Chapter 87 Early December
The furniture and utensils in this game world are still in a very classic and simple stage, with only one type of tables, chairs and benches.
Although, this could also be because she didn't add a beautification module to the game to save trouble.
A few months ago, after the designers finished designing the interior layout of the building, the carpenter workshop began planning and making the matching furniture and furnishings in the fortress.
The budget was neither extravagant nor stingy; three thousand silver coins were allocated for wooden furniture.
While saving money, one must not be too embarrassed and must meet the standards and decency of the title.
She also put forward many of her own functional requirements, as well as style and design requirements.
Fortunately, it is my own workshop, so it is half the price than buying from outside merchants.
The hard decoration of the main house is almost completed, and the soft furnishings have been gradually completed according to the requirements in the past few months. The workshop has brought two shiploads of samples.
In the morning, after Olivia had breakfast, she came to the living room.
The living room was now cleared of everything except the top two sets of tables and chairs. Olivia walked over and sat down.
After a while, the owner of the carpenter's workshop walked in from outside the living room. He looked respectful and held a thick parchment book under his arm.
He walked over to her, greeted her, and then opened the book and said:
"Baroness, I have brought only fifty-four samples of furniture today.
There are still sixty pieces of furniture left that cannot be moved. The styles are all in the booklet, please take a look, madam."
A thick parchment booklet, slightly larger than an A4 paper, with a waxy black leather outer cover and parchment as thin as a cicada's wing inside. There are more than 200 pages in total, and it takes more than a dozen whole sheepskins to draw on them, so the texture feels heavy.
Olivia flipped through the pages and saw the first page was the table of contents.
The workshop owner said, "The first thing to look at is the furniture that will be placed on the northwest side of the first floor of the fortress."
She could see that the booklet contained diagrams of the entire layout of the first floor of the fortress.
On the northwest side is the main gate of the fortress, and the avenue facing it leads to the main city gate.
This side has a porch, a hall, a large transverse hall on the left, and a large living room and council room on the right.
On the southwest side are the staircase hall, large dining room, painting studio, and sculpture hall.
On the northeast side there is a library, a corridor outside the library, a prayer room, a concert hall, and a chess room.
There is a back door on the northwest side, and the avenue outside the door leads to the harbor entrance to the city.
The back door is on the southeast side, where there is also a porch and foyer.
On the left side of the entrance hall are the living room, breakfast room, saddle room, archive room for the butlers and butlers, and storage room.
To the right of the hallway are the kitchen, food preparation room, wine storage room, utensil room, weapons room, maid's office, and attendant's office.
There is also a four-corner tower, which does not occupy the area of the main building. It is an independent semicircle with a corner. The first floor is where the guards live, and there is a passage leading to the lobby.
The furniture needed for these places is in the hundreds and thousands.
The first items to be brought in and displayed were the altars to be used in the two hallways.
Olivia looked up and saw a few nimble workers outside the door, carrying in a small altar table half a person's height and a horizontal altar table one and a half meters long.
The workshop owner said:
"There are eight small altar tables and four horizontal altar tables in the main entrance hall, and six small tables in the back entrance hall.
They are all made of oak, painted and linseed oiled and waxed, as my lady ordered."
Olivia looked up. The color of the oak was not very dark, and after being oiled, beautiful texture could be seen.
The carvings and paintings on it are all religious themes, giving it a Gothic elegance, which was her special request.
These altars can be used to place statues of gods, vases, candlesticks, small sculptures, swords, and chalices.
You can enter the foyer by walking into the porch from the main entrance.
The large horizontal hall on the left side of the entrance hall is also the most spacious and luxurious place in the entire fortress. It can be used to hold dances and banquets for hundreds of people.
The area is several hundred square meters, with three floors and six arched windows seven or eight meters high, which will be installed with stained glass.
In the living room on the other side, there is a place for worship, a prayer mat, a sitting area by the fireplace, and an area outside the council room for waiting to be summoned.
After entering the parliament room, the first area is one that can accommodate large meetings with hundreds of people.
Walking around one side of this solemn and austere area, behind some screens, you can reach the slightly less formal side hall and corridor.
