In his previous life, Li Jia Shu read some historical time travel novels in his spare time.
Generally speaking, there are two ways to improve productivity.
Light up the technology tree and crush the indigenous people in the face with efficient production tools.
Or, to be more realistic,
Increase organization.
With the optimized production organization method, under the condition that the technology tree cannot be lit across generations, try to reach the upper limit of the current efficiency level.
For example, compared to the organizational method of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset".
Working three shifts will definitely improve some efficiency.
As long as the materials are supplied in time,
A little more,
Black magic.
...
At around 6 o'clock in the morning, dark clouds shrouded the sky over the island and the surrounding sea.
For the residents of Gus City, the weather was pretty good, at least it didn't rain.
Outside the castle, next to the lord's farm, the Slay ladies, dressed in ragged clothes and holding small wooden washbasins, lined up to receive wooden bowls and cotton and linen towels from the soldiers.
Two steaming wooden barrels were placed in front of them.
They were divided into two lines. In one line, people lined up to get hot water to wash their faces and refresh themselves. In the other line, people lined up to get breakfast and wolfed it down.
The wooden bowls and cotton and linen towels were made by the town's craftsmen overnight. The labor gloves and safety helmets have not yet been completed because of the complicated process.
The workers' breakfast (stored in one wooden barrel and hot water in the other) was sticky wheat paste.
But it’s not just wheat paste either.
In the castle warehouse, the butler Ator was asking the servants to take inventory, with a bitter look on his face.
At the request of the devil's messenger, the kitchen beat more than 40 eggs into the wheat paste prepared for the slaves, chopped several bundles of parsley, added several pieces of crushed ginger, and half a bag of sea salt.
Steward Ator wanted to ask the devil's messenger if this was "a little bit" luxurious for a group of slaves?
But when the words came to his mouth and he looked at the devil's fist as big as a sandbag, Atholl suddenly thought about what he was worried about.
The castle is really struggling to make ends meet. Isn't it enough to collect more taxes when the time comes? With the devil's messenger here, how dare the citizens resist the taxes?
Anyway, as long as the devil messenger and Master Chuyang are happy.
Castle Farm.
"My construction team! Answer me, have you had enough breakfast?"
Standing in front of the crowd, Li Jiasu asked loudly.
Several soldiers armed with spears and whips went to the nearby farmland to supervise the work of the serfs. The devil's messenger said that he alone could supervise these slaves. (However, when the number of people increases in the future, Li Jia Shu will definitely need other supervisors.
to assist in the work)
The crowd was silent for a few seconds.
When Scarface saw no one said anything, he took half a step forward and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, sir. I'm full."
Li Jia Shu glanced at Kapuschkin and then said: "Work with me, and you will eat three meals a day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I will not let you starve, because you have to work hard for me.
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"Do you understand?"
Kapuschkin and the other Mrs. Slay were slightly startled. These days, most people only eat two meals a day, and poorer freedmen and serfs may even eat only one meal a day.
Work begins at sunrise and rests at sunset. Except for those blacksmiths and small craftsmen, most people cannot work after the sun sets.
This slave owner wants us to eat three meals a day? No way, we have to work at night... right?
Scarface took a deep breath, and then said: "I understand, thank you, sir!"
The other Mrs. Slay made a slight commotion for a few seconds, and then responded one after another.
As long as you can have a full meal.
The devil wearing a brass mask nodded with satisfaction.
Subsequently, the 83 workers were divided into 3 groups of about 28 people each (numbered group abc).
Li Jia Shu called two soldiers and asked them to take the people from Group C to assist the serfs in farming first.
Then, bring the remaining members of group AB to the selected venue.
A bull, with farm tools for plowing on its body, was lowering its head and eating its sex.
Li Jiasu stroked the old cow's back.
This cow was seconded from the serfs. After the teaching phase is completed, the construction team will need more cows.
"In the past few days, I will take you to learn how the Seris people build houses." Li Jiasu said to the crowd.
"The way I build houses is somewhat different from the masons in the city."
"The houses we build will be houses that can last for 40 years!"
Some people in the crowd clicked their tongues. Whether it is the Sreif region or the Kingdom of France and Portugal, ordinary houses (mixed stone and wood structures) built by ordinary masons for ordinary people, if they do not require maintenance for 10 years, are considered to be of excellent quality.
A house that can last for 40 years without falling down? Is this building a small villa for an aristocratic gentleman?
