Unknown Knight

So Axe had to do it himself and spent a whole morning in his office to come up with a rendering that satisfied him.

He replaced the key parts with cast iron structures, and added mechanical parts such as gears, drive shafts, and guide rails that were unknown to Amanti and his men, and only then was he able to draw a forging hammer driven by only a waterwheel.

Straightening his aching waist, he couldn't help but sigh that scientific research and design and production are not something that ordinary people can do. This whole morning, his butt hardly left the chair.

However, this rendering made Yamanti and the others a little confused. They had never heard of some of the things on it, let alone seen them. They had no relevant concepts at all, so it was difficult to understand.

Aix had to give them another explanation, explaining the functions of the mechanical parts and the related principles in detail.

Seeing that they still didn’t quite understand, I had to let them make a miniature model with the real object first, so that they could understand and learn in the process of making it.

After getting the direction, Amanti was about to go out excitedly, but was stopped by Aix, who told him that he was not allowed to let the craftsmen work too late, as they also had families and their needs and lives needed to be respected.

You cannot demand others to meet your own standards, and at the same time remind yourself that they should also pay attention to rest, because only when they have a good rest can they work better.

Moreover, Axe asked him to notify the kitchen to make more delicious food in the next few days to nourish everyone. After all, sometimes mental work requires more physical and mental effort.

The efforts of the craftsmen are related to the overall plan of the territory and require care and preferential treatment. Please feel free to raise any requests and needs. If conditions permit, Yamanti will try its best to meet them.

The craftsmen were moved and excited. After all, they had always been considered lowly by the powerful and had never been valued by others, let alone respected by the lord himself and the fruits of their labor.

I don’t know if what Aix told Amanti worked, but the next morning, the craftsmen brought the miniature model over.

Aix turned it by hand and found it running smoothly. After careful observation, he found some minor changes to make the overall design more reasonable and effective.

It seems that these medieval craftsmen were not without creativity, but needed stimulation and guidance.

Seeing everyone looking at him with burning eyes, how could Aix not know what to do now? He immediately showed an extremely exaggerated expression of excitement and clapped happily:

"Not bad, not bad, great! I didn't expect you to make it so quickly, and you've improved and optimized it a lot. It's amazing, amazing! Amazing! It seems you've put a lot of effort into it!

Yamanti will give each craftsman a reward of five silver coins, and you can give twenty silver coins."

Seeing that Amanti wanted to refuse, Aix waved his hand and continued:

"You deserve this. Look at the red bloodshot in your eyes. You haven't slept well these past few days, right?"

His words caused everyone to laugh.

When mentioning the reward, Aix suddenly had an idea and continued:

“Speaking of rewards, Yamanti will draw up a system and tell all the craftsmen in the territory that as long as they have good ideas and designs that can improve efficiency, they can come to me and propose them.

Once it is proven to be feasible and effective, I will reward the person who proposed it with a minimum of ten silver coins, and a maximum of one hundred silver coins, based on the benefits brought by this method and design. "

Aix's words made the craftsmen present cheer excitedly. They had never thought that their ideas would be affirmed one day, and this affirmation could actually be realized from the lord, which was something that had never happened to them before.

Even Aix himself did not expect the effect of this sentence. He just blurted it out based on HR's motivational idea, but he did not know that the effect of this sentence was revolutionary and would directly promote great technological progress in the future development of the territory.

After the craftsmen cheered, Aix thought for a moment and said to Yaman:

“This hydraulic forging hammer has been made, but we don’t know whether it can be used in practice yet. You still need to conduct subsequent tests.

How to test it specifically? Here is an idea. For example, if this hydraulic forging hammer can run two thousand times a day, then you can find someone to run it specifically, and let it run for ten or twenty days.

Only through this process can we find out whether this hydraulic forging hammer can be used in actual application, and know which parts are designed unreasonably, which parts need to be reinforced, which parts are redundant, and where there is room for improvement, etc.

This is a long process, during which there may even be problems and accidents that you have never imagined. Only when these problems and accidents are solved can this hydraulic forging hammer be finally put into use.

This way we can save a lot of unnecessary trouble and not waste a lot of manpower and material resources. Do you understand?

Seeing that only Amanti seemed to understand, and the others looked confused, Axe didn't care and just asked them to do as he was told.

When faced with unknown situations, people will progress faster by exploring the solution rather than just keeping it in their minds or on design drawings. They will soon understand the reason.

