Working Prophet

Entrusting Fausto to help purchase a large number of tents and blankets was only the first thing Li Yu did. He first ensured that the lizard people had the most basic shelter.

On the continent of Bratis, a typical farmhouse usually uses wood as the basic frame, and the frame is filled with branches stacked into a net, and then covered with a layer of clay to seal the outside, and the roof is mostly covered with straw or reeds. .

Most farmhouses have only one room, and the whole family lives together no matter how many people there are. Even poultry and domestic animals will enter the house, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and cattle. People inside provide a touch of warmth, but also bring in mosquitoes and annoying odors.

This is why many civilians always stink.

A small number of richer farmers have two or three rooms, which can be divided into bedrooms and sheds, and even have a storage room that can be used to store food.

But this may also expose them to passing bandits and thieves.

Although farmers almost always make their own fires to cook, there are no chimneys in the house.

The stove they used was not closed, and the room was often full of smoke when cooking, which looked like a sauna room. Li Yu choked and coughed all the time when he ate in the farmhouse for the first time.

However, the smoke will eventually escape through the skylight on the roof.

As for the furniture, it is even more pitiful. There are only tables, chairs and wooden boxes. Some families don't even have beds, so they can only squeeze together on a meadow.

Even so, living in a house is definitely more comfortable than living in a tent, let alone six or seven people crammed into a thin tent.

It's okay in the summer, but in the winter, people may freeze to death due to insufficient warmth.

That is to say, the living conditions of the lizard people before were too harsh, otherwise they would probably get into trouble because of the living environment soon.

In fact, during the five days when Li Yu was away, after the lizard people cleaned up the corpses and ruins on the territory, they couldn't wait to start building new houses, using their ancestral old craftsmanship.

As soon as Li Yu, the prophet, returned, he was immediately dragged by the enthusiastic lizard people to see the fruits of their labor.

He was surrounded by the crowd and came to the foot of a big tree. He raised his neck and looked at the tree house above his head.

The tree house is made entirely of branches, with the floor and walls filled with bark. There is also a layer of thatch on the roof, which should provide some protection from rain.

The most important thing is that the tree house is about ten meters high from the ground. The lizard people found a small trunk, cut off the excess branches, and cut grooves on it to make a ladder. A group of lizard people stepped on the groove like this, Climb happily up and down the tree.

As for Li Yu, he declined the invitation from the owner of the house to come up and sit.

Death is not terrible, but breaking a bone would be really troublesome. Li Yu still had a lot to do next, and he didn't want to wear a bandage all the time.

In addition, Li Yu also confirmed one thing, that is, he worried too much before, these lizard people should be quite difficult to be frozen to death, they can survive living in this kind of wooden house, and sleeping in tents should be no problem at all.

But Li Yu didn't intend to let these lizard people live in tents all the time, or let them build small tree houses that seemed to have many safety hazards and were not very convenient to get up and down.

This was the first batch of believers he recruited, and it was what Li Yu planned to use as a model for others to build a model village.

If other potential customers came to visit and saw that the believers on Saturday were still sleeping on the trees, they would immediately stop thinking about joining the church and run as far away as possible.

Even when MLM recruits newcomers, they still have a good meal to create a successful atmosphere. It is impossible to come up with a Datong shop with more than a dozen people, steamed buns and cabbage served.

Therefore, building a house was listed on Li Yu's to-do list, and it was still at the forefront.

When it comes to building houses, of course the ones modern people are most familiar with are houses with reinforced concrete structures.

Reinforced concrete, as the name suggests, is steel plus concrete.

In 1867, a Parisian horticulturalist discovered that adding steel rings to concrete could solve the problem of "brittle fracture" of concrete, which immediately made reinforced concrete the most popular composite material in the world (although the horticulturist himself did not know it at the time. What is brittle fracture, I don’t understand the principle, but it is enough to be useful).

Reinforced concrete structures have been popular until now and undoubtedly have many advantages, such as windproof, waterproof, fireproof, insect-proof and low enough cost.

Among them, although concrete is still unknown on the continent of Bratis, the production process is not complicated. As long as some old pottery is crushed and mixed into mortar (slaked lime and clay), cement can be produced. Add some stones and Gravel cement becomes concrete.

In the universe where Li Yu lives, cement and concrete have been used as building materials as early as the ancient Roman era. However, due to the problem of brittle fracture mentioned above, concrete can only be used for foundations, columns or domes, not for buildings. When used as beams, overhangs and other structures that need to withstand bending stress.

And with the fall of the Roman Empire, this technology was also lost. It was not discovered and recorded again until more than a thousand years later.

In contrast, the smelting of steel is much more troublesome. There is steel on the Bratis continent, but it is mainly used to forge weapons and armor, and a set of armor or steel weapons is often expensive.

The slightly poorer knights may not be able to match, otherwise Ilea would not have only provided cloth armor and spears to support the militia in the fief of Trinidad.

The cost is so high, it must not be used to build a house.

And if you want to make it yourself, Li Yu also consulted some information, and the more realistic method is probably the Bessemer converter steelmaking method.

This steelmaking technology was invented by an engineer named Bessemer in the 19th century, but the principle is actually not complicated. With the existing technical conditions of the Bratis continent, a primitive version can already be produced.

However, after thinking about it, Li Yu gave up this extremely attractive idea.

He definitely wants to refine steel, but not now.

The most urgent task at the moment is to solve the clothing, food and housing of these lizard people first.

Among them, clothes can also be pushed back, and the ready-made ones should be purchased first to deal with it. The rest of the food and housing are the most urgent things.

It takes too much time to make steel now. Even if we start now, the lizard people may not be able to live in reinforced concrete houses when winter comes.

After careful consideration, Li Yu still chose the brick and wood structure for the batch of new houses to be built.

Sorry, this chapter is late, I have been working on information, everyone go to bed early.