Merton was exquisite, naturally knowing everyone's calculations, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Although the cost is not high, but the cement is in short supply at the moment, I'm afraid it will take a while before it is possible to mass produce cement!" ”

"Cement!"

Li Shimin's heart moved, they have gradually been able to understand this frequent new word, the reason why the three-story villa can be built, cement plays a vital role, and this cement is known as the Taoist alchemy refining, at present, it is impossible to estimate at all.

Merton explained: "Back to Your Majesty, usually we use loess to build houses and bricks, but the loess is very easy to be washed away by rain, causing damage to the house, the boy is like if there is a loess similar thing, after solidification as a rock, this and Taoism jointly developed cement, but unfortunately now the cement has just been successfully tested, the output is very small, and there is no time for mass production, and it has accumulated for several months to build this three-story small building." ”

"How many months did it take to make so much cement?" Li Shimin frowned suddenly.

Merton nodded solemnly and said: "And in order to save cement as much as possible, the kid uses river sand to mix cement, and when building the top layer, he even beats the stone into a stone and adds it, so it is enough to save, if it is all cement, I am afraid that a thousand times will not be enough to spend." ”

In the era when there is no machinery, it is not only not easy to refine cement, but even going down to the river to fish for sand and break the stones is also a big project, plus the cost of transportation, so there is such a high cost.

"How much is it going on?" Li Shimin couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help but think of Yu Zhining's performance just now, but it seemed to cost a little more.

Seeing this, Morton hurriedly said: "The thing of cement is extremely magical, naturally it cannot be measured by the usual price, good steel is used on the blade, and it has a great use when used in the right place." ”

"If you have something to say, just say it?" Li Shimin couldn't help but snort coldly when he saw Mo Dun selling Guanzi.

Merton smiled awkwardly and said, "Weichen thinks that cement can be used to build bridges in addition to building houses!" ”

"Repair the bridge?" Li Shimin was puzzled.

"Cement mixed with water is like mud, we can shape it into whatever shape we want, but once it solidifies, it will be as solid as a rock." Since ancient times, it is extremely difficult to repair the bridge, and it costs a lot of money and food, the ordinary wooden bridge does not take long at all, the stone arch bridge is not worth mentioning at all except the Zhaozhou Bridge built by Li Chun in the previous dynasty, and there are even many larger rivers that cannot repair the bridge at all, and there is no bridge in the world for a long time. ”

Li Shimin glanced at Merton unexpectedly, others didn't know him, but they knew that Li Chun, who built the Zhaozhou Bridge, was in the same vein as Xiangfu, and he didn't expect that Merton would respect him so much.

"Then cement can also build bridges, so it can be guaranteed not to break?" Zhang Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who had been silent, finally couldn't help but speak up.

Morton showed a trace of confidence, pointed to the cement roof on the roof, and said: "With steel as the reinforcement and cement as the bone, as long as there is sufficient cement and steel bar, the cement can also continue to solidify, just like a whole, it can be said that it is the best building materials for repairing bridges, not to mention the small Zhaoxian River, it is the wide Wei River, it is not difficult to build a bridge, given time, even the galloping Yellow River and Yangtze River to build a bridge is not impossible!" When the time comes, the moat will change the road, and the people will cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, without stopping, and the car will not stop, and it will only take a quarter of an hour to cross, what a miracle it is. ”

"Building bridges over the Yangtze River and the Yellow River?"

"The moat becomes a path!"

"You can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in a quarter of an hour?"

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Merton's words were like magic, and they immediately made the blood of the Manchu courtiers boil. All along, the successive dynasties have conquered almost all the rivers, but the vast Yangtze River and the Yellow River are helpless, the two big rivers, like a moat, hinder the north-south traffic of China, plague generation after generation, and now the emergence of cement, finally let the Tang Dynasty have the hope of conquering the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

"Of course, it can't be done in the short term, but with the continuous accumulation of bridge-building technology, Wechen believes that if one day we can build bridges on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, I am afraid it must be reinforced concrete, which is the best thing to repair bridges." Merton took a deep breath and said.

Almost all the important ministers nodded subconsciously, just by the plasticity of reinforced concrete and the rock-solid characteristics of the solidified type, they knew that although Merton was a little exaggerated, it was very likely to be the truth.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart and said: "I can still wait for time, but in order to confirm your words, it happens that a stone bridge in Qujiangchi is in disrepair, so it will be handed over to the Mo family to build, and then the Ministry of Engineering will naturally come to evaluate, I hope I will not be disappointed!" ”

Merton nodded solemnly and said, "I will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty!" ”

The water flow of the Qujiang River is not small, and the flow of the Zhaozhou Bridge is not much different from the flow of the Huhe River, and the Zhaozhou Bridge that Merton just admired Li Chun, Li Shimin is impartial, and just compares it with a similar bridge.

"As the saying goes, the Jinqiao Silver Road costs ...... "Merton is embarrassed, repairing the bridge is not a small amount, and Merton doesn't want Mojia Village to act as the head of this injustice."

Li Shimin snorted coldly and said: "The materials are from the Mo family, and the labor is deployed by the Chang'an County Ya, didn't you say that it doesn't cost you money to use your own materials?" ”

Morton suddenly smiled bitterly, Li Shimin really didn't pull out a dime for him as always.

