Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Golden waves of wheat swayed on the hillside, and near the forest further away, large wheat fields looked like flat golden pancakes.

Today is the third day of wheat harvest. One hundred men and women are taking turns using thirty sickles to harvest the wheat.

The combat team is composed of three people, and the hunting and patrol team is composed of five people.

There are more people in the labor group, and the number is uncertain.

Lawrence promotes family-based farming groups and adopts a task system, which allocates the work scope and workload of each working group, and takes a break in advance when the work is completed in advance.

Because some people procrastinated and couldn't finish their work at night, Lawrence had long ago implemented the punishment of not getting paid until the day's work was completed.

Most women don't have families and can't find the prime labor force that can support a group of people by themselves, so women can also form teams. Usually three or five women form a team. If there are too many women, everyone will feel inappropriate. .

Both men and women have the same basic task target. If you exceed this target, the more you work, the more you will get.

Women work more than men, so they get off work sooner and rest earlier.

Men can do more than women, so they can help others complete tasks and turn their physical strength into charm.

They are not considered children when working, but children can help improve the work efficiency of the group by helping carry stacks of wheat, helping deliver water and baling, etc.

Crows flew over from the church early in the morning, looking for lost grains in the harvested wheat fields.

There are also other birds that come looking for food, but they are soon bullied away by these crows.

The newly arrived slaves also picked up the ears of wheat that had not been cleaned in the wheat field, and put the grains stained with mud and gravel into baskets.

These people are all slaves who were sold this year. Some are from the barbarian kingdom, some are from the western kingdom, and there are several places where they don't understand the language.

After the initial run-in, these slaves who usually worked together gradually adapted to the life here and slowly learned the language here.

According to the rules here, if these people want to continue living here in the future, they must also find partners who can help each other with work.

Lawrence gathered with Sophia, Delenn, Seravan, Lathander and the blacksmith craftsmen inside and outside the mill.

The roaring sound of clanging clang echoed continuously here.

The sound of the collision of wood and wheels, the sound of shaking, and the sound of water flowing made it very noisy here.

Lawrence picked up a bag of sun-dried millet, walked along the wooden steps to a platform one meter three meters above the ground, and poured the wheat into a funnel-shaped wooden container.

Salil and others stood on the ground and looked at the shaking stone mill, and at the wheat grains that continued to fall from the funnel above the stone mill.

When a bag of wheat grains is poured into the funnel, only a few grains can fall from the bottom of the funnel. These grains are like rapidly melting snow, falling continuously and intermittently into the stone trough in the center of the stone mill.

Under the huge vibration, the wheat grains above the container are constantly shaken to the bottom, and because the outlet is only a small coin size, only a small part of the wheat grains can fall out each time.

The rapidly rotating stone mill quickly crushed the wheat inside into powder, which fell into the rectangular wooden cabinet at the exit.

Sophia reached into the wooden cabinet and took out a handful of powder, "Master, it's ready!"

Lawrence stood on the counter and looked at the flour below, "It's still a little rough, not particularly fine."

Salil also reached out and ground the fresh flour with two fingers, "Sifter it through a flour sieve and you can eat it."

Lawrence got off the stage and didn't intend to make it too precise.

If it is too complicated, the repair will be more troublesome, and it will also require more processes and more time.

The flour I eat in my main house only needs to be sifted through these, while most of the others eat mixed bread. The flour here is now a rare food for most people.

Lawrence walked down and looked at the blacksmith and others.

"You have all seen the big wood outside. Use a large horizontal piece of wood to make an impeller. Then when the water flows to push the wood to rotate, the impellers on both sides will also rotate in one circle and press against the approaching wooden board."

"Every time the rotating wooden pole rotates, it will only touch the wooden board once. Think of this as the pedal of a foot blower. Then every time the wooden wheel falls down, it will hit the pedal once. After pressing down, the wooden wheel will hit the wooden board once. It will return to the circle and start another round of rotation.”

Seravan didn't understand, "After you press it to the ground, you can't move."

Lawrence explained: "So a platform is needed. The wooden wheels are placed in a suspended position. Use wood to fix the wheels in a suspended position. At the same time, the blower can be made larger and a larger gap can be dug at the pedal at the rear so that it can Press down a lot.”

"The blower is bigger, making it easier to blow air. At the same time, there is enough space to heat the air inside, making it more fuel-efficient when making iron in the blast furnace."

"You guys have been watching here for the past few days and learning the maintenance and operation of this water-powered mill with me. Now our iron output is not enough, and we must build a better iron smelting plant in the future."

The blacksmiths and craftsmen from Durila, Phumexiu, Cloda, Luofen Kingdom, and Southern Kingdom nodded seriously.

