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"Wu Pingbo, Xia Guan was ordered to transfer 800 stones of cement and 20 craftsmen from Taiwan to assist Wu Pingbo in building Xunwei Village. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the Wèn Novel Network biquge.info)"

The so-called Xunwei is Jimei, the largest river in Tong'an, Dongxi, enters the sea here, and the vast bay formed is called Xunjiang by the locals, and the west bank of the Xunjiang River extends to Jimei is already the end, as the name Xunwei, and the word Jimei is the elegant name of Xunwei's southern Fujian dialect Bai pronunciation, and these two words can be used interchangeably since the Ming Dynasty.

"Twenty craftsmen?" Liu Guoxuan looked coldly at the Ministry of Industry in front of him. "Jimei and Xiamen Gaoqi are close to each other across the water, and in the year of Guimao (note: the seventeenth year of Yongli, 1663), the northern soldiers have crossed the sea to the island from then on, so the Ministry of Industry has only transferred only 20 craftsmen, is it possible that Lord Li Jingli wants to defect to the enemy and betray the enemy?"

"Wu Pingbo said seriously, only 20 masonry craftsmen can't build the bricks, but they are all veterans who have used cement to build roads and bridges in recent years, and they are master craftsmen." Although in the face of the murderous aura coming to his face, the Ministry of Industry was unmoved. "As long as Wu Pingbo sends some more troops to help"

"Just a little bit of work?" Liu Guoxuan cut off the other party's words and asked directly. "How much work does it take? It's better that the commander will transfer the whole army to you. ”

Wu Pingbo said with a smile, "The Ministry of Industry thought about everything and reported a number at random. "Just send five hundred soldiers."

"Just five hundred?" Liu Guoxuan is good at using the room, and he will naturally not pay attention to the news from Taiwan, cement has been a topic in Taiwan over the years, and even sent 8,000 captive slave laborers to Zheng Kezhang through his hands last year, so he did not dare to question further when he saw that the people from the Ministry of Industry looked confident. "It will be done in a few days."

"As long as the manpower and materials are complete, according to Wu Pingbo's plan, this small village with 800 soldiers is just a day and night's work."

"Well, this officer will give you a day and a night, if it can't be built by then, don't blame the ruthless military law"

The news of Liu Guoxuan's construction in Xunwei could not be concealed from the eyes and ears of the Qing army, and the general of Tong'an immediately mobilized more than 4,000 people from the Manchurian and Mongolian garrison Eight Banners and the Green Battalion to rush over, but what they did not expect was that in a day and night, a stone military village had already stood at the end of the cape - in fact, whether it was a prefabricated concrete slab made of cement and bamboo reinforcement, or used as an adhesive coating for the exterior wall, it required a long time of condensation, but the Qing army came in a hurry and originally intended to fight slow with fast. Therefore, he did not bring heavy firearms such as Hongyi cannons, so he was helpless in the face of the high and deep trench of Xunwei Village - because he was worried that Liu Guoxuan's main force would hear the news and come across the sea to help, for fear that the Qing army would have to retreat without a fight, but he did not know that at this time Xunwei Village only had hundreds of defenders exhausted after a night of fatigue.

"Well done." Liu Guoxuan, who inquired about the source, was not a person who wanted to save face, and when he saw that the Ministry of Industry could indeed do what he said, he did not hesitate to praise it. "Ben Shuai also wants to build one or two artillery forts next to the village, can Qi Dushi help with this?"

"As long as Dongning can transfer enough cement, Xiaguan can not only build additional fortifications for Xunwei Village, but also expand it." Regarding Liu Guoxuan's eagerness, the Ministry of Industry did not take care of anything, and answered plainly. "It's just that Dongning's cement output is not high, and the grandson is trying to promote the construction of Fuzhou County Road, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult."

"The enemy of Tong'an sent many eight-oared boats down the Xun River to peek at Siming's virtual reality." Liu Guoxuan has such confidence, what kind of official road, the most important thing now is Siming's safety, and everything else has to give way. "If such a great danger is not only for the fact that the commander is restless, so it is imminent to build additional artillery fortifications to resist the enemy, the commander will personally ask the king to allocate more materials."

While Liu Guoxuan, who was on this side of the sea, began to realize the benefits of cement, Zheng Kezhang was also surveying the Dongning official road construction project, which was a major project that began in July last year, and how it progressed after a year was not only what Zheng Kezhang was concerned about, but also what Chen Yonghua wanted to know.

"If you return to your grandson, you have now changed the official road of 67 and a half miles and the 78-hole wooden and stone bridge between Anping and Shuntian into a cement road and cement bridge 15 steps wide. For this purpose, 45,000 square meters of gravel, nearly 25,000 stones of cement, 43,000 stones of yellow sand and 35,000 bamboo tendons were used. Chen Ming'an pointed to the cement pavement two and a half inches thick and reported, with such a thickness, it can be regarded as an absolutely sophisticated project in later generations, which is not because Zheng Kezhang has high requirements, but because the cement strength of his zuò is low. In addition, all the slave laborers, craftsmen, overseers, and Zhenrong soldiers ate a total of 11,000 stone of rice and flour and other meat, vegetables, wine, sugar, and salt worth 430 taels, and 177 quarrying and road construction slave laborers died of exhaustion and disease, 14 others died due to the collapse of the mountain, and 11 people died due to the breaking of the bridge due to the flood. ”

"Is there any problem with the laying of the official road?" According to the test of the Ministry of Industry, this thickness of cement pavement is enough to carry 10,000 catties of super-heavy artillery without cracking, which can be said to basically meet his original design requirements.

