Old John had lost the mood to argue with William about the high salary William gave to the villagers. He spent all his energy on identifying and supervising the limestone or clay sent by the villagers.
If the weight is not enough, money will be deducted!
If the clay is not red enough, money will be deducted!
If the basket is not full enough, money will be deducted!
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Old John tried every means to save money for William, but it was still unavoidable that the clay piles were getting higher and the limestone was getting more and more. It was still unavoidable that William's Pool copper coins were getting less and less day by day.
In ten days, William's treasury paid more than eight gold coins.
Even though the villagers bought baskets and dustpans from William due to demand, their income was far from covering their expenses.
This made Old John's face become darker and darker, and his mood became worse and worse.
But at this time, something that was bound to happen finally happened!
A large number of baskets appeared scattered in the small village of Nisei.
Because the baskets were filled with soil or limestone, especially limestone, and moved around for a long time, the baskets bore too much weight, resulting in a loose structure that eventually became unsupportable and fell apart.
The baskets in the village have been bought up by crazy villagers, and the golden grass nearby has also been plucked. They can only wait for the coming spring to bloom, but at this time, there will be no golden grass, and naturally no new baskets will appear.
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And this means that when the last batch of baskets are destroyed, the villagers will no longer be able to continue "moving bricks"!
This matter was very serious, and the villagers were very anxious, so they reported it to William.
William is also very melancholy. The current quantity of clay and limestone is simply not enough to build a wall!
He needs more clay and limestone, so the work of "moving bricks" cannot stop. Not only can it not stop, but it is also more efficient!
William had previously focused on training the Guardsmen, leaving the clay and limestone work to Old John, so he didn't know much about it.
When he saw the amount of clay and limestone brought from the village, William despaired.
At this rate, even if the problem of baskets is solved, will it take years and months to build the wall?
So William locked himself in a mud house, thought hard all night, and finally came up with a solution.
He called the village carpenter Qiaoshou Moton, and then called the old carpenter Charles. From the collection of Qiaoshou Moton, he selected a log with a diameter at breast height of about 60 centimeters, and cut a section into a
wooden wheel, and make the wooden wheel as flat as possible.
A round hole was dug in the middle of the wooden wheel, and a hard wooden shaft was inserted into it. Both sides of the wooden shaft were spliced with wooden plates, and the junction was fixed with iron nails. The iron products were bought from the city of Patras.
It just happened to come in handy.
On both sides of the other end of the chassis, a stick is connected to each as a handle, which is also fixed with iron nails.
On top of the axle, several cross beams were nailed to surround the three sides of the car, so that the goods could be supported without falling off the car.
In this way, a rough and simple wheelbarrow was completed, which took less than the time it took to burn a candle.
When the results were presented in front of Merton and Charles, both of them looked surprised, still not convinced that such a unicycle could be used daily!
Because in their understanding, a vehicle that needs to carry goods must have at least two wheels, and many have four wheels, so that the goods can move stably.
One wheel may not be able to carry much, and the whole wheelbarrow will fall apart.
Faced with the suspicion of the two carpenters, William directly spoke with the facts, put four baskets of limestone on the wheelbarrow, and asked the old and frail Charles to pull the wheelbarrow around the village.
Charles pulled up the wheelbarrow with uneasiness, and the wheels rolled over the ground in the small village of Nisei, making a crunching sound that attracted the attention of many villagers.
Charles' original fantasy of being out of breath and even having weakness in his arms and legs did not happen at all. He did not put in much effort at all, and calmly pulled four baskets of limestone around the village, just like the parade held by the nobles in the city of Sayre.
It felt so comfortable, and it would have been even better if he hadn't heard the unpleasant crunching sound.
It's just that it's more laborious when going up a slope. But this is just a trivial problem.
The villagers all understand.
There is no doubt that the appearance of the wheelbarrow has been sought after by the villagers of the small village of Nisei.
Even the stupidest and stingiest villagers saw its potential.
It saves effort and is faster. You can make two or three more trips in the same time it took you to make one trip before.
It can carry more cargo, four times as much as before.
And the gains that will come from this will be unimaginable before.
