Chinese people have a very heavy love for the land since ancient times, and all generations of people have adhered to the "relocation of the land", born in Si, grew up in Si, and grew up in Si, if it were not for livelihood persecution, they would not abandon their family and business to go to a strange place to make a living.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong decided to settle these displaced people. Outside the city is not a long-term solution, summer is coming, the weather is stormy, and the shacks built by these people are completely unable to withstand the impact of strong winds and rains.

Zhu Cihong decided to build a city to completely settle these displaced people, so he asked some masons to be found among the displaced people.

Fortunately, among the 100,000 displaced people, there are people from all walks of life, and there is a soup kitchen, a place where news can be spread in a centralized manner, and with the promise of wages, hundreds of masons immediately signed up.

At the beginning, Zhu Cihong, with his foresight, thought he was clever and described a new "product" in front of a group of masons - red bricks.

As a result, hundreds of masons looked at the crown prince in a daze, wondering what this Chitose master wanted to do? Zhu Cihong thought that the masons were shocked by their 'intelligence', and continued to proudly describe the advantages of red bricks and the firing methods.

Finally, a young mason couldn't help but say: "Chitose Lord, the red brick you are talking about should be a green brick, I heard that the firing process has matured when Qin Shi Huang was ......."

Scare! And what's going on? Zhu Cihong was stunned on the spot, this is really fucking embarrassing.

Just when Zhu Cihong began to be a little embarrassed, another old mason scolded: "What are you talking nonsense, you don't know when you are a chitose master?" Chitose must have a new idea! ”

Zhu Cihong's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw that someone was relieved, and then he coughed to hide his embarrassment, and said: "What this palace is talking about is not this red brick, but a new object called 'hollow brick'. ”

Zhu Cihong asked people to find pen and ink from the Shuntianfu scribe who counted the population, and then simply drew the shape of the hollow bricks of later generations.

A group of masons surrounded Zhu Cihong, sticking their heads out to look at the 'drawings' of the new object, and then they all scratched their heads, indicating that they didn't understand why the bricks were hollowed out.

Zhu Cihong told them that hollow bricks have many benefits, one can save materials, the second can speed up the bricks, and the third is high strength, heat preservation, sound insulation and noise reduction performance.

Zhu Cihong doesn't care if they understand it or not, just let them do it, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, what's the use of not letting them try to talk about it?

As a traverser, it is natural to contribute to the construction of the motherland, with hollow bricks, cement is naturally indispensable, which has always been a necessary skill for traversers.

The material of cement is not complicated, that is, lime and clay, but the temperature required for the firing of Portland cement is more than 1,000 degrees. There may be some trouble in terms of temperature, so Zhu Cihong uses the production method of "artificial pozzolana cement".

This method is very simple, does not require any complex equipment and processes, and the calcination temperature is not high, as long as 600 to 800 degrees Celsius.

Zhu Cihong even wants to make reinforced concrete, but if he thinks about it, don't toss, finish the things in front of him first, and then find someone to study it slowly.

Zhu Cihong wrote down the production method of hollow bricks and cement on paper, and asked this group of masons to try, especially cement, Zhu Cihong did not know the specific proportions after all, so they could only try it themselves.

In order to arouse the enthusiasm of this group of masons, Zhu Cihong set up a bonus, telling them that whoever can successfully fire the hollow bricks and have the hardest strength will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver; Whoever pounds out the cement and has the hardest strength will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!

Five hundred taels of silver was enough for an ordinary person to spend a lifetime in the Ming Dynasty, and one thousand taels of silver could buy a hundred acres of fertile land and become a small landlord.

After several days of continuous experiments, the masons went through PK again and again, and finally two people stood out, and the hardness of the hollow bricks and cement produced was the strongest, and it was difficult to smash with a sledgehammer.

"The wisdom of the people is infinite!" Zhu Cihong sighed and gave out the bonus, and talked with the two cordially, praising them in front of many masons.

The cement mason's name is Anshanda, Chinese New Year's Eve, and he has been in the mason trade for 20 years. He was originally skeptical of Zhu Cihong's method, but when he tried to make it, he found that it was really very strong.

The main reason is that the molding time is extremely short, which saves too much time and manpower compared with the traditional loess rammed mud. Compared with the slurry gluing used in the high-end of rammed fort walls, it is both cost-effective and trouble-free.

This result was an eye-opener for An Shangda, it turned out that the plaster still did this, this craft was too useful, and at the same time, he also admired Zhu Cihong, the thousand-year-old master is really the star of Ziwei Emperor, and he even understands this.

Zhu Cihong looked at An Shangda, who made cement, and asked with a smile: "What are you going to give this name?" ”

Chitose Ye actually let himself name this thing, An Shangda was very excited, and said: "This method is from Chitose Ye, so let's call this thing 'Chitose Mud'!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and accepted his slightly touted name.

Zhu Cihong was not satisfied with the name of the hollow brick, so he asked the mason who made the hollow brick, "What are you going to name this brick?" ”

The mason thought for a while and said, "Your Highness is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so let's call this brick 'Ming brick'!" ”

Zhu Cihong looked at him in surprise, felt that his name was very level, and nodded at the same time, agreeing with the name.

In the end, Zhu Cihong decided to organize this group of masons into construction soldiers, each with five taels of silver per month, with An Shangda as the leader, sealing 100 households, and the one who made Ming bricks was sealed from 100 households.

Although I don't know what the hell is a construction soldier, this military salary is higher than any army in the Ming Dynasty, and it is several times higher than that of a mason on weekdays, so the masons are also very happy.

"The crown prince not only saved us, but also asked me to wait for one step to ascend to the sky and live such a good life, Your Highness's great grace, I will never forget!"

"I didn't expect that I'm an official too, and I'm still a hundred households, it's really like a dream!"

Many masons are full of gratitude, determined to repay Chitose well.

After having red bricks and cement, Zhu Cihong decided to officially build the city, and the name of the new city was also thought of, and it was called 'Xincheng'.

After making a series of plans for the construction of the city, Zhu Cihong wrote a letter to send it to the Qianqing Palace, and wrote a large page of the city-building regulations in the song, the main purpose of which was to completely solve the problem of the displaced people.

Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied with Zhu Cihong's opinion, and even praised Lin'er for his intelligence, but when he saw the money and materials needed to build the city, he frowned again.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen became happy again, because he saw that the last paragraph of the song was written: Everything needed to build the city is handled by the sons, and no money is sent out of the treasury.