industrial lord

Chapter 15 Land reclamation doesn't look that difficult
Lunch time is coming soon, and Tarot brought today's lunch with several maids.

There will be no "hamburgers" in this world, only "Wesson buns".

After discussing policies and other issues in the morning, Frederick plans to study the technical issues of reclaiming wasteland in the afternoon.

Not talking about work at lunch time, just chatting.

After eating and drinking, Frederick patted himself on the face to cheer himself up, and then said to everyone: "The most important thing now is to properly resolve this disaster incident and make it an opportunity for our development."

He looked at Mathias and asked, "I wonder if you have any suggestions for land reclamation?"

After thinking about it for a while, Mathias found that manipulating plants to fight is really not suitable for him, and now he is trying to develop in the field of agriculture.

He said: "I have studied the map of Wessen Territory and visited many places, and I have a plan."

"It is impossible to reclaim the entire Wessen Territory into farmland. The cost of farming in the mountains is too high. We also need timber forests and firewood forests."

"I suggest that the flat land can be reclaimed into farmland, implement the three-field system, and plant oaks, chestnuts, gooseberries and various fruits after the mountainous land is reclaimed."

"The weeds and shrubs in the process of land reclamation are very troublesome. This can be dealt with by Monofolo, and generally eaten."

The animal trainer Monofolo gave Mathias a hard look and said, "Don't make it sound like I'm going to eat it."

Amid everyone's laughter, he turned his head and said to Frederick: "When opening up wasteland, it is very troublesome to deal with the weeds, shrubs and grass roots on the ground. My suggestion is to import draft horses from the Osmaga Empire. while importing freshly weaned sheep.”

"As long as there are enough sheep on a piece of land, within two months, the grass roots can be dug out and eaten by them, leaving only some thorny bushes."

"Just burn the solitary thornbush on the ground, let Mathias eat the roots in the ground."

Mathias laughed with everyone, and then he said: "Some time ago, the principal told me that the tumors on the roots of beans and other plants are the key to a fertile field. After thinking about it, I found that it is true."

"Whether the newly reclaimed land is flat or mountainous, my suggestion is to plant pastures such as alfalfa, vetch, and milk vetch in the past few years, which can be used to fertilize the field and raise livestock."

"You don't need to worry about the roots in the ground. During this period of time, the dead roots will rot and be eaten by bugs. After two or three years, they will be gone."

"According to my experience, if my method is used to promote the growth of forage grass, the yield can be doubled at least, and it can provide feed for livestock in captivity."

"However, this requires the use of compost, plant ash, bones, etc. as fertilizers to fertilize the land to restore its fertility."

"I have a suggestion to legislate and use taxes to guarantee the supply of these fertilizers."

Frick smiled and said to the tax officer Neuer beside him: "In the future, in addition to the excrement tax, you will also increase the gray tax and bone tax."

Manure has always been an important source of fertilizer, and there is a tradition of collecting manure and compost everywhere, but insufficient attention has been paid to urine, plant ash, and bones.

Mathias only thought about these issues after reading Frederick's pamphlet about fertilizers recently, and the more he thought about it based on experience, the more reasonable he felt.

Frederick said at this time: "There is no need to specifically collect taxes, it is too troublesome, just need to sort and recycle the garbage."

Neuer immediately said: "Indiscriminate tax increases will cause a lot of trouble, it is better to legislate that different garbage should be thrown in different places."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the judge Otto, and Otto looked at Frederick, and said after seeing the lord nodded, "I know what to do."

Frederick said again: "You will discuss together later, and show me the rules after you have made them."

"By the way." He remembered one more thing, "Ragged linen...forget it, don't be greedy for cheap, Ah Fu, open a chamber of commerce to buy broken linen and old hemp rope."

Many people present were at a loss, wondering if these can also be used as fertilizers?

The only person in the conference room who could understand Frederick's thoughts was Psyche, who suddenly said, "No need, it won't achieve the effect you want."

People who didn't know Psyche's identity were full of question marks, and Frederick asked, "Then what method do you have?"

Psyche said, "Well... 'lion's head'."

