Infrastructure maniacs from the East

In fact, Xu Tian breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the saline-alkali land, because when the soil fertilizer is fermented, it needs to be sprinkled with alkaline lime water, and the saline-alkali land can omit this process. After all, lime is burned out of limestone. Such sedimentary rocks are not seen in the range.

More importantly, lime is not only needed for fermented manure, but also lime is indispensable for papermaking. Tofu is not made with brine, but gypsum. Xu Tian is a little confused from the materials to the formula of brine. A plaster of wool...wait, wool? !

Xu Tian suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something important.

"Farm officer, come with me."

"Housekeeper, make him clean up."

"Those who do well will be rewarded at night, butler, watch them."

Garlic soap, still the size of a mahjong block, was thrown out, and the well-dressed lord entered the room, leaving behind the servants who looked at each other and an orderly butler, who was able to guide the servants to move and at the same time lead the agricultural officer to escort himself, At least I cleaned my hands and sincerely thought I had taken advantage of it.

The agricultural officer entered the room a little nervously. When he met the lord's eyes, he couldn't say anything. He could only stand there awkwardly, like a boy who had just been selected. I don't know where to put my hands and feet, and my toes hidden in the leather boots are moving violently, but my face is calm.

Lord Xu blinked and looked at the nervous middle-aged man in front of him.

Yes, you read that right, a middle-aged man in his 30s.

This is not derogatory, but because of poor nutrition in the Middle Ages, coupled with the aging characteristics of foreigners, the face of the agricultural officer is only more than 20 years older than his real age...don't worry about it.

"My agricultural officer, you are my most loyal assistant."

Xu Tian thought for a while about how the nobles here talk, and then made an opening remark that almost made his teeth ache.

"My pleasure, Master."

The agricultural officer's voice was not pleasant, but he was not rude, but it still made Xu Tian roll his eyes. As a modern person who has not been tortured by the workplace, he felt that it was really tiring to speak like this. Miss my butler.

After going through a period of mutual flattery that seemed embarrassing to Xu Tian, ​​Xu Tian finally got to the point.

"How many slaves are there in my domain?"

Yes, in Xu Tian's view, what kind of food production and delicious food are made is imaginary at present. He can't turn into a golden bag overnight, and he can't find the plants he is familiar with without being poisoned when the system is lying dead all year round. Die, in this era when you have to raise your own cows to drink milk, most of the work can only be done by a large number of people.

slave?

Could it be that no peasant has married recently, and the new lord can't help it?

When the agricultural officer heard this word, he couldn't help thinking about it. He looked into Xu Tian's eyes and realized that he had guessed wrong. He quickly shook off the inherent impression brought by the previous lord, and then answered Xu Tian's question seriously.

"Adult strong laborers have six slaps, and minors have three slaps and three fingers."

There will be no old people among the slaves, because they are exhausted before they grow old. Even if some slaves are lucky to get old, they will not be able to survive that winter because of their own weakness, and the proportion of children who survive is also very high. The underage here refers to the age that has lived for one slap, but has not reached the age of the next slap.

"How are they doing now?"

Xu Tian also thought of the treatment of slaves in this era from his memory, and subconsciously grunted. Only after seeing the strange eyes of the agricultural officer did he realize that he seemed to have said something extraordinary.

She pursed her lips subconsciously, but was stubbornly unwilling to take back what she just said.

"It's all pretty good."

The agricultural officer said simply that they were all shellfish bones, not even a single one was sick.

Xu Tian didn't ask any more questions. The agricultural officer had just told them about their situation. If he asked any more, he would no longer trust the agricultural officer. What's more, Xu Tian found out sadly that even if he knew what happened to them, he would There is no way.

"What are they generally doing now?"

Gathering his mind, Xu Tian continued to ask, but made up his mind that no matter what they were doing, he must abduct a few people.

"It's like pulling weeds and watering."

The agricultural officer is telling the truth. The serfs are busy in the lord's territory. They are not idle, and no one will let them idle. After all, these people are just bought back to work. If they don't work, they will be beaten alive. Death, in a sense, they are not even comparable to a tool, no, how can they be compared with a tool, even the lord will be heartbroken for a long time if the iron tool is damaged, and no matter how many slaves die, no one cares of.

"Bring them here."

