The next morning, Master Craftsman Daen warmly invited Roning to visit the expanded iron and wood workshop to see the loom he had recently tinkered with.

Based on the drawings provided by Roning and Dahn's many improvements, Roning had already seen the prototype of the pedal loom.

"Congratulations, Dan. This loom is already about halfway done."

He sat on the stool in front of the loom and tried stepping on the pedal twice, recalling the scene of weaving in his mind and feeling the feedback from the loom in front of him.

“The loom should be similar, but the rotation when the pedal is stepped on continuously is a bit jerky, and the pedal mechanism is not smooth enough. It should be carefully polished to optimize its transmission mechanism.”

"Also, have you tried the effect?" Luo Ning asked while fiddling with the bamboo reed.

Daan shook his head a little awkwardly, "Sir, this loom was only fully assembled two days ago, and I haven't tried to operate it yet."

Master Craftsman Daen was at least somewhat famous in Wushan Territory. When he was being examined by the lord, he behaved like a student having his homework checked by his teacher.

It’s not that he was afraid of Roning’s authority, but that he cared very much about his own production results.

"You can ask Leah for help and give it a try."

Ronin suggested, "But before we try it, there are still many areas where this loom needs to be improved."

He began to give suggestions for the machine. For example, the bamboo reeds were too sparse. The standard for gauze was 800 reeds, but the bamboo reed made by Dahn probably had less than 300, so it needed to be modified. In addition, there were problems with the heddle. Tools such as the basket, reel, shuttle, etc. that were compatible with the loom also needed to be made.

Roning raised all the questions he could think of, especially when he said that he hoped to have a loom ready for use when the silkworm cocoons were harvested this year, which put great pressure on Master Daen.

In this regard, Luo Ning is optimistic. After all, pressure brings motivation.

It is only February now, and there are still six months before this year's cocoon harvest. With the personal ability of Master Daen, it is still possible to transform it.

After inspecting the loom, Luo Ning took a look at the production of iron and wood equipment.

With William recruiting apprentices and carpenters from Swamp Town being sent here one after another, the number of people involved in the production has reached more than 20 people! Now the production capacity of ironwood shields, ironwood armor and other protective gear has been greatly improved, and there is no problem in completing the order of the First Knight Squadron of Wushan Fort before April.

Even according to William's estimate, there might still be a batch left.

Roning promised to provide sufficient food, allowing them to work harder and produce as much as possible, and also asked them to study the possibility of ironwood arrows.

Now, Redar and McKen are training new infantry, archers and cavalry, and it is estimated that two knight squads will be deployed in the first half of the year.

Putting aside whether there are enough professional knights, the number of the three types of soldiers mentioned above can reach more than 200 people, and the necessary protective gear and weapons need to be equipped.

After inspecting the iron and wood workshop, Ronin turned to Kales' blacksmith shop and Jim's pottery workshop.

The last time he left, Roning assigned Jim a task - to burn bricks and modify the kiln to increase the temperature inside the kiln.

This matter was known to Kalles. Considering that smelting molten iron also requires high temperature, blacksmiths, potters and bricklayers took the loess from Shanlin Town and fired a batch of bricks. They then used these bricks to build a blast furnace for iron smelting and a kiln for firing porcelain. Unexpectedly, they achieved unexpected results.

First of all, Jim is now able to produce white porcelain. Although the success rate is less than 30%, it is a good start.

In order to reward the efforts and achievements of several people, Roning gave Jim and his apprentice one gold coin and five silver coins respectively.

At the same time, they were assigned the next stage of tasks:

Improve the ability to control the kiln temperature to increase the success rate of porcelain firing. At the same time, collect various colored minerals to make glazes of different colors, and try to draw patterns on the blank to form patterned porcelain.

Although being able to successfully fire porcelain is half the battle, more attempts are needed to produce exquisite, unique, high-value and diverse finished products.

After this successful firing, we can consider moving Jim and others to Huitu Village to settle down. After all, the kaolin vein is there.

Refining the mud and firing it in Huitu Village saves an incalculable amount of effort compared to transporting the materials back to Shanlin Town.

However, although the blast furnace looked well-behaved, the iron-smelting process was still a bit lacking. Occasionally, a little molten iron could be obtained, but most of the time, the iron blocks thrown in did not melt, and no molten iron flowed out.

Roning watched Kallus and his apprentices add materials to the blast furnace, blow air, and smelt. There should be no problem with the process, and there was no problem with the blast furnace. The fuel used was high-quality charcoal, which could bring higher temperatures than ordinary wood.

After comprehensive analysis, Luo Ning thought that there was something wrong with the blower.

Although the blast furnace is not very large, the accompanying blower is still a bit small.

Even if the apprentices pulled hard, the amount of air blown in at a time was very limited. Without sufficient oxygen entering from the bottom of the blast furnace, it would be impossible to generate a temperature high enough to melt the iron.

This problem is easy to solve.

Roning asked Kallus to contact Carpenter William and ask him to arrange one or two apprentices to make two larger ones based on the shape of the blower.

If replacing the blower is possible, then the ability to smelt molten iron will be mastered by Roning. In the future, casting farm tools in batches will take Wu Beiling's farming technology to a higher level.

Although pig iron cannot be used to make weapons, if the skill of steelmaking is added, the method of obtaining steel will be much easier.

The only pity is that Wu Beiling has not discovered any iron ore veins, and it is estimated that it will need to purchase iron ore from outside in the future.

While observing the iron smelting, Roning was also wondering if it was possible to transform the iron smelting furnace through magic?

For example, creating a fire magic array in an iron smelting furnace, using magic cores or magic crystals to generate high temperatures to melt iron ore.

But after thinking about it, Roning decided not to continue his research.

First of all, he didn't know how to create this kind of magic array;

Secondly, whether using magic cores or magic crystals as energy, the cost is very high.

A fully-functioning magic crystal costs hundreds of gold coins. Using it to smelt iron simply increases costs for no reason and wastes money.

In comparison, using wood as fuel, although a bit more troublesome to collect and process, is much more economical than using magic cores and magic crystals.

After two days, Luo Ning had a general grasp of the various situations in Shanlin Town, and everything was moving in a good direction.

After he arranged the development direction of his territory, he devoted his time to practicing and making third and fourth level spell scrolls.

Time flies, and it is March in the blink of an eye.

These days, Wilson and his assistant traveled through several territories, escorted by several cavalry squads.

Thanks to their active supervision, spring plowing is proceeding in an orderly manner in both Shanlin Town and Swamp Town.

Land preparation, seed treatment, sowing, fertilization, irrigation, etc., every job has changed.

Although there is still a lot of room for improvement in this change, it is already a big improvement compared to the previous barbaric sowing methods.

With the popularization and standardization of field management work in the future, and unless there are unexpected situations such as natural disasters, Luo Ning believes that this year's grain harvest in Wubei will definitely be better than in previous years.

"Master, Knight Rogner wants to see you." The butler Galen came to the door of the study and reported respectfully.

"Has the food arrived yet?"

Luo Ning put down the pen in his hand and drew a horizontal sword shape on the paper.

"Bring him to me." (End of this chapter)