Chapter 46. How to make land (1)
“Starting today, we will turn this place into a fertile field.”
“Frog!”
Chalbang!
Lloyd’s speech began.
Just in time, a frog in the swamp croaked loudly as if in response.
However, none of the 120 engineering corps soldiers gathered here laughed.
Because Xavier and Lord Bayern, right next to Lloyd, have solemn expressions on their faces?
Someone might have done that.
But most of the soldiers were not.
‘What kind of process will this construction go through?’
Ondol room.
paved road.
coal mine.
Some are stone binggo.
After that, warehouse expansion and orc miner quarters.
At one time, he was just an ordinary private in an ordinary territory.
But now it was different.
They had already been transformed into elite sappers who had been trained through numerous projects.
Therefore, I knew empirically how important this speech today is.
‘Because Master Lloyd considers this process important.’
Speech before full-scale construction.
There was no rhetoric.
There were no useless aspirations or public affairs.
The speech that came out of Lloyd’s mouth was tightly packed with only the necessary stories for the sappers.
“Now, let me tell you about the points to be aware of while working. This is a swampy area. Don’t recklessly move alone. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be in distress because you can’t get your feet out of the swamp. Besides, what if you’re so upset? It’s full of reeds all over the place, so you can’t see it very well. It’s just as good as sun-dried jerky. If you don’t like that, you must move in a team of two. Do you understand?”
“yes!”
“okay. Next note. The weather is hot. It’s wet, so it’s damp. What is it at a time like this?”
“A break once an hour!”
“That is correct. And another one?”
“I drink salted water every break!”
“Ding dong deng. The salt water will always be provided at the work site, so drink it. If you are thirsty, don’t take a bottle of fresh water and drink it up. Ping turns around and collapses?”
“Hey, but what if the brine is too bland and tasteless?”
An engineering corpsman raised his hand and asked.
It seemed that he was a newcomer who had recently doubled the size of the Corps of Engineers.
Lloyd smiled kindly as he looked at the new sapper.
“Should I still drink?”
“Should I drink even if I feel like vomiting?”
“huh. If you don’t drink and then collapse and lose a day, your daily bonus will be deducted.”
“All right!”
There is no point in front of money.
In particular, there were many soldiers who volunteered for the Corps of Engineers, hoping for a hefty bonus.
“And finally, the most important caveat. The swamp water here is the water Hamang needs to drink. So, if you excuse me in the swamp area for taking a break from work, I’ll put you in jail. You must use the toilet in a separate toilet. okay?”
“All right!”
“Let’s begin. Hamanah?”
“Hamang!”
He pulled out the hammock from his bosom.
The eyes of the engineers who saw Hamang for the first time widened.
It seems that the young master has signed a contract with a new summoned beast again.
For a moment, the sappers were agitated.
And after a while, it happened that the engineering corpsmen opened their mouths in astonishment.
“Hey? Could you get me a drink of water here?”
“Hamaman? What?”
“Yeah, you can drink it all.”
“Hope?”
“Aha, after drinking? See the tributary of the river over there?”
“Hamaman!”
“Yeah, just roll over there and spit it out. Instead, don’t spit it out all at once. Because there is a flood downstream.”
“Hamang!”
Nodding as if he knew it, he set it down in the wetland.
As if waiting, Hamang plunged her round head into the marsh water.
Inhalation started.
“Hey! Horoloro!”
Suwaaaaaaagh!
Hamangi sucked up the water.
A whirlpool formed around it.
It looks like a giant vacuum cleaner sucking up water.
The wetland’s water level went down.
That’s how much the bottom was swollen.
10 meters 20 meters up to 50 meters.
“…Huh.”
They were the Corps of Engineers, who had retreated far away under Lloyd’s instructions given in advance.
Their temporomandibular joint screws came loose.
The surprise did not end here.
“Hey!”
The hugely swollen Hamang moved his body.
It rolled into the creek Lloyd pointed out.
It was a sight like a 50-meter water balloon rolling.
Hamang slowly spat out the water from there.
“Hmm! Oeek-”
Gurg gurg!
Thousands of marsh killifish and frog aquatic creatures that were inhaled by Hamangi suddenly moved to the tributaries of the river. It was a newbie in the river ecosystem.
Since then, similar incidents have been repeated several times.
inhaling wetland water.
It puffs up huge and rolls.
Spit the inhaled water into the river.
“What am I looking at…?”
Along with the sappy solitude of the engineers, the flowing water in the vicinity completely disappeared.
Of course, not all wetlands were depleted of water.
It was only that the water in this nearby area had been removed.
However, this was enough to prepare for today’s construction.
Lloyd’s instructions fell.
“Everyone listen to the shovel.”
