In the end, until the arrival of the knights who had come to meet the young Odegar, the old Odegar still did not agree to move to the castle of the Count of Don the Younger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Not only the elder Odega, but also the younger Odega's sister and brother-in-law, now that they had their own land, even though it was rented, they were no longer willing to leave the land, which for the peasants meant their life. Therefore, although they were grateful to little Odegar for helping them get rid of their serfdom, they still refused little Odega's invitation to take deep roots in the land.

Therefore, in the end, only his younger brother, little Leoff, left with little Odega, and as for little Odega's mother, since old Odega chose to stay, then little Odega's mother stayed with him, after all, they have spent so many years like this, and it is quite difficult for anyone to leave.

However, their days will not be too sad, because the knight who came to pick up little Odegar happened to be the one he was most familiar with and the best friend of. The knight of Alcoba would not ignore this situation, and he had already informed the steward of the manor to take good care of the old Odegar's family.

However, although so much happened to Little Odega's family, because of the cheating communication system of this era, he would not want to know about his 'beloved apprentice' until the little Count Tang returned to the castle.

So what is Count Don Jr. doing? I've said it several times before that he's busy, what is he busy with?

The Earl of Don Jr. is currently focusing on increasing the propagation speed of the communication system, increasing the comfort of walking and reducing the likelihood of a horse stumbling - in short, the Earl of Little Tang is building roads.

To build roads, as we said before, Desmond was not even a robber before he was poor - the robber also had to calculate the cost price, and if the robber only robbed the peasants, and the peasants had a few dollars, then the robber would not even have enough to eat! And at the risk of losing your head, what kind of robber are you going to be! As for the businessmen who rob the rich, I can only hehe. At this point in time, the paper of the Earl of Don had just been made, and Desmond was still only a country in the eyes of the great merchants, and only a few poor traveling merchants would go around, which was a thin sheep, but they drove the carriages! I had already encountered a robber, and his four-legged robber ran much faster than a two-legged robber.

Thus, in Desmond, anyone who walks on the main road without fear of being robbed is like in the days of St. Abraham, where even a woman could carry a basket from village to village - but not because of the high moral standard of the people, but simply because of the poverty.

But this year, that may be a different story.

The reason is the bumper harvest of grain.

After the use of human manure, plant ash, and the cultivation of clover as green fertilizer, this year's harvest is almost a foregone conclusion, and it can be seen just by looking at it: the wheat stalks are tall and large, and the ears are full of wheat grains, so heavy and heavy that they almost bend the wheat stalks!

Even the most well-informed old men in the territory say that they have never seen such a good harvest!

When the autumn harvest is over, the grain will fill all the granaries, large and small, and the merchants of all Western Europe will gather in Desmond to buy and sell the grain, and the more the merchants will buy, and the more goods they will buy, and the more goods they will buy, and the more goods they will buy, and the goods will need a good road—a road that will at least be able to walk the horses, so when will it be until the road is not built now?

Moreover, the peasants of the Count of Little Tang also actively supported the construction of roads during this period.

Because the peasants were obliged to serve the lord three days a week, which meant that the peasants had a limited amount of time to work for the lord each year, the lord could not call them like a serf. Count Tang asked the peasants to serve in the summer, so he could not call the peasants to help him harvest the crops again during the autumn harvest, so that the peasants could harvest their own grain first, and did not have to worry about when God sneezed with a cold, and a light rain ruined the year's harvest.

Besides, in the summer, everyone has nothing to do, and the sun makes the bones soft.

In this way, at that time, the Count of Don Jr. announced his decision, and then pushed out the priest Philip, and declared that it was a 'sacrament'—and as for the effect of 'doing the sacrament', didn't everyone see it? This year's grain harvest will be unprecedented!

This proves that the sacraments are indeed effective and useful, and that God is watching the sacrament-doers, otherwise how could He have allowed the sacrament-givers to have a good harvest?

Although it is only because of the mantilization of their fields, it has nothing to do with God.

