Chapter 81

Victor stood outside the village built by morindu, full of joy. This was the first village under his command and the first step for him to control the vast territory.

The village is built near the river, with a length of more than 700 meters and a width of more than 500 meters, covering an area of about 35 hectares. Trenches four meters wide and more than two meters deep have been dug in the periphery of the village. As long as the river is led in, a moat can be formed.

Victor found that the fence of the village was completely different from that of the hill camp. Its fence was horizontal. At the bottom of the fence is a stone base made of crushed stone. On the stone base, black columns with a height of 8 meters are erected at intervals. The columns are connected by horizontal wooden boards. These wooden boards are closely connected and firmly fastened on the black columns, forming wooden fences one by one.

From the side, the black columns are in a group of two and are connected with thick wooden boards, which makes the wooden fence 80 cm thick, both solid and beautiful.

"Maureen, this fence is very special! Why are they black?" Victor turned to Maureen and asked.

"My Lord, the columns of these fences are made of the hardest iron oak. These boards are processed with slightly inferior hemlock. They are carbonized and painted so that they will not be eaten by insects. This kind of fence is not only strong, but also saves wood. It is a little laborious. We cut the cut hemlock into sections, cut it into thick boards, and dig out tenons and mortises to make them more secure Solid, we hit the log nail again. " Maureen said proudly.

"You are very attentive." Said Victor with a smile.

Maureen really worked hard to build the village.

"Sir, this design was put forward by two free people. They also improved the carriage base and wheels. Sir, I hope you can make an exception and give them the status of leading the people." Maureen pleaded.

"Oh, how are their carpenters better than you?" Victor asked without asking if he could. The two freemen were actually his alchemy auxiliaries.

"My Lord, their craft is better than me, even better than the old carpenter I have followed." Said Maureen.

"I'll think about it." Victor nodded.

At the beginning, Maureen was recommended as the village leader by everyone because of his carpentry skills, and won Victor's favor. Therefore, Maureen became the first village head to be promoted. If, at the beginning, he found that someone was better than him and said he couldn't help but suppress each other under jealousy. Now, as a village head, he hopes to have more craftsmen in the territory. The so-called ass determines the head is like Maureen.

Surrounded by the crowd, Victor walked into the village. Except for the six arrow towers, the ground was empty.

"Why haven't you started building?" Asked victor in a loud voice.

Hearing Victor's inquiry, several village leaders looked at each other. Instead, Lilia stepped forward and explained in a low voice: "Sir, you said that all the houses in the village should be built with bricks? Now most people have gone to build brick kilns. Therefore, we haven't built houses here yet. However, our current houses are still enough."

Victor remembered that this was indeed the order he gave before he went to Heibao town. Many people said they couldn't understand this order, and several village leaders also made decisive suggestions to victor. They thought that opening a kiln to burn bricks was definitely not worth the loss, but Victor insisted on his own opinion. Since the Lord has made a decision, it must be carried out if you don't understand.

"Then let it go first. Brick burning and building houses must be carried out. Not only should this village use bricks, but also brick houses should be used in breeding village, blacksmith village, Carpenter Village and textile village." Victor insisted firmly.

"By the way, this village was built near the river and will be called Linhe village in the future. In the future, we will transform the temporary residence of the free people into a farm. In this way, the hill camp, Linhe village and temporary residence will be connected into a triangular area."

As victor said, he took off the scabbard sword around his waist and drew a simple map on the ground.

"We will reclaim 12000 mu of cultivated land in this area as a fief for everyone, carry out centralized management and provide food for the territory."

Several village leaders immediately surrounded with bright eyes. What they longed for most was land. After several people looked at each other, Dean, the leader of the villagers, boldly asked, "my Lord, the free people's residence can become a village after a little transformation. This... Can we ask, who do you plan to appoint as the village head?"

Victor looked at the eager eyes of several village leaders, smiled and shook his head: "do you think so? No one wants to go to blacksmith village, Carpenter Village and textile village?"

"Sir, I don't understand that. I'm afraid I'll miss you, but I'm definitely a good farmer. Sir, as long as you give me the village, I promise to serve the crops well!" George, the leader of the second group, patted his chest and promised.

"My Lord, leave it to me! I..."

"You know what farming is? Sir, give it to me. When I was in my hometown, I managed the farm for the knight master."

The voluntary recommendation of the second team leader immediately made several team leaders compete with each other

"OK, let's go to Zhuanyao village and say as we walk." Victor stopped the quarrel and turned to his carriage.

The carriage pulled by the giant rhinoceros was spacious, but it was cramped to carry nine people at the same time. The six village leaders and Nelson crowded together, leaving more than half of the space for Victor and Lilia.

"On this trip to Heibao, I exchanged purple sugarcane wine for three months' food. The value of purple sugarcane is greater than you think, so I won't build more farms, and some of you must go to other villages."

