Chapter 71 71 Two Manufacturing Plant Prototypes

Chapter 71 The prototype of two manufacturing plants

The effect of the curved plow is very obvious. If it can be promoted in Shanlin Town and ensure that each village has several or even more than a dozen plows, whether it is to reclaim wasteland or to turn over fallow land, it will save a lot of manpower and material resources compared to before.

Then Ronin can put the saved people into other production activities.

Moreover, this deep plowing method, combined with the ridge plowing method that Ronin is about to promulgate, will definitely increase the crop yield of Shanlin Town to a higher level!

But it is obvious that if you want to promote it comprehensively, you must first solve the problem of yield.

The blacksmiths in Shanlin Town are only Kales and his son (still an apprentice). In the case of being unable to cast the plow shovel, Kales can only hammer it alone, so the speed of making the plow shovel and plow wall is a bit slow.

As for the production of the plow body, it is not as complicated as making weapons and armor with black iron trees. Ram, a half-baked carpenter apprentice, can complete it. Finding a few people to practice and operate it a few more times should not be a problem. Anyway, there are more birch trees in Shanlin Town.

"Karus, I bought two thousand kilograms of wrought iron this time. I need you to help me make at least thirty of these curved plows."

The reason why there are thirty is not because there is not enough iron, but because there are not so many cows in Shanlin Town.

There are only twenty-four black buffaloes used for plowing in Shanlin Castle, plus the few owned by individual tenants in the town, there are about thirty of them.

"Oh my God, thirty?"

Karus widened his eyes in shock. He had never received such a large order.

"Yes, this is just the initial stage, and it will need to be forged later."

Ronin added: "I will provide both wrought iron and wood, and I will also equip you with four people to help you. You can choose to become my exclusive blacksmith, or you can serve me as a freeman in Shanlin Town, and I will pay you a certain amount of compensation."

"Of course, if you choose the former, I will give you a salary of 10 copper coins per day. In addition, your son Bal is a blacksmith apprentice. If he serves me, I can provide a daily salary of 3 copper coins.

The salary of craftsmen is relatively high. If you are in other cities, hiring Kaler It would cost more, but the price would be lower in the remote and poor Shanlin Town.

Kales hesitated.

It is natural for the people to serve the lord. But in his current state, he can take the lord's work and earn other people's odd jobs.

But if he becomes the exclusive blacksmith of Shanlin Castle, generally speaking, he can only serve the lord.

However, the salary offered by the lord is really high. He can earn 10 copper coins ten days a year.

"Sir, I am very tempted by the salary you mentioned, but I don't know when you usually settle the salary for me?"

Roning gave Chahar a look, and the butler immediately understood.

"Don't worry, Kales, the master is the most kind lord, he never owes anyone's salary!"

As he said, he took out the 1 silver and 68 copper coins he had just received in the morning from his pocket, and said proudly: "See, the lord will settle the salary for everyone last month on the sixth of every month. "

The cowherd, Gallon and others beside him also took out money from their pockets.

Chahar continued: "Just this morning, the servants of the castle, the professional knights and magicians of the castle, and the guards, all received their wages for last month."

He emphasized, "Please remember that the master is the most kind, trustworthy and kind nobleman, no one else!"

Ronin was a little embarrassed by such praise, but he was also surprised that this group of people carried money with them one by one. Isn't it very inconvenient to walk with the jingling sound?

When Kales saw this scene, he no longer hesitated and immediately performed a gentleman's salute, "Then Kales is willing to be your exclusive blacksmith."

"Okay, I won't treat you unfairly!"

Ronin laughed, "If you are willing to take an apprentice, I will give you an extra daily salary of 5 copper coins.

Kale's eyes lit up, "I am willing, sir!"

Ronin looked at Garen, "Go and inform Wilson to pick three men and one woman from the slaves. Remember to find those who are a little smart and look like they can learn something."

"At the same time, let Wilson tell the slaves that as long as they are willing to serve me down-to-earth for ten years, I can give them a certain degree of freedom and let them become my serfs."

"Okay, sir!" Garen received the order and ran out.

Kale looked at the lord in front of him with some surprise, "You are such a kind person!"

Kind?

For Ronin, it was just to give this group of people a little goal and motivation, and ten years was too long.

"Kale, I found that your forging speed was too slow. I will teach you a new iron smelting method later so that you can quickly produce farm tools!"

