Chapter 283 - Start of construction
There is no doubt about whether Liu Bang can deal with these businessmen. Li Chen believes that if you talk about intrigue and these businessmen compared to Liu Bang, I am afraid that they are not even qualified to lift shoes. Li Chen believes that after this wine and food, Liu Bang will be able to fool these people even as underwear.
Leaving these merchants to Liu Bang to deal with, the rebels themselves returned home early. Since becoming a parent, Li Chen has become more and more dislike socializing. After all, you have to drink for this entertainment, and as soon as this man drinks, his heart is like a fire, but after this drinking, the hardness is not enough. This hardness is not enough, and the feeling of fire in my heart is really more than enough and not enough.
"Husband, isn't there a party today? Let's be back so early. Li Chen entered the house, and Ying Yue was collecting his jewelry. Seeing Li Chen, he asked.
"Leave it to Liu Bang that old boy to deal with, and the big things are not as important as our Xiaoyue'er." Li Chen pulled up Yingyue as he spoke, and sat on his lap.
"Don't make a fuss." Ying Yue blushed and broke away from Li Chen's arms. walked straight to his dresser and brought the boxes of things he had just packed to Li Chen.
"I heard from the people in Zhuangzi that you want to build a new city, and you must spend a lot of silver taels to build a city. I can't wear these jewelry on weekdays, so you can take them. Ying Yue whispered.
When Yingyue got married, she brought a lot of dowries, which are now in the treasury of Lijiazhuang. But now, in order to help Li Chen establish a new city, she even took out her own personal jewelry. Ying Yue knew that it was not easy to build a city, when Great Qin unified the six countries, in order to establish this new Xianyang City, it was simply hollowed out of the entire Great Qin royal family.
Ying Yue's move really made Li Chen have mixed feelings in his heart, this is really a virtuous helper, Ying Yue simply handed over everything he had to him.
"Little fool, where has the husband been reduced to the point of being your jewelry. Don't worry, it's not to build a city, it's just to build a bigger Lijiazhuang, see how the husband will give you an empty-handed white wolf set up a Shimenshan Economic Development Zone. Li Chen pinched Yingyue's nose and whispered.
"What nonsense? It is impossible for such a coin to fall from the sky. Ying Yue glanced at Li Chen and said angrily.
"Of course, there is no money in the sky, but these businessmen have money in their pockets. Once the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone is completed, it will naturally become a holy place for these businessmen to trade. The wool comes out of the sheep, and the money naturally has to come out of their pockets. Li Chen Zhenzhen said with words, it didn't look like he was telling a lie, and Ying Yue was relieved.
Today, on Shimen Mountain, countless construction workers are building the Shimen Mountain Development Zone step by step. Now that the money for the construction of the development zone has been settled, it is nothing to pay for the small expenses of the construction in advance by Lijiazhuang. After all, Lijiazhuang is now the developer of the Shimenshan Special Economic Zone, and it is normal to advance capital in advance.
Now is the time of the farm, there is not much of anything, and it is the time when there are the most idlers. Li Chen set up signs to recruit workers everywhere in Xianyang, and immediately tens of thousands of farmers and craftsmen who were idle at home came to apply. Whether it is Li Jiazhuang or Li Chen, the Rong Lu Hou, the name in Xianyang is well-known. This work is not heavy, the salary is also high, and the good job of taking care of food is naturally scrambling to do.
Under the guidance of Li Chen, the masons are working on a new style of wall. Dig a trench in the ground and then build a shell out of wood on top of the surface. Shelves are built with steel bars in the shell, live cement is poured on top of them, and then they are rammed with giant logs.
Li Chen's construction method made these old masons with decades of construction experience a little psychologically drummed, and they were really confused for a while.
In the old mason, although Li Chen is powerful, the work of the mason is a lowly job, and Li Chen, the marquis, may not be proficient. In their opinion, the best material for building the city wall is naturally bluestone, just like the city wall of Xianyang City. The whole body is made of huge bluestone, and even after a hundred years, it is still a standing beast. If the cost of bluestone is too high, can you use bluebricks? Li Chen's construction method of using steel rods and cement has never been seen by many craftsmen. Although cement has been widely used in paving roads, the cement road is more than ten centimeters thick, and there is ground as a focus point, but the construction of the fence is several meters high, how to focus.
"It's called a reinforced concrete structure, and it may not be as strong as bluestone, but it's much stronger than a brick wall. However, this speed is much faster than that of bluestone structures, and if you use bluestone to build walls, you need to find a suitable stone mine, and there are stonemasons to chisel out stone bricks, and the whole process is too cumbersome. However, if it is a reinforced concrete structure, this speed is more than ten times faster than that of bluestone bricks. Li Chen explained to the masons.
The cement made by Daqin today is far inferior to the quality of the previous life, so the wall built by this reinforced concrete structure is naturally not comparable to the bluestone wall. However, this reinforced concrete structure is still much stronger than the green bricks fired in this era, whether it is durability, plasticity, or cost and construction speed are much stronger than the green brick wall.
The construction of the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone requires a large number of manpower, and the most important thing to do in the agricultural season is manpower. And Li Chen's salary was twice as much as usual, and he was in charge of three meals a day. You must know that in this era, most people eat two meals a day, and those who can eat three meals a day are some rich people. Of course, under such superior treatment, the workers are also like chicken blood, and they all seem to treat the work in their hands as their own mother-in-law and work hard.
The essence of the old Qin people is pure and simple, Li Chen saw the workers working hard, and the food at the construction site was raised by several grades. Now the food at this construction site has almost reached the food standard of the Shenwu Army, and there is a meat meal almost every day. These workers are willing to eat meat on weekdays, and they are only willing to cut some meat to eat during the New Year's holidays. Now that I have meat all day long, and I have oil and water in my stomach, I naturally work harder.
At this time, it was already dark, and some people were still seen lighting torches on the construction site of Shimenshan Economic Development Zone. Skilled craftsmen wield hammers in "bang, bang, bang", while unskilled craftsmen push cement with wheelbarrows and pour cement into the area where the craftsmen have made.
"Fellow, why are you still working at such a late hour, isn't the overseer here so unreasonable?" I don't know whose spy it is, but he sneaked in at night and asked the craftsmen for news.
"Where there are any supervisors, we work on our own initiative, and this overtime is also voluntary."
"The pattern is too small, young man, your pattern is too small. Hou Ye gave us twice the salary, and there was also a meal of meat every day, if we didn't do twice the work, wouldn't it be hot to hold this money? Doesn't this meat stuff your teeth? The old craftsman taught the young man a lesson.
(End of chapter)