Infrastructure Throne

It is night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse.

The two walked and chatted at the night market until most of the shops were closed, and then slowly turned back to the City Lord's Mansion.

Shen Qingze sent Yan Zui back to the bedroom, it was already late at night, Yan Zui was leaning against the door, supporting the door frame with one hand, her long hair like ink and satin was scattered over her shoulders.

He tilted his head, looked at Shen Qingze with a smile, his eyes were full of moonlight: "Do you want to stay tonight, Master Priest..."

Shen Qingze covered his mouth and coughed lightly, and took half a step back indistinctly: "With the demeanor of the city lord, there should be no shortage of bed warmers."

Yan Zui's eyes widened, and he blinked exaggeratedly: "I'm inviting the Master Priest to hold a candle-lit night talk, to have a long talk, to discuss the future construction of Yuanliu City, where are you thinking?"

Shen Qingze: "..."

The officiant who had been teased pursed his lips, said good night expressionlessly, turned his head and left.

The sound of Yan Zui's muffled laughter came from behind, Shen Qingze involuntarily quickened his pace, but the laughter from behind became more presumptuous.

this bastard...

Shen Qingze's teeth itch with hatred, isn't the bed nice?Why should I waste time on Yan Zui!

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Back in the room, Abai and Yayatuan were sleeping soundly in the nest.

Shen Qingze sank into the big soft bed, staring at the butterfly flowers embroidered on the bed curtain, but never felt sleepy.

I always feel... as if something is wrong, like something is missing...

He was bored and summoned the main board of the system. He wanted to study the main city system, but suddenly found that he had received a new notification at some point, but he didn't notice it at all.

Shen Qingze's face became a little stiff, and his brain automatically ignored the question, and refused to admit that it was because he was too focused on shopping and chatting with Yan Zui.

[System: The player gains a mysterious favorability of 25, and the mysterious favorability enters a new stage]

Shen Qingze: "..."

He let out a long breath, stretched out his hands from under the quilt, covered his face, and wiped it vigorously, inexplicably feeling a subtle and complicated feeling that was both unexpected and not so unexpected.

This "mysterious favorability degree" is really not mysterious at all.

As a single developer who has practiced extraordinary hand speed for more than 20 years, getting along with Yan Zui is even more difficult for him than overthrowing the game and remaking it.

Shen Qingze's eyes were dull, she stared at the ceiling in a daze for a while, and couldn't help thinking, if Yan Zui is a girl, she must be a beautiful woman with all kinds of charms...

Shen Qingze was terrified by his sudden horrifying thought, and sat up from the bed - he couldn't sleep tonight!

He scratched his messy hair and got up, put on a coat casually, went to the desk and sat down.

The burning oil lamp illuminated a corner of the bedroom, Shen Qingze took out the parchment for writing the plan from the drawer, dipped the quill in ink, and began to work hard.

Forcibly expelling Yan Zui's handsome face from his brain, his stagnant thoughts immediately became much clearer, and work really makes people happy!

In the plan book, a series of next plans were formulated in detail, from project, scale to personnel, funds and even time nodes, all were carefully arranged one by one:

The first is the new and unified weights and measures. At present, all kinds of workshops are handmade, the measurements are rough, and there are huge differences in weight and length between different workshops.

Shen Qingze ordered craftsmen to produce a large number of standard measuring instruments such as vernier calipers, which were distributed from the City Lord's Mansion to various workshops and shops, and unified throughout the city to prepare for standardized production in the future.

Shen Qingze brought back many craftsmen from Pearl City, the goblin brother Lance was in charge of building the porcelain kiln, his younger brother Ayers was in charge of building the shipyard, selected reliable talents from those sailors, and recruited newcomers from the city for training.

Next is the paper mill.

At this time, on the mainland of the Dawn Century, the Eastern Great Xia Empire already had a relatively mature papermaking technique, but due to the long distance and the strict secrecy of the upper rulers, it did not spread to the Northland.

In the large and small cities of the Northland, only nobles can afford expensive parchment and kraft paper, and commoners mostly use papyrus. Books are even more luxury items, which are treasured in the nobles' study rooms.

Knowledge is not popularized, so most civilians are illiterate.

