Infrastructure maniacs from the East

The efficiency of the slaves' work has obviously improved when they are full. Making mud bricks is a very hard work without much technical content, so no matter how stupid the slaves are, they can get started with a little guidance. Of course, there are also those who are lazy on purpose. , but they will all suffer on their own in the end-the grass and trees are not broken enough, and it will be much more painful to fall by themselves.

Xu Tian doesn't want to care about these things for the time being. In fact, as a liberal arts student, he really doesn't have any idea of ​​overall planning, but in this era, no, maybe in this world, anyone who has learned the four arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division may find If there is no second one, this means that before he can cultivate a group of students with this ability, he needs to do these things by himself.

Even if it's just a small thing like building a pigsty.

Yes, Xu Tian planned to use these mud bricks to build the pigsty. He had this idea when he saw the pigs at first sight, but he couldn't find a suitable material until he remembered the mud bricks he made , I was relieved to confirm that these materials met the requirements.

People here don't have the concept of pigweed, and Xu Tian has only heard of this kind of thing, but it doesn't matter, it's always better to keep pigs in a fixed area than to run around, after all, people can gain weight without eating. Xu Tian thinks that pigs should be fine, and he also has unique skills from planting flowers——

Piggy!

Pigs are neither fat nor fat, pork will be tested after a long time of planting, and pigs that are dirty will not secrete a lot of pheromones. After all, there are no tools for crimes, so pork will be less smelly, which is good for Xu Tianlai Saying is the most important thing.

It grows fast, is less aggressive, and has delicious meat.

With so many benefits, the fate of most pigs has been directly determined. However, since there has never been such a thing here, Xu Tian decided to pick a pig as an experimental subject, let everyone see the effect of the pig, and then continue. After all, a pig here usually weighs thirty to forty catties when it grows up. Although it is already skinny in Xu Tian's eyes, it is already a great fortune, so it is best to minimize the loss.

In fact, Xu Tian doesn't know how to do the pigsty, but it doesn't matter, just make a rough appearance. Anyway, Xu Tian didn't intend to make it too big, and failure is the mother of success...

According to the experience of reading novels all the year round, the pigsty can be made of earthen bricks. In history, there is a kind of glutinous rice mixture used as a glue, which is not only strong, but also becomes stronger with the passage of time, but in Xutian, even rice is not found. Forget it, let’s use thin mud, the big deal is to make the width of the circle thicker and the pigsty smaller.

Xu Tian struggled to smear the size of a pigsty on the expensive parchment, and once again felt deep despair about this era. He needed to find lime so that he could make paper. Although the weather is fine now, people Getting busy, winter is really here in the blink of an eye, and he doesn't want to shiver in that sackcloth sheet, so he needs to start collecting warm materials.

"Call the swineherd."

The smeared messy parchment was put on the bed (there is no table in the bedroom, only a bed), the lord ordered the servants next to him, the housekeeper is now in charge of collecting acorns to make acorn powder and the overall deployment of personnel, and the agricultural officer is in charge of the new plow At the same time, he supervised the spring plowing, and even his son Jr. Jack was awarded the job of pottery. There were really no idlers in the castle. The two knights were resting their weapons and preparing to go out to find merchants and start trade.

The pig shepherd, who was still dirty all over, came to the room, obviously he was extremely uncomfortable with this place, whether it was the ground without feces or the clean lord in front of him.

"Do you know what pigs like to eat?"

Xu Tian felt heartbroken when he thought of those skinny pigs. Farm pigs generally weighed 180-240 catties, that is, 90-120 kilograms. Lord Xu did not ask the people here to be like the farmer uncle who planted flowers, but at least Half of the minimum requirements must be required, but the result is that a 40-jin pig is a normal level, and a 50-jin pig is already fat and strong.

Xu Tian: ...

He really didn't know what to say, the data displayed by the system really surprised him, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was no problem - after all, the pigs here had not been neutered or grew wildly, and the people here couldn't cook Pig food doesn't cover the pigsty, Xu Tian looked at those pigs in the same way as wild boars, and the virtue of eating everything he saw was really... I guess he didn't eat much at ordinary times.

"..."

The pig shepherd was already confused when he heard the lord's question. After all, the pigs in this era are grazing as a whole to catch what they eat. He has never paid attention to what the pigs will eat.

"You go back and continue herding the pigs, and when you see what they eat, dig a piece and send it to me."

Xu Tian knew the result when he saw the pig shepherd's expression, and he didn't want to be angry anymore. After all, this is the way it is in this era. Otherwise, wouldn't it be good for him to be a salted fish? Why bother? Toss so much.

