Chapter 12 Grandma Zhang enters the watchtower of the Grand View Garden (1).

"Brother and sister, you are only a little older than me, so you always call yourself a sister." Liu Hou muttered, "No, your sister will also be my wife in the future, you can't talk nonsense, you can't talk nonsense." ”

Liu Hou suddenly remembered that in history, after Zhang Xingcai's death, Liu Chan married Zhang Fei's second daughter as the queen. It seems that the niece of Xiahou Yuan that Zhang Fei snatched must be very beautiful and have good genes, even if it is mixed with Zhang Fei's black and bold genes, she can still give birth to two daughters who are beautiful children.

As he spoke, a large wave of beauties poured into the compound and entered Liu Hou's field of vision.

Led by two little Lori, followed by a team of female soldiers. Among the two little Lori, one is about 12 or 3 years old, tall and tall, Liu Hou visually checked, almost 160cm tall. The ratio of body length to foot length is about 5:8, which is really the golden ratio, and the standard model body.

This is too exaggerated, is it so good nutrition these days? At the age of 12 or 3, he can grow so tall, even taller than Liu Hou. How tall have you grown? However, Liu Hou, who has knowledge of physiology and hygiene in later generations, knows that girls generally develop relatively early, and it is not surprising that they are taller than boys of the same age for a period of time.

Look at the waist again, and tie it with a red belt embellished with a lot of jade. The bee waist is definitely the legendary bee waist! Liu Hou couldn't help but sigh, I used to read novels and describe the thin waists of those beauties, what Yingying hand, water snake waist, and bee waist refer to the kind in front of me.

Liu Hou subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then looked up, well, the small steamed bun with the chest has begun to take shape, but after all, he is still young, and there is still a lot of room for growth.

Further up, you will see a delicate little face with fair and delicate skin and a lustrous luster. The face is beautiful, with a goose egg face, and a pair of bright eyes on her smooth forehead.

What attracts Liu Hou the most is the arc of the chin, which is sexy, flawless, and vivid, as if he can speak, showing an elegant temperament. It's very mysterious to say, but the feeling to Liu Hou is that her chin is like magic, tightly attracting her eyeballs, and she feels that she can't see enough of it.

"Brother Adou, Brother Adou, what are you looking at?"

A call woke Liu Hou up from his thoughts. "No, I didn't see anything." Liu Hou's face turned red all of a sudden, "What a beast, it's not even a young man." Liu Hou scolded himself.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, but I didn't expect Sister Xingcai to grow so tall. Sister Yinping has also grown a lot taller. Liu Hou touched the top of the little Lori next to Zhang Xingcai, and hurriedly had nothing to say to hide his embarrassment.

"Brother Adou is good." Another little Lori is only 8 or 9 years old, and she greeted Liu Hou in a milky voice. This one is also beautiful, and she is also a beautiful embryo at first glance, she is Guan Yinping, the daughter of Second Brother Guan. It seems that there are few people who can call Liu Hou's brother, and even fewer people who call him his brother as unscrupulously as Zhang Xingcai.

Liu Hou set up the Ministry of Industry and lived in the suburbs of Chengdu for a long time, and the two Loli lived in the city for a long time, so they naturally rarely met. But it is definitely not like Liu Hou said, I haven't seen it for a few years, and the three of them have moved around during the New Year's Festival, and they can still see it. Liu Hou said this purely because he was flustered and had nothing to say.

"Why did the two young ladies remember to come to me today?" Liu Hou asked.

"What's wrong? Can't we come and play if it's okay? Zhang Xingcai feigned anger.

"No, no, you're always welcome to play." Liu Hou hurriedly waved his hand.

"I've heard you've got a lot of fun stuff out here."

"What's fun?" Liu Hou was confused. In recent years, the Ministry of Industry has indeed come out with a lot of novelties, but ivory brushes, soap, paper, books, etc., have been realized in Jingzhou back then, and the two little Loli have already used it at that time, so it is not a strange thing for them.

