Polu looked at the several tractors on the shore in frustration. They were pulling thick hemp ropes and dragging the ship hull back from the shore.
Lia felt strange when she heard Polu whisper: "Huh? I thought it was successful. Why did it fail? Didn't it sink?"
“What is success if it doesn’t sink?”
Various enthusiastic cheers and strange screams broke out from the surrounding onlookers:
"It didn't sink! It didn't sink! You lose! Remember to give me the sausages!"
"Ah! My sausage!"
"Ah! My broth!" Such screams kept coming.
"?It sounds like someone bet your boat, someone lost the broth, someone lost the sausage, someone lost everything."
Edith, who is rarely seen in a lively manner, emerged from her hut on the mountain today. Since the elf siege alarm was lifted, she has returned to the elf's usual cold temperament. She lives on the mountain and is basically indifferent to everything around her.
Rarely go down the mountain.
The seeds of several plants that Bolu gave her are being carefully taken care of by her. However, there is still no news at all. What kind of exquisite planting method is the elf planting? Are the buds not sprouting after such a long time? No way
Got it...
As for what kind of armor and what kind of weapons, they have long been forgotten.
Since Party A's father didn't come to push for progress, Polu, who was so busy, was naturally happy to give it a rest.
"Isn't it incapable of rowing? It can't move as fast as anyone." Polu pointed out the areas where the boat he thought did not achieve the expected results.
"It's considered a success if it doesn't sink. We'll have to find a way to adjust the speed." Leah didn't think there was anything wrong with going slower.
Polu thought silently in his mind: "That's because you haven't heard of the legendary speed of 50,000 tons in the Western Pacific that can reach 35 knots."
"It's okay. If you don't roll over and enter the water, it will count as normal. If you go slower, I can change it. Let's go back and have a meal, and continue to have fun in the evening." Polu cheered up a little.
Polu was familiar with the structures of battleships and armored heavy cruisers, but how to build an armed fishing boat that was only 10 meters long was a completely new problem.
Except that the center of gravity should be placed at the center of the hull, I don't know how to arrange the other places.
Is this a ball set up?
In order to avoid major changes after completion, this hull has been modified. The deck laid on the steel hull is a wooden trap, which can be moved away.
As for the shell, wooden hull fishing boats require hot bending technology and caulking technology, which requires skilled shipwrights.
After thinking about the possibility of finding a shipwright, Polu thought for a moment that it might be better to make good use of the existing cutting machines and welding skills to make a steel-hulled fishing boat, which is barely enough.
Today's boats do not have a superstructure. If the wooden boards are removed, the cylinder and crankshaft are directly exposed, and the entire structure is within easy reach. If you want to change anything, you can do it in time.
"How about going directly to the propeller? But what is the angle of the propeller? I heard that it is very difficult to achieve high efficiency, but I don't understand it? How to seal the large shaft? Don't park yourself in the port.
It would be embarrassing if it sinks."
Polu sat in the studio with a sad face, and after thinking hard for a long time:
"Isn't it inappropriate for me to spend so much time on this? It's better to find a helper among the apprentices, start training from now on, and specialize in manufacturing in the future."
After discussing his ideas with Caroline, he clicked on a name: "That's him."
Polechte is a rare name. Like Alfonso and Trica, he is a long-term employee of Polu. Although he is a small transparent in the usual production of crystal plates, he is not the one with the highest output, nor is he a high-quality product.
The most. But what made Bolu notice about him is that his scrap rate is the lowest among all employees, and he almost never fails.
"Very cautious and stable character, I need such a person to help me realize my dark Renaissance fantasy!"
"Then it's decided, let him clean up and come to the studio to see me tonight." Polu explained to Caroline.
For Poleicht, painful but happy days began.
Although he respected Polu very much after receiving the notice, when he thought about those terrible rumors about the nobles, Polet's heart was filled with anxiety.
"Is it possible? No? I've never heard of it. Your Excellency has never even been in contact with those girls. It's impossible, right?" He comforted himself.
"But what if he just likes the tone?"
Careful thinking caused new ideas to pop up in his mind, which were denied by himself, making him look full of anxiety, like a middle-aged man who had lost his job and was wandering downstairs.
When he was uneasy and lingered at the door for a long time, he finally knocked on the studio door at night with a heroic expression. Polu was very satisfied with his expression: "Not bad, it looks like you have done it."
Mentally prepare.”
"Your blessing has come!"
"It's over!" Poleicht closed his eyes in pain.
"!" A large pile of rough, heavy paper was thrown in front of him.
"?!This, this is?"
"Memorize these specific mechanical structures! You will take the exam in a week. If you pass, you will work here from now on!"
