Victor stood outside the village built by Morin, filled with joy, this was the first village under his command, and the first step in his control of the vast territory.

The village is built next to the river, with a length of more than 700 meters, a width of more than 500 meters, and an area of about 35 hectares. A trench four meters wide and more than two meters deep has been dug on the perimeter of the village, and the river water can be brought in to form a moat.

Victor found that the fence of the village was completely different from that of the hill camp, and its fence was horizontal. At the bottom of the fence is a stone base made of rubble, on which 8-meter-high black columns are erected at intervals, and the columns are connected by horizontal planks, which are closely connected and firmly fastened to the black columns, thus forming a section of wooden fences.

Viewed from the side, the black columns are stacked in groups of two, all joined by thick wooden planks, which makes the wooden fence 80 centimeters thick, both strong and beautiful.

"Maureen, this fence is special! why are they black?" asked Victor looking back to Maureen.

"My lord, the posts of these fences are made of the hardest iron oak, and the planks are made of slightly inferior hemlock, and they are charred and oiled so that they will not be eaten by insects. This kind of fence is not only strong, but also very economical of wood, but it is a bit labor-intensive, we cut the cut hemlock into sections, cut it into thick planks, and cut out mortise and tenon joints, and in order to make them stronger, we put in log nails. Maureen said proudly.

"You're very attentive. Victor said with a smile.

Maureen did put a lot of effort into building this village.

"My lord, this design was proposed by the two freedmen, and it was they who improved the base and wheels of the carriage. My lord, I hope you will give them the status of a vassal in an exceptional way. Maureen pleaded.

"Oh, how skilled are their carpenters than you?" asked Victor, uncommittal. Those two freedmen were actually the alchemy auxiliaries he created.

"My lord, they are better at crafting than I am, even better than the old carpenters I have followed. Morin said abruptly.

"I'll think about it. Victor nodded.

Mo Lin was originally elected as the leader of the village team because of his carpenter's skills, and won the favor of Victor, so he became the first village chief to be promoted. If, at the beginning, he found that someone was smarter than him, he would have to suppress the other party under jealousy. Now, as a village chief, he hopes that there will be more artisans in the territory. The so-called ass decides the head, which is like Morin.

Surrounded by everyone, Victor walked into the interior of the village, but the ground was empty except for the six arrow towers erected.

"Why haven't you started building yet?" asked Victor in a whisper.

Hearing Victor's inquiry, several village leaders looked at each other, but Lilia stepped forward and explained in a low voice: "My lord, didn't you say that all the houses in the village should be built with bricks? So, for the time being, no house has been built here. However, our current premises are sufficient,"

Only then did Victor realize that this was indeed his order before going to Blackcastle. Many people said they couldn't understand this order, and several village leaders also decisively suggested to Victor, they thought that opening a kiln to burn bricks was definitely a thing that outweighed the losses, but Victor insisted on his opinion. Since the lord has already decided, it must be carried out if you don't understand.

"Then put it first, burning bricks to build houses must be carried out, not only this village must use bricks, but also breeding villages, blacksmith villages, carpenter villages, and textile villages will use bricks and tiles to make houses. Victor emphasized.

"By the way, this village is built next to the river, so it will be called Linhe Village in the future. In the future, we will also convert the temporary camp of the Free Folk into a farm. In this way, the hill camp, the riverside village, and the temporary station are connected into a triangular area. ”

Victor said, unsheathing his sword from his waist and drawing a simple map on the ground.

"We want to reclaim 12,000 acres of arable land in this area, as a fief for everyone, carry out centralized management, and provide food for the territory. ”

Several village leaders immediately surrounded them with bright eyes, and what they longed for most was land. After several people glanced at each other, Dean the leader of the village group boldly asked, "My lord, the free people station can become a village with a little transformation, this 。。。。。。 May we ask who you are going to make the village chief?"

Victor looked at the eager eyes of several village leaders, shook his head with a smile: "You just want to farm like that, blacksmith village, carpenter village, textile village, no one wants to go?"

"My lord, I don't know much about that, I'm afraid I'll miss you, but I'm definitely a good hand at farming, as long as you give me that village, I promise to serve the crops well!" said George, the leader of the second group, patting his chest.

"Leave it to me, sir! I'll 。。。。。。 ”

"Do you know what farming means? Sir, leave it to me, when I was in my hometown, I managed the farm for the knight master. ”

The second team leader's Mao then recommended himself, and immediately made several team leaders fight

"Okay, let's go to the brick kiln village and talk as we go. Victor stopped the argument of several men and turned to his carriage.

The carriage pulled by the giant rhinoceros was spacious, but it was cramped to carry nine people at the same time, and the six village leaders plus Nelson were huddled together, leaving most of the space for Victor and Lilia.