But the simple peasant uncle, they always only look at the results. Since they know the result of the sacraments, the harvest, and the blessing of God, then they devote themselves to these sacraments, and they do not dare to cheat or cheat, lest they die and go to hell.

Therefore, this time, the 'sacrament' of the Count of the Younger Tang did not need to be supervised by many overseers at all, and everyone had a consciousness - although this consciousness was brought about by religion.

So all the people were gathered, and all that was left was to build the road.

Building a road is not so simple, if you follow the Roman method of road construction, then just the 'standard road' needs 4 levels, the road builder first digs a ditch, builds a road drainage system, the road is built with sharp stones, leveled with mud, and then paved with gravel. The gravel layer is composed of a mixture of gravel rubble and concrete, and its function is to drain water seepage and improve the stress condition of the road surface. The gravel layer is laid on top of the middle layer. This layer is made up of slag or materials such as lime, chalk and rubble. The middle layer has a cushioning effect and can absorb a part of the pressure weight of pedestrians and wheels when loading. The last layer is laid with slab stones. The slab layer is the road surface for pedestrians.

It has to be said that the roads of Rome, even if they are put to this day, can be called the best in the world, and the current Italian national highways are just a layer of asphalt on the roads of Rome. And in the world at that time, the engineers of Rome claimed that the roads of Rome did not have to be repaired for a hundred years! In fact, there are far more than that, such as the Via Appia, which was still in use until the sixth century, more than 300 years after the fall of Rome.

However, it is too extravagant.

For every kilometer of road the Romans built, ten slaves died - and the Romans actually built more than 80,000 miles of roads, which means at least 800,000 slaves died! This severely affected the Roman labor force, and caused the foreign races conquered by Rome to be full of hatred and anger towards Rome.

Moreover, the extravagant and almost incredible decision to build all the roads so perfectly that they did not leave the slightest room for the development that would later be brought about by the advances in technology, and to pave them all with stone slabs, may have been the basis for the fall of Rome.

At the same time, Qin Shi Huang was also building a large number of buildings, Qin Shi Huang built the Qin Straight Road - the Qin Straight Road can not be passed down for generations like the Roman Road, to this day, we can rarely see the traces left by the Qin Straight Road, but the Qin Straight Road, it has an advantage that cannot be ignored.

That's cheap, and fast.

Qin Straight Road uses only soil and mud - although some people will think that this is very earthy now, but for the times and the productive forces at that time, even if it was a rural dirt road now, it was still a first-class road back then, so only the road with soil and mud was enough.

As for the fast, the Qinzhi Road runs from Yunyang Linguang Palace, a military stronghold in Xianyang, Kyoto (now Liangwudi Village, Chunhua County) in the south, to Jiuyuan County (now Mengjiawan Village, southwest of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia) in the north, passing through 14 counties and more than 700 kilometers. The road is about 60 meters wide at its widest point, and it is generally 20 meters, and the general Meng Tian of Qin Shi Huang began to build the road in 212 BC, and it was completed in 210 BC.

Two years, more than 700 kilometers!

This data may not be able to be reached in some countries now!

Of course, the current road cannot be compared with the previous road, after all, the current road is a large truck with dozens of tons.

However, no matter what the road is, as long as you can run a horse.

And the stone roads of Rome are actually not suitable for horse racing.

You can see this as long as you look at the racecourse, the racecourse is always made of grass, and occasionally there are some dirt roads, but when have you ever seen a racecourse with stone roads?

And the reason why Rome used stone roads is that Rome does not have a strong cavalry, and Rome does not attach importance to cavalry. Rome's strength was built on elite infantry and the shipping of the Mediterranean, and with the Mediterranean Sea as a big bathtub, the Romans could transport their infantry, logistics, and whatever they needed by sea, which was much faster than horses.

But Desmond doesn't have that condition, although Desmond is close to the sea, but the end of the sea can't bear to be full of mountains, and he can't find a port to dock at all!

Therefore, Count Xiao Tang only thought for a second before deciding to use Qin Zhidao.