Chapter 42 On the Right Track(1/2)
Cement is the best adhesive, with easy material acquisition and simple production, except for one process requirement.
The calcination temperature is required to reach 1500 degrees, which can melt the iron into molten iron.
It was also a temperature that William could not reach even if he racked his brains.
He didn't have a flame witch to help him raise the temperature.
William can only settle for the second best!
In William's previous life, ancient Rome made the original cement from volcanic ash, and the adhesion was also good.
However, there are no volcanoes in Dikasling, at least William has not yet discovered any.
Then this method will end in vain.
In ancient China, the adhesive was made of three-corrosive soil and glutinous rice juice. The adhesive made in this way had amazing effect and was not inferior to modern cement.
William does not have glutinous rice juice. Not to mention that he has never seen it in this world, but even if there is really something like glutinous rice, William probably can't afford it.
He is now a small nobleman with only more than 800 gold coins of Pisce.
However, Sanhedi soil inspired William. Modern cement cannot be made, but lime mortar is not a big problem.
Lime mortar is made of stirring lime paste and sand, and mainly relies on the hardness of lime to obtain strength.
Lime paste is ripe lime, which is calcined from limestone at high temperature to quickly lime, and quick lime plus excessive water will turn into ripe lime.
Although calcined limestone requires high temperatures, the temperature does not require calcined cement. The sealed kiln made of bricks is enough to meet this demand.
However, the bricks are still being fired, and the lime brick kiln is still waiting for a while.
However, the crushing of limestone can be carried out first, and the crushed limestone will be more fully calcined. William sent dozens of villagers to do this job.
Of course, this is all for money.
Of course, each job requires a person in charge.
Old John was very tired to manage porters and brick makers alone, even with Eddie's help.
Charles was busy making spears with Motton and had no time.
So the person in charge of the gravel worker was handed over to the old Gret, who had recently defected to him.
Old Gret was rejuvenated like an old tree blooming, and he worked very actively.
As for William, after straightening these things, he devoted all his energy to training.
He summoned the remaining six guards and directly passed the Knights of Decas to them.
This is a reward for their loyalty.
Then the reward is not so easy to absorb.
It is even more difficult to practice with the swordsman's breathing technique.
They were trapped in the more cruel devil training again.
Even with the indirect guidance of the Magic Mirror, it took a week for all the guards to carve this set of knight training methods into their own bones, becoming an instinct.
This is based on the almost unstoppable practice of the six guards.
The complete knight exercise effect is gratifying.
After seven days, Jacques Porter's physical fitness has improved significantly, his physical fitness has increased by 0.1 and 1.5, and has reached the minimum standard for implanting seeds of life energy.
William was not stingy, and he divided part of the life energy hovering in his heart on the spot, turned into the form of a life energy seed, and penetrated into Jacques Porter's body.
It will warm Jacques Porter's body little by little.
At the same time, it will make Jacques Porter familiar with this power step by step, stimulate his own potential, and wait for one day to completely stimulate his own life energy and become a real knight.
After receiving the seeds of William implanted his life energy, Jacques Porter knelt down to William on the spot, sworn allegiance, and his eyes were filled with hot emotions.
Jacques Porter knew what William gave him!
It is the key to class leap!
William accepted Jacques Porter's allegiance with peace of mind and sincere allegiance!
The physical fitness of the other five guards has also improved to a certain extent, but they cannot compare with Jacques Porter, who is born with divine power, so they can only look at Jacques Porter who has become a preparatory knight with envy, and at the same time they are ruthless and devote themselves to training even harder.
A six-man guard cannot meet the needs of the upcoming war.
William needs more warriors, and the village of Nisse needs more strength.
So, a new recruitment notice was posted.
This time, William relaxed the recruitment conditions, and both age and physical fitness were relaxed.
In a few days, another thirty people were recruited in the village.
These thirty people are divided into six teams, each with five people, and the six guards are the team leader. Each person is equipped with a spear, and six guards are responsible for training. William is only responsible for the overall assessment.
Each new team member was taught the knight's sword technique and used the spear as a sword for training.
But this time they were not so lucky to be instructed by William and Magic Mirror, and they were only taught by their own team leader.
Some squad leader teaches well, while others teaches normally.
Some new players learn well, while others learn to learn.
After a while, William was surprised to find that the players taught by Jacques Porter, the most powerful team leader, were the weakest. Mark, who was originally the worst physical fitness, taught better than other team members!
This made Jacques Porter very dissatisfied, and he increased the intensity of training, making the new team members under him cry and cry for their parents.
After seeing the other five team leaders, they naturally would not be indifferent. Each team leader wanted to make some achievements for William to show them. Needless to say, they tacitly increased the training intensity for their team members, so all the new team members lived in a miserable life.
No matter what, the thirty-six guard team members wearing uniforms, the sound of their training every day was deafening, which still improved the sense of security in the villagers of Nisse village.
Time passed by bit by bit. After more than ten days, the first batch of bricks were released, and about 70% of the bricks could be used.
With this batch of bricks, William could build a soil kiln with relatively high heat resistance and sealing properties and start firing quicklime.
Of course, the firing of bricks cannot be stopped.
With quicklime, water is added to lime paste and mixed with sand to make lime mortar.
The lime mortar and bricks, and the fence project of Nisse Village can be officially started.
However, imagination is beautiful, and life is cruel.
The production of lime kilns is not complicated, just pay attention to the sealing!
Just as William rolled up his sleeves and was about to do a big fight, Old John told him that work would have to be stopped whether it was a brick kiln or a lime kiln.
William asked him why?
Because there is no firewood! Old John replied helplessly.
The wheat straw in the fields has been burned, and the cutting speed of trees is too slow to keep up with the burning speed of the earth kiln.
William had to take time to solve this energy problem.
Coal or oil is a perfect solution, but no villagers have found coal, let alone oil.
William didn't dare to let the Magic Mirror scan, for fear that the Magic Mirror would accidentally consume excessive energy and fall asleep, and he had no place to cry!
Then the goal is still to fall on the trees in the forest.
It just needs to improve the cutting speed of trees.
There are only three axes in the entire village, which is why the cutting speed has not increased.
This is different from transporting soil. Without baskets, you can use other things instead. There is still a way to transport soil. However, without axes, you can't let the villagers cut down trees with their hands.
After all, not everyone is the little Goku in Dragon Ball, and he can chop firewood with his hands!
We need to add tools to chop wood! William came to this conclusion in his mind.
Will you buy it in Patras City? William thought to himself and shook his head.
Although you can buy axes in Patras City, the efficiency of cutting trees with axes is not high, and as a weapon, it is expensive.
William needed a more efficient tree cutting tool.
He thought of the saw at once.
A chainsaw cannot be made, but a wooden saw can be tried.
William found blacksmith Eddie and told him about the structure of the saw.
Appidi thought for a moment and said that he could make this saw, but he needed an iron stove.
Iron furnace is simple.
The bricks are ready-made. Although there is no lime mortar yet, the things made of the river mud in the Kadim River and the wood ash also have good adhesion.
So in two days, a simple and ugly iron furnace was made, stuffed with firewood. After igniting it, Eddie put the iron rod William had first obtained from the killer of the Scarlet Hand and calcined it.
When the burn was almost done, he waved the hammer he brought from Sail City and started to forge.
The iron rod was made into thin slices, and sharp saw teeth were made with files on both sides. After cooling, the thin slices were fitted with wooden handles at one end, and a brand new wooden saw was released.
The efficiency of sawing trees is much higher than that of an axe. It used to take half a day to cut a tree, but now it takes a candle to burn.
To be continued...