Sword of Dawn

Then she muttered: "I saw you giving them meat and prohibiting whipping. I thought you were really a good person..."

Gawain glanced at her: "I'm a good person, and I didn't blame these people for not working hard-I'm not blind, I can see that they are not lazy, but overall... the speed of construction of this camp It's a fact that I can't keep up with my plan."

"Your plan is unrealistic." Amber pursed her lips, and then looked at Gao Wen suspiciously, "Speaking of which, I thought it was wrong... You have been acting weird these past two days, and you always seem to be preoccupied. , and drew a lot of weird things on paper. Especially this morning, when the camp has just been framed, you are already thinking about building an urn... What are you panicking about?"

Gao Wen didn't turn his head back: "The world is doomsday, the sky is falling, can visitors from outside the sky?"

"You just don't want to admit it, huh, but I'm watching, you're just flustered," Hu Po said with her hands on her hips, "I think about when it started... Ah yes, it was when the red spots appeared on the sun before! You've been restless ever since..."

Gao Wen was really surprised this time, he looked Amber up and down a few times: "Are you usually watching me when you have nothing to do?"

"I don't have time to spare," Amber said with her hands on her hips, "but the problem is that you can't hide this change from others. In fact, your two great-granddaughters who are so many generations away have also discovered it, but they didn't Dare to ask you..."

Gao Wen was taken aback: "Really? Is it so obvious?"

After a short period of stupefaction, he couldn't help but began to reflect on his recent mentality changes and consider how to adjust, while Amber held her chin and thought for a while, then suddenly asked a question: "Who is the alien you just mentioned?" what?"

Gao Wen: "..."

Why does this guy's reflex arc fluctuate like Brownian motion?Seeing that she didn't respond just now, I thought this guy didn't pay attention to this word at all...

At this moment, a small figure suddenly appeared in the corner of Gawain's vision, and the little maid Betty in a coarse dress was running towards this side.

The little girl ran up to Gao Wen, took a few breaths, then blinked her big eyes and said in a daze, "Mrs. Hetty, please come over."

"What's wrong with her?"

Betty thought for a while: "Forget it!"

Gao Wen: "..."

At this time, Amber suddenly noticed that Betty's hands were empty, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Where's your precious frying pan?"

Betty raised her head and replied seriously: "Miss Rebecca said this is a new home. When I get home, I put the pan in the kitchen."

When you go out with everyone, you are responsible for carrying the cooking utensils, and put them back in the kitchen when you get home-this is what Mrs. Hansen taught her.

At this time, Gao Wen already knew the reason why Hetty came to him.

He had seen the figures that appeared in the distance to the west.

The second batch of men... finally arrived.

Chapter 0051 Ore in place

The second team that stayed in Tanzan Town finally arrived.

This is undoubtedly good news for Gao Wen.

At least this means more manpower, it means that he can build the pier and sawmill, it means that he can consider officially mining the mines in the east, and it also means that he can make this camp develop towards the "territory" .

Although with the addition of the follow-up second team, the pioneering leader only has a population of just over 800, but compared to the vanguard with only 100 people, this is already a remarkable improvement.

Knight Philip led several soldiers and a dozen militiamen who stayed in Tanzania Town to complete the escort mission. This young and promising knight was warmly welcomed by Hetty. The arrival of him and his soldiers can be said to make up for it. Aside from manpower, one of the bigger shortcomings of the camp is the defense force.

Although I haven't seen anything like a monster until now, living in a wasteland itself will increase people's sense of insecurity. Those fences and magic traps can only alleviate this uneasiness, and only those who are truly armed and patrolling around Soldiers can make people completely at ease.

As for Knight Philip, he was even more shocked by the scale and perfection of this camp.

Has such a large range been leveled out?Has the carpenter's shed been built?They're even building a smithy? !

The young knight walked into the camp almost in a daze, and stared blankly at the large, strong and beautiful tents and a few wooden houses that had been built around him.He also saw the serfs and freedmen busy in the vacant lot, who were busy making boards from the basically dried and smoked wood, and further processing these boards into various utensils and materials for building houses, It was the first time he saw this kind of labor scene: the laborers who usually need to be whipped to work work in groups of several people, and under the command and coordination of one of them, they work together like a person's hands and feet. Let these people do one thing together and they will only cover up each other's laziness, then the current situation is completely opposite.

And what about the overseer who was supposed to be standing next to him with a whip?

Philip searched around, only to find that the overseers—in fact, selected family warriors who could write a little more—were standing on the edge of the open space, but they were just walking around to check the completion of the work. What is held in the hand is not a whip, but a wooden board for remembering things.

"Doesn't it feel amazing?" Heidi's voice woke up the young knight from his daze, "I never thought that those simple measures could make them so diligent, even the serfs began to actively learn how to do them Bad job."

