Entrusting Fausto to help buy a large number of tents and blankets was only the first thing Li Yu did, first to ensure that those lizardmen could have the most basic shelter.

A typical farmhouse on the continent of Brattis is made of wood as the basic frame, filled with a network of branches stacked on top of each other, covered with a layer of clay sealing, and covered with straw or reeds.

Most farmhouses have only one room, and families live together, and even poultry and livestock, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and cows, can provide a little warmth to those living in the house on a cold winter day, but also bring mosquitoes and flies and annoying smells.

That's why many civilians always stink.

A few of the more affluent yeoman farmers would have two or three rooms, separate bedrooms and stables, and even a storage room dedicated to storing food.

But it can also make them target by some passing bandits and thieves.

Although the farmers almost always make their own fires and cook, there are no chimneys in the houses.

The stove they use is not enclosed, and when they cook, the room is often full of smoke, and it looks like a sauna, and Li Yu choked on the first time he ate in the farmhouse.

Eventually, however, the fumes will be emitted through the skylights on the roof.

As for the furniture, it was even more pitiful, only tables, chairs and wooden boxes, and some people didn't even have beds, so they could only huddle together on a meadow.

Even so, it was certainly more comfortable to live in a house than in a tent, let alone six or seven people crammed into a thin tent.

In the summer, it is good to say, but in the winter, it is likely that people will freeze to death due to insufficient warmth.

That is, the living conditions of the lizard people before were too bad, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be long before there will be a disturbance because of the living environment.

In fact, during the five days of Li Yu's absence, after cleaning up the corpses and ruins in the territory, the lizardmen couldn't wait to start building a new house, using their ancestral old skills.

As soon as Li Yu, the prophet, returned, he was immediately dragged by the enthusiastic lizard people to see the fruits of their labor.

He was surrounded by the crowd and came to a big tree, craned his neck, and looked at the tree house above him.

The treehouse is made entirely of tree branches, the floor and walls are filled with bark, and the roof is covered with a layer of thatch, which should provide some shelter from the rain.

The most important thing is that the treehouse is about ten meters high from the ground, and the lizardmen found a small tree trunk, cut off the excess branches, and carved grooves on it to make ladders, and the lizards stepped on the grooves and happily climbed up and down the trees.

As for Li Yu, he politely declined the invitation of the owner of the house to go up and sit down.

Death is not terrible, in case of a fall and a fracture is really troublesome, Li Yu has a lot to do next, and he doesn't want to wear bandages all the time.

In addition, Li Yu also confirmed one thing, that is, he had been thinking too much before, these lizardmen should be very difficult to freeze to death, they can survive living in this kind of wooden house, and it should be no problem to sleep in a tent.

But Li Yu didn't plan to let these lizardmen live in tents all the time, or let them build small tree houses everywhere that seemed to have a lot of safety hazards and were not very convenient to get up and down.

This is the first batch of believers he recruited, and it is also what Li Yu intends to use to make proofs for others and build a model village.

If other potential customers came to visit and saw that the believers on Saturday were still sleeping in the trees, they would probably immediately extinguish the idea of joining the Church, and they would have fled as far as they could.

Even if it is a pyramid scheme to attract newcomers, it will also give a good meal, create a successful atmosphere, it is impossible to be a dozen people in the chase shop, steamed buns and cabbage to serve.

Therefore, building a house was listed on the to-do list by Li Yu, and it was still in a very advanced position.

When it comes to building houses, modern people are most familiar with reinforced concrete houses.

Reinforced concrete, as the name suggests, is reinforced with concrete.

In 1867, a Parisian horticulturist discovered that the problem of "brittle fracture" of concrete could be solved by adding steel rings to concrete, and reinforced concrete immediately became the most popular composite material in the world (although the horticulturist himself did not know what brittle fracture was at the time, nor did he understand the principle, but it was enough to use it).

Reinforced concrete structures have undoubtedly had many advantages because they have been popular until now, such as windproof, waterproof, fireproof, insect-proof, and inexpensive enough.

Although concrete is still unknown on the continent of Brattis, the production process is not complicated, as long as some old pottery is crushed and mixed with mortar (hydrated lime and clay), cement can be produced, and some stone and gravel cement are added to become concrete.

Li Yu's universe has been using cement and concrete as building materials as early as ancient Rome, but due to the brittle fracture problem mentioned above, concrete can only be used as foundations, columns or domes, and cannot be used as beams, overhangs and other structures that need to withstand bending stress.

And with the fall of the Roman Empire, the technology was lost along with it, and it was not until more than a thousand years later that it was rediscovered and documented.

In contrast, the smelting of steel is much more troublesome, and there is steel on the continent of Brattis, but it is mainly used to forge weapons and armor, and a set of armor or steel weapons is often expensive.

The poorer knights may not be worthy, otherwise Yin Leia would not have provided only cloth armor and spears to support the militia in Trinidad before before .

The cost is so high, it definitely can't be used to build a house.

If you refine it yourself, Li Yu also consulted some information, and the more realistic one is probably the Bessemer converter steelmaking method.

This steelmaking technique was invented in the 19th century by an engineer named Bessemer, but the principle is not complicated, and with the existing technical conditions of the Brattis continent, it is possible to make an original version.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

However, Li Yu thought about it and gave up this extremely tempting idea.

Steel is definitely going to be refined, but not now.

The immediate priority is to first solve the clothing, food and shelter of these lizard people.

Among them, the clothes can also be pushed back, and the ready-made ones can be purchased to cope with the situation, and the rest of the food and shelter are the most urgent things.

Smelting steel is too time-consuming, and even if you start doing it now, the lizards may not be able to live in reinforced concrete houses when winter comes.

After weighing it again, Li Yu still chose the brick and wood structure for the new houses to be built.