On the last Sunday in March, many citizens of Weissenburg rushed to the manor outside the city early in the morning.
Everyone saw from yesterday's newspaper that the master had built a new machine and was currently plowing the fields in the manor, so they went to watch the fun.
Among the crowd, Metzger, who was wearing a gray military uniform, stood out. What stood out even more was the stroller he was pushing.
This stroller is made of wood, surrounded by railings. There is a padded horizontal board as a stool, a liftable board on top as a table top, and sticks inserted in the four corners to support a small stroller.
A small awning, the wheels underneath are wrapped with a ring of elastic slime rubber for shock absorption, and the front wheels can rotate 360°.
From time to time, people came over and asked where they bought the car. Metzger replied proudly that it was a gift from the commander.
Just after winter, Richard Nall sent someone to deliver the news that Katie had a younger brother and younger sister.
Katie decided to go home after a while, but Frederick couldn't leave, so she prepared some gifts, including a stroller.
Frederick wanted to see what the swordsman looked like when he was pushing a stroller.
With new products, there will naturally be new industries, so he asked the castle's carpenter workshop to make a batch for people to try. Anyway, the carpenters there usually don't have much work. If the market response is good, then let them do this.
Metzger and his wife Rhea kept talking and pushed their son, who was not one year old, to the manor.
A lot of people gathered next to a farmland and kept talking about the machine in the field.
This steam tractor is almost as tall as a person, excluding the cab ceiling, and is about 3 meters long. It has a steam engine in the front and a cab in the back. The water tank is under the cab and has four iron wheels.
The two power wheels at the back are 1 meter in diameter and are made of 30 cm wide steel plate coils welded with "eight"-shaped anti-slip strips welded on the outside and several spokes in the middle.
The two front guide wheels are half a meter in diameter and 20 centimeters wide. There is a raised guide bar welded in the middle of the outside of the wheels to facilitate steering.
The front wheel is connected to the water cylinder through a strong shock-absorbing bogie. When the cab turns the steering wheel, the steering wheel drives a winch to rotate through the connecting rod and gear, and then the chain on the winch pulls the axle of the front wheel to rotate.
This kind of wheel is very simple and can only be walked on dirt. If it is walked on a stone road, it will be seriously worn.
The piston of the steam engine is in front of the top of the boiler and drives the crankshaft to rotate through two connecting rods. The flywheel is on the left, and the gear and clutch that drives the rear wheel are on the right.
There is a plow hanging on the back of the tractor, which can move almost as fast as an ox or a horse, but the dirt it turns out is very deep, which makes the knowledgeable people next to it marvel.
Metzger didn't know anything about farming, he only knew how to raise and kill pigs. He couldn't help but said to his wife: "If you put a car on the back, you can pull several pigs at a time."
Leia said expectantly: "Then you have to save more money. If you become a knight, you will have money to rent a manor, and then you can raise a lot of pigs."
She was extremely worried when Metzger said he wanted to join the army the year before last. Now that her husband has made great achievements, she feels that it is not impossible for her to become a knight's wife.
At this time, someone next to me said: "Then Metzger must study hard."
Upon hearing this voice, Metzger immediately turned around and stood at attention, saluting: "Hello, Commander!"
After Frederick returned the favor, he went over and pinched his son's face, making the couple laugh from ear to ear, so they could brag about it later.
The child in the stroller laughed loudly, and Metzger asked tentatively: "Commander, he seems to like you very much, why don't you give him a hug?"
Frederick just smiled. He helped his colleague hold his daughter, but ended up being peed all over him, which caused him psychological distress.
He asked Metzger: "I'm going to leave in a few days. Is your family settled?"
Metzger immediately replied: "Everything has been arranged. Rhea and the child have been living at her parents' home, no problem."
Frederick nodded, and then began to draw fragrant scallion pancakes: "I'm going to the north this time to work hard. Your name is registered with the Ministry of Military Affairs. The army will be expanded next year. When you come back, you can be a squad leader."
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"When the military academy is built, it depends on you whether you can become an officer and whether you can be knighted by others."
"When you become a knight, you can rent land for 99 or 499 years so that you can leave a share of your property to your children."
His words did not evade the people around him. A group of people watching the tractor looked at Metzger with envy.
Metzger was already so excited that he was so excited by the scallion pancake. If he was given a butcher's knife now and asked to kill the king, it would be no problem.
After chatting with him for a while, Frederick went to the field and easily found the Minister of Agriculture, Matthias.
The sun was a bit strong today, so Mathias planted a few vines on the edge of the field, and the vines grew into a sunshade.
Frederick went over and stared at him deliberately and said: "Planting here will suck up the nutrients in the field!"
Matthias smiled and replied: "I let the roots grow under the side road without affecting the fields."
Frederick was speechless and gave him a thumbs up.
Mathias said without waiting for him to ask: "This machine is good. It can plow so deep. The Elizabeth potatoes planted in this land will definitely yield more harvest this year. It's just that there are fewer plows. It would be nice to have a few more."
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Frederick replied: "Don't rush, take your time, this one alone is enough, and there are many problems that need to be solved to enlarge it."
Mathias didn't know much about mechanics, so he changed the question and said, "It would be better if I could go faster."
"There's no rush." Frederick said as before, "Take your time."
"By the way." He remembered something, "How is the sweet radish situation this year?"
The sugar content of the beetroot that Mathias fortified last year was close to 10%, which can be used to extract a little sugar. Now it is all used to make happy water.
Matthias replied: "It will definitely be better. Many new villages will start using the six-year rotation method this year, and the yield will be much higher."
Frederick nodded. The newly occupied land relied on various high-yielding crops to stabilize people's hearts, so he said: "The cultivation of seeds needs to be strengthened, and the agricultural college must also be strengthened."
Mathias said that the current seed strengthening work has encountered a problem: "There is not enough farmland, and the land in this manor is indeed limited."
Frederick smiled slightly and said: "That's easy to do. If you like the land around you, just tell me directly."
Landowners are tough when it comes to what they say. The land belongs to them and they can use it however they want.
Matthias had also been a landowner, but the manor on the Constantinople side was gone. This year, when he was rewarded for his merits after the Sixth Day of Defense War, he also got a village, and he said: "Take the neighboring villages to the east."
If a whole village is spent on breeding, it’s my selfishness to count my village as well.”
Frederick nodded and asked Matthias to arrange for the seed-selling chamber of commerce to go through the process. From now on, the tenant farmers in those villages will become employees of the chamber of commerce that guarantees harvests during droughts and floods.
Then he wanted to take a look at the tractor. At this time, someone came to report that there was a foreigner who wanted to receive a bounty. Ogilvy had already made a preliminary assessment and it seemed that there was no problem.
"A reward?" Frederick didn't react for a moment, "We don't have any wanted criminals who are causing such a big fight, right?"
The visitor replied: "Professor Omet said that is a machine for sewing clothes."
Frederick's eyes lit up and he rushed over immediately.