Rise of Rurik

Lathe, it is the "industrial master machine". Even if it is very simple, it can greatly improve the work efficiency of craftsmen.

Rurik recognizes the historical trend of Europe. On that plane, several severe rat plagues have led to the loss of a large number of European populations. Tens of millions of people have died. Those who survived still have to survive. As a large number of middle-aged workers died of illness, the remaining people have the capital to negotiate prices with their employers.

In this way, the Europeans began to greatly strengthen the mechanical knowledge they learned from the technology of building towering defensive castles, and they turned knowledge into new mechanical tools to enhance their production efficiency. It was supposed to be a mill of animal-powered manpower, and the power has become a watermill and a windmill.

Especially the steel and iron industries in Germany and Milan, because of the existence of hydraulic forging, their efficiency has been greatly improved, and they have become the material basis for a large number of plate knights' war situations.

It can be said that the Rus tribe under Rurik faced a very similar situation.

As a leader who is expected to make a difference, Rurik must find a way to improve the strength of the tribe. The population of the tribe is indeed growing. A large number of foreign women who have been married and taken abducted almost all have the identity of "Ros mother", and a large number of babies are being born at an unprecedented speed.

A large number of children are about to be born, which means that the demand for daily necessities of the entire tribe will increase dramatically in the coming year!

The way to avoid the shortage of supplies, Rurik thinks of is to trade economic commodities for life-saving materials such as grain and flax in the south through a trade surplus that is beneficial to the Rus people. Another method is to hope to provide excellent production tools to the settlements of the tribes, especially to the agricultural-based Shilla Fort and Novgorod better iron tools, so that they can seize more food. To fill the potential food shortage in the home city of Roseburg.

After all, the long-term way to avoid these crises is to increase productivity!

The huge wheel of the waterwheel that keeps spinning is like a wheel of history, leaving the wild and backward far behind!

Now, the first industrial mother machine has entered the stage of manufacturing core components.

As long as the waterwheel can drive a wooden shaft to rotate, Rurik believes that he will soon be able to build an industrial master machine, which is a wooden lathe driven by the waterwheel.

The wooden lathe drives a piece of wood to rotate, even if it shakes a little at first, in the end, Lurik will use the "turning tool" in his hand to process it into an unprecedented standard cylinder. This cylinder is not only the first industry manufactured by a lathe It can also replace the previous materials, so that the hydraulic woodworking lathe has a more stable rotation.

These thoughts were held back by Rick for the time being. He supervised the mercenaries and installed two stika (196cm) wooden spokes and plank nails with a diameter up to the standard on the wooden shaft. The "wheels" were nailed with small temporary nails. ". There is also a half-stika paddle on the "wheel", so that the core part of the waterwheel becomes a giant with a diameter of three stikas.

The installation took a lot of labor during this huge period of time, and there is no woodcut for the capping, so it is not too troublesome to carry it.

So, does the waterwheel have a bearing system? It actually does.

In fact, Kawei took out his hammer, and at the beginning, he hammered the wooden shaft with a circle of wrought iron that was easy to shape.

The ball bearing system is good, but it can't be done. The roller bearing is also good, but it can't be done.

Rurik had no choice. Based on the principle of being forced to make do with it, he used the so-called "sliding bearing" of wrought iron with huge tolerances. Compared with the wear of wood, wrought iron is more wear-resistant. . In order to weaken its friction, Lurik had to pour grease into the hard-contact bearings.

The wooden axle of the waterwheel is temporarily locked tightly, and it is placed on a wooden platform on the wooden floor. Three additional iron rings were hit on the bearing, and each iron ring also had a large-ground bulge, which is a kind of "pull".

The lever that rotates with the wooden shaft can continuously move the wooden stick of the hammer, just like the principle of a seesaw. The heavy hammer is raised to a height and suddenly drops to complete a forging.

Things are developing as Rurik hoped.

On the sixth day, the waterwheel by the waterway was installed with a simple wind-shielding wooden shed. Now, Rurik can finally say that his plan has been realized!

The waterwheel is great! Then look at its strength!

Fortunately, the sky was beautiful during this period. For some time, there was only a very weak drizzle in this area, and the weather quickly cleared after the rain. The weather did not interfere with all the actions of the Ross people, making the manufacture of the waterwheel very smooth.

Rurik was glad that he had not encountered any troubles, and now the pine bearing of the waterwheel he longed for was creaking and spinning.

