For the Barony of the Valley, summer brings not only hot weather, but also a busy atmosphere every day.

The winter wheat sown last winter has reached the harvest season. Taking advantage of the fine weather, District Officer Scott directed the farmers to harvest grain from the fields.

Farmers who had not yet sub-leased their land or who had not sown winter wheat at home were also assigned to wield sickles in the wheat fields to harvest grain. In return for their hard work, their employers would provide them with food for the day and load them with a pound of rye after dinner.

Bread to take home.

In the valley village south of the wooden castle, the civil affairs team headed by Cooper was accompanying Lord Art to inspect the territory.

Gujiandi Village has become a wealthy settlement second only to Mubao. The earliest residents living here are not only renting the most fertile land, but also many of their relatives are in the army.

Or they receive a salary from the civil affairs. Even if no one in the family receives a salary, they can barely make ends meet with the mature soil they rent.

Gujiandi Village is no longer the simple shack area it was at the beginning. Many farmers have built new houses on the original site. Although most of them are just wooden houses with thatched roofs, they are already considered luxurious compared to the previous shacks. Even

The poorer farmers have at least renovated their original shacks that were well ventilated.

The village is equipped with mills, barns, stables, bakeries, blacksmith shops, etc. Although the so-called blacksmith shop is just an old man with a gray beard and his young apprentice repairing farm tools and making sickles for farmers.

Replenishing iron pots in exchange for some food to survive; although the so-called mill only has a stone mill driven by human power; although the bakery is just a sideline business of Lawrence's wife after farming...

Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs.

"...Dear Sir, as you can see, we have basically everything we should have here, but the only thing missing is a small church, even if it is just a small wooden house, the villagers have to pray every time

It is very inconvenient to go to the wooden castle church, so the villagers asked me to make a request to you, hoping that you would allow us to build a small church by ourselves." A middle-aged man following behind said respectfully to Art, who was patrolling the outer village.

.

This middle-aged man is the newly appointed head of the Valley Village. His name is Ruben. He is about thirty years old and was once a patrolman under Art. This unlucky guy was in the battle to recapture Alsburg two years ago.

He lost a sole of his foot in the accident. After being injured and quitting the patrol, he was placed in the valley and became an ordinary farmer with a disability.

This middle-aged man was down-to-earth and hard-working. He begged the old carpenter Bud to make him a prosthetic foot to put on his leg. Then he worked hard every day with his two real and one fake feet. After two years, he lived a good life.

It's not bad, and it has some reputation in the village.

After the valley became a barony, the civil affairs officials selected a reliable person in each of the three villages to be the village chief to manage the daily affairs of the village. Reuben was selected by Cooper because he was from the army and was hard-working.

Art also had a good impression of this "veteran" from the patrol period. When he heard Ruben mention his request to build a church in the village, he thought for a moment and replied: "Ruben, your request is not excessive.

I cannot refuse the believers’ request for God’s blessing.”

After Art finished speaking, he turned to Cooper and said: "Cooper, when you go back, discuss with Father Hamish to see if you can build a small church in each of the villages under my jurisdiction. It doesn't need to be too big.

It can accommodate about ten people for worship and prayer.”

"Master, there are not many problems in building a chapel, but what we lack is not a chapel, but the priest who presides over the church. The citizens have requested this matter more than once before, but we are unable to build a new one due to the lack of clergy.

Church." Cooper replied helplessly.

Art did not want to introduce too many clergy in the valley. Hamish and Robert could admit that Art had absolute power over the clergy in the valley barony, but others could not guarantee it, so he has not

A request was made to the Tyniec County Church for additional clergy.

However, as the number of territorial residents continues to increase, this will be an unavoidable problem.

"Cooper, you ordered each village to build a small church first. Remember, the church in the village should not be too big. As for the church priest, I have discussed it with Father Hamish. He will come from the valley.

Select a few of the most devout and suitable believers to receive theological education in the parish school. After completing theological education, Father Hamish will grant them the position of deacon and assist Father Hamish in managing those small churches."