The blacksmith was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had heard it wrong, but seeing the lord's serious look, he was confused.

"Sir, I learned the methods of iron smelting and forging from my father."

Karus explained: "My father's master is a famous blacksmith in Wushan City. Please believe that the technology he taught us is the most advanced!"

Craftsmen always stubbornly believe that their skills are the best.

But what Karus said was the truth. The technology of iron smelting and forging was indeed like this.

Ronin smiled mysteriously, "Using my method, you can smelt iron into molten iron, and then directly cast it into farm tools, which is much faster than your forging method."

"Sir, is this a magician's method?"

Carles was not surprised by the word molten iron, "Legend has it that only magicians can control the ultra-high temperature flame that can melt steel, but this kind of flame is not something we mortals can control!"

Is there such a thing?

Ronin was a little surprised. He was very curious about which level of magician could control such a flame?

"Don't worry, Carles. I can design such an efficient farm tool as a curved plow, so I can definitely teach you how to smelt molten iron."

Ronin was very confident about this. "Before that, you continue to use your method to make the plow shovel and plow wall, and assemble the curved plow."

After explaining to the other party what needs to be done later, Ronin asked the cowherd to move the curved plow back to the castle, and he and Chahar went to the next destination, the home of carpenter William.

Black ironwood is indeed difficult to process. In the past half month, William has made four ironwood shields, three ironwood spears and an ironwood chest guard.

Roning tested it and found that the strength of these three pieces of armor met the requirements and could be used by ordinary guards, especially the ironwood shield, which could probably be used in confrontations between intermediate knights.

The only thing that was not good was the ironwood chest guard. It looked like a hole was dug in the middle of a piece of wood. The guard's head passed through the hole and the wooden board facing the guard was hung on the body. The hanging board just protected the chest and vest.

The structure was simple, but it didn't feel very comfortable after wearing it, and it was a bit stiff.

"Sir, relatively speaking, the ironwood spear is the easiest to make, followed by the ironwood chest guard and shield."

Carpenter William introduced these protective gear, "I also want to use ironwood and linen rope to make a pair of armor that is more suitable and less stiff than the chest guard, but that takes too much time!"

He shook his head and said, "If I were alone, I probably wouldn't be able to make a pair of ironwood armor in a month!"

Ronin was very interested in the armor he mentioned.

The ironwood chest guard is too simple. It's okay for ordinary guards to wear, but the armor can be worn by people of higher levels or grades.

Correspondingly, the selling price will be high.

Ronin had already prepared to arrange fifteen male and two female slaves for the ironwood workshop last night. Now, considering that the production of armor requires cloth and the work of assembling armor plates, he is going to arrange five more female slaves.

William only needs to teach these slaves how to assemble armor plates. This may take some time, but as long as it succeeds, there will be a large number of people.

After a conversation, he and William decided on the products of the Ironwood Workshop: Ironwood shields, ironwood spears and ironwood chest guards were the main products in the early stage, and then one ironwood armor per month would be enough.

At the same time, Ronin also extended an olive branch to William, allowing the latter to become the exclusive carpenter of Shanlin Castle, and offered William and his apprentice son 17 copper coins and 4 copper coins per day respectively.

Of course, Ronin also required William to bring apprentices.

In this regard, with the matter of Kallus in front, William agreed without much hesitation.

Since then, Ronin's two factories have been initially established.

Next is the problem of production.

According to Ronin's plan, the products produced will first arm Shanlin Town, and then be sold to the outside world.

Ironwood armor, because of the special nature of the black iron tree, people outside cannot copy it, so Ronin can sell it boldly.

But the curved plow is different. This thing does not have a very high technical content. I believe that a blacksmith with a little skill can copy it quickly after buying one.

If Luo Ning spent a lot of time hoarding a batch of goods, he might be able to sell some at the beginning, but soon imitations would appear outside, and in the end, the goods in his hands might not be sold even at a reduced price.

Moreover, Luo Ning currently does not have the ability to produce and stock up quickly.

When the ironmaking technology is optimized later and the plow shovel and plow wall can be quickly produced by casting, he will think about this problem again.

So he is not going to work hard on selling the actual curved plow for the time being. If he wants to sell it, he can just take out the drawings of the curved plow and sell one or two.

After all, knowledge is also valuable.