For the future, it is always a long time away, Chen Jian only thought about it for a while, and there were still a bunch of things to deal with in front of him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Winter is approaching, and the timber problem is temporarily solved, and even though there is no river, the timber transportation problem is solved by the means that have been devoured.

The mine has also been built, with two deep pits dug as entrances to the mine, and the distance of timber support is increasing day by day.

These tribesmen not only fought to make slaves work earlier in order to improve efficiency, but also learned to dig wells in the process of labor, which was of great significance to the development of the city, and in the future, several villages must be arranged in the north and south of the Caohe River Valley, and it is not necessary to have a river.

The amount of work required for a timber well is too large, and the masonry well needs to be issued with a coupon structure, and it cannot be built after digging, but a little bit from the top to squeeze the bricks in, which is a bit of a castle in the air.

Chen Jian just knew that he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, and he couldn't figure out how to build it out for the time being, and he couldn't figure out how those bricks and stones could not fall down.

There are only a few masons with two brushes in the city, Chen Jian didn't dare to take this risk, and folded all those people in the well, now talents are precious, not to mention being able to order masons, even those who cut wheat faster in Xia City are already counted as talents.

The people of these mining shafts still did not understand the principle, so they could not put forward any constructive suggestions, so they could only use wood support to strengthen according to Chen Jian's request.

The clansmen don't need to dig too deep, they just need to make a prototype, and the rest of the matter will be followed by slaves who will continue to dig into the veins in this way.

The entrance to the mine was reinforced with a large amount of timber and mud, the ground was leveled in the mine that was not dug deep, and a layer of logs was laid as the ground, but it was not known what the logs were used for.

Chen Jian plans to have the opportunity to make some wooden bucket minecarts in the future, as much as possible to save labor, the wooden bucket minecarts are not technically difficult now, if possible, it is best to use wooden rails, so that you can save more effort.

Not by horses, which can't walk on sleepers, but these slaves can push minecarts. Chen Jian felt that there should be no technical difficulty, but he didn't know if he could do it in practice, and he might encounter more problems, all of this was just a plan for the time being, he wanted to go back and discuss it with the clansmen who smelted copper ore and made ox carts.

After the entrances to the two caves were almost completed, Chen Jian asked his people to build a few more houses here, and he took some people along the valley to survey the roads here.

There is no road in the world, and it becomes a road when there are more people walking, Chen Jian has seen all this happen and change with his own eyes, after being trampled by the slaves who carry the mine for more than half a year, a small road that can accommodate one person leads to the distance.

I looked at the trend of the valley from the top of the mountain, and if this road was rebuilt, the distance could be shortened by seven or eight miles.

The road of this era is not the same as that of later generations, it is not flat, but should be concave and concave.

The middle is higher, and the two rut marks are very low, which just allows the wheels to be in the ruts, which is also the reason for requiring the cars to be on the same track after Qin unified the Six Kingdoms.

Because the wheels bear most of the weight, unless the whole road is built hard, the ox-and-horse cart will surely push the ruts out of the road when it passes, and it is better to follow the trend to build it into such a shape than to keep paving it.

And before the advent of horseshoes, too hard roads would cause damage to the hooves of cattle and horses, which was one of the reasons why straights and hard roads could not be built.

With a few people took a rope ruler and measured it, this road needs to be repaired six wheat feet wide, people walk on both sides, and cars in the middle, which can only be a one-way street.

The whole road to be built is about forty miles long, and it passes through the valley, and there is no need to open the mountains and stones, but only to burn the trees along the way and raise them a little higher with earth.

Since it was decided to expand the size of the mine, there had to be such a way to transport the ore out.

The best choice is to smelt directly here, in the previous life, Shang Zhou moved the capital several times in order to find new copper mines, but that was on the premise of having enough population, and now the city's population and family background, a move of the capital can make the city unable to recover within three years.

There are no rivers here, the groundwater must be high for heavy metals, and the nearby land is not suitable for farming, except for the proximity to the mines.

Forty miles of road, which did not need to be built, was not a huge undertaking for a city with a population of several thousand and a large number of slaves.

The fastest way is to divide the road into several sections according to the population of each tribe, each tribe completes a part, sixteen national tribes plus a dozen wild tribes, each tribe is divided into seven or eight hundred meters of road, which can be completed in a month, and a batch of food can be saved, as the obligation of each tribe to let them complete, there will not be much resistance.

It's just that this shortcoming is a long-term hidden danger, Chen Jian is trying to weaken the rights of the clan leader, trying to divide and disintegrate the tribes, and if this kind of thing is distributed according to the tribe, it will definitely strengthen the rights of the clan leader, and it will also make the ties between the tribes closer.

Another way was to use the power of the chiefs of the cities to conscript the population of the various tribes and provide food for the public property in groups of 400 people.

Four hundred men was the limit of the long labor that the city could support, and with the men who carried food and guards, it would take nearly five hundred men in all, and it would take some time for these people to get used to it, or at least ten years for them to become familiar with the new, army-like way of organizing.

In this rotation, there could be no large-scale military movement of the entire city until the road was completed, and there would be enough food and some rest of the goods from the public property as a reward for some overachievement.

After thinking about it, Chen Jian still decided to use the second method, which could no longer allow the clan leader to have a certain degree of organization and appeal, but only to consume a large amount of food and consume a certain amount of support from the clansmen.

The disintegration of the clan is not something that can be done by talking, and the existence of the accustomed family and the production of the family require a long-term process, which can only be guided and not enforced, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

This ideological change could not be accomplished overnight, but also required the development of the productive forces to keep up, and to ensure that the survival of the family members was ensured by small families: good breeds, metal farming tools, and oxen were necessary, or slaves were separated from the family.

In this process of transition, the tribe could be quickly transformed not into a family, but by a deformed planned society under the control of city chiefs and officials, a social system suitable for rapid catch-up, and the concentrated use of the population could ensure the completion of some large works. Under the premise that the scale of the city is small and the city itself is the most technologically advanced, it is the most efficient social structure.

And this excesse, it is necessary to familiarize the tribesmen with this new way of life and work, which does not require a tribal chief, from the details of eating, drinking, fighting, and working.

Considering the population and a large amount of food that each tribe needs to levy, Chen Jian frowned, everything must be gained and lost. (To be continued.) )