"Let's go and see how they build the road."

Li Dongyang looked at the busy scene here, it was hard to imagine that in the era of famine, these victims actually ate meat to spend their lives, shook his head slightly, and looked at the official road in front of him, which was extremely busy here.

On the road several kilometers long, there are tens of thousands of people in the division of labor and cooperation, busy in full swing, not far from the city of Tianjin, a section of the road that has been repaired is spacious and tidy, divided into two sides, and trees are planted in the middle.

This is again what makes the three of them very curious.

Soon, the three of them came to the place where the road was being repaired, and saw that the victims were divided into many working groups, some were responsible for opening the road, some were responsible for leveling the land, and some were responsible for transporting sand and gravel......

"Why are they pouring mud on the official road?"

Zhou Jing's eyes quickly locked on the area ahead, and here on the official road that had been opened up and leveled, there were a large number of people carrying a load of gray mud and constantly pouring it on the smooth and wide official road.

The mud looks similar to the mud in the fish pond, and it doesn't seem to be any different at all, except that there is a lot of sand and gravel in the mud.

"Let's go, go over and see, it's just nonsense, where is this road construction, this is destroying the road."

As soon as Li Dongyang saw it, his face immediately showed anger, the importance of the official road is self-evident, which connects the blood vessels of every place in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, when he saw someone building a road, he was still very happy, because since ancient times, this bridge and road construction are good things for the benefit of one party, if there is a landlord and old money can pay to build a road, build a bridge or something, it will be regarded as a thumbs up and praise by the locals.

Without it, in this era, transportation is extremely inconvenient, and building roads and bridges is a very money-consuming thing, and it is often necessary for the official to come forward to summon the common people to repair bridges and pave roads in the form of forced labor during the slack time.

Now seeing that these people are building roads to pour mud on the official road and destroying a good official road, this makes Li Dongyang very angry, the road is not easy to repair, and now it is even destroyed, it is unforgivable.

He walked over angrily, and before he could speak, someone came up and stopped them and said, "My lords, I'm really sorry, the road is being built here, you can't pass through it for the time being, please take a detour." ”

"Are you building roads?"

Li Dongyang pointed to the cement slurry poured on the official road and asked, "You guys use rotten silt to build roads?" ”

Dong Xiaoshan looked at the people in front of him, the three people led by him, they were dressed extraordinarily, their bearing was extraordinary, and a breath of long-standing high position was coming, plus the guards who were responsible for protecting them around him, he knew at a glance that these people were from extraordinary backgrounds.

"My lord, these are not rotten silt, this is cement, it is made of cement and sand and gravel, etc., don't look at it is the same as silt now, but after a few strips, when the water inside is dry, it will be as hard as a rock."

Dong Xiaoshan smiled and explained that people who had never seen cement thought it was rotten silt, so they made a lot of jokes.

"Cement?"

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao looked at each other, and each saw a blank look in each other's eyes, neither had they heard of or seen such a thing.

"This cement is something invented by our Liu Gongzi, don't look at it as gray and inconspicuous, but it is the best adhesive, and it is perfect for building roads, houses, cities, etc."

"Adults, please come with me, and I'll show you."

Dong Xiaoshan was originally very busy, so he didn't have time to pay attention to the three of them at all, but looking at the appearance of the three of them, if they didn't explain it well, I was afraid that there would be trouble.

Hearing Dong Xiaoshan's words, the three of them hurriedly followed, and Dong Xiaoshan said as he walked: "Three adults, please look, this is the road we have just paved with cement, because the cement is not dry, so it is almost like silt, and you can step on a deep footprint with a light step." ”

Dong Xiaoshan's foot stepped on the cement that had just been paved, and a footprint immediately appeared.

When Zhang Mao heard this, he was not afraid of getting dirty, and he personally stepped on it, and a footprint also appeared.

"Hurry up and fill up the footprints and smooth them out."

Dong Xiaoshan smiled and then said to the road builder next to him, he was wearing the clothes of a steward, and the disaster victims who were building the road next to him knew it immediately at a glance, and they also hurriedly made up the footprints that they stepped on.

Dong Xiaoshan continued to walk forward with the three of them, and soon walked more than ten meters, pointed to a cement road that had been slightly dry, and said: "This piece was probably repaired more than an hour ago, and the water is still not dry, but it is already a little strong." ”

Zhang Mao was a little unconvinced, and also stepped on it with his foot, and this time it took a little effort to step on a footprint.

Without stopping, Dong Xiaoshan continued to walk forward with a few people, this time walking a full few hundred meters and said: "This piece was repaired by us yesterday afternoon, and now it is almost ready to go, but it still can't take too heavy a carriage, and you have to wait a few more days." ”

When he walked here, Dong Xiaoshan no longer walked on the side road, but walked directly to the cement road.

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Mao and others also stepped on it one after another, and the feeling under their feet was as if they were stepping on a big stone, which made the three of them slightly surprised, Zhang Mao didn't even believe in evil, and stomped on the cement road.

"Oops~ It's so hard."

With this stamping of his feet, Zhang Mao couldn't help but cry out in pain, and then he suddenly came to his senses, couldn't help squatting on the road, knocked with his fingers, and studied it carefully.

Li Dongyang and Zhou Jing glanced at each other, and they also squatted down and touched and knocked with their hands, as if they were hitting a hard stone.

"It's incredible!"

Li Dongyang was a little incredulous, got up and looked back at the side behind him, the cement slurry that kept pouring on the official road and the same as silt, after this thing dried, it was as hard as a stone.

Look at the cement road in front of you, this cement road should belong to the two-way six-lane road according to the standards of later generations, very wide, very smooth, like a mirror, it has long been impossible to see a little of the original official road.

Although the original official road is the best road in this era, this official road is actually just an ordinary dirt road, potholes are naturally a normal thing, and it is also relatively narrow, even half of the current spacious, if it rains, the official road will become muddy, very difficult to walk.

But now, Li Dongyang looked at the front and the official road behind him, and the whole person was extremely shocked.