Lord: The inheritance right is taken away at the beginning

Chapter 206 Progress

"Sir, come and see!"

The next morning, Master Craftsman Daen warmly invited Roning to visit the expanded iron and wood workshop to see the loom he had recently tinkered with.

Based on the drawings provided by Roning and Dahn's many improvements, Roning had already seen the prototype of the pedal loom.

"Congratulations, Dan. This loom is already about halfway done."

He sat on the stool before the loom and tried stepping on the pedal twice, recalling the weaving scene and feeling the feedback from the loom before him.

"The loom should be similar, but the rotation when the pedal is stepped on continuously is a bit jerky, and the pedal mechanism is not smooth enough. It should be carefully polished to optimize its transmission mechanism."

"Also, have you tried the effect?" Luo Ning asked while fiddling with the bamboo reed.

Daan shook his head awkwardly, "Sir, this loom was only fully assembled two days ago, and I haven't tried to operate it yet."

Master Craftsman Daen was at least somewhat famous in Wushan Territory. When the lord examined him, he behaved like a student, having his homework checked by his teacher.

He was not afraid of Roning's authority, but he cared very much about his production results.

"You can ask Leah for help and give it a try."

Ronin suggested, "But before we try it, there are still many areas where this loom needs to be improved."

He began to give suggestions for the machine. For example, the bamboo reeds were too sparse. The standard for gauze was 800 reeds, but the bamboo reed made by Daen probably had less than 300, so it needed to be modified. In addition, there were problems with the heads. Tools such as the basket, reel, shuttle, etc., that were compatible with the loom also needed to be made.

Roning raised all the questions he could think of, especially when he said that he hoped to have a loom ready for use when the silkworm cocoons were harvested this year, which put great pressure on Master Daen.

In this regard, Luo Ning is optimistic. After all, pressure brings motivation.

It is only February, and there are still six months before this year's cocoon harvest. With Master Daen's ability, it is still possible to transform it.

After inspecting the loom, Luo Ning looked at iron and wood equipment production.

With William recruiting apprentices and carpenters from Swamp Town being sent here one after another, the number of people involved in the production has reached more than 20!

The production capacity of ironwood shields, armor, and other protective gear has been greatly improved, and completing the order of the First Knight Squadron of Wushan Fort before April is no problem.

Even according to William's estimate, there might still be a batch left.

Roning promised to provide sufficient food, allowing them to work harder and produce as much as possible, and also asked them to study the possibility of ironwood arrows.

Now, Radar and McKen are training new infantry, archers, and cavalry, and it is estimated that two knight squads will be deployed in the first half of the year.

Putting aside whether there are enough professional knights, the number of the three types of soldiers mentioned above can reach more than 200 people, and the necessary protective gear and weapons must be equipped.

After inspecting the iron and wood workshop, Ronin turned to Kales' blacksmith shop and Jim's pottery workshop.

The last time he left, Roning assigned Jim a task - to burn bricks and modify the kiln to increase the temperature inside the kiln.

Kalles knew this. Considering that smelting molten iron also required high temperatures, blacksmiths, potters, and bricklayers took the loess from Shanlin Town and fired a batch of bricks. They then used these bricks to build a blast furnace for iron smelting and a kiln for firing porcelain. Unexpectedly, they achieved unexpected results.

First, Jim is now able to produce white porcelain. Although the success rate is less than 30%, it is a good start.

To reward the efforts and achievements of several people, Roning gave Jim and his apprentice one gold coin and five silver coins, respectively.

At the same time, they were assigned the next stage of tasks:

Improve the ability to control the kiln temperature to increase the success rate of porcelain firing. At the same time, collect various colored minerals to make glazes of different colors and try to draw patterns on the blank to form patterned porcelain.

Although successfully firing porcelain is half the battle, more attempts are needed to produce exquisite, unique, high-value, and diverse finished products.

After this successful firing, we can move Jim and others to Huitu Village to settle down. After all, the kaolin vein is there.

Refining the mud and firing it in Huitu Village saves an incalculable amount of effort compared to transporting the materials back to Shanlin Town.

On the other hand, according to Ronin's drawings, Kallus had built a blast furnace for iron smelting.

However, although the blast furnace looked well-behaved, the iron-smelting process was still lacking. Occasionally, a little molten iron could be obtained, but most of the time, the iron blocks thrown in did not melt, and no molten iron flowed out.

Roning watched Kallus and his apprentices add materials to the blast furnace, blow air, and smelt. There should be no problem with the process, and there was no problem with the blast furnace. The fuel used was high-quality charcoal, which could bring higher temperatures than ordinary wood.

After a comprehensive analysis, Luo Ning thought the blower was wrong.

Although the blast furnace is not very large, the accompanying blower is still small.

Even if the apprentices pulled hard, the air blown in at a time was very limited. Without sufficient oxygen entering from the bottom of the blast furnace, it would be impossible to generate a temperature high enough to melt the iron.

This problem is easy to solve.

Roning asked Kallus to contact Carpenter William and ask him to arrange for one or two apprentices to make two larger ones based on the shape of the blower.

If replacing the blower is possible, Roning will master the ability to smelt molten iron. Casting farm tools in batches will take Wu Beiling's farming technology to a higher level in the future.

Although pig iron cannot be used to make weapons, adding the skill of steelmaking will make obtaining steel much easier.

The only pity is that Wu Beiling has not discovered any iron ore veins, and it is estimated that it will need to purchase iron ore from outside.

While observing the iron smelting, Roning wondered if it was possible to transform the iron smelting furnace through magic.

For example, creating a fire magic array in an iron smelting furnace, using magic cores or crystals to generate high temperatures to melt iron ore.

But after thinking about it, Roning decided not to continue his research.

First of all, he didn't know how to create this kind of magic array;

Secondly, using magic cores or crystals as energy is very expensive.

A fully functioning magic crystal costs hundreds of gold coins. Using it to smelt iron increases costs for no reason and wastes money.

In comparison, using wood as fuel, although a bit more troublesome to collect and process, is much more economical than using magic cores and crystals.

After two days, Luo Ning had a general grasp of the various situations in Shanlin Town, and everything was moving in a good direction.

After arranging his territory's development direction, he devoted time to practicing and making third and fourth-level spell scrolls.

Time flies, and it is March in the blink of an eye.

These days, Wilson and his assistant traveled through several territories, escorted by several cavalry squads.

Thanks to their active supervision, spring plowing is proceeding in an orderly manner in both Shanlin Town and Swamp Town.

Every job has changed in land preparation, seed treatment, sowing, fertilization, irrigation, etc..

Although this change still has much room for improvement, it is already a big improvement compared to the previous barbaric sowing methods.

With the popularization and standardization of field management work in the future, and unless unexpected situations such as natural disasters occur, Luo Ning believes that this year's grain harvest in Wubei will be better than in previous years.

"Master, Knight Rogner wants to see you." The butler Galen came to the door of the study and reported respectfully.

"Has the food arrived yet?"

Luo Ning put down the pen in his hand and drew a horizontal sword shape on the paper.

"Bring him to me."

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