Chapter 346 - 225: Making a New Weapon
"The curved plow is quite a bit more difficult than the straight plow," Capito confessed honestly. "Primarily, it requires a piece of resilient, curved hardwood, and the curvature has to be just right for use as the plow beam. Our carpenters have tried searching the forests, and at least ten or twenty trees need to be inspected before finding one suitable. Some carpenters suggest it’s better to bend young trees artificially, so that when they grow up, they’ll be ready for making plows.
Another issue is that the iron required for the plowshare is notably more than that of the straight plow, and shaping it to this form takes much more time..."
"I understand," Maximus said thoughtfully. "Making curved plows is significantly harder than straight plows, but they can greatly enhance our tribesmen’s ability to cultivate land; as such, it must be promoted throughout the tribe. If anyone in the Public Works Department can come up with a good method to quickly produce more curved plows, they will be rewarded by the tribe!"
"Understood." Capito immediately brightened up.
The other officials had no objections; on the contrary, after hearing Capito and Volenus’s explanations, they were eager to use this new plow as soon as possible.
"Leader, the Iron Workshop has already begun weapon production. Yesterday, they forged a batch of short swords and spearheads," Capito continued.
Maximus wasn’t particularly delighted by this news since the iron workshop had been fully operational for the past month and a half. They had been intensely refining iron ore, creating pig iron, and crafting iron tools...
However, the Nix Tribe had already signed a ceasefire agreement with Segestica earlier, and with tensions greatly reduced, the tribe needed the Iron Workshop more for everyday essentials like kitchen knives, forks, iron spoons, hoes, hammers, and nails...
The Iron Workshop, while striving to meet the tribesmen’s needs, could only repair soldiers’ existing damaged weapons and armor as a first step.
Following Capito’s suggestion, the Iron Workshop quickly constructed several new vertical furnaces, doubling iron production and creating surplus pig iron for weapon forging.