The snow on the mountain began to melt, and Lawrence looked at the snowy mountains in the distance.

The area where it is located is not the highest point of the Agama Mountains, and in the distant mountains there are towering holy snow-capped mountains, from which a large amount of water flows every spring, summer and autumn to nourish all the creatures nearby.

Lawrence looked at it for a moment, rested for a moment, and then lowered his head to build a wooden frame next to the river where the fish were kept.

A pond was dug here for the winter to swim for the winter, and now it is near this pond that the water conservancy device is being tested.

Waterwheels are mainly propelled by the flow of water, and preferably in places where the current is fast.

Lawrence doesn't think he can succeed once, this time it's mostly a try.

What was originally made was certainly not the most perfect, just like the original shack, which was later dismantled and rebuilt.

Everything has to be done step by step, summer and autumn are the opportunities for the real performance of the water mill, and now is to lay the foundation for the future.

The men and women in the neighborhood were busy with spring ploughing, the wheat seedlings near the fields had already grown, and there were no traces of snow on the mountains for a long time.

Sophia ran quickly from the manor, stepping on two wooden bridges and running up the river.

"The hosts! Nala is born! A baby lamb fell from Nala's ass and fell on the grass and looked so disgusting! ”

Sophia's face was excited, and she said the happy news, "Saliel said, the baby lamb will take care of me, and I will have my own domme sheep in the future!" The name is Sophia! ”

Lawrence doesn't quite understand the mood of a little girl like Sophia, even if she comes from this age, she always feels that even when she was a child, she is very different from Sophia.

"Well, I'll go over and have a look when I'm done here, you go and have a look first."

"Good!" Sophia quickly ran back with her skirt in her hand to see her lamb.

Lawrence made an impeller out of planks inserted into a single length of wood.

The water flow pushes the wheels to turn, and the turning wheels push the wooden poles as they turn.

"Wouldn't it be better to design it flat?"

When a gear lying on the ground is pushed by water, the other side will push the wooden stick of the stone mill, and you can install eight wooden poles on the stone mill, so that the push is faster. ”

"In this way, it can be simpler, just save the gears of the waterwheel, put the stone mill by the river, and use eight oars down as the power plant."

"No...... Then there is no place for people to stand. ”

Lawrence thought about the four-wheel drive he played with when he was a child, and thought about the windmill mill and water-powered mill in his memory, as well as all kinds of machinery and equipment he had ever seen, and thought about how to use the most reasonable and least gears to complete the transformation.

Compared with the people of this era, Lawrence has seen many things that others have not seen and cannot imagine, so the limitations of his thinking are much higher than others.

But there are also limitations, and Lawrence can't imagine that he hasn't seen it, and he can't break through his own limitations.

It's just that compared to the rest, Lawrence is very ahead of the rest and has a constructive wisdom that is forward-looking.

It wasn't long before Sariel walked briskly again.

"Lawrence, why don't you go and see Nala and Sophia."

Lawrence is knocking on the wood, inlaying two pieces of wood together through a hole.

"I'm very busy, you can take care of the lamb yourself, I'll go see it tomorrow."

Saliel squatted on the edge of the pit and looked at Lawrence in the pit, and said seriously: "You have to go over and touch Sophia and bless Sophia, otherwise Sophia will not grow tall." ”

"Okay, got it, I'll wash my hands and go over." Lawrence is not in a hurry for this time, and it will not take long to touch the lamb in the past.

As a prophet, Lawrence's life became more and more trivial.

Today I bless the married man and woman, tomorrow I will bless the newborn child Puppy and the Lamb, or I will force a few witches to learn arithmetic and equations.

There are basically no really big things, most of the time it's some very important little things.

Studying chicken manure, raising river fish, making water wheels, digging stones, building houses, cultivating land, trimming wool, drying quilts and clothes, digging sewage pipes, striking iron patrols and hatching chicks......

The sun rises and the sun sets.