In addition to Maureen, several other villagers' leaders all showed a chat up expression. Victor could also guess their ideas. The so-called separation of lines is like separation of mountains. These people are farmers. They are not strong in forging iron, building cars and weaving. They are worried that they can't do well and the last position is unstable. But Victor's Alchemy auxiliaries have been scattered, just can't tell them.

Victor took out a wooden box and opened it. It was full of crystal sucrose.

"You've always wondered what I use so much purple sugarcane every month? Now, I can tell you, this is the specialty of our territory: sucrose. Let's try it."

Victor handed the sucrose to the people opposite and motioned them to taste it. It's time for sucrose to come out, so there's no need to keep it secret.

"Sweet, so sweet."

"It's delicious."

"Better than honey."

Several people praised one after another, and the words of Haig, the leader of the fifth group, moved Victor's heart. He smiled and said, "Haig, have you eaten honey?"

Hagrid was stunned, bowed and said, "yes, sir, when I was in the eastern province, I would go to the mountain to find the wild bee hive, harvest the honey inside, and give these honey to the mayor. I can not only offset my rent, but also get a reward."

"So it is." Victor nodded and continued, "the price of honey is very expensive. A pound of honey in Wangdu can sell 10 gold sols. Our sucrose tastes purer than honey. I think we can sell two gold sols a pound."

"Sir, aren't we going to be rich?" Nelson's eyes lit up and smiled.

"Yes, we are going to be rich, so even if those professional villages have no output for the time being, I will supplement you for two years to ensure your livelihood. At the same time, I will recruit more craftsmen to join us, so you don't have to worry." Victor laughed, too.

His words made the faint hostility between the village leaders disappear. So they arrived at their destination with laughter.

When Victor got out of the carriage, Linda came with some guards. She saluted victor and said, "good day, sir."

"Hard work."

Victor jaw first, although this is a polite remark, but hard work is also the truth. According to Victor's requirements, the whole brick kiln village must continuously produce earth bricks every day and implement two shifts. Therefore, it is impossible for people here to go back to the hill camp to rest and sleep in the wild until the first large brick kiln is built.

Brick kiln village is the first professional village that Victor needs to build. As the name suggests, this is a village specializing in brick burning.

Although brick kiln village is called village, it is still only a super large humble camp. There is not even a fence. Only simple wooden thorns are arranged on the periphery as protection.

The area of Zhuanyao village is about two square kilometers. One side is near the river and surrounded by earth hills, which is convenient for soil mining and water intake.

There was a great deal of noise in the open space of the village. Hundreds of people worked hard here. For a long time, they had to eat and live here.

Some of these people are responsible for cutting down miscellaneous trees on earth hills, removing the branches and leaves of miscellaneous trees, drying the branches on the open space, and finally using them as firewood for brick burning. Some are responsible for digging out the clay of the mound, drying it in the open space, crushing and screening it, leaving only fine pure soil. Some are responsible for taking water from the river, moistening the pure soil with water, repeating and refining like noodles, and finally making brick embryos with molds, and then drying in the shade. Others are sintering earth bricks in earth kilns like graves.

"Go and show me a finished brick." Said Victor to his entourage.

Soon, a burnt clay brick was sent to Victor's hand. Victor's physique was close to 9 o'clock at this time. He squeezed it hard. The clay brick immediately broke and looked very crisp, which made Victor frown.

Dean picked up the broken bricks, weighed them, and said.

"My Lord, there is something wrong with the firing method of these clay bricks. The drying time of clay is too short. It takes at least 6 months to make embryos. Otherwise, it will be as crisp as it is now."

"Oh, will the adobe be strong after fully drying?" Asked victor.

"It's stronger, but it's still not as good as the hardwood fence. Even if the brick wall is 1.5 meters thick, the Jackal can dig it with his bare hands, because it's too fragile. Moreover, it takes too long to burn bricks and requires too much labor. We generally don't use bricks to build houses. But brick houses are fireproof and won't rot and deform. Many noble lords will use bricks to build manors."

Maureen said that he was gently persuading Victor to give up the construction of brick kiln village, but how could Victor give up the construction of brick kiln? This is the most basic part of his development plan.

"Go and call Arlo and Asai." Said Victor lightly.

Arlo and Yasai are two auxiliary alchemists, both loaded with construction skills. Victor specially promoted them to supervise the construction of brick kiln village.

"Arlo, explain the brick making plan."

"My Lord, the first batch of bricks will be used to build a small brick kiln to replace those earth kilns. The second batch of bricks produced by brick kilns will be used to build drying chambers, wind tunnels and large brick kilns. With these facilities, the production efficiency will be increased ten times. The third batch of bricks is qualified earth bricks."

