Wear to the Middle Ages to engage in construction

"My lord, Grandpa Dave said that I want to report the progress to you." Tang Feiliu knocked on the study where the Duke handles official business, blinked his eyes and stretched out his head and said quietly at the door.

Unlike other aristocrats who like to have their valets read and dictate themselves, the Duke always reads official reports by himself, and his valet Evans will come in to take orders, change quills and ink except at fixed times, At other times, she was mostly by Old Dave's side, because Old Dave was old and his energy was not as good as before. Evans had to make sure that she learned to take care of the castle and everything outside the castle as soon as possible.

So at the moment there is only the Duke in the room.Edward heard the voice and put down the quill in his hand. He looked up and saw a fluffy golden head with lake blue eyes staring at him eagerly, as if it was a bird that wanted to run away at any time. kitten.

"Come in." Edward said in a deep voice, and Tang Feiliu hurried in. He usually didn't feel that Edward looked strangely serious when he was dealing with official business. Tang Feiliu felt as if he met the director of the Political and Education Department while studying. Filled with an anxiety of "although I didn't do anything, I'm just guilty", he stood in front of Edward in a dignified manner, and said with a serious face, "My lord, the improvement of the cement plant has been done so Cement can also be produced normally in winter, and the recruitment has begun to expand over there. The speed of shipment has increased five times compared to before, and the cost is even less than one-tenth of the previous one. I guarantee that it will only take one month. The main building of our castle You can do the whole sewer system..."

"Stop," Edward was stunned by the cannonball-like series of words. He looked at the blond child in front of him and said suddenly, "Your hair has grown longer."

"Ah? Ah, yes." Tang Feiliu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously touched his hair. He had always trimmed it by himself before. Although the old aristocrats were wearing long hair, the emerging gentlemen had already started to wear short hair. Tang Fei Liu is not for fashion, but mainly for saving soap and shortening the drying time. He didn't want to catch a cold when there was no hair dryer. He touched the soft golden hair on his head, which had reached below the ears, and felt that he could comb it soon. Continue Said, "It's already so long, I'll cut it off tomorrow."

"No need." Duke Edward's dark eyes were deep. He carefully looked at Tang Feiliu's half-length blond hair and snow-white neck, all the way down to his waist, and then he said hoarsely, "This is very good, like the Holy Son on the mural." Generally holy."

"???" Tang Feiliu suddenly didn't know how to answer, brother, you are so frightening!You, a child of the devil who grew up in a tower and stamped the temple, said that a person is like a holy son on a mural, why did you not really feel the joy of being praised, but a kind of fear that you will not survive tonight? Woolen cloth?

"...Master Duke, you are joking." Tang Feiliu didn't know why, but he always felt that the intuition of the little animal told him that something was wrong with the situation in front of him, so he said quickly, "If there is nothing else, I will start laying the sewer system of the main building Already? My lord, your bedroom is the focus of renovation, maybe you have to be wronged in another room for a few days..."

When it comes to the sewer system that he cares most about, Tang Feiliu can be said to be elated, and Edward's expression has begun to become normal. Tang Feiliu heaves a sigh of relief and is more natural. He happily talks about his plans and arrangements. Time ended perfectly: "At that time, even if you entertain a thousand nobles at the same time, my lord, the whole castle will be clean and fragrant!"

"Okay, I will give you the highest authority." Edward also nodded seriously.

"Then I'll get to work first!" Tang Feiliu got a nod from his immediate boss, and immediately went out happily, and went down happily, and said to all the senior servants: "The Duke said that we can start work, and everyone who is free should hurry up." Come on, let's dig up these rocks and lay all the big pipes in!"

This project sounds ordinary, but in fact, it is a very large project. If Tang Feiliu had not received full authorization from Edward, and the spared help of old Dave and Evans, I am afraid that it would not be what he imagined. smoothly.

First, the floor of the entire castle was raised, and then the entire sewer system was laid according to the route discussed by a group of people after a long field survey. The low-level servants in these castles were far from enough, and workers from five nearby villages, as well as York Some workers from the city came, and the whole castle was in chaos. Tang Feiliu bumped his heels to his head every day, and felt that his first job in his previous life didn't make him want to vomit blood so much.

But although he is busy and there are many emergencies, Tang Feiliu is still very happy anyway. Compared with sitting in the office before, his nature actually loves the construction and growth of these aspects of life. Although this hobby is not manly enough, but in this place, Obviously everything that Tang Feiliu did made everyone feel great, which filled Tang Feiliu with a sense of pride, so he was busy every day, devoting himself to the reconstruction of the Black Swan Castle.

