Chapter 436
It was bright and the sun had not yet risen, and Astapor was at the coolest part of the day, about 15 degrees Celsius.
Astapor Peninsula, 5 kilometers west of the city, a brick factory by the sea.
Inspired by the Dragon Queen, skinny man Pogba pulls out a cart for workers to transport mud bricks from the factory.
A thick layer of yellow and dry rice straw was piled on the trolley, and in the straw were eight jars the size of pineapples, four brown clay pots, and four transparent glass pots.
Four glasses, two filled with half a can of green liquid, the other two were full, not even a single bubble.
Wildfire!
Pogba slowly walked out of the factory building with a trolley and came to the red brick steps where the mud bricks were dried.
Well, the red brick firing process is more complicated.
The sticky mud must be dug first, then coal ash is mixed in the mud, and the mud is pressed into the mold and cut into mud bricks, which cannot be sent to the cave immediately.
Mud bricks must be dried in the shade in a ventilated open space, and must not be exposed to the sun. A layer of waterproof linoleum must be covered on the mud bricks, and then a layer of sunscreen grass curtain should be covered on the linoleum.
Mud bricks cannot be placed on the ground casually, and must be built with red bricks to form a palm-width step above the ground to prevent the bottom bricks from being soaked by water when it rains.
Because of this, outside the brick factory, there are rows of red brick steps one meter wide and hundreds of meters long.
After the mud bricks are dry and hardened, they will be transported into the kiln, stacked together, sprinkled with a layer of coal, closed the kiln door, and lit the brick kiln from the coal charging port above.
At this time, some mud bricks have been transported away, leaving a long row of red brick steps outside the workshop.
Well, not all of them were vacated. Seven "one-meter-wide" and two-meter-long mud-brick walls separated "single rooms" ten meters apart.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Pogba carried the dignified expression of a bomb disposal expert on the field, lightly but swiftly moved the jar out of the cart and placed it on the red brick steps.
Perhaps because of the frequent practice of the way guarding stunt "walking the fire", Pogba is very fast, placing eight jars on the separated steps in just half a minute.
But it's not over yet, the look on Pogba's face is more serious, as if it's the critical moment of "cutting the red thread or the blue thread".
He took out a 30-centimeter-high bronze triangle bracket from the trolley, with a net pocket attached to the bracket.
At the door of the factory building, under the eaves, Grand Mage Wood looked at the sky, and a red sun appeared in the east. "
Pogba also looked up to the east, and a layer of cold sweat immediately oozes out of his forehead.
The action is quicker and more cautiously at the same time.
He first put the jar in the net pocket, and then gently hung the net pocket under the tripod.
In this way, there are four tripods in total, four jars, two glass, and two clay pots are hung.
Then he also attached a long rope to the jar and led the rope to the side... a mud brick wall two meters away.
Well, the steps of the rows of shade-dried mud bricks are two meters apart, which is convenient for trolleys to enter and exit.
On the steps next to where the jars are placed, there is a mud brick wall one meter three high that has not been transported away.
However, the flammable linoleum and straw curtains on the mud bricks have been lifted and are still on one side.
Four Firemages, anointed brown on their faces, clad in plate armour and wearing iron helmets, stood behind the mud-brick wall and took the rope from Grandmaster Pogba with deadly expressions.
"Phew—" This time, Pogba relieved, and the solemn expression on his face became relaxed.
"Your Majesty, get it done!" He ran under the eaves and reported to the Dragon Queen in the Imperial Tutor chair with a smile.
"Then let's start!"
Dany waved his hand, and Firemage, who was hiding behind the mud-brick wall, began to pull the rope rhythmically. Four jars hanging from tripods swayed gently.
There were people standing on both sides of the Queen's seat. In addition to fifty Firemages, there were more than ten scholars, and even White Cloak, old Aemon, Alleras, Tyrion, little Aegon, Connington and the others were also looking up. .
The red sun gradually rises, the red morning glow becomes the golden morning light, and the temperature rises slowly.
Tyrion sweated on the tip of his nose, and said apprehensively: "Is it a bit too much? A jar can hold four or five pounds of Wildfire!"
"What's more? This kind of small jar is already a The dragon bomber is the smallest 'fire oil bomb'.
You have never seen the giant bomb I used when I took the Dragonstone, which is about the size of a water tank, and can even be used as a bathtub for you." Dany said without thinking.
“Wildfire is not kerosene, it’s dozens of times stronger than kerosene,” Tyrion emphasized.
"If it's not stronger than kerosene, why do I | go to the trouble of tossing it? If I reduce the Wildfire equivalent and make the Wildfire can burn the same as kerosene, I might as well use kerosene directly, Safer at least."
Tyrion was speechless.
At this point, Imp has changed into a gold-framed T-shirt with Black Dragon embroidered on his chest.
Dragon Queen hasn't been idle in recent days, although she's not been at Cleon's trial.
Formed "Imperial Dragon Mages", built Wildfire refining bases in Astapor and Meereen; went to Meereen, Yunkai, Astapor, participated in several "Agricultural Production Leaps"; reformed horse men tactics, Change the breed of cattle and horses; optimize and adjust the government agencies in Slaver's Bay...
She is very busy and has no time to communicate with her eldest nephew.
When optimizing the powers and powers of government personnel, Dany also reformed the titles of officials: establishing a seventh grade title system and unifying government personnel clothing.