Poleicht breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly picked up the paper in his hand. Various precision structures were drawn on these papers. Before he even had time to think, he was already attracted by the complex bites, ingenious connecting rods, and precise mechanisms.
I stayed there and looked at it all night.
After Polu found the scheduled assistant, he started busy with his own work on how to mechanize machining.
Nowadays, the factory still has a certain production capacity in small free forging, cutting and casting. After all, in addition to cutting, this is also the blacksmith's old profession. However, the processing ability of complex workpieces is surprisingly poor, and it all depends on the guidance of a few old masters.
I asked several apprentices to use hand tools to polish it.
Although the old masters now have steam grinding wheels and calipers, they are even more powerful now, but there are not many old masters, and Polu is afraid that the blessing will be too heavy and they will not be able to make up for it.
Translated, it means that the old masters are not enough and the new workers are too weak. We have to find a way to raise their lower limit, such as letting them play unreasonable things like Tekken.
Since you can't become an alchemist per person, you can always try to get started as a fitter per person?
At least turning, drilling, planing and milling are necessary.
"When these things are on track, the existing machinery can be maintained by themselves, and I don't need to worry about it every day. I can go do something else." Polu thought about it while thinking about the next plan in his mind.
.
"Should we arm our hometown first and turn it into a fortress, or should we build a mobile corps first? Or should we build another melting pot?"
He took out a large roll of paper from behind, unfolded it, peeled off one of the sheets, and drew a sketch on it with charcoal.
With the help of Polu, the papermaking craftsmen hired by little Irene have been able to successfully use plant fibers to make paper. Although it is not smooth enough and the color is not uniform enough, it looks like rough paper money, with protruding fibers and scratches.
I don't even want to use it. But after all, it is paper and is tough enough. It can still be used for drafting. At least it is much easier to use than a wooden board.
Under the bright light, the sketches were finalized one by one and gradually stacked up.
He took Paulechter around the factory every day, taught him any questions on the spot, and then returned to the studio to continue working on drawings. Life became very three-point-one-line. Soon, Paulechter succeeded.
After passing the exam, he became the third paid apprentice after Alfonso and Trica.
This kind of life continued until one day little Irene pushed open the door of Polu's laboratory: "Polu! Stop! Don't run! There is an order!"
"Another order? Didn't we not start the last one...and finish it? What is it this time?"
"The management department of the royal capital came to ask us to customize a batch of tableware."
"?"
"The management department of the royal capital? Just order some tableware? Is this worthy of their dispatch?"
Is it worth it?
"Yes, tableware. Because they couldn't buy anything, many citizens made trouble in front of the store. The more times this happened, the gentlemen became anxious and asked us to ensure the supply!"
"No, Hongshan can also make tableware? I thought they only made weapons here?" Polu was very surprised when he heard about this for the first time.
"One-third of the small workshops in Old Hongshan Town are for making tableware, okay! Let me tell you that you never care about the money-making business here! Ever since Hongshan was attacked, the tableware in Wangdu has been out of stock.
Do you know, pot, bowl, ladle, basin, knife, fork, hatchet, ax
, buckets, everything is sold out! Recently we have been selling weapons to Nazwa, but you have never arranged to resume production of these things. The weapons shop in the royal capital can't even buy steel ingots. They are dissatisfied.
I should have saved up to a certain level."
"I didn't say I wouldn't sell the steel ingots? Wait, the weapons shop? Is that our competitor?"
"What kind of competition does a weapons shop that customizes several weapons for big nobles a year have with us? They came here before and tried to buy steel ingots. When they saw the kind of steel ingots you have now, they turned around and left. They said they couldn't afford to offend them.
If you just cut a big piece like this and cut it into charcoal, you will lose money and lose your luck. What they want are small steel ingots!" Little Irene seemed a little anxious.
"Forget it if they don't buy it, why are you so nervous?"
"Nonsense, their custom customers are all big nobles, aren't you afraid of them secretly causing trouble for you?"
"That's true. So, it would be better for us to open up the supply? So are these daily necessities profitable?"
"Profits are not high, but volume is the key to success."
I didn’t expect that light manufacturing must be taken care of here! Bolu touched his chin: “Sure, do you know who is in charge of this area?”
"No one cares about it. They are all family workshops. They make things for ordinary citizens. As long as they can be used, it doesn't matter."
"That's easy to handle. At least I don't have to remove all the original workers from the production line."
He suddenly came closer, stared into her eyes and said: "Little Eileen, I suddenly have a bold idea! Stop! It's profitable!"
Sure enough, when she heard that it was an idea to make money, little Eileen suddenly became serious: "What is it?"