industrial lord

Chapter 5 Make some money-making inventions first
Manuai and others held a plenary meeting the next day and unanimously decided to settle in Wessen.

The meeting also unanimously passed the motion to establish Weissenburg University and elected Baron Friedrich von Wessen as the first president.

Frederick was quite happy at first, until Ah Fu quietly told him that the principal needs to be responsible for the school's funding, and his face immediately turned black.

The landlord's family has no food left.

The arable land in Weisenling implements the three-field system. Of the more than 3000 hectares of fields, about [-] hectares are planted with wheat, [-] hectares are planted with beans, [-] hectares are planted with grass to raise sheep, cattle and chickens, and the rest are planted with vegetables.

Frederick's father's farming and arithmetic skills were just like this. If 1200 hectares of wheat were planted, and 800 hectares of beans and grazing each, he would not be able to calculate how much tax he should collect in a month.

flax?This thing can be bought, but it is troublesome to plant, so why do you plant it?

The weather in the past two years has been good, coupled with the abundance of water in Wesson, the average yield of wheat is 700 kg/ha, and the average yield of various beans is 500 kg/ha. The tax rate set by the Wesson family is [-]% because the yield of newly reclaimed land is not high.

This means that about 200 tons of wheat and about 150 tons of various beans will be added to the granary this year, half of which will be sold for an income of more than 100 florins.

Coupled with the royalties of the mill, the sale of wood, cheese, sheepskin and wood, iron, etc., the Wesson family's annual income is about 500 florins.

This income is considered poor among earls, but it exceeds all barons.

However, in last year's war, the Wesson-led army was wiped out. There was no war dividend, and the military rations, pensions, and mercenary expenditures almost moved their capital. Currently, Frederick's working capital is just harvested except for more than 100 florins. of wheat.

Because of this, Frederick decided to take out his old books and stud on the canal.

But now that such a large number of scholars have come, the matter of the canal can only be postponed until they are settled.

The most important thing right now is to transport the dozens of ships of books brought by the scholars, some plants in pots, two golem puppets, and a lynx that looks like an orange cat, etc. to the manor by the lake.

These books were rescued by Manuai and the others during the turmoil. At that time, warlords involved in the civil strife wanted to use libraries and universities as their bases, but negotiations failed. Scholars had to go their separate ways with their collections.

Anyway, that's what they said, and Frederick believed it.

These books can no longer be put on the ship. They have been damp for a long time, and if they go on, they will be infested with insects.

Manuai got a reminder from Frederick and took the students to use necromantic magic to kill insects on those books.

It's just that there is not enough manpower for the porter. Now it is time to plant beans in the field after the wheat harvest, and the carriage is busy pulling wheat and flour again.

Frederick could only be paid for the corvee, and each person came out for a day, and moved the books to the lakeside manor in various ways like ants moving house.

At this time, he was sitting in a wagon with Ogilvy, with a few boxes of books beside him, and a pull-horse weighing nearly one ton was pulling the cart, walking on the road "squeaking".

Ogilvy took the opportunity of escorting the car to explain to Frederick the process of making golem puppets.

However, Friedrich was more interested in the basic technologies involved in the control core, metallurgy, materials, processing techniques and moving parts.

"Hydraulic lathes." Frederick said thoughtfully, "I have them here too, and there are a lot of manpower ones, carpenters use them to turn beads and make dishes."

"So, you can make a knife that can turn metal?"

Ogilvy said confidently: "That's simple, just strengthen the blade with magic."

Frederick thought for a while, and then asked: "Is the cost of strengthening metal with magic high?"

Ogilvy laughed mysteriously, and said in a low voice: "If other people do it, it must be very high, but I am different. I have the latest technology, whether it is strength, hardness, plasticity, toughness, elasticity or rust resistance. It can be done very cheaply!"

"Oh?!" Frederick looked at him in surprise, "Then you can make a fortune!"

Ogilvy spread his hands, and said helplessly: "There is no market, no matter how cheap the method is, the base value is large, and the total amount is not small. It will cost a lot of money to strengthen the weapons of all soldiers. The generals say it is a waste of money." .”

"Those generals need to strengthen their weapons, but they are not short of money, and they trust the magicians they hire more."

"Not to mention civilians, ordinary knives are enough at home."

Frederick nodded slightly. Soldiers are just consumables these days. The outcome of a war mainly depends on the elite troops and magicians such as generals and knights with magic bonuses. It doesn't matter if they are strong or not.

He whispered: "I have a new invention, let's make a fortune together, okay?"

"Oh?" Ogilvy asked curiously, "What is it?"

Frederick stretched out his finger, and a white light appeared on the tip of his finger, leaving white marks when it passed across the wooden box board next to him.

Illumination is a small magic used for walking at night. It is not difficult, but it is difficult to use it to write and draw pictures.

Ogilvy was slightly taken aback. He didn't expect this kid to have such a high magical talent.

While drawing a wheel, Frederick said: "Compared to dragging the board directly on the ground, it is easier to walk after installing the wheels."

Ogilvy said: "This is sliding friction and rolling friction..."

Next, he drew for 5 minutes to tell Frederick what is called friction and the role of lubricating oil.

Although Frederick knew more about physics than him, he still thanked him, and then said: "Now the copper tiles and copper sleeves of our carriage axles are all sliding friction, which consumes a lot of energy, so why can't we change it to Rolling friction."

"In this way, fit the wheels between the copper tiles and the copper sleeves."

After speaking, he drew a sketch of the ball bearing on the wooden board and described its structure one by one.

Ogilvy thought seriously after listening to it, and said after a long time: "This little thing looks really useful. The inner and outer rings are not difficult to make, and strengthening is not a problem, but the small ball inside must be round enough, the size of the same set. Try to be as close as possible, otherwise it will easily break."

Frederick nodded in agreement. If the balls in the bearing are not round enough, it will cause vibration. If the size difference is too large, uneven force will easily occur. If the large ball is too large, the ball will be damaged in advance.

"This is easy to solve." Frederick said with a smile, "Let's do this together."

"I guess, if this part is installed on the axle of this carriage, it can pull twice as much cargo, and the waterwheel mill can be much faster if it is equipped with flour."

"How many carriages and mills are there on this land? Even if only half of them are equipped with this part, we can see gold coins raining!"

(End of this chapter)