CH 32
Almost all Traks were settled.
Walker led Barnard and the other knights to Gaynor on a “business trip” to continue recruiting people.
The weather is gradually getting warmer.
The entire Wissas and Fort Comoy began to get busy.
The plan for urban construction in the next five years has been initially implemented.
Residential areas, administrative areas, commercial areas, and so on were the first to be planned out. Reasonable arrangements were also needed for the spatial layout and land use of the two cities.
There are too many factors to consider from all aspects.
Xia Zuoyi asked Conrad to convene engineers at any time in the guild to discuss and talk about countermeasures.
Everyone needs to write a detailed and precise plan, which is then summarized by Conrad and handed to him.
After all, collective strength is like iron and steel, and the wisdom of the people is like the sun and the moon.
Engineers: Increasingly getting bald day by day.
Fifteen days later, after repeated revisions, rejections, and revisions…
Xia Zuoyi finally finalized a complete plan and drawings.
He decided that the first area to be built in the two cities was the residential area. The housing problem was solved first, and everything else was easy to say.
However, for the building materials.
Xia Zuoyi denied Conrad’s intent of wanting to use wood entirely.
“No, let’s not talk about Fort Comoy for the time being. Wissas is near the sea. If wood is used entirely, there are no good waterproof and moisture-proof preparation measures…”
“In the long run, houses are easy to be corroded by water vapor, and they are also prone to fire, so their service life must be very short.”
Besides, the construction of houses in the residential areas in the city is not small, the finished timber will definitely be in short supply.
“No, not possible.” Xia Zuoyi denied again.
Conrad also felt helpless and embarrassed about this problem.
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 are more susceptible to water vapor corrosion than wooden houses. It may even collapse after heavy rain…
Although the law of Gadaat Kingdom does not stipulate that civilians are not allowed to use stone materials for construction, it’s customary.
Besides, civilians can’t afford stones.
If you choose stone buildings, the funds that have been roughly calculated so far need to be calculated again.
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 for building?”
—Bricks.
This world is indeed formed because of a novel, as 098 said, resulting in an incomplete world line…
Although it’s background is of the early Middle Ages in the West, part of the historical trend is quite different and deviated from the actual Middle Ages in the West.
For example, the emergence of red bricks. It was invented by the ancient Romans very early.
There is no Rome in this fictional world, so there are no bricks?
As a material suitable for construction, bricks have good thermal insulation, good air permeability, and good water absorption.
The most important thing is that it is very strong, not afraid of wind and sun, durable sound insulation, easy to obtain materials, and low cost.
The only problem is that brick kilns need to be built as well.
Xia Zuoyi gave sufficient hints and then asked Conrad to go back and find someone to study it in detail.
He thought it might take more than ten days before news came to the castle.
But he didn’t expect that eight days later, Conrad would come to the castle and say, “My lord, the kiln has been built.”
Xia Zuoyi’s eyes widened in surprise, “So fast?!”
Conrad, “Yes, my lord. Would you like to have a look in the city?”
Xia Zuoyi, “Well, I’m going.”
Since Xia Zuoyi proposed to mix stones with mud and other materials, Conrad started thinking about how to make a suitable structure.
He went to the site where the stones were piled up in the city and accidentally discovered that the stones were crushed very fast here. After asking a craftsman, he learned that someone had invented a tool for crushing stones easily.
The craftsman led Conrad to a machine that was half a person tall and about two meters long.
This is a gravel tool made up of two iron wheels that rotate relative to each other.
There are uneven blunt undulations on the iron wheel, and the hole in the middle of the iron wheel can be inlaid with a crossbar to rotate the iron wheel.
Before using this tool, you need to break large stones with a hammer to form small stones, and then throw them into the middle of the two iron wheels.
The uneven undulations on the iron wheel will be inserted together when rotating, so as to crush the stone even more, saving a lot of labor and effort.
Conrad immediately asked, who invented this tool?
Craftsman, “It’s a native of Trak.”
