Chapter 1,198 European Skills, Medieval Blacksmith Shop
"Lord of Huitziloppo! The quality of this iron is very good, really very good!...Tsk, tsk, when the smoke comes out and you can't see the messy colors, I know it is real good iron!..."
"Ah? Dear Bishop Sipangu, you said you want to make iron tools? ... Well, there is no rush. The forge has not been built yet, and there is still an anvil for forging iron. It needs to be re-molded, which takes a lot of time.
Well, of course the stone platform can also be used first, although it is very difficult to use... In addition, dear sir, I... my blacksmithing tools are still on the ship, packed in the heaviest wooden box... Can you let Hong
Give me back the knight squire you sent me? Please!…”
Dawn breaks out in the eastern sky, and green smoke rises from the open-air furnace. Carlo, the goldsmith, is covered in ashes, and his face is covered with black ash from the charcoal fire. In order to smelt this furnace of iron, he didn't sleep all day and night.
, now I feel like I can’t even open my eyelids. But the leader of the native village and town, the bishop of Xipangu, suddenly appeared and wanted to carefully inspect the iron smelting situation! This made his anus tighten, and he had to be careful to be respectful, nod and bow, and then
Just like serving a noble gentleman.
"Praise Huitziloppo! You see, this is an iron melting furnace, yes, it looks like a honeycomb! Under the bottom layer of this honeycomb, there is relatively loose firewood. There is a bellows opening at the middle and lower end so that it can be blown inside.
Then go up, there is a layer of black charcoal as high as an arm, and then a layer of small pieces of iron ore about the same height. Two layers are stacked up in groups, so that the iron ore can be burned thoroughly.
good…"
"That's right! This is how the bellows blows. It's pulled and pushed... This is the craftsmanship of the carpenter Antonio, and it's sealed with a layer of leather. It's so well made... Ah! It blows from this air outlet, and the air outlet is in the middle.
The ores above and below can be burned...what? How exactly is it burned in the furnace? Uh, this, this question is asking..."
"Ah Tie, answer well! This is the tomato shaman sent by the great chief of Death himself! If you don't answer well, I will squeeze out tomato juice for you..."
The red-haired Chabo narrowed his eyes and shouted at Carlo. Although Carlo couldn't understand all the words, when he saw the red-haired attendant touching the rattan around his waist, he immediately shivered and even felt sleepy.
's gone.
In the past two months, he had been whipped with canes like this many times, and the salty sea water had touched him many times. The beatings were unforgettable to him. Not only him, but all the captured and surrendered sailors saw the red-haired attendant.
Their cane knees felt weak and they were shaking subconsciously.
"Ah! Blast, blow hard! That, in the middle of the blast furnace, it can be very hot... the firewood below will slowly burn out, and the molten iron burned in the middle will also sink, and then the iron ore above will
The stone will come to the middle, and then it will be burned and burned... Just keep blowing like this until the end of the burning. At the bottom of the furnace there are first the residual charcoal, then the slag blocks, the middle is the large piece of burned sponge iron, and the top is the burnt residue.
The iron ore..."
"Well, that's right! A furnace of several hundred kilograms of iron ore and charcoal can only produce a hundred kilograms of iron at a time. After that, it's a matter of hammering in the forge... Ah, that's right! This is the furnace. After it's hot,
, striking the iron on the iron felt repeatedly...just...just 'ping, ping, bang, ding, ding, ding, ding, dong'!"
Carlo, the goldsmith, was bowing and gesticulating with a shy smile, standing beside the hot honeycomb furnace. His muscular and hairy upper body was naked, sweat was pouring down his body, and with his bowing posture, he looked a bit like rowing in the wasteland.
Water bear.
Next to him is the honeycomb furnace, which was the most common in blacksmith shops in the Iberian Peninsula in this era. The entire furnace is only more than two meters high. The top is the filler smoke port, the middle is the blast tuyere, and the bottom is the thick furnace bottom.
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This iron-smelting furnace doesn't look very eye-catching. It seems to be smaller than the iron-smelting shaft furnace built before in Tiewan Town. However, the technical details contained in it and the actual efficiency of iron-smelting are much higher than the furnaces in the Kingdom!
After all, this is a craft that has been practiced by European blacksmiths for nearly a thousand years, and it is a real thing that has been used by ancestors for generations. Many of the construction and operation details are imprinted in the minds of real old blacksmiths, and they are passed down from generation to generation. It is not just a few years.
You can figure it out by yourself in a year!
Of course, we are already in the Renaissance era, and new iron-smelting technological innovations are emerging one after another. In the Italian peninsula and the German states, iron-smelting blast furnaces with a height of seven to eight meters, or even more than ten meters have been built. The pig iron output of these blast furnaces,
It is two or three orders of magnitude more than the small furnaces of blacksmiths! Therefore, in Italy and Germany, especially in towns with developed trade, many blacksmith shops no longer smelt pig iron, but directly buy it ready-made
of iron to forge.
