Chapter 362: The Great City is Born

Wang Chuan has a simple understanding: before the invention of the nuclear bomb, the most important thing for human beings was that strength was actually faith. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the advent of iron tools and wheels, the Egyptians believed in the sun god and built huge pyramids that for a long time later generations thought they were built by aliens.

Wang Chuan did not have the courage to leave prehistoric miracles, and only wanted to design his royal city to be habitable. Asking hundreds of thousands of people to spend decades building pyramids and burial cemeteries where bones are buried after death, Wang Chuan felt that unless he was really crazy, he would not do such a thing that would do nothing but harm to archaeology.

Now there are fewer people under his jurisdiction than the pharaoh, but he has the advantage of iron tools and wheels, and it should not be a big problem to build a city in the name of worshipping the dragon or protecting the temple of the dragon, or rather, to build a city wall first, right?

After calculating several times on paper and implementing various divisions of labor, Wang Chuan felt that under ideal circumstances, a few thousand people could be dispatched to build the city wall in one year, the drainage road in the second year, and some street houses in the third year. The whole city is complete, and that may take more than ten years.

Ideally, there are a variety of problems that can arise during construction, and any one of them can delay the project. To solve these problems, it is impossible to use aliens here, there is no technical support, not even additional funds. What can be chosen for Wang Chuan can only be solved with the power of faith.

For example, how to get thousands of people out when most of the construction of the river tribe does not stop?

When I communicated with the leaders of the tribes before, I said that the benefits were exchanged for labor. But what if the workers who come here do not work hard, or even make trouble?

This is where the values of faith are established.

Construction of the city began after spring ploughing. In fact, all kinds of preparations have already begun in winter. The first is mobilization at the grassroots level.

This matter was handed over to the shadow puppet show. Wang Chuan selected some of the repertoire written by his mother, added his own new creations, and made a series of performance repertoire.

This repertoire tells everyone that the dragon is a collection of all the totems. Since it appeared, there have been pottery, ironware, chariots and other items in this world, and only then have farming, animal husbandry and other technologies, so that everyone can understand things and arithmetic, and at the same time, let everyone reduce diseases, get health, and let everyone live the current life.

However, the Shio clan attacked. They did not believe in the dragon, and they broke through many tribes and villages, killed many people, ate many livestock, burned farmland, and everyone had to flee in all directions. In the end, when the enemy attacked in front of the Shenlong Temple, the Shenlong appeared, spit out a wall to block the enemy outside, and everyone was rescued!

It is impossible for Shenlong to show up to save people because of such an enemy. But it has already shown us the way, that is, to build a city to protect itself and protect the dragon. We must answer the call of the dragon and build the city!

This kind of story logic may not stand up to scrutiny, but the response is excellent. Shadow puppet performances were dispatched in all directions, and there were shouts everywhere they went. Many people wished that they would come out to build the city in winter. Fortunately, when the envoy was sick, Wang Jiao and others stopped him, saying that the king was going to build a city after spring ploughing, and everyone would hunt more meat, and it would not be too late to plant arable land.

After the beginning of spring, the tribes dispatched manpower to expand the hunting news. The price of carts and ironware was reduced so that more people could get enough food. Before the spring ploughing, the river tribe sent skilled farmers into the newly established villages and towns around to guide the cultivation and spread the blessings of the dragon. This made everyone's reaction even more intense.

When the spring ploughing was completed and Wang Chuan was ready to build the city, the labor of the various tribes who came to build the city was no less than 8,000. It is said that these are still the young men sent after being selected by various tribes, otherwise there may be more of them.

Although these people had come to do labor, the look on their faces was more glorious than the harvest of hunting.

The River Tribe is also preparing for a winter. Wheels with copper hubs and iron axles have been made in the winter. After the wheels were built, they were assembled into a two-wheeled cart, and the weight was several times greater than that of the original wooden wheels.

During the hunt, Wang Chuan sent an army to carry out the largest beast hunt and built a large area of temporary pastures for the accumulation of meat.

Before the construction of the new city began, the river tribe prepared countless meat and iron tools, and the labor force for the construction of the city also prepared more than 4,000 people. At the same time, Winter Bear organized a march eastward and began to capture slaves on a large scale.

With such a manpower, it is nearly twice as much as Wang Chuan expected. Originally, it was planned that the four walls would be built separately, so that Wang Chuan could divide the people into two groups and carry out them at the same time.

But at this time, the first problem of the large number of people appeared. There are too many people coming, and there is not enough place to live prepared before. In Wang Chuan's plan, it was enough for the surrounding tribes to come with 3,000 people, but now that 8,000 people came at once, even if they were squeezed, they might not be able to squeeze out. And there are so many people, now that the weather is getting hotter, a bad one is prone to epidemics.