Sure enough, in the next three or four days, the hydraulic forging hammer under test continued to malfunction.

Either the bearing is broken, or the gears are not tightly connected and fall off, or some parts are designed unreasonably and are severely worn, and so on.

What was even more outrageous was that the hydraulic forging hammer caused a fire due to friction due to the rapid rotation. If they had not followed Aix's request and had someone watching them the whole house would have almost been set on fire.

Some of these problems were solved by Amanti and his team through joint efforts, but some could not be solved at all and required Aix's personal guidance and participation, and they were finally solved after some tinkering.

Fortunately, the structure of the entire hydraulic forging hammer is not very complicated, and Aix, a liberal arts student, can still handle it. If it is a more professional problem, Aix will be unable to help.

After the fifth day, the miniature model was tested and Aix asked Yamanti to start working on the actual-scale finished product.

After the finished product was made two days later, we conducted actual testing for another three days.

Some problems did arise during these three days. For example, the density of some local wood materials was not enough, which led to severe wear and tear and easy damage. This also allowed them to draw an important lesson: key stress-bearing parts must be made of carefully selected materials.

In this way, after more than ten days of design, production and debugging, a seemingly very simple hydraulic forging hammer was completed, and this was when Aix had almost prepared the drawings in advance.

Even so, Aix feels that there will still be problems of one kind or another after using it for a long time, but it doesn't matter anymore. Just use it as it is, and they will slowly improve it in the future.

This also made Aix realize that so-called technological progress is not so easy to produce. It requires various conditions to be triggered together, and sometimes even requires chance coincidence.

Just like the spinning Jenny in Britain in history, if the spinning machine had not fallen down and was seen by that person by chance, which triggered his inspiration, it might not have been possible for anyone to make such a spinning machine even after dozens or hundreds of years.

Then there would be no subsequent British Industrial Revolution, and there would be no rise of the British Empire.

In reality, people often live within the limitations of existing things, doing useless work back and forth. If we don’t respect innovation, how can we talk about rapid progress and long-term development?

When this hydraulic forging hammer used the same amount of time, hammering non-stop throughout the day, and produced more than ten times the amount of iron plates that a blacksmith could produce in a day, Aix seemed to see a rustling army of armored soldiers passing by him, and he was so excited that he almost drooled.

As the saying goes, once you learn one thing, you can learn a hundred things. With the experience gained from the hydraulic forging hammer, Aix took the lead in designing a hydraulic stamping machine based on the existing design.

This one was even faster. The design was completed in just five days, and the finished product was produced in two days.

Moreover, the efficiency of this hydraulic stamping machine is even more terrifying. Using the original process, one blacksmith would have to use all kinds of tools to bend, knock, grind and repair a piece of iron plate for at least several days.

Now, just put it in the right position and stamp it once, and it will basically take shape. Repeat stamping a few times, take it out to remove the edges and corners, polish it, and fix the details, and it's done.

Some of the blacksmiths present exclaimed that they were going to lose their jobs. Axel had to smile and comfort them, saying that it was impossible, as there were many places that needed them and they would never be unemployed.

At the same time, Aix also saw the power of these technologies. In order to ensure that this technology would not be spread out, Aix also discussed and formulated a series of confidentiality measures with leaders such as Amanti and Bandak.

First of all, all the craftsmen involved in the production and their families must live in the designated area of ​​​​Tangquan Fortress. This residential area, Bandak, is equipped with special guards on duty.

Secondly, due to the mixed crowds near the riverside dock, Yamanti organized people to build a wall to seal off the entire hydraulic workshop. From then on, the dock had a permanent army of 50 people, and a fortress connected to the hydraulic workshop was built.

Finally, the leaders also developed a confidentiality manual according to Aix's request, and organized relevant personnel to study it carefully, asking them to act in accordance with the requirements and not violate them.

With the plate armor shell, Aix asked Amanti to organize the territory's leatherworkers to design and make an internal leather lining for the shell, requiring it to not only keep warm and comfortable, but also provide a certain level of protection.

With this double layer of plate armor with both hard and soft protection, Aix believes that the casualty rate of soldiers will be reduced by at least 60% to 70% in the future. With the help of the soft power mentioned by Amanti, the casualty rate should be reduced by one to two levels.

"Wakaka! Doesn't this mean I'm invincible in land warfare? Then I can dominate the entire continent, right?"

Axel, who was too proud of himself, began to fantasize about sex again in his active brain.