Dream Life

When I improved the toilet, I came up with soap.

In this village, knives and hands are used, except for juice, during meals. There is also the hand of spreading the fork, but I believe it would be difficult to spread because it is troublesome.

Then I came up with cleaning my hands so that I could eat with my hands.

In the meantime, I made the thorough washing of my hands known, but it would probably be a hassle. But wouldn't you be interested in something rare if you gave it soap and start using it?

When it comes to getting things started, it's the quickest way to get interested.

I decided to start making soap with that cheap idea.

The soap should have been made of oil and caustic soda.

As for the oil of raw materials, it is confirmed that there is also edible oil in this village.

The problem is caustic soda.

I have heard that the method of using "Aku", an ash made from the ashes that I often listen to, does not work very well.

The only reason to remove the ash juice from the straw is to soak it in water, but if I don't know the amount, I think it might be caused by too much or too little moisture and it doesn't solidify well.

So I started thinking about whether there were any alternative ingredients for caustic soda.

Whatever the characteristic of caustic soda would be strong alkaline. It's lime that's easy to come up with in alkali.

And lacquer is used in the houses of this village. In my memory, the lacquered raw material should have been calcified.

Calcium hydroxide is the calcium, so when dissolved in water, it becomes strong alkali. I wondered if I could do something with this.

At that time, I remembered how to make fudge lime.

(Isn't lime extinguishing a lime kiln? I wonder where it was?

The questions that arose quickly disappeared.

And it reminds me of how to make soap. Honestly, my knowledge of how to make soap is only to the extent that I saw it on TV a long time ago. I mean, it's no exaggeration to say that you have little knowledge.

I only have a degree of knowledge that the raw oil was also vegetable oil, and I don't remember any important information about how to do it with ash juice, such as the amount or the time to leave it.

Even though I know to use "caustic soda = sodium hydroxide” as a general knowledge, I have no idea how to make it from “calcium = calcium hydroxide”.

(Do I have to try and err a few times)

It starts with obtaining oil, but I've looked for it and found out.

Animal oils and fats are relatively abundant in this village, but there is not much vegetable oil.

Possible reasons would be to not use the oil for fuel in the light fixture.

A safe, low-running cost light fixture called the Magic Fixture of Lights is prevalent here. Furthermore, the main price of that magic item is relatively low, and the lights associated with the danger of fire are not used very often.

Het, the fat of pigs, lard and cattle, is a by-product of meat, but vegetable oils were used only to the extent that oils taken from nuts such as walnuts were used as condiments.

(Trying to get it on a litter order, that's quite a cost. Well, it's not like you can't guess, so take your time looking)

I had two “guesses”.

One is whether the grass with the yellow flowers that were growing along the river is a plant of the Abranaceae family, and the other is free of nuts such as dongles and tsubaki.

To resolve this, I decided to speak to Sharon's father, Guy Jakes, a former adventurer and familiar with the woods.

I will explain the dongle - the fruit of the vertebra, the cucumber, and the tsubaki blossoms.

"I've never seen the flowers, but the fruits are plentiful in the woods. But there's also a problem."

I've never seen a Tsubaki flower. With that said, I remember hearing Tsubaki traveled from Japan to Europe.

And there seems to be a problem with dongles, too.

"It's hard to find buried in fallen leaves now, and there are pigs and large rat demons in the woods who eat it, so it's probably dangerous to go get it"

Guy, who knows the forest well, was opposed to this task of making it extensive, over a long period of time, through the woods.

As for the other Abranaceae grass, as I expected, the oil was likely to come off the seed, but the quantity was too small to be used.

(Sesame seeds and grape seeds, there must have been a lot of plants that could take oil, but not here, or even if there were, there was a small amount. Even if I was forced to collect dongles, I don't know how much oil I could take...)

So I went back to my starting point and reconsidered.

(Do we need to stick to vegetable oils in the first place? Isn't it possible to make lard or het? Give it up if you can't try it)

I asked Nicholas, who has become completely in my charge with my father, to get the calcifying lime, which is the raw material for lard or het and lacquer.

"I know you'll get it soon, but what are you going to do?

"I'm going to make something called soap"

When I said that, they were both surprised at the same time, "Is that soap? Can you make something as expensive as that? I've heard."

If you ask me in detail, they say that the soap is made near the imperial capital in the southern part of the Caerm Empire, and because it is too expensive, it is usually used by nobles, which is also only senior nobles above the Count.

Naturally, I don't sell it around here, which is the border.

