Chapter 639: The Not-So-Smart Book of Wisdom
"Hmph, you can't trouble me."
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With a confident smile, Field took out the book of wisdom and directly identified the rag pieces.
Item: Linen Clothing Fragments (Level 0)
Classification: debris, garbage.
"Nah, I'm not blind." Field almost laughed angrily, "Appraisal of the text."
Item: Text (Level 0)
Description: The words written in blood exude a faint magical light, and it is suspected that the writer possesses natural magic.
Field facepalmed: "Why is this book of wisdom a bit not very smart? Don't let your territory lower your IQ."
"When you meet the Dragonborn, let her translate."
The contents of the drift bottle could not be deciphered for the time being, so Field was not in a hurry. Such bad weather was not suitable for venturing out. After storing the drift bottle in the castle's collection room, we came to the city hall.
Not long after, Kaa and Tate came to report their work.
"Sir, the new slave has been settled."
"Every room in Starry Night City is occupied by six to eight people, and most of the rooms are filled with people."
There are not many houses in Starry Night City that can accommodate people. After all, they are only for repairs and not specially built houses.
"With all due respect, sir, slaves should not be allowed to stay in such a beautiful city, even if it was once an empty city."
"Those idiots are so rude and stupid. God, any bad words can be applied to them." Kaa exaggerated, "Baron, please do a good job and let them go to work in the fields."
Field was happy. It wouldn't take more than a week for three thousand slaves to be left outside, and most of them would definitely die.
"There is work for sure, but there is no farm work for them to do in winter."
Take out a drawing from the cabinet.
"The construction industry in the territory needs to be further strengthened." Field handed the drawing to Kao, "This is the ring kiln."
To put it simply, it is a kiln with a circular tunnel structure for firing bricks. There are more than ten or twenty small kiln mouths. After the bricks to be fired are fixed in special positions and fuel is added in sequence, the ring kiln can continuously fire bricks.
It can be understood as using assembly line thinking to bake bricks.
It sounds complicated, but after seeing Tuhuan Kiln once, modern people can easily understand it. In practice, you may encounter many problems, which can be improved gradually.
"As long as this building is completed, it will be able to produce at least 30,000 to 40,000 bricks per day on average."
"You send a construction team to take charge. The chimney of this kiln is more than ten meters long, which is enough for the slaves to work for three or four months. After the kiln is finished, it should be spring, and it will be time for farming."
"Okay." The two of them were worried that the slave had nothing to do, so they immediately went to execute it.
After explaining the kiln factory situation, the little fox approached Field again.
"Sir, the water-powered blower and water-powered forging hammer have been made. Together with the blast furnace, swords can be forged stably." The little fox came over happily, "Of course, the furnace can also be made."
"Oh? How is the sword production?"
"As long as there is no problem with the supply of raw materials, five or six craftsmen working together can make an average of twenty or thirty high-quality long knives a day."
The little fox waved his hands and made a big circle: "With a lack of experience and immature technology, the only disadvantage is that the machinery requires experienced workers to maintain."
In this era, it would take an old blacksmith 5-10 days to make a high-quality sword with the help of two or three apprentices.
But with the help of water-powered blowers and forging presses, a night-collar craftsman can create nearly five high-quality swords in one day.
This is the charm of industrialization. Even immature technologies can show strong potential.
"Very good, let the craftsmen continue to improve and build two more forges."
Field rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "It just so happens that the empire is going to fight a civil war, so we can sell arms."
"This, this weapon will fall into the hands of our enemies." The little fox was very worried.
"It's possible, we can just sell the weapons farther away, such as to the Grand Duke Gem." Field said with a smile, "Also, we can sell the obsolete equipment first."
Night Leader collected a large number of ordinary swords of average quality, which were picked up from previous battles and were just in time to be sold.
The elite weapons of the family were handed over to the painter Qingyin and she was asked to carve seal inscriptions to further enhance their combat power.
"From now on, our main force will be based on fighting spirit, magic, and firearms." Field said in a formal tone, "Ordinary weapons will be eliminated."
"Yeah." The little fox, as a model worker, immediately stretched out his hand to get to work, "Sir, is there anything else you need me to make?"
"Now that the building materials are up to standard and the temperature of the blast furnace is up to standard, it's time to light up the cement."
Field snapped his fingers happily: "Once you have cement, you can make concrete by adding water, sand and gravel. You can build a house quickly and stably with high defense."
"Cement?" The little fox was confused, "What kind of material is this? It's so powerful."
"Actually, you may have seen it but ignored it. Among the blast furnace slag waste, there is cement." Field explained with a smile, "Industry is a system, and often you have me in you, and you are in me."
Ancient Rome used primitive cement, silicon oxide + calcium hydroxide + water, and hydrated calcium silicate. But it was quickly lost because their cement used volcanic ash and could not be reproduced in other areas.
Modern cement stone was invented in the 18th century.
The principle is: calcium silicate + water, hydrated calcium silicate + calcium hydroxide, and then use silicon oxide to remove calcium hydroxide.
Without pretending to be profound, Field said in a very popular way: "In simple terms, it is to mix limestone and clay together, calcine it in place, and grind it into powder with the slag produced by iron smelting. It's that simple."
The technical difficulty lies in maintaining a high temperature of 1500 degrees, but for the Night Territory, which can make steel and coke, it is not a problem.
"Oh, I'll go and try it now." The little fox's eyes lit up and he immediately ran to make it.
"Even in winter, we have to work hard on farming."
For the next half month, the north has been in light snow.
Ashina brought back another 3,000 slaves and stuffed them into the villages of Starry Night City and Morning Territory, and the population of the territory leaped again.
The Night Territory was busy with industrialization, and new brick houses continued to rise from the ground, and various sea fish gradually appeared on the tables of the people. At the same time, residents made fish soy sauce, smoked dried fish, and even special food workshops appeared.
The fishery in the Morning Territory flourished, and the shipbuilding industry began to take off. In a short period of time, the area of the Tidal Village doubled, showing the potential of a coastal city.
After the slaves settled in Starry Night City, the proud people of Fengqi Town became increasingly dissatisfied with the town being called a "town". They privately called it Fengqi City and were proud of being close to the lord's castle.
It is estimated that after a while, the term "Second Ring" and "Third Ring" will appear.
Unlike Nightfall Territory, other cities in the empire are having a harder time.
Rick Province, Morning Glow Territory.
