1472 - - 40-12 Crushed Stone Preparation






 The next day, Jin takes Radeous, Rorona, and Zion to the village of Toka by . He also took Gon and Gen with him, thinking that they might be able to help in some way.

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"Good morning, Mr. Jin. Good morning, Mr. Gin. Thank you for joining us today, Mr. Radeous, Ms. Rorona, and Mr. Zion.

 Licia greets the group.

 Behind her were ten general-purpose golems. They had walked through the night.

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"Good day to you."

 Princess Rieschen and the Prime Minister had already arrived.

"It is a pleasure to meet you.

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I will begin at once.

 Without even a word of greeting, Rorona began to preside over the event.

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First, let's decide on the width of the road.

 The basics of the basics.

"We want to make it easy for ordinary carriages to pass each other," said Licia.

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 Licia said.

"Well, it's just a trial, so that's fine.

 The Prime Minister gave his permission.

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"And, I think ......5 meters wide would be fine."

 Lorona said, "The width is for the future, too.

"It would be a waste of effort to add a meter to the width of the road afterwards, compared to extending the pavement.

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"I see."

 For this reason, it was decided that the test pavement would be five meters wide.


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"Next is the rock. It should be as dense and hard as possible.

 This statement was answered by a mature villager standing by Licia's side.

"The rocks in this area are hard, so I think they would be suitable.

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 Jin saw that there were indeed many hard rocks.

 Rorona also seemed to have guessed this, and was rummaging through the scattered rocks,

"Then, let's use the same rock as this blackish-gray stone," she said.

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 He decided to use the same rock as this blackish-gray stone.

 This blackish rock is called basalt, which is hard and dense.


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"The next thing to do is to prepare the rock. The next step is to break the rock and prepare the crushed stone, and dig down the road to lay the crushed stone.

 Princess Rieschen, Licia, and the vizier are writing down what they have heard in notepads made of wooden paper.

"This time we have the golem, and since time is limited, I think we can do it at the same time.

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"The quarry is a specialized mine ......, but I think it would be better to build a quarry."

 Lorona nodded as the Prime Minister said this.

"Yes, that's right. That would be better.

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"In that case, it would be good to have a good quality rock quarry and at the same time a rocky hill close to the town.

 Princess Rieschen also made a sharp remark.

"Yes, that's right. It would be even better if we could make use of the area after the mountain has been broken down.

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"Oh, yes!

 Licia also spoke up with an idea and Princess Rieschen agreed with her.

"A mountain to be broken down and reused. That's a good idea. We don't do it here because of our small population.

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 Rorona was impressed by the idea.



Let's start with the easy one first. Let's dig ...... the road to a width of 5 meters and a depth of 25 centimeters."

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"Is that the right depth?"

 Licia asks.

"Yes. That's about right for us. If something heavy is going to pass through, we may need to go a little deeper.

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"Hmmm. I would like to hear your opinion, Mr. Jin, ......."

 Jin, who was probably familiar with the , asked for the Prime Minister's opinion.

"Well, considering the horse-drawn carriages that pass through here and the luggage that they carry, why not make it 30 centimeters long?"

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 < territories, there were no horse-drawn wagons, but only man-drawn carts.

"Oh, I think that would be better.

 Hearing Jin's opinion, Rorona agreed.

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"Okay, let's dig down to a depth of 30 cm this time. ...... golems 11 to 15 are ......."

 The Prime Minister instructed five general-purpose golems.

(Golem 11 to 15,or ......)

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 In his own naming it was <11 to 15, but it was Jin who did not say anything because it would not be a problem.



"Finally, let's get to work on the production of crushed stone. Please take us to the rock pile."

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 Lorona said and the older man nodded.

"Yes, sir. This way."

 The group headed north toward the village. They were followed by Nick 16 to 20, as well as Gon and Gen.

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 A narrow village in the mountains, 10 minutes' walk from the edge of the village. Beyond that is an open rocky area. Beyond that is a rocky hill.

"Oh, this rock."


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 Lorona stroked the rock face as if to make sure.

"So, let's decide on a rough location to cut out the rock, transport and store it, a space to work on breaking the rock, and a place to store the broken rock."

"So, here's the place: ......."

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 The older man, who seemed to be a stonecutter, answered Lorona's request precisely.



"Okay. Then let's get started.

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 First, all the golems cut out rocks. To be precise, they smashed the rocks from the rock pile into pieces of appropriate size by beating them or using a hammer, and then stocked them.

 Jin and the others watch from a distance to avoid flying fragments of fine rocks.

 Of course, Gon and Gen were also helping. Reiko, however, stays by Jin's side.

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"That's enough for a start. Let's make some crushed stone.

 Rorona said and stopped the quarrying for a moment.

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"We're going to break up this rock with a hammer and a hammer and trowel. Roughly speaking, we will need two types of crushed rocks, one the size of your fist and the other the size of your thumb.

 The fist-sized pieces are placed on the bottom and the finer pieces are placed on top as a finishing touch, Lorona explained. Princess Rieschen and the others took note of this.

"The golems can be crushed with their hands!"

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 Jin says. We've improved it so that they can do that.

 True to their word, the Golems smash the rocks into pieces with their fists.

"I knew you were fast!"

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 In Rorona's place, i.e. the , the work is done by human power. However, since they are done by people who can strengthen their muscles, they are more than twice as efficient as ordinary people, but as expected, they are defeated by golems.

 When the stones have been crushed to a certain extent, Lorona instructs them to sort one-third of the crushed stones.

 The crushed stones were piling up rapidly.

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"I think this is a good instruction. All we have to do now is wait for the necessary amount to accumulate.



"In the meantime, let's have lunch," Licia suggested.

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 Licia suggested.

 Before we knew it, it was 11:30 am. We decided to have lunch even though it was a little early.

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Licia said, "Oh, this is great!



"Oh, this is delicious!

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It's called "Pash...... pasta". We are going to make it a specialty of Toka Village.

"I see. Pasta."

 For lunch, Licia served a pasta dish of her own devising.

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 Three different kinds of pasta with different herbs and flavors were served, and everyone enjoyed them.