Zhangjia Village is also fifty miles away from the riverside of Dianbai County, and it took ten days to quickly complete the construction of 20 large houses, one large house covers an area of 10×2020 two hundred square meters, surrounded by walls on all sides, and there is nothing in the middle except for load-bearing pillars, which is not in line with family housing, of course, this is not for family living, and for the workers who are about to build the bridge.

This is a wild area, it would be nice to have a shelter from the wind and rain, a house can sleep a hundred people, there are no beds or anything, just a layer of wooden planks on the hardened ground, that is, the workers sleep and rest. The house here will not last long, and there is really no need to waste anything else for comfort, and the workers under Chen Zijian are most concerned about earning silver, and it is understandable that the rest place is a little simple.

Although the sleeping place is a little denser, other accessories are not left behind, such as the bath room, the toilet place, so many people hit, and the hygiene can not be casual.

The house was built in ten days, thanks to Chen Zijian's centralized order, not to mention that it only managed more than 100,000 people, but it has formed a centralized power centered on Chen Zijian, but the scale is a little smaller.

Don't look at the small centralization, after Chen Zijian gave the order, the transportation team of more than 5,000 people arrived in two days to transport the bricks and cement that needed to be used, and then more than 1,000 people from the Construction and Housing Bureau were responsible for the task of a house in batches. That's the benefit of centralization.

If Chen Zijian is a little black-hearted, he doesn't need to build a house for the workers to rest, let them solve it by themselves, this kind of thing is what the court does, during the period of the people's conscription, they bring their own daily necessities, food, and do not have a penny for the court, this kind of thing is of course beneficial to the court, and they can do things without paying a penny, but the people are miserable, during the conscription, there are many names and harsh methods, even in the non-war years, in order to build cities and dig rivers, build palaces, renovate gardens, etc., hundreds of thousands of people are requisitioned, so that the fields are barren, Serious disruption to food production.

After Chen Zijian took the throne, there was no conscription or anything, and the people were asked to do things with money and food, simply put, they were used to eating and sheltering, and the people were used to seeing the harshness of the imperial court, and suddenly came to Zhangjia Village, and there was a feeling that happiness came too suddenly. There is no harm without contrast.

One day after the house was built, Li Yunzi took more than 2,000 people to move in, and then began to do things, the riverside has been painted with lime powder to draw the location of the diversion river, the first step is to dig the diversion river, the excavated soil is packed with hemp, put on the bank and wait for the diversion river to communicate, and then throw the hemp bag into the river to block the river.

Li Xiaoshan touched the sweat on his head, there was no white cloud in the sky, and the people in the sun were sweating. There were many people like him around, also digging in the dirt, some shoveling the dirt into sacks and carrying it away by two big men.

Li Xiaoshan's 13th Brigade of Building Bridges in Huaxia, I heard the captain above say that the chief is building a bridge here, how can a bridge be built so far between the two banks, this is what Li Xiaoshan can't understand, nearly 20 years old, Li Xiaoshan has seen a lot of small bridges, but these small bridges are usually a few zhang away, the farthest is only seven or eight zhang. Now this river is more than 20 zhang Li Xiaoshan estimated, such a long distance Li Xiaoshan couldn't figure it out, but he was just a person who excavated the diversion river, and he didn't need to imagine how to build such a high-end and atmospheric thing as a bridge.

"Captain, I'm going to take a break."

Li Xiaoshan applied to the captain of the brigade to take a break, this idea can't rest if you want to have news, you have to apply, otherwise the captain will think that you are lazy, and you will have to deduct the money, and you will deduct fifty yuan at a time.

The captain saw that Li Xiaoshan was sweating profusely, and he had done things for a long time, so he really needed to rest and nodded his head, and the rest time was about half an hour at a time.

With your own hoe, the tools can't be left here, otherwise it will affect other people's work.

When I arrived at the rest place, there were many people drinking water and chatting, and the most of them were about repairing the bridge.

Li Xiaoshan found a place to sit down, and there were women who came over with cold boiled water, these women provided logistical support for the workers, Li Xiaoshan was not strange, he took a big bowl and took a sip, the cold boiled water was a little different from before, and it was sweet in his mouth.

Smash it in the mouth, try it again, there is still a kind of sweetness in the mouth, and stop the woman next to her.

"Eldest sister, why is this water a little sweet, is there anything added!"

"This is explained from above, the water is added to the latest production of white sugar, I heard that this is the chief's order, adding white sugar to the water can speed up the recovery of strength. The chief is considerate of your hard work. "After that, I went to work on other things.

"That's good, Chief." Li Xiaoshan didn't expect that the high-ranking chief would deliberately give everyone such a good thing. White granulated sugar is sold in the store of Zhangjiacun, the price of a catty is 500 Wen, even if the per capita income of the people in Zhangjiacun is very high, but the price of a catty of 500 Wen discourages many people, white granulated sugar belongs to a luxury product, such a high price Li Xiaoshan has heard that because the production of sugarcane for the manufacture of white granulated sugar is small, at present, the people want to use white granulated sugar, they need to feel heartache, and after planting sugarcane in Zhangjia Village, the price of white granulated sugar will fall.

The white granulated sugar at such an expensive price in the store, the chief actually gave everyone to drink it for free, and there was a feeling in Li Xiaoshan's heart. The meat eaten in a month in Zhangjia Village is more than the meat eaten in the past ten years, and now I have drunk this sugar water for myself, such a good thing, those landlords and masters are willing to use it in the past.