"But deacons do not have the authority to confirm, hear confession, preside over the priest, or anoint the sick."

"If you need these ceremonies, just ask Father Hamish. Now that the simple carriage road from the wooden castle to the valley has been built, I will equip the wooden castle church with a two-wheeled donkey cart. Father Hamish

It is also convenient to come to the valley..."

............

After inspecting Gujiandi Village, Art and his party continued southbound, following the newly built carriage road, passing by Kutim and the newly built villages in the south, and arrived at the bend of the river six miles away from Gujiandi Village.

Down the gentle slope.

This is already the southernmost inhabited end of the Barony of the Valley. A small horse farm is built on a large piece of flat land on the north side of the gentle slope. There are no fences around the horse farm. There is a small wooden house for the wranglers near the gentle slope. Next to the wooden house is a row of

Fifteen military horses were snorting and eating fodder in an extremely simple stable.

On the south side of the gentle slope, the river turns here and suddenly narrows, and the river flow speed increases in vain.

Along the river bank, a row of three large wooden houses has been built, and a large group of people by the river are installing several hydraulic hammers and waterwheels in place.

Yes, this is the workshop area planned by Yate. Currently, two water-driven hammers used by weapons workshops and a water-driven mill used by mills have been transported here.

Weapons craftsman Dim and tool craftsman Luka are commanding the war slaves under the construction officer to install the hydraulic equipment step by step.

Dim and Luca have now fully adapted to life in the valley. Due to their status as craftsmen and superb skills, they are the most popular and respected people here, so after more than a year, they have come to like it here.

After the promotion of the valley civil affairs, old Bud, the original head of the crafts workshop, felt unable to take charge of the entire valley workshop and took the initiative to resign. Art retained Old Bud's salary as a manager and transferred the Swabian craftsmen Diem and Lu

Ka was promoted to industrial adjutant, and clerk Neil was promoted to steward. The three of them were responsible for the overall management of the craftsmen's workshops in the entire valley.

Art looked at the shirtless men who were carrying heavy equipment to the river with wooden poles, and asked the construction adjutant Geer: "Ger, are these war slaves and prisoners who are building the workshop area?"

Geer stepped forward and replied: "Sir, after receiving the emergency mission from you, we transferred all the war slaves responsible for the construction here. However, after several selections by the army, we only have thirty-three left.

There are war slaves and prisoners, and even the six peasant soldiers guarding the war slaves personally went to the battle to help, but there are still insufficient manpower."

"So with the consent of the old housekeeper, we recruited more than thirty landless residents from the nearest newly built village to help build the workshop area. We provided them with two meals of food every day and took away a pound of food when they finished work.

It’s the same as being hired to harvest grain.”

"Are there any signs of the war slaves escaping or resisting?" Art asked.

Geer replied: "When we were building Beiguan Army Fort last year, two guys couldn't stand the hard work. They stole food and tried to escape, but we caught them and beheaded them. Since then, no one dared to escape, and I

We have also placed eyes and ears among the war slaves, so any disturbance will be noticed by us..."

"Very good! But we cannot blindly suppress these people. Not to mention the prisoners, but the war slaves who were captured due to the war must be treated a little more kindly. As long as they work hard and accept reform, we must also treat them

You must be dignified and don't lack their food supply on weekdays. After all, some of these people may join the army."

"However, if there are people who do not want to repent, or even have evil intentions, they will be severely punished. If there are people who dare to openly defy, rebel and abscond, they will be killed directly!"

"Yes!" Geer responded loudly.

Art calmed down his anger and walked towards the first wooden workshop cabin.

This is the weapons workshop, and it is also the largest wooden house in the entire workshop area. There are two furnaces, a blower and three special large anvils. The weapon craftsman Dim is debugging and being installed on the large anvils by the craftsmen.

of water driven hammer.

The walls around the wooden house are covered with various tools, ranging from hammers, punches, chisels, steel files, steel chisels, clamps to charcoal and firewood.

Seeing Art entering the room, Dim pulled away and came to Art, bowed and saluted, and said: "Dear Baron, welcome to the weapons workshop for inspection."

