Chapter 76 76 Redal's Information

Chapter 76: Redar's Intelligence

After sending Rogna and Kurami away that day, Ronin no longer paid attention to Wiggins' affairs. Of course, even if he wanted to pay attention, he had no way to get information, because Shanlin Town did not have a messenger bird to communicate with the outside world.

From that day on, Shanlin Town began the intensive autumn harvest. The main grain harvested this time was barley, a total of more than 9,300 acres.

With such a large area, even if Wilson called all the people over the age of fifteen in Shanlin Town, each person would be responsible for six acres of land on average, and the workload was still quite large.

Fortunately, there was enough time, and with the coordination of a group of village heads and team leaders, the overall progress was well controlled, and the wheat should not be left in the wheat field and wasted.

The training of the guards continued, especially after eighty militiamen were assigned one after another, the training ground west of the castle was more lively every day, and the sound of slogans was heard one after another.

During this period, the various teams composed of more than a hundred slaves were also put into production.

Not only two simple wooden houses were built on the hillside next to the farm in the east, but even several slaves have moved in.

There are also iron and wood workshops, blacksmith shops, etc., which are slowly getting on track. Even after a few days of work by the manure collection team, there is a lot less manure in the town.

During this process, Wilson and several village chiefs reported the laziness of slaves. Roning was merciless to those who wanted to be lazy and not work even though they were eating themselves. After a lesson and one or two meals of hunger, those people became much more honest.

They also understood that the lord's kindness was conditional. If you don't work hard, you don't deserve to enjoy this kindness.

During this time, Roning himself was busy learning magic, making scrolls, and competing with McKen to improve his combat experience. In addition, he spent more time improving iron smelting technology.

If you want to mass-produce farm tools, you need to increase the temperature to smelt liquid iron.

Generally speaking, the melting point of iron is as high as more than 1,500 degrees. It is a bit difficult to melt it under the current conditions.

But there are ways to get liquid iron.

In a high-temperature furnace, iron absorbs carbon when it is reduced, and the melting point of the carbon-iron alloy formed will decrease accordingly, and the more carbon absorbed, the lower the melting point.

When the absorbed carbon reaches about 4%, it only takes 1200 degrees to melt the iron. With the help of bellows, high-grade charcoal and blast furnace, this temperature can be reached.

So during this period, Luo Ning mainly did three things-designing piston bellows, traditional coking, and making iron blast furnaces.

The piston bellows is more convenient to operate than the small leather bellows used by Kales, and it can also save effort. The amount of air sent in is relatively increased, which greatly improves the temperature in the furnace.

Traditional coking is actually to use tree materials to make high-quality coke and concentrate the energy of wood.

As for the iron blast furnace, it is actually a simple furnace made of loess. It is not very high and is only used for preliminary verification.

All along, Roning had always left the impression of being a clean person to the servants in the castle. They never expected that the master had not only been close to the manure collection team recently, but also played with coke and mud himself!

Roning didn't care about that. He made the coke and connected the bellows to the furnace, and then began to try.

After several experiments, the temperature in the furnace was indeed raised by the bellows. After repeatedly adding charcoal to maintain the high temperature, it seemed that the iron could be melted.

But a problem arose. Roning had no container to hold the hot molten iron. He wanted to use a ceramic cup to hold the iron directly to burn it, but found that the ceramic cup could not withstand the temperature in the furnace and cracked directly.

So the problem of iron smelting was transformed into the problem of making refractory ceramic cups.

Fortunately, Shanlin Town was not short of clay. Roning used several different clays and finally fired a ceramic cup that could withstand high temperatures, which is the crucible in the modern sense.

When the blacksmiths Kales and Bal watched Ronin pour the molten iron from the ceramic cup into the pre-made mold, and soon formed a small dagger, their eyes were directly straight.

Kales did not expect that the Lord's words that day, "It can let ordinary people master the temperature of molten iron", were not a joke, but a real thing!

