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Chapter 168 Start Selling
The hunting camp was set up tens of kilometers southwest of the city of Mainz. When Frederick waited for the visitors to enter the city, except for the servants, the following army went directly to the camp to set up camp.

When the Grand Duke of Mainz brought a group of guests to the camp, Duke Wessen's barracks instantly became the focus of attention.

When Sarah took Frederick and Maria from left to right to the Wesson family barracks, she found her grandfather and Lord Byrne leading a large group of people studying the walls of the barracks, and hurried over to say hello.

Frederick's mouth twitched slightly, and now the business is on the doorstep.

The perimeter of his barracks is not a wooden fence, but barbed wire.

The façade is made of chain link fence, and the processing machine is very simple. There is a sleeve with a helical groove on the outside of the rotating steel bar. When the wire is wound on the steel bar, it is constrained by the groove of the sleeve and becomes flat. A wavy "∽" shape.

The iron wire is rotating when it comes out of the machine. As long as someone manipulates the clutch to control the length of the wavy iron wire and finally cut it off, the iron wire can pass through the previous iron wire continuously while rotating, cross each other horizontally, and finally become A piece of barbed wire.

On the outside and top of the chain link fence, a circle of blade barbed wire was placed. Frederick was a little depressed. He kept thinking about the old-fashioned spiked barbed wire, and only remembered this new type of barbed wire after the war.

The blade barbed wire is not made of iron wire, but a long thin iron sheet. First, a long strip with trapezoidal sharp blades on both sides is pressed by a machine, and finally a groove is pressed on the middle strip to strengthen the structure.

In order to prevent rust, these wire meshes are processed by hot-dip galvanizing.

A group of the Grand Duke of Mainz hid there and studied the razor wire fence, all of them looked solemn.

Grand Duke Byrne drew out a dagger and slashed at the barbed wire, without much effort, but the circle-like barbed wire absorbed some energy due to deformation and its own elasticity, and it was not cut off at once.

Then he increased his strength, and the barbed wire broke, but because of the material, it only opened a small hole and did not fall to the ground.

Maria wanted to reach out and touch it curiously, but Frederick quickly grabbed her hand and said, "Be careful, it's very sharp."

Grand Duke Byrne took a closer look at the barbed wire, and said to the people around him: "If you arrange more of these steel thorns, it will be difficult for people and horses to pass through."

Whether it is cavalry or infantry on the battlefield, mobility is very important.

Barbed wire isn't indestructible, but it's not as bypassable as obstacles like wooden stakes, and the time it takes to break is long enough for the enemy to react.

At this moment, Frederick came to them and said with a smile: "Everyone is interested in this, alas, this is not a very powerful thing, it is a gadget that prevents livestock from escaping in pastures and farms."

"I'm relatively poor, so I can only make do with these as a fence."

The Grand Dukes of Byrne and Mainz gave him a blank stare at the same time. All the cargo ships traveling to and from Wessen State passed through their territory. Just by counting the number of ships, you can know how hot this guy's business is.

After Frederick's reminder, everyone found that it is really good to use this kind of steel thorns on pastures, which can solve the problem of cattle and sheep running out of the fence.

Immediately someone asked the price, and Frederick's asking price was five times the price of the raw materials. The 5-meter-long barbed wire fence weighs about 100 kilograms, which is not too expensive compared to ranaway cattle and sheep that cannot be found.

And it can also be used in some important places, just looking at it can make some people dispel the idea of ​​climbing over the wall.

At this time, the Grand Duke of Mainz asked him: "Can I enter your barracks?"

Frederick immediately replied: "Yes, if you don't mind, you can have lunch like this."

It’s okay if he didn’t say anything, but when he mentioned the Grand Duke of Mainz, he said with a dark face: “What’s the matter with you, you have to sing before eating early in the morning, and you don’t let people sleep!”

Serious aristocratic life, drinking and dancing at night until late at night, and only getting up at noon, the camp of the Grand Duke of Mainz is next to it, and it has been woken up by singing these two days.

As soon as he finished speaking, lunch began in the barracks, and singing came from the barracks.

"Okay." The Grand Duke of Mainz said helplessly, "Sing at noon and before dinner."

Frederick just smiled and said nothing, and invited everyone to visit the barracks.

"I've always wanted to ask." Archduke Byrne pointed to a giant in the camp and said, "What is that thing?"

Frederick replied, "Let's go and have a look."

After a group of old men walked past, each of them looked unhappy, because there was a toilet sign on the tent not far away, and the opposite tent was a bathroom.

However, Grand Duke Bain and some people who had gone out to fight did not take it seriously, and looked at it from the toilet to the bathroom to the sink next to the behemoth.

Archduke Bain did not ask Frederick, but asked the soldiers standing guard: "Tell me what this big guy does?"

Metzger could tell at a glance that the old man opposite was noble, but he didn't answer, but looked at Frederick.

After Frederick nodded, Metzger replied: "My lord, this is our army's water tower, and these are the sinks around."

When he said this, many people understood that there are many fountains in the city now. The principle is to install a high-level water tank at a high place, and then connect it to the fountain, so that the fountain can spray water by itself.

The water tower is more than two meters high. Below it is an iron frame, which is connected by bolts. Above it is a water tank made of thick tarpaulin, which can hold about 3 tons of water.

Under the water tank is a well with the thickness of a human leg, and mounds are piled up around it to prevent the water on the ground from flowing in. Next to it, there is a reciprocating pump driven by a magic reciprocating machine that everyone is already familiar with. Iron box, no one knows what it is for.

Under Metzger's guidance, the gentlemen turned on the tap, and clear water flowed out immediately.

"So clean?!" The Grand Duke of Mainz knew his territory well. The water from the well was not muddy, but the smell of mud couldn't escape.

Metzger pointed to the iron box next to the water pump and said: "The water we use is purified and sterilized by the water purifier, so it has no peculiar smell, and it won't hurt your stomach after drinking it."

The eyes of those who know how to know become sharper instantly. When marching and fighting, they are most afraid of water pollution. There is no story of a king lost because of a horseshoe nail. There is a lack of an empire that was destroyed by an epidemic because the water source was polluted before the war. example of.

At this time, some people have already started to suggest to the master that this filter is not only used when fighting in the field, but also can be used in the military camp, and can be bought back.

This filter is also simple. The first layer is a fine mesh woven with fine copper wire, using the principle of a Y-shaped filter; the second layer is cotton, which filters out some larger impurities; the third layer is activated carbon, and at the same time A necromancer circle was also installed to sterilize.

The corners of Frederick's mouth were slightly curved. At present, the market for this water purifier is not very big. At most, it will kill the filter material, but the meat on the mosquito's legs is also meat.

"Eh?" Sforza, the envoy from the Helvetia Federation, immediately attracted everyone's attention, "What are you wearing here?"

His voice is a little loud, and he points to Metzger's left chest when he asks a question.

Attracted by his question, everyone looked at Metzger's chest and found that there was a colorful thing on it.

　Note: I asked Taobao customer service about this.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)