Therefore, Hou Xianglin clearly asked the burners not to let go of every section of the ground along the way, and in the plots that have been burned, even if there is only a small piece of grass left, let the burners burn one side again, and never let go of even a small clump of grass.

Years of experience in the field have taught him that once even a small patch of grass is spared, it will revert to a large green area the next year, and then it will soon grow half a man's tall artemisia grass.

Fortunately, the current gradually dry climate is very conducive to the burning of wasteland, and the work of the burning team led by Hou Xianglin is progressing quite smoothly.

As at the beginning of the burning, Hou Xianglin drove the bulldozer to the front, while the burners followed behind and threw gasoline bottles and ignited various ignitions into the grass on both sides of the newly opened open field.

Today's members of the Burning Team have a variety of experience in dealing with wild animals, and when they occasionally see snakes and crocodiles that have been forced to rush into the open field for refuge because of the spread of the fire, they no longer panic, but use shovels and pickaxes to deal with these animals.

Therefore, every day, whether it is the burning work site or the road construction site behind, there will be all kinds of noise from people from time to time, if this is not the meat and vegetarian jokes that everyone said in the labor caused laughter, then it must be encountered snakes, crocodiles or some strange animals.

However, the occasional dull shooting sound of a Colt python can be heard, which means that people have encountered large crocodiles.

In the later stage, everyone actually enjoyed it, especially the high school students in the burning team, this group of young people who became more and more courageous often took the initiative to approach the edge of the grass that had not yet been overburned, and then used shovels, steel brazing hoes and other tools to carry out various kinds of tinkering and testing of them, and often various kinds of killings.

So every day, when the doctors take turns driving the tractor to deliver food to everyone, they can bring back some game from the kitchen on the way back, from a whole crocodile to some unknown bird eggs.

When it comes to the daily hard work, the road construction team following the burning team should be ranked first.

Now, the road construction team is divided into two parts, one for repairing the roadbed and the other for laying sleepers and rails.

Hou Xianglin and Cheng Dong decided to put the laying of sleepers and rails on the back burner for the time being, because they wanted to take advantage of the dry season to repair the roadbed as soon as possible, and if the roadbed was not completed before the rainy season, it would greatly delay the construction of the railway.

Therefore, the task of laying sleepers and rails was only handed over to two truck cranes and four other people, and Chengdong put the main labor force into the roadbed construction site, which led to the laying of sleepers and rails in the later stage far behind the construction of the roadbed, but because of the reason of catching up with the season, there was no way to do it.

Therefore, the roadbed construction site is the most lively occasion, usually the construction site has a total of four excavators lined up on both sides, the soil is dug up from both sides of the planned roadbed, and piled into the middle of the roadbed, the shovel loader keeps piling soil in the middle, and the roller rolls back and forth.

These jobs are done with construction machinery, but because the working hours are a little long, so even the operation of machinery is very tiring, and the operators have to work in shifts---- otherwise the consequences will be very serious, a while ago there have been people who found out when they went to work the next morning, their arms are swollen and unconscious.

However, the hardest part is the manual soil cultivation, compaction and ditch finishing of the roadbed and shoulder, which is still a boring and tiring job in the eyes of most people.

Fortunately, everyone also knows that in the future, this will be a 100-ton train, so not many people complain, after all, the commander-in-chief Cheng Dong is also taking turns with everyone to do the most tiring work such as manpower soil cultivation and ditch arrangement.

Cheng Dong has high requirements for the quality of the railway subgrade, and whenever he completes a certain distance, he actually inserts an iron shovel wooden handle into the rammed earth surface to test whether the soil is compacted, so everyone is often forced to rework by this strict inspector.

Once, when Cheng Dong was holding a wooden stick to test the fruits of everyone's labor, someone asked, Brother Cheng, are you tired of inserting the roadbed like this?

However, Cheng Dong immediately replied that he didn't dare to be tired, and the high school students immediately complained that there was such a way to check the quality of rammed earth?

yes, that's too harsh, isn't it?

That's right, Brother Cheng, don't use so much force to plug in your old man!

It's okay, Brother Cheng!

Well, where is there such a plug?

Watching Cheng Dong silently use a stick to test the soil, listening to their own bad lines, Zhu Beiguo, who was working next to him, laughed and said to the high school students, you guys, you don't know some common sense things, Cheng Dong's practice is passed down from our ancestors!

Next, Zhu Beiguo told a story to the high school students of the road construction team while wielding a shovel to cultivate soil, and the big guys were stunned after finishing the story:

"Do you know how Qin Shi Huang checked whether the rammed earth foundation was compacted or not when he requisitioned migrant workers to repair the Afang Palace?"

Zhu Beiguo first asked with a serious face.

The high school students, of course, replied that they didn't know, and then put on a curious face.

So Zhu Beiguo sighed beside him, and said to Cheng Dong, who had stopped his movements at this time and was listening carefully to the story, hey, this is no way, they really don't know, because there are no historical details in those history textbooks, they are all empty rhetoric, and as a result, although these young people have learned history, they don't know how our ancestors live on weekdays!

It seems to me that those history books are all full of lofty terms, full of boring chronological figures and empty concepts and the like, which is simply boring.

The high school students silently listened to Brother Zhu complain about this, but they didn't speak, because this is usually one of Brother Zhu's "foreplays" before "talking about the ancients".

After laying out, Zhu Beiguo told everyone that in fact, he took a wooden stick or a thick bamboo pole that was almost as thick as Cheng Dong's hand and inserted it into the ground that had just been tamped for inspection.

Everyone responded, oh, that's the same as Brother Cheng's method, the question is, what is there to say?

Then Zhu Beiguo immediately said, although the testing method is the same, but the implementation of the testing system is very different, take the project in front of you as an example, let's say, Cheng Dong and a few friends are the quality inspection party with a stick on the ground, and the rammed earth is a few of you, which is considered the construction party.

Well, in order to ensure the quality of the rammed earth project, the construction manager set up a strict rule in order to prevent the two of us from selling favors to each other in the quality of the work, and forcing us to form a situation of mutual supervision in the quality of the project:

If Cheng Dong and these inspectors can insert a stick into the ground for a few inches, for example, the specific standard is five inches, and the stick can be inserted into the ground for five inches, it means that your rammed earth is not compact, right? Then as punishment, the rammers will draw lots in proportion, and those who win the lottery will be beheaded!

On the other hand, if Chengdong, you inspectors, can't insert a stick into the ground for five inches, which proves that the quality of your rammed earth is really good, OK! Then your ramming team will be able to survive.

However, they had to draw lots proportionally and cut off the heads of Chengdong's team of inspectors!

So, in order to save your lives, the tampers will try their best to ram the earth, and what about the inspectors? will desperately stick sticks into the soil.....

When Zhu Beiguo said this, he looked back at the group of high school students with surprised and incredulous expressions on their faces, and did not continue, but lowered his head and continued to cultivate the soil on his shoulders.

"Alas...... Sometimes, when I read the historical details of that Eastern Empire, I wonder if it is true, but the words are there in black and white, and I can only admit it...... But sometimes I wonder if that era is on earth, or whether it is hell on earth......"

After listening to Brother Zhu's narration, several high school students at the scene immediately remembered the words that Dr. Zhu suddenly came out of nowhere when he listened to Brother Zhu tell a historical story in the dormitory a few nights ago......

Now, everyone seems to be a little clearer, okay, we finally understand why such a powerful Great Qin has only survived for less than twenty years, and several high school students couldn't help but sigh after hearing it......