Entrusting Fausto to help purchase a large number of tents and blankets was only the first thing Li Yu did. He first ensured that the lizard people had the most basic shelter.
On the Bratis continent, a typical farmhouse usually uses wood as the basic frame. The frames are filled with branches stacked in a network, and then the exterior is covered with a layer of clay to seal it. The roof is mostly covered with straw or reeds.
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Most farmhouses have only one room, and the whole family lives together, no matter how many people there are. Even poultry and livestock will enter the house, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and cows. These livestock can provide a living in the cold winter.
People inside provide a touch of warmth, but also bring in mosquitoes and annoying odors.
This is why many civilians always smell bad.
A few relatively wealthy homesteaders would have two or three rooms, which could be divided into bedrooms and stables, and even a storage room dedicated to storing food.
But this may also expose them to passing bandits and thieves.
Although farmers almost always make their own fires to cook, there are no chimneys in the house.
The stove they used was not closed, and when cooking, the room was often filled with smoke, which looked like a sauna. Li Yu choked and coughed the first time he ate in the farmhouse.
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However, the smoke will eventually dissipate outward through the skylight on the roof.
As for the furniture, it was even more pitiful. There were only tables, chairs and wooden boxes. Some families didn't even have beds, so they had to crowd together on a meadow.
Even so, living in a house is definitely more comfortable than living in a tent, let alone six or seven people crammed into a thin tent.
It's okay in summer, but in winter, people may freeze to death due to insufficient warmth.
That is to say, the living conditions of the lizard people before were too harsh, otherwise they would probably get into trouble because of the living environment soon.
In fact, during the five days when Li Yu was away, the lizard people, after cleaning up the corpses and ruins on their territory, began to build new houses impatiently, using the old skills passed down from their ancestors.
As soon as Li Yu, the prophet, returned, he was immediately dragged by the enthusiastic lizard people to see the fruits of their labor.
He was surrounded by the crowd and came to the foot of a big tree. He raised his neck and looked at the tree house above his head.
The tree house is made entirely of branches, with the floor and walls filled with bark, and a layer of thatch on the roof, which should provide some protection from rain.
The most important thing is that the tree house is about ten meters high from the ground. The lizard people found a small tree trunk, cut off the excess branches, and dug grooves on it to make ladders. The lizard people just stepped on the grooves,
Climbing up and down the trees happily.
As for Li Yu, he declined the invitation from the owner of the house to come up and sit for a while.
Death is not terrible, but breaking a bone would be really troublesome. Li Yu still has a lot to do next, and he doesn't want to wear a bandage all the time.
In addition, Li Yu also confirmed one thing, that is, he had worried too much before. These lizard people should be very difficult to freeze to death. They can survive in such wooden houses, and sleeping in tents should be no problem at all.
But Li Yu didn't intend to let these lizard people live in tents all the time, or let them build small tree houses everywhere that seemed to have many safety hazards and were not very convenient to get up and down.
This was the first batch of believers he recruited, and it was what Li Yu planned to use as a model for others to build a model village.
If other potential customers came to visit and saw the Saturday believers still sleeping in the trees, they would probably give up the idea of joining the religion immediately and run away as far as possible.
Even when MLM recruits new people, they should give them a good meal to create an atmosphere of success. It is impossible to serve a dozen people in a Datong shop with steamed buns and cabbage.
Therefore, building a house was listed on Li Yu's to-do list, and it was still at the forefront.
When it comes to building houses, the ones modern people are most familiar with are of course houses with reinforced concrete structures.
Reinforced concrete, as the name suggests, is steel plus concrete.
In 1867, a Parisian gardener discovered that the problem of "brittle fracture" of concrete could be solved by adding steel rings to concrete, making reinforced concrete immediately the most popular composite material in the world (although the gardener himself did not know it at the time)
What is brittle fracture, I don’t understand the principle, but it is enough to be easy to use).
The reinforced concrete structure has been popular until now and undoubtedly has many advantages, such as windproof, waterproof, fireproof, insect-proof and the cost is low enough.
Although concrete is still unknown on the continent of Bratis, the production process is not complicated. Just crush some old pottery and mix it into mortar (slaked lime plus clay) to produce cement. Add some stones and
Gravel cement becomes concrete.
In the universe where Li Yu lives, cement and concrete have been used as building materials as early as the ancient Roman era. However, due to the brittle fracture problem mentioned above, concrete can generally only be used to make foundations, columns or domes, but not
When used as beams, overhangs and other structures that need to withstand bending stress.
And with the fall of the Roman Empire, this technology was also lost. It was not discovered and recorded again until more than a thousand years later.
In contrast, the smelting of steel is much more troublesome. There is steel on the continent of Bratis, but it is mainly used to forge weapons and armor, and a set of armor or steel weapons is often expensive.
The poorer knights may not be able to match them all, otherwise Yinlea would not have only provided cloth armor and spears when supporting the militia in the Trinidad fief.
The cost is so high that it certainly cannot be used to build a house.
As for making it by himself, Li Yu also checked some information. The more realistic one is probably the Bessemer converter steelmaking method.
This steelmaking technology was invented by an engineer named Bessemer in the 19th century, but the principle is actually not complicated. With the existing technical conditions of the Bratis continent, a primitive version can already be produced.
However, Li Yu thought about it and gave up this extremely tempting idea.
He definitely needs to refine steel, but not now.
The top priority right now is to solve the problem of clothing, food and shelter for these lizard people.
Among them, clothing can also be pushed back, and ready-made items can be purchased first to cope with it. The remaining food and shelter are the most urgent matters.
It takes too much time to make steel now. Even if we start it now, the lizard people may not be able to live in reinforced concrete houses when winter comes.
After repeated weighing, Li Yu chose brick and wood structures for the new houses to be built.
This chapter has been completed!