Various projects in the capital are being carried out in an intense and orderly manner.

Because the cement construction plant was far away from the closed city, the imperial court issued an order to plant a large number of trees near the cement factory to ensure that the cement floating debris would not spread.

In recent months, a large amount of cement has been produced in the cement kiln jointly organized by the government and business, and a kiln can produce about 1,000 catties of cement in one day, and the cement has been applied to various industries.

On this day, Zhao Dezhao just returned to the palace from outside the city and went to the Funing Palace to report on the construction matters.

"Zhao'er, what's wrong with the villa outside the city?" Zhao Kuangyin learned from the mouths of officials and chamberlains that Zhao Dezhao is now building a villa outside the city, and a two-and-a-half-story building has been built in the recent past.

"Daddy, now that a villa has just been built, why don't you drive outside the city to the children's fiefdom to take a look, I am sure to surprise you." Zhao Dezhao smiled mysteriously.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "I happened to be free in the afternoon, so I went to see the villa." ”

"Hmm!"

Zhao Dezhao then went to Renming Hall to visit his mother and his younger brother who was born not long ago, Zhao Defang, who was too busy these days, so he rarely got along.

The child looked white and chubby, as soon as he saw Zhao Dezhao, the child opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Dezhao and smiled at him, and Zhao Dezhao also held a rattle to make the child laugh, this is the so-called brotherly blood relationship.

"Little boy, my brother has come to see you, you must grow up obediently!"

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In the afternoon, Zhao Kuangyin took the guards of the forbidden army with him and went outside the city with Zhao Dezhao, and along the way, Zhao Kuangyin also witnessed the construction of cement in various places, and the road under their feet has now been replaced with a cement road.

Zhao Kuangyin had already felt the shock of this road on the carriage, the original uneven, potholed road was flat, and under the sunshine, the cement road was as smooth as new.

"Zhao'er, thanks to the cement you invented, you can see that the carriage we are sitting in now is stable all the way. Hey-I didn't expect that in just a few months, the cement would make Kaifeng City look new, if only the roads in my Great Song Dynasty were so smooth now. ”

"Daddy, this is a matter of time, I can't be in a hurry, I believe that one day, everywhere I go in the Great Song Dynasty, there are cement roads, cement houses and other cement buildings, and then I will be in the Great Song Dynasty and the world will be peaceful."

"Hmm!"

Zhao Kuangyin has been watching the changes outside, in astonishment and admiration, the carriage and horse have arrived at home outside the city at a rapid pace, and at this moment Zhao Kuangyin saw the villa Zhao Dezhao said outside the car window.

Now that a completed villa has been built, the combination of Chinese and Western is so harmonious, the basic charm of Chinese style and Western architectural symbols and details complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, and the layout of the external space has the feeling of being enclosed by Chinese-style residences, which reflects the advantages of small but refined as a whole. Zhao Kuangyin looked left and touched as if he was a curious baby, and the soldiers of the forbidden army around him were also taken aback.

Then under the leadership of Zhao Dezhao, he entered the gate, because this time the building was only used as a reference, so it was slightly rough, but in the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin and others, it was perfect.

For modern people, Zhao Dezhao is used to seeing too many villas, and the one here is still the most ordinary, and for Zhao Kuangyin, they feel incredible.

Under the leadership of Zhao Dezhao, several people visited. The interior of the villa is simple and has four walls covered with lime, while the interior is bright.

Because the glass production is cumbersome, the price is too high, and these villas are for the common people to live in, so the doors and windows are replaced by wood products, although not as luxurious as later generations, but the simple and simple design still won the praise of the emperor.

When Zhao Kuangyin turned a corner and saw a very small space, he saw the flush toilet, sink, faucet, urinal, etc., and asked curiously: "Zhao'er, what are these things for?" ”

Zhao Dezhao pulled Zhao Kuangyin over and whispered: "Oh! This is the toilet, which is what we call the latrine, the place of the courtesy. ”

"What?" Zhao Kuangyin looked incredulous.

Zhao Dezhao also understood Zhao Kuanya's embarrassment, so he said how to use such an item, and then Zhao Dezhao turned the flush valve, and the water in the flush toilet went down the pipe and went all the way to the sewage pool. Then he turned on the faucet again, and there was a clear splash of water in it, because this place was a plain, so Zhao Dezhao asked people to build a cistern on the roof, whether it was water for flushing toilets or other water, it was for people to fill the roof with water. If you are near a stream on the side of a mountain, you can build a cistern on the mountain to divert water through pipes.

"It's amazing, I didn't expect a thing to be made so ingeniously, this toilet is so good, this water flows out of it as soon as it is unscrewed, and this is a ...... Oh, it's so convenient, I have to consider moving in with my father. Haha-" Zhao Kuangyin said.

"Daddy, don't worry, the child plans to choose a remote place to build a mountain villa and dedicate it to you, Daddy." The moment Zhao Dezhao turned off the faucet, he was thinking that he wanted to build a villa of his own on the side of the mountain, and then arrange many things, and vacation in the mountain villa in his spare time.

"Daddy just said casually, now Daddy is the lord of a country, everything must be thrifty, and he can't wait to break the copper coin in half and use it, so Zhao'er must always be vigilant and put the people first." Saying this, Zhao Kuangyin also remembered the past, he used to be a hero who was difficult to beat for a penny

"Children remember their father's teachings, but they should also relax and put physical and mental health first."

"Hmm!"

After visiting the villa, Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Kuangyin and others returned to the palace.

The villa that Zhao Kuangyin visited today was used as a private house for ordinary people, so it was very simple and rough in terms of scale and elegance, and it was about the same size as the small western-style houses that were common in the countryside in later generations.

