At night, in Tang Xidong in his sleep, scenes flashed in his mind.

The experience of later generations, from childhood to middle age, caught up with the tail of the great movement and the beginning of reform and opening up.

That time was the time when society and boosters rushed forward.

Tang Xidong used less than 50 years of his life to witness the changes of an era.

Blast furnace steelmaking, collective big pot rice, brick burning, coal mining, construction contracting, and later, somehow he changed, his status rose, but his heart was blackened by money and power, so black that the most simple child in the countryside became an executioner who had no concept of human life.

Then, the nightmare was ignited by the last belated bullet, and Tang Xidong woke up sweating.

Tang Xidong, who was in a trance, lay on the bed, watching the night outside the window slowly brighten up, and then woke up from that unbearable past.

After all, there is still a conscience, otherwise how can you regret it?

Tang Xidong, who was lying on the kang, began to think about the future of this cottage, how to survive in this era, and what he could change?

In the grand scheme of things, it may be able to change the sinking of the nation and pull the wheel of history out of the dark quagmire of future generations.

However, Tang Xidong has no confidence, he is not a saint, he really does not have the consciousness of a savior, the biggest problem is that he does not feel that he has so much ability.

What he can do is to try his best to change, change the Confucian constraints on the national ideology, change the Confucian suppression of workers, peasants and businessmen, and guide the people of this era to be interested in and face up to scientific and technological creations and inventions through interests and reality.

This is what Tang Xidong is best at, and it is also the most certain.

Change the shape of society through commercial profits!

Of course, the first step starts from this little nameless corner.

Early in the morning, Liu Lianqing, Deng Dahu, and Liu Dagou accompanied Tang Xidong to appear in the square, and more than 1,000 people from the cottage began to assemble from their respective courtyards towards the square.

"Tang Gongzi, now the young people in the cottage are here." Deng Dahu pointed to the two or three hundred young people around him and said with a smile.

"Not enough!" Tang Xidong looked at it, frowned and shook his head and said, with a trace of sadness on his face.

"There are almost 300 men here, just burn a brick, how can you use so many people?" Liu Dagou raised his voice in surprise.

Liu Lianqing also looked at Tang Xidong suspiciously, and the questioning thoughts in her heart had already manifested on her face.

Tang Xidong squatted on the ground, picked up the branches on the ground, and then wrote and painted on the ground: "You see, there are more than 400 households in the cottage, each family has a fire kang, a fire kang according to the size of four people, then it needs five or six square bricks, a brick is 24 cm long, 12 cm wide, and 5 cm high, that is, a family needs four or five thousand bricks, and these more than 400 households need two million bricks, not a small job!" ”

Tang Xidong raised his head and looked at the three people with a confused face, then patted his head, remembering what he said about square and centimeter, these people didn't understand. He was accustomed to the measurement of the Hereafter.

In fact, he doesn't need so many bricks, not even half of the bricks, but Tang Xidong has other plans in his heart, so he won't say it explicitly, the most important thing is to tie these people to his carriage first, and when the carriage starts, it will not be so easy to get off.

"You don't understand, anyway, you need a lot of bricks, you also need a lot of wood, seeing that the weather is cold, if everyone wants to use the kang, you need to mobilize the whole cottage people, regardless of men, women and children." Tang Xidong got up and shook his head helplessly.

The three of them looked at each other, then walked to the side and discussed in a low voice, and after a while, Deng Dahu gritted his teeth: "Okay, just do what Tang Gongzi wants, but this kang must be completed as soon as possible." ”

Tang Xidong had expected that the other party would agree, so he smiled and nodded as a guarantee: "The second owner of the village can rest assured, he will definitely live up to the expectations of the three masters." ”

So Tang Xidong gave the three of them a rough explanation, the next work that needs to be carried out, the division of labor and the arrangement of manpower is not something he can do, and he is not happy to be so troublesome.

The planning is done, and the rest is up to the three of them.

Tang Xidong's plan is comprehensive, and the plan is big enough to affect the development of the cottage many years later.

A long-term plan naturally needs to be interlocking and closely integrated, which is the crystallization of his thinking last night.

Since you have decided to stay here, you need to make this place your base in Daming, although this cottage does not belong to you, but you are a part of the cottage, the cottage has become better, and naturally your life will be much better.

Burning bricks, and a lot of bricks are needed, naturally an old brick kiln is not satisfied.

Therefore, after Liu Lianqing and the three of them made a clear division of labor in the cottage, Tang Xidong took the group of teenagers and the forty or fifty young people allocated to him to set up a five-hole brick kiln in the northwest corner of the square, next to the original abandoned brick kiln.

And Liu Dagou took Qingzhuang to the back mountain to push a part of the board car to pull cinders, in the previous understanding, this Luoliang Mountain back mountain to go a little deeper, there was once a coal kiln, originally Pingyang Mansion big family Kang family, that is, with Liu Lianqing had a grudge against the father of the Kang family name, but later in the excavation, there was a large area of mountain collapse, buried many miners alive, the original crossing was also buried deep in the mountain, so the Kang family abandoned the coal kiln.

Although the coal kiln was abandoned, but when digging coal, there was a lot of cinders piled up, and in the later Tang Xidong, the rural brick yard was semi-mechanized, although it has now returned to the original labor, but the materials are basically the same.

Cinders are needed to burn bricks to neutralize the stickiness of the loess.

Luoliang Mountain, close to the official road at the foot of the mountain, has a gentle slope of the mountain, and is a ready-made earth mountain, so the loess used for burning bricks is naturally the easiest to excavate, but the excavation of loess is also conditional, which is related to the key part of the Tangxi East plan.

So this part is led by Deng Dahu, most of the old and young in the cottage, working together.

According to the plan of Tangxidong, on the basis of the original terraced fields, a large area was excavated, and finally the effect of forming layers of large-area terraced fields in Shanyang was achieved.

Although Deng Dahu didn't know what the meaning of this was, Tang Xidong was very resolute, saying that what he needed was the upper layer of floating soil, which could not be dug deeply, and Deng Dahu could only do it if he didn't understand.

This project is the most arduous task, requiring a lot of manpower and time, and the loess has to be carried up the mountain by car or directly with a cloth bag.

So the first step, under the guidance of Tang Xidong, first built a road to the foot of the mountain, leveled, widened, and then paved the bluestone slab.

This is what Deng Dahu is doing with his people, building roads first.

The rest of the old men and women were taken by Liu Lianqing to the back mountain to cut down trees, nominally for the Panhuo Kang, but in fact it was still for Tang Xidong's next plan.

When the wood is fell, the main poles are hoarded, and the small branches are sawn into sticks or planks.

The entire Luoliang Mountain has entered the construction movement in full swing.

Fortunately, Liu Lianqing's management ability is not bad, and everything is in order.