The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 78 Drainage Systems
Since the establishment of the investigation brigade, these Shushu, who are known as the most elite in the entire love education camp, have been enjoying the treatment of emperors.

At least, that's how it seemed to the other ratmen.

Every morning, Ickert ordered all the staff to lie down in concealment, and they stayed there until noon.

In the eyes of other rats, just lying there every day, requiring neither training nor labor, and having a food supply far exceeding that of ordinary ratmen, is simply heaven!
But what they don't know is that Ickert has worked hard to train the will and patience of the mice. For this, he inserted a wooden pole in the place where the sun shines, and neatly stacked 12 yuan around it. Stone.

At the same time, tell all the ratmen who have entered the hidden state that as long as the shadow of the wooden pole points to a stone, they can rest.

However, if you want to really end the training, you must wait for Ickert's order.

And their clan chief would start working when the reconnaissance brigade started their covert training, and would sit on a chair beside him to give instructions to his subordinates and supervise the progress of various tasks.

If any brigade is slow and out of the ordinary, he will ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to punish them with a kind face, and those who are serious will be directly dragged into the dungeon.

In this way, in front of the reconnaissance brigade, three ratmen were brought to Ickert, and then dragged towards the castle while howling.

Don't know what the final outcome will be.

The plight of the rebels frightened these elite rat people all the time, making them concentrate on training honestly.

The clan head is always diligent in government affairs, arranges all rewards and punishments in the territory in an orderly manner, and never misses any important thing.

But for the Ratmen of the scouting brigade, their clan chief was a bit too diligent.

Whenever the Ratmen watched helplessly that the shadow had covered and even surpassed the stone, Ickert was still busy dealing with the affairs of the territory.

The Ratmen couldn't rest because of this, but this was not the end. For the Ratmen, the most unbearable thing was hunger.

When the black hunger is severe enough, the rats may even be able to eat dirt.

In fact, one mouse did eat dirt.

But only when he first started eating, Ickert noticed the rat's movements.

Then the mouse experienced the same treatment as the cave monitor lizard, a new territorial torture called "bacon hanging".

At this time, he was being hung upside down on the tree, and the soil he ate was spat out along with the acid water in his stomach.

But the effect of black hunger still hasn't faded. The mouse is constantly trying to bend its waist, trying to eat its own mouse and relieve its hunger.

This is just crazy.

The other squirrels were more or less affected by hunger, and began to become restless. Fortunately, the black hunger was more of a physiological effect, which gave the squirrels some room to overcome.

The only thing that tormented the rat was the endless training stop time.

Generally speaking, no matter how busy the lord is, he will finish dealing with today's affairs around one o'clock, but today is a bit abnormal.

Just after the Minister of Internal Affairs Yarrow left, the Stormrat of the first brigade came up together with the carpenters.

"My lord, this is the bamboo we harvested. According to your request, the center has been pounded out."

Old Kent held the sawn hollow bamboo poles and said that the length of these bamboo poles exceeded the width of the field ridges in the territory.

"That's good. I'm going to use these things to lay the water supply pipes in the field. You try to select these bamboos, and put the pipes of the same thickness into categories for easy access."

Eckert said with satisfaction that the water conservancy system is the core of farming, and now that bamboo is available, there is a way to obtain pipes in large quantities.

"But my lord, there is still too much water inside these bamboos, and insects may grow if they are used directly. I suggest taking them to the sun to dry first.
Judging from the current weather conditions in the territory, it will dry out in about two or three days, and the pipes that have been dried will definitely last longer. "

"Your proposal is not bad, but we don't have that much time, so, is your lime enough?"

"There is still enough lime, and we have been trying to harvest it, but my lord, the lime is enough for the pool, but the pool is not enough. Currently, the pool is still soaked with wood that has been processed in the past. It will take time to build a new pool!"

"Then change the method."

Drainage and irrigation systems need to be done as quickly as possible, Eckert said, without delays in dealing with plumbing.

"The first batch of pipes was laid directly and marked for subsequent replacement. As for the second batch, they were carried to the remaining barn in the village, dried and smoked uniformly, and then the last batch Bamboo is placed in a suitable place to dry,

In this way, it will take about three days. Is three days enough for you to complete the pipeline processing and installation simultaneously? "

"I can't draw a conclusion, my lord. I need to know exactly how you want us to lay out the drainage pipes."

"Of course it can."

Ickert then told old Kent his idea of ​​laying pipelines. The fields in the territory are all small fields on one side, and there are no particularly wide roads between the fields.

Therefore, Quanling's water control system simply uses the principle of a connector to pass bamboo pipes through the field ridge and arrange them at the same height, so that the water level of the entire field is kept at a depth suitable for the growth of water wheat.

As for the drainage system of the field, a cross-shaped bottom ditch is dug directly in the field, and thick pipes are used to connect the bottom ditch of the field.

These drainage pipes will be blocked with mud first, and can be used directly when needed.

A sufficient number of water control pipes and drainage pipes must also be ensured between each field to prevent the accumulation of water from being discharged in time due to too much precipitation.

Around the outermost periphery of the field, Ickert also plans to dig a drainage ditch, which is planned to lead to the lower reaches of the Vanvna River, at a certain height from the river surface, to prevent backwatering.

After the overall plan was laid out, old Kent also understood Ickert's intentions, and the old man patted his chest to ensure that he could handle it well.

"My lord, this is a very good plan. Three days is definitely enough, and we have already collected a sufficient amount of bamboo. As long as you agree to lend me your ratman, there will be enough people to help you quickly." It will be done soon."

"Okay, then I will leave this matter to you. If you encounter any difficulties or need anything, just come to me and I will arrange for you. In short, things must be done well."

Ickert said with satisfaction, unknowingly, the two had talked in the afternoon, the rats were really hungry and thirsty, so they didn't stay with old Kent anymore, and decided to let the rats have a meal first.

Old Kent walked out of the investigation brigade, and said to the carpenter beside him with emotion:
"Hey, apart from a few Liao Liao kind city officials, I haven't seen any lord who cares so much about his own farming!"

"Yeah yeah."

Another carpenter nodded.

"Those master knights and master mages only link food production with land and farmers, and they never bother to work with mud legs.
If you want more food, you can find more farmers and cultivate more land, but you never thought about building more windmills and digging more convenient canals.

If there is no food, it is said that the farmers are not good at planting. It is blamed that no one becomes a farmer. They never thought of doing more for the farmers. It is the fault of the farmers even if the animals in the castle are lost!
The same is true of the greedy lords in those empires. They only thought that they could increase their income by collecting more farmers’ rent. They never thought about growing more grain per mu of land.

Otherwise, why did I have to learn carpentry from you back then?It is because the lords think that the carpenters can still do some work and produce some useful things, instead of producing the food they are used to and can't eat up like farmers.

Seeing Lord Lord now, I seem to see the light. Compared with those bastards nesting in the castle, Lord Ikert's virtue is as dazzling as the sun!
With such a lord around, why don't we worry about living a good life? "

After the carpenter finished speaking, he turned to the Ratman and said:

"You guys, you really don't know that you are living well when you are full! If I were you, I would definitely enshrine the lord as a saint in the church!"

Ratman: "."

(End of this chapter)