Waves of golden wheat swayed on the hillsides, and farther through the forest, large fields of wheat looked like flattened golden pancakes.

Today is the third day of the wheat harvest, and a hundred men and women are taking turns using thirty sickles to harvest the wheat.

The combat group is three-man, and the hunting and patrol are five-person.

The number of people in the labor group is larger, and the number is uncertain.

Lawrence implements family-based farming groups, and adopts a task system, assigning the scope and amount of work of each working group, and resting early when they are done in advance.

Because some people couldn't finish their work until the evening, Lawrence implemented the punishment of not eating until he finished his work for the day.

Most women don't have families, and they can't find a middle-aged labor force who can support a group of people, so women can also team up with each other, usually three or five women in a team, and if there are too many, everyone thinks it's inappropriate.

Both men and women have the same basic task target, and beyond this target, more work is more rewarding.

Women do more than men, so they leave work faster and rest earlier.

Men do more than women, so they can help others with tasks and turn physical strength into charm.

When I work, I don't count as children, but children help carry wheat stacks, help carry water and bales, etc., which can also improve the efficiency of the group.

The crows flew in early in the morning from the church, searching the harvested wheat fields for the lost grains.

There are also other birds that come to look for food, and they will soon be bullied away by these crows.

The new slaves also collected uncleaned ears of wheat in the wheat fields and put the mud and gravel into baskets.

These people are all slaves who have been sold this year, some from the Barbarian Kingdom, some from the Western Kingdom, and there are several places where the language is not understood.

After the initial run-in, these slaves who usually work together gradually adapted to life here and slowly learned the language.

According to the rules here, if these people want to continue to live here in the future, they also need to find a partner who can help each other with their work.

Lawrence gathered in and around the mill with Sophia, Delen, Seravon, Losanda and the blacksmiths.

The clanging roar resounded here.

The sound of wood and wheels colliding, shaking, and the impact of the water makes it very noisy.

Lawrence carried a bale of dried grain, walked up the wooden steps to a platform one meter three meters above the ground, and poured the wheat into a funnel-shaped wooden container.

Sariel and the others stood on the ground looking at the shaking stone mill, and then at the wheat grains that kept falling from the funnel above the stone mill.

When a bag of wheat grains is poured into the funnel, only a few grains can fall from under the funnel, and these wheat grains continue to fall into the stone trough in the center of the stone mill like rapidly melting snow water.

Under the huge vibration, the wheat grains above the container are constantly shaken to the bottom, and because the outlet is only the size of a small coin, only a small part of the wheat grains can fall at a time.

The fast-moving stone mill quickly crushed the wheat inside into powder, which fell into a rectangular wooden cabinet at the exit.

Sophia reached out and felt a handful of powder in the wooden cabinet, "Master, it's grinding!" ”

Lawrence stood on the table and looked at the flour below, "It's still a little rough, not particularly fine." ”

Saliel also reached out and used two fingers to grind the freshly powdered flour, "Strain it through a flour sieve and eat." ”

Lawrence stepped down from the stage, not intending to make it too precise.

If it is too complicated, the more troublesome the repair, and at the same time, it will require more work and more time.

The flour eaten in the main house only needs to be sifted through these, while most of the rest of the people eat mixed bread, and now the flour here is a rare food for most people.

Lawrence stepped down and looked at the blacksmith and the others.

"You have seen the big wood outside, and the impeller is made from a large horizontal log, and then when the water pushes the wood to rotate, the impellers on both sides will also turn around and press the approaching plank."

"Every time the rotating wooden pole rotates, it will only touch the wooden board once, and if you think of this as the pedal of a foot blower, then the wooden wheel will hit the pedal once every time it falls, and after pressing down, the wooden wheel will return to the circle and rotate again."

Salavin didn't understand, "When you press it to the ground, you can't move." ”

Lawrence explains: "So you need a platform, and the wooden wheels are in the air, and the wheels are fixed in the air with wood, and the blower can be made bigger, and the rear pedals can be dug up more space so that it can be pressed down a lot." ”

"The blower is bigger, the air is easier, and there is enough space to heat the air inside, so that the blast furnace can be more fuel-efficient when making iron."

"A few of you have been watching here for the past few days, learning with me the maintenance and operation of this hydraulic mill, now our iron production is not enough, and we must build a better ironmaking plant in the future."

The blacksmiths from Durela, Bumicius, Clauda, the Kingdom of Loven, and the Kingdom of the South nodded earnestly.

After initial adaptation, many of the slaves from the field showed their abilities, and they were quickly placed in more relaxed technical positions, which led to the rest of the group following suit.