With his meager historical knowledge, Shen Qingze could barely remember that the raw materials were bark, hemp, cloth, fishing nets and other scraps. Finally made into paper.

After the paper mill is able to produce a large amount of paper, with the printing technology that will be unlocked in the second stage of the technology tree system, public schools can be opened.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingze summoned the main city system.

With the funds of 2 gold coins, the most basic items have been lit up, indicating that they can be upgraded:

The city defense is upgraded to the second level, and the overall defense of the main city is increased by 10%. At the same time, many related formula materials such as clay and cement are given to strengthen the city wall.

Warehouses and docks can be expanded. As the number one attack target of the enemy, the defense power is also increased by 10%. If the enemy invades in the future, it can last longer.

Public primary schools and junior medical centers can be opened, and the system provides the necessary conditions such as standard construction drawings, elementary textbooks such as language, mathematics, and natural sciences, and elementary medical and health books, but Shen Qingze needs to recruit teachers and doctors on his own.

After the upgrade, students who graduate from the school will have a 5% bonus to their basic abilities, and a 5% bonus to the cure rate of patients in the medical center.

The system store can buy some medical equipment, such as alcohol, gauze, etc., and can also spend gold coins to train teachers and doctors to improve their professional abilities.

In addition, the most important thing is that the wasteland and mines around Yuanliu City have marked the types of crops suitable for planting and the types of minerals that can be developed in the system.

In the spring of next year, Shen Qingze will be able to organize manpower to enclose large-scale land reclamation, plant food and cash crops, and collect basic resources to the maximum extent.

Seeing the gold coins being spent like flowing water, Shen Qingze felt a pain in his flesh, even though 2 gold coins can be piled up into a hill, they can be spent in the system in minutes.

Not to mention the expense of a large amount of new workshop construction costs, as well as the remuneration of artisan farmers.

The alchemy laboratory promised to Alchemist Sera will also start work immediately.Sera's alchemy, combined with natural science, will become an indispensable and important part of Shen Qingze's great construction.

The first task Shen Qingze entrusted to Sera was to make black powder by mixing nitrate, sulfur and charcoal.

Money, labor, everything is lacking, and poverty makes people worry.

Yan Zui expressed incomprehension to him using dead man's gloves, how could he know that he wished for a copper coin to be broken into two petals of flowers!

Shen Qingze supported her cheek with one hand, raised her head from the plan, and silently looked at the cold and bright moon outside the window.

The poor priest sighed.

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In the early morning of the next day, the north wind swept the fallen leaves and passed by the hurried pedestrians on the street.

With two panda eyes on her face, Shen Qingze, accompanied by Fan Mizhou, Luo Xin and others, went to inspect the sheep farm and textile factory under construction.

The site selection for the sheep farm and the textile factory has been completed, and the drawing of the textile machine given by the system is divided into two parts, one is a large water conservancy spinning wheel, and the other is a pedal loom.

There are not many cash crops planted near Yuanliu City, and cotton has not yet been planted on a large scale. Most civilians mainly wear linen clothes, and the water conservancy spinning wheel is most suitable for processing silk and linen.

As for the wool hinged from sheep, it needs to go through multiple processes such as drying and carding, and is spun into wool by weavers, and then woven into finished sweaters and blankets on looms. The warmth retention effect is far superior to that of silk, cotton and linen.

Several people rode all the way to the sheep farm, and the carpenters were banging on the fence.

The simple frame has been built, one side is the storage room, and the outside is the pasture for the sheep to move and graze, covering a very large area.

The first few sheep that came with the grain ship had settled down, and two or three women in sackcloth were shearing the wool of the king sheep. It was still the same, and would not allow any males to approach, but it was especially docile to females.

Shen Qingze and his group looked in through the wooden fence.

The king of sheep was lying comfortably in the arms of a woman, as if enjoying the shaving very much, and even took the initiative to spread his two front hooves, and piles of thick wool piled up on the ground.

With the King of Sheep farm in place, other ewes lined up obediently to wait for their wool to be gathered. They went in wrapped in ball-shaped wool quilts, and came out shaved and bleating huddled together.

The process was cute and funny, making Shen Qingze speechless for a while.

