Da-da-da-da.

The sound of horses' hooves ran over the gravel road, and the Lilong horse held its head high, and its black horsehair fluttered in the wind.

This main road, which has been under construction for more than two months, basically supports 180 civilian workers every day, each paid one copper plate a day. In other words, the road costs 180 copper plates a day, and for two months, it costs a total of more than 10,000 copper plates, about 1 gold coin.

Sometimes, manpower is just so ridiculously cheap.

The stones brought from all over the world were broken into fingernail-sized gravel and laid flat on the ground, mixed with the sea sand of the east coast, making the whole road look very clean and tidy.

Without cement, gravel and sea sand will always fall into your shoes without realizing it.

"It's a pity that Thorn Ridge is just a mound of stones, and the stones are so small that they can't even cut through slates. Otherwise, it would be more beautiful to build the main road into a stone pavement. Liszt felt a little sorry that the town was so barren and that the surrounding resources were extremely scarce.

He had now sold the black pearl twice, and his money bag was bulging, and he had saved more than five hundred gold coins.

However, it cannot be immediately converted into resources – livestock cannot be bought, pasture is scarce, buildings cannot be built and manpower is insufficient, roads cannot be repaired regularly, stones are insufficient, wasteland cannot be varied, and tools are scarce.

Just like today, the whole town began to renovate the wooden houses.

There are no workers left to work on the roads.

The civilians, under the supervision of patrols and clerks, began to check whether their wooden houses were not strong. Cracked beams and columns should be reported for replacement, broken roofs should be reported for repairs, windows loose should be reported for reinforcement, and rotten corners should be repaired - the enthusiasm of the civilians was very high.

Because the lord provides the repair materials.

This makes the civilians feel that they have taken a big advantage, and if they don't report it, they will suffer a big loss!

"Perhaps, I should start burning bricks, the stones are not enough for bricks. Liszt thought to himself when he saw the vigorous battle for the renovation of the wooden house.

Stonemasons and carpenters are otherworldly construction workers, commoners live in wooden houses, and nobles live in stone castles.

In the town of flowers, only Liszt's castle is built with rocks and glutinous rice as a gel material. The value of glutinous rice is very valuable, and the elves bred by glutinous rice are called "wall elves". Its value is not that it can be eaten, but that it has a strong adhesive effect.

There is no cement, the condensation of the walls, either with mud or with glutinous rice.

Fortunately, the Tulip family has a glutinous rice elf, so the castle built by the earl is extravagant with glutinous rice condensation.

Such a castle is many times stronger than a castle made of condensed earth, and can be built very high.

Take Liszt's castle, for example.

Push the spire-shaped roof to the roof, and you can continue to raise a few floors.

"There is almost no technical content in the firing of the rotorary, and if you find the clay suitable for burning bricks, you can fire qualified bricks...... However, to build a brick kiln to burn bricks, you have to use coal, and if you don't have coal, you must at least have charcoal. Without exploration, I am afraid that I will not be able to burn qualified bricks. ”

Liszt, who likes to read books and has nothing to do, knows a lot of knowledge.

He knew how to make saltpeter ice, clay bricks, handmade paper, black powder formula, soil cement, distilled liquor, pancreas formula, telescope, fired glass, and other black powder configurations that could even make grenades. In addition, what waterwheels, ploughs, windmills, and tinkering can also tell a general principle.

But it is not easy for knowledge to be transformed into physical objects.

The biggest constraints are materials and labor.

Saltpeter is needed to make ice, and if you don't find a very small saltpeter mine, ice making is an empty slogan, and the same is true for firing glass, which requires quartz sand and soda ash, and quartz sand probably requires finding quartz veins, which he remembers as a somewhat transparent stone.

But what is soda ash and is it soda?

He remembered that when he was cooking porridge, he needed to put some alkali, and there might be a small amount of alkali in the ashes, but where did the soda ash for burning glass come from?

In addition to saltpeter, black powder also requires sulfur.

Cement requires limestone.

"Strictly speaking, I don't seem to know what sulfur and limestone look like, do I?" said Liszt, who suddenly remembered a very serious question.

He only knew that saltpeter could make ice, quartz could burn glass, limestone could make cement, and sulfur could make explosives.

But limestone, sulfur, what does it look like?

Previously, he only knew that saltpeter was white, and it was mentioned in many books, growing on toilets and corners, and later he was successfully discovered by a smoke mission indicating that there was an ultra-small saltpeter mine.

If you really want him to look for saltpeter mines by himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to find them.

"Limestone is a colloquial name, probably a common stone, does it have anything to do with marble and granite? As for sulfur, do you have to look for it from the crater, which is said to smell of sulfur. ”

At this moment Liszt felt.

The real self is far more ignorant than the imagined self: "This is a little embarrassing...... But I know for sure where to find the soil for burning bricks!"

Theoretically, bricks should be burned with clay, which is the kind of soil that can be burned into red bricks.

However, if you don't want to be of high quality, most of the soil can be used to burn bricks, and the slightly sticky soil is considered a good material.

There is still a lot of soil like Flower Town.

"When the task is completed, I will gather a group of serfs and burn bricks for me, and I will build a house with my head turned. "Build a flame mushroom greenhouse, build a toilet, build a pig, horse, cow and sheep pen, and build a factory building. Build a football field, a basketball court, raise a group of professional players, and come to play games if you have nothing to do.

"I still have to take the time to find quartz, limestone and soda ash, and the uses of cement and glass are very wide. ”

Then he suddenly thought: "Actually, I am a nobleman, enjoying life is what I should do, why do I think about invention and research all day long?"

He used to be a liberal arts student.

Not a science student.

I studied information management at university.

"Life is so good, I don't want to be a magician. ”

As he rode his horse, his thoughts flying.

Not far from the side of the street, there was a bang, and a wooden house collapsed.

Liszt raised his hand to block out the sunlight and looked over there, a group of people were watching the excitement in a mess, and he ordered the knight: "What's the matter, go and ask." ”

The Knight quickly brought in a patrol member who was supervising the scene.

The patrol knelt on the ground and answered Liszt's question: "Lord Hui, it is the loud-voiced Hunter who has demolished his wooden house. ”

"Demolished your own wooden house?"

"Yes, we saw Hunter with a stick and struck his hut so hard that he broke several supporting pillars, and then the hut collapsed and Hunter was buried in it. But he wasn't stoned to death, only an arm was broken. ”

"Why did he demolish his cabin?"

"Well, Hunter heard that the lord's castle will provide materials for the repair of the wooden house, so he wants to replace his wooden house......"