Slaves who could only do household chores were very cheap in this era, and most of the male slaves who survived were craftsmen and other skilled workers.

There is currently only one water-powered mill in Lawrence, and only the wheat is processed in the manor's water-powered mill, while the rest are still milled in traditional stone.

There were more than a dozen traditional stone mills, and Lawrence originally planned to sell them to merchants in the Western Kingdom, but they didn't want this, so they had to keep it for his own use.

It's uncomfortable to do business when you encounter this kind of thing, it's not that you can sell what you think can be sold, and some things are bought and given one free, and others are too likely to take up space.

Anything made of wood can be easily damaged, especially if it is a large piece of wood that runs at high speed.

Lawrence led a group of carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, and tinsmiths to make wheels and card slots, as well as various repair and spare parts, while working at the water-powered mill.

If there is a problem inside the water wheel or the mill, block the water inlet, and then lead the people to solve the various problems, and teach these people how to deal with such things.

In fact, in ancient times, these were the responsibility of special millers, and professionals alone could solve these things.

It would take a long time for Sariel and the rest of the group to understand this, but for craftsmen who often work with utensils, they are born with the ability to understand faster than laymen.

Once you understand the mystery and precautions of wheel turning, it will be much easier to make a car.

The people outside the manor were busy harvesting wheat, collecting fuel and millet from the fields, or herding sheep and cattle, and in their spare time, they would sit in the sheds, wooden houses, and in the shade of the trees, chatting, sleeping, playing cards, and drying clothes.

The people at the foot of the mountain were busy harvesting the wheat, and Fryce and the others also borrowed the Dom sheep and the sickle of the cart, and went home to harvest the wheat.

These people had their own private property, so Lawrence did not take them to eat in a big pot and did not expropriate their assets.

Unless they are willing to sacrifice their land, except for feasts or wars, they usually need money for food, drink, and clothes, and even grazing and collecting firewood have to go to places outside the territory.

Money can be obtained by fighting, and the price of goods here is cheap, and wheat can be exchanged for wine and grain, and there are two opportunities to make a fortune twice a year.

After harvesting the wheat, Lawrence arranged for the use of the land, planting winter vegetable crops such as potatoes and cabbage.

At this time, the weather also began to cool, and after an autumn rain, the short summer was over.

Autumn was much shorter in the north than outside, and Lawrence arranged for more men to go to the village of Dum to guard against the Vakiri and the threat from the sea.

Because of the lack of communication and communication, when they don't know the movements of the Vakiri, it is like sailing in the deep sea, and most of the shadows under the surface of the sea are tinged with fear.

The experience of several sneak attacks made Lawrence very concerned about safety, not only allowing some villagers to expand their pastures and fields outside the town, but also arranging for the people of the Water City to collect shellfish and shrimp and crabs in the sea.

The slaves of the City of Water saw this as abuse, and they did not want to eat fish and shrimp when they had brown bread and multigrain bread to eat.

Fish, shrimp, crab shells, in this era, are junk food that is not as good as tatters, and it is not that you will not eat this kind of garbage if you don't have to eat it.

It's very troublesome to boil, you can't wash it with seawater, and there is a fucking lack of water and pots on the beach, this thing will die if you eat too much, and it's very troublesome to eat, and the taste after cooking is also very bad, and you can't eat at all.

Lawrence forced those who refused to carry stones and work hard to go to the sea to catch food as a way to reduce food consumption and train a group of seafolk fishermen.

Brielier quickly found Lawrence to convey the voice of the recently newly incorporated WaterCity believers.

"The new brothers thought it was too cruel, and they were all confessing their sins to me, hoping that they would not be allowed to continue eating crabs, shrimp and shells."

"They are okay with eating fish and willing to work hard, but hopefully not always the bugs with the armor."

Lawrence was angry: "A bunch of lazy guys, then let them go and help build the house and dig the earth, and then give them brown bread!" ”

"Yes, master." Feeling that this satisfied the hope of the City of Water, Brielier asked, "Master, some people from the City of Water have been here for almost half a year, and they are asking if they can come back after they go back?" ”

"Yes, like the Durellans, you can bring people with you when you go back, and the newcomers can eat bread even if they are fishermen, and I won't force them to eat anything from the sea with their shells on."

"This time, let the people of Water City take us to them, bring our relatives there, and punish the nobles there by the way!"

"Whoever is willing to lead the way will be able to protect their families and bring more people over by the way, our ship is filled with treasures, not idlers."

(End of chapter)