Chapter 49: Forging the Barrel
The villagers did not always focus on military training, and after Alan taught the Assassin tutorial, he once again opened up his job.
Successful candidates do not need to attend military training and will devote themselves to another career.
For example, female businessmen, directors of steelworks, deputy supervisors of ironmaking blast furnaces, etc.
It's just that the number of people in demand for this kind of position is not much, often only one or two can be used, and it is a managerial talent or a business talent.
Marianne had recently gone south to dump two major towns and a port city, and the small villages sold less, and after one visit, she lost interest in the small villages, and instead set her sights on the upstream morning glory town, and the big eastern city of Silver City.
"Marianne, do you think I do this?"
A thin cat lady stood in front of her, spun in a circle according to the interviewer's request, and after the turn, she pinched the corners of her clothes with both hands and looked at Marianne with her eyes.
Female merchants are the village's mediocre wages but have a commission, and it is said that Marianne got a golden dragon after a while.
In other words, the merchants of Datie Village are Allen's wage earners, they have not saved enough private capital, and all the principal used by each business comes from the public, and they are only responsible for running errands and negotiating business with eloquence.
"You can't." Marianne calmly glanced at the kitten's chest.
She talked about more than a dozen deals, and found that the lions especially liked to look at the breasts and buttocks, followed by the face and skin, so she also valued such places when she audited.
"Oh." The cat lady who applied for the job lowered her head, rubbed her small breasts, and left in disappointment.
Seeing her bow her head and wipe away her tears, Marianne was stunned, as if she saw her original self, and her eyes were just as frustrated.
If it weren't for her brave dedication and being favored by Martin, where she would be today.
"Wait!"
"You can give it a try, if you can't do it, forget it."
Young cat girls are all former cat slaves, and only cat slaves with good looks and pure hair color will be recognized by slave owners for her golden dragon value, and specially cultivated with nutritious meals.
However, they have not yet reached the auction table, and have been rescued by Allen's Team Zero.
The applicant in front of me is a pure hair color cat lady, her face is also delicate, not too thin, although it is a tablet, but as long as you master the skills of language, you may be able to do a career.
The black cat lady who thought she had lost the election immediately held back her tears and clenched her small fists to cheer herself on.
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When Marianne was choosing merchants, Allen's side also began to select powerful slaves to be gunsmiths.
"Lord Allen, I've got the most strength!" The Minotaur screamed loudly, carrying a large stone in each arm, and the large muscles of his arms were tense and full of strength and beauty.
This is a minotaur slave, and the only minotaur in the village, with a body up to two meters high, strong arms, and his slave group, always winning the first place in farming that day.
"Well, you've been selected." Alan originally wanted to train the Minotaur Awakening Skill, and hammering the ground is a good skill for opening the foundation.
However, he himself has not yet researched the training awakening methods of various races, so let him be a blacksmith for the time being.
"Lord Allen, our lion clan is much stronger than the cat clan blacksmith, choose me!" The leo slave stared wide-eyed and patted his chest.
"Okay, you'll be selected too."
Allen picked hundreds of powerful players in the slave group, basically all of them were lions, kobolds, and pigmen.
The lion, kobold, and pig people are all human appearances, they have dog ears or pig ears in their hair, and small tails are all on the top of the **, while the short tail race can often hide the tail in the clothes from outsiders.
Alan took these powerful slaves into the blacksmith shop and announced that the prospective blacksmith slaves would have a chance to become freedmen if they worked hard.
"Lord Alan, you're here, come and see how my round stick is doing?"
"It's okay, it's okay."
Alan inspects the barrel factory of the blacksmith's shop, where most of the blacksmiths forge barrels day and night.
If you want to make a gun, you need to work on the barrel body, but Alan doesn't have a gun yet, so he uses the forging method to build the barrel for the time being, and then considers upgrading the barrel process after the village's armed forces are formed.
What is casting, blacksmiths naturally do not need to say Allendo, pouring liquid metal into the barrel mold.
After the casting is completed, it is forged for more than 20 days, and then the outer skin is processed, and a hole is drilled through the center of the steel rod with a drilling machine, and a simple barrel is basically completed, followed by grinding and polishing.
As for rifling, the output power of the current steam engine is not stable enough, and the output is large and small, so it is impossible to make stable rifling, and it is not considered to be a rifled gun for the time being.
To sum up, the gun made in this way is fast enough, but the quality is not very good.
This kind of barrel is generally thick, the head is heavy, which seriously affects the accuracy of the gun, and it is easy to blister when casting is cooled, and the inner chamber of the barrel is difficult to achieve a smooth surface, which sometimes often leads to the barrel exploding.
Alan arranged for the slave-blacksmith apprentices to be given to the blacksmiths at will, and asked them to try to teach them.
Of course, Alan will first demonstrate it himself, and use his top eloquence to educate them, shorten the education time of slaves, and make the great business of making guns faster and better.
"Lord Allen's going to do it himself."
"It's a rare opportunity, you slaves can remember Lord Allen's goodness, don't let him down!"
The blacksmith slaves were as obedient as chickens pecking rice, watching Allen's operation with wide eyes, and Allen's gentle voice came from his ears, blowing into his head like a spring breeze, and replaying it over and over again, making people remember it deeply, as if he had made the barrel of a gun hundreds of times with his own hands.
Alan waved for a while, it was a hard work, tired and sweaty, and felt that the slaves should have an impression, so he stopped his work and let the blacksmiths continue to work.
"Alright, blacksmith, you continue to teach the slaves how to do it, the barrel factory should be forging twenty-four hours a day, and I need to make a qualified barrel as soon as possible." Alan brought the second shift of slaves this time, so that they could work for half a day and then change shifts to continue forging.
After that, he would also bring a third class of slaves, and strive to achieve three shifts a day to shorten the time it takes to build guns.
"Yes!" The orcs responded loudly.
Alan walked out of the barrel factory, thinking in his heart about the time it would take to build a gun, if he worked twelve hours a day, it would still take a month to save time for detours under his leadership.
Now that there is a second class of slaves, the time can be reduced by more than ten days.
Now many unknown slaves have also started the work of blacksmiths, and the whole blacksmith shop is no longer like a blacksmith shop in the traditional sense, but under the management of Allen, it has gradually become a collection of iron-making, steel-making, and machine-making.
Of course, the manufacture of the first batch of barrels must have been difficult, and the orc had no experience in making barrels, and he counted the time used up by dumping cotton before, and estimated that it would be three weeks before there would be a flintlock pistol.