Iron Harvest: When Farming Becomes Conquest

The progress was slow, which was to be expected.

Roman had used lime to draw out the foundation map for the future residential area.

With shovels, you only need to dig along the lime lines to create the foundation.

With shovels, a hundred or so people could finish the job.

But Sige Town had an enormous demand for bricks and tiles. Under Roman’s comprehensive coordination, they could produce over a hundred thousand red bricks each day on average.

He had to involve over a thousand workers in mass production, burning tens of tons of wood each day, the thick black smoke making this summer even hotter.

But they could endure.

These fools knew that the brick houses were being built for them, so they worked from dawn to dusk, exerting great effort.

They could never have dreamed that they would be living in brick houses in their lifetimes—a small castle in their eyes—even though Roman considered them to be rough buildings without even plastering or putty sanding, with brick and stone walls exposed, rough and unpolished.

The hastily made red bricks were of poor quality, not strong enough. The bricks would peel in just a couple of years, layer by layer, and grow uglier in time.