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"General, can I talk to you about something?"

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What's the matter, Vargas? What's wrong?

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I've got some wheat growing in the fields, and I'm a little concerned about it.

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What's wrong with the wheat?　As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't be a bad harvest."

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"On the contrary, chief. It's too good a crop, that's what it is. It's great to have that much wheat, but it must be hard to harvest it.

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"I know it's a lot of work, but it's better than a bad harvest. I don't want to hear you complain about that. ......"

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"Well, I don't want to complain, but let me at least complain. I hate the threshing of the harvested wheat. Just the thought of all that work is enough to put me over the edge right now."

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"Oh, I see. You mean threshing."

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　Wheat seeds sown in the field before winter.

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　When they finally began to bear fruit.

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　Vargas spoke to me about the wheat harvest.

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　Apparently, the threshing of the harvested wheat is now weighing on his mind.

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　Well, I can understand.

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　After all, it is going to be harvested in much larger quantities than the previous ones, so the workload is going to increase by an order of magnitude.

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　Agricultural technology has not developed much in this area.

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　Originally, they used really simple agricultural methods, just scattering wheat on the land they managed to cultivate and harvesting what grew on it.

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　The reason for this is the long war.

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　Men were often taken away to war, and often left when there was no work to be done.

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　Instead of carefully weeding the fields, it was better to keep the land sown with seeds, which would somehow lead to a better harvest.

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　However, this situation has changed drastically.

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　The reason was that I gave him the family name of Barca.

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　It is now possible to improve the condition of the fields with only the spells of "Land preparation" and "Soil improvement" with far less time and effort than before.

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　Naturally, the amount of wheat that grows there has also greatly improved.

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　As a result, it was expected that the harvest would be large enough for Vargas to pull it down.

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　However, just because magic made agriculture more efficient does not mean that agricultural technology itself was changed.

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　In fact, the method of threshing the harvested wheat was really quite simple in this area.

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　They used to remove the berries from the dried barley by hand or with a stick.

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　This method also produces wheat berries, but the larger the quantity, the more work it takes.

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　No wonder Vargas did not like it.

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"What the hell. I'll build a threshing machine.

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　Thus, I decided to streamline the threshing process.

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　What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word threshing?

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　In my case, it was a tool called a thousand-tooth thresher.

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　It looks like a large comb, and when you insert the wheat between the metal bars and pull it, the wheat falls off.

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　It can be used for both wheat and rice, and its simple structure makes it an excellent tool.

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　In fact, I have already made a thousand-tooth handler.

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　Originally, the family in Barca village where I was born was a poor farmer's family, and there were times when my father was not sent to fight in the war.

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　So my mother and the children who stayed at home threshed the rice.

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　At first, like Vargas, I was tired of the tedious threshing work.

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　Threshing by hand takes a lot of time and is really tedious.

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　I had been experimenting with growing my own vegetables in the field since I was a child, so I made up a thousand-tooth threshing machine to save time.

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　However, since I didn't have metal, I substituted it with a suitable piece of wood made to look like it.

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　Although this reduced the working hours, I remained dissatisfied with the results.

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　The wooden handle was not durable enough.

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　I had always wished for something better.

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　I thought that I should make a hardened brick for the handle.

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　It would have been natural to think so.

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　But I had put the brakes on that idea.

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　Because, although the thousand-tooth handler is certainly convenient, I felt that it was not the best choice.

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　It is true that compared to the primitive threshing methods of the past, the thousand-tooth threshing machine is a much advanced invention.

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　But there is something even more advanced than that.

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

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　I believe it was a rotary threshing machine.

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　A further invention that has displaced the thousand-tooth thresher as a thing of the past.

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　Moreover, I heard that some people still use it because it had been used for a long time and was so excellent.

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　I decided to try to make it.

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　From the corner of my memory, I picked up some information about the rotary threshing machine.

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　As I recall, it had an inverted V-shaped projection on the outside of the rotating cylinder.

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　The tube is rotated while the wheat is placed against the tube with the projection.

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　The protrusions would drop the barley seeds.

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　You could have used your hands to just rotate the cylinder, but I think the actual machine was operated with your feet.

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　The threshing machine is operated by stepping on a pedal attached to the threshing machine, and the cylinder rotates.

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　The problem is that I don't remember well how to press the pedal to make the cylinder rotate.

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"So, Gran, you're up. You should be able to make it spin with something like this, do you understand?"

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"Hmm, a mechanism that rotates when you step on it, that it is. ......"

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"Maybe, but I think it uses gears."

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"Gears, that it is. ....... I see, how about something like this?"

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"Ah, that sounds like something. "Ah, that sounds like something. Okay, let's make a prototype.

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　Thus, a rotary threshing machine was created that converts the vertical motion of stepping on the pedal into a horizontal motion that rotates the cylinder using gears.

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　It is an excellent threshing machine that finishes threshing at such overwhelming speed that it seems ridiculous that we had been doing it manually until now.

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　Thanks to this, it became possible to process a large harvest of wheat in an unprecedentedly short time.

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