章 168: First stage finished

18th May 1574

"Did he finally go to sleep?"

Looking up at my wife, I didn't even bother hiding a content smirk from my face. While putting this idiot to sleep took half of the entire barrel of my beer, it was still worth the price as I could finally check whether everything in the carpentry plant was working.

"Yeah. I wonder how we will fare when going to Tarnow."

Even if the journey on the steam paddler would be way shorter than one on the boat powered by nothing but oars, it would still take us about a single day from the moment we would board the ship all the way to reaching the Pilznian river port on the Vistulian river, one of the Vistula subsidiaries that directly connected the city to the extensive network of this water highway of the country.

"Let's stop thinking about him. How did it go at the cement factory?"