"Don't be shocked! This will not be the devil's illusion, nor will it be the miracle of the gods." Li Jiasu continued, "Learn my technology, master my knowledge, and insist on my quality, we can create 40
A house that will last forever!”
In fact, Li Jiasu has already lowered his requirements.
In his previous life, on Terra Blue Star, Li Jia Shu’s quality requirement for his work was ‘no problems for at least 70 years’!
In this remote and remote low-magic crystal wall system, the material technology level and tool precision level are both very backward, so the quality level can only be reduced.
Anyway, when building a house here, Li Jiasu didn't have to consider issues such as "earthquake protection," "wind and earthquake protection," and "wires buried in the wall." The quality of the house shrank from 70 years to 40 years old.
It's reasonable.
Shrunk, but not completely.
"Which of you has any previous experience as a mason or carpenter?" the devil asked the crowd.
Several people raised their hands.
"Well, you guys go out and get the tools from the wooden box next to you." Li Jia Shu said to these people and gave some instructions in a low voice.
"As for the others, those in Group A, come here and get the shovels and trolleys! Group B sits on the ground, watch and learn!"
"Today, I will teach you how to prepare the foundation."
...
Due to the lack of automatic machinery and equipment, Li Jiasu could only use bullocks and manpower to plow the ground.
After loosening the soil, the old oxen were tied aside to rest, and the workers were asked to use shovels to shovel the first layer of soil manually.
(The waste soil is temporarily piled aside)
(The soil layer exposed to the ground is a useless surface layer)
Then, let the workers shovel away a layer of wet soil below.
Then, let them use a sieve to shake the shoveled wet soil and sift it once to remove all plant seeds and roots in the soil.
(The soil on the backfill surface layer must not contain plant impurities)
Next, Li Jiasu asked the workers to follow him and use wheelbarrows to transport the sifted wet soil to the sand pile 30 meters away.
Two or three tons of sand and buckets of gravel were all prepared by the devil in advance.
Where did these two or three tons of sand come from?
Haha, don't forget, Li Jiasu has a dimensional bag.
Last night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Li Jia stayed at the beach bay of the island (not far from the town), put the sand into a dimensional bag, flew back to the outside of the castle farm, and dumped the sand.
After going back and forth a dozen times, the sand was moved.
Even the devil has to work.
With sand, wet soil, aggregate (gravel or other fillable materials), and water, you can make a relatively primitive concrete. Although it lacks chemical binders, the effect will be much worse.
The optimal proportion of ingredients for this kind of original concrete (the mixing proportion of water, sand, wet soil, and aggregate is extremely important. It can be said that the proportion of ingredients is a business secret). Li Jiasu flipped through the reference book last night and typed it himself.
We did a simple test on several piles (shaped piles), and finally selected the most moderate proportion of ingredients for the construction of group houses.
In fact, according to Terra Blue Star's construction standards, sea sand is prohibited from being used in making concrete.
Concrete is only allowed to be made with river sand.
The use of sea sand is a major production safety issue because the salt in sea sand will shorten the life of concrete.
But that's it.
No one checked.
I am the supervisor.
Then, Li Jiasu must have done it as conveniently as possible.
If you have the ability, go to AD and issue a notice saying, ‘Sir, the True God of the Devil, the construction worker you sent is working in violation of regulations!’.
Ahem.
(It is not difficult to get a few buckets of gravel. Stones are everywhere. Li Jia Shu personally knocked them with a hammer and there were them.)
Well, next, Li Jiasu and his workers mixed the materials with water, stirred them, made three piles, checked the quality, and then packed five or six barrels of freshly mixed raw concrete and hurried back to the foundation pit.
Those workers who had experience as masons and carpenters had already made a number of wooden boards of specified thickness and length according to Li Jiasu's instructions, and used the wooden boards to surround a rectangle in the foundation pit.
Li Jiasu asked the workers in Group A to slowly pour the raw concrete in the barrels that had not yet solidified into the wooden board area.
After that, the workers with experience in masonry and carpentry were asked to hold tools and carefully stir the newly poured concrete to force out as many bubbles as possible inside the viscous liquid.
(Once there are air bubbles inside, after the concrete solidifies, the air bubbles inside will transform into cavities, which will cause further cracks)
Then, Li Jiasu asked these workers to use tools to smooth the pouring surface.
Finally, cover the foundation pit with a thick waterproof wax sealing cloth.
"The work is okay, but the speed is not fast enough." The devil patted the mud on his cloak and looked at the workers in Group A.
"As you become more proficient at it, your speed will increase."
