Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 158 156. Changes in the Salt Mine

Whenever Rand has time, he thinks about various industries for the territory, such as wool spinning, paper, soap, brewing, fermentation, pottery making, brick burning, mushroom planting, etc. Some technologies such as brewing, pottery making, brick burning, and wool spinning are existing The technology that the people know, although the people don't know the rest, Rand can probably recall the principles or technologies of the previous life.

The advantage of these is that as long as the process is figured out, the industry can be developed without magic, and Rand hopes to add magic to some process steps to simplify the process steps and improve efficiency and product quality.

For example, Rand asked the girls to make magic-pattern pottery tanks. The magic power provided by the magic-gathering runes is just enough to allow the warming runes to maintain the temperature in the tank at 35-45 degrees Celsius, which is suitable for the growth of lactic acid bacteria.

Not only yogurt, but also koji, fermented bean curd, and compost in the future, all of which control the temperature and humidity to allow different substances to slowly ferment under the action of microorganisms.

Another example is the complete set of papermaking equipment that Sophia is currently developing, including the pulverization, cooking, rolling, and beating of raw materials; there is, for example, the wool spinning equipment that Rand has already considered similar to the girls.

After the breeding business gradually got on the right track, the girls' workshop became the research and development base of the territory's craft equipment. Every time Rand came, he would check the progress of new equipment in a batch of workshops and bring some new ideas.

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Salt mine, Shandong, emergency communication room.

Ben Call is redrawing the magic pattern on a magic mirror, while Wendy not far away is studying the magic circle on the wall.

"Wendy, I only have a little work left. When I communicate tonight, there should be no unstable problems like yesterday." Ben's attention was completely on the magic carving knife in his hand, and he had no energy to Look at the girls on the side. "If you have something to do, go ahead, there's no need to stay with me here."

Just as Ben Kaur promised, as early as the daytime on the 17th, he used the magic circle in the emergency communication room to establish a magic mirror line that can connect to Roth Castle, and last night with Johnny and other The girl got through the message, but the magic pattern on the magic mirror needs to be adjusted to keep the communication going for a long time.

"Oh, okay then," Wendy put her hand down from the rune line on the wall, "Then I'll go to a few warehouses to have a look, Jonny said yesterday that they need more paper, I'll look through those old papers. storehouse."

"Okay, go quickly." The mage heard the sound of closing the door, and sighed silently. In an instant, the magic carving knife in his hand flew, and the light on the magic mirror brightened.

Outside the communication room, the magic goblin saw Wendy coming out, and flew over with great concern. Although she didn't make a sound, she was gesticulating desperately with her hands.

Seeing this, Wendy pointed to the room, but saw the magic goblin kept shaking her head, and gestured vigorously with her hands open.

Outside the cave, Pete was arranging for knights and barbarian cavalry to pack all the salt that had not been transported before. According to Rand's request, there was still some salt that they needed to collect on site.

"Leave your team to pick brine." Pete said to his team leader, "Squad 2 will follow Master Wendy to search the warehouse, and the rest will go to the coal mine in the north. We will stay here for 3 days at most. return!"

"Yes!" The knights split up.

In the past two days, Wendy and Ben Kaur have modified the brine extraction device. The new brine extraction device sends a long and thin barrel to the rock well through a rope. The pulley device is used to pull the long barrel out of the well. There is a one-way valve at the bottom of the long barrel, and when opened, dozens of catties of brine can be poured out.The brine directly enters the buckets used for transportation. After the buckets are full, they are pulled by horse-drawn carts to the salt-boiling workshop in the cave. The whole process does not require manual transportation.

This method of mining brine was modified by two magicians according to the idea of ​​Rand's hometown. The original manual mining of brine was too slow and too crowded.The new device does not require manpower to extract the brine, only someone on the sidelines to supervise it.Now the main step to limit salt mining is the number of rock wells. At present, there are only 2 usable wells in the entire salt mine. While waiting for these wells to extract brine, Pete can also arrange personnel to test the tunnels for coal mining.

Compared with Iwai, the mages have made relatively little changes to the coal mine. They just let the magic goblin level the mine floor and widen and raise the mining passage.

After a day's work, the magic possessors of the Knights had dinner together in the cave hall, and Wendy and Ben listened to their experience in using it.

"My lord, can the mine carts in the coal mine move by themselves? It's easy to dig coal, but it's too much effort to transport coal!"

"My lord, we used to only mine salt, and we were fairly clean, but coal mining is too dirty! We have to queue up to take a shower!"

"My lord, we may not have enough horses, right?"

Wendy listened to these people's opinions, but she was thinking about what Lant said that night, "Brine is usually accompanied by natural gas. If natural gas can be used as fuel, the coal for cooking salt can be saved and directly supplied to Yeqi City. .If the steam engine can be developed, the transportation in the mine can also be solved.”

"What is natural gas?" Wendy frowned, "What is a steam engine?"

. . .

"My lord? Can you hear me?" At 9:[-] p.m., Wendy and Ben Call met with each other as agreed.

"Of course, what about your side? It's getting warmer on Rotor's side, is it still snowing on your side?" Rand in the magic mirror was very clear.

"Winter on the plain is like this. If it snows, it will snow. We are all used to it," Wendy happily introduced to Rand.

"How about the salt mines?"

"Very good. I modified the brine harvesting device according to what you said. I have also strengthened the walls of the camp with the goblins. The mage said that the area should be expanded. It is best to cover the entire valley mouth, but I think it should be completed first. Projects in the Salt Mine Valley," Wendy replied before Ben could speak.

"Yes, Wendy learns quickly, don't worry." Ben also smiled.

"I see, you can do it according to the specific situation in the salt mine, and tell me with the magic mirror at any time. In addition, tell Pete that he must arrive at Yeqi City at the end of the month." Rand in the magic mirror was very excited. Concerned about the transportation of table salt.

"Understood, I'll tell him now." Wendy was about to run out after saying that. She didn't have anything more to say, so she said goodbye to Rand. The magic mirror turned into an ordinary mirror again, and the video communication was interrupted .

Wendy arrived at the door, but when she turned around, she saw that the mage was still holding the magic mirror in her hand, and she didn't intend to leave, "Teacher, do you have anything else to do?"

"Yes, I want to change the magic circle here again to reduce the consumption of magic power." The mage pointed to a magic circle in the magic mirror.

"Okay, then I'll go to Pete first." The girl smiled and left.

(End of this chapter)