Small windmill, squeaking

The swamp here is full of water

So much mud, so much grass

And a bunch of biting bugs

...

With the current technology, Charles can't build the kind of big windmill that Don Quixote challenged, but a simple small windmill with a fan blade as high as a person is fine. Now this kind of windmill is fast in Landeny Province. Promote it.

The matter of digging the corner of the empire is put aside first, and the development of the local area is the foundation of everything.

It is not so easy to open up fields in the swamp, drainage is the most important thing.

After the ditches were used to change the direction of the water source, soil was dug in the ground to build an earth embankment more than one meter to two meters high to enclose a piece of land with a side length of more than one kilometer, and then began to pump water.

Wheat has the highest yield when the groundwater table is buried at a depth of 1-1.5m, and barley has the highest yield when the groundwater table is buried at a depth of 0.6m. The deep stagnant water is drained, and finally the water level is lowered to a sufficient depth below the ground.

To this end, Charles chose wind as the energy source for drainage.

The windmill he took out first was very simple. A large wooden frame was placed on top of a windmill with a height of one person made of wooden frame and canvas. The windmill shaft was installed with a bronze ball bearing that could barely be used. If the wind direction changes, it has to be dismantled and adjusted. Put it up again, and you can get it done in less than half a day.

Fortunately, it is basically north wind in winter and west wind at other times, and the fan blades can be removed, which is not very troublesome.

Several kinds of water pumping equipment were tried under the windmill. After considering cost, technology, materials, maintenance and man-hours, the keel waterwheel was finally selected.

The water output of a traditional keel water tanker is about 36m/h. Charles uses an improved type. The original open water tank is made into a square tank and sealed, and the running blade and the tank are airtight and watertight. The water output of the keel waterwheel similar to the pipe chain conveyor can exceed 64m/h, the water lifting **** is much larger than that of the traditional keel waterwheel, the number of leaves is only 6% of the traditional model, and the production time is only 30%.

It's just that there is no seal that can replace rubber on the vane. At present, only leather and other materials can be used to wrap the vane with metal sheet reinforcement, which affects the water output and requires regular maintenance, but this is enough. Come to drain.

Assuming that 1km of a plot needs to drain 2m of water, about 2 million tons of water need 1,400 working days to be drained. Including maintenance, no wind, rainfall and other factors, 20 windmills and water trucks can be used in windy and rainy conditions. The drainage work of a plot can be completed in about three months in autumn and winter.

When the drainage in the plot is over, a large number of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock are put in to eat up the grass, and then a large number of chickens are put in to plan the grass roots, and then the land can be cultivated.

In the hilly area, Charles simply set fire to the mountains one by one, and then planted pastures to herd sheep.

After two or three years, the roots of the underground trees are completely decayed under the action of bacteria brought by sheep dung, and this area can be opened into an economic crop planting area such as olive orchards.

In the past two years, various craftsmen, including carpenters, have traveled to Amstella by boat, and merchants who used to go here to pull livestock can now pull wool products outside by boat by boat.

Charles is not going to let the textile, paper and printing industries go, he can only tinker with these.

Half of the carpenters here are building windmills and watermills, and the other half are building new textile machines.

Under the current conditions, it is impossible to build a large-scale textile factory. At this time, women are also laborers in the fields. It is unrealistic to completely separate from agricultural production. Therefore, Charles can only rent the machines to various households, and then buy the finished products.

Anyway, there is no product quality standard at this time, and it can be sold after production.

After five years of development, iron and steel smelting has begun to take shape, but all kinds of products are government orders.

At present, the tax rate for exporting iron tools and farm implements in Landeny Province is 10,000%, and the smuggling businessmen directly sink into the sea.

Naturally, there will be objections to this kind of thing, but Charles is a man who pays attention to making money, and the business of paper and books is enough to make them forget what steel is.

Charles had just left for five days on this tour. When he was inspecting a waterwheel workshop, the messenger from the Governor's Palace chased after him on horseback. Some guests arrived, and they were many very distinguished guests.

Hearing the names of the guests, his eyes lit up, and he returned to Amstel without a word.

"Your Excellency Polimeni!" Charles went to the living room to meet the emperor's chief think tank who had been living in the Governor's Palace for a few days without changing his clothes as soon as he came back. "I'm relieved to see that you are so energetic."

The wrinkles on Polimeni's face were much more than when he was in the imperial capital five years ago, but the whole person seemed very energetic, even a little excited.

There are also several old men with him, who are scholars at first glance.

Polimeni didn't dare to talk nonsense with Charles anymore. He prepared a play that year, but it was disturbed by Charles' quick promise, and was laughed at by the emperor and other ministers for a long time.

After much thought, he came to the conclusion that Charles is not the kind of bureaucrat who talks in a sloppy way.

"You set a price." Polimeni said directly, "We need to buy a lot of paper, and we also need to print books."

Charles knew it was for this as soon as he heard him and the old scholars coming, and now "Charles Teach Literacy", "Charles Fables", "Charles Children's Bedtime Stories", "Charles Teaches You Soup" and so on are made of paper Books are selling very well in the imperial capital, and it is strange that these scholars are not interested.

"It's easy to talk with paper," Charles replied. "I can sell it to you at the ex-factory price, as long as the paper technicians don't go hungry."

"For books, I have two plans. One is that everyone pays the cost, which is calculated according to the number of pages and binding costs. The other is that you don't need to pay, and I will sell it after printing, and the income will be divided into half."

The scholars murmured to each other, and there were candidates for both schemes, but those who chose the latter scheme all made a lot of money later.

Scholars who choose the first plan have their own contacts and produce and sell them on their own.

But their customers are all academics, the circle is too small for this era, and sales are limited.

But the second plan is different. Charles put the exquisite covers and spines on the schoolbags of these big men, and bought them home without seeing them as decorations. The style went up all of a sudden, and the sales were naturally far ahead.

These are the things that will happen later. Now, what someone has to do is to keep these academic bigwigs behind.

In the Loma Empire, the rich always have several villas. There are many villas of senior officials in other towns and towns of Landeny and senior officers of the XIX Corps in Amstel. Charles personally came forward to use these villas. The public funds were sold, and then distributed to Polimeni and other academic bigwigs to live in.

For this reason, there was still trouble. In order to make their villas for Polimeni to live in, so as to have an excuse to connect with the emperor's think tank, they came to an auction in front of Charles, and the final winner was He sold his villa to Landney Province for minus twenty gold coins.

The winner's money didn't go in vain~lightnovelpub.net~ He was soon transferred to a wealthy province as a tax officer.

More than a month later, Polimenie was working on the varsity's own first printed books when an unexpected person rang the doorbell.

A great scholar from the desert area traveled thousands of miles to Amstel to print books. After learning that the most famous scholar in the Loma Empire lived a few dozen meters away from his residence, he came to visit.

This was just the beginning. Soon after, scholars from other countries such as the Lakio Empire came to the door, some came to ask for advice, and some came to kick the hall.

At this time, Charles took action. He transformed the opera house and welcomed scholars to give speeches or debates here.

By the end of the year, a large-scale building will be built in Amstel, which will soon become a library for collecting books from many scholars from all over the world.

Charles was very satisfied with this, and it was time for the next move.