"On this trip to Blackcastle, I exchanged purple cane wine for three months' worth of food. Purple cane is worth more than you think, so I'm not going to build more farms, and some of you will have to go to other villages. ”

Except for Mo Lin, several other village leaders all showed sneering expressions, and their thoughts Victor could also guess, the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, these people are all farmers, iron, car-making, and weaving are not their strengths, they are worried that they will not do well, and their final position will be unstable. But Victor's alchemical auxiliaries had already sprinkled it, but they just couldn't tell them.

Victor took out a wooden box and opened it, revealing that it was full of sparkling cane sugar.

"You've always wondered, what do I do with so much purple cane every month? Now, I can tell you, this is the specialty of our territory: cane sugar. Let's try it. ”

Victor handed the cane sugar to a few people across from him and motioned for them to taste it. It's time for sucrose to come out, and there's no need to keep it a secret.

"Sweet, so sweet. ”

"It's delicious. ”

"Better than honey. ”

Several people were amazed, and the words of Haig, the leader of the fifth group, moved Victor's heart, and he smiled: "Haig, have you eaten honey?"

Haig was stunned for a moment, bowed down and said, "Yes, my lord, when I was in the Eastern Province, I would go to the mountains to find wild beehives, harvest the honey inside, and give these honey to the town mayor, not only to offset my rent, but also to get a bounty." ”

"I see. Victor nodded and continued, "The price of honey is very expensive, and a pound of honey in the royal capital can be sold for 10 gold soles. And our cane sugar, which tastes purer than honey, I think can be sold for 2 gold soles a pound. ”

"My lord, aren't we going to get rich, then?" said Nelson, his eyes lit up, and he smiled.

"Yes, we're going to get rich, so even if those professional villages don't produce for the time being, I will subsidize you for two years to ensure your livelihood, and I will also recruit more craftsmen to join us, so you don't need to worry. Victor laughed too.

His words made the faint hostility between the village leaders disappear. The crowd just talked and laughed and arrived at their destination.

When Victor stepped out of the carriage, Linda came over with several guards, and she saluted Victor and said, "Good day, sir." ”

"Good work. ”

Victor said, although this is a polite word, but hard work is also the truth. According to Victor's requirements, the entire brick kiln village must produce adobe bricks every day without interruption, and two shifts must be implemented. Therefore, it was impossible for the people here to return to the hill camp to rest, and they just slept in the wilderness until the first large brick kiln was built.

Brick kiln village is the first professional village that needs to be built in Victor, as the name suggests, this is a village specializing in burning bricks.

Although the brick kiln village is called a village, it is still only a super-large and simple camp. There was not even a fence, only simple wooden thorns were arranged on the perimeter as protection.

The area of the brick kiln village is about two square kilometers, facing the river on one side, and it is surrounded by mounds, which is convenient for soil mining and water extraction.

The open space of the village was bustling with people, and hundreds of people toiled here, and for a long time they had to eat and live here.

Some of these people are responsible for cutting down the miscellaneous trees on the mounds, removing the branches and leaves of the miscellaneous trees, placing the branches in the open space to dry, and finally using them as firewood for burning bricks. Some are responsible for digging out the clay from the mound, leaving it on the open space to dry, then crushing and sifting it, leaving only fine pure soil. Some are responsible for taking water from the river, adding water to the pure soil to moisturize, repeatedly refining like noodles, and finally using molds to make brick embryos and then dry them in the shade. Others are sintering adobe bricks in clay kilns that resemble burial bags.

"Go get me a finished brick. Victor instructed his retinue.

Soon, a burned adobe brick was delivered to Victor's hands, Victor's body was close to 9 o'clock at this time, and when he pinched it hard, the adobe brick immediately shattered and broke off, which made Victor frown.

Dean picked up the broken brick, shook it, and spoke.

"My lord, there is a problem with the firing method of these adobe bricks, the clay drying time is too short, and it will take at least 6 months of wind and sun to make embryos. Otherwise, it's as crunchy as it is now. ”

"Oh, will the adobe bricks be strong when fully dried?" asked Victor.

"It's stronger, but it's still not as good as a hardwood fence, and even a 1.5-meter-thick brick wall can be dug by the jackals with their bare hands, because it's too brittle. Moreover, the time to burn bricks is too long, and the labor cost is more, so we generally do not use bricks to build houses. However, the brick house is fireproof and will not rot and deform, and many nobles will use bricks to build manors. ”

Morin said that he was euphemistically persuading Victor to give up building a brick kiln village, but how could Victor give up building a brick kiln, which was the most basic part of his development plan.

"Go and call Arlo and Yasai. Victor said lightly.

Arlo and Yasai are two alchemy auxiliaries, both loaded with construction skills, and Victor specially promoted them to oversee the brick kiln village.

"Arlo, explain the plan for making bricks. ”

"My lord, the first bricks I will use to build a small brick kiln to replace those earthen kilns. The second batch of bricks produced by the brick kiln was used to build the dry room, the wind tunnel, and the large brick kiln, with which the production efficiency will be increased tenfold. The third batch of bricks is a qualified adobe brick. ”

This is Victor's purpose, he wants to build large brick kilns, only large brick kilns can produce special bricks, and those qualified adobe bricks can also build furnaces, with furnace alchemy auxiliaries can make iron, and finally make forges that can produce Thorsilver equipment.

