Gawain had given the pirate some time and sufficient manpower to build a sail windmill, and a Persian windmill, the former on the land bridge embankment, and the latter on the hill from the agora of Akum to St. Paul's College (which was not yet finished), which came from the remnants of the Taurus Mountains, where the winds through the valley of the Mut River were relatively strong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since it was an experimental nature, the scale of the two windmills was not large, and at this moment on the land bridge, Gawain and his women, and their female subordinates were the first to see the sail windmill, also called the "tower windmill" or "Cretan windmill", which from a distance looked very delicate and beautiful—Anna, sitting on her shoulder, could not help but be moved, on the blue sea, the moist wind blew from the confluence of the Holy Sea and the Cyprus Sea, and the small tower windmill was painted white with white mud, like a beautiful skirt, She couldn't help but think of herself from this beautiful windmill, "It's as cute and seductive as a real princess." Anna couldn't help but admire the little sunfish and the handmaidens beside her, attracting the consent of all the personnel.

The windmill had eight arms on its core shaft, each reinforced with a metal cylinder, like a ship's mast, with a triangular linen sail attached to it, which was rolled up and retracted on the column when Gawain arrived, but when Agnes gave instructions, the pirate first used a long pole, which used as a lever, to pluck the roof of the windmill. Then the craftsmen around pulled the ropes, and the hula sounded, and the first sail on a cylinder was pulled apart, and it was stretched out in the sun and the wind, and its top pointed to the rotating shaft, and the bottom stretched out—and then one after the other the sails were unfurled, and soon with a brisk gurgling sound, all the arms began to circle in a circle, and the central axis was actually a reverse propeller wheel, and the sail unfolded and gently shook the plane in the wind, so that there was no need for a very strong wind. It can also use the sail pressure easily and beautifully, driving the entire tower windmill to rotate non-stop, and the white tower body and pale yellow linen sails dance like this in front of the blue sea, which is simply beautiful.

"Bang bang bang!" Before Anna could cheer, there was a voice like this, and everyone looked: Cabeamia was riding on the horse with an embarrassed face, and hurriedly looked to the side with her eyes to guide everyone's attention, because this applause was given by the blonde widow sitting under the parasol, and her face was still full of excitement and joy, and now Ingrida's belly bulge was very obvious, and this time she was able to see the windmill, she was as happy as holding an outing, and turned to her friend Chiser and said, "I only remembered when I saw this, when I was in Corinth, I have such windmills on my estate. ”

"Does it have to be this way to remember?" Mrs. Qi quipped with a wry smile.

"Yes, I've heard that if you get pregnant, your memory will decay a lot." The widow replied unconcernedly, with a cheerful smile, her golden hair hanging down, and her blue eyes, which were also a dazzling sight.

"Foolish village woman, when your child named Mesadini is born, you will have to leave him to use the axe." Anna teased in her heart, and then she asked the pirate with the majesty of a princess, "That is, if you tie a shovel to the arm of the windmill, you can drain the water from this swamp into the ocean?" ”

The pirate nodded flatteringly, and replied yes.

"Your Highness the Princess, I have calculated that a tower windmill of appropriate size, staggered on this land bridge embankment, can drain fifty to seventy Modi swamp sewage in a day." Agnes immediately asked for credit in front of the princess.

"That is, staggered rows, draining both seawater and swamp water, and soon along both sides of the land bridge, a large area of fertile soil for farming was formed?"

"That's right, wise princess. Not only that, as long as a stone mill is installed in the tower windmill building, it can also grind a good wheat flour nearby, so that the people no longer need to use the water mill, reduce the burden of the water mill, and provide more sufficient water for the fields. As you know, if you put too many water mills in the upstream rapids, it will cause a lot of damage to the downstream hydraulic watering, and even congestion. ”

Then Anna sat down on her shoulder, looking first at the vast sea and swamps, and then at the mighty Alalman River rushing down from the mountains in the east, and she gave the little sunfish a problem, "But now the Seleucians are meagre and the land is small, and everything must be used to the fullest. This sail windmill is said to be expensive, much more expensive than the single-column windmill that was previously rejected by the barbarians, but it can drain water, grind powder, and is the most cost-effective agricultural equipment in the region, and I finally approve of it. But the hydraulic power of the Alaman River is really for irrigation downstream, and there is no room for improvement? I want to use it to make a difference. ”

Agnes also looked at these things, and she held the scrolls of drawings and talked to the princess, "Of course there is no problem, Your Highness, do you see the distance between the Alalman River and the small city?" I am going to build a large hydraulic workshop there, for the cost of about two thousand gold coins-I can command the craftsmen to make three sections of sluices and dikes, and then raise or lower the riverbed, and then take advantage of the drop, and drive three water wheels -- no, three groups, and I will make three water wheels in each group, so that there are nine water wheels in total, which can use the tremendous power generated by the water-driven apparatus, which can grind, print, saw, tan, paper, and even smelt iron, To put it simply, I will draw on the classical era of Generals Agrippa and Belisarius (Agnes. Both of the men mentioned by Plani had built mills with the power of water, producing large quantities of wheat flour to supply their armies, and the mill of flour at Belisarius was a mill that straddled two large ships) with a whole set of water wheels and workshops to cover the roaring river like a stepped tower, and once this was completed, many inhabitants would gather around the great workshop, and soon the Alarmanburg would be revived. ”

"And how long will your project last?"

"Three years!" Agnes had a long-term plan, and it seemed that she had made up her mind not to go back to Repos - it was fun, so interesting.

The princess nodded, and Gao Wen next to her also looked at her with approval and satisfaction, and her "female disciple" (of course, the little sunfish resolutely refused to admit it) had been able to independently think about a complete set of equipment economic operation models......

The widow who was sitting there was again infected by the ambition of the little sunfish (of course, Agnes was very proud to see the widow praise herself), and applauded again as if no one was around. (To be continued.) )