"I've seen you, sir!" When Nalant arrived at the blacksmith John's house, Pete was already waiting with the mason and carpenter.
"Well, get up!" Nalant waved his hands towards a few 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 generations.
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 carbon ash. There is also an air supply port for a bellows reserved at the inner end of the stove.
After looking at the stove, Nalant looked towards the waterwheel again.
At this time, the small waterwheel has been installed, but a large wooden board is used to block the water flow, so the small waterwheel is still in a stationary state at this time.
"John, please light up the stove!" Nalant ordered John on the side.
"Yes, Lord Lord!"
As a senior blacksmith, to be honest, this is the first time John has seen such a strange stove.
In the past, stoves were round and round, like a wooden barrel with a small opening.
However, although I have never tried a stove like this, I am still looking forward to this stove John.
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. If a long sword is inserted into a stove, the tip of the sword below will definitely be hotter than the end of the blade because it is buried deep.
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 sword is placed flat on the charcoal fire, not only the temperature can be clearly seen, 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, "Put out the water!"
"Yes, sir!" Pete·Leather Boots immediately ran 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.
Snoring!
Snoring!
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 quickly started burning 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!"
John The blacksmith immediately took out an iron bar forty to fifty centimeters long and put it on the stove.
As the flames in the furnace heated up, just over ten seconds passed, and the iron bars became visibly red with the naked eye.
"It's so fast! Lord, the effect of this stove is really great! 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 is like a warrior getting a sharp blade, and he can't help but be excited.
More importantly, this stove did not require an apprentice to pull the bellows, which won the hearts 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.
Suddenly there was 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. By the way, when you are free, you can replace the wooden shaft that pulls the bellows with an iron shaft, which should last longer!"
"Yes, Lord! Lord, you are the wisest nobleman John has ever seen!" John also showed his true temperament at this time, and praised Nalant sincerely.
"Yes!" Nalant nodded, then looked at the carpenter and stonemason, "As for you, in a few days I am going to 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 more than ten times this, so you should go back and prepare 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 stonemason and the 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, Nalant heard the sound of the system in his mind.
"Hey, I got a little cutie!" Nalant was overjoyed, "But it seems like you haven't sent me my third place Daughter of Luck yet, right?"
Nalant complained to the system, and then walked out of John's house happily.
When he came to the square of Wheat Leaf Village and wanted to see the progress of the construction of the stone house, 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? Could it be that the caravan sent by my father is here?" Nalant's eyes lit up. Anyone coming from the Tulip City direction would basically not be an enemy.
"Come on, let's go take a look!"
However, in order to ensure nothing went wrong, Nalant still rode on Lightning and took the guards to check things out.
When Nalant and others arrived outside the castle, the guard reported that the convoy was less than a mile away from them.
Nalant hurried forward immediately.
"Master Nalant!" When approaching the convoy more than a hundred meters ahead, 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.
"Ute Old Butler!" The next moment, Nalant searched for the old man's information from his memory. This was the castle steward under his father.
"Ute has met Master Nalant!" Soon, Ute came to Nalant and bowed respectfully to Nalant.
"Ute Butler, no need to be polite!" Nalant got off his horse and helped Ute up.
This Ute has served as the housekeeper of Andrew Castle for thirty years. Although they are servants, to the three brothers and sisters Nalant, they are no different from their elders.
"I didn't expect that my father would send you, Ute butler, 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 the people close to him in this 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 may mean goodbye forever. Although the aristocracy is better, it is not the same.