Working Prophet.

Chapter 416 Helping Me Is Helping You
Although the territory of the Arias family is large, the previous population was not large.

Nowadays, many people have flooded into the green field, but because of the mandatory weekends, the time they can serve in corvee has been reduced by nearly one-third.

Therefore, Miss Rabbit didn't have too many people on hand.

Of course, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can still hire workers, but with the popularity of new farm tools and farming methods, the labor cost of green fields is also increasing.

After all, the income from farming is much higher than before, and there are fewer farmers willing to sell their labor to the lord.

Moreover, the weekend school is also recruiting workers, and the remuneration is very generous, and it is difficult for Miss Rabbit to compete.

In addition to the lack of manpower, another big reason is that the western region is not very peaceful at present. Some powerful and financial big families have begun to plan ahead, recruiting soldiers and training militia.

The Arias family is no exception. Miss Rabbit is stingy, and she has a strong sense of crisis. She has been paying close attention to military affairs since she succeeded in slaying the dragon, but the recruitment and training of soldiers will also take up a lot of labor.

Seeing the thriving scene outside the Teacup Castle, without the protection of the city wall, the female lord always felt a little uneasy.

Consultant Fausto suggested building a wooden fence around the perimeter first. This kind of wooden fence is very low in cost, does not require too many manpower, and can provide a certain degree of defense at the same time.

In fact, in the western region, not all towns and castles are built with stones, or only a few can be built with stones. In contrast, wooden castles and city gates are more common.

After all, there are a lot of lords who only earn a few hundred or even tens of golden lions throughout the year, but with a large family and clan, there are many expenses in various aspects.

Without a windfall, they could neither afford the high cost of building a stone castle nor pay for subsequent maintenance.

So don't look at the small area of ​​Teacup Castle, but it is a famous strong city in the western region, which has helped the Arias family resist the attacks of powerful enemies several times.

Strictly speaking, the castle was not built by the Arias family, and most of the construction costs were sponsored by Earl Philip, the lord of the Western Territory at the time.

On the surface, it is to reward the ancestors of the Arias family for their bravery in combat and their outstanding performance in conquering the western region, but in fact, it is mainly for the monitoring and defense of the Emanuel family, which has surrendered early.

But in any case, the Arias family did get a big deal.

Miss Rabbit might accept Fausto's proposal if she didn't have a stone fortress, but now she doesn't like the wooden fence a little bit.

As the saying goes, when in doubt, look for Merlin.

The female lord didn't worry about this issue for too long, and asked Li Yu directly when he came next time.

Li Yu thought for a while and said, "Use a rammed earth wall."

"What is a rammed earth wall?" the female lord asked humbly.

"It's just a wall made of earth."

"How can soil be used as a wall?" Miss Rabbit shook her head and said, "In this way, if foreign enemies come to attack, they don't have to attack the city gate at all, they can just dig a tunnel and dig into the city. Make it bigger, and the city wall will collapse by itself."

"The rammed earth wall is not that fragile." Li Yu said.

Although this set of city-building methods existed in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, it is still used in modern times. For example, the earthen buildings in Fujian and the coastal areas of southern Fujian are all improved rammed-earth buildings with good quality and strong defense. Outstanding, not under the stone castle.

After entering the age of firearms later, it can still play a role and will not be eliminated like a stone castle.

As for the problem of waterproofing, the rammed earth wall itself is waterproof to a certain extent. After the soil is squeezed, its density will become very high. After chemical and physical reactions, it will become mellow soil. Dayu even used this method to build the water. over the dam.

Of course, generally speaking, rammed earth walls are relatively afraid of water. From time to time, there are records in history books that some rammed earth walls collapsed due to heavy rain or mountain torrents.The grass seeds mixed in the wall may also germinate after being exposed to water and damage the wall, which also requires regular maintenance.

However, the climate in the western region is relatively dry, and the rainfall is not too much, so the rammed earth wall is quite safe.

But Li Yu could also understand the worry of the female lord, so he added, "If you are really worried about the rain, you can cover the outside with a layer of bricks later."

There are still debates in the archaeological circles about when the rammed earth wrapped bricks originated, but the large-scale popularization should have been in the Ming Dynasty. The threat of artillery and large catapults.

There are quite a few brick kilns in Shuangxiujiao now, and the skill of firing bricks is getting better and better. It is not a difficult problem to produce bricks.

The rammed earth wall also requires a lot of manpower, but the advantage is that there is no need to mine stone materials, and it takes manpower to transport them. You can get local materials and start construction immediately. If you don’t have enough manpower in the early stage, you can build a lower base first. It’s about four or five meters long. up.

After that, it will be raised slowly, and finally covered with bricks. The initial project and investment will not be wasted at all, and it will save money at the same time.

Miss Rabbit was persuaded by Li Yu. Although it is a bit embarrassing to use earth as a city wall, it will probably be laughed at by other nobles if it spreads.

But saving money is one aspect. The most important thing is Li Yu's promise that after the city wall is built, it will be stronger than the traditional stone wall and difficult to break through.

So the female lord no longer hesitated, and finally decided to adopt the plan recommended by Li Yu.

Later, Li Yu collected some information about the rammed earth wall from the Internet, including the ratio of materials used, the structure of the wall and the method of ramming, and asked Clara to translate it into the common language of the mainland, and then gave it to the shipbuilder Fitzwilliam for research. .

In fact, if a traveler with civil engineering experience can handle this matter, the efficiency will undoubtedly be higher, and the final construction quality will be improved by more than one level.

It is a pity that Li Yu has no talents in this field at hand.

Compared with the progress in the Bratis mainland, the recruitment of reincarnation volunteers is not going smoothly. Li Yu needs to risk being taken as a liar to persuade them one by one. So far, he has only recruited Two followers.

One of them studied computers.

The other has been the up owner of the gourmet area for so long, and has always been keen on ghosts and animals. He doesn't know how much of his previous professional knowledge is left.

Li Yu also went to buy a few more textbooks for Lu Weijia these days, intending to help him review the knowledge he learned at the beginning.

But unexpectedly, Lu Weijia was the first to find and hurt Li Yu.

"What, you said you want a video camera and a laptop, what are they for?"

"Make a video." Lu Weijia said truthfully.

"........."

"Station B is gone, do you know? Besides, why should I satisfy your request." Li Yu asked back.

"Because helping me is helping you." Lu Weijia said confidently.

　Wishing everyone a happy new year, there is only one update today, and the follow-up will try to return to normal.

　
(End of this chapter)