Later, according to this villa, Zhao Dezhao built several identical villas in Rujia, all of which were used for the people's homes.

Later, because of the consideration of cost, Zhao Dezhao successively built some bungalows in some villages outside Kaifeng to replace adobe houses, but the style was still in accordance with the architectural style of the society at that time, he did not want to build cement houses and destroy the exquisite buildings of ancient China, but also to leave a rich Chinese architectural heritage to future generations.

The cement house is much stronger than the adobe house, and those villagers are smiling when they see that their houses are stronger than before, and now they are only repairing and repairing some houses for the people around Kaifeng for a generation.

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In the wine shop at the moment

"Yo - this Kaifeng is really overcrowded, I saw labor all the way to work, the labor of the Great Song Dynasty is really heavy!" The guests of the wine shop said.

"Judging by your tone and clothes, the guest officer doesn't seem to be from the Great Song Kingdom."

"People in the lower Dali country, all the way from the southwest to Kaifeng, looking for relatives and friends, planning to visit Kaifeng City, this is the second time I have come to Kaifeng, but now why is Kaifeng so busy, is it to fight?"

"Guest officer, you don't know this, the construction of these is not because of the war, but the credit of His Royal Highness King Liang today. Since the invention of cement, it has been used to build houses, roads, and city walls...... And this road is really flat, walking on it is not sore, and you don't have to worry about getting your shoes dirty by muddy water on rainy days. The man next to him said.

"Oh? Really? ”

"Yes, if you come back in a while, maybe this Kaifeng will change dramatically."

"Oh-" The man who claimed to be from Dali raised his glass, then took a sip and said, "Thank you, brother, I will leave first if there is something to do." Then he left the liquor store and walked to the north of the city.

In Kaifeng, since the invention of cement, a large-scale cement plant has been built to meet the daily consumption of cement. Now all parts of Kaifeng are under construction, because of the large number of people, the consumption of grain is also large, so there is a certain shortage of grain, so the emperor promulgated the holy aim to mobilize a batch of grain in Jianghuai and other places to transport into Beijing, and now Jianghuai and other places are in the mobilization of grain in an orderly manner.

In the city of Sizhou, Jianghuai, the ships of the envoys of the Champa state began to sail away.

"This is ......." Amu Pineapple had never seen so many ships transporting grain, and he asked the attendant beside him, "Cayenne, what is Song Guo doing?" ”

"Lord Amumu, this is the grain ship of the Song Kingdom, which was transported to Kaifeng, the capital of the country."

"There are so many ships, the Song Kingdom is really rich in land and resources, I occupy the city and have so much grain, if I put it in the Song Kingdom, I will eat it all, I really can't imagine that this Song Kingdom is rich in land and resources, but the food is not enough."

"Yes, yes, huh-"

"Cayenne, you see that those are all building river wharves, this Great Song people are really eating"

More than ten days later, when they arrived in Kaifeng, they saw a large number of laborers building fortifications, and began to build cement warehouses near Bianshui to store the goods that were transported every day, so as to solve the storage location of the goods for some merchants.

In addition, several large granaries for storing grain were also built in the government, and all the grain from the south was moved to the wharf and then transported to the newly built cement granaries.

The wharf workers were carrying grain, while the little soap man next to him was watching.

Suddenly, the ships of the Champa envoys also docked at the pier.

"Cayenne, it's the first time I've come to the Great Song Dynasty, this country has surprised me so much, you see the busy water transportation of this river, the civilian service builds houses, docks, city walls, ......"

Amu Pineapple stepped on the dock, and the envoy who was familiar with the etiquette of the Song Kingdom beside him had already asked him to go to Honglu Temple to report.

When Liu Han, the doctor of Chaosan and the young secretary of Honglu Temple, heard that the envoys of Zhancheng had come to the capital, he immediately sent the small officials of Honglu Temple to greet him.

When the officials of Honglu Temple saw the envoys of Zhancheng, they hurriedly bowed their hands and said: "Welcome to the envoys of Zhancheng to my Great Song Dynasty, the envoys have been tired all the way, they must be tired, please go to the Honglu Temple Post Station with me to rest, and we will wait for the Ming officials." ”

The envoy who was proficient in Chinese said to Amu Pineapple, and then Amu Pineapple said in the language of the Champa State: "Dear Great Song, I have come to make friends with the Song State in this matter, and I am willing to establish a good-neighborly and friendly state with my Song State." ”

In fact, Amu Pineapple also knows some Chinese, but he is just lame, and he doesn't want to speak more Chinese, so he just asks the entourage around him to tell the officials of Honglu Temple what Amu Pineapple said.

"Your Excellency, please go this way!"

"Thank you!"

On that day, Liu Han, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, brought the news that the envoys of Zhancheng came to Kaifeng, and the king of Liang also heard the news that the envoys of the Zhancheng State came to Kaifeng from Zhang Dejun, so he planned to inquire about the rice of Zhancheng from them when the envoys met the Son of Heaven.

And Champa rice can be said without exaggeration is the "super hybrid rice" of this era, because of the high yield and full rice grains, in the middle of the Song Dynasty, the emperor attached great importance to it, and began to try to plant this kind of rice in Jianghuai, the south and some places in the north, and the Champa rice did bring certain benefits to the people of the Great Song Dynasty later, and I don't know whether the Champa envoys came to Beijing this time, whether they brought some seeds to pay tribute.

The news is that the emperor received the envoys in the palace the next day, Zhao Dezhao thought it was necessary to ask the envoys of Zhancheng to occupy the news of the rice, and the geographical location of the Zhancheng country is also quite good, is a transit station on the Maritime Silk Road.