"It's a big town"

The importance of the town, literally, is an important town, this importance can refer to the military, can also be said to be economic, if it is a military town, then it belongs to the battleground, once the capture of this town, will play a vital role in the whole war, and if it is an economic town, then it means that this kind of place has the potential for sustainable development, will become the economic core town of a certain region.

Lin Bei wants to build an economic town on the Mekong River, and of course, it would be better if this economic town also played the role of a military town.

Does the Mekong have potential? If the Yangtze River and the Yellow River raised the people of Yan and Huang, then the Mekong River raised the people of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and the status of the Mekong River is extraordinary, so the potential must be great.

However, to build a major town, Lin Bei has to consider at least three issues, the first is how to build the town, how to plan, the second is the problem of the indigenous people, it is necessary to conquer the indigenous people, and the third problem is a worry, which is Lin Bei's most unreasonable worry, this worry is how long can he live? This concern is the most important, if Lin Bei can only live for a few decades before his life runs out, then he will not build any important town.

If Lin Bei does not die, he will definitely move the Central Plains in the future, reformulate the order, and let the Han people be the emperor, so he can retreat into the background, which is the best situation, but if Lin Bei can only live for a few decades, then his successor will definitely have another idea, maybe he will establish himself as the king and break away from the Han realm, so that these people will become outsiders, and the technological level of the Mekong River after decades of construction will leave the Han realm far behind. Even if Lin Bei made a wedding dress for these outsiders, this Lin Bei would never tolerate it, and maybe in a few decades, the indigenous people would be anti-guest and invade Huaxia, then Huaxia would be quite bad, and it would be completely suppressed by the barbarians. Lin Bei couldn't accept it just thinking about it.

How many years can you live? Lin Bei really has no spectrum in his heart, he only knows that the life span of snakes is not long, more than ten years is the norm, pythons live longer, it is said that some artificially bred pythons can live for hundreds of years, but they live longer than most people, but the number of this python is quite rare, most pythons can only live for forty or fifty years.

"Forty or fifty years have passed with the flick of a finger. By then, I guess we won't even be halfway through the world. Lin Bei sighed, his goal was too big, so he felt that there was too little time.

So should we build a major town or not? Lin Bei hesitated.

After Zhang Cheng finished saying his opinion, seeing that Lin Bei was silent for a long time, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but ask, "My lord, what do you think?" ”

"I'll talk about it tomorrow, I'll have to think about it again."

Zhang Cheng nodded, he knew that the adult in front of him actually saw very far-reaching. Since the adults said that they should think about it, they must have other ideas.

Just finished eating. Several small boats went up the river and came to Linjiang City, but it was An Zhongzhi who sent people, and Lin Bei summoned them.

"My lord, Wanghai City is fine, but the master and the pavilion chief are worried about the safety of the adults." Someone said.

"How's it going at the Jungle Transit Station? It's all flooded, right? Lin Bei asked.

The visitor nodded, "Yes, my lord." Not only that, but the wooden road between the transfer station and the mountain range for nearly 100 miles was also gone, and all the planks were washed away, although we have now reopened the road, but it is muddy and difficult to walk. The Master even said that in a few days, I am afraid that in a few days, these roads will be full of grass again, and the Master asked the villain to ask the adults, what should we do at this time? Do you want to continue to pave the way with planks? ”

"You go down first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

After waiting for the people to go down, Lin Bei went to the river, soaked in the river until the early hours of the morning, and waited until dawn, Lin Bei instructed Zhang Cheng to find the craftsmen: "Just look for those masons, by the way, stonemasons can also be found." ”

Zhang Cheng went as promised, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the craftsman arrived.

Lin Bei didn't have to say anything, and went straight to the point: "I summoned you to come here to ask you, can you have repaired the city wall?" ”

A few people replied that they had done so.

"How are the walls built?" Lin Bei asked.

"My lord, mix glutinous rice and water with clay and hammer it, and a section of the city wall as thick as half a foot will take about half a moon," said the carpenter.

Lin Bei shook his head: "No, what I want to know is not this, can you wait for one thing, lime?" It should be the name, right? ”

Lime? The craftsmen were a little puzzled, and Lin Bei described it again: "Gray and white, if powdery, the taste is a little unpleasant."

Many craftsmen realized: "My lord, this is powder, right?" It can also be mixed with water. ”

"Powder, huh? That's the powder, do you know how to make it? ”

A stonemason replied: "My lord, there is a kind of stone that is powdered stone, which is found in many places, and there are also in mines, as long as it is mined, hammered and ground into powder." ”

"It's convenient." Lin Bei Daxi, there is a nearby area, this is better, as far as Lin Bei knows, the raw material needed for cement is lime powder, which is now plastered powder, clay plus slag, but these things need to be calcined again, mixed with water to become cement, which is also the simplest way to make cement.

"What are you going to do with this powder?" The craftsman asked.

"A new type of building material, called cement."

"Building materials? Cement? ”

The reflection of the craftsmen gave Lin Bei a sense of superiority again, "The so-called building materials are the materials of construction, which have a wide range of building materials, including building houses, building roads, dams and so on. Lin Bei explained a little and called Zhang Cheng in: "Zhang Cheng, you quickly send a thousand sergeants to escort these craftsmen to the mine, first look for the powder and clay, after finding it, grind it into powder, add slag, dry it in a stove, and when these are done, you will notify me." ”

Zhang Cheng nodded in agreement, and immediately summoned the sergeant and sent the craftsman to care.

Lin Bei summoned yesterday's people again, and told them to look back at Haicheng and tell them to be honest and straight, and also make cement according to this method, as for the wooden road, it is naturally in the past tense.

