A few meters beside Lynn, Kuisi reminded, "Master, you can have dinner now."

Lynn shifted his gaze.

Outside the glazed window, it had already turned pitch black.

Lynn responded briefly, placing down the feather pen in his hand, and stepped out of the study.

Kuisi followed closely behind.

Sitting at the head of the dining table, with Kuisi's service, Lynn began having dinner.

A bite of the golden roasted pork belly, filled with oil and meat aroma, instantly spread in Lynn's mouth.

Seasoned with fine salt and spices, this food gave him a strangely familiar feeling.

While eating dinner, Lynn asked Kuisi, "Besides the dispute and fight during the coal mine excavation last time, did anything else happen?"

Kuisi swallowed a sip of pea soup, thought for two seconds, then replied, "Master, not for the time being."

"However, there's one thing I forgot to tell you. Last night, the town welcomed its first newborn!"

Lynn looked at Kuisi with some surprise.

Before Lynn could inquire further, Kuisi began to explain, "It's the newborn of Ollie Carter's family. Ollie is a farmer, and his wife Suwa is a textile worker."

"Last night, Suwa's water broke. Since it was their first child and they had no experience, they called Old John for the delivery..."

"Fortunately, mother and child are safe."

Lynn nodded, "From now on, for three months, Suwa doesn't need to work anymore. Let her peacefully stay at home and take care of the child."

"After three months, arrange some light manual work for her."

"Starting today, deliver an egg each day to every family with a pregnant woman to supplement nutrition."

"Not just Suwa, all women who give birth can follow this standard in the future."

Nearly a year had passed.

The territory finally had its first newborn.

Lynn had doubted if this land was cursed by some God — never to have a newborn.

Apparently, Lynn overthought.

Lynn understood that only when people feel a safe and comfortable environment, they choose to procreate.

This is not just for humans; even animals are the same.

Almost an instinct engraved in the body.

Anyway, having the first newborn also means that these townsmen consider this territory a safe and comfortable environment!

In the future, a continuous influx of newborns will come to his territory, becoming the new blood of the land.

Kuisi looked at Lynn with wide eyes, responded, "Yes, Master."

Master Lynn seems to regard children and infants highly...

Kuisi continued, "Master, Ollie asked if you could give a name to his son."

"He said, Master, you are their family's savior..."

"If it were another lord's territory, his wife wouldn't have given birth smoothly."

Lynn repeated Kuisi's words, "A name..."

"Fujian."

Hearing the name Lynn uttered, Kuisi was taken aback, "Fujian Carter?"

"Master, does this have any special meaning?"

Lynn calmly explained, "Rich nation, strong people!"

Finished with dinner.

Lynn returned to the study, sat at the desk, and continued sketching the outlines of various parts of the winch and annotating the outlines.

It's known that those carpenter apprentices are free people; they are slaves who are illiterate.

Among the seven thousand townsmen in the territory, Lynn felt that fewer than ten were literate!

Their learned skills all came from oral transmission, or perhaps they relied on their eyes to observe and imitate to finally learn.

Despite the annotations being extremely troublesome, to enable apprentices to learn quickly, Lynn could only use such a local method.

Night gradually deepened.

Even though Lynn was sitting in the enclosed study, he could still hear the piercing 'woo-woo' sound of the cold wind outside the glazed windows.

Until midnight.

Lynn finally set down the feather pen in his hand and stood up, stretching lazily.

A cracking sound of bones echoed within his body.

After stretching, Lynn glanced down at the desk.

On the paper, the materials required for a winch, the parts needing production, how to make them, and even the number of iron nails required...

Everything was written down.

A thought instantly emerged in Lynn's mind.

The printing press!

Since the papermaking workshop has been built, producing paper, naturally, there should also be a corresponding printing workshop.

Create matching metal movable type, use rosin, wax, and paper ash, etc., to make adhesive.

Then, according to the required characters, arrange them for printing.

After the adhesive cools and solidifies, the needed printing template is completed.

Afterward, lay sheets of paper, and it can mass-produce the required textual or drawing content!

However.

Implementing it isn't simple.

It can only be treated as a future development direction for planning.

Because.

Even now if he sets up a printing workshop, these townsmen never received education and still can't understand the writings.

It's essential to start with the most basic education of literacy.

Rolling up the blueprint and placing it aside, Lynn was about to leave the room.

Knock-knock~

A knocking sound echoed outside the study door.

"Master, the hot water is ready."

As soon as Kuisi's words fell outside, Lynn opened the door.

As he walked towards the private room, he said, "I'll soak for half an hour first; later you can come in and massage my shoulders."

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