Chapter 46 It’s raining

Road construction is a big project.

In Roman's opinion, the tediousness and difficulty of this matter is no less than spring plowing.

He will lead people to carry out preliminary leveling along the route he planned.

Roman likes efficient methods.

So the route he planned is very straight, a straight line, which is convenient for transporting personnel and mined rock salt.

This also means that they have to cut down trees along the way, move stones, fill swamps, deal with all shrubs and weeds, and even cross hills and streams if they encounter them - there is only one hill and a few small rivers about three or four meters wide along the way, not hard stone mountains and rivers.

This 40-kilometer-long road must be at least four meters wide.

Because all the trees and vegetation on both sides of the road must be cleared, the actual width is about ten meters, making the road view as wide as possible.

For this purpose, Roman mobilized a large number of oxen, horses and vehicles, using the strength of these large animals to solve some problems that are difficult to solve with manpower.

Even iron farm tools that were not suitable for road construction were used in this regard, completely ignoring their wear and tear.

When the purpose of road construction was known, the farmers in Sige Town accepted this heavy physical labor without any rejection.

Even the most short-sighted people knew what a salt mine meant.

That meant they would have salt to eat in the future and could use it to pickle vegetables.

Roman himself could not do low-quality physical labor like those sweating farmers.

He wanted to take people to dig stone mines.

There were many stone mines in this land, but they were worthless and no one was interested in them.

Because mining stone mines is very labor-intensive, the place where More lived was just a wooden house.

Unless it was a noble who wanted to build a castle.

Roman was not going to build a large-scale project and waste manpower. Although the Origin Manor was simple, it was still okay. It was better to use all the resources to build roads.

He knew that if a solid and durable road was to be built, earth, wood, stone and sand were indispensable.

As the saying goes, if people walk a lot, there will be a road, but this kind of road is often not easy to walk.

When people run over, the road is dusty. When it rains, the road becomes muddy and messy. The transportation capacity is greatly reduced, and even the wheels will get stuck in the mud, with a high wear rate.

This is something Roman cannot tolerate.

Even if it is just a layer of gravel, it is much better than a pure dirt road.

And Roman hopes to burn lime.

Humans have used lime as a building material many years ago.

The calcined lime can be mixed with sand, loess, and straw to be used in road construction.

It is not a durable material, but it can definitely meet Roman's basic needs for roads.

That kind of flat and hard road is much better than a bumpy dirt road.

Roman turned all the hundreds of farmers he brought into quarrying.

They have only two jobs, that is, to mine limestone continuously and to calcine continuously. It doesn't matter if the temperature of the firewood flame is unstable. It will always fall off after burning for a few more days, and lime is not burnt out.

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[Construction Experience +1]

[Construction Experience +1]

While Roman was working in full swing, his experience value of [Construction] skill was also constantly improving.

After seven days, Roman's [Construction] skill was also upgraded to level 2.

This skill upgrade gave Roman some basic knowledge of construction.

For example, cement, brick burning, house building, etc.

However, these have no direct relationship with the road construction he was carrying out.

Roman was not going to build a road that could be used for dozens or hundreds of years.

His requirements were simple, that it could be used within one or two years, and if it was broken or damaged, he would send someone to repair it.

Road construction was originally a stopgap measure.

He was extremely short of funds, otherwise he would not be so anxious to mine salt mines.

At present, a quarter of the road leveling work has been completed, and everyone has worked very hard, almost to the point of using all their strength, and no one has dragged their feet.

That's salt!

Hundreds of people continued to dig and fill pits in the swamp area, striving to compact a road that could be stepped on.

The oxen and draft horses pulled the carts full of soil back and forth.

To celebrate the improvement of his skills, Roman specially asked Seth to buy four domestic pigs from the farmers in Sige Town.

Because he had eaten all the game he brought from the mountains, he could only buy domestic livestock now.

This kind of domestic pig weighing more than 100 kilograms is not expensive, the price is between 1 silver coin and 1.5 silver coins, much lower than the price of oxen and draft horses, and only slightly more expensive than the price of wheat.

Roman slaughtered it on the spot, set up a big pot, separated the bones and meat with a knife, and began to cook the meat, throwing salt into it as if it was free.

Domestic pork is more delicious than most game, although it has not been castrated and the meat is fishy.

But in this era, it is already a rare delicacy.

At least Gweil ate it with relish, which made Roman feel that this girl, like other civilians who have suffered too much, has a bad taste bud.

But on the other hand, Gweil can taste the good and bad of food.

So Roman could only attribute it to the fact that her past experiences had made this girl have very low taste requirements.

[Cooking Experience +1]

Roman stewed two pigs at the paving team, and also stewed one pig at the stone mine and salt mine as a reward.

This meal of oil, salt, fish and meat greatly supplemented their physical consumption during this period, and slightly improved their subsequent work efficiency.

Roman didn't pay much attention to the cost of food. He only knew that there was a gold mine waiting for him to dig in the future.

As I said before, there is a long way to go.

Of course, Roman didn't have to spend money to buy meat. As they went deeper into the primitive area, the probability of them encountering wild animals became higher and higher, which forced him to bring the Split Armor Bow.

He generously chopped the wild animals he shot into pieces and stewed them in a big pot.

So, those idiots could see a few pieces of unknown meat in their wooden bowls every now and then.

Maybe it was lynx, beaver, or red deer, or even hedgehog meat, waterfowl, wild duck, etc. Anyway, there were many kinds.

[Hunting Experience +1]

This prompt would appear frequently.

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[Cooking Experience +1]

[Cooking skill upgraded to level 2]

[Level 2 cooking: 0\\380]

[Milestone unlocked: chopping melons and vegetables]

[Chopping melons and vegetables: get 500 raw stones]

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Two more days passed like this.

The experience value of [Hunting] has been steadily increasing, but the first skill to reach level 2 is [Cooking].

Half of the work of leveling the road has been completed.

Because of the length of the supply line and the time spent on the road, the difficulty of leveling the road has become increasingly higher.

It was also this morning.

Roman's biological clock automatically woke him up at around five o'clock.

But there was no light of dawn on the horizon, and it was still dim and dark.

The body temperature was also lower than in the previous mornings.

Roman walked out of the room, and the drizzle fell from the sky, blowing on his face with the slanting wind.

He sighed as he looked at the gloomy clouds.

This light rain seemed to pave the way for a subsequent heavy rain.

[Story of Life] has the function of predicting tomorrow's weather.

Roman knew yesterday that it would rain today, and he made corresponding arrangements.

But it was still raining tomorrow, which made him feel bad.

It seems that there will be no way to repair the road in the next two days.