After almost all of the Trak people were settled.
Valk led Barna and the other knights to Gana on a "business trip" to continue recruiting people.
The weather is getting warmer gradually.
The whole of Wessas and Fort Comoy was busy.
The urban construction plan for the next five years is initially implemented.
The residential area, administrative area, commercial area, etc. are first planned, and the spatial layout and land use of the two cities also need to be reasonably arranged.
There are too many factors to take into account.
Xia Zoe asked Conrad to convene engineers at any time to hold a meeting in the guild to discuss and discuss countermeasures.
Everyone needs to write a detailed and precise plan, which is then compiled by Conrad and handed to him.
After all, the collective strength is like steel, and the wisdom of everyone is like the sun and the moon.
Engineers: Getting bald.
Fifteen days later, after repeated revisions, rejections, and revisions…
Xia Zuoyi finally finalized a complete plan and drawings.
He decided that the first areas to be built in the two cities were the residential areas, the housing problem was solved first, and everything else could be said.
However, for the materials to build the house.
Xia Zoe rejected Conrad's claim that he wanted to use all wood.
"No, let's not talk about Fort Comoy for the time being. Weiss is near the sea. If all wood is used, there is no good preparation for waterproofing and moisture..."
"If things go on like this, the house will be easily corroded by water vapor and also vulnerable to fire, and the service life must be very short."
Besides, the construction volume of housing construction in urban residential areas is not small, and the finished timber will definitely be in short supply.
"No, no." Xia Zuoyi denied again.
Conrad also felt helpless and embarrassed.
He said: "But if you don't use wood, you have to use rammed earth..."
The strength and durability of rammed earth houses are worse, and they are more susceptible to water vapor corrosion than wooden houses, and may even collapse after heavy rain…
Although the laws of the Kingdom of Gadayat did not stipulate that civilians should not use stone materials for construction, it was a convention.
Moreover, civilians could not afford the stones.
If you choose a stone building, the funds that have been roughly calculated now need to be calculated from scratch.
Xia Zuoyi: "If the stone is crushed, and soil and other raw materials are added to it... Can it be made into a new material that can be built?"
-brick.
This world is indeed formed because of a novel as 098 said, resulting in incomplete and incomplete world lines...
Although it is the background of the early Middle Ages in the West, some of the historical trends have great discrepancies and deviations from the actual Middle Ages in the West.
For example, the appearance of red bricks was invented by the ancient Romans very early.
There is no Rome in an overhead world, so not even bricks
As a material suitable for construction, brick has good thermal insulation and air permeability, as well as good water absorption.
The most important thing is that it is very sturdy and not afraid of wind and sun, durable sound insulation, easy to obtain materials, and low cost.
The only problem is that the kiln for burning the bricks also needs to be built.
Xia Zoe gave sufficient hints, and then asked Conrad to go back to find someone to study it in detail.
He originally thought that it might take more than ten days before news came to the castle.
But he did not expect that eight days later, Conrad would come to the castle and say, "Lord Count, the kiln has been built."
Xia Zuoyi raised his eyes in surprise: "So fast?!"
Conrad: "Yes, Lord Count, are you going to take a look inside the city?"
Xia Zuoyi: "Well, let's go."
Since Xia Zuoyi proposed to mix the crushed stone with soil and other materials, Conrad has been thinking about how to make a suitable structure.
He went to the site where the stones were piled up in the city, and accidentally found that the stones were being crushed very fast. After asking a craftsman, he learned that someone had invented a tool to facilitate the crushing of stones.
The craftsman took Conrad to a machine that was half a person tall and about two meters long.
This is a gravel tool consisting of two iron wheels that rotate relative to each other.
The iron wheel has uneven blunt undulations, and the middle of the iron wheel is hollow, which can be inlaid with a crossbar to rotate the iron wheel.
Before using this tool, you need to smash a large stone with a hammer to form a small stone and then throw it into the sunken position between the two iron wheels.
The uneven undulations on the iron wheel will be inlaid together during rotation, so as to crush the stone more and save a lot of labor and effort.
Conrad immediately asked, who invented this tool
Artisan: "It's from Trak."
"They made two such gravel iron wheels over there. We thought it was good and borrowed one for use. We don't know who it is..."
"But President, you should know if you ask in the past."
Conrad personally went to Fort Comoy and successfully found the person who invented the iron wheel.
Later, he found that this person was very smart, and the temporary craftsmen who participated in such a short period of time came up with a lot of gadgets that save energy.
And each tool is cleverly designed.
So, Conrad asked him to study the question raised by Xia Zoe together.
Xia Zoe heard Conrad mention this person’s name on the road.
After meeting, it was determined that he was indeed Renault Massey.
Xia Zuoyi looked at the kiln and every tool, and was secretly amazed that Renault Massey was indeed a talent.
"How did you come up with these things?" he asked.
Renault: "I like to mess around since I was a child... After I grew up, I thought about it every day... I came up with it."
Xia Zoe: "… "
Probably every genius is made up by constant thinking and a little inspiration since childhood.