Xu Tian gave the order very directly, completely ignoring what the bewildered agricultural officer was thinking. Anyway, as long as he didn't do anything too outrageous, he would still be the boss above them, and what he was going to do next It is also really inseparable from people. As for the food...the soil here is limited, and the difference is only a dozen kilograms after hard work. Xu Tian, ​​who has two and a half years of food reserves in his hand, said that he is not panicked at all.

Soon, a group of almost human-like creatures appeared in front of Xu Tian. Maybe they saw his clean hands. These people's hands and feet were simply washed before they were pulled over, but there was still a patch of blood left on the ground. Another black footprint.

They are naked - slaves are not allowed to own their own private property, and they are also dirty, heavy farm work so that rich farmers have little time to clean themselves, and in this place where clean is not holy enough, no one dares In doing so, the only difference between them is the size of their skeletons. Regardless of whether they are male, female, old or young (if any), they all look skinny and bony. Their hair is long and black and shiny, and there are many bugs carnivaling wantonly on it.

What Xu Tian dared not look at most were their eyes.

Those pairs of eyes were numb, and there was very little fatigue. From the adult women who reached his shoulders to the girls who were not as tall as his calves, they all looked lifeless. Xu Tian had no doubt that even death would It won't make them feel a little bit moved, the current life is just a habit.

Xu Tian didn't know what to say or what he could say, he just stood up silently and walked out, not forgetting to order the agricultural officer to take them to the river, while he himself went to the kitchen, there seemed to be something in the corner of his eye What falls.

When Xu Tian came to the river in a carriage, everyone had already assembled, the agricultural officer stood at the front and waited for his order, and his lord was not polite at all, pointing to the small river and saying "dig!"

What are you digging?

Digging.

Yes, Xu Tian asked nearly ten slapped people, big and small, just to dig out the soil by the river, and then make mud bricks, pan fire resistance, and burn bricks to make pottery... In short, mud has many benefits, not afraid of less I'm afraid it's not enough.

The carpenter was also recruited, and Xu Tian asked him to make a clay mold out of wood. It was not a complicated thing, and the shape was actually similar to a drawer at home, but it was smaller and had no bottom. This era does not lack hundreds of thousands of years It is a big tree, but it takes a lot of time to make the inside smooth and stable. Fortunately, Xu Tian is rich, and the gold coins gave the carpenter [-]% of his motivation, and he successfully made three drawers in one afternoon. No, clay molds.

Few of the slaves used tools. They dug the soil bit by bit with their hands, and then fetched water with their hands, and then folded the straw into small pieces and mixed them evenly. The efficiency was very low, but Xu Tian really had no choice for the time being, but to make them reconfirm that the straw in their hands was made small enough, and the stones in the soil were picked out no matter how small they were.

This job is not tiring to say the least, but it is not easy to do. It is actually dangerous to fetch water from the river, because most of the slaves are starving all the year round, and they may accidentally slip and never get up again. Fortunately, they had a traveler lord who was kind enough to lend them a partially broken bucket.

When the sun was halfway down, the lord asked them to suspend production. The reason for the agricultural officer was "these are enough for today, and there will be more tiring work after a while." But in the end, the slaves got a short rest, and they sat on the ground in twos and threes , a few of them even lay down directly, with no manners, the women unscrupulously turned their chests to the sky in order to breathe, regardless of the fact that they were in a vacuum, but this is actually not much different, after all, most people are He rolled in the mud pit, and there was nothing he could see except his eyes.

Seeing a large group of people tied up and the outrageous work efficiency, Xu Tian's desire for pottery became stronger. Looking back on the things he ate and the amount of reserves in the kitchen, he began to seriously think about whether to put his pottery at all. The blast furnace ironmaking method that I don't know is freed up, and it is too difficult to make an iron tool for ten days and half a month.

The hard work that Xu Tian said is really hard work, especially for those who have little strength. Unfortunately, most of the people here are weak, which caused this simple job to be delayed until the last ray of sunshine disappeared. Done - stir.

As a child from the city, Xu Tian said that he didn't know how hard it is to make mud bricks. He just heard from his classmates from the countryside that they had worked hard when building a house, but at least there was technology at that time, but now they can only Little manpower is better than nothing. You must know that even in ancient China, cattle were used to trample on it.

And Xu Tian used people, he had to do this, because only in this way could these slaves have a chance to breathe.