The workers in Group A wiped the sweat from their foreheads with wet towels and looked at Li Jiasu in silence.
It was already noon, the clouds had dispersed a bit, and the sun came out.
Several soldiers brought two steaming wooden barrels.
They are boiling water with sea salt added, and the same wheat paste as breakfast.
"Everyone, take a break and have lunch." The devil waved his hand and asked two soldiers to call back the workers in Group C.
(Group c was previously assisting serfs in farming)
"We will continue in the afternoon and rotate groups."
The devil looked at the workers who had been sitting on the ground to rest all morning.
"Group B, have you read the previous teaching?"
...
Throughout the afternoon, Group B followed Li Jiasu and built another foundation to practice.
The workers in group C sat on the ground and watched and studied. The people in group A took turns assisting the serfs in farming.
In the evening, Group B finally completed their training.
Calling back the workers of Group A, while Mrs. Slei was having dinner, Li Jia Shu ordered a soldier to go to Chu Yang and say: "Please come and inspect, your lord, and light a lamp by the way."
About a quarter of an hour later, Mrs. Slay saw the young man in purple velvet and silk clothes walking to the farm accompanied by his personal guard.
Guard Hamo was carrying a big bag, which seemed to contain a lot of things.
Seeing the arrival of the lord, the two soldiers here immediately knelt down on one knee, bowed their heads and said: "Master!"
When the 83 Slay ladies saw the lord arriving, they all knelt on their knees and imitated the pronunciation of the two soldiers just now, saying in off-key Spanish: "Master!"
Chu Yang waved his hands and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, get up."
The soldier stood up straight.
Li Jiasu cleared his throat, then looked at the workers and said loudly: "Lord, please get up!"
"Also, the lord just said that from now on, you are not allowed to kneel when you see him!"
"Kneeling on your knees frequently can easily cause damage to your knees and is harmful to your health!"
"You are the Lord's wealth!"
"The lord does not want his wealth to be damaged just because of the stupid 'kneeling'!"
"So, from now on, when you see the lord, you are not allowed to kneel! Protect your knees!"
"Just bow. The lord looks at your work efficiency, not whether you can kneel!"
Mrs. Slei got up and stood up straight with a look of confusion on her face.
Damn it, Lord, did you say so many words just now? Lord, it seems that you only said one sentence just now, right?
As if seeing the confusion of the workers, the devil snorted and added.
"I, Axelaret Lee, am the Lord's agent, and my words are his words."
After that, he walked over and started chatting with Chuyang.
"Ac Master Li, it seems that you have disciplined these slaves well." Chu Yang looked at the foundations in the two foundation pits and said to Li Jiasu.
"It's not bad, it's only the first day, and I have a lot of work to do later." Li Jiasu shook his head slightly, "I hope the gloves and helmets I ordered can be delivered early tomorrow. There are still many things that I haven't done for the workers yet.
training.”
"You don't seem to like the word 'slave', sir?" Chu Yang said.
The devil replied: "The labor efficiency of slaves will not be very high."
The young man in purple velvet and silk clothes nodded thoughtfully.
Later, Chu Yang took off the big bag on the back of guard Hamo.
"Ac Master Li, I have all the casting materials here ready."
Last night, in the secret alchemy workshop of the castle, the devil and the lord had a friendly and in-depth discussion about various information about the black magic alchemy passed down by Chu Yang's family.
We are currently not doing anything like fighting and killing, grabbing treasures and upgrading.
The devil is here to build a house.
Chu Yang took out a ceremonial dagger engraved with mysterious patterns from under his purple velvet silk clothes, and then took out a pile of bones, bottles, and strangely colored ores from a big cloth bag.
Following the devil, Chu Yang played with six black magic arrays at designated locations.
Then, consume the materials and cast the spell.
Rub~ rub~ rub~
The eerie blue fire floated in the sky above the black magic circle, providing barely enough brightness to the construction site.
(The irradiation range is farther than the torch, but the brightness is not as high as the torch)
This is a simple magic that Chuyang can perform. Generally speaking, it is useless and has no lethality. It can only scare people.
However, does a spell caster have to be good at fighting?
Li Jiasu's devilish voice sounded, and he said to the horrified workers: "Group A and Group B, sit on the ground and watch and study, and recall the details of your work during the day."
"Everyone in Group C, get up. In the afternoon, you have already seen how Group B built the foundation under my guidance."
"Now, the people in Group C will follow me to build the third foundation and practice their skills."
Under the illumination of the eerie blue fire, the devil stood at the construction site and concluded in a terrifying tone.