And Duke Edward didn't give up too much. The matter of the territory was delayed due to a serious illness. Some people who did not obey the rules and tried to tempt people in some small places had to be dealt with as an example to deter those who were full of delusions and coveted authority.

Also respond to the prince and queen living in the palace, the seriously ill emperor is still alive, but still does not give up the idea of ​​creating a few more illegitimate children, but he refuses to die immediately——Edward took a quill and wrote a beautiful In cursive script, write the last few words to Empress Josephine: "...Finally, to my dearest aunt, may you be well. Your most loyal, Edward."

He put down his pen, read the whole letter carefully, folded it and put it in the envelope, burned the wax, and sealed the envelope with his own wax.The red wax was fixed into the same pattern as his hand, and the little snake crouching on the thorns hugged the green jewel and sealed the letter firmly.

Edward finished all this, let out a breath, and suddenly heard the familiar laughter from downstairs, like a silver bell ringing up from downstairs, full of joy, Edward stood up slowly, walked to the window, Through the velvet curtains, he saw that in the small garden downstairs, the blond boy was pulling the fiery-haired young man to finish talking with a smile, and then the fiery-haired knight said loudly: "Are you serious?! It's disgusting, little Lance!"

"I'm not called Little Lance! Call me Tang!" Tang Feiliu thrust his waist, his blond hair was about to explode, and he yelled, "I don't care, you knights only know how to exercise every day, and digging holes isn't the same. Do you want to exercise?! You go with me!"

"I don't want to dig a pit for poop!" Jess vehemently refused, covering his head as if exaggerating the end of the world, "Oh little Lance, you look like an angel, but why are your thoughts so scary!"

Tang Feiliu was almost pissed off by this single-minded knight in the Middle Ages, but he couldn't do it alone. He still wanted to try his best to convince Jess that "because of the glory of the knight, he would never dig a cesspit" , but the window on the second floor was opened, and Tang Feiliu was stunned to see the tall Duke with black hair and black eyes standing behind the scarlet velvet curtain, matching the architectural style of Black Swan Castle... Tang Feiliu felt that he was suffocating just now For a second, the painting style was so vampire-like that Tang Feiliu stayed there for a while before he said, "My lord...well, I only heard that your study room has changed, I didn't know you were here... ..."

It's all because the castle is huge, but after entering it, he found that the structure is not simple at all. Tang Feiliu only knew that the Duke's room was temporarily on the east side where he could see the fruit forest, but he didn't expect that the Duke didn't choose the side close to the sun. In the shaded little garden.

He explained embarrassingly, and Jess next to him didn't dare to fight, and saluted Edward seriously: "Good day, Your Excellency the Duke."

"...What are you looking for? Why are you looking for Jess, the other assistants I sent you?" Edward asked standing on the second floor.

"They're all busy!" Tang Feiliu quickly explained, "Because Grandpa Dave said it's indecent to fertilize in the castle, but I think it's a pity to throw away those, those...fertilizers...after all, fertilizers can make the fields bear more fruit. Lots of food..."

That's right, Tang Feiliu spent a long time doing it because he wanted to compost.

Anyone who has read the time travel text knows that this thing was discovered in the middle and late stages of ancient China, and Europeans are even cooler. They seem to only click on the technology tree, and they don’t care about the composting of the local method. , so there were very few people in the Middle Ages, because the yield of food was extremely low, and potatoes were produced in the American continent. Tang Feiliu has been observing carefully since he came to this world, but he didn't find it at all. Fortunately, the period of great voyages has begun. I believe it will not be long. This high-yield, high-nutrition thing will appear as the New World is discovered.

But that is something in the future, Tang Feiliu can't count on it now, after seeing Jie Na's story, he has already decided to speed up his pace, maybe he can't do much, but he can do his best—— It is one way to increase the gap in the cement factory and let them hire more workers; composting, making fertilizer, and striving to increase food production so that everyone will be less hungry is another way.

So even if he was rejected, Tang Feiliu still refused to give up. He is currently in the castle except for Aunt Laili in the kitchen and Sennov, the second chef who followed him out—and both of them are very busy. , the only one who is free now is the idle knight Jess.

Since you can't compost in the castle, you can find a better place, or you can.

Moreover, Tang Feiliu couldn't understand it. Knights eat a lot. They don't do production except for training. They only train for half a day every day and rest in the afternoon. Although they know that knights are noble in this era, they are all gentlemen's children, and they even follow their own children. Servant...Although he knew that it was normal for the amount of training to decrease in peacetime, Tang Feiliu still felt that he wanted to find something for Jess and the others to do.

