Ta-ta-ta.
The sound of horses' hooves rolled over the gravel road, Li Dragon Horse held his head high, and his black horse mane fluttered in the wind.
This main road has been under construction for more than two months, and basically maintains 180 civilian workers every day. Each person is paid one Copper Coin per day. In other words, this road costs 180 Copper Coin a day, and in two months, it costs a total of more than 10,000 Copper Coin, about 1 gold coin.
Sometimes, manpower is so incredibly cheap.
Stones carried from various places were broken into gravels the size of fingernails and spread flat on the ground, mixed with East Coast sea sand, making the whole road look very clean and tidy.
Without cement, if you step on gravel and sea sand, a little bit of it will fall into your shoes unknowingly.
"It's a pity that Thorn Ridge is just a rocky mound, and the stones are so small that even stone slabs cannot be cut. Otherwise, it would be more beautiful to build the main road into a stone road." Liszt feels a little regretful. The town is too barren and the surrounding resources are extremely scarce.
He has now sold Black Pearl twice, and his wallet is bulging, with more than 500 gold coins saved.
However, it cannot be converted into resources immediately - more livestock cannot be purchased, and the amount of pasture is small; more buildings cannot be built, and there is insufficient manpower; roads cannot be repaired frequently, and there is not enough stone; there cannot be many types of wasteland, and tools are scarce.
Just like today, the whole town began to repair wooden houses.
There will be no workers constructing the road.
Under the supervision of patrol teams and clerks, civilians began to check whether their wooden houses were strong or not. Cracked beams and columns were reported for replacement, damaged roofs were reported for repairs, loose windows were reported for reinforcement, and rotten corners were reported for repairs - the civilians were very enthusiastic.
Because the lord provides repair materials.
This makes civilians feel that they have taken advantage of them, and if they don't report it, they will suffer a big loss!
"Perhaps, I should start baking bricks. There are not enough stones to make bricks." Liszt thought in his mind when he saw the vigorous wooden house renovation competition.
Stonemasons and carpenters are construction workers in another world. Common people live in wooden houses, and nobles live in stone castles.
In Flower Town, only the castle of Liszt is built with Rock and uses glutinous rice as gel material. The value of glutinous rice is very precious, and the elves bred by glutinous rice are called "wall elves". Its value does not lie in being edible, but in its strong bonding effect.
There is no cement, so the wall must be solidified with either mud or glutinous rice.
Fortunately, Tulip Family has a Glutinous Rice Sprite, so the castles built by the count all use glutinous rice condensation in a luxurious way.
Such a castle is many times stronger than a castle made of solidified soil, and can be built very high.
For example, the castle of Liszt.
By removing the steeple-shaped roof, the building can be raised several more stories.
"Turn-turn firing has almost no technical content. If you find the clay suitable for firing bricks, you can bake qualified bricks... However, to build a brick kiln for firing bricks, you must also use coal. If there is no coal, you must at least have charcoal. Without trial and error, you may not be able to bake qualified bricks."
Liszt likes to read books and think about nothing, and he knows quite a lot.
He knows how to make ice with saltpeter, bake clay bricks, hand-made paper, black powder formula, home-made cement, distilled liquor, soap formula, telescope, and fired glass. If the black powder is successfully configured, he can even make hand grenades. In addition, he can also tell a rough principle of waterwheels, plows, and windmills by tinkering with them.
But transforming knowledge into physical objects is by no means a simple matter.
The biggest constraints are materials and labor.
Making ice from saltpeter requires saltpeter. If you don't find an ultra-small saltpeter mine, making ice is just an empty slogan. The same goes for burning glass, which requires quartz sand and soda ash. The quartz sand probably requires finding quartz veins. He remembered that it was a kind of stone that looked a bit transparent.
But what is soda ash? Is it soda?
He remembered that when making porridge, you need to add some alkali. There may be a small amount of alkali in the plant ash, but where can you get the soda ash for burning glass?
In addition to saltpeter, black gunpowder also requires sulfur.
Cement requires limestone.
"Strictly speaking, I don't seem to know what sulfur and limestone look like, right?" Liszt suddenly remembered a very serious question.
He only knew that saltpeter could be used to make ice, quartz could be used to burn glass, limestone could be used to make cement, and sulfur could be used to make explosives.
But what do limestone and sulfur look like?
Before that, he only knew that saltpeter was white, and it was mentioned in many books that it grew on toilets and on wall corners. Later, Smoke Mission suggested that there were ultra-small saltpeter mines, and he successfully discovered saltpeter.
If he really had to go look for saltpeter mines by himself, he might not even be able to find it until his death.
"The name of limestone is rather vulgar. It is probably a common stone. Is it related to marble and granite? As for sulfur, do you have to look for it from Volcanic Crater? It is said that Volcanic Crater all smells of sulfur."
At this moment Liszt feels.
The real self is far more ignorant than the imagined self. "This is a bit embarrassing... but I definitely know where to find the soil for making bricks!"
Theoretically, clay is used to bake bricks, which is the kind of soil that can be burned into red bricks.
But if you don't pursue high quality, most soil can be used to make bricks. Soil that is slightly sticky is considered a good material.
Flower Town There are still many such soils.
"When the task is completed, I will gather a group of serfs to bake bricks for me, and I will build a house with turning heads." Build a Flame Mushroom greenhouse, build a toilet, build a pen for pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, and build a factory building. Then build a football field and a basketball court, and raise a group of professional players who can come and play games if they have nothing to do.
"You still have to spend time looking for quartz, limestone and soda ash. Cement and glass have a wide range of uses."
Then he suddenly thought, "Actually, I am a noble. Enjoying life is what I should do, right? Why do I think about inventions and research all day long?"
He was once a liberal arts student.
Not a science student.
I studied information management in college.
"Life is so beautiful, I don't want to be a magician."
While he was riding a horse, his thoughts were flying.
Not far away on the street, a wooden house collapsed with a bang.
Liszt raised his hand to block the sun and looked over there. A group of people were watching the excitement. He told Retainer Knight: "What's going on? Go and ask."
Retainer Knight soon brought over a patrol member to supervise the scene.
The patrol member knelt on the ground and answered Liszt's question, "Back to the lord, it was Hunter with a loud voice who demolished his wooden house."
"Tear down your wooden house?"
"Yes, we saw with our own eyes that Hunter took a stick and hit his wooden house hard, breaking several supporting pillars. Then the wooden house fell down, and Hunter was buried in it. But he was not killed, but only broke an arm."
"Why did he demolish his cabin?"
"Well, Hunter heard that the lord's castle will provide materials for wooden house repairs, so he wants to replace his wooden house..."