However, the Iberian Peninsula, which is a traditional conservative and technological depression, has now promulgated the "Alhambra Decree", which persecutes Jewish heretics and Moorish heretics, and burns witches and devil believers. Only devout Castilians
The biggest business! As for these unimportant new technological reforms, they are always slower. Well, maybe there are more than one...
"It's just the most common iron smelting furnace. Blacksmith shops are everywhere in the peninsula. It's not the blast furnaces that emerged in the Italian commercial city-states... Why do these natives of Sipangu, even the highest-ranking native bishop, look like this?
Is it like nothing I’ve ever seen before?…”
Carlo, the goldsmith, was gesticulating hard, and with a flattering smile, he introduced the details of the furnace to the distinguished native bishop. But he was secretly cursing in his heart, until he met the eyes of red-haired Chabo, and shuddered suddenly.
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"O Lord! Although these ancient Sipan natives have primitive and backward iron-smelting technology, they are still very savage and capable of fighting with bronze weapons! These knights and attendants with dyed hair fight fiercely and cruelly, fighting to cut off
The head... he forces people to drink blood wine at every turn and carves evil runes on their foreheads... Is this really Xipangu? Where the hell is it in the east?!..."
Thinking of this, Carlo's forehead felt a dull pain again, and his stomach twitched a little. The bird pattern of the Lord God was deeply engraved on his forehead, leaving dark red solidified scars. And that night everyone was forced to take a blood oath to convert, and the evil red
The attendant directly killed an injured sailor, mixed the warm blood with wine, and forcibly fed it to them! Ugh...even the native priests and apprentices cut off their hair, and some even cut off their fingers and threw them away.
In the burning fire... and then recited the terrible incantation, giving them a devil's curse on their souls!...
"Ah! What an evil devil native! I was really blinded by shit and deceived by the idiot Columbus, so I boarded an ocean-going sailing ship and came to such a devil's land!..."
Carlo cursed in his heart, but did not dare to show any disrespect on his face. At this moment, his heart was filled with regret. If he was asked to choose again!... Hey, I'm afraid he would still board an ocean-going sailing ship.
After all, the Holy War on the peninsula has ended, and the blacksmith's work has been greatly reduced. Although he has some savings and wants to open a blacksmith shop in a decent big city, he cannot get permission from the guild. So he can only join the Queen's exploration fleet and take credit with him.
After returning, he had a chance to squeeze into the city and stand firm...
"O destiny given by the Lord!...Ah? Dear Bishop, praise Huitziloppo!...Oh, you ask this? These are iron smelting tools, not wrought iron...Look, the bellows for inflating air and the water tank
Sink, shovel for shoveling iron ore, tongs for holding iron slag, rake for pulling iron, poker for stirring fire... As for this bucket? It must be filled with cold water to extinguish and quench the fire!..."
"Lord of Huitziloppo! I have made these iron-smelting tools one by one in the past month or two. Although they are a little rough, they can be used for now... Oh! Carpenter Antonio
But it helped a lot! He was standing over there, wearing a wooden sign..."
"Praise to you! Venerable Bishop Sipangu! Praise to Huitziloppo!..."
Antonio, the carpenter, bowed his waist and saluted "Mr. Bishop" repeatedly, his old face smiling like a flower. He was wearing a wooden sign with a very abstract simple wood drawing on it, which was obviously made by a canine warrior.
Carlo also had a wooden plaque on his body, but with a strange hammer drawn on it, representing his identity as a blacksmith.
Next to it, on the sign of Boatswain Chachu, there is a knife and a cable, which is obviously a warrior who can fight and a sailor. Bartolo, the Boatswain who was thrown into the sea by Columbus and captured in the fishing bay
Mei is the same, except that in addition to the knife and cable, there is an extra thin tube, which means that she can operate a matchlock gun.
As for Columbus's brother-in-law who was hiding on the other side, obviously far away from Bartolome, and Captain Alana, who fell into the water and was captured in Big Water Bay, he drew a thin tube and a strange "honey", and he didn't know what it was.
What exactly does a lump mean?
There were two other people next to Alana. One was Gonzalo, who was captured by the Yuwan tribe and had an arrow in his knee. His wooden sign also had cables and thin tubes drawn on it. As for the last one, the Yumizu tribe was captured.
, the little Jill who gave the glass beads, the wooden sign turned out to be a cable and a turkey.
"O praise the Lord of Huitziloppo! My chest!…"
Soon, two warriors from the kingdom came from the northern port carrying a heavy wooden box. Seeing this box, Carlo, the goldsmith, burst into tears. The forging tools in the wooden box were passed down from his father's family.
It's for him, the guy who really eats! What's more, there's a small bag of gold sand that contains hundreds of grams that he secretly hid in the shoe repair box!