Well, Jess always likes to make fun of Tang Feiliu, which may be the bigger reason.

However, Tang Feiliu is serious about composting. Although composting cannot fundamentally solve the problem of small production, it can definitely double the production of grain. York is now taking the richest Duke Edward as an example. 200 people, sounds like a joke in ancient Asia, but this is the current Lot Empire, and it is also the reality in Europe. There are usually dozens of people fighting between lords, and hundreds of people between countries. It was a fierce battle.

This is something that modern people in Tang Feiliu's country can't imagine. Thinking about it this way, the entire history of Europe seems to be full of jokes, just like the history of Japan/Japan. Usually, one general has more than a dozen warriors You can become the overlord of one party... Doesn't it sound absurd?

But this is true, because of poverty, because of lack of money, and the degree of poverty is unimaginable to Asians of the same generation. He was so scared that he kept silent... and made Empress Josephine and the heir to the throne regard him as the most important reliance...Even during Edward's illness, Empress Josephine fainted several times due to anxiety... Tang Feiliu's shock and subtlety The feeling cannot be described in words.

But these two hundred people, who eat and do nothing, are really the biggest guarantee for the safety of the entire York, and even Queen Josephine's successor—because there are only two hundred knights in the palace, and the other lords are not enough. Edward was rich and couldn't afford to support so many people.

It was too expensive to raise a knight. Tang Feiliu fell from the upper class at the time. He could pawn [-] pounds from the banquet of Young Master Lance. He was born literate and learned the nine-nine multiplication table in modern society. His mental arithmetic ability is astonishing. , so that small factory owners can regard him as an important housekeeper... This is something that people who really grew up in this era do not have.

A very simple example, Tang Feiliu can earn seven shillings a month, while ordinary workers stand in the cotton pile, overwork every day, and face the poison of dye... But how much money do they earn a month?For the average person, fifteen pennies...not even a shilling.

That's why Tang Feiliu thought at the beginning that oil and meat in this era were not so expensive, and he could even take good care of himself.

But if he wasn't Lance... No, a premature and weak child like Lance, if he wasn't a gentleman's child, he wouldn't even be able to grow up.

These are things that Tang Feiliu didn't notice when he first came to this era. When he was in York City, he thought everything was not so bad, but now, when Tang Feiliu lived in this place for a long time, he finally understood the lack of resources. The brutality and horror of the place.

So Tang Feiliu felt that he had to do this, so although he was a little guilty and disturbed Duke Edward, and he hadn't heard Edward's reply for a long time, he still boldly looked up secretly.

The black-haired and black-eyed Duke looked at the child who looked like the holy son in the mural. He was not even 16 years old, slender and holy, and his blond hair was illuminated by the dim sunlight, like the dazzling sun in the garden.

His milk-white face was a little excited and flushed, he boldly raised his head to peek, although he looked peaceful, he was actually very courageous, like a cub who didn't know the danger of the beast.

"I can accompany you for a walk." Tang Feiliu heard the duke who looked like a vampire say softly, "Tell me the details on the way."

"Thank you, sir!" Tang Feiliu's eyes lit up immediately, and he turned his head to despise Jess with disgust.

Jess was as quiet as a chicken, not daring to move under the Duke's eyes.

And for the first time, he was surprised by the boldness of his new friend... This little guy doesn't seem to be afraid of the Duke at all?

Tang Feiliu didn't pay attention at all, he happily despised Jess, and then said: "My lord, then I'll wait for you to come down here?"

He even waved happily.

Edward nodded and turned away from the window.

"Yeah! I'm telling you, Jess, you just lost the chance to be written in history!" He raised his head arrogantly, squinting at Jess.

"Okay, okay, the question is, aren't you worried about what will happen after the Duke listens to your 'scream collection plan' in detail?" Jess firmly believed that it is impossible for a superior person to like to hear such filthy things.

"...No, the duke is a very enlightened person, totally different from you corrupt petty bourgeoisie!" Tang Feiliu's tone of disdain was about to condense into substance. Just as he was speaking, Edward came down, and he was still standing beside him. Without his personal servant, it seemed that Evans was just the successor of the housekeeper.

And Tang Feiliu ran over cheering, followed Edward, and began to dance and talk about his great plan.

Jess watched as Duke Edward rubbed the blond-haired child, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, but the blond-haired little guy didn't respond, as if he had gotten used to it, and was still busy talking about his great plan.

Jess looked at the backs of the two going away, shook his head, and said to himself in doubt: "Is stool really such a precious thing?!"

The noble duke can never be wrong, then, he is the one who is wrong!Jess nodded and decided to reflect seriously.