After the initial adaptation, many of the foreign slaves showed their abilities, and these people were quickly assigned to more relaxed technical positions, which also inspired the rest of the people to follow suit.

Slaves who could only do housework were very cheap in this era, and most of the surviving male slaves were technicians such as craftsmen.

There is currently only one water-powered mill in Lawrence. Only the wheat here on the manor is processed by the water-powered mill, and the rest still use the traditional stone mill.

There were more than a dozen traditional stone mills. Lawrence originally planned to sell them to merchants in the Western Kingdom, but they didn't want them, so he had to keep them for his own use.

Business people feel uncomfortable when encountering this kind of thing. It's not just that you can sell whatever you think can be sold. Buying one and getting one free for some things may seem like it takes up space for others.

Things made of wood are easily damaged, especially large pieces of wood that move at high speeds.

When the water mill was in normal operation, Lawrence led a group of carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, and tinsmiths to make wheels and slots, and make various repair and spare parts.

If there is a problem inside the water wheel or mill, block the water inlet, then lead everyone to solve various problems, and teach these people how to deal with such things.

It's not difficult for those who know it, but it's not difficult for those who don't. In fact, in ancient times, specialized millers were responsible for these things, and professionals can solve these things alone.

It would take a long time for Salil and the others to understand this, but craftsmen who often deal with utensils are born with the ability to understand faster than laymen.

Once you understand the secrets and precautions of wheel rotation, making a car will be much simpler.

People outside the manor are busy harvesting wheat, collecting fuel and grain from the fields, or herding sheep and cattle. In their free time, they will sit in sheds, wooden houses, or under the shade of trees, chat, sleep, play cards, and hang out their clothes.

The people at the bottom of the mountain were busy harvesting wheat. Fleiss and others also borrowed Domu sheep and carts and sickles to go home to harvest wheat.

These people have their own private property, so Lawrence does not take them to eat from a big pot, nor does he expropriate their assets.

Unless they are willing to donate land, except for celebration banquets or wars, eating, drinking and buying clothes will cost money. Even grazing and collecting firewood will have to go outside the territory.

Money can be obtained by fighting, and prices here are very cheap. You can exchange wheat for wine and grain, and there are two opportunities to make a fortune every year.

After harvesting the wheat, Lawrence arranged the use of the land and planted winter vegetable crops such as potatoes and cabbage.

At this time, the weather also started to get cooler. After an autumn rain, the short summer passed.

The autumn in the north is much shorter than outside, so Lawrence arranged for more people to go to Dumu Village to guard against the Wakiri and threats from the sea.

Because of the lack of exchange and communication, when they don't know the movements of the Valkyries, it's like a boat sailing in the deep sea, and they are afraid of most of the shadows under the sea.

The experience of being attacked several times made Lawrence attach great importance to security issues. He not only asked some villagers to expand pasture areas and fields outside the town, but also arranged for people from Water City to collect shellfish, shrimps and crabs from the sea to eat.

The slaves in the Water City regarded this as abuse. They had black bread and multigrain bread to eat, but they did not want to eat fish and shrimp.

In this era, fish, shrimps, crabs and shells are junk food that is worse than rags. If you don’t have something to eat, you won’t eat this kind of junk food.

It’s very troublesome to boil, it can’t be washed clean with sea water, and there’s a damn lack of water and pots at the beach. You’ll die if you eat too much of this stuff, and it’s very troublesome to eat. It tastes very bad after it’s cooked, so you won’t be full at all. abdomen.

Lawrence forced those who were unwilling to carry stones or work hard to catch food in the sea, thereby reducing food consumption and training a group of seafarers and fishermen.

Brielle quickly found Lawrence to convey the voice of the Water City believers who had recently joined the religion.

"The new brothers think this is a bit too cruel. They are all confessing their crimes to me and hope that they will not be allowed to continue eating crabs, shrimps and shells."

"They're okay with eating fish and they're willing to work hard, but hopefully they won't always be bugs with armor."

Lawrence said angrily: "A bunch of lazy guys, then let them help build houses and dig soil, and then feed them black bread!"

"Yes, Master." Brielle felt that this satisfied the hope of Water City, and asked: "Master, some people from Water City have been here for almost half a year. They asked if they can come back after they return?"

"Yes, just like the Durila people, you can bring people over after you go back. New people can eat bread even if they are fishermen. I will no longer force them to eat shelled things from the sea."

"This time, let the people from Water City take us to them, bring the relatives there, and punish the nobles there!"

"Whoever is willing to lead the way will be able to protect their families and lead more people over. Our ships are meant to carry treasures, not idlers."