This side hall is a small corner specially separated from the council room and can accommodate more than a dozen people for secret meetings.
From the entrance hall to the large hall, living room, council room, and side hall, there are hundreds of pieces of furniture in total.
The most special one is the chair designed by Olivia herself.
There are hundreds of curved solid wood stools similar to the Danding chairs.
Sixty chairs with quatrefoil-patterned seats and backrests in grass-green blended fabric.
Forty armchairs of the same style, upholstered in light yellow velvet.
There were also twenty armchairs with madder red velvet backrests.
And six three-seater low-leg sofa benches with goose yellow suede cushions.
The colors in the scheme are not too dark, mostly light and bright, used to embellish the depressing large areas of wood color.
This practice of inlaying cloth on a wooden surface as a cushion was the first time the workshop craftsmen had heard of it. The filling material of the inlaid cloth was wool and linen fiber.
In order to match these chairs to form various areas, there are various coffee tables, side cabinets, tall cabinets of the same style, as well as six different sizes of chests of drawers, wooden cabinets, and various tables.
Olivia looked through all the samples of these small furniture today and confirmed the overall details again.
After the solid wood appliances are finished, I will have to check the curtains, carpets, tablecloths, and wall coverings in a couple of days.
Arranging each space according to its function is an important knowledge that can potentially influence people's psychology.
Olivia hopes that anyone who enters the fortress can quickly experience the order inside the fortress, a sense of peace and stability.
The fortress is not small, covering a total area of 2,500 square meters.
It has three floors, and without including the attic, the total area is over 7,000 square meters.
Excluding the area occupied by the main walls, partition walls and stairs, the net usable area is over 6,000 square meters.
The functions of the first layer are mostly related to external social attributes, while the second layer is slightly more private.
Going up to the second floor from the staircase hall is the area where family members and the permanent residents of the fortress gather.
There were living rooms, a small dining room, and internal office areas such as a study, a study vestibule, a sheriff's office, a record room, a small conference room, and numerous rooms for maids, servants, and stewards.
Servants who did menial work did not live in the fortress. They went to work and left work at fixed times every day.
The fortress was closed at a certain time every night, and soldiers were on guard at all times, just like any baronial palace anywhere.
As for the third floor, there are dozens of suites of different sizes, each with a bathroom and dressing room, as well as a private living area and a secret room and vault.
The entire fortress was not prepared for war like Fort Lavoisin, which had dungeons and barracks.
Olivia designed prisons and barracks at the harbor. She was more worried about the safety of the coast than about people attacking the fortress.
If the coastal ports, shipyards, and the positions of the port barracks were lost, her fortress would have nothing to resist and would have to pack up and wait for death.
As for the open space in the center of the fortress, it covers an area of 2,800 square meters, more than four acres.
In the center of the courtyard, it was planned to use stone pillars to enclose a small arena for martial arts competitions and animal fights.
Outside the arena, there were stables, kennels, and pigeon houses. There were no exquisite gardens or lawns, not even trees.
These little gadgets can hardly survive the winter in Eindhoven.
As for the outside of the fortress wall, an artificial river channel was dug every five meters, which is more than ten meters wide and ten meters deep. There are only two suspension bridges leading to the outside, and many evergreen trees will be planted on the banks to decorate it.
In October, all the tiles of the fortress were laid, the floors were polished and waxed, and the plaster on most of the walls was scraped off. At the same time, furniture was brought in and placed in the entrance hall and other places.
Six stained glass windows were also inlaid and installed in the large horizontal hall.
In addition to these glass windows, there are hundreds of windows in the fortress, all of which use two layers of protection: a lockable wooden shutter on the outside and a glass window on the inside.
The value of the glass windows alone would cost thousands of gold coins if one bought glass from the southern part of the continent.
Fortunately, these glass and iron grids were all made in their own workshop, and the only cost was the cost of inlaying.
Although her workshop is currently only large enough for domestic sales and cannot affect the mainland market, this is also the advantage of having a complete range of industries in her hands and she does not need to rely on others for anything.
In the blink of an eye, it was early November and the construction of the fortress was almost complete.
Olivia began to pack up the gold and silver jewelry in the La Watson Manor, planning to move before Christmas.
