Chapter 201 Town Renovation Plan and Clockwork Gun Improvement Plan
"Sir Horn, you see, this is what I mentioned, Guair's style, the private space is small, but the public space is large."
Witt pointed to a four-story stone house erected on the roadside. The stone roof had collapsed, revealing a moldy black wooden frame.
Horn pinched his nose and walked closer. The disgusting stench hit him, turbulent in Horn's nasal cavity, as if pig dung, cow dung, and human dung were mixed into a pot of porridge.
Most of the orange-red wall paint has peeled off, and I don’t know if the stick sticking out from the window is a clothes drying rack or an awning.
This kind of stone house is called Insula (Isolated Island) Apartment, covering an area of about one acre. If you look down from the sky, it almost looks like the word "Hui".
The first floor along the street is filled with shops, and the rest are livestock pens and public toilets. The second floor is where people live in apartments.
Ignoring the guards' dissuasion, Horn followed Werther directly into the Innsula apartment, while Werther even ignored the decaying steps and scampered upstairs.
Ignoring Werther jumping up and down, Horn looked around. These houses had wooden corridors on the inside and small windows on the outside.
At first glance, it looks like a modern apartment building.
Horn took a few steps closer and came to the center of the courtyard surrounded by stone houses. There was a water tank covered with green algae, which should be the place where Insula fetched water for people and livestock.
Near the corridor on the first floor, there are actually flower beds and green plants. Although it is now covered with grass, traces of the past can still be seen.
Sometimes Horn has some doubts about the construction technology of the El Empire. How could such a modern-looking apartment building be built two thousand years ago?
However, as Horn further observed, he discovered that it was proof of ancient technology. This kind of apartment building was still too crude.
Due to construction technical reasons, each floor of the Sula apartment is shorter than the first floor. Horn visually estimated that the top floor is only less than two meters high.
There are at least eight rooms on each floor and as many as twelve rooms. Each room is about 30 to 45 square meters. There are no bathrooms or toilets, let alone running water or sewer pipes.
A room is really just a room. The most important thing is that such a room can accommodate two to three people. An Insula can accommodate fifty or sixty people.
“Crack!”
“Eaah!”
“Boom!”
Sure enough, no matter how light Werther was, the rotten stairs could not bear his weight.
Looking at Werther who climbed up awkwardly from the rotten stairs, Horn asked him: "Is this where the Al people usually live?"
"To be precise, this is the place where the Al people live?" "Where the common people live." Witte looked at the Insura Apartment with some emotion, "Those moneylenders, nobles, and officials all live in the first-floor courtyard called Domus.
And they are often. The owners of these Insula apartments rely on this building to live in Domes.
This small city of Ayr is most likely located on the border and does not have a capital city of Bracknell. It’s so crowded. An Insura there is only about half an acre, but there are hundreds of people living there. That’s called crowded.”
Horn sighed softly, turned around and walked out of the Innsula apartment.
Walking to the street outside, Horn turned around and asked Werther, who still had more to say: "Rockel will be afraid to join us, aren't you afraid?"
"I I don't like the Duke at all." Werther shook his head and said, "Besides, I am very concerned about one thing, that is the picture you drew."
As he said that, Werther took out Horn's previous drawing. The force analysis diagram drawn in the stonemason's workshop: "I saw this kind of lines and analysis method when I was at the headquarters of the Imperial Stonemason's Guild. It was in the remains of Gu'el's highest architectural manual "Earth Wood and Barrel" .
I think you must have the complete copy. If I help you with the work, can you give me the book? ”
Looking at Werther's slightly trembling hands, Horn was stunned for a few seconds and suddenly laughed: "Okay, I'll teach you, but I have a condition."
"You say."
“I want you to submit a town reconstruction plan to me in five days. The goal is to transform these ruins into a settlement that can accommodate at least 10,000 people. Can you do it?”
< br>Standing there and thinking for a while, Werther raised his head, his eyes shining: "I need manpower." "I will send someone to contact you." Horn smiled.
After saying goodbye to Werther, Horn walked around again. After getting a general understanding of the town, he walked towards a workshop under the guidance of the Boy Army.
