Wizard Farming Guide

Chapter 23 Architectural Composition

"Sir, is this...is this really our future house?"

Luke and four other villagers huddled around a blueprint, staring at the exquisite house sketches on the paper, their eyes gazing in fascination, their voices trembling.

Rhodes, standing beside them, nodded, his expression unchanged despite their astonishment.

After all, if his house design blueprints were placed in front of survival builders from his previous life, they would most likely receive this kind of evaluation.

Hey, isn't that a coffin box? Who has such bad taste?

The building has a floor area of ​​100 square meters, and the overall structure is a cuboid 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 also features a fireplace, a kitchen, and a bathroom.

This is a house he designed for ordinary villagers. Although it is not particularly special, it is simple in structure and easy to build.

It is formed by assembling flat bricks and then pouring on a metal bonding agent.

This is much easier than building a house by plastering mud and mortar.

It's like assembling building blocks; with the structural blueprints, anyone can complete it.

Although the houses were simple, compared to the general situation of the time, Rod could understand the villagers' reactions.

Happiness always comes from comparison.

Along the way, passing through various villages, Rod also learned about the living conditions of ordinary villagers.

Their houses were often longhouses consisting of three parts: livestock pens, living quarters, and storage chests.

It was about 70 square meters in size, and the walls were made of stone, clay and thatch, making it unsightly and drafty.

There were no walls separating the three areas, and the room was always smelly.

These were families who could afford to raise livestock and live comfortably; many serfs often only had a cramped shack that they couldn't even stand up straight in.

Rhodes certainly didn't want his future castle to be surrounded by such a bunch of monstrous things.

He designed the current house plans for each person based on their individual identities.

The prisoners' housing was a large factory building, where they lived in communal quarters.

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

Serfs lived in detached houses with one bedroom and one living room, ordinary villagers lived in two-bedroom houses, soldiers and knights' squires lived in larger houses, and Noah and Holmes lived in two-story houses.

It's basically just stacking coffin boxes, but it's not a big problem.

After overcoming the initial difficulties, with the help of the alchemical binder, these people will be able to expand and modify the existing structure on their own.

Rod is currently describing the requirements for building the houses to the five villagers.

These five people, including Luke, were among the few literate villagers.

At least they can understand blueprints, and can later act as supervisors to guide other villagers on how to build houses.

"Sir, do you mean we have to dig up the ground for all the lines on this blueprint?"

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

The drawing showed Rhodes's division of the living area, except that it had many intersecting lines.

"That's right." Rhodes looked over.

That's the underground pipeline he designed.

After the house is built, various troubles related to daily life will arise, such as water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, and so on.

Since there's a toilet, a sewer system is essential, and it's perfect for connecting to the Demon Field—killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, Rod planned to build a boiler to utilize the heat from burning large amounts of trees.

It can provide hot water and underfloor heating to residents' homes.

In order to ensure smooth drainage, a water supply pipeline connecting the mountain lake also needs to be built.

The drawings show the routes of these three pipelines after they are installed.

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 steps, the villagers, who had finished cleaning up the residential area, started working again.

The pipeline route was covered with a fossil-based mud softener and then quickly excavated.

The men were responsible for digging sand and clay with shovels, piling them up, and then the women around them used molds to press them into blocks and poured in a binder to shape them.

After the sandstone bricks and clay bricks were formed, they were dragged in piles by horses to the construction site, where they were used to build the basic structure of a building.

After touring the site, Rod confirmed that the entire construction plan was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Through alchemical magic, his current labor shortage problem has been well compensated for.

At the current pace, the residential area for 400 people will be basically completed in about ten days.

After resolving his housing issue, Rod had to start thinking about another big problem ahead of time.

Regarding the institutional arrangements for subsequent territories.

So far, these four hundred men have been following the planned command system of their lord.

Rhodes provided them with daily necessities such as food, clothing, and tools, and paid them a certain salary each month.

With him as their lord, the villagers had no need to worry about making a living.

Just follow his plans and arrangements wholeheartedly.

But this system cannot be maintained indefinitely.

Once the territory is established and the population grows, most residents, except for the army, will need to break away from his command system and make a living through their own independent work.

Therefore, Rhodes needs to create jobs and refine the division of labor.

Talent is a problem.

These residents and serfs all had some basic skills in carpentry, tailoring, and other crafts, but lacked expertise and needed further professional training.

The territory is not large at the moment, so there is no need to consider officials to manage it yet; Rhodes can manage it himself with the crows.

Most importantly, it must be able to sell goods to foreign entities to ensure that the territory has sufficient fiscal revenue, which is the only way to maintain long-term operation.

After writing down his plans for the territory's future development on paper, Rhode stretched his arms.

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

The troops had already assembled in that direction, awaiting his inspection.

If we sort the matters of the territory according to their importance, we can divide them into three levels.

Villagers and territories are the lowest level, above them is the army.

Having violence at your fingertips is the most important guarantee for gaining a foothold in the North.

The fifty militia units that were formed later were not Rhodes's focus due to a lack of magical potions.

They simply distributed the leather armor, shields, and spears that the army used to have to them to maintain the stability of the ranks and to serve as reserve soldiers.

He is currently working alongside the villagers and is not part of the regular army.

Arriving before the army, and looking at the group of youths who had come with him from Sword Tomb, Rhode used [Eye of True Sight] to check their condition.

After more than two months of training and nourishment along the way, the 52 soldiers have reached the physical standards of elite troops.

He was dressed in chainmail, holding a steel shield and spear, and stood tall and straight.

Once the Rosa Shield and Spear Formation is formed, it will be sufficient to reach the first echelon of the kingdom's ordinary army.

The twelve knight squires have relatively high base attributes, so the improvement is not significant.

However, Rhodes estimates that with high-quality barley as their staple food and knight training, they could be promoted to knights and enter the first-tier transcendent realm within one or two years.

Finally, he looked at Noah and Holmes; there was a clear difference in strength between the first-tier knights.

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

Once surrounded by soldiers, it is difficult to withstand continuous attacks from multiple angles, and it is easy to fall into a situation of defeat and capture.

Noah is currently working to break through this stage.

Above that are the elite knights, such as Holmes and the rogue knight Peggy.

They have mastered their own strength and possess superb combat skills.

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

Even facing hundreds of thieves head-on, they can be defeated one by one with ease.

At the pinnacle of the knights are the Extreme Knights, who have fully unleashed their power and reached the limits of human potential.

The combat skills honed through countless trials have long since become second nature.

As long as they are not surrounded by elite forces, a fully armed Extreme Knight can break through a thousand-strong army single-handedly, making him the king of cavalry on the battlefield.

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

However, with the help of the wizard's insight, even when facing the Extreme Knight, Rhode can easily deal with it.

In one-on-one combat, they ultimately emerged victorious.

But it's impossible for him to break through the enemy's defenses alone like his opponent; his stamina simply doesn't allow it.

(End of this chapter)