Entering the Frost Moon, the weather is getting colder and colder.
Especially in this bitter cold place.
Every morning, water vapor in the air condenses directly on the ground or plants to form tiny ice needles or hexagonal frost flowers, which are white in color and loose in structure.
With a calm expression on his face, William came to the city wall wearing several leather coats sewn together with animal skins.
The city wall has been completed.
The three-meter-high city wall has rammed earth in the middle, only two meters high, and is paved with bricks, forming a one-meter-wide city road.
Thanks to the hard work of several carpenters and apprentices, the wall door has been successfully installed.
The two city gates are thick and covered with a layer of iron.
For this layer of iron sheet, the small village of Nisei consumed all the iron ore in the village.
Because the city wall was built, the demand for bricks also dropped, and there were no need for so many wild slaves to engage in this work.
But that doesn't mean they are idle.
The labor during this period of time improved their obedience. Under the screening of the magic mirror, William selected another 250 strong wild slaves.
Including the fifty servants who were first selected, there are three hundred people in total.
Each of these three hundred wild slaves is equipped with a wooden spear. Under the leadership of the official escort members, they undergo low-to-medium intensity physical training and stabbing training every day.
Although this move is to sharpen one's skills before the battle, it is still better than nothing!
When the time comes, William plans to arrange them on the city road to act as a protection on the city road.
With 300 servants holding wooden spears, 60 formal guards holding wooden shields and iron spears, and six knight-level guard captains, the number of troops in William's hands suddenly swelled to 360.
Sixteen people make it easier to do anything.
The first thing William did was to establish a patrol team system.
Because there were few troops and many things to do in the past, William always let his escorts focus on defending certain key positions, while other positions could only be temporarily ignored.
It's fine during the day, but at night, the defense of the entire Nisei village is really full of holes!
Unlike a castle, the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and ordinary people can't even get in.
The small village of Nisei is located on flat land and there is no danger to defend it!
If William hadn't had the magic mirror to check for leaks and fill in the gaps, William might have been killed by the killer sent by the Scarlet Hand!
Therefore, after having a slightly sufficient amount of troops on hand, William immediately set about establishing a patrol system.
The number of night watchmen at the two city gates increased.
Bonfires are lit every night on the city roads surrounded by city walls, and several guards and servants are sent to guard the city at regular intervals to monitor crises coming from various places in the dark.
In addition, there are two night patrol teams, starting from two directions and patrolling the entire town along fixed routes, patrolling once every period of time.
What William didn't expect was that after so much protection, he himself didn't feel anything. On the contrary, the villagers and wild slaves, watching the majestic escort team and what they did every day, actually felt an increased sense of security in their hearts.
Many faces, which have become gloomy and worried as the weather gets colder and colder, also show long-lost smiles.
If it were a game now, then William would definitely be able to see on the property column that the index of people living and working in peace and contentment in his territory has improved a lot.
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The remaining wild slaves and some of the original villagers of Nisei Village were not idle. They were basically sent to the open-pit coal fields to mine coal ore.
People here call coal ore black stone.
With such a new force joining in, the mining volume of black stone suddenly increased a lot.
Every day more black stone is transported to the brick yard, made into coal slime, and then turned into briquettes.
Then at this time, a new problem came.
The weather is getting colder and colder. Even if there is sunlight during the day, the sunlight seems to be cold.
The briquettes left to dry outside not only failed to dry, but instead became more humid.
Damp briquettes cannot be ignited at all.
William, who had this incident, had a big head.
If heating cannot be guaranteed in winter, let alone the shacks where slaves live in the wilds, or the drafty huts where villagers live, a lot of people will die.
William had no choice but to rack his brains and start thinking about this issue.
In fact, drying over fire is a good and simple method, but for William, the cost is a bit high.
With so much firewood, why would William bother to develop briquettes?
William thought about it for a long time, and finally one night, while using the gourmet table to make dinner, he suddenly came to his senses.
Since the gourmet table can be made using ingredients from nearby areas, can William designate objects for the gourmet table and specify the categories to be obtained?
It seems like this has always been done before?
It seems like you can give it a try!
William immediately had the idea of experimenting.
All the magic power of the gourmet table that day was consumed by William. William had to wait for the magic power of the gourmet table to recover the next day, and then started his experiment without stopping.
After reciting the incantation, William's mind was filled with the damp briquettes placed in the open air in the village, and all he thought about was extracting water from these briquettes.
These thoughts just passed through William's mind, and a pottery basin filled with pure water appeared out of thin air on the gourmet table.
William rushed out and took a look. The originally damp briquettes had become extremely dry.
William took a few and burned them in the red clay stove.
These briquettes ignited quickly, emitting orange-red flames and releasing warm heat.
William couldn't help but smile, not only because the briquette issue was solved, but also because William discovered the further use value of the gourmet table.
Using him to make delicious food is simply a waste of resources.
This is simply a separator!
It’s still automatic!
The only problem is that I often encounter the problem of insufficient battery.
But it's harmless.
William's mind suddenly filled with whimsical thoughts………………………………………….
After solving the drying problem of briquettes, there will be no obstacles to the production of briquettes.
A large amount of briquettes were produced.
Even though a large amount is sold every day, there are still more and more briquettes.
William sorted out the houses of several villagers who left the small village of Nisei and used them as a warehouse for briquettes.
The warehouse of briquettes is filling up at a speed visible to the naked eye!
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Most of the hard work was contracted by wild slaves, but this does not mean that the villagers of the original small village of Nisei can enjoy a happy life.
In fact, they still have to work!
After all, work makes people happy!
It’s just that the nature of the work is different from the original work of selling one’s physical strength.