The burned land spread out along the meandering river, covering several square kilometers.
There is a dirt road nine meters wide in the middle.
This is the road that William specially asked to stay. This very wide dirt road is connected to the fence gate of Xinnisei Village on one side, and at the end of the other side is the river that the locals call Erzis. The land will be burned out.
Divide into two sides.
Following William's instructions, Louis led a group of slaves and divided the land into square pieces of land, leaving a half-meter-wide straight gap between the lands.
Finally, it was calculated that a total of 18,000 acres of farmland had been developed.
The land that has just been burned is still relatively hard, so it needs to be "ploughed" so that the crops planted can grow vigorously.
Eighteen thousand acres of land, just relying on five or six hundred slaves like William, would last for years and months.
William didn't want to waste too much time on these trivial matters.
So he just cheated.
Late at night, the entire camp was bewitched by William and fell into a deep sleep.
At this time, William's loyal demon pet, the Void Hound, jumped out of the space of the blue plaid apron and plowed the land diligently with its scaly limbs.
William used earth magic to assist.
A good second-level wizard turned into an "old farmer". If word spread, I don't know how many people will laugh out loud.
Fortunately, this desolate land is full of ordinary people, and no one discovered William's secret.
Soon, in just a few days, the 18,000 acres of land that had been opened up were cultivated and the soil was soft and loose.
These 18,000 acres of land will not all be cultivated, but will adopt the farming method of the medieval Western world in William's previous life - the three-field rotation system!
The three-field rotation system is to sow major crops with high nutritional requirements in one field, and in the second year, sow crops that fix nitrogen and enrich nutrients.
It is covered with weeds, and various kinds of manure are usually mixed in it. In the coming year, this field will become rich in nutrients, and crops with high nutritional needs can be directly planted.
According to William's plan, 6,000 acres of land were planted with local winter cereals. This is a low-quality rye species with a bad taste. However, it has strong vitality and good yields, so many local farmers plant this winter cereals.
Wheat, all for a ration.
Another 6,000 acres are planted with a crop that looks very similar to the sweet potatoes in William's previous life, called black vine fruit. This starch-rich fruit cannot be digested by humans, but some herbivorous livestock can.
Use this as a food source.
The advantage of this kind of mutton fruit is that it has an amazing yield and can be harvested twice a year. However, because it is inedible to humans, almost no one grows it. William only specially found this crop after studying many plants in the wild with a magic mirror.
The last six thousand acres of land are planted with nothing, waiting for the grass to grow and flourish next year.
Agriculture in this era is very simple and crude, and intensive farming is impossible here.
Most of the time, farmers just throw the seeds in the fields, water them, and then wait and see what happens.
Some more industrious farmers occasionally weed and water, but that's about it.
Therefore, the yield per mu is actually very low.
Low yields, in turn, require farmers to own more fields, so that the combined yield can meet a year's production needs.
So despite the fact that farmers in this era owned a lot of land, they actually harvested very little.
Of course William would not watch this happen.
After he asked the slaves to sow the prescribed crops on the corresponding land, he divided the team and assigned fifty people to build canals, water and fertilize, and weed weeds.
The land here has been thinned by Void Hounds, so it is not difficult to dig.
This person No. 50 is definitely qualified for this job.
The other more than 500 people can devote themselves to another job - the construction of the village's residential area.
Generally speaking, villages are mainly made of wooden structures.
The defense of this structure is so poor that most of it could be burned down in a fire.
William refused to take it.
The cost of building a town with stones was too high. Moreover, there were only a few small hills near William and there were no stone quarries suitable for development.
But the local soil is very suitable for baking bricks.
As early as when the King of Slava was in the capital, William asked the blacksmith to make a pile of brick molds, which came in handy at this time.
On the other side of the village, a simple brick factory was built.
Hundreds of slave workers were stationed here, and the dry embryos of red bricks were produced here, and then fired in a cool place.
The red bricks began to grow at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Bricks alone are not enough, they need adhesives.
When he was building the small village of Nisei, William was never able to raise the temperature of the flame to 1,500 degrees to bake real simple cement, so he could only make do with some other substances.
But now you don't have to worry about it.
With William's ability, it is simply a piece of cake to create a flame that exceeds 1,500 degrees.
William used bricks and the power of witchcraft to build a cement firing room near the brick factory.
Lime was continuously transported by slaves from the "newly discovered" lime field nearby, mixed with clay and water, turned into a slurry, put on firewood and started to burn.
Under normal circumstances, the temperature of the flame will never reach 1500 degrees, which is the temperature at which iron can melt.
But with William in it, using magic to control the fire energy particles, the result was different.
This is how a simple version of cement comes out of the oven.
Cement and piles, in the civil construction industry, are equivalent to water and electricity for ordinary people.
Only then can the next construction plan of Xinnisei Village proceed.
William used "two horizontal" and "two vertical" roads to divide the entire small village of Nisei into a "well" shape, a nine-area pattern.
The middle area is where William's residence is.
William designed a three-story brick-wood mixed structure house here, which also used the mortise and tenon technique often used in the ancient Chinese construction industry. It has a front yard and a backyard. There are seven rooms on each floor, which is very spacious.
There are balconies and windows above the second floor, which provide plenty of light.
Hundreds of people took turns working day and night, so there was no need to worry about disturbing the neighbors. It only took more than half a month to build William's lord's villa, just like the rough house in the previous life. If you don't mind
If so, it would actually be habitable.
Dozens of people were left to carry out "renovation", while other large forces began to build houses along the four "two horizontal" and "two vertical" roads planned by William.