Chapter 124 Oil Press
The canyon has always received great attention from Zhao Hai. It was determined by Zhao Hai as the most stable rear base besides space.
The terrain in the gorge is very hidden, and the mountains on all sides block the cold wind. It is not difficult to add water sources. There are also two ways to communicate with the outside, water and land. It can be said to be very convenient, even more suitable for human habitation.
Zhao Hai believes that he will have more and more subordinates in the future. As long as he has the strength to build a small principality here due to the size of the black soil wasteland, he will naturally not be able to live in them all if he has more people. Here in Chengtieshan Castle, those people still have to branch out to build villages.
However, before he has enough strength to found a country, Zhao Hai can only build a small village here in the canyon as a pilot to see what problems need to be improved to facilitate the establishment of larger villages in the future.
However, the land in the canyon has not been truly improved yet, and it is not time to build a village yet. Zhao Hai just has such an idea now.
Three days have passed quickly. Zhao Hai and the others are almost ready here. Now they are waiting for Laura and the others to deliver the oil press, and then Green can go to Casa City. .
At noon on the third day, the convoy of the Markidle family arrived at the foot of the Rock Mountain. This time Laura did not come forward. It was Green who did. They also did not let the Markidel family Instead of going up the rocky mountain, they hitched up the five carriages that Green had bought on the mountain, sent the radishes down the mountain, and then pulled the oil press that Laura helped buy onto the vehicle.
In addition to these five oil presses, the Machidel family also gave Green two hundred gold coins and a set of books. This set of books is a complete encyclopedia of flora and fauna on the mainland. Written by an alchemist, this set of books was a gift from Laura to Zhao Hai.
Last time Zhao Hai told Laura that he had some research on plants and was planning to open a ranch. Laura originally wanted to form an alliance with Zhao Hai, so of course she would not let go of such an opportunity. Afterwards, I bought this set of books and gave them to Zhao Hai.
This set of books is rare on the mainland. In order to write this book, the alchemist spent twenty years collecting a large amount of information about the animals and plants on the mainland, and visited many alchemists and alchemists. , and finally I went to many places by myself to study those animals and plants, and finally wrote this set of books.
Because this set of books is not a magic book, not many are printed. Usually only some alchemists or alchemists have a set.
In addition to giving 10,000 catties of radishes to the people of the Majidel family, Zhao Hai and the others also gave 110 fire ding fish. These are what Zhao Hai promised to Laura. The extra ten The fire dingyu is a gift from Zhao Hai to Laura.
The oil presses that Laura sent to Zhao Hai were not very large. The top five oil presses only took five carriages to load. They could just load the radishes when they returned. Walk.
Green pulled the five oil presses to the mountain without any trouble. He did not unload the oil presses when they reached the mountain, and then asked Zhao Hai to put the carriages into the space.
The arrival of these oil presses was beyond Zhao Hai's expectation. There was an instruction manual to guide you on how to arrange the oil presses. This made Zhao Hai feel very puzzled. He really didn't understand what the Ark Continent was like now. What's going on.
Say there is no science here. Their alchemy and alchemy have something to do with science. Say there is no machine civilization here. Oil presses like this are also very sophisticated in design, so they can’t be considered a little bit. There is no science, and there is magic and fighting spirit here that are not found on earth, so Zhao Hai really doesn't know what to say.
After receiving the oil press and two hundred gold coins, Zhao Hai and the others went directly to Tieshan Fort and installed the oil press in the packed warehouses.
The design of this oil press is really good. It is more than three meters high in total. The top is a feeding barrel, which is very large. The lower part is something like a millstone with a long outside. The long rod can be pulled by a monster on the top. There is an oil outlet at the bottom. This oil outlet can be pulled out with a pipe. The oil can be discharged directly from here. There is also an oil residue outlet.
It seems very simple, but the battlefield area of the entire machine exceeds twenty square meters, and the volume is not small. However, the oil press can be disassembled and can be disassembled into several parts. Otherwise, even a carriage would not be able to pull it.
Zhao Hai took a look and found that the feeding port was too high from the ground. If you wanted to add materials, there were only two ways. One was to put some boards next to the feeding port to form a slope, and people could directly Push the trolley to the feeding port for feeding. Another way is to use a conveyor belt. Using a conveyor belt is a relatively easy way. You can directly load the oil fruits onto the conveyor belt from below, and then send them to the feeding port through the conveyor belt.
