I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 116

"General, may I have a word with you?

"What's the matter, Vargas? Did something happen?

"There's a lot of field wheat growing, but I'm a little worried about that."

"What happened to the wheat? As far as I can tell, it's not a failure."

"The other way around, General. Too much crop, huh? I'm glad you can make so much wheat, but it's hard to harvest it."

"I think that would be tough, but it's better than not working. Even if they complain about that, it's troublesome....."

"Well, I don't want to complain, but let me be a fool. I don't like the grain removal work on harvested wheat. I just think there's so much of it, and now I'm feeling heavy."

"Oh, I see. You mean the degrain?"

A seed of wheat planted in the field before winter.

That was when it finally began to bear fruit.

Vargas talked about the harvest of wheat.

Apparently, the grain removal work on the harvested wheat is now a matter of great concern.

Well, I don't even know.

Anyway, the amount of work is going to increase to a different order of magnitude because it is likely to be harvested much more than previous wheat.

Agricultural technology was not very developed around here.

Originally, we managed to spread the wheat over the land we had pioneered and harvest what it had grown.

The reason lies in the long war.

Because men are often taken to battle, people often disappear during periods when there is no agricultural work.

Rather than carefully grazing the fields, it seemed that it would be better to manage to expand the farmland and maintain the sowing land, which would lead to harvesting.

But the situation changed dramatically.

The reason is that I gave Barca my last name.

Because the spells of [leveling] and [soil improvement] made it easier to improve the condition of the field without having to spend too much time than before.

Naturally, the amount of wheat grown there also improved significantly.

As a result, we are expected to harvest as much Valgas as we can pull.

However, the efficiency of agriculture by magic did not change the agricultural technology itself.

In fact, there was a very simple way to de-grain the harvested wheat around here.

They used their hands and sticks to drop fruit from dried wheat.

Wheat can actually be removed in this way, but the more it is, the more labor it takes.

I know you don't like Vargas.

"I can't help it. Do you want to make a grain remover?"

Thus, I decided to improve the efficiency of the grain removal work.

What comes to mind the first time you hear about grain draining?

In my case, it was a tool that handled thousands of teeth.

It is shaped like a large fox, and the fruit falls when the wheat is inserted between the metal rod and the rod.

It is an excellent product that can be achieved with a simple structure, whether it is wheat or rice.

As a matter of fact, I already make this thousand teeth.

Originally, the Balkan house where I was born was also a poor farmhouse, and my father was not driven into battle.

So I was doing grain removal work with the mothers and children who stayed at home.

After all, at first I was just as disgusted with the trouble of grain removal as Balgas was.

Manual grain removal takes a lot of time and is really troublesome.

I've been experimenting with my own vegetables in the field since I was a kid, and it was thousand teeth that I made to waste my time.

However, since there was no metal, I replaced it with something that looked like a suitable tree.

Even so, the work time was reduced, but dissatisfaction remained.

Thousands of teeth made of wood were less durable.

I've always wanted something better.

Shall I make this mille-tooth handle with hardened bricks?

It would have been natural to think so.

But I had a brake on the idea.

Because although it is certainly convenient to handle thousands of teeth, I also felt that it is not the best choice.

Certainly, compared to the primitive method of grain removal until now, the treatment of thousand teeth is a remarkably advanced invention.

But there's something more developed than that.

It reminds me of a tool I saw in my previous life somewhere like a museum.

There must have been something called a rotary grain remover.

A further invention that drives away thousand teeth as a thing of the past.

Besides, it has been used for a long time, but it is very good, so there are people who use it in active service.

I decided to make it.

Pick up information about the rotary grain remover from the corner of your memory.

There must have been an inverse V-shaped projection on the outside of the rotating cylinder.

Rotate the barrel with the wheat on the protruding barrel.

Then the protrusion should have dropped the wheat fruit.

I can do it by hand as long as I just rotate it, but I think I was manipulating it with my feet.

When you step on the pedal attached to the grain removal machine, the cylinder turns.

The problem is that you don't really remember how the cylinder rotates when you step on the pedal.

"So, Gran, it's your turn. It's supposed to be able to rotate like this, you know?

"Hmm, it's a rotating mechanism when you step on it...."

"Maybe, but I think we should use the gear."

"Is it a gear...? Well, how about this?

"Ah, it's kind of like that. Okay, let's try the prototype."

Thus, a rotary grain removal machine that converts the longitudinal motion on the pedal into a lateral motion in which the barrel is rotated using a gear was created.

It's an excellent thing to finish the de-graining at an overwhelming speed that makes you ridiculous what you've been doing by hand.

Thanks to this, we were able to treat a large amount of harvested wheat in an unprecedented amount of time.