Chapter Eighty-Six: Building the City
"Cixi, what do you say?" Hong Tao didn't answer Wen Nan's question directly, but threw this bad guy to Cixi to be the one he should be relieved of, all the basins in the past few years have been deducted on his head, his face is full of paste, and it is time to change people.
"Rules, this is the rules of Jinhewan! The world is big, and the rules are the biggest! Even if my own father comes, he has to be quarantined and reformed through labor! This is an adult...... Oh, no, this is the rule set by the board of directors, who wants to change it, go and tell the board of directors first, I only recognize the rules and not people! Cixi said righteous and righteous words, even Hong Tao was almost fooled into it, that demeanor and tone made people unconvinced.
“…… You should be the chairman of the board! You're more sensible than anyone else! If the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were the same as Cixi, there would be nothing to do with the Liao State, let alone the Jin State and the Mongols. Now you should be on an envoy to Russia, the country in the far north, where you can freeze into sticks in winter, and you still need me to spend this effort to help you fight? You just don't have the rules, or the rules are too crooked! Let's learn from Cixi, haven't you always wanted to study my set of things? Let me tell you, the essence of this is the rules, the rules that everyone has to follow. I can't violate it because I'm smarter than you, and I can't just because Cixi can't beat me, so he has to obey it, understand? Propriety! Hong Tao sincerely stretched out a thumbs up to Cixi! Teach and teach, the best way to understand yourself is a slave who was captured by herself, this Nima is too ironic, Hong Tao doesn't know whether to be happy or sad.
"What if one day your master also breaks the rules?" Wen Nan was not convinced, and he found a question that would not be easy for both Cixi and Hong Tao to answer.
"Hey, hey, hey...... I pulled my eyeballs out! No eyes. I don't see the master breaking the rules. So the master is not guilty, and neither am I! Hong Tao felt that Wen Nan was asking this question too harshly. He wanted to see how Cixi answered. Unexpectedly, Cixi didn't even hesitate, and answered this question cleanly and crisply.
“…… You're not just fucking the chairman, if you go to my country, you can at least be a minister, you've raised your sycophants to a philosophical level! Okay, that's it, don't listen to this cricket cricket, no one can mess with the rules of Jinhewan! Cixi's answer made Hong Tao stunned for a moment. Tai Nyima is absolute, there are loopholes in any rule, and Cixi is a natural politician. He didn't even know a big character before he came to Jinhewan, and after a few years, more than half of his fellow villagers were still mining in the mines, but he became the number one person in Jinhewan, where did you say this insight came from? Hong Tao believed it, talent is innate, and it can only be strengthened the day after tomorrow, but it cannot be reborn. If you don't accept it, you can't do it.
"Master, what is a cricket?" Cixi is not only a smart person. The desire for knowledge is still very high, and if he doesn't understand, he will definitely ask when Hong Tao is happy.
"If you look like him, you are a cricket, and a person who can only find fault and can't build is a cricket!" Hong Tao couldn't explain to a tropical person the kind of pest that lives in the north, but with Wen Nan here, it's okay to use an analogy.
"Hey, hey, hey...... It's like! Cixi was satisfied, and went back to the river with her whip to drive away the new slaves, and as for whether Wen Nan was happy or not, it was none of his business. He didn't expect to hug any thigh except Hong Tao at all, even Old Man Rong was the same, which was also an important reason why Hong Tao had always trusted him. He has tied his life to himself, and taking this bet is a kind of courage and wisdom in itself.
"Lao Wen, don't use your brain on these details, you can't change this, so let's do something. When they get out of the quarantine camp, we will go and arrest a batch of them, and by the way, we have to expand the quarantine camp a little more to accommodate 1,000 people, so that we can have 1,000 people in our accounts in two months. See the hill over there, right? I'm going to turn Golden River Bay into Golden River City, and build a big city that is completely different from other places, and you have a part to do here. When the city is built, I will engrave the names of all the people who participated in the construction of the city on the highest stone tablet in the middle of the city, including you. When we die, in a few hundred years, the city may still be there, and then the school teacher will take the children to the bottom of the stone monument and say to the children: Wen Nan, Mr. Wen, he is one of the founders of our city, without them, there would be no city. "Hong Tao can't hit Wen Nan all day long, and he has to encourage him when appropriate. He doesn't like money, it's useless in Golden River, and he doesn't like those Persian dancers, but he likes to make a name for eternity, and that's his weakness. Hong Tao has no other ability, he will exchange different interests with different people, and Tong Su is not bullied.