The others were shocked. Lions are magical beasts that only exist in the far southern continent. They are extremely ferocious. Every year, many people cross the sea to challenge them, and it turns out to be food delivery. What is the reason for such a condition? ?
Frederick immediately nodded and agreed, "No problem."

It's just a lion's head. It can be steamed and braised in brown sauce. It's a piece of cake.

After an episode, Frederick looked at Ogilvy and asked, "Can we make simple golem puppets now?"

Ogilvy raised his brows, thinking that the big business was coming, with a bright smile on his face, everyone was shocked.

Rubbing his hands, he asked, "I don't know what kind of golem puppets the principal wants? Is it a guard type or an attack type? A mage type is also fine."

"If I add some money, I can even put a layer of artificial skin on the golem, so it looks like a real person!"

Frederick was surprised, there is still this kind of operation, I don't know if it is realistic.

But let's put this aside for now, I'm only eight years old, and from now on... Meow meow, I'm an aristocrat, so I can just find someone to cosplay in the future, it doesn't take so much trouble.

Frederick calmed down, ignored Psyche's playful eyes, and asked Ogilvy in a serious manner: "My request is not high, I'm just a golem puppet for digging."

Ogilvy's smiling face froze instantly.

Frederick stretched out his hands, gathered the light elements around him, and squeezed these elements into a model with his mental power.

There is no efficient rotating equipment in these days, just use golem puppets to shake the turntable, and use a bunch of golem puppets to ride bicycles as power to pull the train. The energy consumption is too large, and the steam engine still needs to be built.

But the "artificial muscles" of the golem puppet inspired Frederick. This magic material is a bit like muscle fibers, which can be deformed under the action of magic power and can replace the hydraulic system on the excavator.

"Artificial muscles" can even push a piston-like mechanism to reciprocate through a specific structure, and then drive the crankshaft to rotate. The advantage is large torque, but the disadvantages are large weight, low speed, high cost, high energy consumption, and difficult maintenance. Terre intends to use it as a small power source to drive machine tools.

Researchers like Ogilvy and others have focused their technology on bionics for many years, and no one has jumped out of the shackles to a new world.

Frederick didn't take too many steps, but made a model of an excavator, or spider legs.

The size of this excavator is similar to that of a small excavator used in orchards. The chassis is about 1 meter wide, and there is a spider leg at each corner. A circular plate is installed as a foot to reduce the pressure on the ground. The length is about 3 meters, the capacity of the bucket is 0.05m, and it is an open-top one. Just set up a shed at that time.

Frederick spent a lot of time explaining the function of this excavator, and the audience was confused.

It’s not that you haven’t seen golem puppets. Ogilvy brought two of them. One was at the University of Wessenburg, and the other was sent to the castle not long ago, saying it was to protect Frederick.

But the look of the excavator... a spider crossed with an elephant?
Ogilvy frowned and thought about it. The most difficult part of the golem is to control the core, so that it cannot think like a real person. If you build a big enough golem, let people manipulate it...

Frederick didn't know that he was thinking about how to make a Gundam, and said after a while: "If the price of this excavator is controlled below 20 florin gold coins, it will be our flagship product."

Ogilvy frowned and replied: "Theoretically, one or two such golem puppets can be produced with existing technology, but it is very difficult to mass-produce them like horse-drawn carriages."

Frederick immediately asked, "What's the problem?"

"No one." Ogilvy shrugged, "Aside from other things, it takes a lot of people just to make screws and nuts and match them."

Frederick slapped his forehead. There was nothing he could do. Nowadays, the screws and nuts are all hand-turned on a lathe. Whether the screws and nuts can be screwed together depends on luck and strength, so someone specially matches them.

Behind any industrial product is an industrial system, no matter how backward it is, the industrial system is still an industrial system, and it is a dimensionality reduction blow to the handicraft industry.

"Forget it." Frederick shook his head, "Let's make one or two units first and improve slowly, and then mass-produce them when we have the opportunity."

Ogilvy replied: "Well, I have a student named Liebherr, he is good at mechanics, let him take care of it."

(End of this chapter)