Theoretically speaking, people who eat pigs can generally eat them, but Lord Xu dare not take risks in this era. Although the place is dirty, ignorant and backward, it is basically useless, but he does not intend to give up his life. The domestic pigs of later generations are more like wild boars, and wild boars are species that dare to eat even poisonous snakes.

"Yes."

The pig shepherd didn't know the lord's plan, and he didn't have the right to ask if he didn't plan. After all, the noble lord was different from them.

Well, Xu Tian is going to look for grass.

Throwing hogweed is the main part of feeding pigs in farms. Acorns can be used as pig feed, but only a part of it, and pregnant sows cannot eat acorns, which will increase the probability of miscarriage. And now acorns The acorn jelly has been pre-ordered in advance, so most of the pig feed depends on pigweed.

Corn, sweet potato, wheat bran bean cakes are actually good ingredients for feeding pigs, but Xu Tianyi!indivual!All!without!have!

Wheat bran plays the main role in the black bread of the common people. Bean cake... Soybean has no trace until now, and the corn and sweet potato are not known where to stay. As for the sugar and salt in modern feed, they are all luxury goods here. Ahh——

Thinking of this, Xu Tian wants to sigh. Most of his current food is acorn jelly with boiled eggs, and at most a few lettuce leaves boiled in white water. He knows that this will cause malnutrition and balance. You can only buy it when you arrive, and meat is a luxury among luxury goods.

sad~

Sighing is sighing, work still needs to continue.

After mentally estimating the amount of mud bricks produced these days, Xu Tian felt that it was time for someone to dig the foundation—yes, we still know what the foundation means here, and Xu Tian almost burst into tears.

The pigsty should be exposed to sunlight. Xu Tian chose the place where the sun rises, and directly used the wall of the castle as a wall. The double use reduces the amount of labor, and then draws a five-meter-long and three-meter-wide The place is used as the location of the pigsty, and the servants around him are told to let the slaves lay the foundation along the line he drew... Wait, it seems that there is not much need to lay the foundation here.

Xu Tian carefully recalled the contents of the foundation—natural foundations are mainly divided into four categories: rock, gravel soil, sandy soil, and clayey soil, and there seem to be many small stones in the place he just drew... Xu Tian asked the servant to follow along He dug a little along the line he drew, only to find that the place was mostly stone with very little soil.

The standard for gravel as a natural foundation is that stones occupy more than 50.00% of the land, and the rock content of this piece is almost 80.00%, which can be directly covered with a pigsty.

Generally, a pigsty of 4×3 meters in the countryside can hold 10-12 pigs. Xu Tian plans to make their place a little bigger. After all, there are nearly 1.5 pigs here. Although they are not big, but because There is no reason for being overwhelmed, and the temper is not small at all, so the earth wall must be double thickened, and then the height must be increased by [-] meters to two meters, so the earth bricks need...

Xu Tian calculated the number of earthen bricks now (Xu Tian asked them to pile them up one by one and divide them into groups, which is easier to calculate), and then did a simple calculation with the math he had degraded to junior high school—it was very easy. Well, at the current rate it will take days.

Wait, why did he cover it?

Xu Tian straightened up and took a closer look at the terrain here, and found that his castle was built on a high place, with a gentle slope below, about [-] degrees, just enough to dig a ditch, and then directly discharge the sewage there.

As for the lack of earth bricks... Xu Tian thinks that the pigsty can be dug down a little bit, and it will save the pigs from chaotically arching all day long, and easily knocking down the earth wall if they are not careful.

Well, he is really smart.

Xu Tian, ​​who thought of doing it, immediately asked the slaves to make mud. After all, it is more convenient to take advantage of the time when the pig is still a pig. Infection, which is basically tantamount to death.

"Send someone to the pigherd and bring back the fattest boar pig."

Xu Tian's mind twisted and turned, thinking of those big pits that were dug out for making clay, and decided to find the strongest piggy to do the experiment first. Those big pits only need to be covered with a layer of oranges to be natural. In the pigsty, anyway, the current piggy weighs less than five catties, and any pit can fit it.

"Also, ask him if he found something for the pigs to eat."

The servants around Xu Tian are carefully selected by the housekeeper. Their biggest feature is that they are not talkative and clean and neat. They belong to one of the housekeeper's most capable subordinates.

Well, it's time to ask the blacksmith if he has time to forge a knife—by Xu Tian, ​​who is preparing to kill pigs.

Asking the servant to ask the slave to dig the foundation and move the earth bricks and mud, the lord led the knight to the priest's room, and saw a quail that was neatly huddled in the room.

Xu Tian: ...

"Do you know when the man who operates on the singer will come?"

The priest subconsciously covered his lower body.