I have a shelter

George covered his face, rubbed it vigorously, clasped his hands with dull eyes and prayed: "Damn it, God of Sanctuary, this is the first time I have sincerely prayed to you, how can you give me some face?" , can make the grain harvest in my other fields better! I was fucking asked to farm by you! You can't ignore me! ’

After flipping through the scroll again, I found that Johannes had actually planted a lot of fields, and it had only been one morning. So there's really no rush. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little more settled.

'Let's not think about it for now. The grain output of each field is uneven. We can only know the specific situation after harvesting them all. ’

George felt that no matter what, if he tightened his belt, he would not be able to hold on until the autumn potato harvest. Now the scope of the shelter has expanded a lot. The surrounding fields that have been purified by divine grace can still be carefully tended because there is no fog. The territory should have no problem supporting the winter.

‘I hope there should be more food. It’s not a good thing to tighten your belly and eat like this every day. The bodies of young people need to be recuperated before they can serve as a force for the shelter. There are more and more monsters in the east.’

Maybe because of the water transportation in the morning, some places were a little muddy, especially near the farmhouses. Not only was it muddy, but there was also a foul smell.

George shook the mud off his feet and scratched his hair, confused.

On the side of the road, a group of barefoot children walking in the mud happily passed by, seemingly trying to grab a big grasshopper.

Seeing this scene, the lord's eyes suddenly lit up. He waved, called the children over, and assigned some special tasks to the only idlers in the territory - catching grasshoppers.

After deceiving the children for a while and telling them to keep this little secret between them, George walked away happily.

When they arrived near the blacksmith shop, Old Duke was leading two strong men, busy in the shed next to the blacksmith shop. And some old women were gathering in front of the door, processing wolf skins, wolf sinews, weaving baskets and other things.

As I got closer, I felt a rush of heat, mixed with the smell of sulfur and sweat.

"Sir, are you here?" Duke picked up the rag on his shoulder and wiped his sweat, and said with bright eyes: "I'm so lucky that the furnace here can still be used, and it's much bigger than mine. This It saves me a lot of trouble. We have just picked out the mines and coal, and are currently smelting them. The other scrap iron must be re-melted, otherwise the weapons will not be used for many times. "

George nodded, understanding.

In his original impression, smelting required something like a 'blast furnace', and in ancient times, this kind of thing might have been built with dirt (he didn't quite understand, but he felt like this) ). But in the memory of this world, the furnaces he had seen were not built by manpower, but molded tools.

This is the contribution of a scholar who has studied alchemy deeply, and has solved many high-temperature problems.

So some furnaces are even very small, but those miniature furnaces are specially used for alchemy - the furnace of precious magic materials. Even some meteorites.

After coming back to his senses, George glanced around.

The coal pile, which had been covered with dust and sand before, had been turned over again. and screened. The iron ore nearby was also sorted and sorted. There is a pile of charcoal not far away.

It seems that these three people have not been idle for a while.

He asked: "Can those chainmails still be repaired?"

The old blacksmith was just about to open his mouth to talk when he saw a few people from the territory rushing over from a short distance away. After these people saluted George, they hurriedly took the old blacksmith to discuss the matter.

'It's been quite busy. ’ Seeing that the old blacksmith was so busy, George had no choice but to go aside and wait.

Although the citizens are now performing their duties, they have no backbone. So they couldn't make decisions on many things, so they still had to come and ask this knowledgeable, experienced and literate old blacksmith.

George listened from the side, but he didn't understand these farm work or chores, so he didn't help much.

After the leader left, Duke told the two young men what to do next, and then took the time to report to the leader.

"Sir, what did you ask just now? Oh, look at my head, what about the chainmail? I'm so busy that I fainted." After saying this, Old Duke took a handful of sweat from his hair. He quickly walked to the workbench on the side and lifted the oilcloth. Pointing to the tattered pieces of mail, he said: "Sir, the ones you put here before are all broken, so the one you had on you before is still okay. But this is not bad, at least I don't need to make any more iron rings. So if you take it apart and repair it, you can still get two pieces."