"Measures?" Knight Philip repeated the word in surprise, "What measures?"

"The ancestors conceived a set of rules for work..."

Knight Philip's eyes lit up before Hetty finished speaking: "Ah, that must have influenced these serfs and commoners who are usually lazy..."

"No, it's for them to eat meat." Hetty smiled with slightly curved eyes. "It's very simple. If you work hard, you will get meat."

As she said this, she was feeling emotional in her heart: Using rewards to stimulate work efficiency, of course, she had tried this simple and simple method, but it usually only worked at the beginning. Soon you will find all kinds of ways to be lazy and cheat food to continue to be lazy, but when direct competition, precise calculation, strict execution and the so-called "team concept" are added to this method, everything turns out to be It's really incredible that they are so different.

She also knew for the first time that serfs and commoners were not born dull and lazy.

At this moment, Gao Wen's figure appeared not far away.

Hetty and Philip immediately went up to meet them, Gawain waved his hand to interrupt the salute of the two, he nodded to Hetty first, and then looked at the young knight: "Thank you for your hard work, you did a good job, there are quite a few of you— —Let the soldiers and the civilians rest for a while. After lunch, all the laborers gather in the open space in the middle of the camp. Hetty will tell them the working rules here. Soldiers, including the militiamen, gather at the west side of the camp, and Knight Byron will disembark Get some new gear."

Then he looked at Hetty: "Newcomers don't need to be divided into any working groups on the first day. There are too many new rules and they can't remember them all at once."

Hetty nodded in response, while Knight Philip was a little puzzled: "New equipment? What new equipment?"

Gawain looked at the other party, showing a mysterious smile: "It's definitely a good thing."

After actually seeing those new equipment, Philip Knight had to be amazed - his previous expectations for "good things" were still too low.

I thought it was nothing more than a batch of brand-new swords and armor, and each person would be given a hand crossbow if they were exhausted, but who would have thought that it would be a complete set of "extraordinary weapons"? !

Enchanted swords, enchanted armor, and military crystals from ancient empires!

The long swords with the "sharpness technique" shone with a cold white light, and the half-body armor engraved with the "elemental resistance spell" and "lightness technique" had a faint gray brilliance floating in the sun. The soldiers may have never seen what an enchanted weapon looks like in their life, but they still realized the concept of what they were wearing for the first time, so they were very excited.

And what surprised Knight Philip even more was that even the militiamen had a set for each of them... Don't these things cost money?

"They are all antiques that have passed the ages, and the more they are released, the worse they are. There is no need to hide them. It is better to take them out and turn them into combat power." Gao Wen said with a smile, "To be honest, there could be more—— —But many of them are broken and can’t be used, or the magic power has been seriously lost and turned into empty shells, which really hurts.”

"Extraordinary weapons...every piece is very valuable," Knight Philip stammered a bit, "These things... there were not a few sets of enchanted equipment in the entire Cecil Territory before!"

Amber hugged her arms next to her: "Look at your rare and strange appearance—a 700-year-old man, is it strange to have a little private money at the bottom of the box? Whose grandpa doesn't stuff a few silver coins under the bed board... Hey, hey, it hurts." It hurts!"

Gawain grabbed Amber by the ear and dragged her aside, the latter yelled vigorously, "Let go! Let go! Haven't you heard that elves' ears are super sensitive! Let go!"

Dare this elf shame remember his half blood?

And Knight Philip looked at Amber, who was taken away, with a serious and proud face: "Our family believes in Kyle, the god of warriors and knights, and never keeps property under us!"

Gawain glanced at this young man in surprise, thinking that it is no wonder that he abides by the knight's creed so much, and even looks too pedantic and rigid compared with his peers, and he is still a believer after a long time... The guy who even makes up the prayers every time is so much better.

"With these things... even if we encounter the original 'abnormal body' again, it will be much easier." Philip Knight was still sighing at the new equipment, and then suddenly said, "By the way, we can give the pattern to Tanzan Town Craftsmen, even if it is a little more expensive..."

"There is no way to reproduce it," Gawain had known for a long time that Philip Cavalier would say this. In fact, the first thought of any normal soldier after seeing these equipments is probably to mass-produce these ancient treasures again. Back then, Byron Knights are no exception, but it is a pity that they are destined to get disappointed answers, "These things are based on the magic technology of the ancient Gondor Empire on the one hand, and on the other hand, they need to use the purified magic power from the Deep Blue Well ——The magic power produced by the modern magic power focus or magic well is too heterogeneous, and the energy level is low, so it can't drive these things at all."

Philip Knight opened his mouth and immediately realized what it meant: "In other words, these things..."

"Use one less piece, or even as long as the magic power is exhausted, it will become an ordinary sword armor because it can no longer be recharged, and because their main material has been corroded to varying degrees, I am afraid that by then it will be more powerful than contemporary armor." It is not as good as ordinary equipment, so we can only go back to the stove and practice again."

