Chapter 300： Waterwheel planning

Extremely sharp, hard, and wear-resistant chrome steel tools began to appear, that is, after the first batch of axes, Kawei began to smelt deeply, and now he is no longer fighting alone. In Rurik’s plan, the entire tribe of steel squirrels should become professional iron whackers. He ordered Kawi to teach these people skills. Kawi supports this, and Mechasta and his tribe even more. It is full cooperation.

Kawei became a technical consultant in an instant, and Rurik's knowledge of smelting enabled him to be used as a consultant himself.

All of a sudden, a batch of small clay stoves sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. They are building on the river beach where water is convenient. In order to avoid the rain, all the stoves are sheltered by emergency shelters.

In the beginning, the craftsmanship of those Corvin men was very unfamiliar and clumsy, but they knew that as long as they mastered advanced tools, their tribe might be as powerful as the Ross people. They even have a "converted fanaticism" mentality, so-called show their spirit of struggle in order to gain the respect of Rurik.

After all, Rurik provided them with a large amount of high-quality food indiscriminately. Such behavior of Rurik’s out-of-pocket payment was naturally interpreted by them as positive feedback. Kawei added no less than 30 adult students in an instant, and they at least created a handful of useful tools, such as very important shovel, chisel, draft, axe, scraper, meat cleaver, and a very small number of spearheads.

In production and processing, people have noticed that all chrome steel products have excellent hardness and rigidity, but almost no elasticity.

Knowing that the elasticity of chrome steel is very bad, Rurik gave up the idea of ​​using it to make a steel arm crossbow, but invented another chrome steel dagger. Rurik didn’t expect chrome steel to make longer swords, or something exclusive to Teutonic men like the "Doppler Sword". The reason is that chrome steel lacks toughness, even if it is annealed, this is bad. Resilience cannot be saved.

But as a metal tool and cold weapon, hardness is basically the most important. The steel arm crossbow can be described as an effective wonder in the war created by the imagination here.

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For the Kewen people, they certainly hope to have a sword to show their goodness to the folks.

But that is too unrealistic, they retreat to the second place, eager for a good short spear of their own.

After all, they are Kewen people, and this claim comes from a special short spear with a hook that they like to equip. Today, the spearheads of obsidian and iron ore are no longer used, and they have begun to obey Leurik's order to build chrome steel spearheads.

Rurik knew that as far as weapons are concerned, there is nothing more cost-effective than the short spear. I am afraid that the short spear is also the most critical weapon for the human species from obscurity to dominance of the Blue Star.

Considering his huge consumption of materials during this period, Rurik began to consider making weapons for sale.

Legally, the entire tribesmen who survived the steel squirrel are their own slaves, and Lurik has the right to ask them for anything they want.

Rurik didn't take things to such extremes. First of all, he guaranteed the safety of these people's living and food supply. As for their other labor value, of course they had to take away all of them. How to measure their labor value surplus? That is the output of chrome steel tools!

He is determined to sell these tools in exchange for the fruits of other people's labor to supplement his own consumption, so as to achieve a stable positive cycle.

So, who is the buyer? !

There is a saying that fertility does not flow into the field of outsiders. Of course, Rurik knows that ironware is a kind of huge profit, and he also understands that ironwork requires hard truth.

We must first meet the needs of our tribesmen for tools and weapons, and wait until the limited domestic demand market is saturated before selling them to the outside world.

What is the biggest problem right now?

Rurik saw that even if he controls a super mine, due to his current limited technology and labor force, it is more difficult to discover its wealth value quickly.

Currently, the most consumed material in settlements is food.

Rurik is a little fortunate. Because the residents of the settlements and even a large area have a population of only between 10,000 and 20,000, the pure natural products in this area can basically feed everyone.

The premise is of course that the fishermen work hard! To get more catches with limited production capacity, Rurik has been rapidly consuming his silver coin inventory. During this period of time, the daily consumption of fresh fish in the settlement exceeded 1,000 pounds. In addition to other losses, Rurik himself calculated that his daily financial expenditure had to be close to two hundred silver coins.