"The first is that the output of cement is insufficient, and at present, the eight kilns of the Ministry of Industry are making fires together, but the output is still insufficient." Chen Ming'an did not hide that compared with his downfall, the new engineer Li Jing gave Zheng Kezang a very bad impression. "Second, there is a shortage of manpower." This is the contradiction, when there is cement, cement waits for people, and when there is no cement, people wait for cement, so the construction speed is always not fast. "Nothing else."

"If the cement output is insufficient, then open more kilns, as for the need for people to dig lime, and people need to grind bricks and tiles, these will find a way to solve it." Zheng Kezang's method is to import slaves, of course, this costs money, but he doesn't have to explain to Chen Ming'an. "By the way," Zheng Kezhang continued. "Those rebellious Qing soldiers didn't cause any trouble, did they?"

"With the brave guards watching, this bare-handed traitor can't cause any trouble." Chen Ming'an thought for a while. "There were a few who escaped, and after they were caught, they were taught a lesson, and they were beaten to cry and call their mothers, and they were hungry again, and now they basically don't dare to run away." Chen Ming'an is clearly optimistic. "Even if they escape from the slave labor team, they may not end well, and Gao Shan Shengfan will not say it, and Pingpu Shefan may not dare to take them in."

"That's what I said, but I can't always use the Brave Guards in the original town." Zheng Kezhang thought for a moment. "You can announce that the teams will compete, and the top three teams that have completed the most construction every day and are qualified by the supervisor will add meals, and in another year, the top three teams can be immediately released from the people, and they can also be granted land like ordinary homeless people."

"Shisun is a good method, so let them compare on their own, and save someone from being unable to hold back and make trouble." Chen Ming'an cautiously catered to it, and then went back to the original question. "It's just that this manpower is already a little insufficient, if you let go of some more, not to mention even more scarce?"

"Letting these people serve hard labor is originally a punishment for forgetting their ancestors, but after all, they are all Han Chinese, and they can't always be held back." Zheng Kezang's cold gaze seemed to be able to cross the strait. "If you really tire them out, won't Yu arrange for them to go to quarrying for ore and panning for gold?" Speaking of this, he suddenly changed his words. "Of course, you can be too lenient, you must let them know the fate of being a traitor!" After saying a cruel word, Zheng Kezhang motioned to the emperor to drive his unique four-wheeled carriage in Dongning. "Try to run as many blocks as you can on such a flat road." The emperor took the order and left, looking at the carriage that gradually accelerated and disappeared quickly, Zheng Kezhang answered the question that Chen Ming'an had been holding onto. "Don't worry, Yu has already told the Yingguili Merchant House, it is estimated that in a few days, the Yingguili people will send at least 5,000 black slaves, half of which will go to the Household Department of Yingtian Qingguan, and half will go to the Ministry of Industry.

Chen Ming'an was silent, he was not a household official, so he naturally didn't understand how much it cost to buy so many black slaves.

The galloping carriage came back after a while, and seeing a few Andalusian horses sweating with relish, Zheng Kezhang didn't need to ask why Yushou's face showed a flying look, but Zheng Kezang's first question at the beginning made him stagnate: "Do you feel like you need to nail the horseshoe again?" ”

The emperor reminisced for a while, and nodded heavily: "Jianguo, I'm afraid I have to use the heavy nails on the Liaodong side to gallop on such a road." ”

"Lord Chen," Zheng Kezhang turned his gaze back to Chen Ming'an. "The road construction is still please." Chen Ming'an was busy and didn't dare, but Zheng Kezhang ignored it. "General Manager Chen's envoy over there, Yu will take care of it, you don't have to worry." Chen Ming'an hasn't figured out whether Zheng Kezang's words are a pun or not, Zheng Kezhang has already gotten into the car. "Go back!" The carriage ran briskly along the newly paved cement road, and Zheng Kezhang looked at the wide but unwalked road and wrinkled. "Go to Mr. Chen's envoy"

"What? Lines should be drawn on the newly built official roads, and the people should be allowed to walk on both sides. Chen Yonghua looked at his son-in-law with some surprise, before the Tang and Song dynasties, the people were not allowed to walk on the official roads, but the Ming generation had only heard that the post stations were not allowed to enter lightly, but they never said that people were not allowed to walk on the official roads. Is there a mistake in the virtuous son-in-law? ”

Zheng Kezhang was stunned for a moment, he was really mistaken, but at this time he could only make a mistake: "I'm afraid that the father-in-law heard it wrong, the son-in-law means to divide the road, and divide the new cement official road into the way and the way, all who come must walk the way, and those who go must go to the road, so that the left and right are divided, so as not to block the traffic." ”

"How many people are in charge?" Chen Yonghua hit the nail on the head and pointed out the flaws of Zheng Kezang's plan. "Besides, Dongning business is not winning, and there are not many pedestrians on the old official road in the past.

"This?" Zheng Kezhang hesitated, indeed, not everything can be copied from future generations. "What the father-in-law instructed was, and let the son-in-law think about it again"

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