Wizard: I brought the wrong system.

Chapter 403 Preparing for War
A farm implement blacksmith?

It seems we can't rely on them to handcraft the bullet casings.

"How did you manage the refugees pouring in from the Earl's territory?" Yaro asked.

Dylan bowed slightly: "I put them all together in the serfhouse."

"Oh?"

Yaro raised an eyebrow: "Tell me why you did this."

"They are guilty."

"What crime?"

"Leaving the earldom without authorization".

Instead of dwelling on the fact that they had become refugees to escape death, Yarrow asked:
"You used to be from Perrin Castle, and now you're the acting steward of the Viscount's territory. What does the affairs of the Earl's territory have to do with you?"

The prevailing value here is: the lord of a lord is not my lord, and the vassal of a vassal is not my vassal.

Dylan's statement is logically flawed.

"Unauthorized trespassing on a viscount's territory is also a crime."

Yaro laughed irritably, "I think you're just making excuses to lock them all up together."

After a pause, Yaro added, "The influx of refugees will inevitably disrupt the existing order, and the original inhabitants of the viscount's territory will naturally be hostile to these outsiders."

"You punished them from the perspective of an earldom, detaining the refugees in one place, considering both their feelings and maintaining order in the viscountdom... The idea was good, but the methods were crude."

"Nothing can be hidden from Lord Yaro."

Dylan offered a compliment, then explained:

"Whether the technique is crude or not, holding a weapon is not important; as long as you show this posture, that's enough."

"Build a ladder in their hearts?"

"It's also about drawing a line for them, telling them what they can and cannot do, and then catching a few disobedient ones and severely punishing them, so that others can understand that you are now the master of the viscount's territory."

Fishing Law Enforcement?

Heavy penalties in chaotic times?

Yaro nodded: "I understand, it's about making an example of someone."

"Lord Yaro's summary is still the best..."

"Alright, stop flattering me."

Yaro interrupted Dylan's flattery and waved for him to leave: "Go wait outside, I have something to ask you."

After drying himself off and changing into slightly thicker clothes, Yaro stepped out of the room, rubbing his hair with a dry towel as he asked:

How many refugees are there now? How do you plan to resettle them?

“We have gathered 578 refugees so far, this…” Dylan bent down behind Yaro, hesitated for a moment, and said, “I haven’t figured out what to do yet. Does the master have any plans?”

Yaro realized that he was accommodating him, but he didn't expose him. He put down the towel and took the milk from the maid's hand: "Do you know Lan'er Village?"

"I know, it's a small village located on the right side of the territory, with 56 households and a total of 176 people. It produces spelt wheat and wild grapes for horse feed."

However, due to a shortage of horses in the Viscount's territory, starting in the winter thirteen years ago, Viscount Corey changed the tax revenue from Spelt wheat to wild mountain grapes, specifically for making wild wine, simply because wine made from the wild grapes there has a rich fruity and floral aroma..."

Dylan recounted the details with great familiarity.

It's clear that he really put his heart into his work.

"Okay, I got it."

After finishing the bland milk, Yaro let out a long sigh, wiped his mouth, put down the cup, and looked up, saying, "Relocate the villagers there to another place, and settle the craftsmen and refugees in that village. Let the craftsmen lead the way and help me repair some things... Oh, and if the villagers are willing to work, they can stay."

Burning lime, refining glass, stamping towers, purifying gunpowder, making 'soap'...

The tasks currently under Yaro's control already require a considerable number of people, and there may be new needs in the future, so naturally, the more people the better.

“I understand, Lord Yarrow.”

Yaro nodded, then took a booklet from the table.

"Give this to the craftsmen and let them study it first to see what needs to be improved."

This is a simple stamping machine; to put it simply, it's a device that uses multiple sets of pulleys to lift and lower boulders.

It can be done by manpower or by using water power.

Arrangements can be made based on the specific circumstances of Lan'er Village at that time.

Yaro then handed over an unassembled empty cartridge case.

"Then find a few skilled old carpenters and have them carve several printing plates based on this finished product. I have written down the specific data and specifications in the booklet mentioned earlier."

Except for the primer case, which has a slightly more complex structure, the other parts of the cartridge case are easy to understand.

But don't think it's simple; bullets require extremely high precision in their manufacturing process.

If the cartridge case is too large, it will explode in the barrel; if the cartridge case is too small, the airtightness will be poor; if the cartridge case is uneven in thickness, it will also explode in the barrel.

Otherwise, the joke that "a certain country with over a billion people, India, can't even manufacture bullets" wouldn't have circulated.

However, Yaro is not going to build a large-scale assembly line, and since labor costs are free, a slightly higher defect rate is not a problem. He can arrange for more groups of people to select the finished products.

After arranging the bullets, Yaro prepared to deal with the 'firearms' problem.

Yaro's initial idea was to construct the gun barrel directly with magic, using a spatial ring as a magazine. With three cubic meters, it could hold tens of thousands of bullets. With just a thought, all tens of thousands of bullets could be unleashed in an instant, capable of blasting any enemy to smithereens.

However, Koyal has never found a spell that can withstand the pressure generated by bullets.

Therefore, for now, we can only produce physical 'firearms'.

Yaro first prepared to make two kinds of 'guns'.

The first type: a walking stick, also known as a cane, which can also be disguised as a magic wand. It is a standard weapon used for close-range attacks when the spatial ring cannot be exposed, and can also be used for precise shooting at medium range.

The second type: a barrel blocked on one side, which requires heat to load and magic to activate the bullets. It prioritizes quantity over accuracy, serving a similar purpose to a Gatling gun for burst firepower in a short period of time.

The key to both lies in the barrel, but the soul of the barrel is the rifling.

Rifling is the spiral grooves inside the barrel of a gun. The concave parts are called rifling grooves, and the convex parts are called rifling grooves. There is no fixed number of rifling grooves; there can be two, four, or more.

The gun barrel is like a syringe, responsible for locking the air pressure behind the bullet and 'shooting' the bullet out.

The purpose of rifling is to create a spin force when the bullet "whooshes," thus making the bullet fly more steadily, farther, and with greater penetrating power.

Yaro plans to make the 'walking stick' with 8 rifling grooves, while the 'gun barrel' will only have 2 rifling grooves.

The manufacturing equipment originally prepared in Perrin Castle has been gradually moved to the Viscount's territory in the past few days. With the help of these tools, it is not difficult to make hollow steel pipes; the main difficulty lies in carving the rifling.

There are many methods for rifling, such as scraper method, hook cutter broaching method, and top cone extrusion method.

The scraper method involves repeatedly pulling a scraper back and forth along the rifling groove dozens of times, which produces a large amount of fine metal dust and requires a high-performance lathe.

The hook-blade planing method is similar to planing wood, creating the rifling layer by layer.

The top cone extrusion method involves extruding a hard alloy tipless bullet-shaped top cone with the same cross-sectional shape as the rifling, causing plastic deformation of the bore and slightly increasing the bore diameter, thereby creating rifling.

(End of this chapter)