With the gradual accumulation and operation, the fields in the forest began to increase and there was some progress in the water-powered mill.

Lawrence found the blacksmith, "I made a mold and made an iron gear from this mold. ”

The blacksmith looked at the clay embryo that Lawrence had placed on the table.

With crucibles and furnaces, as well as the strength of three different regions of iron-forging technology, the town's iron-making technology has been greatly improved.

In the past, it was constantly processed with burned iron, but now it can be poured directly with molten iron in mud and gravel molds, and the molten iron is directly transformed into the shape of axes, hoes, swords, and daggers.

The blacksmith stroked the mold for a while, checking the depth and width of this gear, as well as the amount of molten iron needed.

"Prophet, there is no problem with this."

Lawrence also felt that the current ironmaking technology was enough to make gears, but the quality might not be good and needed to be improved slowly.

When Durela's blacksmith saw Lawrence here, he said something else.

"Prophet, our charcoal is running out too quickly, and we need to replenish it quickly, at least five hundred baskets a month."

Lawrence nodded, "I'll have someone make some charcoal, and you can think about whether you can save some charcoal." ”

Durella Blacksmith said: "Charcoal is necessary for iron smelting, and wood does not burn those iron ores, so our charcoal is used for iron smelting." ”

Lawrence reassured: "It's not that you are wasteful, but let you use your brains, for example, after adding a blower, we use less charcoal when making iron than before." ”

"So is there another way to make the charcoal burn more fully, so that the temperature in the blast furnace can rise to the maximum faster, and save charcoal by the way?"

The blacksmiths in the vicinity all looked puzzled, no one had thought about this issue before.

Lawrence guided: "I have already told you that the higher the temperature, the faster the molten iron will melt, and the more the charcoal burns, the higher the temperature in the furnace. ”

"Then, now that you know the role of the wind, you should understand that the smaller the outlet, the easier it will be for the wind to blow on the charcoal."

"In addition to changing the air outlet of the blower, there is another point that can be improved, such as you all know that the blast furnace in winter is more charcoal than the summer one, so have you ever thought about the difference between ordinary wind and hot air blowing into the furnace?"

The blacksmith and the others looked at Lawrence in astonishment, "Hot wind? ”

"Yes, hot air." Lawrence affirms: "The blower blows out of the room temperature, and if the gas is preheated in advance, it will heat up faster when it is blown into the furnace." ”

"Don't be in a hurry now, if you have time, you can try to make an iron nozzle, the slender one, and then use the brazier to heat it in the iron pipe when the wind blows, so that what passes through here and enters the furnace is hot air."

"Whoever can improve the right and better blast furnaces, bellows, fuel, and other useful things, I will reward him with a reward ranging from a chicken to a cow according to the value he provides!"

In addition to the crucible, Lawrence offers new ideas to improve the ironmaking skills of the people.

This preheating technique is not only as simple as saving charcoal, but most importantly, it allows blacksmiths and technicians to discover that ironmaking is not a fixed thing, and that everyone's ironmaking skills can actually be improved.

Lawrence is willing to reward those who are willing to think, and he will not skimp on investment in this area.

The construction of science cannot rely on just one person, but needs more bases and environments.

In this environment, which requires artisan skills, the profits from investing in science and technology are absolutely unprecedented!

Lawrence invests not only in artisans, but also in barbarian navigators!

Compared to the craftsmen, the barbarian navigator is really able to bring back wealth.

The first navigators to return were not barbarian warriors, but the Durella, who had set out five months earlier.

These Durellas had set out a month before the Eternal Night, and when they returned, it was already March when the mountains were full of lush vegetation and flowers.

There were only five people when they went out, and when they came back, there were more than a hundred people in the big boat and small boat.

Henry, the merchant of Durella, took off his hat and said respectfully to Lawrence, who was descending the mountain, "Master, I have persuaded the merchants of the city that they are willing to come and trade, and bring back our family, as well as Briel's. ”

(End of chapter)