Bluestone, clay, gypsum, these three raw materials for making cement can be seen everywhere, but the process of firing cement is by no means as easy as imagined

Using different recipes and different firing processes, Lotte and a group of firing craftsmen tried and tested for more than 40 days and more than 100 times before making cement of the same quality as ordinary cement in later generations.

In later generations, cement was an indispensable building material. However, although cement is good, there are too few people who know the benefits of cement in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, and many people have never heard of the name of cement. It is not an exaggeration to describe the new thing of cement, which is not known to people in the depths.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of the smell of wine and the fear of deep alleys, Lotte decided to use cement to build the tallest city building in the Song Dynasty, only when this building is built, the world can truly realize the benefits of cement, and prove that cement is a milestone in the history of architecture.

For this reason, Lotte named the planned building the Empire State Building.

At first, Lotte only planned to build a building of seven or eight floors and about seven zhang high, but I thought that Chang'an has a big wild goose pagoda with a height of 21 zhang, Dingzhou has a Kaiyuan temple tower with a height of nearly 28 zhang, Ganzhou has a Xinfeng Dasheng Temple tower with 22 zhang, and there is also a Kaibao temple tower with a height of 18 zhang and five zhang in Biandu, which is called "iron tower" by the people.

Once it is matched, it is obvious that this seven-zhang tall building is completely unsightly.

To build a larger one, but the Song people worship the Buddha, Lotte to build a building is bound to consider the feelings of the good men and women of Biandu, and the construction of high-rise buildings also requires a certain technology, at present, according to the level of construction technology of the Great Song Dynasty, it is obvious that too high buildings can not be built, compared with the Kaibao Temple Tower to reduce some size, but also a lot less technical difficulty.

And this can also be used as a gimmick to promote in Biandu, after all, the Kaibao Temple Tower in Biandu is the tallest, and the Kaibao Temple Tower built by the Empire State Building is even higher, what the Son of Heaven will think in his heart, this is all to be taken into account.

One foot of the Great Song Dynasty is equivalent to thirty centimeters in later generations, and the building with a height of 16 zhang and nine is only a 51-meter-high building according to the size of later generations.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no urban management bureau, and before building a house, there was no need to run one by one like the people of later generations, but also to look at the poor face and bow his head and ask for a seal for gifts, and apply for a series of documents such as building permits, land use certificates, and real estate certificates.

At the same time as buying a piece of land in the outer city of Biandu, Lotte began to design the building drawings and ordered people to prepare building materials.

In later generations, small high-rise buildings were everywhere in China. In order to sell the house, the service staff of the sales office also have to hang the drawings to the guests, for the previous life of this small high-rise drawings Lotte is naturally seen, but also the impression is deeply remembered, now it is just according to the cat and the tiger painted again, at the same time in the various details and carefully scrutinized again, and found some officials who are proficient in engineering construction in the Ministry of Engineering to help review.

Reinforced concrete, which is a common building material in later generations, has been solved by Lotte, and the rest is only to prepare the materials and prepare for construction after the drawings are fully finalized.

It's just that people in this era have never heard of what formwork is needed to build a house, what cement pouring technology is needed, looking at the architectural drawings drawn by Lotte, and listening to Lotte's explanation on the side, there is a general ignorance of the ancient book in hand. These household officials could not read the drawings drawn by Lotte, nor could they understand the principles of construction that Lotte said.

Since the Ministry of Industry opened a separate yamen called the Patent Office, the current Ministry of Industry is like Lotte's mother's family, and Lotte has to come to the Ministry of Industry Yamen several times a month to come up with some strange designs to apply for patents.

Not to mention those small things that are said to be skillful, just the steam engine, as well as the thousand-mile ship driven by the steam engine and the cement as a new building material, surprised the officials of the Ministry of Industry, except for Shangshu and Shilang, who are the officials in charge of management, and the officials under the yamen because of their professional relations, in the words of later generations, a group of science men, out of professional habits and respect for authority, how can they not ignore Lotte's words for the saint to hear.

In view of Lotte's identity and achievements, a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry came to Lotte as a group of students who knew how to ask questions without shame.

There are even people in Biandu who say that the talent and erudition of Lord Le Hou are no less than any saint in ancient times.

At the same time as the construction of the Empire State Building, Lotte did not relax the strength of the steam engine and other affairs, the three-cylinder steam engine with greater power and higher heat utilization rate is still being designed, but it does not hinder the existing money-making business.

When did those luxury cars and luxury yachts in later generations lack buyers? In order to show their identity, those rich people are not interested, but they also spend a lot of money to buy them to show off.

Although the current steam engine has the disadvantage of too little power, it is still more than enough to drive ordinary boats, as long as the ship stone and the thousand-mile ship can be combined to make money, how can Lotte have the reason to refuse the door, very happy day recruited workers, and built a shipyard next to the river in the other courtyard to build a luxury cruise ship in the era of the Great Song Dynasty.

A few days after Lotte released the wind to sell steam pleasure boats, a group of wealthy people came to buy steam-powered pleasure boats, and some of them were businessmen from other places who lived in Biandu, and in the eyes of these people, the steam engine ships were fast, and the human-powered ships used to transport goods were faster and more convenient. In addition, there are also some tricksters who have also looked at the steam engine ship, and it is clear that the steam engine ship will be used as a gimmick to attract customers.