“shovel!”
“From now on, I will remove all the grass roots and rotting plant debris left on the ground at the place I mark. A strong start with slogans.”
“Ooh!”
Corps of Engineers were brought in.
He sweated hard and shoveled.
The rotten stems and roots of various aquatic plants remaining at the embankment were dug up and removed.
Lloyd also shoveled himself and led the soldiers.
‘Because if you don’t do this foundation process properly, it’s perfect for leaking and failing in the embankment later. Whoops!’
When it comes to building an embankment, many people think that it is an easy project to build a mound by simply piling up thick soil.
But the reality was different.
Sophisticated science and engineering were embedded in common embankments that can often be seen in simple everyday life.
It wasn’t just a matter of piling up a lot of dirt, like a child playing with dirt.
This was especially the case now.
‘Because this is a soft, damp ground.’
It was absolutely necessary to clean up the ground, such as beehives.
It was also essential to stabilize the ground by removing water from the bottom of the ground.
“Haviel?”
“yes.”
Lloyd turned to Xaviel.
Xaviel, having heard what he had to do, stepped forward.
I drew my sword.
Lloyd stabbed his sword one after another into the marked ground.
Pup! hooked! Poogeuk!
Conflicting mana circles.
The impact force radiated from the sword.
It dug deep into the stratum vertically.
Eventually, vertical holes 50 cm in diameter and 10 meters deep were carved throughout the wetland at intervals of 4 meters.
Lloyd shouted.
“Lord Bavaria!”
“All right.”
Lord Bayern responded to Lloyd’s cry.
The sappers under his command moved.
I brought a bamboo stem that was cut evenly to a length of 11 meters.
Xaviel planted it into a 10-meter vertical hole that had been pierced by blasting.
It was a kind of bamboo straw made by drilling through the inside.
Then it was Podongi’s turn.
“Ppodonga!”
“Pdeung!”
Podongi, who had been waiting, came running waving his thick bottom.
The things he had in his cheek pockets poured out onto the ground.
“Pude deung! Oh my love-”
Chow ah!
It was a large amount of sand collected from the river in advance.
“Sappers! Sand into a handkerchief!”
“I take orders!”
The sappers who had been waiting with shovels moved.
I ran into the mountain of sand poured out by Podongi.
The sand was scooped up and put into the vertical hole.
Naturally, a sand pile centered around a bamboo straw filled the vertical hole.
‘good. Fortunately, things are going well.’
The situation at the site moving in perfect order.
Directing the entire process, Lloyd clenched his fists.
‘The vertical drainage method, especially the sand drain SD method, is progressing as expected.’
Vertical Drain Method.
It was a soft ground improvement construction method that was first introduced in 1936 and technically advanced from the late 1940s.
In other words, it could be said to be a method of promoting water drainage and consolidation from the ground by digging a number of artificial vertical holes between the soft clay soil and introducing a drainage material.
‘Of course, I couldn’t use the modern construction method as it is.’
There was too little equipment for that.
So I kind of wore my hair.
Dig a vertical hole with Xaviel’s skill blasting.
In this way, the silver-haired engineer replaced the role of vibration-type sand drain construction equipment.
It was filled with bamboo straws and sand prepared in advance.
I mixed sand drain and paper drain methods.
Then he made Podongyi roll on the ground.
“Ppodong? roll!”
“Ppodong!”
DeGoldeGol!
Dozens of tons of Podongyi were randomly rolling around.
The load was directly applied to the stratum.
It’s like pressing a pile of wet tissues.
Moisture soaked in the ground was released.
Gathered in piles of sand planted in the ground.
coog play….
The ground began to sink slightly.
This was a land that had been wetland for tens of thousands of years.
During that long period of time, a huge amount of plants sank in the water and could not be properly decomposed.
Layers of fibers were thus deposited thickly.
Fibers hold a lot of moisture.
It formed a soft stratum called the peat layer.
Now, however, pressure was applied to the peat layer and the moisture was being forced out.
Dry sand piles planted regularly here and there further encouraged moisture discharge.
Cuckold…!
As the moisture escaped, the peat layer was compacted.
Under its own weight, it became more united and hardened.
It was a compaction phenomenon.
Lloyd instigated the phenomenon with the following instructions.
“Hey? Do you like bamboo straws?”
“Hamang!”
“Then would you like a drink?”
“Hamaman!”
Hamangi, who was waiting, approached with a bamboo straw planted all over the ground.
He slurped the water collected in the sand stakes through a straw.
“Hey! Hmmm!”
The water in the stratum was inhaled by Hamang.
Hamangi inflated like a giant balloon.
The weight was also applied to the stratum.
The consolidation phenomenon was further accelerated.
