Infrastructure maniacs from the East

The mud pits dug by the slaves were not big enough for at most three people to stand side by side, and the cruel lord ordered them to use their bodies as tools and throw themselves directly into it to achieve the effect of farming cattle. There is no opinion on the rotation of the three, because he tried it himself and directly admitted how much energy it takes to do so.

Cruel?

cruel.

But only in this way can the slaves rest justifiably.

At last the cruel lord mercifully let them get up, because the soil finally achieved the effect he wanted-it was very sticky and tough.This also means the start of the next step.

The trampled mixed mud was put into a wooden mud mold. After the hands and feet were tamped and flattened, the top was pressed with a flat board provided by the carpenter, and then the mud mold was lifted up. The mud brick embryo was ready. One step is not difficult, but the dark night reduces people's efficiency, and they didn't finish all the work until the moon rose and the two torches were burned.

Xu Tian is already very tired, as are the agricultural officers beside him, but there is still one last step to be done——

"You work too slowly, and there is no dinner."

The lord announced coldly, ignoring everyone's screaming bellies.

"Everyone come here to get some beans. This was originally a reward for finishing your work, but now...huh!"

There was anger hidden in the lord's voice, and the slaves had been fooled by the ups and downs of the roller coaster. In the end, the agricultural officer came back to his senses first, and asked them to come and collect the beans one by one, until they held them in their hands. Dou Zi returned to his own shed where he could see the sun, and finally came to his senses.

"The lord sent the beans, didn't he?"

A man was talking dreamily, he was still holding his own beans in his hand, but he always wondered if he was in a dream, otherwise why would such a good thing happen?

"Yes, the lord sent beans."

The oldest one is a woman. She gave birth to more than ten children, but only two survived in the end, but these two children are filial existences. One is a minor and the other is an adult labor force. They often help her secretly. Work and distribute her food to her, and she has lived to this day.

But even her mother, her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, had never heard that the lord would distribute food to the slaves, and it wasn't the leftovers mixed with water and a little bit of food after the servants finished eating, There's something for everyone, whole, that cooks up a big bowl of mushy beans.

The lord is a good man.

The woman didn't say this, but she was grateful for the generosity and generosity of the lord in her heart, and then put most of her beans in the safest place, leaving only a few grains in her hands and slowly filling her mouth. mechanical movement.

"The lord is very kind."

Her little son suddenly squeezed to her side and whispered something in her ear. She opened her eyes wide in horror, but she still couldn't see anything.

Slaves are not qualified to use anything, including just creating a little light, so the woman didn't see her child's mouth turned up and smiled for the first time.

For some people, living is a difficult thing, but there is always a small light in the night of human growth, and then people rely on this spark to move forward.

Today's task is finally over, Xu Tian climbed into the carriage slowly, was brought back to the castle by the same tired agricultural officer, swallowed two boiled eggs for dinner, and fell asleep directly, the linen was very thin, but It's not too cold now, so it feels good, but it's not so easy when it snows heavily.

The agricultural officer got an egg as compensation for not having dinner, which was obviously far from enough, but the reality of poverty made the lord only eat two eggs, and the eggs in the hands of the agricultural officer were already quite a fortune up.

The man in shabby sackcloth brought the eggs back, and the whole family cheered unsurprisingly. The hard-boiled eggs could not be kept for too long, the shells were broken, and everyone got a little yolk and white. The agricultural officer got the biggest piece, and no one objected, because the agricultural officer had to go out with the lord tomorrow, and only a strong physique could protect the generous lord, although in Xu Tian's eyes, this refugee-like figure was far away. Not strong.

There are cattle raised in Xu Tian's territory, but every time there are six oxen pulling the plow, and most of the time the cattle are not full, so they look skinny, and the Chinese farmer uncle will definitely grow up if he sees it. Scold this group of people, after all, you can't raise such an easy-to-raise animal as cattle. What are you barbarians? !

But Lord Xu is not a hardworking farmer who grows flowers, so he looked at the lush weeds and young trees on the cultivated land, and thought of a farm tool that is more useful at this stage and has real data in his mind-Quyuanli.

As a lord who can only talk about wars on paper, it is impossible to do it yourself. You can only barely realize it by calling the blacksmith and directing it yourself. Not everyone except nobles, but he knew the importance of blacksmiths, so he directly asked one of his knights to snatch two blacksmiths back, together with other miscellaneous craftsmen and tools.

Well, it's very lordly.

