"Want to centralize power? You must build a road!".
Hard-surface roads extending in all directions helped Rome strengthen its rule.
For a poor feudal lord in another world, if he first builds a flat road directly connecting [Rural Pasture] and [Military Castle], he can gain 5 points of authority index... Huh?
(Warning! The concentration of positive energy is too low, a *** attack is detected on the way!)
Sorry, the correct description should be:
‘Grassroots control has been improved’ and ‘private data collection efficiency has been optimized’.
(The positive energy concentration returns to the safety level, and the alarm is lifted)
In short, under the leadership of the devil contractor, after six days and seven nights of accelerated construction, a reduced version of the "first phase of the road project" - surrounding the castle, extending to the countryside outside Gusi City, a bird's-eye view of the flat cement in the shape of [曱]
Highway——After acceptance by the civil engineering devil, it is now put into use.
The farmers in the village and the idle men in Gusi City originally had to walk slowly for half an hour before they could walk along the muddy, uneven, gravelly wilderness dirt road to the front of the lord's castle.
To put it another way, there is no car at home... Ahem, ordinary people who cannot afford a horse will generally not go to the castle. For example, in the Kingdom of Spain, there are only craftsmen's guilds occasionally.
Bards, big traders in towns, and passing adventurers will take the initiative to go to the lord's castle and ask the nobles if they have any relevant needs, in order to earn some money.
Today, outside Gusi City, there is a strange scene.
"What the hell!? Master, there are too many civilians blocking the road! This, this, this... how about I use a whip to drive them away?"
"Binxi, this is not our own territory. If you crack a whip to clear the way, it will hurt the wealth of the local nobles. This is not good."
"Ah, yes, yes, the young master is right!"
"We will take a detour through the wild grass next to it, and it will only take a few minutes."
Therefore, the classical scene of [the domineering evil young servant riding a horse and hitting people on the street] did not appear.
Arcadio and his escort Binsi pulled the reins and the horses immediately turned around. The horses galloped on the wild grass next to the cement road, running around the bends towards the castle at the end.
On the plain gray cement road, hundreds of villagers walking normally looked sideways, with either curiosity or fear, at the 'rich man' galloping on horseback on the grass on one side of the road, and then...
....Nothing happened, I walked back to the village normally.
Eat well and go back to raising chickens and farming. This is business.
So, let the narrator explain it:
"The foreigner who was offline for 14 days finally came back online in our story!"
That’s right! The timeline is only two weeks advanced!
In fact, starting from the night when a certain civil engineering devil traveled through time to take over this 'grand' project, a total of 8 working weeks have progressed.
(Based on Li Jia Shu’s estimated ‘three-year completion’, he still needs about 148 working weeks)
The preparation of personnel, the construction of dormitories, the leveling of the site, the paving of roads, the construction of equipment, and all the messy things - such as taking advantage of others in the dungeon - were all completed within 8 weeks.
Compared with the [execution speed] of projects that Li Jiasu participated in in his previous life...
Damn it! That’s almost it!
It seems that although the productivity of feudal slavery society is backward, it still has merits in some aspects?
(Warning! The concentration of positive energy is too low, a *** attack is detected on the way!)
But we must have a clear attitude:
That is to say, these astonishing fruits of labor are all derived from [the brutal exploitation of working people by feudal slave owners]!
(Alert cleared, authors please cherish their writing rights)
In comparison, the adventurous life of a foreigner is much ‘easier’.
In the 14 days from the beginning of the second volume to this chapter, a young nobleman with no shortage of gold coins formed a "goose-catching team" with his two loyal bodyguard brothers and several recruited local hunters who "wanted money rather than their lives"
, once again plunged into the deep mountains and forests of the island.
Of course, this time they learned their lesson and were not so reckless.
Arcadio took the island map given by Chuyang (an old version from decades ago) and tried his best to explore along the outer edge of the island, and asked the old hunters who were familiar with the local mountain and forest environment to pay attention to animals that were 'unusual beasts'
trace.
Along the way, the adventurers once again discovered several extremely suspicious [underground tunnel] entrances - Arcadio immediately thought of the one they unearthed last month when they were searching for the 'ancient heresy underground ruins'.
The [Underground Tunnel] hidden under the dead trees.
On this island, there is obviously more than one 'entrance' to the secrets of ancient heretics.
The three adventurers learned their lesson and did not act rashly this time - hold it in, the treasure chest cannot escape on its own! - first made a mark on the map, and when they returned to Gus City, they chatted with the local lord.
Let's chat and see if we can pull out a group of cannon fodder to help with the dungeon. Wouldn't it be nice?
(However, the treasure chests in some high-level dungeons can indeed run away)
Moreover, this time the aristocratic young man’s idea of exploring the island is very clear:
The goal of the "Goose Catching Team" is to find the legendary five white geese!
Catch the best!
If you really can't, steal an egg and hatch it!
Well... they didn't succeed for the time being.
But adventurers are not without gains.
Under the leadership of Arcadio, the "Goose Catching Team" spent 7 days exploring about 1/3 of the arc length along the periphery of the island based on the old map. As the amount of supplies dropped to a critical point, the team decided to stop exploring.
, and began to return to the original route.
On the way back, when passing by the entrance of an [underground tunnel] discovered earlier - of course the team did not suddenly have a sudden fit and rush into the dungeon - but you can't prevent something from running out of the dungeon!