Art bent down slightly and smiled in return.

"Mr. Dim, thank you for your hard work." Art also expressed a high degree of courtesy to this skilled Swabian weapon craftsman.

"This is what I should do. Lord Baron, the main part of this weapons workshop has been completed, and the water-driven hammer and forging equipment are now being debugged. The water-driven hammer purchased by Mr. Salter from outside is in conjunction with

The size of the original forging hammer and anvil in the Valley Craftsman's Workshop does not match the size, so I am trying to modify it."

"How long will it take to start making weapons and armor?"

Dim nodded and thought for a while, then raised his head and replied: "It can start operating within a week, but this weapons workshop has just been built, and there will definitely be various problems in the initial stage, so the workshop may frequently shut down for maintenance. At present, the weapons workshop

In addition to Luca and I, there are five weapon craftsmen and six laborers in the workshop. Once we get on track, we should be able to make more than ten sets of weapons or a set of simple half-body plate armor and an iron nose helmet every day.

We should be able to make more weapons and armor in the future.”

"It doesn't matter, the initial run-in is necessary."

Dim didn't understand the meaning of the word "run-in", but he understood what Art meant, "Baron, once this hydraulic hammer workshop is built, we can mass-produce half-body plate armor and full-body plate armor.

There are too many parts and we don’t have enough craftsmen, but we can try. In addition, we can make the swords, axes, spears and arrows you need according to the needs of your army."

"But you have to ask your caravan to provide sufficient pig iron raw materials for the weapons workshop. The pig iron for forging weapons is best sold from the east of Swabia, where the pig iron is more suitable for making weapons and armor."

The main business of the weapons workshop is to make weapons and armor for the army. At present, the Art army only has two sources of weapons and armor, either from seizures on the battlefield or from outings.

Seizures on the battlefield are full of uncertainty, not to mention whether the battle can be won. Even if the battle is won, the weapons and armor seized are of different shapes, good and bad. Most of the weapons and armor purchased outside are expensive and the supply is unstable.

Now that the territory has an energy-producing weapons workshop, half of the army's armament problem can be solved.

The weapons workshop also serves as a blacksmith shop when making weapons for the army. In addition to its main business, the workshop will make plows, hoes, sickles and other iron tools for civil affairs. These iron tools will be bought to the citizens and even

Earn some money through caravan sales to maintain the daily operation of the workshop.

After chatting with the craftsmen and craftsmen in the weapon workshop for a while, Art then visited the textile workshop, brewery, and large mill downstream of the weapon workshop.

Establishing a textile workshop was not Art's ultimate goal. In his vision, the textile workshop was just to lay the foundation for the mass production of "paper products" in the future, because he found that many tools, equipment and processes in the textile workshop could

After slight improvements, it was used to produce "paper products", so Yatli overcame everyone's objections and introduced textile workshops that were not suitable for the valley into the workshop area, and asked the caravan to purchase raw materials from outside and recruit craftsmen to start production. Anyway, no matter what

Both the army and the people need cloth and clothing.

The brewery is also a workshop that Yate focuses on. It mainly produces beer and wine in the early stage. The raw materials for beer are very rich. After all, the valley can produce a large amount of high-quality wheat for beer processing, and the beer brewing technology is also relatively mature.

As long as there are enough hops, a skilled brewer with three to five laborers can brew five to six hundred pounds of beer in one day. There is absolutely no need to worry about the sales of the beer. The beer produced in the brewery will never be able to pass the Beiguan Army Fort.

;

As for wine production, it has to be delayed, because the valley only started planting on the gentle slopes and loose sandy soil on both sides of the valley last winter, and it is impossible to purchase grapes from outside, so it must wait until the territory's grapes are mass-produced.

Make wine.

Art also envisions making distilled spirits in the future.

There is also a water-powered mill under construction to the south of the brewery, which will become the largest mill after its completion.

At present, Art is short of money and lacks mature and reliable workshop talents, so the workshop area has temporarily established these four small workshops. After completing the expansion and successfully surviving the upcoming civil strife,
Chapter completed!