"Today is my first harvest festival since I became Lord of the Stormstorm! Here I want to tell you that I am very satisfied with your hard work in the past six months, all of you have paid the agricultural taxes in full, and I hope you can continue to maintain it in the future! ”

Looking at the black pressure of a serf below, Gervais spoke loudly. No

To be honest, Gervais had nothing to say to them today, just a brief praise of this year's tax situation, and Gervais was about to end his speech, after all, it is not as effective as directly giving money or food to the serfs.

"Now I announce that this year's harvest festival has officially begun, and everyone can pick up food for noon at Butler Thomas!"

"Thank you, Lord for the reward!"

"Thank you, Lord for the reward!"

The serfs craned their necks, originally thinking that the lord might be nagging for a long time, but they didn't expect to end their speech in just a few seconds.

When Ti heard that the food was distributed, the serfs smiled and lined up under the organization of the guards to receive the black bread and large pieces of meat that Gervais had prepared for them.

Appearing in front of the serfs once, by the way, showing his generosity, after that, there was nothing to do with Gervais, after all, this is the festival of laborers, and Gervais is now an evil exploiter.

Without getting off the high platform, Gervais did not immediately return to the castle to cultivate, since he had already come to Marina Town, Gervais was going to go to the Tiangong Stone House in the town to take a look, there were things that Gervais was thinking about.

There are a total of three stone houses in Marina Town, two of which were purchased and inhabited by Bernard and Brian respectively, and the other stone house used to be used by the administrative officer, but as the serfs of the Storm Territory slowly decreased, the serf territory of only 2,000 people did not need the administrative officer at all, so this room was idle.

Now this stone house has been reorganized and cleaned, and it has been named Tiangong Stone House by Gervais himself.

As the name suggests, Gervais is preparing to make this stone house a workshop for various tools in his territory.

Gervais was just an ordinary person in his previous life, and it would be a bit unrealistic to let him invent glass and cement, after all, the ingredients of cement and glass are only slightly understood, and he doesn't know where to start if he wants to experiment.

As a man, Gervais was particularly interested in gunpowder and guns and other weapons in his previous life, which made him remember the production of black powder

But what about glass and cement? Although these two things can be seen everywhere, how can people care about how this ordinary and cheap thing is produced.

For example, Glass Gervais only vaguely remembers that it can be fired with sand, because there is quartz in the sand, but what about other sand? Gervais didn't know anything.

There is also cement, and Gervais also remembers some of the raw materials of cement, including gypsum and iron ore, but he still only remembers these two incomplete raw materials, and more importantly, it takes thousands of degrees to burn cement and glass.

Although Gervais could not invent the modern product, there were backward periods in the previous life, and Gervais felt that if he could manufacture some tools that were not complicated in the ancient process in the previous life, but could play a great role, it was likely to play a great role in the development of his territory.

For example, the curved plow, this thing Gervais could often see when he was a child, the big buffalo dragged an iron plow, and the people could drive the cattle behind, which was many times faster than manual ploughing, which was labor-saving and time-saving, so Gervais had already drawn a simple drawing and handed it to the carpenters and blacksmiths, so that they could make a sample first and improve it slowly, and wait for the next year to be of great use.

In addition to the curved plow, Gervais also drew sickles, iron guillotes, waterwheels, windmills and other primitive tools in the previous life, although these are the most primitive tools, but they are practical and reliable, after all, these tools are the summary and accumulation of hundreds of thousands of previous lives.

For this backward society where the tech tree is suppressed by vindictive energy and elven insects, these tools can definitely improve the efficiency of cultivation by the serfs of the Storm Lord.

Along the street, Gervais took the little maid and the guards directly to the Tiangong Stone House.

When Gervais walked into the house, the carpenter and blacksmith were busy

"Master!"

"Master!"

When Gervais approached them, the blacksmith and carpenter reacted, quickly put down their things, and knelt on the ground to salute Gervais.