This is Victor's purpose. He wants to build large brick kilns. Only large brick kilns can produce special bricks, and those qualified earth bricks can also build furnaces. With furnace alchemy auxiliary soldiers, iron can be made, and finally forge furnaces that can produce silver equipment.

Victor will not produce these ultra modern products immediately, but the construction of infrastructure can be carried out in advance. Once he has full wings, he can produce these strategic materials continuously, build indestructible castles and arm powerful alchemy militia.

The development blueprint designed by Victor is: Purple cane wine in exchange for time and space for development, sugar and coffee to make huge profits, and use money to produce alchemy militia and war mastiff to improve their strength, while infrastructure can meet the needs of territorial development. For example, blacksmith village can build weapons and equipment to supply itself without relying on York family. As for arable land, Victor also has a solution. People in this world don't know that there are terraces. With terraced fields, he can not only preserve the purple sugarcane forest, but also meet the food needs of the territory. However, we can't build terraces yet, otherwise the York family will take countermeasures against him.

When will we be completely independent? Victor believed that at least 40 alchemy militia were needed, which was stronger than most Viscount, but it was still not worth mentioning for the York family. They had at least 100 trainee knights. But Victor has another hand to prepare. He has advanced technology. He can trade flax, iron, sucrose, carriage and coffee produced by the professional village, and gradually form an interest group. Maybe the York family is one of them. When Victor's castle was built, he didn't have to look at anyone.

At that time, Victor's strength will be like a snowball, unstoppable. As long as you have money, the alchemy militia will have one for 12 hours. No matter what kind of enemy, the pile will be dead.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Brick kiln village is the first step. Bricks are fired with wood, cut down from Earth hills, and collected from Earth hills with clay. These developed earth hills are transformed into terraced fields. If you burn bricks and build various infrastructure, everything will enter a virtuous circle. As for environmental damage, what is it?

Therefore, Victor said solemnly to several village leaders, "I ask you to manage these people in shifts. You should eat and live here until Zhuanyao village is on the right track. Do you understand?"

Victor's stern attitude made several people feel cold and quickly replied.

"Yes, my Lord."

"Very good, you go and be busy. I hope Zhuanyao village can be on track in three months."

When several village leaders went to discuss, Victor called Nelson who was in love with Linda.

"Nelson, you and I go back to the hill camp."

Nelson was a little embarrassed and said, "Sir, several mountain people have run back recently. They claim to have met fierce wolves. I want to protect them here."

"I'll leave Renault here. Old ham has been on guard and most of the guards are here. There's no problem. Let's go. I have something to tell you."

What can I do for you? Victor is the behind the scenes boss of the ferocious wolf, not to mention two monkey militia mixed among these people.

After getting on the carriage, Victor said to Nelson, "did Lilia tell you about Barol?"

"Yes." Nelson said honestly, while Lilia stuck out her little tongue. She was making decisions without authorization.

"I was going to tell your brother, but I can't do it next time." Victor glanced at Lilia unhappily.

"Oh." Lilia promised in a low voice, but the whole person leaned against victor. If Nelson wasn't present, she would stick it to victor.

"There are some secrets to tell you when I call you. You must not spread them out! Do you know?"

"Yes, my Lord." Nelson nodded solemnly.

"I have a secret force in my hand. You should have guessed it. Yes, Renault is my man."

After thinking for a long time, Victor decided to say hello to Nelson and Lilia. In the future, there will be more and more alchemy militia. It can't be concealed, but it can mislead. It's also normal for nobles to have some secret forces, which is a reminder of Barol's misunderstanding.

"My Lord, Lilia and I doubted Renault for a long time. Later, we found that he was really loyal to you, so we didn't dare to ask you." Nelson grinned that Victor really regarded him as his own man when he could tell him the secret.

"Don't ask for specific details, and you can't tell anyone, including Linda. Secrets will only bring danger to ordinary people. You know, there are many dark sons and spies of great nobles in our collar." Victor warned.

"Don't worry, sir. We will never say it." Nelson said positively.

Victor sighed. He didn't think that Nelson might be a spy, but he was still willing to believe the mercenary. Maybe it was because he was lonely. He needed someone he could trust.

"Another thing, I drove Benson and Butz out of the camp on purpose. They built a free camp to collect the mountain people, which I also instructed. Therefore, there is no need to patrol that area to avoid conflict."

"So it is. I wanted to report it to you." Nelson scratched his head. He had found the camp, between chebman's house and Pinghu village. The number reached more than 50.

"And Pinghu village. As long as they pay their sacrifices on time, I won't move them within two years." Victor added.

The output of Pinghu village can reduce Victor's food pressure. He decided to let it go first. Anyway, they have been crushed by Jack.

"I see." Nelson nodded.

When it was over, Victor closed his eyes a little tired. He thought to himself.

"Now, let's see if that Barol can dig out those hidden dark sons and spies."

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