Working Prophet

Although brick kilns and bricklayers cannot be found in the Western Region, fortunately there are still many carpenters.

Basically every village has people who can do carpentry work. However, in Ilea's territory, ordinary people have a very bad impression of lizard people.

More or less, some of their relatives or friends died at the hands of the lizard men, and they both hated and feared these bandits who lived in the swamp.

Even though Li Yu had asked the lizard people to take off the giant lizard heads that could be worn on their bodies so that they would not look much different from ordinary humans in appearance, when they heard that they were going to work in the land where the lizard people lived, , even if Li Yu was willing to offer double the reward, no one was willing to respond.

In the end, Li Yu could only find five carpenters from the Black Rock City next door, plus the assistants they brought, a total of twelve people.

After some testing, Li Yu retained two of the carpenters who were good at craftsmanship and honest enough, as well as the three assistants they brought. The remaining people paid a hard fee and asked Ilea to send someone to do the work. They sent it back.

Li Yu hoped that the two carpenters and their assistants could stay for a long time.

Talents are the most scarce at all times, especially those with professional skills.

The lizard people looked at the per capita carpenter and built a tree house. The whole people participated, and it was full of enthusiasm. Anyone can help, but they took a wild route. Nothing can be done except wooden tools.

There is still a lot of gap between Li Yu's request.

In comparison, the two carpenters were much more reliable. One of them was a human being in his early forties, because his father was a carpenter, and he had learned a good craft from childhood.

The other person is a half-orc, who is exactly one hundred years old this year. When he is strong, he can work as hard as two people.

Both of them have participated in the construction of the castle. They are mainly responsible for building the surrounding scaffolding, various temporary shed wooden frames, and arches that can support arches. Among them, the human has also presided over the repair of bridges. It's a cinch.

They also carry a complete set of tools, including hammers, axes, saws and chisels.

Li Yu is still the old way, throwing money at it.

They were offered a price that was double their usual income, and they could get two days off for every five days, in exchange for them settling down permanently on this land.

Both of them were obviously moved.

Among them, the half-orc carpenter nicknamed Nine Fingers quickly agreed, while the rest of the middle-aged people seemed a little hesitant.

Black Rock City and Green Field were not far away, and he had heard about what happened here, even though the man named Merlin had repeatedly assured him that the crisis of the lizard people had been properly resolved.

In the future, no one would rush out of the swamp to burn, kill and loot around here, but it was about him and the safety of his relatives, so he couldn't be careless.

In addition, there is another point that he is very concerned about, that is, there are no believers of the Silver Moon Goddess in this land, and all the people living here are pagans, and they believe in a strange god named Saturday.

This made the middle-aged carpenter very uneasy.

Li Yu could understand this uneasiness, so he went to Taobao and spent fifty-five yuan to buy a wood plane and gave it to the middle-aged carpenter as a housewarming gift.

The latter was soon deeply shocked by this small tool that can easily smooth the surface of wood, and was fascinated by it. He held it in his arms day and night, and wanted to plan wherever he went.

Eventually he agreed to stay.

In addition to the three assistants brought by the two, there were five carpenters in the territory, and Li Yu assigned fifty lizardmen to help them, forming five carpentry teams.

On the other side, the designer contacted by Li Yu also sent over the finished design.

In all his years as a designer, he has never received such a strange order.

As soon as the customer came up, he stated that he wanted a brick-wood structure instead of using reinforced concrete as building materials, which is the most common building material. How outrageous.

But the latter request made him startled. He didn't need to design electricity and running water, nor did he need toilets and bathrooms, but the kitchen needed a chimney, and the flue had to be connected to the sleeping kang in the bedroom.

The designer who saw it took it back to his childhood, thinking that he might have met a fellow villager. Isn't this design the same as the Northeast Kang in his hometown?

He couldn't help but become enthusiastic in his words, and at the same time couldn't help but ask another question out of professionalism, "Boss, what are you going to do with this toilet?"

Li Yu replied, "I'm going to build a public toilet outside. Well, one that can be shared by more than a dozen households."

The designer dreamed back to his childhood again, and immediately understood, "Aqua toilet! Then don't look for someone else to boss, I will give you a copy of the design drawing of the aqua toilet. These things are everywhere, just treat it as a friend, but Do you really not want water and electricity?”

Dry toilets and heated kangs are relatively common even in rural areas now. However, these days there are not many places without water and electricity, especially electricity. Many deep mountain ravines have wires inserted into them.

Li Yu didn't explain, and just continued typing, "No, please make the design drawings and send them to me first. If there are no problems, I will come back to you when building a public bathhouse."

Although there were still many doubts in his mind, the designer sent the first version of the design plan to Li Yu two days later. After reading it, Li Yu put forward several modifications.

After the designer made further changes as required, Li Yu asked him a few more questions a day later. However, this time there were no revisions. Most of them were related to the specific construction, and some were very naive.

The designer answered patiently, and Li Yu finally expressed his satisfaction.

So not long after, the designer packaged and sent over the complete design plan, including land size, building area, cost estimate, construction parameters, various architectural drawings, structural drawings and water supply and drainage drawings.

Li Yu also readily paid the balance.

Overall, this was a transaction that both parties were very satisfied with. Although the designer felt that the client's request was a bit strange, he didn't take it too seriously.

At this time, he had no idea that this was just the beginning of a long collaboration between the two of them. In the future, the things the other party asked him to help design would only become more outrageous each time.

And his self-consciously mediocre design works will soon be popular throughout the Bratis continent, worshiped by countless stonemasons and carpenters, and even lead a huge artistic trend.

Of course, these are things for later.