27th June 1574
"This place is truly marvellous! I never would have guessed that someone could build such a convenient area just for the sake of us, traders!"
With Jan Bone gone to the senatorial meeting, there was no need for me to stay at the mining town. Considering all the chaos that would envelop the country following the escape of the King, there was no way for the Governor to take care of the gunpowder ingredients problem, leaving the rifle factory a single improvement that I could make.
But even with the low quality of the propellant, I still decided to make a simple ammunition plant. All that it required was a simple press, that would cut the huge piece of oiled paper into smaller squares, that would be then forced into huge arrays of hollow tubes by another machine. As the operating arms would change, the gunpowder would be poured down the tubes made out of the paper and at the end, a small, round piece of lead would be used to close it down.