Victor won't be producing these out-of-date products right away, but building infrastructure can be done in advance. Once he has full wings, he will be able to produce these strategic materials in a steady stream, build impregnable castles, and arm powerful alchemy militias.

Victor's blueprint for development is: purple cane wine in exchange for time and space for development, cane sugar and coffee for huge profits, money to produce alchemy militia and war mastiffs to improve their own strength, and infrastructure to meet the needs of territorial development, such as the blacksmith village to build weapons and equipment to supply itself, without relying on the York family. As for arable land, Victor also has a way to solve it, and the people of this world don't know that there is such a thing as terraces. With the terraces, he was able to not only preserve the purple cane forests, but also meet the food needs of the territory. It's just that terraces can't be built yet, otherwise the Yorks will take countermeasures against him.

When will they be able to stand on their own feet completely? Victor thinks that at least 40 alchemy militias are needed, which is stronger than most viscounts, but it is still not worth mentioning for the York family, who have at least a hundred cadet knights. But Victor had another hand, he had advanced technology in his hands, and he could trade in flax, ironware, sugar, wagons, and coffee from the professional villages, and gradually form an interest group, of which perhaps the York family was a member. When Victor's castle was built, he didn't have to look at anyone.

At that time, Victor's strength will be unstoppable like a snowball. As long as there is money, the alchemy militia is one for 12 hours, and no matter what kind of enemy, the heap is also piled up.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and the brick kiln village is the first step, burning bricks with timber, cutting from the mounds, using clay, collecting from the mounds, and these developed mounds are converted into terraces. Burn bricks, build all kinds of infrastructure, and everything will enter a virtuous circle. As for environmental destruction, what is that?

Therefore, Victor said solemnly to several village leaders: "I ask you to manage these people in shifts, eat and live here, until the brick kiln village is on the right track, do you understand?"

Victor's stern attitude made several people's hearts frustrated, and they hurriedly replied.

"Yes, sir. ”

"Very good, you guys go get busy, I hope that in three months, the brick kiln village will be on the right track. ”

When several village leaders went to discuss, Victor called Nelson who was working with Linda and me.

"Nelson, you and I go back to the hill camp. ”

Nelson said with some embarrassment: "My lord, recently a few more mountain people have run back again, and they claim to have encountered a ferocious wolf, and I want to protect here. ”

"I'll leave Renault here, Old Hamm is already on guard, and with most of the guards here, there will be no problem. Let's go, I have something to tell you. ”

What could it be? Victor is the boss behind the ferocious wolf, not to mention the fact that there are two spirit monkey militias mixed in with these people.

After getting into the carriage, Victor said to Nelson, "Did Lilia tell you about Baror?"

"That's it. Nelson said honestly, and Lilia stuck out her little tongue, she was in charge of it.

"I told your brother too, but I can't do that next time. Victor gave Lilia an angry look.

"Oh. Lilia whispered in agreement, but leaned towards Victor, if it weren't for Nelson's presence, she would definitely stick to Victor's body.

"I called you here, because I have some secrets to tell you, but you must not pass them on!

"Yes, sir. Nelson nodded solemnly.

"I have a secret force in my hands, you should have guessed it. That's right, Renault is my man. ”

Victor thought about it for a long time, and decided to say hello to Nelson and Lilia, there will be more and more alchemy militias in the future, and it can't be hidden, but it can be misled, it is normal for nobles to have some secret power in their hands, and it is still Barol's misunderstanding that reminded Victor.

"My lord, Lilia and I have been suspicious of Renault for a long time, and later found out that he was indeed loyal to you, so we didn't dare to ask you. Nelson grinned, Victor was able to tell him the secret, he really thought he was one of his own.

"You don't have to ask for specific details, and you can't tell anyone, including Linda. Secrets will only bring danger to ordinary people, you must know that there are many secret sons and spies of the great nobles among our people. Victor warned.

"Don't worry, my lord, we won't say it. Nelson said.

Victor sighed, he didn't think that Nelson could also be a secret agent, but he was still willing to trust this mercenary, probably because of loneliness, he needed someone he could trust.

"On the other hand, I deliberately drove Benson and Butz out of the camp, and they built a free camp to contain the mountain people, which I also instructed. Therefore, there is no need to patrol that area to avoid conflicts. ”

"I see, I was going to report this to you. Nelson scratched his head, he had already found the camp, between the Chebman family and the village of Pinghu, and the number had reached fifty.

"There is also Pinghu Village, as long as they pay the offerings on time, I will not touch them for two years. Victor added.

The output of Pinghu Village could alleviate Victor's food pressure, and he decided to let it go first, because they had already been crushed by Jack anyway.

"I see. Nelson nodded.

When the matter was settled, Victor closed his eyes a little tiredly, and he thought to himself.

"Now, it's up to that Barol to dig out those lurking shadows and spies. ”

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