This week, the town has been calm.∷,

According to Iron Axe and Brian, the intensity and number of the beast will gradually increase as the demonic month continues.While the current defensive pressure was not great, Roland once again sent a dhow full of ore to the town of Liuye.

With the first steam engine in use, the number of workers has dropped by half, while production has steadily increased, and has now returned to the level before the collapse.Under the help of machines, manpower has been greatly saved.

At the same time, Roland carried out a preliminary reform of the mining production system, from the original fixed salary to the volume of floating remuneration.He let Barov calculate the average daily output of the previous years, set it as a standard, and get an extra reward for each increase in a certain share of the increase, and found that the gemstone veins also have special rewards.This initiative has effectively promoted the production enthusiasm of workers, and the whole mining area is a hot scene.

With the rest of the mine in hand, Roland naturally wanted to do something.

In addition to including the steam No. 2 machine in the production plan, he also intends to manufacture a number of manual machine tools.

Machine tool this thing can be described as a long history, popularly speaking, it is essentially a tool table for processing equipment.Therefore, the anvil can be regarded as the most primitive machine tool - manual fixed, hand-made.

Hand-made is good to say, but manual fixing is too inconvenient, so people add buckles or grooves to the table to fix the parts to be processed.For example, the barrel of the early pyrotechnics and flintlock guns was hand-knocked on the anvil with a grooved anvil.

Later, the human tapping and milling alone can no longer meet the needs of processing, the machine tool will be differentiated, according to different uses, the use of different fixed methods and processing tools, manual and mechanical linkage, effectively improve the pure manual contribution each time the strength of the different size of the shortcomings.

Roland considered a hand-made milling machine.

Although the milling machine has a variety of functions, he mainly wants to process the gradually open line gear, so its structure can be simplified accordingly, only a pair of slots for fixing the tooth plate, and a steel grinding disc that can be rotated.A specific shape grinder dedicated to cutting gears can be easily manufactured with the help of Anna - the top of the abrasive is polished into a ladder and heated to a reddish state, with an iron bar to pull the imprint on it, and then immersed in the water for quenching, you can get a custom grinder with high stiffness.

After the key problems were solved, Roland immediately recruited Carter to hire two carpenters to build his milling machine base, and Anna continued to manufacture other metal parts in the castle's backyard.

It had to be said that with Anna, metal processing became as easy as kneading mud, especially after she had mastered the flame.Now the first processing of small pieces, she used her hands to pinch out the approximate shape.Seeing the other party melted the iron ingot into a viscous iron liquid and rubbing it again, Roland lamented.

Without witches, these programs would have been delayed for more than a decade.

Two days later, the first simple milling machine appeared in the backyard.

Roland was not idle during this time, and painting gears could be regarded as his old line, and he designed a set of gear sets for speed regulation and stability of the output of the steam engine.The corresponding tooth plate has been molded, and the milling process can be carried out only after the milling machine is finished.

Gears are not new, most of the world's mines are watered by livestock pulling wooden gears and winches, this time the chief knight finally felt satisfied - so many times for His Royal Highness, so that this time can understand what the other party intends to do.

Roland also asked him to bring three blacksmiths and their respective apprentices together in the yard to learn the use of milling machines.He could not personally operate these machines every day, so he had to train a group of professional workers.

After the politeness of the crowd, Roland began to demonstrate how to use the milling machine to process the gears.

He didn’t mind being a senior fitter in front of everyone.In fact, what types of princes in this era have, and the hobbies are also diverse, plus they have been unable to act before the wind evaluation, operating the machine without pressure.

The chief knight was responsible for dumping him warm lard—in an age when there was no oil lubrication, replacing it with lard, which was a bit of waste, but better than nothing.These lards are sprayed through the grinding plate and fall into the porcelain basin below, which can be used repeatedly.

Roland first engraved the tooth traces on the tooth plate at a well-designed angle, and then erected the tooth plate and fixed it on the workbench.Then pull the grinding disc above the tooth plate, align the wire, and step down the pedal.The pedal drives the wooden wheel and transfers the power to the grinding disc shaft through the belt.

Then he held the grinding disc handle by hand, gently pulling down, and the rotating grinding disc slowly cut into the tooth disk at a 90-degree angle.

Since the material of the tooth plate is pig iron, and the grinding disc is a quenched steel, cutting out the tooth marks is not very laborious.The scene filled with the smell of lard, so that the blacksmiths and apprentices who had not tasted meat for a long time swallowed the mouth.

After the demonstration is completed, a contract is signed.The business of border town is still in the beginning, the industry is impossible to talk about, whether it is a steam engine or a machine tool, there will not be a phenomenon of being immediately rushed by various stores as soon as it is manufactured.In this day and age, most people don’t realize the enormous significance that these things represent, and the potential for business value.So Roland can only take the initiative to promote the use of machinery.

In his contract, he stipulated that the use of milling machines required at least one set of gears per week, and that the required materials were provided by the castle for a processing fee of 10 silver dragons.At the same time, two silver dragons must be used for mechanical use per week.Because this group of machine tools is not free to give the blacksmith shop, but more similar to rent.

After entering the demonic month, the business of the blacksmith shop has also declined a lot, at this time, there is an opportunity to make money, or the order given by His Royal Highness himself, everyone naturally has no objection.At the same time, Roland told them that this is only the first milling machine, and will continue to produce several units in the future, and those who are interested can apply to the city hall.

“Your Highness, why don’t you write about the processing fee for eight silver dragons directly in the contract book?”When the blacksmiths left, Carter asked incredulously.

“The two numbers, though they are the same, are not the same,” Roland explains. “This is probably the first commercial lease contract in the border town, and I need to set up an industry standard.”

The chief knight wiped his forehead, and His Highness the Four Princes seemed to be talking nonsense again, but he already had experience in it, and as long as he pretended to listen carefully, His Highness would continue to explain.

“With a good start, a virtuous circle can be formed.At present, only I need to buy gears, so I provide the machine, they pay manpower, and the remuneration is also the employment fee.Later, when others also have this kind of demand, they will realize that buying the machine tool for their own production will earn a much more than the employment fee," Rolandton said, "so that in the face of new things, they can first avoid the risk in the form of alternative production, I can also be through the lease to get a return, and the follow-up development of the new thing is determined by market demand."This is a virtuous circle.”