After this planning meeting, the large-scale construction and development work in Taiwan has finally begun in an all-round way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

With generous treatment, Li Xiao recruited a large number of surplus laborers from the immigrants, as many as more than 30,000 people. These more than 30,000 people were divided into two batches by Li Xiao, a group of 20,000 people, to build a cement official road from Taipei to Kaohsiung; Another group of more than 10,000 people was sent to build and expand Kaohsiung City.

Because these two projects are now the focus of Taiwan's construction work, Li Xiao arranged that Ding You, head of the colonization regiment, was specially responsible for the construction of cement official roads, and Ma Huaxing, deputy head of the regiment, was specially responsible for the construction of Kaohsiung City.

Due to the large demand for materials, cement factories, brick factories, quarries, lime factories and other factories outside Changhua City continue to expand their plants, expand workers, and work overtime day and night to produce construction materials.

This official road, which can be called a landmark building in Taiwan, was named Mingguang Avenue by Li Xiao.

This name is inspired by Li Xiao's famous show in his previous life, but now it seems that this name is very appropriate.

According to Li Xiao's plan, the construction standards of this cement official road must have strict requirements.

First of all, it is necessary to excavate the foundation, at least one and a half feet deep, remove the floating soil and soft soil on the foundation, and build the roadbed on the hard rock layer underneath, so as to ensure that after the Mingguang Avenue is repaired, it will not easily sink and can be used for a long time.

After digging the foundation, Li Xiao asked that the crushed bluestone blocks transported from the quarry be paved on top of it, and a layer of foundation should be laid first, so as to reduce water seepage, enhance the bearing capacity of the road, and reduce the use of bricks. On both sides of the road, there are custom-made bluestone strips from the quarry to prevent the bricks on the edges from breaking.

After laying the bluestone slabs and blue strips, the construction workers then let the construction workers pave the crushed bluestone blocks with concrete made of cement and river sand, and then lay bricks on them, and let the top bricks and the bluestone strips on both sides form the same level.

The final process is to lay a layer of thick concrete on the bricks and bluestone strips, and at the same time, the concrete layer is separated by wooden boards every ten meters, so as to ensure that the road surface will not be easily deformed and cracked due to thermal expansion and cold contraction.

In fact, Li Xiao's design plan is equivalent to meeting the standard of secondary roads connecting urban and rural areas in modern China.

Li Xiao demanded that the final architectural effect of this cement official road should be wide and straight, easy to drain, without potholes, and the average width should reach more than three zhang, even if a narrow road had to be built because of the terrain, the narrowest part should have a width of more than two zhang, so as to ensure that the four-wheeled carriage can be at least three rows side by side, driving and transporting.

Li Xiao believes that after the Mingguang Avenue, which runs through the north and south of Taiwan, can be repaired, Taiwan's economic development as a whole will be able to truly embark on the fast track of high-speed progress.

Li Xiao had seen some road repair materials in his previous life, which recorded a 3o km long urban and rural secondary road, if the construction team of 3oo people, the repair time was 6 months.

It's just that the road construction in the Ming Dynasty era has disadvantages and advantages compared with modern construction.

Li Xiao has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he is the supreme decider, and he can let his subordinates quickly implement their own decisions. And like later generations, from project approval, to on-site assessment, to start-up funds in place, to bidding and construction, to various construction qualification examinations, to the demolition of original buildings along the line, to the compensation and resettlement of residents, to the preparation of various materials, etc., there are a series of names to be passed. Therefore, Li Xiao can basically not consider all these things, so that Li Xiao's speed of starting work is at least nearly two months earlier than that of modern times.

Another advantage is that Li Xiao now has abundant manpower and a road construction team of 20,000 people, which can be called the first in the Ming Dynasty. This amount has reached twice the number of Chinese laborers used in the construction of the Great Railroad across the East and West of the United States in the United States!

Of course, compared with modern times, Li Xiao's biggest disadvantage is that he does not have modern construction equipment, so he can only rely on manpower and animal power. Therefore, in terms of personal construction efficiency, it is far inferior to modern society.