Of course, Rurik can spend a long time with a high consumption attitude, but he does not completely count on Gould, a super dealer, to use his previous products to make a huge fortune in the south and make up for the loss of the north. .

This expectation is obviously an act of chasing the bottom line.

All the symptoms point to a very clear and extremely awful problem-my lack of labor, is to beat them with a whip, they are not three-headed six-armed work monsters.

what to do? !

mechanical!

After two weeks of construction, through the extensive use of wood, a miniature city almost entirely made of wood rose from the ground. In fact, it only completes the construction of a single-layer wooden fence. If you look closely, the fence is still riddled with holes and needs more wooden battens to reinforce it.

There are a large number of Novgorod-style woodcuts in the wooden city on the river, but there are also some semi-crypt wooden sheds that were quickly excavated and built by the Kovins.

Eight watch towers have also been built. Although these wooden towers make Rurik feel shaky, their appearance does make the sentry with good eyesight stand on the watch tower and see far away, such as the north winding. The serpentine river, and even some whitish and wriggling points that suddenly appeared in the distance, it was a polar bear.

Every day, loggers return with their prey, and it even becomes an industry.

With the appearance of the crossbow, children have terrifying hunting abilities!

However, a small Kewen hunter like Telavis is very good at using wooden bows. He proudly uses a large number of iron cluster arrows, and the efficiency of hunting has been greatly improved. In contrast, his fellow Ross people of the same age, like Fisk, Kanuf and other children who were left in the north to meet in the north, they found their hands so clumsy and admired Telavis’ superb skills. When archery, brotherhood is also deepening.

Even children, they admire anyone from the same camp who is capable of fighting, even if it is a scientific man.

Rurik didn't want to interfere with the hunting behavior of his subordinates for the time being. They were a group of little eagles that were scattered. It would be great if they exercised their martial arts through their own hunting. If there are casualties, then you can only ask for more blessings. Because this is the true law of survival in Northern Europe, in the boreal forest, either the hunter wins or the prey wins.

The results of it? Rurik soon learned of such things.

Telavis and his friends in Ross were stunned by using two crossbows in the forest to hunt three brown bears and a white bear in just one day, and they were also killed by Telavis with sharp eyes. Twenty vigilant snow rabbits changing their summer hair.

Their growth is gratifying, but the slow growth of the production capacity of chrome steel tools makes Rurik distressed.

Finally, he decided to make a little change.

A warm night, a bright campfire.

At the end of the day, Kawei, who was struggling with iron, gathered with the strong mercenaries to chat and laugh. Now Rurik is willing to pay more for the mercenaries who strike iron, and they have become more and more cooperative in the past few days with the chrome steel axe.

Now, they had just eaten almost all kinds of barbecue dinner, waiting for Rurik's new decision.

In front of the fluttering flame, Rurik sat cross-legged on a soft bear skin. The flame was beating in his eyes, and everyone was looking forward to his new ideas.

"Maybe... I'm a bit eager for quick success. Now we are facing a big dilemma. Our chrome steel output is too low."

Kawei whispered: "So what can we do? We still lack blacksmiths. I also have a dilemma. Those people carry ore every day. Now the ore is piled up into a hill, but my furnace can't finish the processing well."

"This is the problem, so we have to take countermeasures." Ruriek stood up and emphasized.

"Countermeasure? What is your strategy? In my opinion, the strength of the brothers is like this, and you can't force everyone to do it."

It is not unusual for Rurik to feel that Kawei is thinking linearly.

He didn't want to make any more twists and turns, and his little hand pointed directly at the river that was churning under the nightfall not far away: "Just use the power of water! Kawei, your plight is actually the lack of an expert in ironing! Then, I will let the big river come. As the new blacksmith!"

