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Two months passed quickly, and in these two months, Liu Mang really fell into dire straits, he really underestimated the strategists of this era, and seized the loophole in his conscription order and directly dug a big hole for Liu Mang to jump in.

These two months are really difficult, the consumption of food, if it weren't for the seeds brought by Liu Mang and sown into the land, I'm afraid the rations would be even more insufficient.

The population of 1.2 million people almost didn't play Liu Mang to death, although Yangzhou is rich, but even in its heyday, Shouchun can't raise 1.2 million people, you must know that Shouchun plus Lujiang is only one-third of Yangzhou, and the current Yangzhou is still a mess left by Yuan Highway's classmates.

There are all kinds of industries in Shouchun City, and the 1.2 million people, they not only have to eat, drink, and Lazar, but also have a place to sleep!

The houses were built, the people's rations were provided, and the people's clothes and so on needed to be done. More than one million people, when did Liu Mang manage so many people, and these people came here with nothing.

Liu Mang also read the letter from Lu Bu and Chen Gong to Liu Mang, and what was written on it was nothing more than a ruined boat, but Liu Mang did not agree immediately, because he had done so much, not just the cheap father-in-law who wanted to help him, but also for those who followed him Liu Mang to have a good background and a good home! If all the Shouchun and Lujiang rivers are lost, don't want them all, even if they cross the Yangtze River and turn Jiangdong upside down, what will Lu Bujun get! The battle of Guandu will not last long, once the two behemoths of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are empty! There is really no chance in this world, Lu Bu is not Liu Bei. He can also play a game with Jiangdong about Chibi and a play about Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou. Lü Bu and Jiangdong Sun Ce are mortal enemies. It's impossible to form an alliance, and if you follow the current script, the two of them will almost lose and lose, and then the world will really have no chance with the two! can only be with Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian, they can generally become a pile of dry bones and buried in this land of mountains and rivers.

Liu Mang can't do that, since it was the disaster created by him Liu Mang, let him Liu Mang solve it!

"It worked!" Liu Mang looked at Liu Ye with dark circles on his face, Liu Ye hadn't slept well for a few days, he had been studying things, since he came to Liu Mang, Liu Ye really found his own paradise, he could swing his own mechanism. And Liu Mang's pile of books really made Liu Ye forget to sleep and eat! And Liu Mang, what they are talking about now is one of these things - cement!

Liu Mang couldn't find so many wood and bricks to build houses for those people, and he didn't have that time, until now most of the people still live in the wilderness, just using the marching camp to simply pave it.

And the cement thing has become a lifesaver for Liu Mang, because once this thing is manufactured, he can quickly build some buildings by relying on his condensation, and there is no need for those clay and glutinous rice soup to solidify the gaps between the masonry, which is too slow.

Liu Mang doesn't remember much about cement, but he knows that it is made of lime and clay mixed three to one, and lime is limestone that can be forged at high temperatures. Then put the mixture into the place where the lime is forged and burned, and then polish it so that it can be really successful.

The principle is so simple, but the actual operation is not so simple. In two months, it took Liu Ye to really develop the most basic cement for the Ming family of the Three Kingdoms, which can only be used in ordinary houses and city wall reinforcement, and it still has no effect on underwater buildings, but it is enough.

"Ziyang, let the people send thirty detachments to collect as much limestone as they can near Shouchun, and send another twenty detachments to collect clay!" Liu Mang distributed all of these 1.2 million people, with 10,000 people as a detachment, and there were 120 such detachments.

Fifty detachments are 500,000 people dispatched together, these people Liu Mang can't support them in vain, if they don't work, there will be no food distribution, 200,000 of the 1.2 million population are old, weak, sick and disabled and children, these people Liu Mang is not embarrassed by them, but also put grain on a daily basis, the rest of the people are not so good, Liu Mang's army is not much grain and grass, Lu Bu moved all the grain and grass that Lujiang can give to Shouchun, but that's it, Shouchun can only last less than half a year, this has been two months, the grain and grass in the army have begun to shrink.

"It's the lord!" Liu Ye nodded, and instructed one of his deputies on the side, cement is a big thing, Liu Ye has also tried the hardness of cement, compared to those who use bricks and wooden blocks, it is really much stronger, it is difficult to split with a sword, even the bed crossbow and ballista can only be blasted but not directly shattered, Liu Ye must not want the formula of such a thing to remain in the hands of the enemy, so naturally he can only rely on Liu Ye himself to supervise.

With the concerted efforts of 500,000 people, the limestone was peeled away, and the clay was dug up, all of which were sent to a huge camp outside Shouchun City.

This camp has been arranged by Liu Mang to be called an industrial zone, there is not only the construction of cement, but also a large chimney erected, as well as a camp of organs, which are specially made of bed crossbows and ballistas, if it is not close to the water, maybe Liu Mang will turn the dock over The city management black chess army is here every day to change the defense and hold on, as for the defense in Shouchun City, it has been replaced by a garrison, anyway, these people have to be raised by themselves, so Liu Mang is not polite, More than 50,000 were recruited from a population of 1.2 million, all of whom were to serve as garrisons, and these recruits really surprised Liu Mang a little, because these soldiers were all the kind of people who were good at fighting, no worse than the Danyang ruffians, and only when Liu Mang asked clearly, did he know that most of these soldiers were Shanyue people, but whether it was Shanyue or Han people, there was only one name here for Liu Mang, that is, the Han family, and Liu Mang didn't go because they were pre-Qin people and Baiyue people to discriminate against them, For these foreigners who wanted to integrate into the Han Dynasty, Liu Mang would treat them as Han people.