"I heard that there is a kind of mud that is as hard as a stone when it dries, and there are thunderbolts and things that can fly into the sky. Anyway, I heard that your stuff here is fun. Brother Adou, you are really not interesting, and you don't tell me if you have something fun. Zhang Xingcai said.

"Well, who are you listening to?" Liu Hou is a little big, these things are all classified at the level of secrecy, especially gunpowder and hot air balloons, which are top secret levels, and they can be spread everywhere.

"What kind of mud is that, my father sent a letter to ask the lord for it, saying that he could strengthen the city, and the thunderbolt cannon was also said by my father, saying that he used it and defeated Zhang He, which was very good, and I wanted more. As for the thing that flew into the sky, I heard what Aunt Yueying said. ”

It turned out that Zhang He invaded Brazil and Padang County earlier, and was almost wiped out by Zhang Fei's design, and only about 10 horsemen escaped. In this battle, Zhang Fei used the "Thunderbolt" configured by Zuo Ci, which blew up the morale of Zhang He's army at once. Zhang Fei was so addicted to killing.

Now Zhang Fei marched to Hanzhong and confronted Xiahou Yuan, but he never forgot to care about Zuo Ci's new invention, and as soon as he heard that there was a miraculous cement, he immediately clamored to get a little past and strengthen the pass city.

The "Thunderbolt" has now become a regular equipment in Zhang Fei's army. If it weren't limited to production, it is estimated that Zhang Fei would have relied on the "Thunderbolt" to bombard all the way to Xudu.

"Brother Adou, I came in all the way and saw that the road into your cottage was smooth and straight, and it was not very bumpy to sit in the carriage. Isn't this gray road made of that magical mud? Why don't you also cover the official road with this magical plaster? It caused me to wander on the official road for a long time, and my bones were scattered. ”

The last time Zhang Xingcai came to the "Ministry of Industry" or the "Ministry of Industry" was just established, everyone was still living in a shack at that time, so Zhang Xingcai called Liu Hou a cottage here.

Liu Hou's sweat, and the official road, this path is enough to make me vomit blood.

After leaving the city from Chengdu, there is an official road, and the official road passes 5 miles away in the industrial zone. The 5-mile road from the official road into the industrial zone, Liu Hou built a "two-way 4-lane" concrete cement road!

Of course, the so-called two-way 4 lanes are not as wide as the 4 lanes of later generations, but 4 carriages can walk side by side. It is a shrunken version of "two-way four-lane", but it is also a relatively wide road in this era.

The road is paved with concrete, which is not only wide, but also smooth and straight, and the road surface is hard and wear-resistant, and does not raise dust. Compared to the official road paved with earth and stone, it is more than better from any point of view.

Of course, the price of such a good road is also huge. This road exhausted Liu Hou's cement output for half a year, and the labor spent was incalculable. If it weren't for the conscription of a large number of displaced people, whose labor was almost equal to zero, Liu Hou really couldn't afford the construction cost of this road.

"Brother Adou, are you a watchtower? How is it so high? This wall is very hard, is it made of that kind of mud? Zhang Xingcai's thinking is really jumpy, Liu Hou didn't think of how to answer her last question, she has a new question. At this time, they were standing in the courtyard, and Zhang Xingcai was looking up at a 4-story high-rise building.

Liu Hou has been building the "Ministry of Industry" for more than 3 years, and now he does not live in a thatched hut for a long time. The place where he lives now is a 4-storey watchtower! The watchtower is designed by Liu Hou according to the form of the Kaiping watchtower.

Kaiping Diaolou is located in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, is a special type of Chinese vernacular architecture, is a set of defense, residence and Chinese and Western architectural art in one of the multi-storey tower building.

As an important historical site and representative building in modern times, Kaiping Diaolou was approved by the State Council to be included in the list of the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It is also one of the world's tangible cultural heritages.

Since most of them were built by local overseas Chinese to protect the lives and property of their relatives in their hometowns, they mostly have a combination of Chinese and Western styles, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Islam.

These watchtowers originally stood in obscurity in the countryside of Kaiping, but because they were included in the world cultural heritage, they immediately became tourist attractions and became very popular.

