Lord Harland

Chapter 41 Wheeled Brick Kilns
During the recent period, Li Cha and Powell's uncle and nephew visited every inch of the territory.

Richard also drew detailed maps.

They also went deep into the Eagle Mountain Range to scout the nearby terrain and survey resources.

After more than a year of war experience, plus the performance of buying slaves this time.

Richard's ability has been recognized by the main members of the Harland family.

William, Powell, Bernie and other elders negotiated and gave Richard full authority to manage the territory
Although the territory of Harland is in the wild, there are many useful resources in the territory.

Giant logs tens of meters high can be found everywhere, and if they can be transported out, they can be sold for a lot of money in Heihe Fort.

But it is very difficult for the Harland family to build more than [-] kilometers of roads.

To develop a barren territory, the most important tasks are logging, planting, and burning bricks.

The territory of the Harland family is dominated by mountains and hills, with only a few riverside valleys suitable for reclaiming farmland.

According to Li Cha's calculations, there are only about [-] hectares of flat land in the territory.

The Harland family's territory covers an area of ​​1460 square kilometers, and only [-] square kilometers of flat land can be reclaimed, accounting for about [-]%.

70.00% of the [-] hectares of flat land is dry land.

The paddy field is only 2 hectares, which is more than [-] mu.

The climate in the north is not too dry. According to Li Cha's estimation, the annual precipitation is about 600 millimeters.

The yield of one mu of dry land is very low, and the yield of drought-resistant crops is about 120 catties per mu.

The yield of paddy fields is higher, and the yield of grains such as wheat and barley can reach 300 catties per mu.

Even in a bumper harvest year, all these lands are reclaimed, and the annual grain output is about 3500 tons, which can support only [-] people.

In mountainous territories, the carrying capacity of the population is naturally insufficient.If it is a plain area, such a large territory can support 10,000+ people.

The 900 hectares of land reclaimed this year are all paddy fields. If the harvest is good, [-] tons of grain can be harvested.

There are already more than 4000 slaves in the territory, the elderly and children account for half of the population, and 900 tons of grain can barely eat enough.

In order to give full play to the productive enthusiasm of the slaves, Li Cha stipulated that the slaves be granted the status of freedmen after five years.

All the slaves are given the land, and everyone, regardless of adults, children or old people, will be given five acres of land.

In addition, Li Cha also formulated a tax collection system. The grain tax is 100 catties per mu for paddy fields and 40 catties for dry land.

In a disaster year, the tax will be reduced or exempted.

Li Cha announced the formulated provisions on the spot and read them out to all the slaves.

For the general lords in Chenxi Continent, they usually receive [-]% to [-]% of the agricultural tax.

The lord's warehouse was full of grain, and the serf's family starved to death and fled into the wilderness. This situation abounds.

The lord who collects [-]% of the tax can already be called benevolent.

Li Cha's agricultural tax is only set at [-]%, which can be said to be very rare in the history of Chenxi Continent, and he can be called a benevolent lord.

After the agricultural tax was enacted, Li Cha was praised by all the slaves.In addition, he had used healing techniques to save the lives of many slaves, and his prestige among the serfs had almost reached its peak.

After the farming was completed, Richard dispatched most of the slaves to start logging.

A small number of able-bodied slaves with the elderly and children began to build brick kilns to burn bricks.

All kinds of buildings in the territory are inseparable from bricks.

Several of the nobles in Gerda Province have mastered the technique of burning bricks. The castles in this area are basically all bricks and stones.

Some of the old ones are often made of stone, and most of the new castles are made of bricks.

Mining stone requires far more labor than burning bricks.

The most important thing is that Li Cha doesn't have many masons in his hands, so he can only choose to burn bricks.

The brick kiln was built near a clay field, halfway up the mountain.

Because the roads have not been repaired, it is very difficult to transport various materials.

Li Cha took the slaves and lived in tents every day, eating and sleeping in the open.

Apart from eating a little better, Li Cha works like a slave every day, which is also very hard.

The hard work was done by the strong slaves, while the old and the children had an easier job.

Children over the age of six have to undertake heavy work every day.

Although he has been in this world for six years, it is still difficult for Li Cha to integrate into such a real environment.

Whenever late at night, he would think of his past life, want to play games, watch movies, watch videos, listen to novels, think about relatives and friends, parents and family members in his previous life.It's a pity that he can't go back to that stable and peaceful world.

With a labor force of 4000 people, it took [-] to build Fort William.

These thousand slaves are all young and middle-aged slaves, accounting for almost half of the middle-aged slaves.

After three months of hard work, the foundation of the castle was almost finished.

The castle has been named Fort William and is located on the mountainside on the side of the valley.

The castle wall is going to be built 16 meters high and three meters wide.The inside is rammed earth, and the outside is covered with blue bricks.

Once Fort William is built, this valley passage can be locked and the pressure on Platos relieved.

Entering the Eagle Mountain Range through this valley passage, you can also attack the rear of the orc army, which is a new strategic point in the northern region.

After repairing about two kilometers of road, Li Cha started building brick kilns with hundreds of slaves.

Before Li Cha traveled through time, there was a relative in his hometown who opened a brick kiln. When he was a child, he often went to his relative's house to find his cousin to play with, and he knew the structure of the brick kiln very well.

The brick kiln is located near the clay soil for the convenience of soil extraction.

Richard mobilized some stonemason slaves from Powell, first made thick stone bricks, and then directed the slaves to lay the kiln bottom and build the kiln walls.

After two or three days of busy work, the bottom of the kiln and the firepit have been paved, and the kiln wall is more than half completed.

The next projects include kiln door, kiln door tunnel, chimney, flue, slope feeding port, ceiling, etc.
In addition, it is necessary to make clay adobes and build adobe shade sheds.

The work was busy until July, when the brick kiln was successfully put into operation.

Although Bluestar is only an adobe kiln, it is a backward production capacity in the backward production capacity.

However, in the Dawn Continent, wheeled brick kilns appeared for the first time in the Dawn Continent.

The 15-meter-high chimney is already a spectacle in Harland's territory.

After the brick kiln is built, the bricks are fired immediately.

There are more than a dozen kiln mouths, each kiln mouth is connected to each other, and can burn bricks without interruption.

Every three or four days, 25 large red bricks can be fired.

Brick firing also requires technology. The timing of brick firing and the order of stacking kilns are very particular.If you don't have experience, the success rate of burning bricks will be very low
At the beginning, the brick-burning slaves had little experience, and Li Cha didn't understand the details. Of the 25 bricks, only [-] to [-] were usable.

Burning a brick requires more than 10,000+ catties of fuel.

Li Cha refused to cut down the big tree.Cutting down shrubs and collecting branches and leaves requires hundreds of old people and children to collect them for two or three days.

Fortunately, labor in Chenxi Continent is not worth much, otherwise, they would have lost all their pants.

Most of the slaves now live in damp and cold tents.

Fortunately, there wasn't much rain in Harland's territory, otherwise the slaves would all be sick.

It was already high summer, and it was urgent to build houses for the slaves.

It was less than three months before the beginning of winter, and the winter in the northern region was very cold. If they stayed in tents all winter, half of the slaves would freeze to death next year.

With 3 to [-] yuan of bricks, three to four brick and wood houses can be built.

If a house is crammed with a dozen slaves, a hundred or so slaves can live in a house in a week.

With the increase of experience, the output of bricks will also be greatly improved.Keep up with the development of the territory.

(End of this chapter)