Lord of the Oasis - Chapter 210

Chapter 210: The Appearance of Professional Craftsman

After thinking carefully, Kant had already made a decision.

The 15 meters tall water tower was built in the spring water behind the council hall, and its bottom was just right in the middle of the spring’s eye.

As the system was modified, the spring’s eye that was already connected to the water elemental plane began to emit fresh water. At the bottom of stone wall of the water tower, the wooden water pump began to rotate, drawing large amounts of fresh water into the top five meters of the wooden water tower, which was like a big head doll, became a reserve of water source.

At the same time, Kant also built two water towers in the eastern military region, the southern residential area, the western crafts area, and the central residential street, forming a total of seven water towers.

Next to the water towers, he built a deep-water well and fire tower allowing the wooden water pump to extend into it. As long as a civilian came to the water pump and operated it, he could quickly replenish the fresh water into the water tower with the help of the water pump, it would reserve the water source to supplement the daily need for water.

The water stored in the water tower would also be distributed to the fire tower.

These 20 meters tall buildings could overlook the entire “Drondheim” Castle. The observers stationed at the top of the fire tower were able to identify the source of fire and gave the instructions to mobilize the fire force on the ground. The fire force would then use the water trucks and buckets to carry the clear water in the fire tower to extinguish the fire.

These buildings that were attached to the water tower would be the helpers to prevent fires!

Of course, there were also the small fountains.

Kant also set up four small fountains on the southwest and northeast sides.

The four small fountains on the southwest side guaranteed the daily water use of the administrative area, the crafts area, and the residential area, respectively. In a critical moment, they would first stop the spread of the fire before the fire force arrived.

The four small fountains on the northeast side mainly provided water to the soldiers of the military area.

It could be said that these two-story fountains, which were more than three meters wide and more than one meter high, were not only for viewing purpose.

They were also the main source for drinking water and to put out the fire!

During the daily routine, they could also admire the spring water with beautiful arcs. Moreover, when the spring water was sprinkled, it formed a mist that lowered the temperature inside the entire city wall.

Although the effect was not great, it also added some water vapor, and it would not appear to be too hot.

This depended on the diversion channel.

The diversion channel was mainly made of stone and wood, and it actually referred to the drinking water pipes of the Kingdom of Rhodoks and the Kingdom of Sarrand, which formed a unique structure after fused by the system.

It was even the main structure that mobilized the water source in the “Drondheim “Castle.

The construction should be more careful.

Because the establishment of the diversion channel is related to the drinking water, fire prevention and extinguishing, as well as the distribution of water resources.

Connection between the water tower, deep water well, fire tower, small fountain was the core of the whole water flowing system of “Drondheim”!

The diversion channel is divided into two levels.

The upper level is made out of the date palm tree trunk, the trunk was hollowed out to form the channel. It was set up on the four walls, and the roof of a house. Next, it finally connected with the water tower, and then flowed into the underground diversion channel.

The underground water diversion channel was built neatly by cutting small stones.

At the same time, it was covered with materials such as lime to prevent water seepage.

Then, it was buried half a meter underground. Together with the eight small fountains in the entire “Drondheim” Castle, it eventually formed a siphon effect, allowing the fountains to spew out beautiful water.

Even the council hall had a separate water diversion channel.

This was similar to the Roman drainage project.

The difference was that these diversion channels didn’t reach the scale of stretching few kilometers away to bring the drinking water from the mountain lakes into the city. They only used manpower to transport the fresh water from the lakes and deep wells to all parts of the castle.

Although the scale was small, it had all the organs, making “Drondheim” Castle unassailable!

To ensure safety, the civilian watchtowers were also built in the four districts of the castle.

These four watchtowers had a wide jurisdiction.

Similar to the city management system, they could use the watchtowers to maintain order and cleanliness in peacetime, patrol the streets in wartime, maintain stability, and search for spies. These watchtowers showed the determination of the castle authority to win and maintaining the stability.

It was just that there were no outsiders in the castle at the moment, so the watchtower was just for show.

After all, these soldiers and people were always loyal to Kant, and it was impossible for them to betray him.

As for spies.

Kant did not intend to open the “Drondheim” Castle, so there would not be these rats.

As for other civilian buildings like the craftsmen guild built next to the training ground.

This was a building that could recruit or trained craftsmen. The recruited craftsmen could make siege or defensive weapons, such as catapult, tower, ladder, or ballista.

However, they were not only craftsmen who made siege weapons.

In the craftsmen guild, there were also professional blacksmiths, sugar-makers, salt-makers, weavers, tailors, and so on.

These professional craftsmen were trained and recruited by the guild and all of them had specialized skills.

Just like how the peasant was more suitable for farming, these professional craftsmen were more suitable to fill the gaps in the handicraft industry of the current “Drondheim” Castle.

For example, salt workshop, sugar workshop, and linen workshop could train outstanding talents to move in and start working more efficiently. It was far better than the temporary workers and the part-time peasant.