"Get up, you won't have to pack when you work in the future!"

"Is this the scythe you just forged?!"

After Gervais asked the two of them to get up, Gervais's eyes were attracted by a half-finished product on the wooden table next to him, which was a crescent-shaped scythe with triangular teeth, but the wooden handle had not yet been pressed Gervais picked up the scythe and touched it, which was exactly the same as the sickle he remembered

"Yes, master, I hammered out this scythe according to the note you gave, but not yet on the handle."

The slave blacksmith's blacksmith had a very average forging technique, and he couldn't even forge a decent sword, but he still had no problem forging these farm tools, so he replied carefully to Gervais.

"Very good, you have forged 50 scythes for me in the past two days, and now the territory is building a stone house, and the roof of the stone house needs thatch, and these scythes are just right for you."

Gervais nodded in satisfaction, and then said to the carpenter beside him: "That curved plough can be made in a few days, and the wooden handles of these scythes can be made first, understand?" ”

"Understood, master! The villain started making it. ”

The carpenter on the side did not dare to slack off, and immediately agreed respectfully.

Satisfied, Gervais walked towards the backyard of the stone house, not for the scythe and the plow, but for the contents of the backyard.

There was a well in the backyard of the stone house, and at the moment there was a stonemason sitting at the well, who was not at all concerned with the arrival of Gervais, and in his hand was the crystal that Gervais had begged from Alice.

The stonemason was concentrating, carefully polishing the crystal stone on the oil stone, when he suddenly noticed that a figure had blocked most of the sunlight, and the stonemason discovered the existence of Gervais this time.

"Master!"

"Well, how is the crystal 'cake' grinding?"

Gervais looked at the small piece of crystal in the stonemason's hand, which had been ground into the shape of a round cake, with a diameter of seven or eight centimeters and a thickness of about two centimeters.

"Master, the villain just cut the crystal stone you gave me yesterday into no points, this is the first crystal 'cake' that the villain grinds today, and now it is just to round the shape according to your requirements, and then the villain will grind the edges of these two sides into an arc."

The stonemason did not dare to slack off when he heard Gervais's question, and hurriedly put the crystal 'cake' in his hand in the wooden basin on the side to wash it, and then handed it to Gervais to check, and when Gervais checked the crystal, the stonemason began to report the progress of the work to Gervais.

Although the stonemason did not know why his master had cut the huge precious crystal stone into many pieces, and had himself grind the crystal into strangely shaped crystal 'cakes', it was not important that his craft would satisfy his master.

"Well, that's good, but you have to pay attention to one thing, when you are grinding the curvature on both sides, you must look in the sun a few times to ensure that the outline of the crystal 'cake' through the sunlight is round and clear, and the scenery cannot be deformed."

"Yes, master, the villain will definitely pay attention!"

The stonemason hurriedly agreed.

After being confirmed again by the stonemason, Gervais handed the crystal 'cake' in his hand back to the stonemason.

The stonemason carefully retrieved the crystal 'cake' and continued to grind it.

Seeing that the stonemason continued to work, Gervais turned and left the stone house.

The crystal 'cake' polished by the stonemason just now is actually Gervais's nonsense, and the real name should be called the concave and convex mirror.

The reason why Gervais asked Alice for these crystal stones, which are of the highest quality and whose transparency is not inferior to glass, is actually to make a telescope.

There is no glass in this world, but such a highly transparent crystal stone is the same, the only drawback is that the cost is too high.

However, Gervais is only going to make a few binoculars for himself and the people around him, and of course he doesn't care about the price.

Although Gervais knows the principle of the telescope, in this backward world, if you want to turn a large piece of crystal into a concave and convex lens in the previous life, you can only rely on manual work.

So Gervais chose a stonemason with the best craftsmanship among the slave stonemasons to help him grind the lenses, the stonemasons of this world are not simply only building houses and building walls, many good stonemasons are actually half artists, and many reliefs on the walls of mansions are their masterpieces.