“They made two of these gravel iron wheels. We thought it was good so we borrowed one for use. I don’t know their specific identity…”
“But President, you should know if you ask.”
Conrad personally went to Fort Comoy and successfully found the person who invented the iron wheel.
Later, he discovered that this person had a very clever mind. After only a short period of participating in the temporary craftsman group, he had worked out a lot of energy-saving tools.
And the design of each tool is very clever.
So Conrad asked him to study the questions put forward by Xia Zuoyi.
On the way, Xia Zuoyi heard Conrad speak of the man’s name.
After the meeting, it’s determined that he was indeed Renault Massey.
Xia Zuoyi looked at the kiln and every kind of tool. He’s secretly amazed that Renault Massey was indeed a talent.
He asked, “How did you come up with these things?”
Renault, “I’ve always liked to tinker since I was a child…Thinking about it every day when I grow up…Just figured it out.”
Xia Zuoyi, “…”
Perhaps every genius has been constantly thinking since childhood, and with a little inspiration, they can have the achievement of today.
Conrad said, “My lord, the new material you said has been burned. Here, have a look.”
He led Xia Zuoyi to the outside of the kiln, where a pile of failed or burnt bricks was neatly placed on the ground.
Conrad pointed to one of the well-stacked bricks, “For the sake of shaping, Renault made a square mold, each of which is about half the size of an arm.”
“We have tried several times, and the last molding is the strongest, comparable to stone.”
Speaking of which.
Conrad couldn’t help looking happy and tried his best to tell Xia Zuoyi 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 get any reward I want?”
“Of course.”
“Then, then can I take off, leave…”
Seeing him hesitating, Xia Zuoyi couldn’t help saying for him, “Do you want to be free from slavery?”
Renault’s heart jumped sharply and nodded involuntarily, “Yes, yes.”
Xia Zuoyi, “Yes, you have done a lot this time.”
“I’ve always been fair. To get out of slavery requires enough merit. You’ve reached the standard.”
“From now on, I will notarize you as a freedman.”
Renault was surprised and happy, not knowing how to maintain the expression on his face.
He was completely stunned, his heart filled with unspeakable surprise and excitement.
Renault didn’t expect that these things that he thought would not be of much use in the past could become the merits he wanted most now.
After all, as an illegitimate child, Renault is often scolded for not being enterprising and researching some useless products all day long.
Xia Zuoyi, “Are you interested in becoming a consultant for the Craftsmen’s Guild? With preferential treatment… Do you want to think about it?”
Renault: Is there such a good thing? !
Of course he does!
Xia Zuoyi: Good, very good, especially good.
Starting today, Renault has officially entered the ranks of “increasingly bald”.
Renault: Just keep smiling.
When the weather started to get hotter, Walker finally returned from Gaynor to Wissas.
In total, he brought back more than 350 people, who were placed in two cities.
When Walker came to the castle, he said, “My lord, there has been some turmoil in Gaynor. One of the princes with inheritance rights has died.”
Fernandi was also here, frowning upon hearing this.
Xia Zuoyi, “How many princes are there in Gaynor?”
“I remember Bruno Green is a direct descendant of the king of Gaynor. He has the right to inherit but the possibility is not great, right?”
Fernandi nodded, “Gaynor has three princes in total.”
“The old king of Gaynor lived a long life. He is now more than 60 years old but still on the throne. The second prince died early, and the third prince fell lame when he accidentally fell off his horse.”
“Bruno Green is the son of the third prince.”
Xia Zuoyi, “So, the dead person is the eldest prince?”
Walker shook his head with a strange look on his face. He said, “No, it’s the third prince.”
Fernandi saw it, so he asked, “Do you suspect that the death of the third prince has something to do with Bruno Green?”
Walker, “Reasonable doubt.”
“Bruno Green has great ambition. The old king of Gaynor lives a long life. The eldest prince is not young and in poor health. Now he often needs to see a doctor to treat him.”
“When I left Gaynor with my men, there’s news that the first prince was critically ill. The doctors in the city had been summoned by the knights to enter the palace.”
