Fosto was tasked with purchasing a large number of tents and blankets, which was the first thing Li Yu did to ensure that the lizard people had the most basic shelter.
On the Bratis Continent, a typical farmhouse is generally constructed with wood serving as the basic frawork, with gaps filled by a network of stacked branches, then covered with a layer of clay for sealing, and the roof is often thatched with straw or reed.
Most farmhouses have just one room where the entire family, regardless of size, lives together, and even poultry and livestock are allowed inside, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and cows. These animals provide a bit of warmth for the people living inside during the cold winter days, but they also bring mosquitoes and an annoying sll.
This is also why many commoners always sll foul.
A few wealthier self-sufficient farrs may have two or three rooms, allowing for separate bedrooms and stables, and even a dedicated storage room for food.
But this could also make them a target for bandits and thieves passing through.
Although the farrs almost all cook their own food over fire, there is no chimney inside the houses.
The stoves they use are not enclosed; when cooking, the house is often filled with smoke, looking just like a sauna, and Li Yu kept coughing by the smoke the first ti he had a al in a farmhouse.
Eventually, the smoke would disperse through the skylight in the roof.
As for furniture, it is even more scarce, with only tables, chairs, and wooden chests. So households don’t even have beds and have to squeeze together on a grass mat.
Even so, living in a house is certainly more comfortable than in a tent, not to ntion six or seven people cramd into a thin tent.
It’s bearable in the sumr, but co winter, it is very possible to freeze to death due to insufficient warmth.
It was just that the lizard people’s previous living conditions were so harsh that it wouldn’t have taken long for issues to arise due to the housing environnt.
In fact, during the five days that Li Yu was away, after the lizard people had cleared the bodies and ruins from the territory, so who couldn’t wait had already started building new houses using their ancestral skills.
Once Prophet Li Yu returned, he was imdiately dragged by the enthusiastic lizard people to inspect their labor achievents.
He found himself surrounded by a crowd under a large tree, craning his neck to look up at the treehouse above.
The treehouse was entirely built from branches, with bark filling in the floor and walls, and a layer of thatch on the roof which should provide so protection from rain.
The key thing was that the treehouse was about a dozen ters above the ground. The lizard people found a small trunk, cut off extra branches, carved grooves to create a ladder, and happily climbed up and down the tree.
As for Li Yu, he politely declined the hoowner’s invitation to sit inside.
Death wasn’t scary, but a fracture from a fall would be a real hassle. Li Yu had many things left to do and didn’t want to be in bandages all the ti.
Moreover, Li Yu confird one thing: he had been too worried before; these lizard people should be quite hard to freeze to death. If they could survive in wooden houses, sleeping in tents should be no problem at all.
However, Li Yu was not planning to let these lizard people live in tents indefinitely, or to let them build unsafe and inconvenient little treehouses that seed to be full of safety hazards everywhere.
This was the first group of followers he had recruited, and also the ones Li Yu intended to use as an example for others, to build a model village.
If other potential custors ca to visit and saw the followers still sleeping in trees on Saturdays, they would probably imdiately lose any interest in joining the religion and flee as far as they could.
Even when recruiting new mbers in pyramid sches, they are treated to a good al to create a successful atmosphere; it’s impossible to start off with a large dormitory where a dozen people get nothing but stead buns and cabbage.
Therefore, building houses was added to Li Yu’s to-do list, and it was placed quite high on that list.
When it cos to building houses, the type most familiar to modern people is surely the steel-reinforced concrete structure.
Steel-reinforced concrete, as the na suggests, is a combination of steel and concrete.
In 1867, a Parisian gardener discovered that adding steel hoops to concrete could solve the problem of "brittle fracture," making steel-reinforced concrete imdiately beco the world’s most popular composite material (although, at the ti, the gardener himself didn’t understand what brittle fracture was, nor the principle behind it, but it was good enough if it worked).
Steel-reinforced concrete structures have remained popular to the present day, undoubtedly because they have many advantages: they’re wind-resistant, waterproof, fireproof, insect-proof, and affordable.
Although concrete was still obscure on the Bratis Continent, its production process wasn’t complicated: crushed old pottery mixed into mortar (hydrated li mixed with clay) could produce cent, and by adding so gravel and sand, the mortar would turn into concrete.
In Li Yu’s universe, cent and concrete were already being used as building materials during Ancient Ro, but due to the previously ntioned problem of brittle fracture, concrete could generally only be used for foundations, columns, or dos, not for structural elents that needed to endure bending stress like beams or suspended surfaces.
Moreover, as the Roman Empire fell, this technology was lost along with it, only to be rediscovered and docunted again more than a thousand years later.
In contrast, steel slting was much more troubleso. While there was steel on the Bratis Continent, it was mainly used to forge weapons and armor, and a set of armor or steel weapons often commanded a high price.
Slightly poorer knights might not be able to afford a full set; otherwise, Ireya wouldn’t have only provided Cloth Armor and spears to support the militia in the Trinidad Feud.
With such high costs, steel could definitely not be used for building houses.
As for slting the steel himself, Li Yu had also looked into so information; a more feasible approach was probably the Besser steel-making process.
This steel-making technology was invented by an engineer nad Besser in the nineteenth century, but its principle isn’t complex. With the current technological conditions of the Bratis Continent, a primitive version could already be produced.
However, after so thought, Li Yu decided to give up this extrely tempting idea.
He was certain he wanted to slt steel, just not right now.
The most pressing matter at hand was to solve the basic needs of clothing, food, and shelter for the lizard people.
He could push back the clothing part and first purchase ready-made clothes to get by; the remaining urgent issues were food and shelter.
Slting steel materials would take too much ti now; even if he started imdiately, the lizard people might not be able to move into steel-reinforced concrete houses by winter.
After weighing the options, Li Yu still chose brick and wood structures for the batch of new houses soon to be constructed.
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