Business was booming, but production capacity was limited, and the first batch of Lotte only released orders for ten ships.

Zhao Kai took away 13 million yuan, almost all of Rakuten's accumulation over the years was wiped out at once, but fortunately, when Lotte was in Hangzhou last year, he decided to increase the scale of silver mining in Dongying, in addition to adding several silver mines, but also mining gold mines.

Previously, Dongying Island root produced about 13 catties of silver a year, equivalent to about 84 tons in later generations, and changed to more than 4 million copper coins in the Great Song Dynasty, and now the scale of production has been expanded, and it is not a problem to double and a half times the output after getting on the right track, not to mention the output of gold, but the gold mine can not be compared with the silver mine, the reason why gold is valuable is because the reserves are scarce, the gold production is really limited, and it is a very good output to produce 20,000 catties of gold a year.

Lotte estimated that Dongying can produce 10 million guan worth of gold and silver every year, Luzon has just been developed, and it can have at least two or three million guan per year, and from its own shares, it is not a problem to earn 7 million guan a year.

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"Master Hou, the handsome old man is going back to Beijing!"

When Lotte was preparing to build the Empire State Building, Tu Si came to his side and said.

"Do you want to inquire from which gate my righteous grandfather entered Beijing?" Lotte asked, staring at the drawings, trying to find anything unreasonable in them.

"Entering the city from the new sour jujube gate, it is expected to arrive in Biandu around tomorrow!" Tu Si hurriedly replied.

Lotte instructed: "Tomorrow bring someone with me to the north gate to greet you!" ”

Tu Si reminded: "Master Hou, the imperial court has officially decided where to go, and the commander was escorted back to Beijing this time, and after returning to Beijing, he was directly escorted to the Privy Council to appoint the right guard general Zhishi!" ”

"What a world!" After listening to Tu Si's report, Lotte snorted heavily, and said angrily: "If Yan You is taken away, the credit is his child, and the generals should carry the defeat of this black cauldron, is there any reason in the world?" ”

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The next day, Lotte stood outside the door of the new jujube.

It wasn't until more than halfway through the hour that a team of iron horsemen from the official road galloped from the north, and the pedestrians near the city gate and the road hurriedly stepped aside.

Near the city gate, the team slowed down, and as they were about to pass through the city gate, Wu Song bowed to a captain who was walking in front of the team.

"Idle people, get out of the way, don't block the way of the military master!"

Seeing someone blocking the road, the captain at the head shouted and scolded.

Ignoring the rudeness of the captain, Wu Song hugged his fists and said, "May I ask if the commander has arrived?" ”

"Get out of the way!" The captain arrogantly ignored Wu Song, and shouted loudly in front of the accompanying soldiers.

Wu Song still asked, "May I ask if the kind of marshal is in the team?" ”

"Looking for death, huh?" Seeing that Wu Song still refused to leave, the reprimanding soldier was furious, and he waved his horsewhip to beat him.

"You big-headed soldiers don't have any ability to fight, but you're very good at bullying the common people!" When the soldier was about to whip Wu Song, Lotte said coldly.

"Who said that, I'll get out of here for the military master!" Hearing Lotte's words, the soldier became furious and raised his whip and looked around, trying to find the person who spoke from the crowd.

Wu Song arched his hand again: "This military master, on the order of my marquis, ask the military master, can the marshal be in the team?" ”

"Master Jun, I don't know what Lord Hou, Master Jun, I only know how to do things according to the orders of my marshal!" For Wu Song's words, the horse soldier didn't care, pointed at the military flag with his hand and asked Wu Song, "Do you know this flag?" ”

"The little ones are illiterate!" Wu Song sneered.

Approving the military flag, the soldier and Wu Song said: "Do you know the Shengjie Army, the most elite guard Shengjie Army of the Western Army under the command of Tong Shuai!" ”

Lotte snorted coldly: "How can the defeated army be brave!" ”

The soldier saw Lotte's face clearly, and said angrily: "You white and pure man is so bold, aren't you afraid that the military master will take you to prison and punish you for slandering officials?" ”

"You Qiu Ba, you took the money of the Hou Ye to fight, and you actually fought like this, and you dare to threaten the Hou Ye and me?" Looking at the arrogant soldier, Lotte snorted coldly, and then called: "Shakuseven, Tu Si, go home and find the IOU, and tomorrow go with Benhou to find the Son of Heaven to collect debts!" ”

The soldier and the captain next to him were shocked when they heard this, and the soldiers in front of the team looked at each other, and the white and pure Yanai in front of him who was only in his twenties dared to say that he dared to threaten to go to the Son of Heaven to collect debts, what was the origin of it, but it was certain that it was definitely not something that his own people could provoke.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a horse came to the front at a gallop, and saw Lotte bowing his hand: "Lord Le Hou!" ”

"Who are you?" Lotte asked.

The soldier hurriedly said: "The little one is the guard who guards beside the shuai, so he knows the Hou Ye!" ”

"Where's the shuai?" Lotte asked.

"The handsome man is in the team!" The soldier hurriedly replied.

"Lead the way ahead, go with me to meet the handsome!" Lotte commanded.

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