Xia Zuoyi: Come on, it’s hopeless. The first prince is dying.
Walker, “After all the heirs to the throne are all dead, there are fewer people standing in front of Bruno Green.”
“The old king of Gaynor has lived a long life, and he should be dying soon. Then he will naturally choose from Bruno Green’s generation.”
If Bruno Green is on the throne…
Fernandi will have more difficulty in getting revenge.
Two days later.
Gadaat.
A surprising news suddenly came from the royal city of Keys—the old king has passed away.
After the king’s death, the body needs to be stored in the coffin for three months before it can be buried.
In these three months, the king’s coffin will be placed in the church. The clergy will personally hold the funeral for the king, sprinkle holy water on the coffin, and ring the death knell.
The lords in the Kingdom of Gadaat need to enter the royal city of Keys to mourn for the old King Duke Paige.
Before departure.
098 also put on a little baggage again and said to Xia Zuoyi:【Host, I’m going to travel again. I’ll bring you a gift when I come back. Remember to miss me, okay.】
Xia Zuoyi, “Be safe and come back early.”
He watched 098 jump into the universe mailbox after waving his small stick hand, then disappeared from the system interface.
Udit watched him sitting in his chair in a daze, and couldn’t help asking, “My lord, how many knights and soldiers are you going to take to the royal city this time?”
Xia Zuoyi thought about it, “Fernandi will stay in Wissas.”
“Walker will take Taylor and Barnard to leave with me, and send two more platoons to follow… No, one platoon a certain distance behind, and when I enter the city to mourn for the king, they will wait outside the city.”
Udit was a little puzzled, but he nodded, “Yes, my lord.”
Xia Zuoyi: I hope I didn’t think too much about it. The death of the old King Duke had better not be linked to the death of Gaynor’s third prince…
Translator’s Note:
So that’s where Renault Massey enters the stage, just as Sadie Woods had predicted. Welcome to the Bald Club, Renault!! XD
There’s another update after this~
Walker led Barnard and the other knights to Gaynor on a “business trip” to continue recruiting people.
The weather is gradually getting warmer.
The entire Wissas and Fort Comoy began to get busy.
The plan for urban construction in the next five years has been initially implemented.
Residential areas, administrative areas, commercial areas, and so on were the first to be planned out. Reasonable arrangements were also needed for the spatial layout and land use of the two cities.
There are too many factors to consider from all aspects.
Xia Zuoyi asked Conrad to convene engineers at any time in the guild to discuss and talk about countermeasures.
Everyone needs to write a detailed and precise plan, which is then summarized by Conrad and handed to him.
After all, collective strength is like iron and steel, and the wisdom of the people is like the sun and the moon.
Engineers: Increasingly getting bald day by day.
Fifteen days later, after repeated revisions, rejections, and revisions…
Xia Zuoyi finally finalized a complete plan and drawings.
He decided that the first area to be built in the two cities was the residential area. The housing problem was solved first, and everything else was easy to say.
However, for the building materials.
Xia Zuoyi denied Conrad’s intent of wanting to use wood entirely.
“No, let’s not talk about Fort Comoy for the time being. Wissas is near the sea. If wood is used entirely, there are no good waterproof and moisture-proof preparation measures…”
“In the long run, houses are easy to be corroded by water vapor, and they are also prone to fire, so their service life must be very short.”
Besides, the construction of houses in the residential areas in the city is not small, the finished timber will definitely be in short supply.
“No, not possible.” Xia Zuoyi denied again.
Conrad also felt helpless and embarrassed about this problem.
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 are more susceptible to water vapor corrosion than wooden houses. It may even collapse after heavy rain…
Although the law of Gadaat Kingdom does not stipulate that civilians are not allowed to use stone materials for construction, it’s customary.
Besides, civilians can’t afford stones.
If you choose stone buildings, the funds that have been roughly calculated so far need to be calculated again.
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 for building?”
—Bricks.