William directly made a charter with Merton and Charles. The wheelbarrow was sold for three franc silver coins. He personally received 1 franc silver coin plus fifty copper coins. This was the intellectual property remuneration for the inventor, while Charles and Merton each received
Then there are fifty copper coins, which are the remuneration of the working people, and the remaining fifty copper coins are the cost of materials.
The iron nails were provided by William. Although the quantity was very small, William still took ten of the fifty Poole copper coins.
The remaining forty copper coins were the cost of lumber.
The rules have been set, let’s get started!
Charles and Merton worked together and built fifteen unicycles in a few days.
The villagers made a lot of money from William during this period, and each family still had a few francs of silver coins in their hands.
As soon as the fifteen wheelbarrows were completed, they were "generously" bought by the villagers guarding the door. Then, in the jealous eyes of other villagers, they pulled the wheelbarrows with great arrogance to the foot of the Cordillera Mountains to pull clay, or to the dark forest.
The cave inside is filled with limestone.
When other villagers returned to the village carrying baskets of limestone, those "tycoons" who owned wheelbarrows had already made two trips back and forth, and the diligent ones even made three trips. Each trip started with four baskets of limestone, and the "tycoons" pulled
It is easy to lift, and the damage to the basket is minimal because the weight is borne by the wooden boards and wheels.
When he could only get 1 Pul copper coin, other villagers had already received 8 Pul copper coins, and even more 12 Pul copper coins.
The villagers will compare among themselves.
The result of the comparison was that the villagers without cars went crazy. They did not dare to be arrogant to William, the lord, but they surrounded the home of the carpenter Merton.
Merton and Charles suddenly fell into painful joy and "served the people" without a moment's rest!
The few logs Merton originally stored were completely consumed, but he only made 10 more wheelbarrows.
10 wheelbarrows were bought in an instant, and some villagers even had a violent showdown in front of Merton's house in order to buy the wheelbarrows!
Finally the escort was brought in.
The guards were wearing uniforms, holding wooden shields in their left hands and long swords in their right hands. Just standing there, an awe-inspiring power arose.
The villagers no longer dared to regard him as a teenage boy, especially since Jacques Porter was among them.
The two villagers who were fighting were taken away by the escort without any resistance and brought to William.
After hearing this, William couldn't help but shake his head, what the hell!
However, William had no intention of building his territory into a distribution system.
He directly asked the escort to punish him in accordance with the first law of the Decas territory, whipping him ten times and showing it to the public for a day. He also added a penalty regulation and fined him 1 franc silver coin.
If whipping hurts the body, then fines hurt their souls.
Especially after the pain in mind and body, the wheelbarrow did not come into their hands, but was obtained by another lucky villager. This only made matters worse and added salt to the wound!
The other villagers were sad to see it, but they quickly got into making money again.
25 wheelbarrows were unable to meet the growing cultural and material needs of the small village of Nisei, so Merton and Charles' work continued.
Since there was no logs, they used 40 copper coins as a hire fee and hired several villagers to go into the forest to cut down trees. They only cut down large trees with a diameter at breast height of more than 50 centimeters.
It takes a person half a day to chop down a tree, and with the clearing of branches, most of the day is spent on it.
With the logs in hand, Charles and Merton's work could continue, and new wheelbarrows were made and sold to the villagers.
For every wheelbarrow, William could draw a silver franc coin, and for every ten wheelbarrows, there could be a gold pith coin. These were collected by Old John on his behalf.
The high income made Old John smile rarely.
But soon, the continuous flow of limestone and clay took away a large number of copper coins and silver coins in his hand, and Old John's face sank again.
Ten days later, almost every household in the small village of Nisei had a wheelbarrow, and some of the richer ones even owned two or three wheelbarrows.
There is an endless stream of "cars" traveling to and from the foothills of the Cordillera, the small village of Nisei, and the dark forest caves every day, with a constant creaking sound, occasionally mixed with the loud training sounds of the escort members.
The villagers' expressions were full of vitality, but Old John's expression was pitch black.
The limestone that has been continuously transported has been piled up into a hill, and the clay piled at the entrance and end of the village is even higher.
Under such circumstances, the autumn wind blows and the harvest date arrives quietly.