The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

For William's high salary to the villagers, Old John had lost the mood to argue with William, and he devoted all his energy to the identification and supervision of the limestone or clay sent by the villagers.

If the weight is not enough, deduct money!

If the clay is not red enough, deduct money!

If the basket is not full enough, deduct money!

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Old John tried every means to save money for William, but he still couldn't prevent the pile of clay getting higher and higher, and the limestone piled up more and more, and it still couldn't prevent William's pool coins from getting less and less day by day.

In ten days, William's treasury paid out more than eight piss.

Even if the villagers bought baskets and dustpans from William because of their needs, the income was far from being able to cover the expenses.

This made Old John's face darker and darker, and his mood worse and worse.

But at this time, an inevitable thing finally happened!

A large number of scattered baskets appeared in the small village of Nise.

Because it has been filled with soil or limestone for a long time, especially limestone, and moved around, the basket bears too much weight, resulting in a loose structure, which finally fails to support and falls apart.

And the baskets in the village have been bought up by the crazy villagers, and the nearby golden grasses have also been pulled out. We can only wait for the next spring to bloom, but at this time, without the golden grass, naturally no new baskets will appear. .

And this means that when the last batch of baskets are destroyed, the villagers will no longer be able to "move bricks"!

This matter was very serious, and the villagers were very anxious, so they reported it to William.

William is also very melancholy, the amount of clay and limestone is not enough to build a wall!

He needs more clay and limestone, so the work of "moving bricks" cannot be stopped, not only cannot it be stopped, but the efficiency is even higher!

William used to focus on training the guards, and left the work of clay and limestone to Old John, so he didn't know much about it.

William despaired when he saw the amount of clay and limestone being brought in from the village.

At this speed, even if the problem of the baskets is solved, the wall can only be built in the year of the monkey?

So William locked himself in the earthen hut, thought hard all night, and finally came up with a solution.

He called Merton, the carpenter in the village, and called the old carpenter Charles. From Merton's collection, he selected a log with a breast diameter of about 60 centimeters, and cut a section into a wooden wheel, and make the wooden wheel as flat as possible.

A round hole is dug in the middle of the wooden wheel, and a hard wooden shaft is stuffed in. The two sides of the wooden shaft are spliced ​​with wooden boards, and the joints are fixed with iron nails. The iron products bought from Patras It just came in handy.

On both sides of the other end of the wheel, a stick is respectively connected as a handle, which is also fixed with iron nails.

On top of the axle, several beams were nailed to surround the three sides of the car, so that it could withstand the goods without letting them fall off the car.

In this way, a rough and simple wheelbarrow is completed, and the total time spent is less than the time of burning a candle.

When the results were presented in front of Merton and Charles, both of them were surprised, and they still didn't quite believe that such a unicycle could be used for daily use!

Because in their cognition, a car that needs to carry goods must have at least two wheels, and many of them have four wheels, so that the goods can run stably.

One wheel may not be able to carry much, and the whole wheelbarrow will fall apart.

Faced with the doubts of the two carpenters, William spoke directly from the facts, and put four baskets of limestone on the wheelbarrow, and asked Charles, who was old and weak, to pull the wheelbarrow around the village.

Charles pulled up the wheelbarrow with anxiety, and the wheels rolled over the ground of Nisai Village, making a creaking sound, which attracted the attention of many villagers.

The panting and weakness of hands and feet that Charles originally fantasized about did not happen at all. He did not expend much effort at all, and calmly pulled four baskets of limestone and wandered around the village at will, just like the floats held by the nobles in the city of Sale It would be even better if he didn't lose the crunching sound.

It's just that when going up the slope, it is more laborious. But this is just a trivial problem.

The villagers all understand.

There is no doubt that the appearance of the wheelbarrow has been sought after by the villagers of Nisai Village.

Even the dumbest and meanest villagers see its potential.

It is less labor-intensive and faster, and you can run two or three times more than the previous one.

It holds more, four times as much.

And the resulting gains will be unimaginable before.

