"Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven......"

As the baroness counted, Duke's hands trembled involuntarily.

He was one of the three former mill slaves who came to the attention of the Baroness for coming up with the idea of attaching a long rod to the sickle.

"Quite brainy." That's what she said.

Then he was made a ...... Well, he didn't know exactly what he was doing.

He and the other two stopped cutting the reeds now, and accompanied the baroness to "experiment"—so the baroness put it—the "blast furnace"—another new word.

If Duke was given a choice now, would he choose to go back to being a slave?

"Dreaming." Said the Baroness.

The Baroness refused to be the owner of all evil slaves, and Duke had no choice but to be a freeman working overtime for his stomach.

This taste of freedom is really a mixed feeling.

And it cannot be returned.

He couldn't run away either.

Free people are not free to leave their lord's territory unless they are beaten or raped by their wives and daughters for no reason.

The only difference between them and serfs was whether or not they served free labor for the lord.

Freedmen do not mean that they can move freely.

Luo Yi doesn't like to beat people, and he doesn't have that function - besides, Duke doesn't have a wife and daughter.

So he couldn't get rid of the job that the baroness had assigned him.

“…… Six, five, four, three, two, one, open the furnace door! ”

Luo Yi gave an order, and the furnace door slammed open.

White high-temperature steam immediately burst out from the furnace and instantly filled the surroundings.

Duke retreated in time, this time he was not injured by the hot steam.

This is a valuable lesson that has been learned through hard lessons.

Last time, he wasn't well after being burned by steam.

It was only after they had been burned that he understood what the Baroness had given each of them a strangely shaped "overall"—a long-sleeved coat with a hood sewn from thick linen and coarse wool that enveloped the man from head to toe.

"It's finally progressing." Luo Yi sighed silently, after a few days of tossing, she finally understood why the master in feudal society had the right to kill his apprentice.

During the apprenticeship, the fire burns to death, the water drowns, the master misses and kills, the master is not responsible, this is the Chinese feudal society apprentices must sign the "three regardless" agreement, the apprentice and the apprentice's parents must sign this agreement in the case of a guarantor in order to send the apprentice to the apprentice, and then give the master a free three-year errand, and then take half of the salary to the master for three years, in order to leave the teacher.

Luo Yi hasn't inquired about the apprenticeship rules in the West, but judging from the rules of the slaughtering guild, it is not easy to be an apprentice, at least it is more difficult to become a teacher than in China, and if you can't marry the master's daughter, you have to work for the master all the time in this life.

It turned out that Luo Yi felt that this kind of "three regardless" rules were a bit cruel, but when she began to train these future workers, she found that it was indeed not easy to engage in skills.

Before the ironmaking began, it was just a simulation, and there was already a work accident.

She also specially selected adults - adults who know how powerful she is.

If you are an ignorant and active child, and there is no protection...... I'm afraid it's more than just a few bubbles.

Mrs. Hansen anointed their wounds, and Duke made some improvements to the door opener.

Then continue the experiment.

Eventually, they were trained over and over again to make no mistakes.

Luo Yi ordered the "tethered stake" that had been brought back from the Turnest blacksmith shop into the furnace, and then the four oxen stepped forward together under the urging of the whip, pulling the bellows, and the four bellows sent air from the four tuyeres to heat the smelting furnace.

Thrown into the furnace was nothing but a large piece of cast iron.

When Europeans used block smelting furnaces to smelt iron ore into wrought iron clusters mixed with slag, they occasionally smelted raw iron due to natural wind and the wrong ratio of fuel to minerals.

These hard, hammer-pounded pig irons were tossed aside as slag.

Later archaeologists often found piles of pig iron that had been discarded as garbage near the smelting site of a thousand years ago.

Luo Yi didn't start with smelting ore, she started with scrap iron recycling.

Bright white molten iron gushes out of the furnace and pours into the mold.

These casting models were turned over from iron plows made in blacksmith shops and then fired in brick kilns.

Ten pieces of iron ploughs, formed in an instant.

It's also just molding.

Because that's just the first step.