Have you ever seen a cockroach as big as a human?
What a big cockroach!
Fortunately, it was just one person, not a group of them.
Several hunters were indeed scared to death on the spot, but the psychological quality of the three adventurers was excellent. They withstood the DC14 mental shock test and immediately entered a fighting state.
In short, due to Arcadio's ice control ability and the two guard brothers' long-range and melee attack, the giant cockroach was defeated.
The team worked together and moved the giant cockroach corpse frozen in ice back to Gusi City!
Imagine a cockroach the size of a human being, covered with stab wounds, riddled with crossbow arrows, and frozen in ice.
This weird trophy proves the authenticity of the rumor of "five big white geese"!
Of course, the people were shocked. Arcadio still needed to talk to Chu Yang about the leaser (gun) hand (ash) - it was impossible to present the body of a giant cockroach to the king as a 'tribute'
Your Majesty, right? It would be more honorable to catch a goose.
Therefore, after resting for a night in Gus City, with Binsi's brother guarding the big ice block, Arcadio and Binsi went to the castle at noon the next day, intending to discuss new cooperation intentions with the lord.
As for a certain condemnation knight? She coldly declined the aristocratic young man's invitation to go on a "goose-catching" adventure, and stayed in Gusi City and never left - in the first 'Gusi City Development Plan Lord Recruitment Assistant Servant Examination'
'After the end, a certain devil had not yet started the second paid night reading training class for the 'fixed exam' due to lack of skills (busy with construction site management), so the dilapidated chapel in the city was vacant - Juana, who was in a depressed mood,
So he chose to stay in that chapel temporarily.
As for what the Crime Knight saw and heard in Gusi City during these 14 days?
In the interlude, let me tell you a little more.
So,
Let's switch the camera to the construction site!
Why are there so many villagers walking on the new cement road connecting the castle and the countryside, occupying the road that the two adventurers have to take a detour?
It's very simple to say simple, but it's also complicated to say complex:
On the flat site on the left side in front of the main entrance of the castle, the "Public Kitchen for the Collective Canteen of Peasants and Construction Workers with Federesh Land Characteristics Feudalism Notes System" covering an area of about 900 square meters is running smoothly!
Let’s start with the building itself.
Even though it occupies a large area, I think it will be very troublesome to build - whether it is troublesome or not depends on the functional requirements and attribute indicators of the building.
Li Jia Shu led a team of skilled workers to work out the work flow in stages over five days, spending six hours a day. The total working time was just over 30 hours, and the building covering an area of 900 square meters was completed.
!
How is it done? Why is it so fast?
First of all, the actual demand for this building is extremely ‘cheap’:
1. It doesn’t live in people
2. Expected service life: three to five years
3. Multiple chimneys
4. Fire prevention in the stove area
5. The space is wide enough to accommodate a large number of tables and chairs
In line with the Pinxixi strategy of "whatever works", the Devil's construction team simply produced about 120 square pieces of "prefabricated parts" using the technology of "prefabricated concrete parts" - using baked wooden poles that evaporate water instead of metal reinforcements.
Wall panels' (poured on the first day, waiting for solidification and shaping, and used on the fifth day).
Next, the foundation needs to be laid, and the soil layer is 'excavated, cleaned, and backfilled' as usual - but unlike building a residential house, this time the construction team only 'scraped' a very thin layer of soil.
Specifically, when building a new type of group house in Volume 1, when ‘scraping’ the unusable natural soil layer, an average depth of about [twenty shovels] was required;
When building this scaled-down collective canteen and public kitchen, Pin Xixi Devil instructed the workers that an average depth of only about [three shovels] is enough!
After all, since no one lives there and the expected service life is only three to five years, the foundation can be simply treated.
Li Jiasu chose to use "concrete prefabricated parts" to build the building blocks (except that the load-bearing walls and roof main beams were built separately), which saved a lot of time.
Of course, the 'three-dimensional box' built in this way is more sensitive to the stress inside the building - in fact, the capacity to resist stress deformation is relatively lower - therefore, the subsequent construction of the stove area and
When building the chimney, Li Jiasu deliberately placed these complex internal structures in symmetrical positions and kept them as far away from the exterior walls as possible.
This makes it difficult for the masons responsible for building stoves and chimneys to get used to it.
According to the experience of the local masons in Gusi City, stoves and chimneys are usually built against the walls. How can they stand in the center of the room?
It was impossible for Li Jiasu to explain the concept of "modern structural mechanics" to the local masons for a while, so he could only say: "Uh..."
"I am Party A, you are Party B, just do as I ask!"
Ahem, the idea is too advanced and difficult to explain, so I won’t explain it at all.
In short, except for the stove, chimney, load-bearing walls and main beams, which took some effort, the other work processes were all simple and convenient, allowing the devil to complete this 'collective canteen and public kitchen' in just 5 days.
was built and put into operation immediately.
The free laborers on the construction site, the Sleif laborers, the recruited rural youths, and the castle's kitchen team were the first users of this building.
After a few days of trial operation, the devil and the lord promulgated a new policy related to 'eating' to the villagers outside Gus City - all the farmers in the territory!
Paper,
bill,
special ticket,
special notes issued by the castle,
You can exchange a ticket for a meal in the collective cafeteria.
You can even come to the castle to exchange magical notes for food!
Of course, it can't be free.
You have to exchange something to get it.
...
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