If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

"Build the road! Build the road for me!"

Late autumn has just begun.

Roman has been focusing on infrastructure construction.

Autumn harvest is imminent, but the infrastructure roads have not been built.

The roads are 150 kilometers long in total. They will connect every residential area and cut tens of thousands of acres of farmland into many square blocks, which are very regular.

Roman has some obsessive-compulsive disorder and knows the importance of planning.

If the early planning is unreasonable, you will lose a lot of hair in the later stage.

Laying a good foundation has always been what Roman pursues.

He used the convenience of the perspective of the big map to make reasonable designs for residential areas and farmland, and the roads were also within the planning scope.

At the beginning, the salt road and lime road were built with sand, stone, soil and grass as the main structure.

Sometimes local materials were used and filled with silt, after all, the construction period was too tight.

The quality was naturally a mess. It took more than half a year for the road to crack. It was normal for some sections to crack in two.

This time, Roman had very high requirements for the quality of the road surface.

In early autumn, he set up a road paving team, which assembled a total of 3,000 laborers.

The road structure is as follows:

A flat pit was dug, the lower layer was made of larger crushed stones as the roadbed, the middle layer was made of crushed stones and gravel, and the upper layer was paved with hard stone slabs, which were stitched and bonded with lime.

The three-layer structure, with a total thickness of 60 cm, is of extremely high quality, stable and solid, and will not have any problems even after 20 years of wind and sun.

Roman specially built drainage channels and grooves to divert water and resist rain erosion.

Then there was large-scale mining of stone mines.

In his expectation, with hammers and chisels, mining stones should be very simple.

After all, a wide and straight stone comes out after knocking and hammering.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

The stonemasons of this era were very powerful, otherwise they would not be able to build those tall castles, and the skills of mining stones were very sophisticated.

As a result, it was found that the efficiency was very low.

Because Roman only controlled a hundred or so stonemasons.

He directly sent a thousand people to the quarry to be stonemason apprentices.

But it takes time for apprentices to learn the craft, and the efficiency of road construction is not up to expectations.

Nearly two months have passed.

This construction period is still not over, and only three-quarters of the project has been completed so far.

The average efficiency of one person a day can't even pave one meter of road.

Roman is overwhelmed.

On the one hand, he sent Green and Aaron to continue to rob people.

On the other hand, he had to supervise in person and adjust the allocation of personnel to complete this infrastructure task before the autumn harvest.

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The lord personally supervised, and the efficiency increased by 30% to 50%, and it was finally completed in the middle of the month.

Welcome the autumn harvest!

The autumn harvest in Origin City is everyone's business.

It is also the business of the residents of Kant Territory-Roman plundered another 4,000 to 5,000 people this time and captured them to work.

Farmers are not unfamiliar with farm work.

The only unfamiliar thing is the yield.

Of course, in Roman's view, these yields are still very low.

A total of 16,000 acres of land, of which 12,000 acres are soybeans and the other 4,000 acres are peas.

However, the average yield of soybeans per acre is only 140 kilograms.

Because some land was just reclaimed this year, the average value was lowered. Some good fields can produce 200 kilograms per mu, but the yield of wasteland is less than 100 kilograms per mu. The fluctuation is huge. Even if Roman applies 2,000 kilograms of fertilizer per mu, it will not work.

In comparison, the yield of peas is higher, nearly 170 kilograms per mu.

A total of more than 2.3 million kilograms of bean grain reserves.

This is still a bumper harvest.

Moreover, Roman planted more vegetables this year. This autumn alone, he harvested about 2 million kilograms.

It will definitely not be eaten in the short term.

But some vegetables are easy to store, and storing them for two months is not a problem.

Pickles and kimchi can even survive the whole winter.

The pigs, sheep and chickens on the farm are just ready to be sold. The members of the breeding department slaughter them every day to provide the freshest meat for the big kitchen.

At this joyful harvest ceremony.

Roman asked someone to notify the celebration to start.

There was no way. There were only a few thousand people last year. Roman stood on the high platform and everyone could see him. He was the focus of everyone's attention.

But now it is really the center of attention. The total population is 27,000 to 28,000. It is impossible to gather together. It can be called a sea of ​​people.

Therefore, there are five or six locations for the celebration.

This time it will only last for two days.

The autumn planting will begin.

A total of more than 20,000 acres of winter wheat have been planted.

All the land has been well managed this year. Although it cannot be called mature land, it is effective after all.

Other people are arranged to burn the wasteland and deep plow, and strive to reclaim thousands of acres of vegetable land, all of which are planted with vegetables that can survive the winter, among which radishes and lettuce are the first choice.

Winter is coming soon.

The farmers raced against time, plowing and harrowing the land, and spreading wheat seeds, peat and manure on the fields.

After more than two months, Roman began to worry about his expeditionary army again.

Dick took away all the veterans and elites.

He observed the apostle interface every day, and saw that the interface of the seven apostles suddenly dimmed last month.

He guessed that they had encountered a small-scale battle, but it should not be large-scale or tragic, and Dick, Dota and others were safe.

Even so, this made him nervous, fearing that there would be a bigger war later.

Sometimes he felt anxious during the day and tossed and turned at night, but in front of outsiders he was always calm and composed.

Roman was not controlled by others' personality.

Summarizing the lessons, it is still because of insufficient strength that I feel uneasy.

It is the fear of insufficient firepower.

Roman began to work on weapons.

Various furniture can be made by apprentices.

Qualified carpenters make various weapons for Roman.

Among them, crossbows are the most cost-effective.

Archers can master their use in just two days of practice.

Untrained farmers can also master the use of crossbows in just ten days or half a month.

Although Roman thinks that this is only a transitional weapon.

It will be eliminated in three to five years at the latest.

But at this stage, crossbows are still weapons that can quickly improve combat effectiveness.

This is a turbulent time.

There is no guarantee that a large-scale battle will break out next year.

With sufficient manpower now, there is no reason not to manufacture crossbows on a large scale.

The target that Roman gave to Vic, the head of the woodworking factory, is to manufacture 3,000 crossbows of varying specifications before the end of this year.

He wants both heavy crossbows and light crossbows.

Not all of them are issued to the army, but also to farmers.

Compared with the devilish training of the army, the intensity of the farmers' labor is not worth mentioning.

In fact, their tasks seem heavy.

But compared with the past, it is actually lighter.

Eat breakfast first every day, go to the place to do their own work, take a break to eat at lunch time, work until the evening to eat and go home, and even have leisure time to go to the market at the dock.

This kind of life rhythm is very regular. Once you adapt, it is easy to squeeze out time.

Because Roman is focusing on the big progress, how can he squeeze all the labor to death?

That is unrealistic, because it is impossible to supervise.

Collective labor is efficient, so the tolerance rate is also very large. For example, if you are given 3,000 people this month to reclaim 5,000 acres of wasteland, you must see the results.

As long as the quality of work meets the standards and is not overdue. It doesn't matter if someone takes leave or slacks off occasionally.

But don't want to work?

Don't blame the master for being cruel.

Unless there are objective factors, every lazy person will be beaten to death, and those who are not beaten to death will be hung up.