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

In October, the temperature began to drop.

A new task was put on Roman's task schedule.

How to survive the winter?

The infrastructure construction speed of Origin City must be fast.

Roman brought more advanced brick-making technology.

A mason can make nearly a thousand bricks a day, which is one of the construction links.

There are also soil and mud transportation, sun drying, fuel supply, coal kiln, etc., and the construction period is relatively long.

On average, fifty laborers build a basic brick house every day.

The more laborers invested, the greater the output.

Because they build walls every day, the construction team has long been proficient, and an old man directs two newcomers to move bricks.

The advantage of this kind of building is that it is strong and durable.

This year's heavy rain and floods, in other towns, means that dozens or hundreds of people are displaced and homeless.

But in front of Origin City, it is just a breeze and drizzle-at most, the roof tiles are not laid properly, and there is a little leakage.

But the house can only do the most basic cold protection.

This year, the slaves had no clothes, no bedding, and even the furniture was not complete. The wood factory gave priority to providing bedding, which was made of wheat straw and thatch.

The 6,000 kilograms of cotton that had just been harvested could only be used by the army.

There was not enough textile raw materials, so it was better not to give it to everyone than to give it to only some people.

Roman canceled the winter clothing benefits, and no one would object.

But the problem was that Roman distributed winter clothing in previous years just to let them work in winter.

This year...

It has to be like this too!

It’s okay to wear thin clothes.

During the day, improve the diet standard. If you feel cold, drink a few bowls of salty meat soup with a layer of oil floating on it, which can warm your body.

There are enough calories and fat to keep the body active, so you won’t freeze to death when working in winter.

But only those who work outside can drink this.

Those workers in the workshops are not eligible to eat fat meat, so they can only eat lean meat.

So, it’s okay during the day,

but what about at night?

The temperature is lower at night, and the wind outside is freezing. It is normal for a group of people with poor physical fitness to freeze to death if they are not careful.

Once they are frozen, their work efficiency during the day will definitely decrease.

Roman had to go to Coal and Iron Town for this reason.

Honeycomb coal and iron stoves can help them survive the long and cold winter nights.

Just like building a brick house.

For this kind of production task that is not difficult, the manpower invested directly affects the output.

Roman brought 500 new people to Coal and Iron Town this time.

In addition, 100 people were arranged to settle next to the coal mine, and their task was to mass-produce honeycomb coal.

It took less than half a month.

Thousands of honeycomb coals were transported from there.

A large number of iron stoves were also delivered.

The iron shell, the furnace core made of refractory material, the lower vent, the grate and the inner ring bracket are integrated and can be directly put inside.

The manufacturing difficulty of the iron stove is very low, and each component can be manufactured separately, and they can be combined when used.

Each brick house can get an iron stove and a pair of fire tongs, and Roman provides four free honeycomb coals every day.

This is not a small number.

There are about 9,000 brick houses in Origin City now - not counting the military camps, military compounds, coal and iron towns, salt towns, gold mine towns, meadow ranches and other diversion settlements.

Not to mention the 9,000 iron stoves, more than 30,000 honeycomb coals are consumed every day, about 100,000 pounds, and 20 carriages can pull it.

Some people who settled down early were assigned to brick houses, with only two or three people sharing five honeycomb coals.

And those who were not assigned houses, or the slaves who just came this year, also lived in brick houses. On average, a brick house could hold 20 people, and each person had only four square meters of activity space. They slept on straw mats and squeezed together for warmth. They also shared five honeycomb coals.

Open the vents, and a honeycomb coal burns at full speed, which can burn for about an hour.

If the vents are plugged with a wooden plug, leaving only a small gap, the burning speed of honeycomb coal can be greatly slowed down, and the burning time can be reduced to three or four hours.

Even so, the heat provided by four honeycomb coals is limited, and it is definitely difficult to keep twenty people warm.

But in Origin City, slaves without houses are like this.

Their only way out is to work hard and not be lazy, otherwise they will enjoy the same treatment as prisoners of war.

If they perform well, according to the current construction speed, the latest batch of people will have to wait for half a year to get their household registration books and have their own houses.

At that time, they will automatically get rid of their slave status.

Origin City has living rules.

And the manager of the Residents Department will make it clear to others to tell these rules.

For example, joining the army can directly get two brick houses. Soldiers have a house in the military compound, and Origin City will also allocate a house to their families.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a family, after all, there is a guaranteed house in the military compound, rich materials and extremely high salaries.

In addition, if you miss the recruitment or fail to recruit.

Then the newly built brick houses will be given priority to those with families.

If you don't have a family, then find a family, get a marriage certificate, and then queue up.

Otherwise, you can only live in the same room with other singles.

This can only be regarded as a very normal means of transforming slaves into residents.

It is a terrible thing for people to have no ambition.

It is also terrible for people with ambition to have no family.

The so-called taking root is to form a bond with this land, never leave this land, and live and die together.

……

Roman issued a target to manufacture 20,000 iron furnaces.

Although the workload is huge. But it is not a big deal when it is evenly distributed among more than a thousand people.

Those blacksmiths are the main force of production. The blacksmith apprentices that Roman has trained for more than a year are now mature and can skillfully use various tools for metal processing.

Although it is impossible to knock out a piece of plate armor alone. But with forging hammers and rolling mills, most people do not need to master the advanced forging skills of hand-knocking plate armor.

These trained blacksmiths can now lead a new batch of blacksmith apprentices-that is, the 500 people selected by the Ministry of Residents.

Their explosive productivity should not be underestimated.

It is worth mentioning that the iron furnace rolled out by the rolling mill is itself a material of plate armor level.

Roman did not want to redesign a new iron material.

The boundary between military and civilian use is very vague, and the fastest way is to do it.

This winter, the blacksmith shed in Meitie Town did nothing else.

Either knocking plate armor or making iron furnaces.

Both began to become popular.

Not only for home use, but also for public use.

If a few more stoves are placed in each workshop, a clay pot or pottery pot with water is placed on the stove, and honeycomb coal is burned underneath, it can increase the indoor temperature and boil water at the same time.

The workers can drink some hot water when they have nothing to do to warm their bodies.

Then the labor efficiency will be increased by at least 30%.

It took Roman half a month to solve the problem of heating in winter.

He said it very clearly. The iron stove and honeycomb coal replaced the winter clothing welfare. People from the Residents Department should also publicize how to use it, maintain a certain ventilation, and avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

If they are still poisoned after the publicity, it will be natural elimination, and they will make room quickly if they die.

Strictly speaking, the cost of this set is much higher than winter clothing.

Besides, the iron stove itself is a stove.

When Roman designed the brick house, he did not consider letting them cook at home.

But it must be admitted that this consideration is inappropriate. There are always some people who need to cook at home for various reasons, otherwise it is very inconvenient to go to the big kitchen every time.

The iron stove basically meets all the needs of those families for stoves.

It is portable and a great tool.

More importantly, it was given to them for free.

The only drawback is fuel.

But even if honeycomb coal is no longer free after winter, they can buy cheap honeycomb coal from the department store, and they can buy twenty honeycomb coals for a quarter of a copper coin.

Correspondingly, those who get free iron stoves, whether slaves or residents, have to work in the winter.

In order to cope with the situation next year, thousands of acres of land will be reclaimed this winter.

Not ordinary arable land, but paddy fields.

The swamp is now in the dry season, and it is also a good time to build water conservancy.

The transformation of the meadow pasture has not been completed.

The forest is still being cut down and reclaimed.

So, now is not the time to rest.