The workshop is located in the ruins. It simply has a wooden shed roof and then it is covered with thatch. There are Salvation Army men in black in the workshop clearing the rubble.
In front of a workbench, Paslik kept nodding his head and leaned on the chair to take a nap, while Seamotine was quickly assembling the clockwork gun in front of her.
"How is it? Do you know anything about this?"
"A clumsy but useful design." Haimoting's voice was filled with a thick nasal sound. She didn't know whether it was the flu or the saint. sick.
"The firing of this kind of spring-loaded gun comes from the barrel and the firing rod. The firing rod is actually a spike rack with round heads on both ends.
One end is stuck in the cavity of the wooden handle. To prevent the gear from launching the firing rod together, the other end is placed in the barrel to fire iron sand.
When the gear rotates, the rack is pushed and the firing rod moves forward. However, because the force of the spring is too strong When the gear rotates, the firing rod will jump and tilt, so you installed a non-powered gear above the barrel for control.
However, there is a problem with this structure. To fully utilize the kinetic energy of the gear, the firing rod must be made very long, which makes the entire barrel gun too long and heavy.”
It must be said that although he is a thief, Seamotine is real. Do what you do, love what you do, she really understands this tiny mechanical structure.
"These are the two problems I mentioned to you before." Grabbing a three-legged bench and sitting down, Horn stretched out two fingers. "First, we must find a way to shorten the firing rod and barrel, and second, we must find a way to shorten the firing rod and barrel. I want to find a way to improve that the barrel must be pulled out before it can be fired."
"If you want to reduce the size of the gun barrel, you can use the lathe in the Machinery Palace to cut and drill holes," Haimoting said, pointing to the firing rod on the table. "As for shortening the firing rod, we must find a metal material that is both light and strong.
There is such a material, and that is the holy silver used by the Holy Guards. It is light and strong. It’s not inferior to fine iron or even white crystal steel. Can you get it?”
“Nonsense, if I can get it, why do I need to ask you how to solve it?”
Playing with it in your hands? Haimoting looked at the clockwork box for a long time, and finally shook her head: "Then I don't have any ideas for the time being."
Horn nodded in disappointment: "If you think about it more recently, I will let Brock cooperate with you."
Listening to Horn's words, Seamotine put down the clockwork box: "I have some thoughts on the second question. In fact, in the structure of a pendulum clock, there is an anti-reverse pawl.
It will get stuck on the gear to prevent reverse rotation. We can appropriate this to In the clockwork box, then we need a, uh, mechanism to control the pawl..."
Haimo Ting frowned, seeming to be thinking about how to describe this structure.
“You can make a snake-shaped bolt action, and then use the bolt action to clamp on the anti-return pawl, grind an arc on the wooden handle, and then place the trigger on it, and just pull the trigger... "Recalling the image of the matchlock gun in his mind, Horn interrupted Haimao Ting.
But when he raised his head, it was Hai Moting's curious eyes: "Your Majesty, how do you know this?"
The gun mechanism is simple, but it is not something that can be thought of casually. Mortin's own idea was to pull the lever to launch, but it was much inferior to pulling the trigger with her fingers.
“Oh, I’m just suggesting it.”
Horn laughed. After all, the gun mechanism is a proven and effective structure. Rather than blindly trial and error, it is better to try in this direction first. Woolen cloth.
Past the confused Haiting, Horn looked at the burly white-haired old man in front of him: "Master Crispa, have you thought about the orichalcum issue I told you recently?"< br>
The alchemy ritual of Orichalcum really consumes too much refined iron. Horn was already short of refined iron, so he had no choice but to turn to Paslik, who claimed to be "proficient" in alchemy.
“The manufacturing of orichalcum is a waste of fine iron, but your numbers and mana make up for this part.”
Paslik said lightly: “Actually, now orichalcum The formula has been adjusted in many ways, based on the current situation calculated by the alchemists of Black Snake Bay.
But with so many alchemists entering Daze Township, you can completely make up for the shortage in orichalcum production with mana. Waste.”
“Can you adjust the formula?”
Paslik said with disdain: "If I, Pasri... Crispa can't do it, then it will be even less possible for others to do it!"
(End of Chapter)