Around that time, Lloyd and the Corps of Engineers began construction of the next phase.
It was the building of an embankment enclosing the entire wetland.
“Ppodonga! Spit it out!”
“Pdeung! Wow!”
Podongi played the role of a dump truck.
He often put a large amount of soil in his cheek pouch.
When the soil was spit out, the sappers moved according to Lloyd’s instructions.
He busily worked with a shovel and built a solid foundation.
Of course, it was according to the structure Lloyd had designed in advance.
‘of course. If it is just piled up, the slope will be eroded, the slope inside the embankment will be fluidized by leaks, or the soil will flow out due to the piping phenomenon, causing the bottom of the slope to sink.’
All of that will lead to the destruction of the levees.
If the embankment collapses, the water in the river will overflow.
The overflowing water will turn the clearing into a wet swamp again.
Therefore, meticulous design to prevent such a shitty situation in which everyone’s happiness index would draw a strong downward curve was essential.
The embankment slope was made as gentle as possible.
The height of the embankment, i.e. the height of the embankment, was set as high as possible considering the height of the land that will collapse due to consolidation in the future.
As much as that, there was a difference in height between the front slope to block the water of the river and the back slope to be placed on the clearing.
The side hems to support the pressure that will occur on the slope of the rear slope are built up firmly and comfortably.
I didn’t forget to harden the slopes on both sides.
Thanks to this, Podongi had to roll busily down the slope of the embankment.
“Podo-dong! Podo-do-do!”
DeGoldeGol!
Little Boy’s sturdy body rolling down the slope was a bulldozer or vibrating roller itself. After that, engineers from the Corps of Engineers were put in to plant the grass densely in a string method.
If the roots of the grass sloped, they firmly gripped the soil.
Soil would not flow easily in the future.
Lastly, a gutter canal was meticulously dug to drain rainwater from the embankment.
It’s been ten days since I’ve been working on the construction like that.
Finally, the construction of one area was completed.
‘Whoa. done.’
Lloyd wiped away sweat and looked around.
The damp swamp, which had been full of aquatic plants ten days ago, was no longer there.
The place he looked around now was full of dry land and strong embankments.
At last, the land reclamation and embankment were completed.
Of course, Lloyd did not rest on his laurels.
This was because the area that had not yet been reclaimed was much larger.
“Keep moving! When it’s all over, it’s a bonus party!”
Encouraged by Lloyd, the Corps of Engineers were sent to the next area.
The entire Marez Marsh here was not connected as a single swamp.
A vast area called a wetland.
Dozens of swamps were irregularly scattered in it.
Therefore, it was possible to construct one swamp by dividing it into one sector.
In other words, it was possible to proceed with modular construction.
Besides, it happened that the summer here was dry.
It rarely rained and the sun was shining brightly.
There was no other good weather for the wetland reclamation work.
Thanks to this, the project has become more resilient.
“Be careful not to get too hot! Take a break thoroughly! Deploy the 3rd area with the slogan!”
“Ooh-oh!”
Lloyd and Xaviel.
Phantasmal Species and Corps of Engineers.
All the working personnel became a mixed body.
Dig, drink, spit out, scoop out, contain, pile up and mince.
Everyone got used to the repeated process and became proficient.
The construction period for one area, which initially took 10 days, became shorter and shorter.
Ten days to nine days, eight days to eight days, eight days to six days.
One month, two months, three months passed like that.
As everyone’s forearms hardened, the embankment lengthened.
With each drop of sweat, the damp wetland became smooth.
Originally, Marez Wetland was an abandoned land.
It was full of muddy swamps everywhere.
In the thick swamp, unknown creatures swarmed.
Of course, it was impossible to build buildings or farm.
useless land.
land that cannot be developed.
As such, the Marez Wetland has been treated as a land that has no land for generations.
It was like that even before humans first walked the earth.
It has been that way for over tens of thousands of years.
So it was assumed that it would be so in the future.
It has been an abandoned land so far, so it will be like that in the future.
Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it was taken for granted.
But now everything has changed.
‘Lloyd-sama changed this.’
Youngji people too.
Even the Baron and the Baroness.
I was busy watching this amazing sight from time to time.
The useless wetlands were being turned into rice fields and fields.
It was changing in just three months, not decades.
Even the person who brought about that phenomenal change was with them.
‘Perhaps we are witnessing a miracle of a kind that has never existed and has never been imagined.’
at some point
The gaze of the members of the estate towards Lloyd was changing once again.
It was a kind of respect beyond goodwill.
Ding dong.
[All members of Baron Prontera feel great admiration and respect for your magic-like miracle.] [A
large amount of RP is specially paid as a bonus for this great social achievement.]