Imp At this time, the Black Dragon pattern on the T-shirt is actually a supplement.
Like the "birds and beasts" of ancient Chinese officials, the official uniforms of civil officials use birds and birds as patterns to show the virtuousness of civil officials; This shows the majesty of the military officer.
I have to admit that, compared with the Great Heavenly Dynasty, which is dressed in beastly clothes, the coolness of the political councils in Western countries is lower than a dozen grades. .
Even, King doesn't even have his own "dragon robe".
One day in the future, Dany, who becomes World's Empress, will collect a gold coin, a copper pot, and an iron sword from various city-states, and melt them to create a throne.
She hopes that when she sits on the throne, it is not the messy market below, but the solemn and neatly dressed ministers of civil and military affairs.
So, she first unified the officials' clothes.
Seventh grade officer is Red Dragon, sixth grade officer is Golden Dragon, fifth grade officer is Green Dragon, fourth grade officer is White Dragon, third grade officer is Black Dragon, second grade officer is dark red Three Headed Dragon (the family crest before Targaryen), Grade 1 is a five-colored dragon connected end to end.
Originally, Little Green and Little White were indistinguishable.
Little White becomes the Magic Dragon.
In this way, Little Green becomes the third child.
Little Gold Old Fourth, Little Red Fifth, no controversy.
Of course, Dragon Queen does not forbid folks to wear dragon-patterned costumes, but they are not allowed to imitate government officials completely - at least, they cannot add a seven-pointed star embroidered gold border around the dragon pattern.
Imp wears a T-shirt embroidered with the Black Dragon to represent that he has become a subordinate of the Dragon Queen.
Well, he even suggested to the Queen that day: oneself has the professional experience of Hand of the King, and Slaver's Bay is currently lacking a prime minister, why don't you just leave?
Then he was frigid irony and scorching satire by the Dragon Queen for a while, resulting in a miserable Green Men life.
Although the job of Hand of the King failed, the Dragon Queen also took pity on his talents: Imp had used Wildfire extensively, turned the tide in the battle of Blackwater Bay, and defeated Stannis, the second player of the Seven Kingdoms, by an absolute disadvantage.
It can be said that Tyrion is the only person in the world who has used Wildfire on a large scale in war and won.
After the dragon became extinct, Targaryen also sponsored the Alchemist Guild to build a steel dragon that sprayed Wildfire, ready to use the iron dragon to deal with the Dorne people.
As a result, the Iron Dragon with Wildfire was self-destructed halfway through.
So, in this field of Wildfire, Tyrion is really a rare talent in the world.
The Great Emperor Dany knew who he was, and set up an official position for him - "Wildfire General", responsible for supervising Wildfire refining, storage and transportation.
Today, Wildfire General Tyrion accompanied the Dragon Queen to test Wildfire's stability.
"ahhhh, look, the Wildfire in the bottle is boiling!" Suddenly, little Aegon pointed at the half-bottle of water swaying in the distance and shouted in horror.
"Watch out, Wildfire is going to explode!" Tyrion pupil shrinks, shouting to Firemage behind the mudbrick wall.
"Gududu..."
Under the sun, green bubbles emerged from the glass bottle that was being pulled and swayed by the rope. Naked eye can see that the bubbles changed greatly from rice grains. It becomes the size of a broad bean, and then rapidly expands to the size of an egg.
"BOOOOM!"
Listening to the sound, it was as if a grenade had been detonated; looking at the fire, under the bright sunlight, a green flame of four or five meters high rose in vain, and the ground nearby , the brick wall is full of green flames.
The effect is like a sudden explosion of hundreds of kilograms of oil barrels.
The flirtatious green flames are clearly incomparably hot, setting off a rolling heat wave, but in the eyes of everyone, they can't make them feel warm, they only feel chills in their hearts.
"This is the magic flame!" Little Aegon's face turned pale.
"Targaryen still afraid of fire?" Dany gave him a sideways glance, indifferently said.
Little Aegon was stunned, stood up straight, held his head high, and said firmly: "I'm not afraid!"
Look at the panic in his eyes, and then look at the hidden look in Tyrion's eyes Deeply excited, Dany looked odd.
“Targaryen is not afraid of fire, but he should also treat Wildfire rationally.” Old Aemon said justly.
His eyes were very complicated. When he saw Wildfire, he couldn't help but think of the big brother who drank Wildfire, Aerion the Monstrous.
"What's the temperature?" Dany asked, looking at Firemage, who was running back.
Well, the shock wave from the Wildfire bottle explosion was so strong that it shook the thick mud brick two meters away a few times, but it didn't collapse.
The Firemage pulling the rope completed the mission and ran back.
"25Draco!" Firemage was full of horror, "Your Majesty, too terrifying, it exploded at 25Draco. The highest temperature in Astapor is 45Draco!"
"45 degrees is The ground temperature, the highest temperature is only about 32 degrees." A scholar said.
"Note, vigorous shaking, direct sunlight, 25 degrees as critical point." Dany instructed.
Immediately a scholar took a pen and wrote "shua shua" on the document.
The thermometer is not difficult to make.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, Galileo invented the first thermometer.
It is very simple, a glass tube connected to the glass ball at the bottom is still open, and the error is relatively large.
Not long after the first thermometers appeared, accurate thermometers that could measure human body temperature were invented.
In simple terms, the invention of the thermometer required "divine light flashed" thinking, not technology.
As long as the glass tube can be forged, the technology is enough.