Li Xiao calculated in his heart, and after removing those cumbersome preparations, in fact, the construction time of the 3o kilometers of urban and rural secondary roads was only 4 months. The average monthly road mileage per person is O.O25 kilometers, which is 25 meters.

Then, in the Ming Dynasty, where there was a lack of construction equipment, according to the efficiency of 4 people to offset a modern road construction worker, 20,000 people could repair 125 kilometers a month. According to the longest distance of about 350 kilometers from Taipei to Tainan (the length of the highway from modern Taipei City to Tainan City is 314 kilometers, but because the Ming Dynasty did not have the technology to build tunnels, and the route had to be detoured in order to build as few bridges as possible), it will take nearly 3 months to repair.

Of course, in addition to the delay in work due to untimely materials, and the construction of arched bridges and other more time, the specific completion time is likely to take two more months. Li Xiao calculated that the entire road would be completed within half a year at the latest.

Next, Li Xiao made requirements for the construction of Kaohsiung City. That is, the entire outer city of Kaohsiung City should be the same as Changhua City, and all kinds of moats, city wall defense measures, etc. should be readily available. Kaohsiung outer city to open east, west, south, north four city gates, each gate must be at any cost, designed to hide the way of the jack pendant, on the four city walls, like the urn city, the city tower, the corner tower, the gun emplacement, the female wall, the pheasant moat and the like, have all been built. The entire field should be dug around the moat, just using the Zeng Wenxi in the north to fill it, so that it will pass around the city.

In addition, in order to ensure the solidity and defensive strength of the first city in Southeast Asia, Li Xiao requested that the rammed earth in the inner layer should be the same as the practice of the Dutch, all of which were pounded and glued with sugar water glutinous rice oyster shell gray sand, so that the strength of the rammed earth was greatly increased, and then the outside was covered with green bricks, so that the outer city wall was enough to resist any ordinary artillery bombardment.

In the end, Li Xiao made some requirements for the city wall of Kaohsiung City, that is, the four walls of the city wall that are 24 miles long should be designed as the depth of the city wall into the earth is nearly 1 zhang, the height of the city above the surface is 6 zhang (20 meters), and the width of the city wall is 2 zhang (6 and a half meters), so as to greatly strengthen the solidity of the city wall and the actual defense force.

There is a very important reason why Li Xiao is not afraid of spending money and wants to build such a fortified outer city with a huge cost, that is, he hopes that the repaired Kaohsiung City can be like what the ancient Roman poet Destheus said in his poem: "Ah, this Roman city on the seven-hill mountain is so tall and majestic that the Carthaginians lost the courage to attack when they saw it coming." ”

Li Xiao is sure that having such a strong and magnificent giant city will not only fully demonstrate the bearing and prestige of the Celestial Empire, but will also make businessmen from all over the world more confident in Taiwan's future development and more willing to settle and trade for a long time.

Li Xiao calculated, taking the previous construction of Dengzhou City with a circumference of 16 miles as a reference, under the condition that there are now more than 10,000 construction laborers and a sufficient supply of materials, it should be enough time for Kaohsiung City to build this circumference of 24 miles.

As for the money to be spent on these two tasks, Li Xiao was not worried at all, because the tens of thousands of taels of gold and more than 13 million taels of silver seized from the Dutch, plus the huge profits that Taiwan had previously made through commerce and trade, were enough to pay for the various expenses of these two major projects.

After listening to Li Xiao's plan and arrangement, Ding You and Ma Huaxing immediately began to implement the two most important and important engineering tasks in Taiwan, namely, the laying of Mingguang Avenue and the construction of the outer city of Kaohsiung.

When watching the entire island of Taiwan turn into a busy construction site, Li Xiao and a group of officials were very happy, and everyone could feel in their hearts that a new era that was completely different from the past and high-spirited had been quietly opened by this resourceful Master Li, who was both civil and military.