Chapter 125 Municipal Construction

"What about the people who sent it? Is there any classification statistics?" Roland asked.

"Yes, please see below," the assistant minister pointed to the bottom of the roll, "there are a total of 1,100 people who have been sent to Border Town. Most of them are serfs, and they have been placed outside the town according to your request. Thirty-five craftsmen People have been allocated to Karl to command, and their residences are concentrated in the "New Civilization Area," Barov said the awkward term, "But Your Highness, is this okay? I remember you were originally meant for witches. "

"The guards I sent out to spread the gossip have not returned yet. The progress of this matter is slower than I imagined. Let the house be used by the craftsmen and their families first, and then build it later." In Roland's plan, Border Town is All of them need to be refurbished once, and the wooden houses and mud bungalows have to be converted into brick houses, while leaving spacious streets instead of the current situation where most of the alleys are only big enough for two people to pass side by side.

"Yes," Barov nodded, "Your Highness, I heard that cattle and sheep will be brought over there?"

"Well, but not now, I specially asked them to send it a few days later, together with the herdsmen. To the west of the city wall, isn't there a grassland between the Impassable Forest and the Impassable Mountains? It should be good to change it into a pasture. The city wall first exploded two There is a gap for people to pass through, after all it is only useful during the Demon Moon."

Now that there are people and money, the bottleneck that restrained the development of Border Town has temporarily disappeared, and Roland can finally let go.

He called the guard outside the door and ordered: "Go and find Karl from the administrative office. I guess if he is not in the mine, he must be in the wooden shed area outside the town."

Half an hour later, Carl walked into the office, bent down and saluted, "Your Highness."

It has been nearly half a year since I first met this member of the Masons Association. After being recruited into the Border Town City Hall, he can be regarded as the busiest official in the past six months. residential area. Thirty-five years old, now his temples are showing a few strands of silver, and his skin has turned darker, but his mental outlook is much stronger than when I first met him, and his voice is full of air.

It is indeed a truth that the environment can change a person quickly. Half a year ago, he was a mason who carefully concealed himself and changed his appearance as a refugee. Now that he has experienced project command and personally in charge of the project, he has the demeanor of a high-ranking person in his gestures and gestures. But what Roland admired the most was his willingness to sacrifice for others.

Roland smiled and nodded, "Sit at the table." He handed the few sketches he had just drawn to the opposite side, "Look. I need you to build something new."

"This is a warehouse, well, the bottom is elevated to effectively prevent moisture," Carl quickly scanned the first sketch, and looked at it for a while when he turned to the second, "This...is a stove?"

"That's right, you need to build more than five kilns on the north slope of the mountain to calcine cement and fire clay bricks, choose a site that is open, and consider the location of the material transportation channel and the storage yard. In addition, more kilns need to be expanded.”

"Yes." He turned to the last sketch and frowned. "This... seems to be a ditch? No, there is a roof and a retaining wall on it... It looks like a pool behind. Your Highness, I don't quite understand."

Roland smiled, "This is the toilet, and it is also your highest priority construction project."

"Toilet?" Carl thought for a while, "Your Highness, where do you plan to build it? There are toilet buckets in your castle, and the attendants will be responsible for disposing of these buckets on a regular basis. Most of the villagers don't need this kind of thing, they directly outside the house It can be solved. The same is true for serfs, just discharge it into the Chishui River, and the river water will take away the filth.”

That's why I smelled a strong stench when I docked today. Roland shook his head to drive away the unpleasant memories, "That's why we need to change this bad habit."

"Uh...bad habits?" Carl seemed a little confused.

For civilians who are used to defecating everywhere, they naturally don't understand how beautiful a world would be if they wandered around without stepping on landmines, Roland slandered in his heart. "In short, you can do it according to the sketch. I have already marked the approximate size, and I used the length determined before. The location is chosen near the wooden shed area, and at least four of them will be built, two by two next to each other. Except for the ditch in the middle which is built with bricks, the outer sheds, roofs, and partitions are all built with wooden boards, which can save a lot of cement.”

"Your Highness, you want to gather them together...that," Karka paused for a moment, obviously he felt that talking about such filthy facts in front of His Highness would insult the dignity of the royal family, "But what if they don't go in?"

"I'll issue an order for them to obey. You can organize the manpower to implement it."

"In that case, I will follow your will," he nodded and said, "Your Highness Roland, I have one more thing to report to you."

"you say."

"After the Masonry Association was forced to disband, many people chose to leave the capital like me. I want to write a few letters to recruit those members of the Masonry Association whose whereabouts I know to come to Border Town. They have their own strengths, such as you As for the kiln mentioned, Losia is very good at it. Your Highness, I don’t know..."

"No problem at all," Roland said immediately, "It's okay to recruit them all to reorganize the Masons' Guild. The salary will be calculated according to the time of the Masons' Guild. Those with rich experience can be included in the city hall."

"Thank you for your generosity," Carl bowed.

After the mason left, he began to write about the management of serfs and the system of exorcism.

The population of Border Town will soon usher in a peak period of growth. If it has been relying on food imports, the town will be in a precarious situation if there is a natural disaster or people cut off the commercial roads. Therefore, in addition to industry, agriculture must also develop rapidly to achieve self-sufficiency in food production as soon as possible.

The prince believed that as long as a promotion path was set up, these serfs would soon be transformed into active farmers. With seeds improved by leaves, the farmland beside the Chishui River would turn into a sea of ​​golden wheat ears in summer.

The request for priority construction of toilets is also prepared to coordinate with agricultural development—after having people, land and seeds, the last link that needs to be supplemented is fertilizer.

Of course, Roland knew that it was very troublesome to use human and animal fertilizers. It required regular cleaning of the storage pools and manual composting, which was far less convenient than chemical fertilizers. But the chemical industry doesn’t even have a clue now, so he had to use this kind of pure natural organic fertilizer instead—at least human and animal fertilizer has been tested by time. Until the 20th century, this traditional method of fertilization could still be seen in some rural areas.

And people in the different world know very little about fertilizers. Most people think that manure is a kind of filth. Apart from being used to disgust others, they have never thought that it is actually very useful. Therefore, in the annual cultivation, farmers still adopt the three-round cultivation system, dividing a piece of cultivated land into three parts, which are used in turn for spring sowing, autumn sowing and fallow cultivation, so as to avoid exhausting soil fertility through continuous cultivation.