Chapter 51 Building the Academy

Xu Yang's style has always been one word: vigorous and resolute.

Whether in later generations or in the Tang Dynasty, he was an impatient man, he did what he said, and what could be done today would never be delayed until tomorrow.

Glass factories, cement factories, hotels, bicycle factories, garment factories, and roasted tea factories are not in a hurry.

Now, no, the academy has begun to be built on a large scale.

The location of the academy is very good, on the coastal hill where Xu Yang drew a circle, the slope is not high, but it is very wide and long, enough to put down a big academy, this is a mountain, in fact, it is a big steep slope, the west is a large flat forest, Xu Yang plans to make this piece all into a school, build a campus football field.

The workers' team soon began construction, these people are all old workers who participated in the construction of roads and stadiums, one by one, their faces are relaxed, and now whenever they meet those old friends, they like to brag about how magnificent the stadium they participated in the construction is, compared to this small academy, hehe, not to mention.

The members of the explosive stone team began to blow up the mountain, bags of explosives were transported up the mountain, Xu Yang was far away every time he saw them, the explosives were a Pandora's box, huge benefits and crises coexisted, I heard that the quarrying slaves of the explosives team in Youzhou have encountered five cases of explosives exploding, killing more than a dozen slaves, and now those slaves who go up the mountain to blow up the stones are terrified every day, and the action standards can no longer be standard, so they are afraid that the explosive bag on their backs will explode.

I heard that after seeing the corpses shattered by an explosion, two slaves who saw it at the scene were frightened and screamed all day long, and now they have been executed.

There were also two explosions in the chemical room with saltpeter and explosives, killing two old craftsmen and injuring four, these are the Han craftsmen Xu Yang put his heart and soul into, Xu Yang was very distressed when he heard that two of them died, and the two craftsmen were compensated with a thousand yuan pension by each family, and were posthumously awarded the medal and title of 'People's Martyr', and all the immediate family members of the family were raised by Xu Yang.

This also made the other chemical craftsmen grateful, just a thousand pensions are enough for a small family to live a safe life, Xu Caishen also posthumously awarded the martyr's medal, and is to raise his family, even if he dies, he has no regrets, so he began to study those 'periodic table' and other things day and night, in order to repay Xu Caishen's kindness, I heard that Zheng Wen's kid has made a breakthrough, made pure calcium and iron, and stored it in the glass bottle in the real room.

The explosives were researched there, the academy was built here, and when the workers of the construction team had almost cut down the trees on the hillside, the bombing of the mountain began, and more than a dozen members of the explosives team, hiding far away, lit the fuse in their hands.

"Huh~~~" The lead quickly burned to the explosives buried in the stone.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang between heaven and earth.

The Mao family Zhuangzi in the distance also heard this voice, and the whole village did not go to work in the fields, so they ran out of their homes and looked at the mountains over there.

I saw a puff of smoke rising from the mountain, and then a dozen people dressed in gray clothes gathered in the place where the smoke was rising.

"Tsk, I said big head, you didn't put the force point of the explosive in place, didn't you say that you can blow up a big hole one zhang wide, how can it be seven feet wide." A tall, thin young man patted a stocky young man on the shoulder.

The short and fat young man touched his big head and said, "It's not a matter of the force, I'm counting." After that, he took out a pen and paper, drew and draw, and finally said: "Maybe the stones here are harder than the stones on Youzhou Mountain, let's add three taels more to the dose of explosives to blow up a zhang wide." ”

"Okay, let's try then." The tall and thin young man immediately went to get a small explosive bag of three taels, this time he got a one-pound and three-tael lead together, and then smashed the mountain rock, buried this combined explosive in the mountain rock, and several people pulled the lead and ran into the distance.

After everyone has run away.

The tall and thin young man hid behind a boulder and commanded, "Light a fire." The short and fat young man immediately took out a match, "Whoa." Bright flames flickered, and the chunky young man hurriedly lit the fuse, then covered his ears.