The young knight looked worried: "What shall we do by then?"

"Before that, we just need to make our own good equipment." Gao Wen smiled and patted the other party's shoulder with a confident expression on his face.

Regardless of whether he was empty or not, he always had a smile on his face like a Kamen Rider who had grasped the future, not to mention that Gao Wen really had a little bit of self-confidence in his heart.

As long as the magic tide doesn't break out on the spot, there is room for maneuver.

At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a small figure running towards this side.

The little maid, Betty, ran over erratically again, raised her head after running up to Gawain, and said in a daze, "Master! Miss Rebecca is looking for you!"

Gao Wen was taken aback: "What's the matter with her?"

Betty thought about it carefully, and said loudly, "Forget it!"

Gao Wen: "..."

How can this girl forget everything except cooking?

Gao Wen shook his head, thinking that it would be good for this little girl to remember who to call, and he should not force it, and then asked where Rebecca was, and went with Amber—so at least Betty didn't forget Where is Rebecca waiting...

He didn't know what Rebecca called him until he got there——

The first test ores were brought in from the iron mines east of the camp.

The first advance team included a blacksmith and several apprentices, as well as the basic materials needed to build the blacksmith shop, but the most important thing at the beginning of camp construction was to ensure survival, so Gao Wen also slowed down his efforts to the eastern mines. For the mining plan, he didn't send people to the east to collect some ore until the settlement problem of the advance team was resolved for verification.These people started off in the morning, and at this time they finally returned to the camp with some selected ore.

Chapter 0052 The world with magic

Although the blacksmith shop is already under construction, it is still too early to be fully completed—and in Gao Wen's plan, the current wooden house is actually not the same thing as the "blacksmith shop" that people in this world recognize. However, for the convenience of everyone's understanding, he temporarily called this place a blacksmith's shop.

According to what he meant, he planned to name this place "Cecil Iron Works"...

As the only blacksmith in the territory at present, Old Hammer is also quite confused about the "blacksmith shop" ordered by the Duke. In his opinion, this building occupies an unnecessary large area. In addition to the prefabricated house, it also includes an open space with a length and width of [-] meters and a wooden shed with only a few supports erected. It seems nondescript to call such a large facility a "blacksmith shop", but he And he dared not say that the famous founding prince was an outsider who didn't know how to pretend to know how to command—even though he really thought so in his heart, he absolutely didn't dare to say it.

After all, he is just a commoner, and the other party is a great nobleman who can sit on an equal footing with His Majesty the King.

And because of the astonishing footprint of this "blacksmith's shop", it could only be placed on the eastern edge of the camp, its "big yard" stretching out into the wasteland outside, like a piece protruding from the neat wooden fence It's so funny, and those guys brought from Tanzan Town seem to be a little pitiful in this giant blacksmith shop: they only occupy a corner of the wooden house, and the only iron-smelting furnace is still placed When we got to the open space outside, we used a simple wooden shed to protect it from wind and rain.

As far as Gao Wen is concerned, he arranged the reserved area of ​​the blacksmith shop so large, and it is close to the edge of the territory, just considering the future production capacity needs and the convenience of expansion. A blacksmith's shop with a master and several apprentices, a hut with a furnace, and clanging iron tools was not what he needed at all.

But he couldn't explain all this to the old blacksmith and his stupid apprentices now.

In addition to the consideration of production capacity and future expansion, Gao Wen did not intend to directly set up a pile of soil blast furnaces in this yard like the senior time traveler in the novels he had read, although he did think so , but after seeing Hetty use magic power to help the raft land on the shore and help the camp strengthen the foundation a few days ago, he temporarily suppressed this idea and asked Hammer, the only blacksmith in the territory, to build a raft in the yard. A traditional melting pot.

He arrived at the blacksmith shop, where Rebecca was already waiting, as well as the old blacksmith Hammer with gray hair and beard, several of his apprentices, and several other leaders in short shirts standing in the yard, The large baskets under their feet contained the first batch of ore.

Gao Wen went straight to the traditional melting pot.

It was a crude-looking furnace, about one meter high, divided into upper and lower parts. The lower part was an inflated hemispherical structure, and the upper part quickly shrank into a cylinder. On the lower hemispherical structure, You can also see two openings, one at the bottom, apparently where fuel is added, and the other near the cylindrical structure, where it should be possible to pour ore.

There is nothing unusual about these parts, just an ordinary furnace, but its special place is on the side.

There are three runes lined up there.

All three runes were engraved on a kind of pitch-black stone flake, and the three stone flakes had obviously been carefully polished and their positions carefully adjusted before being mounted on the furnace body to ensure that their spacing was exactly the same and their edges were parallel.The bottommost piece of stone is engraved with a triangular symbol, and there is a wavy line inside the symbol, which is the initial character representing the fire element in the magic book; the middle piece of stone is a square with a rhombus inside, it is the initial character of the earth element; on the upper stone piece is a group of swirl-shaped symbols, which are related to the wind element, but not the initial character.