However, Ronin knew that this cast dagger could not be used for fighting, it was too brittle. The method of casting with molten iron can at most make farm tools using the hardness and wear resistance of pig iron, and it is best to undergo high-temperature decarburization.

Of course, this crucible method also has great disadvantages. If the blast furnace ironmaking can be moved here, it would be the best.

However, this requires him to spend more time to study.

Although this method is too simple at present, it is also a core secret. Ronin asked Kales and Bal to observe, and at the same time asked them to keep this secret for him.

In this era when ironmaking is still in the traditional way, bellows and future blast furnace ironmaking are all core technologies.

So Ronin asked Kales and Bal to sign a confidentiality agreement. If the secret was leaked, they would pay with their lives.

In a blink of an eye, it was September 15th, and Rydar, who had disappeared for nearly ten days, finally returned to Shanlin Town.

When he left, he was still a handsome young man, but when he came back, Rydar had become a middle-aged uncle in a mess.

Ronin asked him to go back to his room and take a shower first, and then he called McKen and others to the lobby of the fortress for a meeting.

"The woodland to the north and east of the town is very large. At first, I just searched aimlessly. It was not until I walked about ten miles north of the town that I found traces of human activity."

In the fortress of Shanlinbao, Rydal told what he saw and heard slowly.

After finding traces of human activity, he searched for another day or two, and finally found a village in a bamboo forest in the north.

The dense bamboo forest obscured Rydal's figure, and the rustling sound of bamboo leaves concealed his footsteps.

After detailed observation, Rydal found that the house in this village was only more than a hundred rooms, and the scale was not very large. There were cultivated fields in the north of the village, and I didn't know whether the food grown could be self-sufficient.

After marking the mountain village, Rydal walked along the path northeast of the village, and happened to meet three hunters when crossing the mountain.

There was nothing to say. Rydal took action almost as soon as he saw the other party, killing two immediately and leaving one, and successfully learned the news of all the wild tribes in the forest from the hunter.

According to the hunters, there were eight tribes in this forest at most, but after years of natural extinction and annexation, there are only four tribes left, namely: Black Collar Tribe, Gray Earth Tribe, Green Bamboo Tribe and Purple Fruit Tribe.

Among them, the Black Collar Tribe has developed very fast in recent years, launched many attacks on the other three tribes, and absorbed a lot of people.

In order to prevent being annexed by the Black Collar Tribe, the remaining three wild tribes formed a tripartite alliance and presented a posture of confrontation.

Luo Ning was stunned when he heard this.

No wonder the wild tribe did not invade Shanlin Town, it turned out that they were also engaged in a civil war.

"These three hunters are from the Purple Fruit Tribe. According to them, their tribe has the smallest population, with less than 300 people left."

"The Gray Earth Tribe is the strongest in their three-party alliance, but its population is only more than 400 people. As for the extraordinary people, there are very few of them, and the strongest is just a senior knight."

After speaking, Rydar took a sip of water from the cup beside him, "After I disposed of their bodies, I searched for two days according to the route they said, and now I have determined the location of these three tribes."

"The Black Collar Tribe mentioned by the other party is located on a relatively flat plain. There are the most houses and fields there, and they are the most widely distributed among these tribes. The autumn harvest is also underway."

After hearing that Rydar had finished telling the intelligence he had obtained, everyone sitting at the long table of the fortress showed admiration.

Ronin was no exception. He admired Rydar's courage and decisiveness, patience and tenacity.

Ronin couldn't help but praise loudly, "Rydar, you are the bravest person I have ever seen! Your intelligence is of great help to our next action, and I deserve your applause!"

Led by him, the others in the hall also applauded, expressing their admiration for Rydar's spirit and achievements.

Rydar smiled and nodded to everyone. After the applause stopped, he looked at Ronin, "Sir, the strength of the Savage Tribe is not strong. I think it's time for us to consider taking action against them!"