"I've seen you, sir!" When Nalant arrived at John's blacksmith's house, Peter, the stonemason, and the carpenter were already waiting.
"Well, get up!" Nalant waved his hands to several people, his eyes falling on the newly built stove.
This stove was no different from what he remembered.
However, most of the previous lives were brick kilns, but this one was built with loess and stone.
The entire stove is rectangular, more than one meter wide and about two meters long.
As for the internal structure, except that the fire chamber is straight, the rest is similar to the firewood stoves in rural areas in previous lives.
After all, a large pot needs to be placed above the wood-burning stove, so the mouth is small and the belly is big, but this wrought iron stove does not need it.
The uppermost layer of the stove is used to burn charcoal, and the lower layer is used to store charcoal ash. There is also an air supply port for a bellows reserved at the inner end of the stove.
After reading the stove, Narant looked towards the waterwheel again.
At this time, the small waterwheel has been installed, but the water flow is blocked by a large wooden board above it, so the small waterwheel is still in a stationary state at this time.
"John, please light the stove!" Nalant ordered to John standing aside.
"Yes, Lord Lord!"
As a senior blacksmith, to be honest, this was the first time John had seen such a strange stove.
In the past, stoves were round and round, like a wooden barrel with a small opening.
However, although he has never tried a stove like this, John is still looking forward to it.
Because from the shape of the stove, he knew one thing very well, that is, when calcining long iron objects, this stove must have more advantages.
For example, when calcining long swords, cylindrical furnaces were used in the past, and the long swords were inserted directly into the furnace. However, the heat problem alone could not be observed with the naked eye, and it had to be pulled out from time to time to check.
Another issue is the issue of uniform heating. When a long sword is inserted into a stove, the tip of the sword below is buried deeper and must be hotter than the end of the blade.
If it is not handled well at that time, it is easy for the long sword to be scrapped directly, or it will be a defective product and easy to break in battle.
But with this rectangular stove, as long as the long sword is placed flat on the charcoal fire, not only the temperature can be seen at a glance, but the temperature of the sword tip and blade can also be heated evenly.
Thinking like this, John immediately started to light the fire skillfully.
As the charcoal fire was ignited, Nalant ordered: "Let out the water!"
"Yes, sir!" Peter Leather Boots immediately trotted to the stream and picked up the wooden board that separated the water flow.
Wow!
Creak! Creak!
As the water washed away, the small waterwheel slowly began to rotate.
After the small waterwheel rotates, the horizontal axis in the center drives a 'concave' horizontal axis in front to start rotating.
As this 'concave' wooden shaft rotates, the bellows rod fixed above also begins to be pulled up and down and back and forth.
Snort!
Snort!
Although the bellows was full of holes, there were still large gusts of wind being sent to the furnace.
"How's it going, John!" Nalant asked as he looked at the charcoal that was quickly starting to burn in the stove and the light red flame that was more than ten centimeters high.
"Lord, please wait a moment, I will give it a try now!"
Blacksmith John immediately took out an iron bar forty to fifty centimeters long and put it on the stove.
As the flames in the furnace scorched, only more than ten seconds had passed, and the iron bars became visibly red to the naked eye.
"It's so fast! Lord, this stove is so effective! Not only does it heat up quickly, but it also heats the iron embryo evenly!" John showed an extremely excited look on his face.
To the blacksmith, this furnace was like a warrior getting a sharp blade, and he couldn't help but be excited.
More importantly, this furnace did not require an apprentice to pull the bellows, which won the heart of blacksmith John.
"My lord is mighty!" The carpenters and masons on the side were also dumbfounded.
Of course, what they were looking at was a small waterwheel, which used a small waterwheel to automatically push and pull the bellows. This was something they had never heard of before.
There was suddenly a hint of understanding in everyone's minds, as if a new door had been opened.
"Very good!" Nalant nodded and smiled at everyone, and then continued: "Since it is possible, John, you will speed up the progress next. By the way, when you are free, you can replace the wooden shaft that pulls the bellows with Iron shaft, this should last longer!”
"Yes, Lord! Lord, you are the wisest nobleman John has ever seen!" John's true temperament showed at this time, and he praised Nalant sincerely.
"Yeah!" Nalant nodded, then looked at the carpenter and stonemason, "As for you, in a few days I will build a mill, and I will also use this waterwheel to replace human and animal power. By then, the size of the waterwheel will be this More than ten times, you should go back and get ready in the next few days!"
"When the mill is completed correctly, everyone will be rewarded with ten silver coins!"
"Thank you Lord for your generosity!" The mason and carpenter smiled happily when they heard this.
"Ding! The system side task of improving the work efficiency of the blacksmith shop has been completed, and the system rewards have been distributed!"
At the same time, a system voice came from Nalant’s mind.
"Hehe, I got a little cutie!" Nalant was delighted, "But it seems like you haven't sent me my third lucky girl yet, right?"
Narant complained to the system, and then happily walked out of John's house.
When he came to the square of Maiye Village and wanted to see the progress of the stone house construction, a guard ran towards the village entrance.
"Sir, there are several convoys on the road in the direction of Tulip, with at least hundreds of people!"
"Oh? Is it the caravan sent by my father?" Nalant's eyes lit up. Basically, there would be no enemies coming from the direction of Tulip City.
"Come on, let's go take a look!"
However, in order to make sure nothing went wrong, Nalant still rode on Lightning and took the guards to check.
When Narant and others arrived outside the castle, the guard reported that the convoy was less than a mile away from them.
Narant immediately stepped forward quickly.
"Master Narant!" When they were more than a hundred meters away from the convoy in front, a call suddenly came from the convoy.
Nalant looked closely and saw that he was a man in his sixties. Although he was on the road, his silk dress and hair were meticulously taken care of.
"Old Butler Ute!" The next moment, Nalant searched for information about this old man from his memory. This was the castle steward under his father.
"Ute has met Master Narant!" Soon, Ute came to Narant and bowed respectfully to Narant.
"Steward Ute, no need to be polite!" Nalant got off his horse and helped Ute up.
This Ute has been the steward of Andrew Castle for thirty years. Although he is a servant, to the three Nalant brothers and sisters, they are no different from their elders.
"I didn't expect that my father would send you, Butler Ute, here this time!" Nalant was also a little excited.
Of course, this is because the memory of the original owner in the subconscious plays a certain factor.
Far away from the family, a person can see people close to him in the Storm Territory. This excitement is unimaginable in the previous life of the 21st century.
In an era with backward transportation and communication, sometimes a farewell is likely to be an eternal farewell. Although the aristocracy is better, it is not the same.
