"Rafa. ”

"Huh?"

Rafa looked back in surprise at Felicille, who was sitting by the fireplace reading a book, and Felicille rarely called him by his first name.

"I lost the other day, right?" Philicille looked up at him.

Rafalen paused, then smirked, "How come, it's a draw, everyone sees it." ”

"But when there were twelve bullets, why did you only fire eleven shots?"

"Ahh Haha, maybe I shot too quickly, you heard it wrong. ”

"Really?" Felihill stood up, staring at him.

"Of course..."

Felihill continued to stare at him deeply, silent, and Rafa felt a chill in his heart.

After a long time, she suddenly said, "Come here." ”

"What?"

"Come here. Felihill didn't explain either, and repeated it again.

"Uh... Or... Forget it......" Rafa finally understood what she wanted to do, and felt a little embarrassed.

"Come here. Felicille repeated it again.

"Forget it...... Ahaha, Kaido is here, I'll go first!"

Rafa smiled awkwardly and hurried away, leaving Felicille standing still under the strange eyes of the witches.

"Sister Fili, what was your last bet?" asked Shirley curiously.

Felihill's gaze was still on Rafa in the distance, but he remained unmoved on the surface, "It's nothing, it's just a little thing." ”

Although Rafa refused to fulfill her gambling contract, she still couldn't help but feel a little distracted.

"It's obviously her who suffers, what am I panicking about?"

Shaking his head, he had already walked to the antechamber, where Audrey was entering with the stout Kaido.

"Your Highness. Kaido bowed slightly.

"I'll just say it straight, I want you to stop the project you are doing, use those cement, and rebuild a wall connecting Okin Mountain and Ice Plains City, how long will it take?"

"Uhh

Rafa secretly scolded himself for being in too much of a hurry, and even forgot to say the size of the city wall, "Ahem, it's the same as the current wall of Ice Plains City, three zhang wide and six zhang high." ”

"I'll have to do the math. ”

Then, Kaido, who looked very rough, actually began to take out the pen and paper he was carrying with him and calculate.

After calculating for a while, Kaido finally came to the result.

"Your Highness, if I can have four hundred men under my command, plus the time to dig the foundation, it will only take about fifteen days. ”

"Very well! You go back first and have all the cement hoarded be moved out of the city, and I will send you six hundred men early tomorrow morning, in short, it must be completed as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

Rafa knows that it is because the coal mine production is quite good, so the coal used to burn in the cement factory has been fully satisfied, and now the workers are reminded to dig coal in the mine, and the efficiency is greatly reduced, which will inevitably lead to a reduction in the production of the cement factory and cause a series of chain reactions, so since everyone is afraid of digging coal, it is better to directly build a wall to block the west side of the ice field city, although the east side is still empty, but if the wolf cavalry attack, the people on the west wall will see it in advance, which can leave enough time for the miners to return to the city。

The next day, Rafa had three hundred knights dressed in civilian clothes join Kaido's construction team, and then some more were drawn from the miners, plus Kaido's own construction team, about six hundred.

After a night of planning, "Architect" Kaido had found the best way to completely distribute the six hundred people, so the six hundred people in the field were only orderly.

Facing west along one of the walls of Icefield Castle, Kaido outlined the future walls with striking mahogany powder on the ground.

Then came the time to excavate the foundation, because there were not enough tools for each person in the entire ice field city, so some of them had to start carrying cement and preparing sand and gravel first.

Looking at the people who were in full swing, Rafa also participated in the team of digging the foundation, and because he had the blessing of the law, he did not look like a strong knight in the slightest.

For three days in a row, he followed the team every day to start work at the same time, and went back at the same time, until the fourth day, the wind and snow were heavy, and nothing could be seen in the white world, not only the construction team, but even the workers in the mine were resting today, and in the entire Ice Plain City, except for the people in the ironwork workshop, who were still busy carving gun racks, all other departments that needed to use coal were almost suspended.

"In Icefields, coal is our gold and precious stone. ”

Braving the wind and snow, Rafa took Audair to inspect various places, the most important of which were the canteen where the workers gathered and some of the larger rooms.

Because everyone doesn't like to stay in the cold dormitory, although it's not a meal now, it's still full of people.

The cafeteria was fine, it was crowded and there was a fire, so it wasn't too cold, but on top of the walls and watchtowers with a howling blizzard, the temperature was frighteningly low.

Walking along the snow-soaked city walls, which could make people stand unsteadily, he began to worry about the safety of the soldiers stationed on it.