William directly made an agreement with Merton and Charles. The price of the wheelbarrow was three franc silver coins. He personally received one franc silver coin plus fifty copper coins from the pool. This was the intellectual property remuneration for the inventor, and Charles and Merton each It is fifty Poole copper coins, which are the rewards of the working people, and the remaining fifty Poole copper coins are material costs.

The iron nails were provided by William, and although the amount used was very small, William still took ten of the fifty copper Poole coins.

The remaining forty Puer copper coins are the cost of wood.

The rules have been set, let's get started!

Charles and Merton worked together to produce fifteen unicycles in a few days.

The villagers have made a lot of money from William during this period, and each family still has a few silver francs in their deposits.

As soon as the fifteen wheelbarrows were completed, they were bought by the villagers who were guarding the door "forgivingly", and then, under the jealous eyes of other villagers, they pulled the wheelbarrows to the foot of the Cordillera mountain to pull clay, or to the dark forest The caves inside are filled with limestone.

When other villagers returned to the village with a basket of limestone, those "local tyrants" with wheelbarrows had already made two trips, and the diligent ones even made three trips. It was easy to move, and the damage to the basket was minimal, because the weight was borne by the planks and wheels.

When he could only get 1 Poole coin, other villagers had already got 8 Poole coins, and even more 12 Poole coins.

The villagers will compare themselves.

The result of the comparison was that those villagers without cars went crazy. They didn't dare to be presumptuous to the lord William, but they surrounded the house of Merton, the carpenter.

Merton and Charleston plunged into painful pleasure, "serving the people" with hardly a moment's rest!

The logs originally stored by Merton were completely consumed, but only 10 more wheelbarrows were made.

The 10 wheelbarrows were bought in an instant, and some villagers even took part in a martial arts riot in front of Merton's house in order to buy the wheelbarrows!

At last the guards were brought in.

The guards wore uniform uniforms, held a wooden shield in their left hand, and a long sword in their right. Just standing there, an awe-inspiring power rose.

The villagers no longer dare to treat him as a teenage boy, especially since Jacques Potter is among them.

The two villagers who were fighting were taken away by the guards without any resistance and brought to William.

After hearing this, William couldn't help shaking his head, what the hell!

However, William did not plan to build his territory into distribution according to trouble.

He directly asked the guards to punish them according to the first regulation of the Dikas territory, with ten lashes and a public display for one day. He also added a punishment regulation, fined 1 franc silver coin.

If the whipping is a pain in the body, then the fine is a pain in their soul.

Especially after suffering both mental and physical pain, the wheelbarrow was not in their hands, but was obtained by another lucky villager. This is adding insult to injury and adding salt to the wound!

The other villagers felt sympathy for it, but they soon threw themselves into the great business of making money.

Twenty-five wheelbarrows cannot meet the growing cultural and material needs of the small village of Nise, so the work of Merton and Charles continues.

Without logs, they used 40 Puer copper coins as employment fees, and hired several villagers to go into the forest to cut trees, and only cut trees with a breast height of 50 centimeters or more.

It takes half a day for one person to cut a tree, and it takes more than half a day to clean up the branches.

With the logs, the work of Charles and Merton could continue, and new wheelbarrows were made and sold to the villagers.

For every wheelbarrow William can get one silver franc coin, and for ten wheelbarrows there is one gold coin, all of which are collected by Old John.

The high income made Old John rarely smile.

But soon, a steady stream of limestone and clay took away a large amount of copper and silver coins from his hands, and Old John's face sank again.

After another ten days, almost every household in Nisai Village had a wheelbarrow, and some richer ones even had two or three wheelbarrows.

There is an endless stream of "cars" going to and from the foot of the Cordillera, the small village of Nise, and the caves in the dark forest every day, and the sound of creaking and creaking continues for a long time, occasionally mixed with the loud training sound of the guards.

The expressions of the villagers were full of vigor, but that of Old John was dark.

A steady stream of limestone has been piled up into a hill, and the clay piled up at the village entrance and tail is getting taller and taller.

Under such circumstances, the autumn wind blows, and the harvest covenant arrives quietly.