The last winter snow in the north has finally come to an end, and the spring season has begun in Black Hammer Castle. According to Rhodes' previous arrangement, more than 500 refugees from the farming and wasteland reclamation group turned into farmers in Black Hammer Castle on this day.
They went to the outskirts of the castle to cultivate farmland. To this end, Rhodes prepared sufficient food and water for them, as well as various supplies, including grain seeds, tents, and necessary daily necessities.
The land reclaimed in the first year will be used by them free of charge, and all the grain earned does not have to be handed over. The excess can be sold on the market in exchange for more production tools or improved living conditions. If the reclamation fails or there is no bumper harvest, famine will result.
If they come again, they can return to Black Hammer Castle and receive relief food for another half a year. If they still have no harvest after half a year, they can only confiscate the production tools and send them to the logging team or the mine to work as coolies. Of course, all
Everyone was full of confidence and did not believe that they would fail, because they were originally farmers, and after a month of study and training, they had a certain understanding of the environment and soil around Blackhammer Castle. At the same time, the lord prepared for them.
For seeds of more than three types of cereals, if one fails, there are two others.
As for those fishermen, Rhodes had acquired a dozen boats half a month ago and leased them to them for use. Like the farming policy, the initial fee is low or even free. When the refugees become real
The residents have established a foothold in Blackhammer Castle and are charging normal rent. If their strength allows, they can also purchase fishing boats directly from Rhodes, so that they do not have to pay rent.
The decrees promulgated a month ago are being implemented steadily and orderly. Laheim's side is also quiet. In the face of absolute force, the nobles have restrained themselves a lot and stopped making trouble. However, Rhodes still sends people every day.
Keep an eye on him, just in case. As for the quality of residents, their education level, and the professionalism of workers from all walks of life, these need to be considered in the long term. The improvement of soft power does not happen overnight.
Lyanna finally accepted Rhodes' invitation to serve as the auditor of the medical school, even though she knew that she would be the dean of the college in the future.
The chief priest, one is the dean of Blackhammer Castle Medical School.
Rhodes' real idea is to build a university based on the medical school. It seems that a school cannot achieve direct economic benefits, and even loses money in the early stage. But in fact, its social significance is far greater than that of other industries. First,
It can cultivate useful talents for society; secondly, it is the only channel for people at the bottom to be promoted upwards. It can be said that the significance of the second article far exceeds everything else. It is the most effective means to reconcile social contradictions. Although at present
Look, the social structure of Blackhammer Castle is still relatively simple, and there is not a big gap between the rich and the poor. But Rhodes knows that with the development of the economy, the gap between the rich and the poor will only get bigger and bigger, and by then, the two-level contradiction will
appeared, so it is actually of great significance to build universities in advance to cultivate people's proactive thinking habits.
With the departure of the land reclamation team, some infrastructure in the city has gradually been completed, such as public toilets that have always been puzzled by the public... Max and his team are indeed good at construction. They have been in big cities and their skills are straightforward.
Overwhelming these third-rate craftsmen in Blackhammer Castle. Rhodes just gave them a sketch. A month later, twenty public toilets were successfully completed, and their drainage and sturdiness were completely beyond Rhodes' expectations.
Several large cesspits are placed far away from the water source. If the manure collector needs to go there, he can just go there and shovel a truck away. There is no need to drag a truck of excrement all over the street...
As for people's habits, some people have changed, and some people are still accustomed to using toilets. However, when they went out the next day, they found that the excrement collectors were not here, and they all went to the centralized cesspools to shovel excrement...
There is no way to deal with the filth in the toilet, so you can only go to the public toilet to empty it. Because there will be patrol teams patrolling the streets, and you will be fined for dumping excrement anywhere...
As for the economies of scale discussed with Caroline before, there is still no sign of starting. Because this matter is a major matter and cannot be one size fits all. It requires repeated investigation and research. At the same time, concentrating the industry to make it bigger and stronger is also a long process. Luo
De estimated that it would take at least five to six years for Blackhammer and Heidelberg to form the economies of scale he envisioned in his mind. Fortunately, there is still a long time before the great invasion of Chaos, at least several decades.
It’s enough to develop your own territory.
After the beginning of spring, another thing Rhodes did for Blackhammer Castle was to build a bridge.
As the natural waterway of Blackhammer Castle, the Winter Spring River does provide a lot of convenience for the development of the town. When the docks are built, small cargo ships can freely enter and exit the river and transport goods directly to the shore of the town without having to pass through
Long land transportation to arrive.
However, everything has two sides. While the river provides logistics convenience for the development of Blackhammer Castle, it also hinders people's daily travel. Since a lot of food and goods must be transported from the south bank to the north bank, the flow of people and logistics is frequent. If there is a bridge
, it will be much more convenient, and it can also solve the serious imbalance of development between the two places.
To this end, Rhodes called all the craftsmen and bridge builders he could call to study the bridge construction plan. Rhodes knew the three-legged cat skills of these people, and the group of stonemasons and carpenters from Erlengrad were building the bridge.
He is an expert when it comes to building houses, but he is a layman when it comes to building bridges, and he even knows nothing about it.
The channel of the Dongquan River is not wide, but the current is very fast. According to the conventional method, it would take a year and a half to build a bridge. But Rhodes did not want to wait that long. At the same time, he invested a lot of money in the early development of the territory.
There is no need for a stone bridge. What Rhodes thought of was the floating bridge of ancient Rome.
Rhodes quickly told the engineering team about the general idea - first drive the boats to the center of the river, lower the heavy anchors, and temporarily fix the boats in the river. Then, work on these boats to sharpen the
Wooden piles are driven into the river bed as support for the pontoon bridge. After the wooden piles are driven and fixed, they are then tied together to serve as bridge piers.
Due to the strong currents of the Winter Spring River, Rhodes suggested inserting wooden piles into the river bed at a certain angle with the water flow to provide additional force and make the entire structure more stable.
After the rows of wooden piles are driven hard, planks are built on them, nails are driven into the guardrails, and ropes are pulled up to make a simple pontoon bridge.
Of course, in order not to affect the river navigation channel, Rhodes chose to build the bridge away from the dock area.
Wanting to build Black Hammer Castle into a city, not just a castle or a stronghold, Rhodes knew that if the town developed in the future, the width and depth of the Dongquan River would not be enough to accommodate the development of the city, at least, the large tonnage.
No ships can enter, and the trade is nothing. It is not like the Leinsk River that flows through Oerengrad, which is a big river, and the Winter Spring River is obviously much smaller than the Leinsk River. So, looking at these small
Rhodes knew that the dock could only be used as an inner port in the future, and the outer port must be in the downstream area, close to the entrance to the sea.