However, he didn't know Li Shimin's intentions, and Merton continued to be in the limelight, if he didn't let him make a show of blood, how to explain to the civil and military officials.

"Wechen obeys!" Merton commanded.

However, he immediately became excited, this is a leap in the history of the Tang Bridge, he was completed by the Mo family, and at the beginning, the Xiangfu clan cracked the Mo family's ink technique, which brought a huge loss to the Mo family's village, and he did not reciprocate, this time he wanted to defeat it in the strongest point of the Xiangfu clan, so that he was convinced.

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"Brother Mo is so eloquent, he actually argues with Confucianism, and Yu Zhining is speechless!"

In the Mo Mansion, Qin Huaiyu said excitedly.

After the court argued, the dispute between Morton and Yu Zhining had already spread all over the government and the opposition, and for a while, the military attache did not have much good impression of the civilian officials, and Qin Huaiyu was naturally happy to satirize Yu Zhining.

"That's it! Isn't it just to build a new house, but it has made trouble in the court, which is simply too deceitful. Cheng Chumo suddenly hugged and said unevenly, but when he saw the new house in front of Merton, he couldn't help but feel envious, and when he saw such a house for the first time, he couldn't help but like such a house.

Yu Chi Baolin on the side nodded again and again, while looking at the new house strangely from time to time, his mouth was amazed.

"Brother Mo, my younger brother is also getting married, I wonder if I can help my younger brother build a house like this?" Cheng Chumo said flatteringly.

Merton was suddenly surprised: "It's also going to be a big wedding, didn't you say that it's almost the New Year?" ”

Cheng Chumo suddenly said with a look of resentment: "It's not to blame you, I have to let the woman get married at sixteen, otherwise can I wait so long, and now it's only about ten months before the New Year, isn't it just right to repair the house?" ”

Cheng is a woman from a family with five surnames, and the diamonds ordered here earlier in Merton were sent as love tokens, if it weren't for Merton's trouble, I'm afraid the two would have been married, and now until the end of the year, the woman is only sixteen, and it has been delayed until the end of the year.

Merton suddenly got goosebumps, and hurriedly hid to the side, frowning: "You are not afraid of the impeachment of Yushi against you." ”

Cheng Chumo smiled and said, "When the sky falls, my father will be on top, rest assured." ”

Mo Dun was speechless for a moment, Cheng Biting Jin was above the court, it can be said that no one dared to provoke him, Yu Zhining dared to provoke Mo Dun, I am afraid he might not dare to offend Cheng Biting Jin.

"Besides, isn't it three hundred? It's a big deal that this year's food city is not divided. Cheng Chumo said rudely. A year's share is exchanged for such a house, and Cheng Chumo is naturally willing to agree.

Merton waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I don't earn your money, except for the tiles, you go to Xingyao, Hebei to order, and the other costs of charging you 100 yuan." ”

"That's it!" Cheng Chumo nodded without hesitation, he knew that he would definitely make a lot of money at this price, but he was not hypocritical, if Merton sent materials for free, he would naturally not accept it, this is just right.

"We also book one, and we will have it next year!" Qin Huaiyu and Yu Chi Baolin scrambled to say.

"That's fine!"

Merton carefully calculated, and sighed in his heart, I am afraid that the original cement production is no longer enough, and it is only a matter of time before the expansion and increase production.

The three of them sat down contentedly after receiving the promise, and they had rarely been so reunited since Guozijian graduated.

"By the way, Zu Mingjun should be almost here!" Cheng Chumo said suddenly.

Qin Huaiyu nodded and said, "It should be soon, this guy just misses something, and he won't miss Brother Mo's ink art exhibition." ”

After two years of successful holding, the influence of the Mojia Ink Art Exhibition has become more and more great, and the annual Mojia Art Exhibition can be said to represent the most advanced technology and cutting-edge products of Datang, and countless merchants have benefited a lot, especially last year's Mojiazi artificial rainbow, predicting the Tiangu Eclipse Day, which is simply miraculous.

This year's ink art exhibition has not yet begun, there is already a fire, not yet in February, all the tickets have been issued, now Chang'an City is hard to find, many people from other places rushed to the sky, but also every day shouting high prices for tickets.

"By the way, it is said that according to the news of the previous year, Kong Huisuo is also coming to Chang'an City." Qin Huaiyu said suddenly.

Suddenly, everyone was silent for a while, and they all looked at Mo Dun on the side, now the relationship between the two Confucianism and Mo is very tense, Mo Dun is the Mo family, Kong Huisuo is the son of Confucianism, the dispute between Confucianism and Mo is becoming more and more intense, and the two are probably very difficult to be sandwiched together.

Merton pondered for a while and shook his head: "The two schools of Confucianism and Mohism are a dispute of doctrines, and our fellowship is a personal friendship, and the two are not in conflict. ”

"Yes!" Cheng Chu smiled silently.

Everyone immediately resumed laughing and talking, covering up the topic just now, but they all knew that they were no longer students in the Guozijian period, and sometimes the situation was not up to them, and they couldn't choose!

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