industrial lord

Chapter 58

In the last rays of sunshine in autumn, faint cooking smoke wafts from the air vent at the top of the house.

The green smoke is like mist, lingering and circling in the valley, and the whole village is filled with a faint fragrance of pine wood.

The bacon smoked with pine wood has a unique flavor, especially the pheasant in the pine forest, which has a faint pine fragrance in the mouth, and is very popular in towns and cities.

At Hozenpoloz’s house, chickens and sausages hung like grapes on wooden poles hanging from the roof beams above the firepit.

Frederick looked at the wooden house curiously. He was not very familiar with the wooden houses in the village, and he thought it would be difficult to build. After asking today, he realized that he was wrong. It is not difficult to build a house that meets the requirements of the villagers.

The houses in the village are all in the same shape, with circular walls with a diameter of six to seven meters and tall and pointed roofs, which look quite like fairy tales.

The process of building a house is relatively simple.

First peel off the bark of the thick wood stakes and put one end on the fire to burn a layer of charcoal. The charcoal end is not easy to rot when inserted in the ground.

After these pillars are inserted in a circle, wrist-thick logs are used to form a wall in the middle, which is about as high as an adult's waist.

The red clay that can be seen everywhere is mixed with hay to form mud, which is applied layer by layer on the walls to seal and keep warm.

Then use a dozen or so long logs to build a tip, and fix it with a circle of wood near the top. This is the main beam of the roof. Between the main beams, use thin wood to build a sub-beam. The first beam of the roof That's it.

First spread a layer of thin wood chips coated with cheap slime glue on the beams for waterproofing, then spread thick hay for insulation, and make a "" structure vent on the top, and the roof is ready.

The interior is simple, just paving with stones, digging a pit in the middle is a firepit, and it is more troublesome to buy furniture.

Dig a drainage ditch around the house outside, and then build a toilet, basically you're done.

Hozenploz finished feeding the ami donkey he was in charge of, and when he returned home, he found Frederick looking curiously at the magic lamp on the beam.

This lamp is the latest dandelion shape, a little more expensive than ordinary magic lamps, and it brightens the house.

Seeing him coming in, Frederick asked, "Is this lamp new?"

Lighting is not an urgent problem for the villagers, and cheap oil lamps are sufficient.

Hozenploz became nervous. The master knew what he was doing before, and he was afraid that he would think he was doing those things again.

"I did some business." Hozenploz said, "I found some herbs on the mountain, dried them, ground them into powder, and sprinkled them with smoke from the stove to kill bugs in the house. The village chief asked me to do it. Come out and sell it to other villages and make some money."

"That day I went to the city with the village chief, thinking that it would be convenient to have such a lamp to take care of the donkey at night, so I bought it."

"On weekdays, I use it for myself, and sometimes the neighbors borrow clothes for one night if they need to sew clothes at night."

Frederick nodded, and when he saw that the mush in the pot was cooked, he asked him to cook.

Dinner is a pot of miscellaneous grains made of barley flour, pea flour, chestnut flour, etc., with some lard and salt added. The taste is indescribable, and now the villagers can only eat this.

Frederick brought some sausages, Hozenploz roasted two, and the rest hung up.

During the meal, Frederick asked, "How do you feel about living here?"

Hozenploz immediately replied: "Thank you for your kindness, my lord. I have a good time here."

Frederick asked again, "How much land did you get?"

Hozenpoloz shook his head and replied, "I don't want much land, I just need a little pasture to feed the donkey."

"The ground here is full of red mud, nothing can grow."

"The village chief said, just grow some vegetables in the field."

"There are a lot of pine trees here. We will plant pine trees in the future and sell timber, rosin, pine oil and pine nuts to make money."

"The village head also said that next spring, he will try to raise chickens and pigs in the village, and he plans to grow mushrooms."

Frederick nodded slightly, and he had a higher opinion of Thomas in his heart.

The area to the south of Wessenland is mostly red soil and limestone mountains, and the cultivation of crops is not very good. There are only two products of pine and lime.

In Frederick's latest plan, next year a cement plant will be built in a place with more limestone in the north, and then the construction experience will be accumulated through the monastery of Archbishop Victor.

"It seems that Thomas is doing well." Frederick said.

Hozenploz echoed: "The village chief is very smart and knows a lot."

He pointed to the bacon on the firepit and continued: "The Harvest Festival will be in a few days. The village head bought chickens early and asked us to make bacon. Selling them in the city two days before the festival can make more money than usual. "

"Wait after Harvest Festival to buy chickens and come back to make bacon, just in time to sell them before Winter Spirit Festival, and earn more than usual."

Frederick nodded with satisfaction.

The Harvest Festival here is held every year on November 11. On this day, the villagers will dress up beautifully and hold animals such as cows, horses, pigs and sheep made of colored straw to parade in the fields to celebrate the harvest of the year.

Winter Spirit Festival is the winter solstice. After this day, the daytime becomes longer and longer. It is the beginning of the New Year for the Illuminati Church and the biggest festival of the year.

The supply of meat before the festival in the city is in short supply, and foods like pine wood-smoked chicken with special flavor are even more expensive.

Frederick said: "Then you can earn a lot this winter."

Hozenploz said: "At least enough to pay off the debt."

Frederick frowned, and asked, "What kind of debt should you pay? Whose?"

He used to make repeated orders to prohibit the use of usury and other means to take advantage of the new residents, and set a maximum limit on loan interest. Now he is a little sensitive when he hears Hozenploz say that he has to repay the debt.

Hozenploz pointed to the roof and said: "When we first came, the village head took our driver to the city to find a man named O, and he credited a few small waterwheels and saws, otherwise our house would be built. Not so fast."

"He also found a friend named Ba, and bought a lot of white things on credit. These things are not afraid of water when they are boiled and painted on wood chips. They are not afraid of water leakage when they are used to make roofs."

"These cost a lot of money. Our village now has to sell wood and bacon to pay back the money."

Frederick quietly drank the last bit of mush in his bowl, thinking that there was nothing wrong with it.

The construction funds of each village are very limited, and only the minimum standard can be guaranteed. Therefore, funds can be raised by selling excess wood cut down during land reclamation to make money.

Thomas just borrowed credit from his contacts at Weissburg University and then slowly repaid the money. There was an additional method of repaying the money by selling bacon, which did not violate relevant regulations.

Frederick put down the empty bowl and asked again, "Are there enough winter clothes?"

Now everyone in the village except Thomas and Gaunt wears their own clothes. Each person has two sets of tights, short-sleeved T-shirt and thick socks, and long pants, long-sleeved T-shirt, waistcoat style A cotton vest, a coat, and a military coat, and a pair of slime shoes.

Because the cloth is purchased from different places and in various colors, only the army coats are made of cheap blue cloth.

"I didn't wear such good clothes in winter before." Hozenploz took his military overcoat out of the box, and Frederick checked it, and the thickness and weight were all acceptable.

Frederick was relieved to see that they had no problem with food, clothing and housing.

(End of this chapter)