This kind of oil press is not designed with any conveyor belt. I am afraid that no one on this continent will use this thing. These conveyor belts are some of the grain depots that Zhao Hai saw on the earth. I have used it before, so I thought of it.
The method of building boards is commonly used on this continent. Some people just dig a big hole in the ground and put the oil press in the hole, so that the ingredients can be added on the ground. , but after discharging the materials, people have to transport the oil barrels up from the pit. , Zhao Hai doesn’t want to use this method. In that case, he will have to dig a hole in the castle, which is not an easy task. The ground here in the castle is all made of stone, but if he wants to dig a hole, he We have to dig out all the stones, otherwise the house may have to be demolished.
Zhao Hai still wants to make a conveyor belt. It is not difficult to make a conveyor belt, and the required power can be obtained directly from the oil press. But it needs some modifications.
Fortunately, the whole body of this oil press is made of metal. If you want to modify it, you only need to add some metal parts to it.
But now comes the problem. None of Zhao Hai’s group knows how to be a blacksmith. If he really wants to make a conveyor belt, he has to find a blacksmith, and this The blacksmith's ability should not be too weak.
Zhao Hailiao only found out after asking Green and the others that although there are many machines on the mainland that can use magic crystals as power, machines like this can only extract fruit oil. A simple machine is really not worthy of using magic crystal as power. I am afraid that the money he sells for the squeezed oil will not be enough to buy magic crystal. Therefore, this kind of machine is generally only designed to be water-powered, wind-powered or Animal power.
Since there is no way to make a conveyor belt, we can only build boards. Fortunately, they have no shortage of boards now, but they do not have a cart to transport oil nuts, nor do they have wooden barrels. Green has to go to Casa City buy.
Green also knew about this situation, and he immediately left for Casa City, while Zhao Hai started to build boards for these oil presses in Tieshanbao, and also prepared to wash the oil fruits. Fortunately, the water source in their city is very convenient. Zhao Hai asked An and the others to build a huge stone pool directly outside these oil pressing plants to wash the oil fruits and then put the oil into it. The fruit is transported to the house and sent to the oil press through the erected board.
The water in that pool is always flowing, so there is no need to change the water. If the small hairs on the oil fruit flow into the moat, they can also become fish food.
However, Zhao Hai also calculated that an oil press requires at least one person to add materials, and one person to watch the oil and oil residue. If the people who clean the oil fruits are also included, then at least Four people are needed, and five oil presses require at least twenty people to complete.
Zhao Hai is not worried about manpower. Zhao Hai does not want to use slaves to work in this kind of oil pressing plant, because this kind of oil pressing plant needs to work around the clock. If all these oil pressing plants are used, As for slaves, they have to work in at least three shifts. In other words, if those slaves are used In terms of subordinates, at least 60 people are needed to ensure the normal operation of this oil pressing plant. Zhao Hai currently has more than 100 people in total. It is obviously impossible to mobilize 60 people to work on this oil pressing plant, so Zhao Hai Hai decided to use undead creatures to build this oil mill.
Twenty human-shaped undead creatures are responsible for feeding and extracting oil, but Zhao Haidao wants to use scaly wildebeest for the animal power to pull the oil.
It’s not that Zhao Hai doesn’t want to use other undead creatures to replace the scaly wildebeest, but that there are no suitable ones. Some of the undead creatures he collected last time were all escaped from the carrion swamp. Huge, and these undead creatures are not suitable for pulling things and pushing this kind of oil press. The strength does not need to be too large, but it must be stable. Those with huge bodies like the aliens cannot pull the oil press. Those with smaller bodies like the big rats will not move at a stable speed. There was no other way, so in the end Zhao Hai still wanted to use the wildebeest to pull the oil press.
Zhao Hai doesn't have many adult scaly wildebeests now, but they are enough. Zhao Hai has already planned. If it doesn't work, he will kill a few scaly wildebeests and then turn these few scaly wildebeests into immortals. Biology, this problem is solved.
Everything is ready here in Zhao Hai. They just need to wait for Green to buy back all the things they use before they can officially start work.
The opening of the oil pressing plant is not a trivial matter. As soon as the oil pressing plant is started, they can get another stable source of income, and at the same time they will have high-quality feed such as oil residue. They can also start a rabbit farm, which will give them another stable source of income, which is really important to the current Buda family.
(End of this chapter)