I'm not a lord

Chapter 89 I Like War

War is a good thing.

Lynn loves war so much.

It brings the high and mighty down to the dust.

It allows the lowly to covet the throne.

It also allows rare treasures to fall into the mortal world.

If the North was still at peace, a blacksmith of Eric's caliber would never have ended up in the White Bear Territory.

Excellent blacksmiths would naturally gather under the command of great nobles or in big cities.

A poor and remote place like White Bear Territory, where one can only see the barbarians and the giant bears baring their teeth, is only worthy of having a blacksmith of Qi He's level. He is good enough at making farm tools, but it is difficult for him to make sophisticated weapons.

In the past, White Bear could not afford to employ a senior blacksmith, nor did he have a place to use such talents.

But the White Bear Territory under Lin En's rule is extremely short of various high-level talents.

War was his perfect opportunity to recruit talent.

As the war continues, large numbers of people will flee the war-torn areas.

Eric's arrival is just the beginning, and more people will flock to White Bear Territory in the future.

With a large population base, we can naturally select enough talents.

In an era of widespread illiteracy, talented people will stand out spontaneously like nails in a sack.

In addition, with the "Lord" panel that Lin En possesses, promoting talents is as easy as taking candy from a baby.

As for how to keep Eric, that was not a problem at all for Lynn.

Not only are the salaries and benefits high, but the best stage has also been created.

When Eric saw the heavy forging hammers swinging automatically in the blacksmith's workshop, he could no longer move his feet.

An excellent blacksmith can naturally understand the great significance of the hydraulic forging hammer.

"Eric, pledge your loyalty to me and you will be in charge of this workshop."

With just one sentence, Lynn made Eric his exclusive blacksmith.

Eric, who was a whole circle bigger than Linn, lowered his head and kissed the back of the master's outstretched right hand:

"My Lord, my hammer will always swing for you!"

Eric

[Loyalty: 90 (already accepted as a follower)]

As for Qihe, who was originally in charge of the workshop, he was naturally demoted to Eric's subordinate.

And Qi He had no objection to this.

Eric simply showed off his exquisite local quenching and folding forging techniques, which made Zich admit defeat.

The White Bear Territory has not yet formed a blacksmith guild similar to that of Sanhe City, and even if it does, it will be decisively banned by Lin En.

Guilds are mostly xenophobic and will resist foreign practitioners to protect the interests of local industrialists and businessmen.

You stinky outsider who just arrived in Sanhe City and wants to open a store and do business directly?

Don't even think about it!

Even a blacksmith as skilled as Eric had to start from scratch after arriving in Sanhe City.

Lynn doesn't care where the talent comes from.

As long as you are loyal, you will be valued by him.

It is said that Eric has two sons, both of whom are adults and are good blacksmiths.

Lin En naturally accepted everyone who came.

However, Eric's family was currently residing in Sanhe City and would arrive in White Bear Territory on the next transport ship. Lin En had only one mission for his family.

Mass-produce the plate armor for me as quickly as possible.

Lynn gave Eric the design drawings of the plate armor.

"This is the plate armor I designed. Are you confident that you can make it?"

Eric took the blueprint with both hands, looked at it over and over for a long time, squinting his eyes and thinking:
"Master, there is a similar kind of armor in the southern border called plate armor. It is made of large pieces of iron pieces. Its defensive effect is stronger than chain mail. I can definitely make that thing.

As for the plate armor you designed, sir, it only has two plates on the upper body. I dare say that its defensive performance is definitely better than plate armor, but it is also much more difficult to make. I can try to make it."

Eric has skills and is not afraid of unknown challenges.

This plate armor has a certain degree of similarity to plate armor. With the help of the hydraulic forging hammer, he has the confidence to give it a try.

Lin En was a little surprised. The Southern Territory could actually produce plate armor?
Of course, he also knew the production process of plate armor, which was very similar to the cloth armor popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The exterior of this type of armor is usually made of cloth or leather, and the interior is filled with regular iron sheets and fixed with rivets.

The outer layer of cloth and leather can absorb the impact, while the inner layer of metal plates can effectively resist puncture and slashing, which can be regarded as the predecessor form of plate armor.

Compared with the one-piece forged plate armor, forging a few palm-sized iron sheets is obviously much easier.

But correspondingly, the defensive performance of plate armor is naturally much worse than that of plate armor.

When it comes to armor, the craftsmanship determines the effect.

Since Lin En has already mastered the production process of plate armor, he naturally wants to achieve it in one step and launch a dimensionality reduction attack on the northern princes in terms of military equipment.

The war sweeping across the North has begun.

In this case, someone needs to step on the accelerator for this car.

Lynn was the one who stepped on the accelerator.

Accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again!
He wants to accelerate the chaos in the North.

Only chaos can forge the ladder of ascent.

Over the next few days, Lynn spent most of his time in the blacksmith's workshop, where he carefully explained to Eric the key points of making plate armor.

As long as the skills are up to par, this thing is simply a change in thinking direction.

There is no iron casting process on the continent of Diewas. All iron ingots are produced by the "block iron smelting" technology. All ironware needs to be forged by hand, so most excellent blacksmiths have very good basic skills.

Eric was the best among them. Under his hammer, the hard iron ingot was like a piece of dough that could be manipulated at will.

He could forge iron ingots into uniform iron sheets, fold the iron sheets many times, and forge them repeatedly, eventually making an excellent long sword with patterns, which is the so-called "steel is made through a hundred temperings."

Therefore, as long as Lynn provided the complete production process and gave him some pointers, Eric quickly got the hang of it.

He was even able to draw inferences from one example and propose improving the anvil and hammer to create special tools suitable for plate armor.

In the process of making plate armor, hydraulic forging hammers undertake most of the boring forging work.

Eric was able to focus all his energy on key processes such as shaping, cold forging, and quenching.

During the demonstration teaching, Lynn also selected five strong and intelligent apprentices from the blacksmith shop to observe and help.

Four days later, both Lynn and Eric had crafted a plate armor top.

Due to the immaturity of craftsmanship and tools, the two pieces of plate armor have a rough surface, are not smooth inside, and have a very small curvature in the chest area. They are far less exquisite and dazzling than the plate armor seen on the Internet in later generations.

But in terms of defense, these two sets of plate armor are definitely at the top of the continent.

Eric hadn't slept much in the past four days, and he focused all his attention on the plate armor, and he barely caught up with the progress of his 'teacher' Lynn.

Looking at the finished product on the table, he even felt as if he were in another world.

As a blacksmith specializing in weapon making, he knew exactly what kind of 'horrific beast' he had created.

The war on the continent may undergo earth-shaking changes because of this armor.

(End of this chapter)