What's more, there are more people in these people than the River tribe headquarters, and if one of them doesn't make any trouble, the River tribe will definitely suffer heavy losses.

This made Wang Chuan almost white-headed.

Wang Chuan arranged for people to live in every corner of the village, and at the same time arranged for people to hurry up the construction of wooden houses, and at the same time told everyone the truth, so that everyone should pay attention to hygiene, so as to avoid the outbreak of epidemics. I just hope that this will have a certain moderating effect.

But Wang Chuan seemed to be thinking too much. When these people heard that they couldn't live, they silently and spontaneously cobbled together with people. Some people are more exposed to the nature of savages, saying that camping is not a problem. When I couldn't arrange it, I immediately went camping.

They had heard that there would be epidemics without hygiene, and they did not suspect it. Defecation and defecation must be solved in a designated place, and the most popular place every day is by the waterside of the ash heap river. Because many people are used to grabbing a handful of ashes, going to the water, washing them and then going back.

When Winter Bear and Stone Horn heard about it, they immediately sent all the animal skin tents of their tribe. The people sent by the Nest Man spontaneously taught everyone to build a simple house. The surrounding tribes knew about this situation and also sent animal skins and other materials that could be used to build houses.

Wang Chuan's extremely headache was quickly resolved, and there was no turmoil or rumors during the period, which made Wang Chuan, the king, stunned for a while and did not react.

The walls were built. The design wall of the new city is six meters high and two meters wide. The exterior is made of bricks, and the inside is rammed with earth. The gates were made of stones. This kind of high wall, Wang Chuan estimates that it will be difficult to attack the enemy in the current situation where even iron weapons are scarce. Therefore, there is no moat outside the walls. There is such a thing as a moat, Wang Chuan feels that it is not too late to dig it after 20 years.

When digging the foundation here, more than a dozen caves were dug on the northern slope of the mountain, and the earth was taken from the hill near the lake in the middle of the mountain, and the bricks and cement of the city were burned.

The bricks are slightly larger than ordinary bricks, and they are thicker and stronger. Cement is an earthen cement made by calcining limestone, iron slag and clay.

After the foundation of the city wall was excavated, the earth was piled up in the middle, and the walls were built with large bricks and cement mortar on both sides. After that, pour soil into the middle and tamp it down. The effect of cement is not as good as that of later generations, but after mixing the sand and drying for three or five days, the city bricks can be firmly bonded without gaps. After watching it, everyone felt that it was amazing, and they praised it as the power of the dragon.

Faith can be very fanatical. At the beginning of the organization, Wang Chuan only wanted to let everyone contribute through faith. But after a while, he found that he was no longer pushing for the construction of the city. The enthusiasm of the fanatical laborers and the grassroots managers is even higher than his.

Wang Chuan organized a large team of supervisors before the construction of the city began. In addition to inspecting the quality of the project, the most important job of this team is to check the working attitude and efficiency of these people. As a result, this supervision team is almost useless, and it is somewhat useful to check the quality of the project, but the work attitude and efficiency are so good. No need to check at all. The laborers knew that someone was looking to see if they were lazy, and most of them would stare at someone to fight: What? Do you doubt my devotion to the dragon and the king?

In this case, the slaves did not need special supervision, as long as the slaves were put into the labor force, everyone would demand the same from the slaves. The laborers can even mobilize the slaves: as long as the city is built, you will be the same people as the king and I, and believe in the dragon. Do the people know? The people could exchange their backs for a pair of iron utensils, and they could watch shadow puppets with us at night. The king is so mighty......

In the end, these overseers also became part of the laborers, digging and moving bricks together, filling and ramming mud together.

After the city was founded, the River tribe became devoid of idlers. As long as the older children are working, they will work hard to cut the grass and feed the animals, and the animals have to pull carts and have no time to graze. Now there are whale oil lamps, and the students' classes are moved to the evening, and during the day they are used to chop wood, go to the fields or carry bricks. The elderly and pregnant women still cook every day, hoping not to starve these laborers.

In addition to the eaglets, several of the tribe's pets also put on the reins and helped pull the cart. The king of horses and the three tigers did not suffer in this way, and often struck and fled. As long as the baby elephant and the baby rhinoceros have something to eat after their work, they will have no regrets. They also have a lot of strength and a gentle attitude, so they are very popular with everyone.

After the brick walls on both sides of the city wall were built, people invented a new method of rammed earth, that is, let the cattle pull carts to go up the wall from this side, pour mud on the slope, and then come down from the other side, so that after walking in a circle, the soil is basically trampled and solid, and then pressed with sassal wood, the soil will not appear gaps.

With the efforts of the laborers, the four walls that were planned to be built for a year were closed before the Mid-Autumn Festival. The royal city appeared.