Chapter 47 Road Construction

After the autumn harvest, before the snow closed the mountain, Richard led the slaves to start building the road.

Although it was a simple gravel road, the Harland territory was a mountainous and hilly landform, and building the road was very labor-intensive.

Including more than 3,000 old and weak people, it took more than 40 days to build a 30-kilometer-long road.

The road is about four meters wide, with drainage ditches more than one meter deep on both sides, and road-protecting trees transplanted on both sides of the drainage ditch.

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

The road between Wayao Village and Fort Vick has also been built for more than ten kilometers.

Now the road has been built near the No. 2 reclamation camp, and there are only 20 kilometers left to Fort Vick.

The remaining 20 kilometers of road are relatively easy to build.

You only need to climb over two hills 300 to 400 meters high, and the rest are hills 100 to 200 meters or tens of meters high, and there are almost 10 kilometers of flat roads.

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

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

The first snow this year fell late, and the heavy snow came in mid-November, about a month later than normal years.

After the snowfall, Richard saw that the climate was cold and it was no longer suitable for outdoor work.

Richard asked the elderly and children to go home to rest, and the strong slaves still needed to work and go to the brick kiln to burn bricks.

By the autumn of this year, the brick kiln workers' brick-burning technology was still improving, and they could burn 100,000 bricks at a time, with a success rate of about 40%.

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

Despite this, there is still a gap in bricks.

Especially the construction of Fort William, it seems like a bottomless pit, and bricks are never enough.

Seeing that the production of bricks has increased greatly, Powell decided to cover the city wall with a layer of bricks.

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

Covering it with a layer of bricks will make it look much more beautiful and can also enhance defense.

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

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

"Master Richard, Bobby has improved the production process again. I want you to go to the brick kiln to see and give me some advice on the process."

Richard was meeting with Powell in Fort William to formulate a project schedule. A slave walked quickly, bowed respectfully to the two noble masters, and whispered.

Bobby is the deputy director of the brick kiln factory and was also a slave before. In the production of the brick kiln factory, Bobby stood out from a group of slaves.

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

Richard originally planned to take Bobby as an 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 others. Therefore, Richard can only appoint him as the deputy director of the brick kiln factory in charge of production and work with the director Rooney.

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

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

"It seems that Bobby and Rooney have a conflict. He asked me to go to the brick kiln factory. On the surface, he wanted me to guide the process, but secretly he probably wanted me to stand up for him and get my support."

Although the slave did not say it clearly, Richard knew the hidden thoughts clearly.

When people get along with each other, there will inevitably be conflicts of this or that kind. As long as it is not for personal gain, Richard is not willing to pursue it.

If there is no conflict below, and they breathe out of the same nostril, Richard will doubt the loyalty of the below.

Moreover, in this world where great power belongs to oneself, the intrigues between ordinary people are simply not on the table.

If the noise is too much, it will arouse Richard's disgust, and it will bring trouble to oneself.

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

Richard is self-aware. Although he often played in the brick kiln factory when he was a child and was very familiar with the structure of the kiln factory, he built the brick kiln factory by imitating others, but he did not understand the process of burning bricks at all.

How to place bricks, the temperature, time, and fire of burning bricks, and various process details, Richard has no idea at all.

Even his uncle who runs a brick kiln factory only knows a rough idea of ​​the process, otherwise he would not spend a lot of money to hire masters who stack bricks and burn fire.

On the contrary, Bobby is very talented in this aspect. He has burned hundreds of kilns of 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 burning bricks to about 40%.

In the previous life of Blue Star, if the ignition master had this success rate in burning bricks, the boss would be beaten to death.

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

According to Richard's understanding, there is no wheeled brick kiln factory in the Dawn Continent.

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

The entire Black River County, including the royal territory, has only established six brick kilns in more than a dozen baronies.

The output of a brick kiln factory in Harland Territory is about twice that of other nobles in Black River County.

Ordinary brick kilns are considered advanced productivity in the Dawn Continent.

Those who master brick-making technology are all noble lords.

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

The speed of knowledge dissemination is very slow, and those who master knowledge will cherish it.

Richard has not found a saint like Confucius in history who spreads knowledge and recruits disciples.

There are only very few church schools in such a large territory and such a large population as the Kingdom of Grant.

The knowledge taught in church schools is usually simple knowledge such as writing and arithmetic.

The Stopa family had an accident and lost the books recording the production process, and there was no solution.

This is the general situation in the Dawn Continent.

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

The Dawn Continent has extraordinary power. Unless you can become a powerful god, far surpassing your opponent, you have the power to change the world.

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

So Richard can only start with himself and try not to behave too abnormally. However, the three views formed in his previous life sometimes make him incompatible with this world.