When he pushed open a towering watchtower on the tower, it was not much warmer outside, the wind and snow were blowing in through the unsheltered window, and although there was a pot of firewood burning vigorously in the middle, it was already so cold that the knights who were on duty were blue and their eyebrows were frosty.

"Looks like I'm underestimating the winter in Icefield City...... If this continues, something will happen sooner or later. ”

After ordering all the soldiers who had been on duty today to go back to rest, he hurried back to the City Lord's Mansion, hurriedly drew a drawing, and came to Felihill's territory.

"Hmm... Honeycomb coal molding machine?It's all about making coal into a fixed shape, right?" Philisier looked up after a brief glance.

"It's really worthy of Fili, I actually understood it at once. ”

"You can go. ”

After a long time, Felihill said the familiar words again.

"Hey, wait, I haven't finished yet......"

Say. Felihill frowned slightly.

"Aren't the windows on the castle tower sentry unobstructed? I wonder if we can make some transparent glass windows, like this floor-to-ceiling window, but with smaller ......."

"That's it?"

"That's it. ”

"Didn't I let people put the glass windows in the old place? Why, you don't know?"

"Fili, you're so nice!"

With a cry of delight, Rafa hurried away.

When I opened the warehouse where the glass products were stored, sure enough, there were already clear glass windows of various sizes, and most of them were very heavy and heavy that could be pulled up and put down, so I didn't have to worry about being blown down.

"Great!"

Calling some knights, he led them to the walls of the city where the cold wind howled.

"Knight Kono, install all the leaky windows on the city wall, and remember to tell the knights to leave some gaps in the windows to ventilate when the fire is burning."

"Yes. ”

He didn't understand why, but he decided to do it.

After installing all the windswept pavilions with glass, the soldiers could see through the glass without opening the windows, and Philicille was very careful in making these windows, apparently taking into account the fact that the wind and snow covered the glass, so she placed a thin flannel cloth at the junction of the two pieces of glass, and if the snow turned from the windows, they only needed to pull up the windows and put them down, and the glass would be clean.

So, Felihill is not only a smart woman, but also a careful woman.

After a busy day, almost all the four walls of the entire Ice Plain City, as long as there are rooms that are used, are replaced with transparent glass, which greatly encourages the soldiers who have been staying in the high-rise pavilion and enduring the bitter cold.

Because many of them are people who have participated in the caravan, they all know that if these glasses are sold, they can be sold for dozens of gold coins at a sky-high price, but His Royal Highness the Prince actually used them as the most ordinary windows, what a boldness!

The fire was baking in the warm watchtower, and many people had the thought that "the future of Icefield City will never stop like this".

In the next few days, the wind and snow didn't seem to stop at all, which also made him worry about the two caravans, although it was not yet the agreed time to return, but he still silently prayed that nothing would happen.

In the past few days, the "honeycomb coal molding machine" that he asked Phililisil to help make has also been made.

The main reason for wanting to make this thing is that the coal dug up in Icefield City is too scattered, and ordinary people choose the larger coal blocks to burn when they are heating, or they knead the pulverized coal into a fixed shape, but no matter how you get it, it is still too troublesome, so Rafa decided to simply make a fixed shape of coal, which is more convenient to use, and the cinders after use can also be processed centrally.

It is a machine with two funnel-shaped depressions at the top, and two openings on both sides are coal outlets, and it is a machine that can produce honeycomb coal and honeycomb coal in sticks at the same time, and the principle is very simple, that is, the wet coal is pressed into a fixed shape.

Thanks to a gear connection between the two shafts, it is now possible to work on both sides at the same time with only one power source.

When it comes to power, the only solution now is the steam engine.

I finally rushed out a steam engine, and the wind and snow outside had almost stopped.

It's just that this thing can be used all year round, unlike umbrellas, which are only used on rainy days.

The heavy machinery was moved to a slightly larger shed next to the ironwork workshop, and the production of honeycomb coal began.

The experiment was successful, and after the steam engine was activated, the wet coal lump placed in the funnel was quickly crushed into honeycomb coal with a hole in the middle.

However, because there are too many places to manually operate this thing, the light forming machine itself needs four people to operate, plus the steam engine, and there are six or seven people to serve this work.

But that's fine, there will be more machines in the future, and the people who use the machines now will have accumulated experience that they can pass on to new people, and by that time, there may be many people who will come up with something new without Rafa.