"What? Dahe is a blacksmith?!" Kawei was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

This presumptuous laughter is not only Kawei’s distrust of the absurd, but also the use of laughter to vent his fatigue during this time.

The laughter that made people feel ridiculous quickly caused all the mercenaries to laugh loudly.

Infected by this laughter, Rurik's small mouth stretched out with a grin.

Rurik didn't feel ridiculed at all. Indeed, even if it is a relatively simple hydraulic machine, these people who have almost no mechanical concept, they feel ridiculous because they have never seen it.

A smile is also a smile. When the joyful atmosphere settled down, Kawei said earnestly: "Ruriek, are you serious?"

"What did I lie to you for?! I want you to do it for me tomorrow, and you!"

After that, Rurik stood up, gesturing with his hands and gestures.

"I, you, are digging a small waterway by the river, and I want to build a house by the waterway. I want you to cut down a tree that will be straight by then, and let it stand in the middle of the house on the riverside, being washed by the current and spinning constantly. I want to You make some fixed hammers so that the rotating wooden poles will drive the hammers to forge..."

Words alone are difficult to explain to them. Lurik saw that he was exhausted to talk, and Kawei was still half-knowledgeable, so he didn't bother to spend any more words.

The reality is so real, even if it is the experienced Kawei, his initial concept of machinery is limited to the "lever type manual glass die casting machine" at the Cravason Blacksmith's.

Presumably others, Kawei may be the first to explain it clearly.

During this night, Rurik arranged the tasks of the mercenaries, and then got together with Kawei, and by carrying a small wooden stick to draw a simple picture on the enemy, Rurik hoped in this way, let Kawei has an abstract understanding of "waterwheel forging".

After Rurik's unremitting efforts, Kawei can be regarded as awakened!

"Ah! I really have you!" Kawei, who finally understood some fur, slapped Rurik's shoulder in excitement.

"Do you understand everything?!"

"Understood. It's like the wheel of my trolley! Alas, you should talk about the wheel earlier. Let the water move the wheel. The shaft inside has a fixed protrusion. This protrusion turns to the long handle of the hammer. Press the hammer up, it will leave the correct position, and the hammer will fall down. Is this the truth?!"

Hearing this, Rurik was moved to tears. His small face was already heated by the bonfire, because he finally let his dear blacksmith figure out the state after spending a lot of words, and his face was even hotter because he was happy.

The next day, a brand new construction operation started quietly on the riverside.

Anyway, there are no buyers now, and the new tools are of course the first to meet the labor needs of the builders. Those heavy chrome shovels and ferrochrome drafts that were hardened and heat-treated without carburizing began to be used in the excavation of the river.

Some Kewen people cast a curious look, they really don't understand what Master Rurik is going to do with the river. It seems that this strange action is meaningless. Some women have speculated that perhaps Master Rurik wants to make a trap to make reasonable fish swim to the preset water nest spontaneously. When the water inlet is quickly blocked, everyone is desperately scooping water, and the fish will be caught in one net.

In the Oulu River Basin, the hometown of the Corvins, , various tribes know how to fish and cast nets to fish. They are also good at cofferdam fishing.

The next fact is unexpected.

A new straight stream appeared, which was excavated for mercenaries. It exceeds the depth of a stika, and the water flow in the small river is a bit more turbulent due to the modification of the inherent river channel upstream of it.

In the next three days, a unique woodcarving rose up beside the river, but this was by no means the most curious thing.

A straight but not very thick pine is felled. It is a carefully selected wood. It is a good material for making wooden shafts because it is almost a cylinder with very small tolerances.

It is actually difficult for Rurik to accept a bearing that is not a pure cylinder. Due to this era, he can only endure this imperfection.

However, once the first practical waterwheel mechanism of the Rus tribe, which I participated in the design and supervision of the construction, is put into production, it will not only complete a technical blank of the tribe, but will also bring about a change! Because of how the wooden shaft rotates, it is a bit crooked, and it is also another center of rotation, which is enough.