This world is indeed formed because of a novel, as 098 said, resulting in an incomplete world line…
Although it’s background is of the early Middle Ages in the West, part of the historical trend is quite different and deviated from the actual Middle Ages in the West.
For example, the emergence of red bricks. It was invented by the ancient Romans very early.
There is no Rome in this fictional world, so there are no bricks?
As a material suitable for construction, bricks have good thermal insulation, good air permeability, and good water absorption.
The most important thing is that it is very strong, not afraid of wind and sun, durable sound insulation, easy to obtain materials, and low cost.
The only problem is that brick kilns need to be built as well.
Xia Zuoyi gave sufficient hints and then asked Conrad to go back and find someone to study it in detail.
He thought it might take more than ten days before news came to the castle.
But he didn’t expect that eight days later, Conrad would come to the castle and say, “My lord, the kiln has been built.”
Xia Zuoyi’s eyes widened in surprise, “So fast?!”
Conrad, “Yes, my lord. Would you like to have a look in the city?”
Xia Zuoyi, “Well, I’m going.”
Since Xia Zuoyi proposed to mix stones with mud and other materials, Conrad started thinking about how to make a suitable structure.
He went to the site where the stones were piled up in the city and accidentally discovered that the stones were crushed very fast here. After asking a craftsman, he learned that someone had invented a tool for crushing stones easily.
The craftsman led Conrad to a machine that was half a person tall and about two meters long.
This is a gravel tool made up of two iron wheels that rotate relative to each other.
There are uneven blunt undulations on the iron wheel, and the hole in the middle of the iron wheel can be inlaid with a crossbar to rotate the iron wheel.
Before using this tool, you need to break large stones with a hammer to form small stones, and then throw them into the middle of the two iron wheels.
The uneven undulations on the iron wheel will be inserted together when rotating, so as to crush the stone even more, saving a lot of labor and effort.
Conrad immediately asked, who invented this tool?
Craftsman, “It’s a native of Trak.”
“They made two of these gravel iron wheels. We thought it was good so we borrowed one for use. I don’t know their specific identity…”
“But President, you should know if you ask.”
Conrad personally went to Fort Comoy and successfully found the person who invented the iron wheel.
Later, he discovered that this person had a very clever mind. After only a short period of participating in the temporary craftsman group, he had worked out a lot of energy-saving tools.
And the design of each tool is very clever.
So Conrad asked him to study the questions put forward by Xia Zuoyi.
On the way, Xia Zuoyi heard Conrad speak of the man’s name.
After the meeting, it’s determined that he was indeed Renault Massey.
Xia Zuoyi looked at the kiln and every kind of tool. He’s secretly amazed that Renault Massey was indeed a talent.
He asked, “How did you come up with these things?”
Renault, “I’ve always liked to tinker since I was a child…Thinking about it every day when I grow up…Just figured it out.”
Xia Zuoyi, “…”
Perhaps every genius has been constantly thinking since childhood, and with a little inspiration, they can have the achievement of today.
Conrad said, “My lord, the new material you said has been burned. Here, have a look.”
He led Xia Zuoyi to the outside of the kiln, where a pile of failed or burnt bricks was neatly placed on the ground.
Conrad pointed to one of the well-stacked bricks, “For the sake of shaping, Renault made a square mold, each of which is about half the size of an arm.”
“We have tried several times, and the last molding is the strongest, comparable to stone.”
Speaking of which.
Conrad couldn’t help looking happy and tried his best to tell Xia Zuoyi 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 get any reward I want?”
“Of course.”
“Then, then can I take off, leave…”
Seeing him hesitating, Xia Zuoyi couldn’t help saying for him, “Do you want to be free from slavery?”
Renault’s heart jumped sharply and nodded involuntarily, “Yes, yes.”
Xia Zuoyi, “Yes, you have done a lot this time.”
“I’ve always been fair. To get out of slavery requires enough merit. You’ve reached the standard.”
“From now on, I will notarize you as a freedman.”