Limestone is calcined according to the prescribed supply and demand. and clay processed up. Re-calcining. Bags of lime were pulled out of the industrial area and loaded onto horse-drawn carts to be sent to Shouchun City.

"What are those!" Most of the people who stayed in Shouchun were old people and children, and there were also a lot of women, but don't underestimate these old people, these old people are basically very prestigious figures, and they can be the most strict among the young people, especially among the people of Shanyue.

"I don't know! Bag after bag, is it grain?! "Someone is speculating. These cloth bags should basically be grain, because the grain is easy to be afraid of moisture, once wet, it may be moldy, and the cloth bag can absorb water, so basically the grain is packed in cloth bags, so as to ensure the transportation of grain, of course, the cloth bag here is not the cloth bag containing flour in the present world, but a kind of coarse cloth bag, this cloth bag is not only waterproof and the manufacturing cost is not high. So there are a lot of such cloth bags in Liu Mang's army.

"Grain? Could it be that there is not much food and grass for His Highness the Holy King? Someone on the side asked.

"It's been a long time, haven't you seen it. His Highness is already curtailing our food rations?! An old man stood up and said.

"Scaled back? How so? Isn't it still three meals a day? Some people on the side were puzzled, Liu Mang treated these working people with three meals a day, rice porridge in the morning and evening, and rice at noon, so as to ensure that the body could work.

"The lunch at noon has not changed, but the amount of porridge and water in the morning and evening has decreased, more water and less rice!" The old man is worthy of being an old man, and after a lifetime of dealing with food, he can naturally calculate Liu Mangjun's lack of food from the amount of rice porridge and the thickness of the soup.

"Maybe you're dazzled!" An old lady next to her glanced at the old man.

"Hehe, after so many years, although I'm old and confused, but this food still can't hide from my eyes," if it was just once or twice, I might not care so much, but it has been decreasing since entering this month, so I have to let the old man guess.

This old man's guess was right, it was Liu Mang's order to reduce the rice grain for rice porridge in the morning and evening, which was also helpless, because there was really not much grain and grass in Liu Mang's army, and I was afraid that he would not be able to last even two months if he didn't save it.

The words of not much food really made people panic, and Liu Mang didn't expect that a few old people could drink it with rice porridge, and the older they were, the more they became treasures.

"Bumper bumper!" Bags of lime were thrown on the ground, and in front of these lime bags was a large open space, and the original dilapidated houses were all pushed away by Liu Mang, even if the people were allowed to live in tents, they could not be allowed to live in these old houses, because those houses might collapse when the wind blew, and then it would be the price of human life.

"Tear up!" The cloth bag was torn open, and generations of gray-white powdery things appeared in front of everyone.

"It's not food! The old man first sighed and shook his head, how good it would be if it was food.

"What are these ash powders for?!" Someone didn't understand and asked those old people, but the old people didn't know, they hadn't seen these gray-white powders, but an old man seemed to be slightly thoughtful and said in a questioning tone, "Is this lime powder?!" ”

It's not lime powder, but it's not much different, and the leader of an engineering detachment on the side said to the people below, "This is cement, cement, it's used to build a house for me, a big house!" "This squad leader has obviously seen the use of cement in the industrial zone, so he was very confident and proud when he said the news.

"What? Build a house out of this thing? You've got a lot of brains! An old man questioned in a rich dialect.

Build a house! In the eyes of these people, it is naturally a big brick and tile, even if they can't afford it, they have to use mud and bamboo to stick it up, where is this gray powder.

"I'll trick you into making a lot of money!" The squad leader who was questioned was also unhappy: "If you don't believe it, come and see!" ”

The gray cement was pulled down and piled up into hills, and the engineering team poured buckets of water on the hills, and then dug a small depression from the hill and stirred it with wooden sticks.

"Water to ash? You think you're playing at home! "Children like to play like this, but it's with urine instead of water.

"Don't believe it!" The team leader's face turned gloomy, "Come on, come on, let's make it for these old guys to see!" Don't let them underestimate us! ”

The other engineering team members were also not very happy, after all, it was very uncomfortable to be questioned.

One by one, wooden strips were also sent over, and Liu Mang had no steel bars and could only use wooden strips as the internal structure of the cement.

A wooden pillar and wooden strips are built into a general framework, a good cement is smeared and suppressed, more people is more power, tens of thousands of people's efforts, one after another houses have been built, although the cement outside has not yet dried, but the general framework has been done, Liu Mang's first wave of construction is a row of bungalows, these houses are only temporary, but to ensure his solidity, until after a while, Liu Mang plans to lay the foundation to make a building. (To be continued!)