Not to mention, she doesn't seem to be spinning slowly, but she has amazing power!

The three raised levers on the wooden shaft correspond to the three blacksmith's tables in the woodcut Lengli. These blacksmith tables are all made using chromium iron hammers and chromium iron platforms, which are obtained by smelting and forging local ore.

Throughout the construction of the waterwheel, a large number of people from the settlements came to watch. They didn't know what it was for a while. After all, when the onlookers saw it with their own eyes, the strange hammer had actually started an automated forging, and they suddenly felt this. It was a kind of supernatural power that caused a large number of people to suspend their work.

Kawei and Rurik are standing inside the waterwheel full of rosin, and the three blacksmith stands have been fully activated!

Because the most time-consuming work is to forge the sponge iron into iron sheets, and the state of the sponge iron of the chromium iron is more rigid, the blacksmith must work harder.

The powerful force of the waterwheel drives the tireless forging of three hammers. Because the hammers are all fixed with pins, the pins can be pulled out and the hammers can be removed at once, so that Kawei can accurately control the number of blacksmith's tables.

"Hey! It's great. As long as I clamp the tongs, it will keep forging me. Rurik, you are a god."

Kawei’s praise has made Rurik’s ears callous, "Forget it, I am indeed a god, and you can’t praise me anymore. Just forging the sponge iron doesn’t require you to come forward and hand it over to the mercenaries. Or those boys."

"They? They are only eight and nine years old."

"Don't worry, just forge this, they can. My Kamnier, absolutely! The other mercenaries should devote more important work."

Kawei also wanted to continue playing in the hydraulic forging. When he thought that his and Rurik's purpose was to make more tools, the final plastic hammering was his main task.

Finally on the seventh day, Dacheng's waterwheel forging workshop had been built, and Kamnier and his ten small blacksmith colleagues took on the most basic work of forging sponge iron into iron nails. The transmission of the waterwheel does not stop unless it is entering the dry season or the inlet of the small river is artificially closed during the winter. It keeps turning, and workers can keep forging.

Everyone is human, even in this era, many people are aware of the "infinite beating" power of the waterwheel. Some people think of pounding wheat for flour, and others are thinking of pounding bones to make bone meal, or even buy it. The flax rod was pounded and fluffy.

For the time being, this waterwheel is dedicated to metal forging.

As for Kawei, his work became the appearance of further plasticizing iron ingots into tools, and the chromium axe that people most needed finally began to be produced in an astonishing mass production relative to the past.

Only on the eighth day, the whole day after the waterwheel was put into use, Kawei was shocked to build as many as fifty chrome-iron axes that could be used directly by inserting wooden sticks. It was only subjected to quenching heat treatment. , Has not been carburized at all. However, just as a logging tool, it is completely qualified!

As for the mercenaries, Rurik arranged for them to smelt sponge iron and then take the sponge iron out of the hot stove.

The Kewen people were not idle either, and the talents who knew how to burn charcoal were immediately organized. They opened charcoal workshops in the settlements. As the mass production of charcoal blocks began, the fuel shortage problem of large stoves and multiple small stoves gradually became Get long-term relief.

Time, quietly entered into June, and the castle of Elon Orava finally became like Rurik's hope.

She is a city that exists by smelting steel, and its positioning is exactly the same as that of Kemi, a Finnish city built here on another plane, and its economic status to a country is exactly the same.

Some Kewen men were also ordered by Kawei to participate in the final forging. The Kewen people began to build the axes and spearheads they needed according to their own preferences. Compared with the beginning, the skills of these people have gradually improved. At least in Mezzasta's eyes, his tribe suddenly has more than ten blacksmiths!

Mezzasta saw that the Russ were still building more hydraulic forging workshops. One month later, the shortage of production tools has miraculously disappeared, and there is even an increasing surplus.

As the "city lord" of the settlement that was granted the power, Mezzasta unexpectedly faced a difficult problem-the owner Rurik's improved iron production efficiency, while the efficiency of transporting and mining ore by himself lags behind!

By the beginning of June, Rurik had as many as three hundred chromium axes that were only quenched. Even if they were not processed by the "performance carburizing process", they were still very strong.

Lurik finally began to use it as a reward for the fishermen who transported their catch. He set the price of the axe to ten silver coins. It can be said that the price is not high, but its super cost-effectiveness makes fishermen rush to it.

