Upon receiving orders from the heralds from Mecklenburgshire, Aun and Master Newman immediately mounted their horses and galloped out of the smelting base, protecting Arold's medieval weapon-making facility with a wall built by the slab method, and now they had to receive Arold's new orders to fight against the cold snap from Northern Europe, and when Orn and Master Newman arrived at the castle along the gradually paved gravel path, Arrold had already discussed the affairs of the territory with Brother Elvet, and when they stood in front of Arold, The piles of Wen Jiàn in front of this lord of theirs were already drowning him.

"Oh, Orn, it's good to come here, and Master Newman." Arold stopped the quill in his hand, rubbed his temples with his fingers, and signed the text more tiring than fighting a battle with the Bohemians.

"Lord Count, what do you want to summon us to come?" Orne and Newman took off their hats and bowed to Arjord.

"Is it good for me to ask someone from the Chamber of Commerce to transport the coal for you?" Arold nodded and accepted their courtesy, then spoke to them.

"Coal?" Orn and Newman looked at each other strangely, as if they had never heard of such a thing.

"Oh, it's the black muck that the Chamber of Commerce brought for you." Arold hurriedly explained.

"Yes, it worked so well, better than firewood and charcoal, and I never knew there was dirt to fuel it on." It only then dawned on Orn that most of the coal seams on the Europa continent were of high quality and bare/exposed at the bottom, and Arold only remembered that the Ruhr region of Germany was rich in coal mines. It was about the middle of Germany, so they asked the Chamber of Commerce in Mecklenburg to send people to find and buy it, and finally they found the coal that the locals called black soil, and the locals also knew how to use coal to burn for heating.

"That's good, how fast can we make zuò armor now?" Arold stood up satisfied, and at this time two attendants in square robes came over and poured wine for them, and the two masters of armor and weapons gratefully picked up their glasses and enjoyed the wine with Arold.

"We tried several methods to improve the quality of the plate armor, but unfortunately the cold forging method was also the same as the last half armor. If you want to further improve the production of armor, you need more time and manpower and material resources. Orn said to Arrod with some regret. To be honest, although Arold invented the method of assembly work, the apprentices' skills cannot be improved instantaneously in a short period of time, and the skills need to be honed over a long period of time.

"So it's impossible to mass produce it?" Arrode's brow furrowed, and he clenched his arms. Pacing down the hall. Sure enough, the production of plate armor is too complicated, and it is too early to form a complete manufacturing chain at once. In addition to the use of individual zuò plate armor as lords and commanders, it was almost in short supply to ordinary soldiers.

"Yes, Lord Earl, we don't have enough men. Even with high-quality iron, there is no way to mass-produce armor. Master Newman replied, he was originally the chief armor master of the Blacksmith Guild in Hamburgshire, but he was kidnapped by the Blood Drops in Arrod's Sycamore Project, and at first he was very disgusted with this nobleman who kidnapped him brutally, but later Arold showed superb manufacturing knowledge, which made him shocked and sincerely admired, not to mention that his family was also taken to Mecklenburg County by the Blood Drops, so Newman also worked and lived here with peace of mind.

"I need a lot of armor, enough to arm my five hundred to a thousand men, I have to expand my armaments, the damned Norsemen are coming." Arold said anxiously that he could not let the German mercenaries wear rudimentary leather armor to deal with the battle axes with round shields, and perhaps the elite Viking warriors also wore chain mail, which had been unearthed in later generations.

"I'm sorry, but if you want to equip soldiers, chain mail is a good choice." Newman shook his head helplessly, the production of plate armor requires a larger-scale workshop, from beating and forming to grinding and burring edges, it requires a variety of procedures, and chain mail only needs to liquefy iron into the iron bar mold, and then pinch the iron bar in the mold into sections with iron pliers, twist it into iron rings one by one, and then let ordinary laborers weave the iron rings into iron shirts, and a piece of chain mail is completed.

"Chain mail, well, you're right, I shouldn't be too obsessed with plate armor, so how are you going to speed up the chain mail?" Arold was reminded by Master Newman that chain mail was the protagonist of the knightly world, and even in the Crusader era when plate armor began to emerge, because the hot climate of the Middle East made the crusader soldiers choose chain mail with better breathability.

"Hmm~~." Newman told Arold about the process of making chain mail, but Arold was still not satisfied with this progress, and in military life, he knew that the chain mail at this time, because the process of making the chain mail was relatively rough, which made the gap of the iron ring too large, which could prevent chopping, but could not prevent the thrust of arrows and sword tips, and he needed more advanced methods of making it.

"Wire drawing machine, you need a wire drawing machine." Arold excitedly stood up and said to Orne and Newman. "What is a wire drawing machine?" Orn and Newman had never heard of anything like this, and they looked at each other curiously as they asked their wise lord.

"You immediately start to make a wooden platform, on the copper cube on it, first drill a small hole with a diameter of two millimeters from large to small, and at the other end is an iron shaft that can be twisted, first heat the iron into the mold to form an iron bar, and then drill a hole in the iron bar that has not yet cooled, and then put the iron bar into a copper hole lubricated with whale oil, tie the iron bar hole with a wire to rotate the iron shaft, and gradually pull it out of the hole, turning a thicker iron bar into a wire with a diameter of two millimeters. In this way, I can get a wire about several meters long at once, and then pinch the wire into small pieces with pliers, and I will order the idle peasants and peasant women in the territory to weave these wires into chain mail. Arold said to the two masters of weapon and armor making, the wire drawing machine is one of the crystallization of the industry in later generations, but its process level is relatively simple, even if it can be completed with manpower or water power, imagine that in the Middle Ages, it could only produce a maximum of two meters of iron bars, and now all of a sudden, the wire drawing machine can be made out of dozens of meters, and the production volume will definitely be greatly improved, and finally the period of letting his subordinates wear stinky leather armor can be ended, Arold thought so. (To be continued......)