Infrastructure maniacs from the East

This feast (Xu Tian lowered his head in shame) was held in the afternoon when the sun was still bright, and ended in the sunset. All the participants returned with their own earthenware bowls for eating jelly, and the servants ate the ones with oily stars. The thick soup made them more energetic in doing things, and the slaves were given a few more beans, which made them sigh loudly for the generosity of the lord.

The advantages of pottery have been fully revealed while drinking chicken soup. The agricultural officer is still silent, but he has not raised any opinions on "the lord is playing with mud without doing business" and "it is not worthwhile for slaves to play with mud". Xu Tian also did not talk to the agricultural officer. Talk more, he can see that the agricultural officer is still waging a painful ideological struggle.

"Can pottery be sold?"

There is a crude market on Lord Xu's land, but this is obviously not Xu Tian's goal, and the next construction piles need money and food. The food in the castle is their last fortress. Earn money elsewhere.

"…it should be OK…"

The butler hesitated to answer, "Pottery" is a new word, and I couldn't find the corresponding pronunciation here, so Xu Tian simply replaced it with Huahua Putonghua—anyway, all employees in his territory will promote Putonghua in the future.

"Go to the merchant and tell him that this can be boiled."

Xu Tian didn't want to hear what should be possible or general. In this case, arbitrariness is obviously more effective than democracy. Pottery is not as strong as wood, but it will not leak, and it can also cook all kinds of paste. Think about the white bread that I asked the housekeeper before. Xu Tian felt that there might be a better market for these pottery in big cities.

Only when there is demand will there be production, and production will in turn drive demand. Xu Tian believes that there will be people who are willing to eat mush that is relatively thin but free of all kinds of impurities, rather than the hard one that can kill people if it is mixed with stones, sand and soil clods. bread.

"Yes."

The butler has lived on this land longer than Xu Tian, ​​and when he heard the word "cooked", he figured out Xu Tian's intentions. He turned around and was about to find a businessman to do a big deal, but was caught by the lord the moment he turned around. blocked.

"and many more."

"Do you think the acorn jelly we ate today..."

"This will definitely be very popular. I have participated in the king's banquet before, and I have never eaten such food."

The steward's eyes lit up before Xu Tian finished speaking. He smelled the slow smell of money in the lord's words, and then thought about the delicious taste he ate yesterday, which could even bite his worn-out teeth. The soft and tender taste, the Adam's apple moved up and down, and swallowed saliva involuntarily.

"You know what to do, don't you?"

The interrogative sentence was expressed in a declarative tone. The housekeeper didn’t notice any problems. He had already thought of the endless forest and the many half-rotten fruits on the ground that could only be discarded now. Collect the fruits you eat, and each one is a shiny coin.

"You can count from one to ten, can't you?"

Xu Tian thought about the size of the oak forest he had seen before, and felt that it was time to give his citizens a chance to make money.

"Yes, lord."

The butler didn't know why Xu Tian asked this question, but he answered respectfully. Xu Tian didn't pretend to be mysterious. He taught the butler the Arabic numerals from one to ten and simplified characters. After a few days of kung fu, the butler mastered it smoothly.

"If you can't collect it, you can let the free people collect it together."

"Hasn't a lot of pottery been burned out recently? Pick a bigger one, let everyone put the acorns they collected in it, and divide a little grain according to the height of the filling."

After the advantage of pottery is discovered, there will be another one soon, the next grave bag, ah no, the mound is built, and a lot of pottery will come out in a few days, Xu Tian doesn't mind taking one out Making containers, after all, are all novice works, each one is ugly and has its own characteristics, which makes Xu Tian burst into tears, and miss the industrial products from his previous life very much.

"The oak forest is huge, and the slaves have a lot to do."

Seeing what the housekeeper wanted to refute, Xu Tian leisurely stated the reasons that he could not refute. In fact, it was just that the housekeeper did not think of it for a while, but with the fine tradition of not taking people for granted, Xu Tian has reason to believe that The housekeeper definitely did a wise move to let the farmers work voluntarily.

The change of concept is not a day or two of hard work. What Xu Tian can do is to prevent the farmers from working hard and getting nothing.

"A horse runs fast if it has food ahead."

Xu Tian looked into the housekeeper's eyes and said slowly.

"Yes, lord."

The butler is not stupid, he figured out something in an instant, and never expressed any objection to Xu Tian's actions. Just when he was about to turn around and go out, he heard the voice of the lord again, another confusing voice. The command.

"Give me some more slaves, and I'll make more mud bricks."

"Yes."

Pottery can be sold for money, but what can mud bricks do?

The butler's head was once again filled with doubts, but his mouth simply responded.

Lords always do things with deep meaning.

