Lord Harland

Chapter 47

After the autumn harvest, before the heavy snow closed the mountains, Li Cha led the slaves to start building roads.

Although it is a simple gravel road, Harland's territory is mountainous and hilly, and building roads is very labor-intensive.

Counting more than 3000 old and weak people, it took more than 40 days to build a [-]-kilometer-long road.

The road is about four meters wide, and a drainage ditch more than one meter deep has been dug on both sides, and road protection trees have been transplanted on both sides of the drainage ditch.

Now the road from Fort William to Wayao Village has been repaired.

The road between Wayao Village and Vickburg has also been repaired for more than ten kilometers.

Now the road has been repaired to the vicinity of the No. [-] reclamation camp, and there are only [-] kilometers away from Fort Vic.

The remaining [-] kilometers of roads are relatively easy to repair.

You only need to climb over two 400-meter-high hills, and the rest are hills with a height of 200 meters and tens of meters, and there are almost ten kilometers of flat roads.

The southernmost ten-kilometer road is located in Baron Stopa's territory, and the cooperation of Baron Sophia is needed to build roads in Baron Stopa's territory.

Based on Li Cha's understanding of Sophia, she will never object to this matter, and will send slaves to cooperate with Li Cha to build the road.

This year's first snow fell relatively late, and the heavy snow came late in mid-November, about a month later than normal.

After the snow fell, Li Cha saw that the weather was cold and it was no longer suitable for field work.

Li Cha asked the elderly and children to go home to rest, and the strong slaves still needed to work, so they went to the brick kiln factory to burn bricks.

By the fall of this year, brick kiln workers were still making progress in their brick-burning technology, and they could burn 10 yuan of bricks at a time, with a success rate of about 40%.

In one month, the brick kiln can burn 100 million bricks.

Still, the brick still has gaps.

Especially the construction of Fort William seems to be a bottomless pit, and there are never enough bricks.

Seeing that the production of bricks had increased greatly, Powell decided to wrap a layer of bricks on the city wall.

The city wall built in front is made of stone foundation and clay city wall. Although it is very strong, it is not beautiful.

Wrapped with a layer of bricks, it looks much more beautiful, and it can also enhance defense.

Now the output of the brick kiln has doubled, and the houses for the slaves have been built.

Richard decided to support Powell. By November of this year, one-sixth of the brick wall had been built.

"Master Richard, Bobby has improved the production process again, and I want you to visit the brick kiln factory and give pointers on the process."

Richard was having a meeting with Powell in Fort William to formulate a project schedule, when a slave walked quickly, bowed respectfully to the two noble lords, and said in a low voice.

Bobby is the deputy director of the brick kiln factory and a former slave.In the production of the brick kiln, Poppy stood out from a crowd of slaves.

He has improved the craftsmanship several times, increased the production efficiency of the brick kiln factory, won the approval of Richard, and has gotten rid of slavery and regained his freedom.

Li Cha originally planned to follow Bobby's example and appoint him as the director of the brick kiln factory.

But Bobby is not good at management. Although he is very smart, he lacks the ability to communicate with people, so Li Cha can only be appointed as the deputy factory director in charge of production of the brick kiln factory, and work with the factory director Rooney.

Rooney is a freeman of Black River Fort. He has served the Harland family for many years and is Madam Ola's business assistant.

The two worked well together in the brick kiln factory. The efficiency of the brick kiln factory has been continuously improved in the past two years, which has supported the construction of the territory well.

"It seems that Bobby and Rooney have conflicts. He asked me to go to the brick kiln factory. On the surface, he wanted me to give advice on the craftsmanship, but secretly he wanted me to stand for him and gain my support."

Although the slave didn't say it clearly, Li Cha was very clear about his hidden thoughts.

Getting along with people is bound to be accompanied by such and such conflicts, as long as it is not for private reasons, Li Cha is not willing to pursue it.

If there were no contradictions below, Li Cha would doubt the loyalty of the below if he vented his breath through one nostril.

What's more, in this world where great power belongs to oneself, the intrigue among ordinary people cannot be brought to the fore at all.

If the disturbance is too violent, if it arouses Li Cha's disgust, he will ask for trouble instead.

It is difficult for nobles to be punished for killing ordinary people.

Li Cha has self-knowledge. Although he often played in the brick kiln factory when he was a child, he was very familiar with the structure of the kiln factory. He built the brick kiln factory according to cats and tigers, but he didn't understand the craft of firing bricks at all.

How to arrange the bricks, the temperature, time, heat, and various technical details of the bricks, Li Cha has no idea at all.

Even the uncle who runs a brick kiln factory knows the basics of craftsmanship, otherwise he would not spend a lot of money to hire masters who stack bricks and fire fires.

On the contrary, Bobby is very talented in this area. He has fired hundreds of kiln bricks in the past two years, and has accumulated profound experience. Otherwise, he can improve the process many times and increase the success rate of brick firing to about 40%.

On the Blue Star in the previous life, the success rate of the ignition master firing bricks would make the boss smash his head.

But in Dawn Continent, Bobby is already the best talent.

According to Li Cha's knowledge, there is no wheeled brick kiln factory in Chenxi Mainland.

The wheeled brick kiln factory in Harland Territory has a production capacity equivalent to ten ordinary brick kilns.

In the entire Heihe County, including the territory directly under the royal family, there are more than a dozen baronies, and six brick kiln factories have been established.

A brick kiln factory in the territory of Harland, the output is about twice that of other nobles in Heihe County.

Ordinary brick kilns are considered advanced productive forces in Chenxi Continent.

Those who master the technology of firing bricks are all noble lords.

In this world, the nobles have an extremely serious monopoly on knowledge, and they only communicate within the family.

The speed of knowledge transmission is very slow, and those who have knowledge will cherish it.

From history, Richard has not found a saint like Confucius who spread knowledge and recruited disciples.

In a territory as large as the Grant Kingdom, with such a large population, there are only very few church schools.

The knowledge taught in church schools is usually based on simple knowledge such as words and arithmetic.

The Stopa family had an accident and lost the books recording the production process, so they couldn't find a solution.

This is the general situation in Dawn Continent.

If you want to change the status quo and get rid of people's deep-rooted cognition, the only way is violent revolution.

Dawn Continent has extraordinary power, unless you can become a powerful god, far surpassing your opponents, you will have the power to change the world.

Even the Goddess of Dawn is not the only one in this plane.

So Li Cha can only start from himself, try not to let himself behave too out of line.But the stereotyped views of the previous life sometimes make him out of tune with this world.

(End of this chapter)