When he asked where the carpenter and blacksmith are now, Xu Tian finally understood why the people here had such weird expressions when they heard "Go outside and find a carpenter".After all, it's not crazy to go to someone else's house to rent something that you already have at home.

These two kinds of craftsmen live much closer than the lord imagined.

Yes, just downstairs from him.

After hastily visiting the smelly places of the carpenters and blacksmiths, Xu Tian verbally expressed his support and encouragement to them, and showed them the blueprints he had painstakingly drawn.

Yes, you heard it right, it is the coupling plow invented by Zhao Guo during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the drawings on the sheepskin scrolls.

Xu Tian never thought that there would be parchment scrolls in the castle. It was not until the steward saw him trying to draw pictures with the waste of burned branches that Lord Xu realized that although the Middle Ages was different from the historical ones, it was not There are no text carriers and writing tools.

Parchments and quills are typical products of Europe, but it is a pity that they are kept in high places most of the time, after all, except for religious personnel in this era, as long as the king can write his name, he is considered knowledgeable Yes, and although the housekeeper has seen the big world, he really doesn't know how to read. After all, most contracts in this era must be signed by the church, and most of the signers only need to draw a cross instead.

Well, it is still necessary for the church staff to pre-draw the grid in advance, and after repeated guidance, they will draw with their fingers dipped in ink. Most of them are crooked, just like the out-of-round circle that Ah Q still remembered before his death.

After all, kings and nobles just need to know how to hold their knives and swords.

So the butler never thought about the possibility of Xu Tian being literate.

Then he was severely slapped in the face.

The quill pen is not convenient to hold. Xu Tian got used to it before he could write horizontal and vertical fonts. After silently remembering the fountain pen, fountain pen and ballpoint pen in his heart, Lord Xu started his creative road with difficulty, not knowing what he was doing. What a shock to the housekeeper.

The lord is actually literate!

The butler knew he shouldn't be standing here, but he couldn't move his feet when he saw lines of patterns he had never seen before. The words he saw when he followed the previous master were not like this, but these were obviously not Messy graffiti, they have their own unique beauty, attracting the butler's attention like magic.

"Do you want to learn?"

The voice from the ear was as cold as ever, but there was a smile in those quiet eyes, and the butler suddenly raised his head.

The coupling plow looks simple, but it took Xu Tian a whole morning to draw it. There are Chinese annotations on it. Xu Tian specially marked these key points in case he would forget. The housekeeper followed him and read these silently Words, hoping to remember them all, the agricultural officer has already gone back to watch those people work.

Coupling the plow to plow the fields is also called two oxen carrying bars. It is actually not difficult to do, but the nobles here have never really paid much attention to farm tools, and this thing that has appeared in ancient China has not been invented for a long time.

Xu Tian has long since despaired of the arithmetic ability of the people here, so when he talks about the distance problem, he usually says——

"One as long as you."

"The distance to your instep."

"As long as half a hand."

Ah, inexplicably a little scary.

In order to save materials as much as possible, Xu Tian did not hesitate to make the plowshares into iron-clad wood, and even the coupling plows were simplified to the point that it could not be simplified any more, although there was actually nothing that could be simplified.

Failure again and again, I don’t know how many mistakes, I don’t know how much Xu Tian suffered from the plowshare and plowwall theme frame and accessories, and I decided again in my heart that I must have a unified measure, otherwise I really can’t afford it. Can't afford to hurt.

The shape of the plowshare is similar to that of a shovel, but it is triangular, yes, it is the shape of a pointed shovel at the bottom, but the technology here is limited, and there is no way to make it so thin.

The plow wall is placed on the plow share. It is very useful for turning the soil. It is very simple to make. It is a rectangular sheet with a curved shape, but the top is semicircular instead of angular, and there are two fixed places at the back.

The main frame is commonly known as the bearing strip, which has been replaced by iron in modern times, but here Xu Tian did not hesitate to use wood. After all, wood is everywhere, and he has not yet mastered the blast furnace ironmaking method.

In simple terms, the bearing bars are all kinds of straight, curved, long and short wooden planks. Xu Tian no longer wants to say how much sweat he has made carpenters and blacksmiths sweat to make things, and the most difficult part is the warped beam. , the attachment is very simple.

Ahem, no matter what, after six days, all the parts are finally up to standard, and the plow can be formally assembled.

And Xu Tian was not idle when the carpenters and the others were working hard. He made a big event - firing pottery!

That's right, Xu Tian didn't build an earthen kiln, but he managed to make pottery!