The price was also talking about a single piece of silver coin in the commercial city of Aurelia, or more than 10 C (krona).

(About 10,000 yen for 10C... I'm sure there was a few thousand yen a piece of soap in Japan. I'm sure you can't use it everyday. I see......)

Incidentally, the unit of currency in this world is called "krona", where one C (krona) is a single small silver coin, which, given the price, roughly hits a thousand yen. The auxiliary unit is e (elle) and becomes 1C at 100e.

By the way, they say the currency is white gold coins (one thousand kronas), large gold coins (five hundred kronas), gold coins (one hundred kronas), half gold coins (fifty kronas), silver coins (ten kronas), half silver coins (five kronas), small silver coins (one krona), large copper coins (fifty ales), copper coins (ten ales), small copper coins (one ale), but I've never gotten a hold of them, so I've never seen the real thing.

I heard the story and wondered if making soap poorly would be awkward.

(If that's all luxury goods, if similar products come out, I can thoroughly examine them. And the vendors who deliver luxury goods will have connections to the Imperial Room and the nobles. If you do something bad, it could cause disaster to this village, and my secret could be broken...)

When I almost gave up, I realized that there might be a means of preventing interference in the village because of the formation and geographical conditions of the village.

(Wait. The distribution route here goes through the Union of Urban States. If we pull in a coalition of city states… for example, by publishing a soap manufacturing law, the Imperial City vendor (over there) should crumble before this one is crushed. The difference in quality is about the distribution of fragrances, so if you give a little hint, the merchants of the Union of Urban States who are creative should make something better...)

A coalition of urban states is a coalition of autonomous urban states centered on the commercial city of Aurelia.

For the time being, I only made it for use in the village, and if it worked out somewhat well, I decided to sell the manufacturing method to the merchants without specializing.

(I don't want to constantly make money with soap. To some extent, you should spread the word where the money came from...... bad for imperial manufacturers but lets have them sacrificed to spread the soap)

My father sees my silence suspiciously as a lack of confidence.

"I don't know if I can do something decent, but I think maybe I'll be fine"

Even if I say so, my father and Nicholas are not convinced yet and seem half-hearted.

I was to make soap at Nicholas' house from the next day.

Reflect that what I was thinking was "for the calculation of raccoons without taking.”

It was harder to make soap than I expected.

At first, only suspicious objects of drool or nectar can be made, already more than a month after development began in mid-June, but the solid, which can be called soap, is incomplete. Or I can't read it at all for the period until it solidifies.

In my memory it should have solidified if I left it for about a week to two, but I can't do anything like that at all.

It's going to take all the time, so I'm going to try it with a few patterns at a time - something that changed the amount of lime, ash juice, oil a little bit or the heating time.

(I thought it was about a week. Might be misremembered. Or does it have to be vegetable oil? That would cost too much, and would I have to look at it in the long run...)

I'll give Nicholas and his wife Kate instructions not to throw away anything that doesn't solidify and to keep records under control.

I decided not to see the tragedy of Nicholas' house, which turned into a suspicious laboratory, and left his house.

(Soap could take a year or so. Shall we relax...)

With that in mind, I went back to the mansion to focus on another project.

It was the hand pump that started the development with the soap.

I don't borrow Nicholas' hand, busy with toilets and soap, and I'm going to make this for two with Dwarf blacksmith Beltram.

My grandfather tells Beltram what I am.

He was invited here by his grandfather, who originally seemed to owe him something,

"Your secret will never leak out of my mouth, so don't worry."

That's what you promised me, with your hands on my head.

Now to get back to business, why the hand pump goes into hygiene control.

The reason for this is in the well I saw.

Wells without pumps naturally become bottled. As a result, the openings are large and foreign bodies are likely to mix in.

I forgot why I saw it, but the story is that an animal falls into a well and that causes a plague.

It does happen well enough with large openings and only incomplete lids. Just one rat falling would be badly contaminated.

It's dark in the well, it's hard to make sure the animals have fallen, and it's too late after the disease has spread. Further removal will require significant steps to empty and clean the well.

In that regard, an opening is not necessary because a pump type would be able to pump up a few meters or so, even if it is a rough build.

It will rust with iron pipes, so if you make a pump with a copper pipe and a copper cylinder, maintenance costs are also low.

As far as I can confirm, copper processing and casting seemed possible, so you can give me a picture of the structure later.

Since the structure itself is a prototype of a volumetric pump with only two check (check) valves attached, I don't find it that difficult.