Build your city! This is a big problem, of course, with the permission of the board of directors, so the second time he went to the north to rob the population, Hong Tao did not participate. Like a preacher, he wandered from house to house in Golden River Bay all day long, lobbying and explaining his vision to all the inhabitants, along with drawings and future renderings. And he didn't think it was a chore, on the contrary, he enjoyed it, and every time he persuaded his family, it was like capturing a city, and his face was happier than eating honey.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the inhabitants of Golden River Bay are mostly people who have benefited from him, without whom there would be no life for these people, including those who have been converted from slavery. In their eyes, Hong Tao is the emperor, although he has never admitted it, and he has made a board of directors, but ordinary people who go to compare with him are true, everyone is just a simple decision, Hong Tao has a relatively gentle personality, discusses everything with everyone, and everyone is one heart. But no matter how gentle, how not arbitrary, and how caring, the emperor is the emperor after all, and everyone can't bear to let an emperor play tricks from door to door. So although some people are not happy to move blindly, they still agree with Hong Tao's suggestion to build a city!
Why did Hong Tao have nothing to do to build a city? The main reason is that when the population is large, many social problems arise, especially in terms of public health. He is a person with a slight cleanliness habit, and he is still a modern person, and it is difficult to bear the situation of going out in the middle of the night and suddenly stepping on a puddle of feces on the side of the road and smelling a smell of urine. Even on the ship, he prescribed a special toilet located in the bow of the ship, and it was strictly forbidden to squat on the side of the boat and urinate casually. It's not just that he has a habit of cleanliness, infectious diseases have always been Hong Tao's heart disease, the original two drainage ditches have long been insufficient, and the sewage is directly discharged into the Jin River, even downstream, he still feels unsafe. For the safety and quality of life of himself and everyone, no matter how difficult, tiring, and shameless it is, he has to build this city.
Will Hong Tao plan the city? It's going to be a fart! But can't you learn, can't you plan a city with a million people, and can't plan a city with a population of a few thousand? There are northern Han people who can build houses in Jinhewan, and they can probably plan a village, plus Hongtao, a panacea, an urban area covering an area of one square kilometer can be improvised. He didn't care about the five elements gossip and the heavenly and terrestrial branches, he just asked those masons to help him map out a terrain level, and then it was all together!
"It's ugly! There is no order at all! We live on this chessboard? With the exception of Cixi, almost everyone who saw Hong Tao's design would choose one of the above three expressions and question Hong Tao's aesthetics.
"You know! Dude, this is called forward-looking design, if you make a loop, you will be blocked in the future! Hong Tao dismisses these contempts, his chessboard-shaped city currently has only five vertical, five horizontal and ten roads, but with the increase in population, the city can expand indefinitely in principle. And Hong Tao doesn't plan to let the city have too many residents, it will be difficult to manage, this is just a pilot, and the necessary data will be collected at the same time as the city is built, which can be used elsewhere in the future. He wanted to build a city like this at several fixed supply points, but of course, this was only an ideal, and it was difficult to fully realize it.
According to Hong Tao's plan, don't be in a hurry to build a city, dig the sewer first. What are the sewer pipes? Where is the pipeline, directly in the ground groove, just like the first subway in Beijing, with stones. Just like Paris, the sewers are as tall as the subway passages, so let's get a dungeon first. There are two exits to this dungeon, one south and one north, the south exit is the Golden River, and there is a small river five kilometers away from the north, and what is even more lovely is that the estuary of the small river is northern, more than ten kilometers away from the mouth of the Golden River. That is the main wastewater outlet of the whole city, and Hong Tao specially gave that river a special vulgar name, Milky Way!
Compared with the construction of the entire city, underground buildings account for two-thirds of the amount of work, not only to excavate the earth, but also to go up the mountain to blast stones to build sewers, and finally to bury, compact, and level the road before it can be paved. In fact, the ancient craftsmen still attached great importance to the quality of the project, and they felt that it would be a failure to spend so much effort to build a building, if it would not take hundreds of years. Although they didn't quite understand why Hong Tao paid so much attention to the drainage of the city, as soon as they heard Hong Tao say that there were cities in his country in the past because the sewers were not built, and as a result, when it rained, the city became a river, and they all felt that there was some truth, so they still seriously devoted themselves to the work of digging grooves all over the hillside. (To be continued.) )