Conrad said: "Lord Count, the new material you mentioned has also been burned. Here, you can take a look."
He led Xia Zoe to the outside of the kiln, where a pile of failed or burnt bricks were neatly placed on the ground.
Pointing to one of the well-stacked bricks, Conrad said: "For the purpose of shaping, Reynolds made a square mold, each about half the size of an arm."
"We repeated the test several times, and the texture of the last molding is the strongest, comparable to stone."
Speaking of which.
Conrad's face couldn't help showing a look of joy, and he tried his best to tell Xia Zoey about Renault's contribution to the research.
Xia Zuoyi expressed satisfaction and asked, "What reward do you want?"
Renault was stunned for a moment, then rubbed his hands: "I, can I have any reward I want?"
"certainly."
"Then, can I get off, get off..."
Xia Zuoyi looked at his faltering appearance, and couldn't help but say for him, "Do you want to get rid of your slave status?"
Renault's heart jumped, and he nodded involuntarily: "Yes, yes."
Xia Zuoyi: "Yes, you have done a lot of credit this time."
"I've always been fair. To get out of slavery requires enough merit in exchange for you. You've reached the standard."
"From now on, I will notarize you as a free citizen."
Renault was surprised and delighted, not knowing how to keep the expression on his face.
He was completely stunned, his heart was full of unspeakable surprise and excitement.
Renault did not expect that these things that he thought would be of little use in the past could become the exploits he most wanted now.
After all, as an illegitimate child, Renault was often scolded for not making progress, and he spent the whole day studying some scraps that were not on the table.
Xia Zuoyi: "Are you interested in becoming a consultant of the Craftsmen's Guild, all the benefits are favored... Do you want to consider it?"
Renault: And this good thing? !
Of course he wants to!
Zoe Xia: Very good, very good, very good.
Starting today, Renault has officially entered the ranks of "growing bald".
Renault: Just keep smiling.
When the weather started to get hotter, Valk finally returned from Gayner to Vessas.
He brought back a total of more than 350 people, who were placed in the two cities.
When Valk came to the castle to return to his life, he said, "Lord Count, there has been a little disturbance in Gaena, and one of the princes who has the right to inherit has died."
Fernandi was also here, and frowned upon hearing this.
Xia Zuoyi: "How many princes are there in Gaina?"
"I remember that Bruno Green is a direct descendant of King Gaynor, and has the right to inherit, but it is not very likely to inherit, is it?"
Fernandi nodded: "Gaena has a total of three princes."
"The old King Gaina lived a long life. Now he is in his 60s and still on the throne. The second prince died early, and the third prince was crippled when he accidentally fell off a horse."
"Bruno Green is the son of the Third Prince."
Xia Zuoyi: "So, the person who died was the eldest prince?"
The expression on Valk's face was a little weird, and he shook his head and said, "No, the one who died is the third prince."
Fernandi saw it and asked, "Do you suspect that the death of the third prince has something to do with Bruno Green?"
Valcke: "A reasonable doubt."
"Bruno Green has great ambitions. The old king of Gaina has a long life. The eldest prince is not too young, and his health is not good. Now he often needs to find a doctor to diagnose and treat him."
"When I left Gaena with people, there was news from the royal city that the eldest prince was critically ill, and the doctors in the city had been summoned by the knights into the royal palace."
Xia Zuoyi: Okay, there's no help, the eldest prince is definitely going to die.
Valk: "After all the first in line to the throne are dead, there will be fewer people standing in front of Bruno Green."
"The old King Gaina has lived a long life until now, and he should be about to die, so he will naturally be selected from Bruno Green's generation."
If Bruno Green was on the throne...
It will be more difficult for Fernandi to seek revenge.
Two days later.
Gadayat.
A surprising piece of news suddenly came from the royal city of Qais—the old king passed away.
After the king's death, the body was kept in a coffin for three months before being buried.
During these three months, the king's coffin will be placed in the church, and the clergy will personally preside over the funeral for the king, sprinkle holy water on the coffin, and sound the death knell.
The lords of the Gadayat Kingdom need to enter the royal city of Cais to mourn the old King Duke Patch.
Before departure.
098 also put on a small burden again and said to Xia Zuoyi: [Host, I'm going to travel again, come back to bring you a gift, remember to miss me, ah ah.]
Xia Zuoyi: "Pay attention to safety and come back early."
He watched 098 wave the little hand of the match and jumped into the cosmic mailbox, disappearing from the interface of the system.
Judit saw him sitting in a chair in a daze, and couldn't help asking: "Lord Count, how many knights and soldiers do you plan to bring to the royal city this time?"
Xia Zoe thought for a moment: "Fernandi stays in Wessas."
"Valke took Tyler and Barna with me and left, and sent two more platoons of soldiers to follow... No, one platoon followed at a distance, and waited outside the royal city when I entered the city to mourn the king."
Judit was a little puzzled, but nodded and said, "Yes, Lord Count."
Xia Zuoyi: I hope he didn't think too much. It's better not to link the death of the old king Duke with the death of the third prince Gaina...