Chapter 53: The Great Construction Begins

Every bit of it needs talents!

And what Liu Yuanshan lacks most now is talent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

If all talents have to be cultivated by themselves, they may be of great use in ten years, but at present, the situation is more awkward.

It's not that there are no scientific and technological talents at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the key is, who is messing with us?

After thinking for a long time, Liu Yuanshan returned to his mobile study, called Liu over, and said, "You go out and invite someone to come to Fang County." ā€

As he spoke, he handed over a note in his hand.

"Jiangxi?" Liu Da's hand shook, and he thought he was wrong.

Going to Jiangxi?

That's 108,000 miles away from Xiangyang Mansion.

"Yes, Fengxin County, Jiangxi, no matter what, I want to take this Song Yingxing over!" Liu Yuanshan gave the order to die.

"This ......"

"I know it's a bit difficult!" Liu Yuanshan stood up and patted Liu Da on the shoulder, and said, "There is no war in the south, I'll let you bring four or five regiments of soldiers over, by the way, bring this with you." ā€

Liu Yuanshan took a small wooden box from a hidden place, and then opened the wooden box, and inside lay an artifact made of iron that was about a foot square: a model of a steam engine.

Although this model of a steam engine is small, it has all the organs.

"Go get a bottle of hot water!"

Liu Da brought a pot of freshly boiled tea from outside, and Liu Yuanshan poured the hot tea into the small boiler partially, and suddenly, steam was generated.

Turning the flywheel slightly twice with his hands, the whole steam engine "clicked" from slow to fast and turned rhythmically.

"Is this a blender?" Liu's eyes lit up.

He had seen the machine that stirred the liquid of osmanthus soap at home.

"Hmm!" Liu Yuanshan nodded, this thing was made by Han Laotie in his spare time, and he originally wanted to get an exhibition hall and put it in, but he didn't want to have a tempting use.

"Yes, when it comes to Fengxin, then Song Yingxing will definitely refuse to come with you, you show him this mechanism, and then completely destroy it in front of him, he will definitely come with you."

Song Yingxing was one of the few people who could be called a scientist during the Ming Dynasty, and his book "Heavenly Creations" is a hodgepodge of crafts, and his book also expounds the idea of "earth".

According to the information given in the divine book, this goods department behaves in a person, and later when Chongzhen was nearly fifty years old in the fifth year, he was selected to make a "teaching" of the petty official in the Ministry of Officials, and now he is only three years of Chongzhen, and he must be idle at home.

In fact, Liu Yuanshan wants to invite far more than Song Yingxing, the rest of Sun Yuanhua is an expert in making cannons, and Bi Maokang is an expert in muskets.

Liu Da left with the task.

The next day, Liu Yuanshan did not immediately organize people to settle those displaced people, but just asked Liu Er and Erlang to take forty or fifty regiments of soldiers from their families to Erniu Restaurant and open a porridge field for soup kitchen.

As for Erniu Restaurant, it has long been closed.

For a time, all the hungry people in the entire Fang County were concentrated near the restaurant, and Liu Yuanshan had to maintain order, and after obtaining the consent of Lord Huang and Liu Xin, he urgently transferred more than 100 regiments of soldiers from home.

Five days later, the good news came.

Xu Liang, a hundred households in Jinshanwei, and Huang Xiong, the magistrate of Fang County, jointly wrote to the governor of Fang County, requesting the construction of a Xiongguan in the lower reaches of the Malan River in Fang County, and the governor's yamen approved it!

"Okay!" After receiving the notice, Liu Yuanshan was happy like a child, jumping three feet high.

"Why is Saburo so happy?" Liu Xin looked at him, a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Uh, ahem!" Liu Yuanshan patted his chest, a little embarrassed, he had just accidentally lost his temper in front of outsiders, and said: "Naturally, boy, hehe, the kid is happy because the people of Fang County will never be harassed by bandits and thieves like Yun County from now on!" ā€

"That's right!" Liu Xin took a deep breath, nodded, looked at Liu Yuanshan with some meaning, and said: "San Lang's move has indeed brought huge profits to the people of Fang County, this is also your opportunity, take advantage of it!" ā€

"Hmm!" Liu Yuanshan nodded subconsciously, and suddenly raised his eyes again, "What, opportunity?" ā€

"Huh...... Go for it! Liu Xin waved his hand, turned around and walked towards the outside of the house.

In the autumn sun, his back looked a little hunched, and the hair scattered on his rickety body was unconsciously gray.

……

In the following days, the Liu family began a large-scale operation.

First of all, all the refugees were numbered, and children, the elderly, and the young were separated in turn, forming three camps.

In addition to those displaced people who have gone deep into the villages in Fang County, there are more than 6,000 people entrenched in the county seat of Fang County, of which two-thirds are young and able to work, nearly 4,000 people, nearly 2,000 women and children, and the remaining elderly people are very few.

This is also to be expected, after all, the old man's body is not good, and he can go all the way from distant Shaanxi to starve to Xiangyang Mansion, basically not one in a hundred.

After the numbering was counted, all the young men were divided into forty equal groups, each of a hundred people, led by two regimental soldiers, each with its own task, from one number to forty.

Since we want to build a pass, we must build a pass that will never fall.

Liu Yuanshan felt that this pass should be able to resist the attack of at least 100,000 people and be safe and sound.

Obviously, except for reinforced concrete, other materials will not enter Liu Yuanshan's eyes at all.

To build a reinforced concrete Xiongguan, we must first solve the problem of materials.

Steel bars are not worried, although the daily output of the steelmaking furnace is very low, but now there are 4,000 people in hand to use, so it is natural to expand the scale of steelmaking at any time, and if you simply want to build a Xiongguan, you will not need much steel bars.

By the standards of later generations, isn't a reinforced concrete Xiongguan with a height of 15 meters and a length of 200 meters a huge wall? One wall is just that, and two rows of steel bars are enough.

The problem of reinforcing steel is not a problem, then there is also concrete that needs to be solved.

There are four types of concrete materials, which are river sand, graded gravel, water, and cement!

Needless to say, water is everywhere in the world;

Don't think about graded gravel, this thing is processed with modern machinery, although Liu Yuanshan can make a steam engine now, but if you get a gravel crusher, it is still too far away, but it doesn't matter if there is no gravel, we can find a substitute, pebbles.

Small pebbles and sand are produced in the local Malan River in Fang County.

Well, the last material, and the most important material for reinforced concrete, is cement!

The production process of cement is not complicated, it is to grind the clay sinter into a fine powder, and then mix it with the finely ground gypsum.

Everything is ready, and so is the east wind!

The vigorous construction began in the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen.