The combine harvester that appeared in Misty Village struck everyone's hearts like a hammer, knocking a crack into the hard shell of the old world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Even Cynthia, who has always been calm and calm, has already had an emotional breakdown. Tears ran down her cheeks, but she forgot to wipe them. The other dwarf craftsmen were only more exaggerated than her.

As a race with a natural obsession with metal civilization, they were banished to the north 10,000 years ago and haven't owned an inch of arable land since.

When they saw that their own machines could easily harvest wheat from the fields, the worries that had been in their minds for decades about what would happen to the gnomes and dwarves after the shard was depleted finally dissipated.

Grunada, the dwarven king, who was also the leader of the Far North, was laughing like a child.

Compared to these two guests, the owner of the land, the Empress of the Femon Empire, behaved equally out of line - she had already thrown herself into Donner's arms, and gave him a passionate kiss despite the presence of everyone around her.

However, at this time, everyone's attention was on the harvester, and no one noticed Her Majesty's gaffe.

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The Misty 1 combine, which began production in the autumn of 641 in the Femont calendar, is 1.5 meters wide, travels about 60 meters per minute, and harvests an area of about 5,000 square meters in one hour, counting the time it takes to replace the clockwork batteries and bag the wheat, and it takes about three hours to harvest each hectare of wheat.

This is much slower than a diesel harvester that harvests several hectares in an hour on Earth. In fact, if this combine harvester with a clockwork battery were to be used on Earth, it would be harvested more than twice as slower than the Earth's wheat fields in Misty Village.

Although it is much faster than farmers harvesting wheat with a sickle and threshing it on a simple wind-powered thresher, this machine also has its drawbacks.

First of all, the mainspring battery needs to be replaced every two hours.

The Santan Type 3 mainspring battery can work for nearly two hours at 40 horsepower (i.e., about 80 horsepower hours when fully charged with mechanical energy), but the windmills in Misty Town can only reach about 10 horsepower in the case of an average of four or five wind forces in autumn. If you rely on a windmill to recharge, it will take at least 8 hours to fully charge the clockwork battery.

This is clearly unrealistic.

Therefore, the clockwork batteries used in the combine harvester can only be shipped from Fog City.

Misty Village is close enough to Fog City, and it is not a big problem to send a clockwork truck to transport clockwork batteries back and forth several times a day, if it is too far away from Fog City, and there is no place where ready-made water resources are available nearby, the windwork harvester is faced with the dilemma of not being able to replace the clockwork in time.

Secondly, the structure of the Misty 1 combine harvester is really a bit complicated for the existing technical level of Fog City. In the case of occupying nearly half of the production capacity of Fog City, it can only achieve the speed of mass production of one unit per month for the time being.

From the beginning of July after the finalization of the Feimeng calendar, the trial production began, and as of the day of trial operation in Misty Village, only three units were produced. If you want to popularize this type of harvester to the three northern provinces, the time is desperately long.

Third, because the harvester can only be used during the autumn harvest every year, most of the year can only be idle, but the fog period between April and June in Misty Village is still very heavy, so the maintenance of normal time is also a trouble.

Finally, because the power of the clockwork battery is too low, the harvester can harvest up to 8 hectares of wheat in a day, even if it works 24 hours a day.

You must know that there are nearly 300 hectares of wheat fields in Misty Village alone, and it will take more than ten days to complete all the existing three harvesters. If fertilization conditions improve and there is no longer a need for alternate rotations, this figure will be doubled.

So, while everyone was cheering, Donner was a little worried.

In fact, all these problems, simplified, have only one of the most prominent problems: energy.

Machines that use fossil fuels on earth, whether they are steam engines or internal combustion engines, only need to consider the power and longevity of the machines, and as long as no fuel can be added, the machines can continue to operate.

But this world is different, and in the absence of fuel available, the only way to temporarily store wind and hydro energy as mechanical energy is a clockwork battery at this stage.

Downer knew that in the extra dimension orthogonal to the real world, there was a magical radiation loaded with a huge amount of energy that could be used, but with his current ability, with the current level of technology in this world, it was impossible to use this energy directly.

Just like on the earth, only by experiencing technological revolutions again and again, producing enough scientific researchers, and accumulating enough knowledge reserves, can we light up a higher technology tree.

No matter how arrogant Donner is, he doesn't think that he can build a machine that can use magical radiation energy with his own ability, you know, magical radiation is a product of super civilization, and if you want to use it, you must at least have a certain level of technology.

Therefore, Donner had no other way to go except to find a way to increase the population and quickly replenish the few colleges under his command.

In this case, no matter how big the defect of the clockwork battery is, he can only do it head-on.

Of course, there are not only problems in front of him. In the midst of these conundrums, there is also some light.

For example, with the advancement of time, the performance of spring steels doped with secret metals is still improving.

Moreover, once enough secret metals are added, the performance of the clockwork steel can also be improved - it's just that the Far North Country has always been dominated by magic crystal resources, and in terms of the accumulation of secret metal and mineral resources, it is much weaker than the three major city-states where the three paladins are located.

For example, with the expansion of the Fog City, many streets that can use water resources have been staggered up and down, and now, the Fog City can theoretically accommodate thousands of machine tools.

In time, Fog City will have enough production capacity to handle the machinery needs of the entire Huls continent.

However, pessimism or optimism, things will always go according to the predetermined plan.

Just as the village was in a state of joy, an accident was taking place at the bottom of Fog City, which would affect the entire Knight Federation for years to come, as well as the reforms that Donner was carrying out in the three northern provinces.

As for the outcome, whether it will be happy or bad for the forces of all sides, no one knows yet.

(I saw a book friend mention Una's problem, explain it here.) Unlike Rachel and Lucia, Una first approached Donner with a less pure motive, and now she is being punished by the author. (To be continued.) )