Leni, who had remained in the convent for another year, went home across the river with her to prepare for the New Year.
There wasn't actually much to take with her to the Lavossen Manor. Just her daily necessities, a few suitcases, a few boxes of money, and her precious old jar of pickled cabbage, all of which were packed up by the servants.
Before Olivia left, the servants, maids, and servants in the manor, as well as the coachmen living in the village, went to the new city with most of her things.
In early December, Caesar returned for her and handed the estate over to the soldiers at the ferry.
One of the knight reserves was assigned by Caesar to oversee the agricultural production on the estate.
Caesar, Olivia, and Lainie took the cat on a boat in the falling snow, crossed the river bank on the ice where a crossing path was cut every day, and got on the carriage after getting ashore.
They first went to Dunfermline to send Lainie back home, rested for a day, and then took a bus to the new town.
It only takes half a day for a horse to travel from Dunfermline to Eindhoven.
The personal luggage and treasury had been delivered to the fortress a day in advance.
There were only dozens of soldiers behind the carriage as it entered the city.
It was snowing heavily outside, so Olivia and Caesar did not ride horses. They sat in a carriage covered with felt and equipped with foot warmers.
Olivia felt that the car had reached a flat road, so she asked Caesar to open the window so she could look out.
As soon as the curtain was opened, heavy snow poured into the car. The outside looked like a towering gray city wall. The moat outside the city had just been dug and the water was now frozen.
It was already evening, and there were still hundreds of people queuing up to enter the city at the gate, Olivia looked out.
Most of these people make a living as laborers. They seem to have come from nearby towns, carrying large bags and some even bringing their families with them.
It seems that Eindhoven has replaced Lavoro as a good place for northerners to work.
At the city gate, civilians walked on the civilian road, merchants walked on the commercial road, those who paid taxes paid taxes, and those who paid tolls paid tolls.
A very low-key convoy entered through the middle gate with soldiers as guards, causing murmurs among the surrounding civilians and merchants.
After entering the city, Olivia continued to look out the window. On both sides of the avenue leading into the city were the market areas.
She had been watching it on the system, but it was not as profound as seeing it with her own eyes.
I saw that the side roads on both sides of the avenue were already lined with shops, as if the digital world and reality were intersecting.
As the carriage continued to move forward, she could still see a large area of undeveloped land and the watchtower in the city that was under construction.
However, even in the barren areas, stone brick paths connect the main roads, leaving out plots of land for development.
This road is still very solid.
Seeing Olivia looking out the window all the way with a satisfied look on her face, Caesar felt inexplicably relieved.
When she was about to arrive at the fortress, her main quest was refreshed.
Congratulations on completing "Building a Fortress"
+66 Experience Points
＊1 vacant seat for heir
Olivia first looked at the usage notes of the seat for a while.
The notes say that the heir needs to be carried by her personally, but in reality it is just data. The process is painless and the body data will be restored after signing in. When the pregnancy successfully begins, there will be a progress bar on the main interface. When the time comes, she will give birth and there is no need to worry about not being prepared.
But gender, number, talent level, everything is random.
However, the talent data is determined by the talent and level of the heir's father, and of course, the same goes for the face.
A dragon gives birth to a dragon, like a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix. Caesar, who has military talent, cannot give birth to a child with farming talent.
After learning the detailed introduction, Olivia chose to use the seat and refreshed the new main task.
Pilgrimage. Elementary
Mission Description: There are ten churches in the territory.
Mission progress: 2/10
Mission Rewards:
+99 Experience Points
When the system was turned off, the carriage had already slowly passed the drawbridge and arrived outside the fortress.
Caesar helped Olivia out of the car and led her into the foyer.
"The first and third floors have been cleaned up, the second floor is still being cleaned up, and Sloch is still repairing the arena."
As he spoke, he pointed the way for Olivia upstairs and into the living room next to the master bedroom, where the servants were just putting away their things and leaving.
Caesar was about to ask her if she wanted to eat something before resting, but when he turned around, he saw her locking the door with a mysterious look on her face and walking towards him step by step.
Caesar was still trying to react when he was pushed to sit on a chair. She stepped over him inadvertently and whispered an order in his ear.
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