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"But it seems one-sided to build a threshing machine and have nothing else.

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"Oh, you've come up with some other good tools, chief. What kind of tools?

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"You're a very eager man, Vargas."

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Of course it is. I've been trying out this threshing machine you've made, and it's a good one. And now you've come up with something just as good, right?　I'd be crazy not to care.

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"I see. But this one was really just an idea. I don't know if I can actually make it, so don't get your hopes up too high.

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"Ha-ha-ha. That's the general, isn't it? I'm sure he'll do something crazy like he always does. I'm looking forward to it."

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　No, wait a minute.

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　I didn't know you thought that about me.

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　I'm pretty shocked. .......

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　Oh, well.

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　Let's remember the next tool after the threshing machine.

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　So I spread out a piece of paper on the table and started to draw a picture.

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　I started to draw a picture of a threshing machine.

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"Hmm, I don't know."

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"What's wrong, brother Ars?"

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"Kyle. No, I'm just trying to design a building. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be."

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"Wow, you're building something again. Can I take a look?"

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"Yeah, sure. Look, this is what I'm talking about. It's called a windmill, and it's a building with big wings.

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"...... You're trying to make something weird again. Why are these wings attached to the building?　Are you trying to fly with this windmill thing, Brother Ars?"

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"No, it's not. This is a building for milling the harvested and threshed wheat. The force of the wind turns the wings and turns the millstones to mill the flour.

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"Wow, I didn't know they could do that. That's amazing."

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　As I explained to Kyle, what I was going to build this time was a building called a windmill.

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　Although I had built a rotary threshing machine to increase the processing capacity of the harvested wheat, it was not possible to eat it just by threshing it.

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　The threshed wheat had to be milled before it could be made into bread.

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　Then, how is the milling process done?

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　A stick like a handle attached to a millstone is held in the hand and turned in a circular motion to mill the flour.

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　This is really a simple but hard labor.

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　Now that the threshing process has been made more efficient and can be completed in a short period of time, it is time for the threshing process to be streamlined.

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　Then we want to shorten the milling process as well.

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　That's why I turned to windmills.

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　By the way, the milling work can be done with a water mill.

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　I thought of building a watermill at the castle in Kawakita, where a river flows nearby.

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　But it is a little far from Vulcania.

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　If we are going to go to the trouble, we would like to have a mill that can mill flour here in Vulcania.

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　So I decided to make a windmill instead of a watermill this time.

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　The wind movement is transmitted to the millstones using gears, and the millstones are driven by the wind.

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　The structure itself would be a bit complicated, but we made the threshing machine gears together with Gran.

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　I don't think there's anything we can't do.

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"So, what's bothering you, Brother Ars?"

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"No, that's the thing, Kyle. Whether or not a windmill blade turns depends on the direction the wind hits it."

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"That's right. So, what's wrong with that?"

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So, a building called a windmill has to be able to flexibly change the direction of the building in the direction the wings are facing. I have no idea how to do that.

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　I believe I saw something like that on some TV show.

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　He said that a windmill can change the direction of its wings by following the direction of the wind.

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　But I don't remember at all what the structure was for that.

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　I wonder how they did it.

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　There are two shapes of windmills that I remember.

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　One is the type with three blades like a propeller on the top like a thin rod, which is also used for wind power generation.

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　The other type is a normal building or a tower-like structure with board-like wings, like the ones in Holland.

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　I think it is the latter type that has been used historically as a flour mill.

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　In other words, a windmill building like the one in Don Quixote's story must have had a mechanism to change the direction of its wings. .......

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"I don't think you need such a mechanism, do you?"

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"Why not? You heard me, Kyle. Depending on the direction of the wind, you're not going to be able to mill the flour because the windmill blades won't turn."

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"I think it's fine, but it's not like we have to mill all year round. If that's the case, why don't we just build four windmills, one facing each direction?"

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"What, ......, build a windmill for each of the four directions?"

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"Yes, yes. As long as one of the windmills works, you can mill, and I think that's all you need to do."

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　...... that may be what they say.

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　I had a kind of obsession that I had to be on the move all the time because it was a waste of time.

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　But I guess it's not like that.

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　If the milling process is faster than before, it is not a failure.

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　I don't have to reproduce in this world the mechanism of the windmill that I can't remember.

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　We can make a windmill in the form we can make now, give Gran a proposal for improvement, and leave the rest to him.

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　Taking Kyle's advice, I decided to make a simple windmill that cannot change the direction of the wind.

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　I will build one windmill in each of the four districts of Vulcania.

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　As long as there is no wind, some of the windmills will work.

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　Although a little inefficient, it would still save a lot of time, considering the fact that we had been milling flour manually.

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　Thus, Vulcania was able to thresh and mill the increased harvest with no problems due to my magic.

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