Chen Zijian's various things to buy people's hearts firmly attract outsiders, such a good thing in Zhangjia Village can be found in other places in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the high wages, it is three meals a day, which is not available in other places.

After drinking the sugar water, I felt comfortable, and with the kindness of the chief under him, I had no other place to help the chief, only my strength.

More than 2,000 people on both sides of the river, at the same time to excavate the diversion river, ten days down, the diversion river excavation is completed, the diversion river is five meters deep, 15 meters wide, excavation four meters deep has been rare because the diversion river is on the riverside, excavation but two meters, the diversion river has river water infiltration, excavation of the diversion river below two meters needs to be excavated, while the seepage water is carried away with a wooden barrel.

There are still two ends of the diversion river that have not been excavated from the place where it enters the river, and the diversion river has not yet been connected to the river.

Today is the final stage of the excavation of the diversion river, and the people who are working in the diversion river have already left the diversion river, but the person in charge of the last step, Li Yunzi, asked people to stop doing things, and received a notice that the chief would come to check.

A group of 500 volunteers appeared, and everyone saw a familiar person, Chen Zijian, in the midst of discussions.

Chen Zijian received a notice that the diversion river, which had been under construction for 15 days, was about to be connected to the river, and this step was regarded as the first step, and all Chen Zijian came to take a look.

Li Yunzi: "The chief is good. ”

"Let's go, take me over to see the diversion river."

Chen Zijian, who was polite or something, directly ignored it, and Li Yunzi had no choice but to take Chen Zijian over, feeling indescribable about his style of doing things.

Chen Zijian saw that because no one carried the seepage water away in the diversion river, the seepage water was basically the same as the river water more than 10 meters away, and the water looked crystal clear.

Soon, the diversion river was dug and part of the river flowed into the diversion river.

The excavation of the diversion river is not the goal, but in preparation for the imminent blockage of the main channel, which does not divert the excess water from the diversion river, and the consequence is that it becomes a body of water.

At the beginning of the blockage of the river, prepare wooden piles with a length of 15 to 20 meters on the shore as early as possible, and set up the wooden piles to drive into the bottom of the river, and the wooden piles are driven into two rows five meters apart, and the purpose of driving the wooden piles is to block the sacks. If there is no wooden stake to block the sack, the sack will be washed away by the current when thrown into the river, and with the wooden stake to block the sack, it will form a wall after throwing it into the sack, blocking the endless river water.

The work of driving wooden piles is not so easy to do, there are several tons, dozens of tons of pile drivers in later generations, it is very easy to do things, to drive wood into the river steadily, it takes five big men on the elevated road, carrying a two-hundred-pound hammer to slowly hit the wooden pile.

Chen Zijian is still confident in the process of driving wooden piles designed by himself, and began to prepare for the wooden piles, first of all, there is no way to stand in the river, so he can only use wooden boats as platforms, and wooden boats are fixed to the shore with four ropes to prevent the boat from moving with the current.

With a ship as a platform, a raised platform is erected on the platform, which is useful for people to stand on.

Chen Zijian blew the whistle and instructed the workers to drive the first wooden stake.

"Drip."

Chen Zijian asked the group to carry the fifteen-meter piece of wood over, walked on the pontoon bridge where the wooden planks were sitting, and worked together to set up the wood, and then according to the process of the previous exercise, five strong men took fifty catties of iron up to the high platform, and then combined the iron pieces to form a large iron block of two hundred and fifty catties.

There is no way to do this, because no one can carry the iron weighing two hundred and fifty catties to that place, of course, Chen Zijian has the ability, but he is busy with other things, so he doesn't need to wait to be a worker here.

"Hey!"

Five men simultaneously lifted the hammer, which was specially modified to have five handles.

"Bang!" The dull voice remembered that the wood went one meter deep into the bottom of the river, and at first the soil at the bottom of the river was relatively soft and could be easily driven in, but as the wood went deeper and deeper into the bottom of the river, a hammer could only be driven into ten centimeters.

"Drop!"

"Hey!"

"Drop!"

"Hey!"

Chen Zijian commanded not far away, blew the whistle once, and the five men on the high platform exerted force at the same time, raised the hammer, and then let go, and the hammer hit the stake fiercely under gravity.

Many people on the side watched this scene and talked about it.

Chen Zijian: "Okay, a few of you come down to rest, and the next group of people will go up and prepare." ”

In ten minutes, the five men carried the hammer and beat them hundreds of times, sweating like rain, tired and panting, Chen Zijian saw their tiredness, so he let them come down to rest.

In half an hour, the first wooden pile was driven into the bottom of the river to a depth of eight meters, and the river water depth at the position of the wooden pile was three meters, revealing a height of more than two meters.

With the first stake as a reference, you can follow the learning that the stakes should be about 20 centimeters apart, from one side to the other.

Chen Zijian: "Li Yunzi, you come and see later, I'm leaving." ”

It will take more than ten days to complete the stake task, and Chen Zijian is not interested in watching here. Once the stake is complete, the next step is to throw a sack of earth into the stake.

The retaining wall needs to be made on two sides, and then the middle river water is drained by manpower, and when the bottom of the river appears, a load-bearing base is built at the bottom of the river, and a bridge is almost completed with reinforced concrete on the base.

Because it is all caused by manpower, Chen Zijian estimates that it will not be completed in three months.