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The textile factory recruited a group of women to work intensively in the workshop, weaving the silk thread and hemp thread processed by the spinning wheel into cloth.

What they use is a brand new pedal loom.

Different from the hand-operated ones they used at home, the pedals lift the heddle and open the mouth, freeing the hands of the weavers to specialize in picking and beating up. Finally, the woven cloth is printed and dyed to form finished textile products, which are transported to the shop. sale.

The work that originally required two people can now be done by one person. The more cloth weaves, the more copper coins they can get to subsidize their families.

What amazed them even more was that the division of labor in the textile factory was so fine and clear that they didn't need to do the spinning process at all, and they only needed to concentrate on weaving every day.

Because the water conservancy spinning wheel has been manufactured by the goblin orc craftsmen of the research and development team, replacing manual labor to the greatest extent.

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When they saw the water turning spinning wheel, Fan Mizhou and Luo Xin, who thought they were mentally prepared, were deeply shocked again.

Dozens of water spinning wheels were seen, arranged in sequence along the rapids of the river.

There is a large water wheel similar to a waterwheel in front of each spinning wheel, plus more than [-] spindles, twisting and transmission devices.

The water flow drives the water wheel, and driven by the belt, all the spindles rotate quickly, without manpower, and the work of twisting, winding yarn or tow, etc. is completed by itself.

The spinning wheel is nine to ten meters long and nearly three meters high. At a glance, it looks like a row of moving city walls standing majestically by the river.

Amidst the sound of rumbling water, dozens of huge spinning wheels, like being held by an invisible giant hand, rotate without wind, day and night.

The regular movement of wooden machinery, with a certain rhythmic beauty of order, has an unparalleled visual impact!

The scene in front of them was beyond the scope of cognition. Fan Mizhou and Luo Xin seemed to be two country bumpkins who had never seen the world. Their mouths were opened in a daze, and they were so shocked by the infinite mystery and beauty of the machine.

The steward of the textile factory told them proudly that one spinning wheel can spin a hundred catties a day, and ten machines can spin a thousand catties.If it were an ordinary hand spinning wheel, this figure would be three catties!

Thirty times more efficient!

This means that the cost of spinning hemp has been reduced to an unimaginable level in the past. In Yuanliu City in the future, even beggars begging on the street may not have to worry about clothes.

The money that people spend on buying clothes every year can save a lot of money and use it for other places, virtually increasing their wealth.

What can't be digested in the city is sold to neighboring cities, making small profits but quick turnover, which is another income.

Fan Mizhou and Luo Xin silently looked at Shen Qingze's unfathomable back, their expressions changed from dull to numb.

I don't know what surprises can be brought by the porcelain kiln that the officiant has been thinking about?

Shen Qingze didn't pay attention to the wonderful expressions on their faces. At this moment, it's time to check the rewards from the system again:

[Congratulations to the player for completing the construction of all the basic blueprints of the first-level technology tree!The efficiency of all workshops is permanently increased by 5%, and the system store updates economic crops]

[The player gets the item reward: Frost Dragon Scale, a one-time use item. After activation, all hostile targets within 100 meters in front of the player will be frozen by frost and will continue to receive ice damage for 30 seconds]

The power is comparable to the scale of Kunpeng!Too bad it's a one-off again.

Shen Qingze looked at the props he had accumulated, 150 amethysts and 6 lucky draw chances in the secret treasure house, 4 more chances for ten consecutive draws!

He has to be patient!

After a series of projects started, his gold coin balance shrank sharply, from five figures to four figures, and it was about to drop to three figures!

When spring comes next year, a lot of gold coins will be spent to upgrade the newly reclaimed fields in Yuanliu City.

The invisible sense of urgency followed like a shadow, Shen Qingze secretly calculated that after the smelter expanded in scale, it could be further separated into two factories.

One specialized in the production of armaments, making standard armor weapons for the guards, developing weapons such as gunpowder and giant bows and crossbows, to prevent the attack of the orcs.

Another factory specializes in the development of primary industrial products for civilian use, such as cement, and glass that is being tried to be fired.

Wouldn't it be nice to wait for the porcelain kiln to successfully produce celadon and white porcelain, and then go to the Pearl City to find a rich man to reap a fortune!