Well, through the unremitting self-brainwashing these days, coupled with the huge benefits that pottery and jelly will bring, the butler has been completely subdued by Xu Tian. It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, as long as he obeys the order.

"Is the cobbler still there?"

Xu Tian always felt that he had forgotten something. After thinking for a long time, he finally thought of a more important matter. He quickly stopped the housekeeper who was about to leave the room, and got a confident look from the other party.

Lord: ...do not understand.

But it doesn't matter, it should be fine if the housekeeper didn't speak.

The cobbler came very quickly. He had many wounds on his hands. As soon as he entered the room, he threw himself on the ground and made a big salute. Xu Tian didn't know what to say. He wanted the knights around him to help him up, but he was frightened and refused. up.

"To see the horses."

Xu Tian didn't know how to start with this posture, so he simply took the cobbler to the place where the problem occurred, to see if the other party had the ability to solve it, and if he didn't, he would think of a solution.

The treatment of horses is better than that of free-growing pigs. At least they are kept in a separate place, and there is still a lot of forage in front of them, but this is not the point. The rope, the opening is a straight ball.

"It's easy to strangle a horse with a belt around its neck. Can you add a yoke to the front?"

Yes, Xu Tian found out yesterday when he was plowing the field that the horse's harness was actually around the neck? !

There is a shortage of large livestock in this era, and horses also have to bear the responsibility of plowing the land during the busy farming season, but!

Why is the horse harness tied around the neck?Don't you know that this will strangle the horse?

During the meal, he deliberately asked the knight, and then learned that this kind of horse harness is used everywhere. If you run faster, it is easy to strangle the horse to death, but everyone comes here like this.

Xu Tian: ...

Only at this time did he think of a joke that was widely circulated in his previous life——Western knights’ battles are actually melees, because after they strangle their horses to death, they can only fight for their physique, and they also wear a pair of Western knights that don’t fit well The armor, the iron hat full of marks, and the caricature of stepping on high heels.

Never thought it would be true...

Xu Tian thought of his two-person carriage again, and suddenly realized something... Yesterday, he wanted to talk about it as soon as he came back, and then he went to make jelly, and this matter has been delayed until today.

The place where the horse lives is very smelly, but Xu Tian has adapted a lot, just looking at the cobbler, hoping that he can give an affirmative answer, but only got the cobbler's confused eyes after checking the carriage up and down——

"What's a yoke?"

Xu Tian involuntarily put his hand on his forehead and sighed.

He also forgot that the sound of yoke does not exist here, and subconsciously spoke a flower language.

If I am not angry, I will not be angry. When I get sick, there is no one to replace me.

Lord Xu repeated this sentence several times, finally managed to calm down, pointed at the harness on the horse from the air, and tried his best to explain the concept of "yoke" with his poor knowledge.

"On the neck... no no no, lower... the material... harder... no no no... on the chest..."

Xu Tian danced and danced with no manners, and the cobbler was at a loss and made no progress.

The sun always comes after the wind and rain. After a desperate exchange of chickens and ducks talking, dancing, seducing, swords, etc., the cobbler finally vaguely understood the meaning of the lord, and hesitantly expressed that he could try it.

Xu Tian automatically crossed out the word "try", and put forward his request again in the most straightforward words, and asked the cobbler to repeat it, making sure that this person who has so little comprehension and almost no imagination has fully remembered it. He walked away with a face of exhaustion—very tired, but there were still slaves who made mud bricks to see.

After the lord left, the cobbler still stayed by the horse's side. In fact, he still didn't quite understand what the lord wanted him to do, but the key point was to write it down. Thinking about it twice should be rewarding.

Horse harness on the chest... the cobbler was stroking the horse's head while scanning the horse's neck...he knew it!

The manufacture of mud bricks is relatively simple, but it takes a lot of effort. Today, the cruel master did not allow the busy cattle to trample the mud, but let the slaves use their own bodies to do this. Look at the grinning of those slaves. Look, several of them almost couldn't get up.

The servants were hiding in the distance and whispering, and they were called in by the steward not long after. Xu Tian didn't know that he had already carried the name of cruelty, but he really couldn't think of any way to let these slaves rest. It was already the limit of what he could do.

The slaves didn't know what the lord was thinking, they were just happy that they were able to do this easy job again today. Although it hurts to fall, they can rest for a while after the fall, and there will be nothing wrong with it. Injury, the slave who received this live slave was the same as the pottery burner, and became the envy of other slaves.

And... as the sun goes down, today's work is done.

The lord grabbed a handful of beans for everyone, but the farm officer said nothing.

What a lucky day today.

On the way back, clutching the beans tightly in their hands, the slaves who were so muddy that they couldn't see their human appearance smiled.