"I'm building a dam, are you always there?" Ye Hao said.

"Oh, Yu Taishou, maybe you don't know very well, I am the head of the Zhang family, one of the three major clans in Le'an County, and many farmers in this Zhangjia Village are my tenant farmers." Master Zhang replied politely.

"So, what's the matter with you here?"

"This, Taishou, I don't agree with your approach, from ancient times to the present, there are rocks to build embankments, how can there be a fool like you with thin mud." Master Zhang said.

He almost wanted to point at his nose and scold him for being child's play, joking with the lives of hundreds of people? Considering Ye Hao's identity as a guard, Master Zhang didn't dare to be presumptuous, so he never said such words.

Hehe, Ye Hao laughed, for this kind of diehard, only by letting them see the true effect of cement can they be completely convinced.

"Zhang Yuanwai, I think the soap I invented before, you are also using it now, right?" Ye Hao didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically.

Master Zhang nodded, now the entire Qingzhou, no, the entire Han Dynasty is using soap to wash clothes, and it is not surprising that his family is using soap to wash clothes. But it is said that this soap is really much more convenient to wash clothes, the clothes washed out are very clean, not very expensive, good quality and low price, really amazing.

"So Zhang Yuanwai, you have also seen the effect of soap, right? That's my new invention – cement. ”

"This substance becomes as hard as iron when it sees water, and when it is mixed with sediment, it makes the walls of lime walls and embankments very strong." Ye Hao said step by step, not in a hurry at all.

"Really? In this case, it will really be stronger than the stone building? ”

Ye Hao suddenly laughed, "Zhang Yuanwai." It seems that you are too old-fashioned. It's good to be skeptical of what's new, but sometimes it's good to miss out on good things. Let's do an experiment. ”

"What an experiment."

"You build the dikes your way, and I build the dikes my way, each on one side. When it gets ten minutes after dark, you get ten strong men and push them hard to see who will fall. Who's stronger, and how? ”

Master Zhang thought about this way to the point, so he said briskly: "Okay, I bet with you for the hundreds of thousands of people on the south bank of the Yellow River!" ”

Countless people were watching, Ye Hao stood aside and watched the craftsmen busy, only to see that the craftsmen put the thin mud on top of the ordinary bricks and spread a layer, or smeared a thick layer on the temporarily polished stones, about five inches in size.

After the brick surface was laid, there was the last procedure, and the craftsman was still smeared with a layer of thin mud on the surface of the repaired embankment. It makes the overall look extraordinarily good-looking.

Ye Hao watched the craftsmen busy, and also stepped in to guide them from time to time. At noon, the logistics department made a meal and sent it to the construction site. There are vegetarian dishes and meat dishes. The craftsmen who were tired all morning gobbled up their meals, rested for a while after eating, and everyone consciously began to work.

The daytime work has made the construction team more and more proficient in their techniques, and the pace of progress has become faster and faster. However, I saw that the embankment was more than one meter high and more than 100 meters wide at the beginning, and gradually built to more than half a mile long. The area of construction is gradually increasing and widening. And the speed is not slow, and the quality is guaranteed.

Mr. Zhang also began to supervise the work in another place, tired and sweaty, and the family began to build the embankment, but due to the limited manpower, only now has a dike less than ten meters in size been built.

The competition between Ye Hao and Master Zhang also began to spread rapidly, one was in the old way. One is to build with R&D cement. This kind of competition is undoubtedly new and has a sensational effect. More and more people came here, all wanting to see which one was more powerful.

Before dark, thousands of people gathered inside and outside the south bank of the Yellow River, and Yanran was about to turn into a lively bazaar.

Ye Hao's construction team is in full swing. The cement embankment that had been built in the morning had been completely dry, and the smooth cement had been brushed on it, so that the whole surface was integrated like a large mirror.

The curious villagers stepped on the dry ladder surface, but found that the cement road was extremely hard, they thought of splashing it with water, trying to wet them to see that they were still not soaked, and some people went to take bricks to scratch the surface, but there were no cracks.

The method can be described as strange, which makes Ye Hao cry and laugh.

As the sun sets, it's time to test the effect.

But seeing that Master Zhang found ten strong men to push the embankment built by Ye Hao, and even beat it with a hammer, the embankment did not move at all. The embankment built by Zhangjiading only cracked and collapsed after only five or six pushes. The results of the verification are unexpected. Cement embankments have failed the old way of earthwork.

This time, everyone witnessed the magic of cement, and the building materials after a thousand years directly conquered them, which made the head of the Zhang family suddenly lose face and leave in disgrace.

It was getting dark. Ye Hao, who had worked all day, walked on the cement road, looked at the villagers on the cement embankment who had not yet dispersed, and thought that this was a free advertisement, so he ordered people to let craftsmen build more than a dozen groups of cement stone tables and stone chairs for craftsmen and villagers to rest at the place where the competition took place.

After some consideration, Ye Hao decided to leave the construction team behind and let them camp on the spot, if the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River wants to be completely renovated, from construction to completion, there is no three months that cannot be lowered. Lu Ying also stayed as a contractor and was responsible for supervising the work.

Not only these, in order to publicize the cement achievements of this time, Ye Hao used cement to pave the entire Linji Mansion into a cement road, and even half of the street outside the Mansion was also made into a cement floor, which was smooth and smooth.

Ye Hao smiled, the previous road, walking bumps and bumps always felt a little uncomfortable. It's so comfortable to walk now.

Ye Hao has been walking around this cement road very comfortably these days. This is also a kind of hype, do you think that as the capital of Le'an County, cement roads have been built, and this is effective, isn't this a status symbol? So Ye Hao turned the price of this cement into a price acceptable to the wealthy class. Each bag of cement is all packed into a hundred catties, and ten copper plates per catty, that is, a thousand copper plates, need one or two silver! Who makes scarcity more expensive?

Even so, in the past few days, more than a dozen large and small families in Le'an County, including the Liu family, one of the three major families, have also come to Fu Bo as if they were squeezing their heads, wanting to buy this cement, who let the entire Han Dynasty be the only one, and there is no other branch. The price is easy to say, and everyone can accept it.

Fu Bo was very busy for a while, and after the wine and dinner, he became familiar with all the characters with heads and faces in only half a month. (To be continued......)