‘Tear it down and patch it up’ After hearing this, George looked a little bitter. He nodded and thought: 'It doesn't matter how it works, it's just as long as the durability is low.'

At this time, another leader came over and discussed with Duke about some details of labor and some problems.

George listened and suddenly felt a headache. If I have to worry about these trivial things every day, I'm afraid I won't have to do anything.

‘It seems that if the territory wants to develop in the future, I really can’t do it alone. ’ Shaking his head secretly, George started wandering around again.

While observing the information of the blacksmith shop, George found that the current iron resources in the territory were 43 units. And this number has changed since the territory had the old blacksmith. At the beginning, it was only in the single digit.

He thought about it and understood the reason.

Previously, the shelter followed up with his and Alexander's level to estimate how much iron the territory could use. In other words, if the two of them were to smelt iron, they could only make a few kilograms.

But Old Duke is a professional blacksmith, and his level is naturally not comparable to theirs.

'Old Duke told me before that these scrap irons in the territory plus ore can be smelted into about 80 kilograms of iron, so it seems that 1 unit is 1 kilogram. '

After a while, Old Duke informed those people to leave, and turned around to find that the lord was staring at the two young men who were singing and blowing the wind in a daze.

"Ahaha, sir, this is a song passed down by my ancestors. As long as you sing it five times, the iron in the furnace will be almost done. Many people think that we use this song to cast witchcraft when smelting iron, but it is not true. This is just some experience we have passed down." Old Duke said with a smile.

After listening to it, George's mouth twitched slightly: 'Rely on songs to judge time and temperature, but this is too'

However, George found that these blacksmiths seemed to know how to refine pig iron into wrought iron.

But pig iron is too brittle and not easy to forge, and wrought iron is too soft. So the things made are not very good.

George frowned and thought hard for a long time, wanting to make some suggestions based on his identity as a time traveler, but in the process of communication, he found that he knew less "common sense" than these "ancient" blacksmiths-in George's imagination, iron ore was thrown directly into the furnace. But the blacksmiths ground the iron ore into powder and smashed the charcoal before starting to make it.

For things like this, he found that even as a modern person, he could not guide others across industries. Otherwise, it will only make a joke.

‘It seems that if we want to develop our technology tree, we can only rely on the smart people in this world. Everyone has his own expertise. If you don’t understand, don’t give blind orders.’ Thinking of this, George couldn’t help but sigh.

“How long can the current iron and coal last?”

“There are a lot of ironware in our territory, and there are still some stocks in the blacksmith shop. So the iron is enough for us to use temporarily. But coal is a little short, because winter is coming soon.” At this point, the old blacksmith couldn’t help but shake his head and smile bitterly: “Sir, wait a few days, we have to prepare some wood. Although wood is not as durable as coal, it is better than weeds-there will be blizzards every winter, and the snow will collapse all wooden houses and freeze newborn babies to death.”

At this point, Old Duke couldn’t help but look at the lord cautiously.

Before, the village was in the deep forest, and several people were frozen to death by burning wood. So how can we survive the winter in this shelter with a lack of wood?

There are only so many people in the territory now, but there is too much work to do. I am afraid that there will be no time to get enough wood.

So if all the wood is used to repair the collapsed castle, the villagers will have no use.

Then, this winter will not be as simple as freezing a few old people and children to death! I am afraid that all the people who participated in the castle repair will be frozen to death!

So what Old Duke said was actually asking the lord's intention in disguise.

George was a smart man. After hearing the old blacksmith's words, he guessed what he meant. He looked at the honest man in front of him, nodded, patted his shoulder, and said nothing.

Unless he had to, he didn't want these people to go to the bitter blizzard to see wood, knock stones, and repair the castle.

After all, if they really did this, I am afraid that everyone would die in this winter.

However, the problem of wood is indeed very urgent, but George has already made some plans.

As for transporting wood, he has a way, and it doesn't require many people. Although the quantity would be far beyond the old blacksmith's imagination, George would definitely not be willing to use it for burning.

'Coal is also needed. This thing is much more durable than wood, and there should be a lot of other good things in that coal mine. I don't know what the lords are doing now. '

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