Chapter 23 Architectural Composition
"Sir, is this really our future house?"

Luke and four other villagers gathered around a drawing, staring at the exquisite house sketch on the paper with fascinated eyes and trembling voices.

Rhodes, who was standing next to them, nodded, his expression unchanged despite their amazement.

After all, if the house blueprints he designed were placed in front of the survival building players of his previous life, he would most likely receive such an evaluation.

Wow, isn’t this a coffin box? Who is so tasteless?
The building area is one hundred square meters, the overall structure is a rectangular block with a sloping roof.

The interior is divided into three rooms by walls - the master bedroom, the second bedroom and the living room.

The room is also equipped with a fireplace, kitchen and bathroom.

This is the house he designed for ordinary villagers. Although it has no special features, it has a simple structure and is easy to build.

Use flat bricks to build it up, then pour alchemical binder on it to form it.

This is much easier than building a house by mixing plaster and mud.

It is equivalent to playing with building blocks. With the structural drawings, any normal person can complete it.

Although the houses were simple, compared to the general situation of that era, Rhodes could understand the reactions of the villagers.

Happiness always comes from contrast.

Passing through various villages along the way, Rhodes also learned about the living conditions of ordinary villagers.

Their houses are often longhouses consisting of three parts: livestock pens, living beds and storage boxes.

It is about 70 square meters in size, with walls made of stone, clay and thatch, which is ugly and leaky.

There are no walls separating the three areas, and the house is always smelly.

These were families that could afford to raise livestock and lead a good life. Many serfs often only had a shack in which they could not even stand upright.

Rhodes didn't want his future castle to be surrounded by so many ghost things.

Depending on the identities of different people, he designed the current house drawings respectively.

The prisoners' houses were large factories where they lived in groups.

In the future, the factory building can be converted into warehouses, factories and other facilities on the spot.

The serfs' houses were detached one-bedroom and one-living room houses, the ordinary villagers' houses were two-bedroom and one-living room houses, the soldiers' and knights' attendants' houses were even bigger, and Noah and Holmes' houses were two-story buildings.

Actually it's just a stack of coffin boxes, but it's not a big problem.

After overcoming the initial difficulties, with the help of alchemical binders, these people will be able to expand and transform the original foundation themselves in the future.

Rod is currently describing the requirements for house construction to the five villagers.

These five people, including Luke, are the few villagers who can read.

At least you can understand the blueprints, and later you can act as a supervisor to guide other villagers on how to build houses.

"Sir, do you mean that all the routes on this blueprint need to be dug up?"

After hearing the description of the house, Luke picked up another drawing and asked about it.

The blueprint showed Rhodes' division of the living area, except that there were many more intersecting lines on it.

"That's right." Rhodes looked over.

Above is the underground pipeline he designed.

After the house is built, various troubles necessary for life will follow, such as water, excretion, garbage and so on.

Since there is a bathroom, a sewer is naturally necessary, and it can be connected to the Demon Field, killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, when burning large amounts of trees, Rhodes also plans to build a boiler to utilize the heat.

Hot water and floor heating can be provided to residents' houses.

In order to keep the sewers unobstructed, water pipes connecting the mountains and lakes must also be built.

The blueprint shows the routes of these three pipelines after they are laid.

To avoid damaging the foundation, villagers need to dig up the ground before building houses and shape the sandstone pipes in advance.

After confirming the next plans one by one, the villagers who had cleaned up the residential area started working again.

The route for laying the pipeline was poured with a softener that turned the rocks into mud and was quickly dug up.

The men are responsible for digging sand and clay with shovels. After piling them up, the women around them press them into blocks with molds and pour in binding agents to form them.

After the sandstone and clay bricks were formed, they were dragged in piles to the construction site by bristle horses and piled up to form the prototype of the building.

After a tour, Rhodes confirmed that the entire construction plan was proceeding in an orderly manner.

With the help of alchemical witchcraft, his current labor shortage problem was well compensated.

At the current rate of progress, the residential area for 400 people will be basically completed in a dozen days. After solving the housing problem, Rhodes had to consider another big problem in advance.

Regarding the institutional arrangements for subsequent territories.

So far, these four hundred people have followed the planning and command system of him as the lord.

That is, Rhodes provided them with daily necessities such as food, clothing, tools, etc., and paid them a certain salary every month.

With him as the lord's absolute guarantee, the villagers don't have to worry about their lives.

Just concentrate on following his plans and arrangements.

But this system cannot be maintained forever.

When the territory is built and the population expands, most of the residents, except the military, will need to leave his command system and live by their own independent work.

To this end, Rhodes needs to create jobs and refine the division of labor.

Talent is a problem.

These residents and serfs have little knowledge of carpentry, tailoring and other jobs and need further professional training.

The territory was not large at present, so there was no need to consider the officials in charge. Rhodes could handle it by himself with the help of the crows.

The most important thing is to be able to sell goods externally and ensure that the territory has sufficient financial revenue. Only in this way can it maintain long-term operation.

After recording the development plans for the territory one by one on paper, Rhode raised his arms and stretched his body.

After relaxing his mind, he walked out of the residential area.

The troops in that direction have already assembled, waiting for his inspection.

If the matters of the territory are ranked according to importance, they can be divided into three levels.

Villagers and fiefdoms are the lowest level, and above them are the military.

Holding violence is the most important guarantee for gaining a foothold in the North.

The fifty-man militia formed later was not Rhodes' focus due to the lack of magical potion nourishment.

They simply distributed the army's former leather armor, shields and spears to them to maintain the stability of the team and serve as reserve troops.

Now he is working with the villagers and is not part of the regular army.

Arriving in front of the army, Rhodes used the [Eye of True Vision] to confirm the status of the group of young men who came with him from Jianling.

After more than two months of training and nourishment, the 52 soldiers' physical fitness has reached elite standards.

He was wearing chain mail, holding a steel shield and spear, and standing tall.

After forming the Rosa Shield and Spear Formation, it was enough to reach the first echelon of the ordinary army in the kingdom.

The twelve knight attendants have relatively high basic attributes, so the improvement is not obvious.

But Rhodes estimated that with high-quality barley as their staple food and knight training, they could be promoted to knights and enter the first level of transcendence within one or two years.

Finally, he looked at Noah and Holmes. There was also an obvious gap in strength between the first-level knights.

The weakest are ordinary knights, who have not yet mastered the power of a knight and whose combat skills are not very advanced.

Once surrounded by soldiers, it would be difficult to resist continuous attacks from multiple angles and it would be easy to be defeated and captured.

Noah is currently working on breaking through this stage.

Next up are the elite knights, and Holmes and the rogue knight Peggy are at this stage.

He has mastered his own strength and has superb fighting skills.

As long as they don't encounter regular troops, they can roam freely in villages and countryside.

You can easily defeat hundreds of thieves one by one when facing them.

At the top of the knights are the Extreme Knights, who have fully tapped their own strength and reached the limits of the human body.

The honed fighting skills have long since become physical instincts.

As long as he doesn't encounter an elite encirclement and suppression, a fully armed Extreme Knight can break through a legion of thousands of people alone, and is the king of cavalry on the battlefield.

Rhodes' current situation is rather special. Judging by the knight profession, he can only be regarded as an ordinary knight with average strength.

But with the help of the wizard's insight, Rhodes could easily deal with the Extreme Knight even if he met him.

In a one-on-one combat, the ultimate winner.

But it is impossible for him to defeat the army alone like the opponent, because his physical strength does not support it.

(End of this chapter)