"Huh~~~" The lead soon burned to the explosives buried in the stone.

"Boom!" There was another loud bang between heaven and earth.

The residents of the village all watched with relish, and some elderly villagers also said that it was the mountain god playing the drums, which made the children stunned.

"Damn it, god!" The tall and thin young man stood in front of the new big pit and sighed.

"Hehe" The short and fat young man also touched his head excitedly, and more than a dozen people in the same company praised it.

The new crater still emitted green smoke and the smell of explosives, but the size of the new crater was impressively one zhang wide.

"Big head, how do you know that adding three or two more explosives can blow up a hole a foot wide." The tall and thin young man asked with envy on his face.

The short and fat young man smiled embarrassedly: "This is nothing, it is calculated through guò, I used to follow my father to work in the money village, and I know some methods of soldiering, so I can calculate it." ”

There was a hint of envy in the eyes of the tall and thin young man, "That's really a blessing, it's much more capable than us who are bitter haha." ”

The short and fat young man waved his hand embarrassedly and said, "We are all brothers, working for the lord, and holding the highest amount of silver in Youzhou every month, we are all blessed." ”

Everyone nodded, it is a good fortune to follow the lord to do things, for example, which position in Youzhou has a higher salary than this? I heard that Taishou is only ninety yuan a month.

At this time, Xu Yang instructed the workers on the site to burn bricks in the temporary brick-burning ground, because it was temporary, it had just been done this morning, so the scale was very small, only a few tenths of the brick-burning kiln outside Youzhou City, but the bricks and stones for building a academy were enough.

The workers of the stone transport team continue to transport the big mountain stones that are blown down on the mountain, and then send them to the cement team, and the members of the brick burning team put the loess into the mold, make it into a long hexagonal shape, and put it into the brick kiln in batches to start burning, and the last thing that is burned out is now the most common building material in Youzhou, red bricks.

I heard that this building material has been transmitted to Chang'an, but I don't know if it's true or not.

The workers of the cement team are more miserable, the huge stones need to be broken all of them, and limestone and other materials can be added to make cement, which is extremely hard, usually a dozen strong men with big hammers to smash these stones.

The children of the whole village are now looking forward to entering the academy as soon as possible, so they also come to the construction site to join in the fun, and those craftsmen also like these children very much.

Xu Yang has been staying up late these days, not only did he print out the architectural drawings of the academy, but in fact, it was almost the same as the Datang Hotel, with a total of three floors, after all, there was no reinforced concrete, and it could not be built any higher.

Xu Yang also printed the textbook for the first grade of primary school. Four hundred and ten children, mathematics, physics, chemistry three subjects, language books Xu Yang did not print the textbooks of compulsory education in later generations, because the things in the language books are somewhat ahead of the times, I am afraid that these children will not be able to answer when they ask, so they have to print pinyin and "Three Character Classic", which are god-like enlightenment books. Of course, the content of the "Three Character Classic" to the fall of the Sui Dynasty was cut by Xu Yang, because he knew that if he didn't cut it, it would be his head that was cut off.

Three courses, 1,230 books, plus more than 400 three-character scriptures, the printer also printed for most of the day, Xu Yang used the automatic binding on the printer to print all the books completely, and got it done, and planned to send it to these children tomorrow, let him touch the new books first, and start classes after a while when the academy is repaired.

"Sir, it's late at night, you have to take care of yourself." Steward Liu stood outside the door, looking at the bright lights in the house, and couldn't help but say.

Xu Yang didn't let him in, after all, he didn't want more people to know about computers and printers.

"Well, I see, you go to sleep first."

"Sir, does the slave have the courage to ask a word?"

"What's the matter?"

"These workers are all here to build a fiefdom mansion for you, and now they are all running to build a academy, when will they repair the mansion."

"I live in the academy, and my academy will be my mansion from now on."