Oleg and others' work for many years, El now knows a lot about forging.

"carbon!"

Oleg ordered briefly.

An apprentice hurriedly poured a basket of charcoal that had been prepared into the stove, and immediately sparks splashed everywhere, and blue flames rose.

Whenever the two apprentices who were specifically responsible for pulling the bellows stepped on some pedals, the black charcoal shadows would turn red. The temperature inside the furnace became higher and higher.

The flame turned bright yellow.

After burning like this for a while—

"Charcoal!"

Oleg ordered again.

An apprentice guarding next to the stove immediately chopped the charcoal to the side.

Oleg quickly walked to the stove and used a special clip to clip a long strip of things from the stove.

This strip-shaped thing looks quite weird.

It is neither the body of a long sword nor the barrel of a gun.

Like a stick that is not too long or too short.

But the middle of the stick is empty, just like a water pipe.

Outside the "water pipe", the adhesion layer was burned dry. The whole body of the "water pipe" had been burned into a dazzling red by the flames.

Oleg stretched out his empty hand and tried the water temperature in the next sink.

The water temperature in this sink is just right.

After confirming the water temperature of the sink, Oleg directly immersed the red "water pipe" in the sink.

laugh--!

A large number of bubbles appeared in the sink, and the hot air rose, and the slightly harsh sound of steam steam evaporated throughout this forging room. The sound of bubbles continued and lasted for a long time.

After quenching the fire, Oleg hurried to the processing room and used grinding stone to remove the soil stuck to the "water pipe".

After peeling off all the soil from this "water pipe", Oleg began to check whether there were any defects on this "water pipe".

El also stood aside, watching Oleg inspecting the "water pipe" with a nervous look on his face.

The work they just started was to quench this "water pipe".

This "water pipe" has sufficient hardness while maintaining good toughness.

After checking the "water pipe" for a while, Oleg finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he raised his head and smiled at El:

"Your Excellency, the barrel created this time is quite perfect and has no defects."

"Really?" An uncontrollable look of joy came out of El's face, "That's great!"

This "water pipe" is the barrel of the musket.

The research and development of muskets has always been quite difficult.

Because he knew nothing about the principle of making muskets, the craftsmen led by Oleg dismantled the muskets into parts, then pushed them back little by little to study the principles of making and using muskets.

It was not until half a year ago that Oleg and his friends finally mastered the principle of making musket barrels, and then began to make their own barrels.

Understanding principles and knowing how to make are two different things.

Although we have already mastered the principle of making musket barrels, there are still many difficulties in making gun barrels and frequent problems.

Although the barrel looks like a thinner and narrower water pipe, it has extremely high requirements for the hardness and toughness of iron.

Making a gun barrel that is not up to standard will cause the projectile to explode in the gun.

It took half a year to make a qualified barrel until today.

How can this not make Elle excited?

The development of muskets has taken another big step forward, which has made El feel very comfortable.

The extremely comfortable mood made El feel as if he was floating among the clouds.

El took the black barrel from Oleg's hand, rubbing it with love, while carefully looking at it.

At this moment, a familiar male voice suddenly rang behind El:

"El! I'll do it!"

El turned his head and looked behind him.

"Gabriel?" El raised his eyebrows, "Why are you here?"

"Of course I'm here to see you." Gabriel said angrily, "Do you know how many days you've been in Poggy?"

"Well..." Elle touched his chin and thought for a while, "1 month?"

"Not only one month! You have been in Poji Town for almost two months!"

"You have been away from home for too long this time, so I'll come and see you."

"So I haven't been home for almost 2 months..." El tickled his hair apologetically, "I'm so sorry, Gabriel, you're worried."

"Okay, let's not talk about so much about mother-in-law and mother."

After saying that, Gabriel whined outside the house.

"El, let's have a few drinks at the bar next to you, and there are some things to tell you."

"Things?" Elle puzzled.

Gabriel sighed lightly.

"El, do you know that when you were staying in this place where birds don't poop for more than two months, the whole world changed a lot."

"The reason why I came to see you this time was not only to meet you whom I haven't seen for a long time, but also to tell you about some major events that happened in the world when you live in this place."

"If I guess correctly - for the past two months, you have focused on the development of muskets and have not paid attention to the changes in the world at all. Am I right?"
Chapter completed!