Travel through time and become a member of the Warhammer Empire

Building a house for yourself still counts it as working hours. How can such a good thing happen?

Regardless of what this Rick guy's true thoughts are, the workers in Oster County have begun using wood to build houses for themselves.

In the most standard Ostland style, the doors of all houses face south, with windows on both sides. First, a pit of more than 20 centimeters was dug downwards, and a most basic fortress was built using soil, wood and stone.

This is a characteristic building of Ostland. Apart from being ugly, it is warm and safe.

However, while they were building the house, Windlow also made new requirements. Businessmen have a habit of getting others to agree first and then slowly raising the price.

That is, every household has to dig a pit in their own yard to use as a toilet and to store feces.

For the people of Oster who like to poop everywhere, such a request is very strange, but it is not unacceptable.

Just think of it as this Rick guy liking cleanliness, and it doesn’t take much time to dig a big hole.

In addition to the toilet, Windlow also arranged a special area for poop.

Hire someone to collect feces from every household every day, pile them together, stir them from time to time, and after fermentation they will become the best fertilizer.

Agriculture throughout the empire depended on forests, something Windlow had noticed since he was a child.

The farming model of all the villages in the empire was to cut down forests and burn them on the spot, using the fertility created by the burning to grow crops. The soil fertility created by this backward method would only last for a few years at most.

However, a few years are enough, and most of the villages in the empire will be invaded by beastmen or suffer from war and population loss, and the newly opened arable land will grow trees again and turn into forests.

Then the deforestation continued, completing the empire's most basic agricultural cycle.

However, here, Windlow referred to the experience of Aurora and combined the two things of manure processing and soil composting together, that is, stir-frying the manure.

Then by adding dead grass and bone meal, placing it in a large vat and boiling it and cooling it, the resulting manure can ensure the fertility of the farmland for a long time.

But as for the matter of boiling manure, not only Windlow, but even the local Oster people may not be able to tolerate it.

This manure storage area was also arranged by Windlow in a place far away from the village and the river. Apart from the need to compact the ground to prevent the manure from being lost when it rains, there is no other construction requirement.

Now that the defecation problem has been solved, we have to solve the eating problem.

Since the manure is still being produced, and the land in Osterland is full of various gravels, it is simply unrealistic to start sowing directly.

The source of food still follows the traditional way of the Ostling people: fishing and hunting.

A market area was set up in the center of the residential area, where subsequent transactions could take place.

Fishing and hunting areas were designated for the locals, so they knew how to fish and hunt on their own.

In addition to eating it themselves, they are also willing to sell the excess food in the market.

People who are busy frying feces can buy food with the wages they earn from frying feces, and the entire market is using the goods that Windlow brought at the beginning as a general equivalent.

The division of labor also gradually took shape.

Fishermen and hunters put their prey in the market to trade, and the people of Oster also understood why Rick liked to trade.

By obtaining food through trading, you don't have to hunt yourself, thus saving time for other things.

Builders, lumberjacks, water carriers, this new colony began to form occupational division of labor and monetary transactions.

In this way, under the invisible big hand, the village's economic development gradually rose.

As for Windlow and Mousse, they were naturally not idle while waiting for the population to move in. They also hired people to build their own cabins.

Except for the fact that it had no yard, it was no different from other people's cabins.

Inside the room, Mousse took out a piece of paper. The words written by the Lord of Fear were crooked, but fortunately she could understand them.

"I've calculated that you've been losing money on opening up such a colony. This is not good news. If you run out of money, I won't lend you any money."

Mousse's calculations were correct, and this was the only thing that made Windlow feel relieved. However, as a dark elf, it was normal for her not to know the internal class structure of the empire.

I have some free time today, so I can talk to her about some of the most basic things called class.

The classes in Dark Elf society are very simple, there are only three: slaves, nobles, and the Witch King.

The Witch King cannot be counted in class mobility due to his unshakable position.

However, the slaves and nobles in the dark elf society are constantly changing.

Slaves were responsible for production, and nobles were responsible for fighting. Those who could fight and win became nobles, and those who could not fight or were defeated and captured became slaves.

As long as you can defeat others, you will be superior to others. All dark elf nobles are military nobles.

Bretonnia is not much different from the Dark Elves, with only two differences. First, there are only two classes: slaves and nobles. Second, in Bretonnia, slaves are called peasants.

As for the class situation in the empire, it should be the most complicated in the entire world.

The lower classes were: tenant farmers, peasants, workers, merchants, sergeants, barons, and graduates of the Imperial University.

The upper class is: knights, nobles above the rank of viscount, the Imperial School of Mages, the School of Engineers, and electors.

Needless to say, Windlo's identity is just an ordinary businessman, and his status is only slightly higher than that of farmers and workers. However, in the eyes of the nobles, there is no difference between merchants like him and workers and farmers, and they are all used for exploitation.

Now he has made money, but his political status has not improved, and he has no power at all.

Wealth without power as its support is external and can be easily plundered by others, so what Windlow needs now is power.

“Where does the power come from?”

After saying a lot of things that Mousse couldn't understand at all, Wendlow finally asked a question that Mousse knew the answer to.

“Power comes from violence.”

That's right. What Windlow has to do now is to contribute part of his wealth to exchange for violence, and then use this violence to consolidate his power.

When she heard the plan, the gloom on Mousse's face disappeared immediately. It was her nature to want to climb higher than anyone else and have a more important position.

In this case, whether it is in the dark elf society or in the imperial society, she will do her best to seize the opportunity to succeed.