Renault was surprised and happy, not knowing how to maintain the expression on his face.
He was completely stunned, his heart filled with unspeakable surprise and excitement.
Renault didn’t expect that these things that he thought would not be of much use in the past could become the merits he wanted most now.
After all, as an illegitimate child, Renault is often scolded for not being enterprising and researching some useless products all day long.
Xia Zuoyi, “Are you interested in becoming a consultant for the Craftsmen’s Guild? With preferential treatment… Do you want to think about it?”
Renault: Is there such a good thing? !
Of course he does!
Xia Zuoyi: Good, very good, especially good.
Starting today, Renault has officially entered the ranks of “increasingly bald”.
Renault: Just keep smiling.
When the weather started to get hotter, Walker finally returned from Gaynor to Wissas.
In total, he brought back more than 350 people, who were placed in two cities.
When Walker came to the castle, he said, “My lord, there has been some turmoil in Gaynor. One of the princes with inheritance rights has died.”
Fernandi was also here, frowning upon hearing this.
Xia Zuoyi, “How many princes are there in Gaynor?”
“I remember Bruno Green is a direct descendant of the king of Gaynor. He has the right to inherit but the possibility is not great, right?”
Fernandi nodded, “Gaynor has three princes in total.”
“The old king of Gaynor lived a long life. He is now more than 60 years old but still on the throne. The second prince died early, and the third prince fell lame when he accidentally fell off his horse.”
“Bruno Green is the son of the third prince.”
Xia Zuoyi, “So, the dead person is the eldest prince?”
Walker shook his head with a strange look on his face. He said, “No, it’s the third prince.”
Fernandi saw it, so he asked, “Do you suspect that the death of the third prince has something to do with Bruno Green?”
Walker, “Reasonable doubt.”
“Bruno Green has great ambition. The old king of Gaynor lives a long life. The eldest prince is not young and in poor health. Now he often needs to see a doctor to treat him.”
“When I left Gaynor with my men, there’s news that the first prince was critically ill. The doctors in the city had been summoned by the knights to enter the palace.”
Xia Zuoyi: Come on, it’s hopeless. The first prince is dying.
Walker, “After all the heirs to the throne are all dead, there are fewer people standing in front of Bruno Green.”
“The old king of Gaynor has lived a long life, and he should be dying soon. Then he will naturally choose from Bruno Green’s generation.”
If Bruno Green is on the throne…
Fernandi will have more difficulty in getting revenge.
Two days later.
Gadaat.
A surprising news suddenly came from the royal city of Keys—the old king has passed away.
After the king’s death, the body needs to be stored in the coffin for three months before it can be buried.
In these three months, the king’s coffin will be placed in the church. The clergy will personally hold the funeral for the king, sprinkle holy water on the coffin, and ring the death knell.
The lords in the Kingdom of Gadaat need to enter the royal city of Keys to mourn for the old King Duke Paige.
Before departure.
098 also put on a little baggage again and said to Xia Zuoyi:【Host, I’m going to travel again. I’ll bring you a gift when I come back. Remember to miss me, okay.】
Xia Zuoyi, “Be safe and come back early.”
He watched 098 jump into the universe mailbox after waving his small stick hand, then disappeared from the system interface.
Udit watched him sitting in his chair in a daze, and couldn’t help asking, “My lord, how many knights and soldiers are you going to take to the royal city this time?”
Xia Zuoyi thought about it, “Fernandi will stay in Wissas.”
“Walker will take Taylor and Barnard to leave with me, and send two more platoons to follow… No, one platoon a certain distance behind, and when I enter the city to mourn for the king, they will wait outside the city.”
Udit was a little puzzled, but he nodded, “Yes, my lord.”
Xia Zuoyi: I hope I didn’t think too much about it. The death of the old King Duke had better not be linked to the death of Gaynor’s third prince…
Translator’s Note:
So that’s where Renault Massey enters the stage, just as Sadie Woods had predicted. Welcome to the Bald Club, Renault!! XD
There’s another update after this~
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