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Chapter 220 Clockwork Pump

"Hey, of course!" Orrick was a little proud and grateful at the same time: "Thanks to your Majesty, you gave us several amazing magic tools, allowing us to disassemble and study them. Those tools are simply divine technology, and we have benefited a lot from them. Whether it is the use of gears, bearings, or various pistons, they have opened our eyes. We can learn a lot just by disassembling them."

Zhang Jingyi smiled: "Very good! Now I am going to teach you a way to make money."

Orrick laughed: "Making money? Making money is great! Although the beer given to us by His Majesty the King is delicious, it is still better to buy it ourselves and drink it more freely."

Zhang Jingyi: "Something unusual happened this year. It was summer, but the river water level dropped. This will definitely affect Sunshine City, which is a large city with a population of 20,000 and countless farmlands. Summer is the most critical time for farmland irrigation. If irrigation fails to keep up, famine will occur..."

Orric understood: "We make a clockwork water pump, and then take it to Sunshine City to sell it by Adrian's caravan?"

"Exactly!" Zhang Jingyi said with a smile, "Just like Father Ace selling candy, he will make a fortune soon."

Orick was delighted: "This is a good way to make money."

He just laughed twice, and suddenly thought of something: "Sunshine City has the Sunshine Cathedral, and the villain Glass has also retreated to Sunshine City. We fought with Glass in the forest, and Moradin of our dwarves is also an evil god in their eyes. It will be difficult to sell our products to them, right?"

Zhang Jingyi chuckled: "It would be more interesting if the Holy See of Light was there and we could sell the machines made by the dwarves there... I want to see what kind of sparks will erupt when the interests of Ugumantai and the Holy See of Light conflict with each other."

Orrick didn't understand.

But Elizabeth and Antonio understood, and they both laughed.
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The farmlands around Sunshine City are facing great challenges.

Grand Duke Soleimani has recently been troubled by the irrigation of his territory.

I don’t know what’s going on with the strange abnormal climate this year. The water level in the river should have risen in summer, but this year it inexplicably dropped.

The water wheels installed on both sides of the river could not reach the water surface and were unable to scoop up the river water and pour it into the irrigation canal.

This becomes a pretty huge problem!
Suleimani doesn't want his fields to be destroyed by drought. The fields around Sunshine City need to feed more than 20,000 people in Sunshine City and provide food for the Iron Horse Knights under his command.

If the harvest is poor, going hungry is not a big deal, but if a peasant uprising breaks out, it will become a major event that shocks the whole country.

If the peasants made a mild disturbance, he, the Grand Duke, would be called over by King Ugumantai to be criticized. If they made a serious disturbance and shook the foundation of the country, it would not be surprising that he lost his title.

So, when his subordinates informed him that the water truck was not working, Soleimani hurried to the river and personally observed the water conditions.

"Can you move the waterwheel down a bit and set it up again?"

"Of course you can." A subordinate said, "We have several ways to deal with the problem of water trucks. One of them is to move the water truck, but this is not an easy task. It requires a lot of manpower and time."

The subordinate said: "Besides, if the water level continues to drop or returns to normal after we move the water wheel, we will have a headache and have to move the water wheel again..."

I don’t know how much time and manpower it will cost to go back and forth.

Soleimani frowned. “Is there any other way?”

Subordinates: "Another way is to improve the structure of the waterwheel, adjust the height of the waterwheel's axle, increase the suction of the water pump and other measures." Suleimani knew as soon as he heard it that this was not a job that could be done in a short time.

The subordinate whispered: "In the end... it's just manpower."

The word "manpower" was the biggest problem in medieval Europe.

The population there is small, and manpower is a scarce resource, so in the Middle Ages in Europe, countless scientific and technological advances that can save manpower were born...

Soleimani was feeling unhappy when he saw the Golden Archbishop and Father Glass walking towards him. Both of them had unhappy expressions. It turned out that the land of the Holy See of Light around Sunshine City was also facing the same problem.

The Golden Archbishop said: "We have to mobilize believers to help carry water. The canals dry up quickly in the summer, and we need people to constantly carry water from the river and pour it into the canals."

Glass nodded: "Letting them work under the scorching sun is a kind of salvation for them. It is so glorious to be illuminated by the sun."

When Soleimani heard this, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: Damn it! Doing heavy physical work in the summer sun, you call this glory? This is fucking killing people, right?

However, Suleimani had no better solution. He could only order his subordinates: "Go and gather the craftsmen, and find a way to fix the waterwheel. Whether it is to move its location or improve its axle, it must be done as soon as possible. Before the waterwheel problem is solved, use manpower first."

The subordinate nodded and responded.

Just then...

Suddenly, a subordinate came running over from a distance and reported to him loudly: "My Lord Duke, Baron Adrian of Xihuang Town has sent you an incredibly magical machine. They say that this machine can pump water from the river and send it into the canal."

"what?"

Suleimani was surprised: "There are still such good things? Quick, call Adrian's people."

Soon, several of Adrian's servants were brought to Soleimani, carrying a very strange machine.

In the middle of the machine is a strange clockwork, with gear sets, drive shafts and other things next to it, as well as a piston connected to a thick water pipe.

Soleimani: “How does this thing work?”

Adrian's men quickly started to work, lowering one end of the water pipe into the river and the other end into the canal, then tightened the spring...

As soon as I let go, the spring began to slowly spring back, driving the gear set and the transmission shaft to rotate. Then the strange piston-shaped thing also started to work, pumping and releasing, pumping and releasing...the river water was pumped out of the pipe and flowed into the canal.

Soleimani was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped. Fortunately, he was a grand duke and had some manners. He forced himself to hold back and did not look embarrassed.

But his subordinates were not so tolerant. They all showed idiotic expressions: "Wow! This thing is so powerful?"

The Golden Cardinal also became interested: "Oh, this is simply a gift from God! This must be a magic weapon given to us by the God of Light to solve our problems."

(End of this chapter)