There were even all kinds of workers needed in the weapons workshop.

For example, arrow craftsmen, spear craftsmen, leather craftsmen, weapons craftsmen, and other professional craftsmen.

The weapons workshop Kant had obtained this building at the fortress level.

However, it was less cost-effective.

It could only produce weapons like wooden sticks. They even gave up on the leather armor production due to the peasant’s rusty craftsmanship and the lack of professional craftsmen.

Although forging and tanning looked very simple, without practical experience, it was really impossible to complete the production of weapons.

Otherwise, it would be a child’s play to simply hand over the inferior weapons to the soldiers to protect their country.

On a real battlefield, if there were no good weapons, the soldiers could only charge the enemy’s formation with these inferior weapons. Perhaps these weapons would directly break or shatter, and it would be impossible to maintain a high intensity battle.

This would ultimately lead to the failure of the battle and caused tragedies.

The appearance of the of craftsmen guild also made up for this shortcoming.

The current “Drondheim” Castle had an high-level weapons workshop. As long as there were raw materials such as iron ingots, they could completely make weapons themselves. There was no need to continue purchasing weapons and spend a large amount of denars.

Although they got along with Joslin, the merchant of Reyvadin, they were just talking business after all.

The damaged goods could not be sold for much denars.

The replacement of lost weapons, such as the cavalry’s lance and spear, consumed a lot of denars.

This was a system restriction.

Unless they had their own arsenal.

And now, Kant was already confirmed that the weapons workshop could be put into use.

They could save a huge amount of cost from buying the extremely cheap iron ingots of the Kingdom of Vaegirs, and having professional blacksmiths and full-time weapon craftsmen make various weapons and armors, then distribute the weapons to soldiers. These weapons could even be sold to the outside world in exchange for great silver coins, exchanging them for gold would then become a source of denar as well.

Weapons could also be traded for huge profits. It was not inferior to the trade of salt, sugar, and spices.

The Stone Pass was an extremely good example of this.

Those knights with noble statuses only wore repaired mail armor. When they saw the fine scimitar, military spear, sword, shield, and other weapons and equipment on the Sarrandian horseman, they would be extremely envious. They would even have the greedy and evil intentions towards the equipment of the Sarrandian horseman. In the end, they would die under the close-range assault of the Sarrandian horseman and the desert bandits.

Well-made weapons and equipment were hard currency. They were strategic materials that were difficult to purchase even if one paid for them!

Even the ordinary spear and short sword were the same.

Weapons that could kill enemies on the battlefield and armor that could protect oneself on the battlefield were good things.

Otherwise, Kant would not have had such a difficult time purchasing arrows.

If it was not for Baron Dylan thought he still needed Kant, he would probably treat Kant like a beggar and only gave him a few weapons. He might not even gave him the low quality longbows and arrows.

These weapons were the armed forces that could go on the battlefield to kill enemies!

Only names and weapons could not be borrowed. This was precisely accurate.

Kant understood this logic.

At present, the castle-level building was basically completed. As for the remaining large jail was randomly upgraded. This building that was used to lock up prisoners, spies, and enemies was not very useful.

It was randomly arranged at the southeast corner of the military area’s city wall to increase the number of buildings.

However, the high-level watchtower was extremely effective.

This kind of high-level watchtower had a bottom floor of nearly six meters wide and was built with stones. It extended straight to a height of 40 meters and had a top of about one meter. It almost reached Kant’s current height of God’s view.

The field of view on the watchtower was extremely wide.

In a clear and sunny place with sufficient light and flat terrain, one could even vaguely detect any movements 10 kilometers away.

The range of vision could be said to be terrifying.

If equipped with a large telescope, one could even see clearly for 20 kilometers away.

It could be said that after this high-level watchtower was built, any enemy marching in the daytime would be discovered by the guards on top of it in the shortest time possible. Even at night, with the help of the moonlight, one could also find a black mass of targets within two kilometers, which was different from the khaki color of the Nahrin Desert.

With this high-level watchtower, it was impossible for the enemy to launch a sneak attack!

This was because the Nahrin Desert was a relatively flat area where the height of the dune was generally less than five meters.

Kant had built this high-level watchtower next to the council hall, next to the large bell tower, and even extended to the council hall. At a height of 15 meters, he deliberately built a door, connecting the council hall’s walls and roof. He connected the three buildings into a whole, forming three different levels of viewing angles.

As the system’s rules were reflected.

The construction of all the buildings was mostly completed.

It was indeed a miracle.

Even when Kant saw the towering watchtower and the thick, tall, and well-structured city wall and arrow tower around it, he could not help but feel a sense of pride.

With the current defense of the castle, would the enemy attack?

It was a ridiculous thought!

Only the current “Drondheim” Castle dared to say that it truly stood tall in the Nahrin Desert.

Oasis Lookout would not be afraid of the enemy’s attack!