Chapter 567: Construction 2
The burned land stretches out along meandering rivers and is several square kilometres in size.
There is a dirt road in the middle, which is nine meters wide.
This is the road that William deliberately left behind, a very wide dirt road that leads to the fenced gate of the village of Nova Nisse on one side and ends at the river known locally as Irtysh, which divides the burned land on either side.
Following William's instructions, Louis led a group of slaves and divided the land into square plots of land, with a straight gap half a meter wide between them.
In the end, a total of 18,000 acres of land were opened.
The land that has just been burned is still relatively hard, so it needs to be "cultivated" so that the crops planted can thrive.
18,000 acres of land, relying on William's five or six hundred slaves alone, I don't know that the year of the monkey is going to be.
William didn't want to waste too much time on these trivial matters.
So he cheated directly.
In the middle of the night, the whole camp was cast by William and fell into a deep sleep.
At this time, William's loyal pet, the Void Hound, jumped out of the blue plaid apron space and used its scaly limbs to diligently plow the land.
William was on the sidelines to use earth-based sorcery to help.
is a good second-level wizard, but it turned out to be an "old farmer", and I don't know how many big teeth I have to laugh at when it is spread.
Fortunately, this desolate place is full of ordinary people, and no one has discovered William's secret.
Soon, in just a few days, the 18,000 acres of land that had been carved out were cultivated, and the soil was crisp and loose.
This 18,000 acres of land will not be cultivated entirely, but will adopt the farming method of the medieval Western world in William's previous life - the three-field rotation system!
In the second year, the crops with nitrogen-fixing and nutrient enrichment are sown, and the crops with nitrogen-fixing and nutrient enrichment are sown in a field, and the field is not planted at all, so that it is overgrown with weeds, and various manures are mixed in it on weekdays, and in the next year, the field becomes rich in nutrients, and you can directly plant crops with large nutrient needs.
According to William's plan, 6,000 acres of land were planted with local winter wheat, which is a poor taste of inferior rye varieties, but it is strong in vitality and the yield is also very good, so many local farmers grow this kind of winter wheat for a ration.
Another 6,000 acres of land are planted with a crop that looks very similar to William's previous sweet potato, called the black vine fruit, which is rich in starchy substances, which humans cannot digest at all, but some herbivorous livestock can use it as a food source.
The advantage of this kind of muto vine fruit is that the yield is amazing, it can be harvested twice a year, but because it is inedible by humans, almost no one grows it, and William also used the magic mirror to study many plants in the wild before he deliberately found this crop.
The last 6,000 acres of land are planted with nothing, waiting for the grass to grow in the coming year.
Agriculture in this era was very simple and crude, and it was impossible to do anything intensively here.
Most of the time, farmers just drop the seeds in the fields, water them, and then watch the weather to eat.
Some of the more industrious farmers occasionally weed and watered, but that's about it.
Therefore, the yield per mu is actually very low.
Low yields, on the other hand, require farmers to have more land, so that the combined output can meet the needs of a year's living and production.
So don't look at the farmers of this era, they have a lot of land, but in fact, the harvest is really small.
William certainly wouldn't watch that happen.
After he had the slaves finish sowing the prescribed crops on the corresponding land, he divided the ranks into fifty men to build canals, water and fertilize, and weeds.
The land here has been loosened by the Void Hounds, and it is not very difficult to excavate.
These fifty people are definitely up to the job.
The other 500-odd people can devote themselves to another job - the construction of the village's residential area.
In general, the village is mainly made of wood.
The defense of this structure is so poor that it is likely to burn most of it in a single fire.
William does not take.
The cost of the town was prohibitive, and there were only a few small hills near William, and there were no stone quarries suitable for development.
However, the local soil is very suitable for brick burning.
Back in the royal capital of the Svak Kingdom, William had the blacksmith build a bunch of brick molds, which came in handy at this time.
On the other side of the village, a simple brick factory was built.
Hundreds of slave workers were stationed here, and pieces of dried red brick embryos were produced here, and then fired in the shade.
Red bricks are starting to grow at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.
Bricks alone are not enough, adhesives are needed.
When he was building the village of Nisse, William had no way to make the flame rise to 1,500 degrees Celsius and make a real simple cement, so he had to use some other materials to make do with it.
But now it doesn't have to be so much trouble.
With William's ability, it was easy to make a flame of more than 1500 degrees.
William used the power of bricks and witchcraft to build a cement firing room near the brick factory.
The lime was transported by slaves from the nearby "newly discovered" lime fields, mixed with clay and water, turned into slurry, put on firewood and began to burn.
In general, the temperature of the flame is absolutely not 1500 degrees, which is the temperature at which the iron can melt.
But with William in it, using magic to control the fire energy particles, the result is different.
The simple version of the cement is freshly baked.
Cement and piles, in the civil construction industry, are equivalent to water and electricity for ordinary people.
The next step in the construction of the village of New Nisse can be continued.
William used "two horizontal" and "two vertical" roads to divide the entire Nisse village into a "well" shape, a pattern structure of nine areas.
The middle ground is where William's residence is located.
Here, William designed a three-storey brick and wood mixed structure house, which also used the mortise and tenon technique often used in ancient Chinese construction, with a front and back yard, seven rooms on each floor, very spacious, and balconies and windows above the second floor, which were very bright and bright.
Hundreds of people take turns to work day and night, don't worry about noisy neighbors, but it took more than half a month, William's lord's villa was built, just like the rough house in the previous life, if you don't mind, you can actually live in it.
Dozens of people were left to "decorate", and other large troops began to build houses along the four roads of "two horizontal" and "two vertical" planned by William.