I built a manor in the Middle Ages

Chapter 103 Initial Wooden Fort (15)

Before officially starting construction, Luc spent a day moving all the supplies out of the wooden house.

It would have been fine if he hadn't put them together, but once he did, Luc realized that he had too many supplies.

Not to mention the vast quantities of bread, cheese, vegetable oil, and other foods, there were also weapons, armor, farm tools, sheepskins, deerskins, pottery, fishing nets, and straw raincoats, filling half of the temporary shelter and not yet being completely transported out. This was the first time everyone had realized the wealth of their master.
Luc's cabin has always been a forbidden area on the estate.

Except for Old Ike and Julie, almost no one dared to go in.

When Amy accused Hans, she only dared to wait outside the house.

"Master, put the rest of this into the cellar, which is now empty."

"Okay." Luc nodded. "It seems that when we expand the wooden fort, we need to build a utility room."

The plan of the wooden fort was similar to what Ryan had in mind.

The third floor will be Luc's exclusive space, with the entire floor being a bedroom.

In addition to the living rooms for the two maids, the second floor also includes a utility room.

After the cellar is incorporated into the lobby on the first floor, it will serve as a restaurant, kitchen, cellar, living room, etc.

Of course, this is the initial plan, and it will need to be changed depending on the situation during actual implementation.

After all the furniture, including the wooden table, was moved out, Luke immediately led everyone to dismantle the roof.

It is being demolished in the same way it was built.

The rafters, purlins, and beams were removed one by one. In order to ensure the sturdiness of the roof, Luc had put a lot of effort into it, but now it has become one of the difficulties that needs to be overcome.
Luc took the lead and stood on the roof, using a shovel to poke away the clay between the gaps. He originally wanted to use tools to pull out the nails where they were embedded, but after trying several times, he found it more difficult than expected. He took a lot of effort to pull one out, but it turned out to be deformed.

In desperation, I had to use a saw to cut through the joints one by one.

Rows of wood were carried down. The burly Hans took the heavy wood with both hands and threw it aside. The area of ​​the wooden house had to be expanded, and these beams with fixed distances would become useless and could only be burned as firewood.

There was also the demolition of the chimney, the second-floor compartment, and the north wall of the house.

It took a whole day to dismantle it. It was not until the evening that the details were finally polished. The once magnificent wooden house instantly became a leaky empty space.
At night, Luc and Ryan retreated to their temporary home, eating a simple meal of dried meat. Luc said anxiously, "I hope it can be built in two months."

The next morning, Luc, who had always followed the construction order of starting with the simple and then moving on to the difficult, decided to expand the cellar first.

For easy access, the cellar itself is not far behind the wooden house, and further back is the well.

The expansion of the cellar was extremely simple and crude. Some foundations were dug to the north, and after two days of slightly increasing the area and rebuilding a new wall, a steep roof was built outside the wall slanting to the north. The steep roof was made up of rows of wooden boards embedded together. The upper part was nailed to the wall, and the lower part was hammered into the soil with thicker wooden stakes. Right-angled triangular wooden walls were also embedded on both sides.

There is a door connecting the north wall of the wooden house to the triangular house. Apart from that, the triangular house has no heating facilities.

Inside the triangular house is a cellar covered with a wooden door.
Because the wooden house is located on a high ground, after opening the wooden door, two steps were built with stones.

Luke went there twice in person and found that the triangular house was basically fine except that it was a little dark.

So, a square skylight was sawed out of the gable roof, and a push-pull switch was made with ropes and sticks. Because it was a sloping roof, it could be reached with a single hand. When needed, it was propped up with a stick, allowing sunlight to stream into the house, forming a beam of light. The dust particles were faintly visible in the beam, and the room became brighter. "The cellar is finished."

Luc opened the sheepskin bag and took a sip of boiled water. The real difficulty had just begun.

The cabin needs to be three stories high, which means it needs to be doubled in height (the original cabin height was about one and a half stories).

The higher it is, the more wood is needed. Linehans spent a week cutting down the necessary wood and repairing it. On the other side, Luke led the team to finish firing the red bricks.

The height was a problem, but it did not pose a problem for Luc. After he and Ryan built two higher triangular wooden ladders overnight, Luc directed everyone to build a pulley device in the open space.

Pulleys have always been an important device for overcoming the difficulties of high-rise buildings.

In fact, Luc had already built a simple pulley - the shaft of the well.

The two are similar. First, build the chassis of the pulley on the ground, use nails to clamp two wooden pieces in the chassis, take a ladder and climb to the top, and insert a wooden stick horizontally between the two wooden pieces.

Like a well bearing, a larger and stronger bearing is fixed on the wooden stick to ensure its sturdiness. The old method is to use rattan ropes and mortise and tenon structures in combination.

Luc and Ryan stood on a triangular wooden ladder. Below them, a group of peasant women tugged at the ropes that passed through pulleys and dangled from the other end of the log. As Old Eck's muffled horn rang out, the peasant women, not much thinner than the men, yanked the log into the air with a groaning sound.
Luc and the other man took the wood and started piling it up.

A true noble couldn't actually participate in labor, otherwise he would be ridiculed by the other nobles, but Luc didn't care. Aside from increasing the height, the construction of the wooden wall was the same as before. The experienced two spent eight days building all four walls to a height of twenty feet!
Looking at the tall wooden and brick walls, Luc took a deep breath.

At this stage, one's main assets are readily available natural resources and free labor.

This house will be a symbol of power and status after he becomes a knight.

The walls were built, and the next step was to build the roof and internal partitions, but Luc suddenly stopped building - it was the end of March and time to transplant the thorn saplings.

Under the increasingly warm morning sun, Luc came to the northern fruit fields. The fruit fields covered by the forest had been cultivated. The day before sowing, he asked Robert to turn the soil again to ensure that no seeds from other trees would drift in.

Fruit trees are different from grains. As they continue to take root, the root system underneath will become thicker and thicker, so the sowing distance must be very wide. Luc took steps, measuring the land, and transplanted a sapling about every eleven or twelve steps.

After the saplings are transplanted, the soil is covered immediately. In the next month, another person will be needed to water them every four or five days to ensure that the soil remains moist throughout the month.

Luke once again felt stretched to the limit
The saplings are just an interlude, and the construction of the wooden fort is still the top priority.

Baron Berry's wooden castle had a flat roof, but Luc still planned to use a gable roof.

Apart from the increase in height and the extension of some distance to the north, the construction of the gable roof was no different from the previous one, and Luc and Ryan quickly completed the roof.

At the beginning of April, the initial prototype of the wooden fort, which took a month to build, was basically completed.

Yes, just the beginning.

Luc put his hands on his hips and looked at the wooden fort. He thought that he would consider strengthening the defense after he got married.

(End of this chapter)