Lin Bei thought about it all night last night, and finally decided to build a major town on the Mekong River, even if he could only live for a few decades, of course, he would change the strategy, and he did not intend to keep the cement production method secret. Instead, he is going to sell it to Zhen's firm, and let Zhen's firm sell it to the Central Plains Heroes, so that even if Lin Bei dies in a few decades, the technology of the Central Plains will not lag behind much.

And even if this cement method is sold to the people of the Central Plains, it is honest. In fact, these people are not very troubled by Lin Bei, gunpowder has been made for countless years, but now people will only use it to make fireworks, so no matter how good things are, it depends on whether people will use them, Lin Bei is ready to use cement to build important towns, build embankments, and build roads, do the heroes of the Central Plains have the ambition and courage to do the same thing with Lin Bei? The most likely thing is that they will use it to build a city and then go to war. The difference in vision between Lin Bei and these people also determines the difference in the way they are used.

"My lord, what is this cement? I think adults take it very seriously? Zhang Cheng asked on the side.

"Cement is a good thing, simple, cheap, practical, when the cement is made, we can rebuild Linjiang City, this time." I want to build Linjiang City as solid as gold. ”

"Could this cement be able to withstand the floods of the past few days?" Zhang Cheng was surprised.

Lin Bei smiled and shook his head in Zhang Cheng's expectation: "Can't stop it"

Zhang Cheng snorted. Speechless.

"The city alone can't stop it, but in addition to the city, we have to repair other things, and with this thing, we can almost stop the flood."

"Do you mean the dike?"

"Well, but it's not one of those earth-and-stone embankments. Rather, it is a made of cement. ”

"And when will this cement be made?" Zhang Cheng asked, thinking that it took so long for the steam carriage to be produced, this cement sounds like it is more useful than the steam carriage, isn't it longer? How long will it take to build a dam with cement? Zhang Cheng still uses the technology of this era to measure cement. He didn't know how simple and practical cement really was.

"I've already said it in detail, at most tomorrow, the cement will be made, and then you will be able to see how powerful the cement is."

"The villain will see."

Lin Bei still underestimated the strength of the craftsmen, Lin Bei said in too much detail, so the craftsmen made the cement at one time, and Lin Bei, who came to inform him before noon, Lin Bei rushed to the mine, and the time was less than three o'clock in the afternoon.

"Cement has been made?" Lin Bei was pleasantly surprised, these craftsmen were really good at work.

"Yes, please come and see if this is the cement?"

The craftsman led Lin Bei to the location, where a large pile of cement powder had been piled up, and there were craftsmen who mixed the cement powder with water according to the way Lin Bei said, made it into a paste, pasted it on the stone, and baked it quickly.

"My lord, this cement" a craftsman said softly, "This cement is not strong, please look at it, my lord." ”

The craftsman stepped forward and tapped lightly on the cement that had been dried on the stone surface, with little force, but the cement fell down in lumps, and there was no stickiness.

Seeing that the craftsmen were a little skeptical, Lin Bei laughed and said: "It is naturally not strong to use it like this, come here, go find some mud and sand." ”

After the sediment was found, Lin Bei asked the craftsman to mix the sediment into the powder, add water and stir it again, and after a long time, re-smear the stone surface and let the fire dry: "You try again this time." ”

If you don't use sand, the strength of cement is really not great, but once it is mixed with sediment, it is stronger, just like the difference between iron and steel.

There were some cracks on the cement surface that was dried by the fire, but the craftsmen were really surprised when they tried it at this time, even if they used their fingers to pick out the cracks, they couldn't pick off the cement, so they were really convinced.

"My lord is really a god, and such a strange thing can also be known."

"yes, it's very strong."

"It's completely different just by adding sand, it's really unbelievable."

The unbelievable is still to come, Lin Bei asked the craftsman to make a template, make the cement into a ten-centimeter-thick cement board, and also dry it with a high fire, and then let the craftsman use a hammer to smash it, and the craftsmen used the strength to eat milk, and only then did the corners of the cement board collapse a few small pieces, and there was no damage in the middle.

"It's really a god." Zhang Cheng exclaimed: "With this artifact, my Linjiang City can indeed be impregnable." ”

All the craftsmen said yes.

"You wait for the speed of making more cement, just wait for a few days after tomorrow, and we can rebuild Linjiang City." Lin Bei said in high spirits.

The method of making cement is too simple, and the source of raw materials is also very easy to obtain, in one night, dozens of tons of cement were made, so on the second day, Lin Bei instructed the people to build the road, yes, that is, to build the road, first build the road from the mine to Linjiang City.

After having cement, Linbei's method of building roads has also become atmospheric. It's not enough, it's not enough, if you want to build it, you can build a five-zhang road, if it is not limited to the terrain, Linbei can still build a ten-zhang road.

When the road was being built, Lin Bei asked the craftsmen to mix some of the larger stones into the mixed cement, which is equivalent to concrete, which not only increases the weight, but also makes the cement stick to the ground better.

At this time, the weather is hot, the temperature in the forest is also very high, after the cement is poured, it will be dry in a few days, although the foundation is not good, but as long as the thickness is increased, it can play the same role, anyway, the labor force of Linjiang City is not used up, and the raw materials are easy to obtain, without considering the cost, so Lin Bei used this method, only less than half a day, dozens of tons of cement have been paved with the road surface, much faster than the speed of repairing the wooden road.

Seeing that Linjiang City was progressing in full swing, Lin Bei handed over all the things to Zhang Cheng that night, and he himself wanted to rush back to Wanghai City to see how Wanghai City was progressing. (To be continued......)

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