Chapter 390 Turning Sand Into Bricks

At eight o'clock in the morning the next day, Joan came to the construction site after breakfast, opened the roster and started roll call.

Two hundred and four employees from Dafeng Town arrived on time.

It can be seen that the wages of one silver coin a day are very attractive to these poor country people.

In addition to the hired workers registered on the list, many women and children also came forward and begged Joan to give them a job, even if the wages were less.

Joan didn't want to hire women and minors to do heavy physical work on the construction site, but he couldn't stand their repeated pleas, especially the immature faces in the crowd, who looked only twelve or thirteen years old, and they were considered his peers , It reminded him of the hard experience of trying to earn money by doing everything possible to raise tuition fees.

If there was such a job in front of me, I would work hard to get it.

Thinking of it this way, Joan couldn't bear to refuse, and used the "wind message technique" to convey people's requests to Lieutenant Colonel Vasa, asking him to make up his mind.

Joan was relieved by Lieutenant Colonel Vasa's reply.

Immediately tell those women and teenagers who are staring at me: "The Corps can hire you to do laundry, cooking, cleaning and other sundries, but you can only pay you 3 copper coins a day. If you are willing to accept it, come to me." Sign up here."

Although the wages were less than one-third of that of construction workers, the women and half-grown children cheered in unison, rushing to sign up in front of Joan.

Joan spent an entire hour, sweating profusely, and finally settled these female workers and child workers. Afterwards, the roster was collected and returned to the construction site. More than 200 laborers recruited earlier were digging the foundation and moving sand and soil.

Joan walked around the construction site, and went to chat with Major Green, who was in charge of supervising the construction.

Lieutenant Colonel Vassar swiped a pen on the map and circled a suitable piece of land as the site for building the fort. Major Green was in charge of the specific construction. Even the engineering drawings of the fort were drawn by this versatile scholar-type officer himself. of.

After seeing the drawings, Joan was deeply impressed. Major Green's handwriting was not inferior to that of professional engineers.

"The construction materials of the houses are nothing more than wood and masonry. The dormitories of officers and soldiers can be built with wood and simple fired mud embryos, but fortresses and city walls cannot be used. They must be built with stronger stone materials."

Major Green pointed to the drawing and introduced it to Joan.

"The problem now is that there is no ready-made quarry near the construction site. If we open the mountain and quarry ourselves, it will be too much trouble, and the construction period will be greatly delayed. Not only will we need to pay a lot of extra wages, but we must always be on guard against wolf gangs and even The Muspelheim border guards attacked our troops before the fortress was completed."

"That is to say, the top priority is to solve the problem of stone supply."

Joan heard Major Green's subtext, and thought of the "Stone Wand" given to him by Lieutenant Colonel Vassar last night, and he had a plan in mind.

"Mr. Green, the Jinsha River is less than half a mile away from the construction site. There are gravels near the river beach. If you have no objection, I plan to assign some workers to dig the gravel and transport the gravel to the construction site with poles or wheelbarrows. I can cast spells on it." This gravel is converted into sandstone, which is cut into neatly sized stone bricks along the way."

"Great, this is exactly the answer I want to hear!" Major Green patted the young mage's shoulder with a smile, "Can you give me a rough figure, how many stone bricks can be transformed at most every day?"

Joan made some calculations, using the wand to perform the "Stone Shaping Technique", a maximum of 20 cubic feet of stone can be processed each time, which is equivalent to 400 stone bricks. The energy stored in the wand can be used to cast spells 10 times a day, so a total of 4,000 stones can be processed. block of stone bricks.

"4,000 stone bricks? Well, a little less. According to my plan, a total of 60,000 to 70,000 bricks will be needed to build the fort and the wall."

"Fortunately, the current main projects are excavating foundations, harvesting wood, and building barracks. We haven't yet reached the stage of building fortresses and walls. During this period, let's stockpile more stone bricks, and there will be sufficient supplies when we need them in the future. .”

"No problem, Mr. Green, I will do as you say." Joan nodded readily.

That afternoon, Joan came to the construction site again.

The laborers arranged by Major Green have already piled up hills of gravel on the designated site.

When Joan came over, he heard the workers talking about the use of collecting so much gravel.

If it is used to reconcile clay to make mortar to bond bricks and tiles, it should also use fine river sand, these fist-sized pebbles are not useful at all.

In the midst of people's discussions, Joan walked to the gravel pile, took out the wand from the storage bag, held it in his hand, and softly recited the activation spell.

"Ondo!"

The Quenya word "Ondo" translates to Common as "stone".

Accompanied by Joan's chanting, the "Crimson Tears" inlaid on the top of the wand released a strong magical brilliance.

This magical power caused the magic mesh threads randomly distributed around the head of the wand to gather into a circle of regular ring-shaped stripes, which looked like Joan using the magic wand as a handle to spread out a crown woven with countless magic threads. The "big umbrella" covered a large pile of gravel.

At the same time, the local magic net that constitutes the "big umbrella" also maps the "orderliness" obtained by the reduction of entropy to the loose sand covered by it, instantly changing its physical form, turning the original size and shape The same pebbles, reshaped into a stack of bricks of uniform material and equal size.

No more, no less, exactly four hundred yuan!

Witnessing that the pile of sand in front of him instantly transformed into a pile of neatly stacked stone bricks, Joan nodded in satisfaction, and walked all the way with his wand, touching the pile of gravel with the head of the wand inlaid with "Crimson Tears" from time to time.

After a dazzling radiance of magic power shone, piles of gravel were successively transformed into square piles of bricks and lined up behind him.

Joan exhausted the energy of the wand in one breath, and the gravel accumulated in the field almost completely disappeared, replaced by 4000 regular and solid stones.

These people who have lived in the backcountry all their lives have never seen such a miracle, and they all exclaimed in amazement, and looked at Joan with a look of reverence.

People's adoring eyes made Joan secretly ashamed.

Turning gravel into stone is a trivial feat for a truly powerful wizard, especially if he does it with a wand made by someone else—not with his own power.

Now that the energy of the "Stone Shaping Wand" has been exhausted, Joann has nothing to do on the construction site, so he returns to his barracks and begins to work on a job that is more important to him than making bricks—try Use your own "mythical power" to improve several carefully selected 1st-level spells into "mythical spells".

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