Chapter 244 Carriage Making (2)
Chapter 244 Carriage Making (2)
"I'll give you 250,000 Sigs. So build me another one. With this, I can increase my entourage. Everything will be easier."
"I accept." Ye Kai turned around and looked at his companions with a smile on his face.
"Twelve thousand five hundred sig per person. That hard work is worth commemorating."
"Eh? You're welcome. It's okay."
"No, I was planning on having you on that hunt."
"But I'm sorry. Fino was only of little help."
“I didn’t do anything.”
"Then I will give Fino my share of Tullio."
"Wait. Just accept it if someone gives it to you." Tulio didn't want to give the money directly to Fino, but planned to prepare a gift.
“Fino might start to feel differently about money.”
"Just treat it as if it won't be a problem."
Although Fino was comforted, her self-esteem was still low. This time, Ye Kai felt that without her, they would be in more trouble, especially when facing the fire flying lizard.
“Boring. Riding Reed is more fun.”
“You know, Reed is not a vehicle.”
Recently, Zayn has become obsessed with riding Big Reed. Although the Wind Weasel is not suitable for riding, he seems to be very interested in the excitement he feels on its back. This may be a common problem among boys.
"Why don't you try it, Cham?"
"I'll just give up..."
Zayn insisted that riding Reed was fun and refused to give up preaching.
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"Ye Kai! Don't leave me! Such an interesting thing!"
Ye Kai raised one eyebrow and responded to the old man who was running towards him.
"Teacher, where did you hear this?"
"As for the magicians in the palace, if they see anything you are up to, they will come to me."
“Isn’t this an abuse of power?”
It was Master Apenchit who came. He seemed to be running in a hurry, breathing heavily.
“You always ignore the reverse bracelet thing. Because of this, the process of finding it became very difficult for me.”
“Since when do I need my tutor’s permission to do anything new?”
"I have taken great pains to teach you the knowledge of magic, but you don't know how to be grateful."
“I don’t know…”
At that time, Ye Kai remembered that Apenchit just piled the reference books and various documents on magic in front of him, and then returned to his own research. Although scholars always do this, Ye Kai didn't care too much.
"In short, this is not a magic item. Although it was used in the manufacturing process, no magic was used in the operation." Ye Kai said with a wry smile to Apenquit who suddenly crawled under the carriage and began to inspect.
“It doesn’t matter. New things are our favorite.”
"Yes……"
Faced with such statements, Ye Kai had nothing to say.
"Well, I don't understand at all."
“Of course. Machines generally don’t expose their structures.”
"Then open it and have a look."
“Please don’t do this. This thing has already been made.”
"Yes, sir. I commissioned it."
Klein also began to pay attention.
"What did your majesty say?"
“Please put it down.”
"Well, that's all I can do."
In response to Ye Kai's helplessness, he took out the discarded air shock absorber and spare ball bearing, handed them to Apenchit, and explained that they were the same thing.
“This is for you.”
“This is totally unreasonable…”
Ye Kai scratched his head and felt that this was still the same old routine operation.
"Ye Kai, you are just like this..."
“Even if we study it, we can’t produce it again, so we can’t sell it. Manufacturing requires a micron-level precision of one millionth of a micron. I don’t know how to perform surface processing with this kind of precision.”
"One in a million Telmic!?"
In reality, perhaps one-tenth the accuracy of the Telemik would be enough to operate, but problems would probably arise quickly over long periods of time.
“Also, the metal material I used is an alloy that is not prone to rust and is made from materials I collected from various places.”
“Not prone to rust!?”
"Of course. This is an ordinary wheel mechanism, which is often exposed to rain and mud. If it rusts, it will be unusable. Although I didn't use mithril, it is necessary to consider that it is not easy to rust."
Existing carriages are almost all made of wood, but to resist corrosion, the manufactured parts are soaked in glue, soy sauce or oil, then left to dry before being assembled.
"The alloy's components alone are valuable..."
"The basis is iron, but it contains some rare metals, so it is not easy to make. Mr. Klein has become quite obsessed with money recently, right?"
“I do feel that way lately. Money can buy more happiness for the people. So I think it’s better to manage the money and put it in the treasury than to let those who are greedy for money have it.”
This is not a lie. Ye Kai sold the rights to Monoli to the royal family, but almost all of the profits went into the national treasury and the Ludo Fund, and the royal family seemed to be almost self-funded. In other words, he was not a ruler who relied on the kingdom for support.
This fact also strengthens the voice of the current royal family. In crude terms, it means that someone who is not entitled to do as he pleases with his own money has no right to accuse others. Naturally, he cannot be dissuaded by the reason of "people's taxes".
In short, the chassis of the carriage has been completed. Next, the work of installing the cabin on this basis will be the responsibility of professionals. The exterior decoration that shows the strength of the royal family and the comfortable interior are not within the scope of Ye Kai's duties.
“How much stuff can this structure hold?”
“I haven’t really calculated it, so I’m not sure, but at least I set a goal of about 2 tons for two Cortes.”
“People will ride in this, right? We don’t want a truck.”
He didn't want to increase the load without reason. He just thought it should have a certain load capacity.
"So I'm an outsider. I don't know how heavy the boxes in the carriages that the royal family ride in are."
"No, I thought you would investigate on your own. I have already entrusted you with the countermeasures at that time."
"……Yeah?"
At this point, Ye Kai began to feel that he had gone a little too far.
“Well, it doesn’t matter. No matter how hard we struggle, the journey will be long. From a safety point of view, as long as we can provide facilities that can accommodate people, there will be no problem, right?”
“Of course, we also considered camping. I thought we only needed to prepare the tent.”
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