Liu Hou also visited several times in later generations. I am very interested in these watchtowers, and it feels like a miniature version of the ancient castle in the West. I also once dreamed that one day I could live in an ancient castle like a prince, and then marry a beautiful princess, and then ...... That's another story.

It's a pity that Liu Hou doesn't understand both Chinese and Western architectural art styles, and he can't design the castle, but he can give full play to the defensive function of the watchtower.

This watchtower is a reinforced concrete structure, the gate is made of a large piece of iron, Liu Hou also deliberately hung a big stone on the door, called the broken dragon stone. However, unlike the ancient tomb of the little dragon girl, this stone did not permanently block the doorway if it was put down. Liu Hou used simple mechanical principles to design a pulley block structure, which could be used to lift the boulder from the inside.

With the current level of science and technology and the power of weapons, Liu Hou couldn't think of any way to break through such a bunker.

The watchtowers have gun holes on all four walls, allowing you to shoot arrows or fire muskets to kill enemies without fear of being hurt by them. At the top of the watchtower, there are arrow stacks, gun holes, stone throwing holes, etc. There are also protruding "swallow's nests" at the four corners.

The so-called "swallow's nest" is a cylindrical space protruding from the four corners that can accommodate about one person. The curved walls facing outwards of this space are 1 person high, so you don't have to worry about being attacked. There are small holes in the ground (bottom) about 20x20 cm in size, from which you can shoot arrows, shoot guns, and even smash some smaller stones. Such a structure allows the enemy to be attacked from any direction.

As long as the doors and windows are closed, this is a turtle shell, even if someone can climb to the top of the watchtower, as long as the iron door on the top of the building is closed, the enemy still can't attack inside.

The only flaw of this watchtower is that it cannot resist the attack of poison gas, so Liu Hou prepared a tunnel and fled from the tunnel when he saw that the situation was not good. But there is no real gas in this era. The so-called poisonous smoke from wolf dung, sulfur and the like, as long as the doors and windows are closed, can still resist it. I'm afraid of the terrifying chemical wuqi of the sand and mustard gas in the future.

Now Liu Hou's watchtower is the largest and tallest, with 4 floors and a construction area of 140 square meters. As the center of what is now the "Ministry of Industry". Liu Hou usually lives here, and also studies and works here.

The first floor of this watchtower is the office space, a big conference hall when you enter the door, Liu Hou hung a plaque of "Juyi Hall" with a bad taste, no wonder Zhang Xingcai will say that this is a cottage. There are also two small study rooms at the back of the chamber. Then there is the ancillary structure such as the restroom.

The second floor is where the guards rest, and these guards are mainly female soldiers left by Sun Shangxiang back then. But there are no more than a hundred people living here, so they take turns to be on duty here. Others are in the side room.

A courtyard of about 1,000 square meters was fenced around this watchtower. There are also some side houses built in the yard. In addition to the female soldiers living in these side houses, there are also some subordinates and miscellaneous servants of the government.

At present, the affairs and population of the yamen of the "Ministry of Industry" are increasing, and there are more and more people working in various fields. The decrees issued by Liu Hou were all passed on and carried out by these people.

High-ranking officials like Fei Yi, Dong Yun, and Zhao Yun did not live here, and Liu Hou prepared another slightly smaller watchtower and courtyard for them, which were also buildings integrating residence and office.

Let's go back to the third floor of the watchtower, where is Liu Hou's bedroom. The area of 140 square meters is divided into several rooms according to the way of later suites, including a hall, a room, a kitchen, a toilet, a shower room, etc. Liu Hou naturally can't live in such a big place alone, in addition to him, there are several intimate maids who take turns to live here.

The fourth floor is the storage space, which mainly stores war materials such as swords, guns, swords, crossbows, gunpowder, muskets, and stones. As for the food, it is mainly stored in the basement, which is also the entrance to the secret passage.

The balcony on the fourth floor, that is, the part that overhangs the building and protrudes from the building, is the space for fighting, and you can condescendingly shoot arrows, throw stones, fire guns and even guns when you come out of here.

In the highest position of the watchtower front, there is also a plaque made of cement, on which are the words "Houlu". For these two words, everyone has different opinions.