(Pump is a plant manufacturer, which means it's my specialty. In particular, the constant volume pump was well looked after by the chemical manufacturer. Well, it was just a job to combine things taken from vendors, but you know the logic...)

I thought so confidently at first.

But when you start making it, it doesn't work.

First of all, it is difficult to make a pump body, cylinder part, with copper.

And it's not strong enough.

Copper ingots are quite expensive and unusable in large quantities, which is why I tried to thin them, but they need to be cheaper in order to spread them. Trial and error were made for optimal thickness.

Beltram's been asking me questions, somewhat stuck.

"Why are you so obsessed with copper? Iron would be a little tougher and cheaper."

"Trying to make it an easy copper to maintain. The pipe is in the water all the time, and if it's not copper, it's going to rust and become unusable right away."

"Well, maybe so."

"Besides, if you keep copper and iron in contact all the time, the iron runs out quickly. That's why I wanted to make the pipe and cylinder the same material."

"Really? But you don't have to touch it directly. Then why don't we just pinch it in a tree?

I was stunned by the words.

(Right. Because there is nothing I can do for the joints, I was focused on it, but even the trees can be fully substituted. If the tree degrades, you can replace it. Thanks, your thoughts are stiff. It's a four-year-old's head, so you should be able to be a little softer...)

Unlike previous copper, it will make castings with higher temperatures of iron.

Precision is a problem to make for each part, but that's just Dwarf, and I'm almost going to make what I ordered.

Create a cylinder with an inner diameter of ten centimeters and attach the lever to the crank part. Additionally, attach the rod and check valve to the bucket and also attach the check valve in the cylinder.

The difficulty is the operation and sealing of the sealed "seal" section and the check valve in the outer periphery of the bucket.

The seal on the outer periphery could also be adequately covered with production accuracy, and the check valve could be confirmed to work fine with several adjustments.

Copper pipes are also made by tapping on a mass of copper, and even flanges are made so that they can be connected to each length of five meters.

(Looks like it'll work. I didn't expect to hand make one screw at a time, but that's Dwarf, he's clever)

Start developing the pump, about a month later on June 28th.

I will try to temporarily assemble the finished pump in the workshop.

Under the pump, install a bucket with water to make sure the pump is up.

My body was too small for a four-year-old, so Beltram decided to move the lever.

"You just have to put this lever up and down."

I nodded loudly and laughed at the Dwarf standing on the table, "You shouldn't need the force, so move it gently and look," he immediately began to move the lever.

It was only about two meters to the barrel, and when it was raised and lowered a few times, water erupted immediately.

"Is this it! You succeeded!

I can hear Beltram's delightful voice from above.

"It's a huge success! I can't believe it's going so well..."

I was impressed when I saw the water erupting from the spit.

(Finally succeeded. The soap didn't work at all......)

When I was impressed, the belt ram that came down at some point lifted me up and put me on my shoulder.

"All right, buddy! How many of these do I have to make! Starting tomorrow, we're gonna make cancer!

On that day, when I reported to my grandfather and father the completion of the pump, the next day it was decided to install it in a well in the settlement on the north side of the east hill where the Bertram workshop was located.

The next day, as my grandfather and father watched, I would install a pump in the well. At first I wanted to test my abilities, so when I tried them in a well with a slightly lower water level, I found that they were about five to six meters sucking up.

In theory it is ten meters, but I expected it to be about seven to eight meters due to the precision of the workmanship. Whether my knowledge is lacking, the limit of the check valve, or it may be due to altitude, I was slightly less capable than I expected. But a well on the flat ground is about three meters from the ground, so I know I can use it fully, and I'm a little horny.

When we start installing wells in earnest, the villagers get together and look unusual. When Beltram gave out water in the demonstration, it became even more interesting and moved an alternative lever.

Adults and children alike were amused, watered out many times, and rejoiced with their hands.

"They say too much water makes them cloudy or out of water. Don't get on with it."

When Beltram told me that, the adults scratched their heads badly, and the children were stopped by the adults, who seemed a little sorry.

(Don't think it's funny, for sure. I'm only worried about the method of maintenance but the structure is simple so I'll figure it out......)

The first success of the Rasmore Village Reform Plan was a hand pump.

(It would be a reduction in effort, but I feel very different from what I intended in the first place. Everyone is happy, so let's do it...)

I asked my grandfather and father to hang words of labor on Beltram, and I was holding the well water by my hand.