This is great! A warmer period has arrived, and fishermen’s catches have begun to increase significantly. In order to obtain cost-effective ironware, the Russian fishermen succumbed to their interests and began to transport supplies to the northern settlements on a large scale.

Thanks to the cooperation of the fishermen, Lurik basically solved the problem of "not enough food".

The situation has become very delicate. Because there are too many fishermen transporting the catch and people's appetite is limited, what can Rurik do? They were here in exchange for high-quality ferrochrome tools, and Liurik immediately raised the price to twenty silver coins for an axe. The fishermen took out their catches, or silver coins, and completed the purchase.

So in June, Aaron Orava Fort finally ceased to be a big mouth for swallowing gold, and she finally began to produce tangible economic benefits!

Throughout May, a huge amount of wealth invested in the construction of new settlements, the initial "heavy industry" built by the Russ, and it finally began to show its strong vitality in June!

Rurik himself is the owner of this mine! The steel squirrel tribe of the Corvins is the guardians of the mines at Rurik.

Their entire tribe has completed the most complete transformation. Their economic activities have completely changed from a single hunting of squirrels to an economic model supplemented by hunting, fishing and logging in the iron and steel industry. It is precisely the steel industry that makes these gentle wealth also increase in value.

Rurik acquiesced to them to accumulate their wealth, and Rurik himself hunted more out of it.

Ferrochromium and chromium steel tools are being produced at a rate of nearly one hundred a day, and the entire settlement has become an ancient steel factory. Looking at Europe in this time and space, except for the area controlled by Eastern Rome, the current daily production capacity of Rurik's "steel plant" can be called the first.

Ah, in the bad times, it is a great achievement to produce 100 hand axes with the size of the axe and the size of the fist.

The Corvins who made a great contribution have received a weak dividend, and it is this dividend that has saved them from worrying about hunger and cold. The men and women of Cowen are grateful to Rurik. They have found stability, food and clothing in the peace under Ross, and the future is full of sunshine.

Rurik is also full of hope for the future. He now hopes that the settlements can madly produce ironware, in exchange for a large amount of grain transported by southern merchants during the harvest season, to ensure that the thousands of people of the Rus tribe have oats and rye that can eat for a whole year, and even a large amount of it. vegetables.

Oh, and a lot of flax, the women of the Ross people, the women of Corvin, the women of Ostara, their dexterous and great hands, they have to weave a lot of people under the rule of Ross. The patterned cloth makes everyone wear warm and comfortable, and become beautiful and decent.

Time is rushing towards the summer solstice. For more than a month, Rurik has been staying at Fort Elon Orava.

It is completely different from the situation in early May. After a lot of "pollution" by human activities, the desolate world has become different!

For example, the Kewen holding a chromium axe, stupefied to cut a relatively narrow road from the settlement to the mine. They didn't have time to clean the roots of the trees, and they basically didn't clean up the thick pine needles on the ground. A road was born anyway, so that the team that transports ore has improved their handling efficiency.

Of course, some changes are also there, and the transport team began to appear in the form of reindeer.

Some reindeer were transported from Roseburg. These deer, who had undergone full service training, quickly adapted to their identities. They are hung with leather pockets, which are usually filled with two pieces of ore, and are taken care of and driven by deer breeders who are ordered to come in a boat.

Still in early June, Niya knew that her son Rurik had been fighting in the north. She stayed in her hometown and heard the messenger sent by her nephew Arik, reporting that the "Two Hundred Sea Heroes" had achieved a very big victory, but Naihe didn't. Get news from her husband and the army of Sorgon.

Husband Otto is already old, and Niya's heart is increasingly focused on her precious son.

Finally, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, she couldn't bear to miss her only son, plus her strong curiosity about the northern settlements. Niya finally boarded the Gould family's cargo ship heading north, and had to stay with a lot of fresh catches, a little embarrassingly. Niya already knows the powerful power of the chrome steel axe, and her son has succeeded, so she needs to find out more!

Mother actually came to visit? !

The first messenger knelt before Rurik and reported the incident.

"She's here? Just herself, no other servants?"

The messenger replied: "There are several Briton maids and no one else."

"Where is my Lumia?"

"She... the high priest is still teaching her homework and etiquette. Your lord, you know, it will be the summer solstice soon. Maybe you will also return to Roseburg to participate in the sacrifice."

"I'll talk at that time." Rurik shrugged. He welcomed Niya's arrival and let her see the birth of "Iron City". By then, he was throwing himself into her arms to satisfy the old woman's thoughts. heart.