Chapter 160: Build a City
The king was happy, and he was also very proud of his importance to Xu Yi.
If you don't make trouble for yourself, you can still bring benefits, such a courtier, you can't dislike it. At this moment, the sage's favor towards Xu Yi was higher than that of his righteous son Wang Zhonghei.
Wang Zhongsi is just a famous general, and from now on, Xu Yi is not only a famous general, but also a sign of becoming a famous minister.
Let's just say that this time to deal with the plight of the Shence Army, to be honest, the saint issued such a vague edict, and he himself knew the difficulty of forming the Shence Army.
In his original intention, the saint was ready to acquiesce to Xu Yi using his wealth to fund the Shence army.
Xu Yi entered the WTO from the mountains, and in just a few years, he accumulated no less than hundreds of years of wealth, and the sage knew it, or said it was a little red-eyed.
The Shence Army spent some for Xu Yi, and the sage felt that it was okay.
As for the private provision of the army······ In the entire dynasty, almost all the festival envoys had such a fact. As long as the military is from the imperial court, the sage feels that it can be ignored.
What I didn't expect was that Xu Yi would be such a solution. It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish, this is the sign of a famous minister.
At this time, looking at these flat and unround glass beads, the saint seemed to see a steady stream of wealth.
5,000 soldiers, even if Xu Yi intends to increase the salary of the soldiers, how much money can he make? The two princesses and the ······ of the Ministry of Internal Affairs The princess is not married, and there are no descendants, and the real one who shares the profits from the glass industry is Xu Yi and the Internal Affairs Office.
It's fun to think about.
"Your Majesty, the minister still has to dedicate things to His Majesty for inspection!"
For the two princesses, the purpose of entering the palace has been achieved, and Xu Yi has always been very curious about the wooden box in his hand. At this time, Xu Yi also raised his heart when he said it.
Over the years, as long as it is advocated by Xu Yi, led by Xu Yi, and shot by Xu Yi, all of them are earth-shattering things, and all of them involve endless wealth.
"Oh, what else is there to do with Aiqing, let's talk about it together."
The more the sage looked at Xu Yi at this time, the more comfortable he became, just like his own son, no, it was much more comfortable than seeing his own son.
's own son, in addition to forming a gang to fight for power and profit, who mentions that he is worried about his father? The calyx building has been four years old, and it has not yet been completed because of the imperial court's support.
Look at Xu Yi, the first time he entered the palace, he solved the troubles that had plagued him for many years.
This idea of teaching people to fish is much better than Li Linfu's so-called method of reducing or even abolishing the method of reducing and even abolishing the cost of reducing military spending.
Xu Yi put the wooden box he had brought in on the ground, and the saint and the two princesses, including Gao Lishi, surrounded him.
It's a broken wooden box······
Xu Yi tried it with his hands, but without breaking off the planks, he looked left and right, then walked to the side of the janissary and pointed to the guard's waist knife······
"Untie the knife and give it to Kaneshiro."
With the sage's order, the guards gave Xu Yi the waist knife.
didn't pull out the waist knife, Xu Yi just used the scabbard to gently knock the square broken wooden box······ The first plank came down, and then the planks were knocked down by Xu Yi.
Xu Yi knocked down the wooden board again on the inside of this square thing.
"It's ······ Is it a stone? ”
"No, it's like a clay sculpture."
"How can a clay sculpture be so hard?"
"It's pretty heavy."
The saint and the two princesses looked at it with interest, as if they were not in a hurry to let Xu Yi uncover the mystery, and the saint also picked it up and tried the weight.
I saw it, I touched it, I touched it, and I even took the waist knife from Xu Yi's hand and knocked it a few times: "It looks like a real stone." ”
"Tell me, righteous boy, what the hell is this?"
The saints are all called Xu Yiyi boys.
"Your Majesty, maybe someone can bring some water?"
Without the need for a saint to greet him, Colliers walked away quickly, and soon brought a large basin of water.
This is also too exaggerated, Xu Yi didn't bring so many goods. This is cement, although it is the most primitive earthen cement, but its weight is not light.
At this time, Xu Yi took out a cloth bag from his sleeve cage, spread the wooden board on the ground, poured out the cement in the cloth bag, added water, and stirred it little by little with a waist knife.
"Xu Yi, could this stone-like square box be made of this sand?"
By this time, you should have understood everything.
The two princesses may not have thought of anything, but the saint, even Colliers, thought a lot.
The sand is mixed with water, and the final thing is as stiff as a stone······ If such a thing is built······
"Your Majesty, it is true."
Xu Yi said, his hand did not stop. Looking at the main hall of this Xingqing Palace, the ground is made of bluestone blocks, and the gap between the bluestone and the bluestone is not small.
Xu Yi used a wooden board to hold the reconciled cement, pulled out the waist knife and used it as a brick knife, and then stuffed it into the gap little by little along the gap of the bluestone, and then wiped it with a smooth knife surface until it was flush with the bluestone, as smooth as it was.
"Your Majesty, don't let people move for the time being, at this time tomorrow, the cement will be the same as bluestone, not only smooth, but also hard."
The sage no longer listened to what Xu Yi said, got up, and kept walking around the main hall, and Gao Lishi followed······ I don't know what to turn around, can I turn around to relieve the excitement in my heart? Or is it that you can learn the secret method by turning around?
"Yi'er, what do you say about this thing?"
The eldest princess was more excited when she saw the attitude of the saint than when she saw the glass industry, and naturally she didn't think it was a simple matter. It's just that she can't think of the benefits of this thing.
"Mother, this is also made by mixing and firing different sand and gravel in a certain proportion, and the child calls it cement."
"After the cement is fired, it is in a sand and gravel state, and after being mixed with water, it can be solidified in any shape. For example, the ground can be smoothed with cement, which is as smooth as bluestone. ”
"At the same time, the hardness of cement after solidification is comparable to bluestone, just like a square box carried by a child, which is easy and difficult to break."
"The sage is considering that if the city is built with cement, the first is that it is easy to carry and easy to transport, and the second is that cement can also be bonded to green bricks to strengthen the city wall."
"······Cement can even be used for everything from building houses, repairing rivers, paving roads, and so on."
"Isn't that another lucrative livelihood?"
Princess Yuzhen's exclamation interrupted Xu Yi's narration and also interrupted the sage's circle.
"Yuzhen, this thing is more than just a source of wealth. Xu Aiqing's cautious approach is correct, this is a strategic substance comparable to stainless steel. ”
"Lux shi, test shoot the square box brought by Xu Aiqing with a strong crossbow and bow and arrow······"
When Colliers returned with a box marked with strong crossbow arrows, the saint had already sat down again, and did not speak.
The sage was thinking about how to develop this cement industry, Yuzhen was thinking about how to mix in this industry, and Princess Jinxian was full of pride in Xu Yi.
Yi'er is loyal to Dasheng!
"Xu Aiqing, I will withdraw all the troops of the Xiliu Battalion, and the entire Xiliu Battalion will be handed over to the Shence Army. At the same time, I assigned the fine willow camp within a radius of ten miles to the Shence Army. ”
"In addition, I ask you to build a city in Xiliuying, a military city, a military city, and a city for firearms, glass, and even cement workshops."
"As for the cement workshop, Yuzhen, Jin Xian, and I allow you to participate, but after the cement is produced, I must be responsible for the sale of the cement by me, and the imperial court. This is a strategic substance, and the imperial court needs to control it. ”