In addition to these three stone flakes, some fine, shining dust can also be seen in the material of the furnace body. Gao Wen knew what it was: quartz sand, the quartz sand of "this world".

Quartz sand is a material with magical properties. Although its effect is extremely weak, it is widely used because it is cheap enough to be used by ordinary people.

Gao Wen raised his head and glanced at the old blacksmith: "You made this stove?"

"Yes, yes, sir..." the old blacksmith immediately grabbed the hat in his hand nervously when he heard the lord's question to himself, and hurriedly lowered his head to answer, "Oh, half of it was made by me, and half of it was made by me directing the apprentices. made..."

Gao Wen nodded, but didn't have any more questions.

Magic is an extraordinary power, and it does not belong to the field that "untouchables" can touch, but in this world full of magic power, even ordinary people who cannot cast spells actually have the shadow of magic power in their lives.

Some basic use of magic power does not require knowledge and ability to cast spells—everyone has magic power in their bodies, and as long as they use specific materials and engrave a simple symbol on a material of a specific shape, everyone can slightly arouse those infinite magic powers. Amazing power everywhere.

This is not spellcasting at all, and its effect is so weak that it is almost ridiculous in the eyes of those real "supernatural beings". This kind of leverage is like picking up a stick on the ground as a crutch, and picking up a stone everywhere to smash walnuts. Without technical content, even illiterate civilians can remember how to draw a few symbols with weak effects, but it is this little power that determines that this world is completely different from the hometown that Gao Wen is familiar with. place.

It's like the one degree Celsius difference when water boils.

With those three runes, this "traditional furnace" only needs to use firewood as fuel, and it can smelt molten iron without the help of blowers and without optimizing the structure of the combustion chamber.

If the rune of the fire element is carved on a piece of mithril, this stove can even use straw as fuel!

However, it is precisely because of the existence of these ancient runes that humans in this world have not considered how to improve the efficiency of the furnace from the perspective of improving fuel combustion efficiency - what they are constantly improving is only the material used to write runes , and the format of the rune itself.

So Gao Wen didn't build any clay blast furnace, but first came to observe this primitive and backward traditional furnace.

The old blacksmith Hammer looked at the great noble in front of him more and more nervously. He didn't know what the purpose of the other party asking a question and then researching the stove again, and he didn't know if he had done something wrong. He only knew that the nobleman He is powerful and moody——although the lord, Miss Rebecca, and the previous lords are all benevolent and generous, but this one in front of him is the legendary pioneering hero, a complete warrior, and a duke , What would be the character of such a great nobleman?

And just when the old blacksmith was feeling uneasy, Gao Wen finally straightened up and asked him the second question: "How much iron can you smelt in such a furnace every day under the condition that the supply of ore is sufficient? "

Hamilton breathed a sigh of relief: finally asked a normal question.

"If you use the ore over there, you can smelt fifty catties of iron every day." The old blacksmith said with some pride.

However, Gao Wen couldn't help frowning when he heard this answer: "So few?"

With the help of those runes, is the output so much?

"That's not enough?" Hammer couldn't help but said something, and then he made up for it nervously, "I'm not questioning your judgment, sir, but..."

"It's okay, don't be nervous talking to me," Gao Wen comforted the old master, "I'm the lord who protects you, not a robber who comes to kill you."

"Yes... yes sir," Hammer wiped his sweat nervously, and then explained, "But this is really the limit. The stove looks big on the outside, but the space inside is actually limited, and every time you practice After finishing a furnace, you have to rest for an hour to let the runes on the outside of the furnace cool down. In this way, you must also cool down the entire furnace, and then re-ignite the fire... After such a back and forth, it is really amazing to be able to smelt fifty catties of iron every day. It's the limit!"

"Let the runes cool down?" Gawain frowned.

"Yes," Hammer explained, "this is just a trick carved on black stones by our common people. It is incomparable with the real magic runes of those mages. It is easy to break, especially the fire runes. The element will crack after a long time of contact, even if it is replaced with a stronger material. Once the rune is cracked, the entire furnace will be useless, so it is absolutely impossible to burn continuously when making iron... "

"What if we make the stove bigger?" Gawain asked again.

"That can't be helped," Hammer said worriedly, thinking why the Duke asked such a difficult question, "The runes can only provide so much firepower, and if the furnace gets bigger, the firepower will not be enough, and the ore will not be smelted." Molten iron, and the earth rune will also lose its effect, and there will be more impurities in the refined iron ingot, which will be completely unusable..."

Gawain pinched his chin: "So it's all because of these runes that restrict production?"