ps. Second Update

As mentioned last time, Buqi began to question Liu Hou's massive construction of brick houses, Liu Hou was really pleased and angry with his words, and he was pleased that he had entered the role so quickly, and he had begun to think about the Liu Group and cherish the people;

The good thing is that everyone is not very familiar with each other, so he began to accuse himself, does he want to be Wei Zheng in the Three Kingdoms era?

"Don't be in a hurry, you listen to me and explain to you slowly." Liu Houla stepped into the carriage and instructed the soldiers who drove the carriage: "Go to the canteen." ”

Then he continued to say to Bu Qi: "You are right, such a large number of bricks and tiles are indeed not available to these brick kilns in Lingnan folk, so we built our own kilns to burn bricks and tiles."

I didn't know that I had established a 'Ministry of Industry' in Chengdu, and for this 'Ministry of Industry', I had people all over the world collect all kinds of craftsmen, and we also set up schools and research institutes to train craftsmen by ourselves. Therefore, the number of craftsmen of all kinds who are now with the army is definitely beyond your imagination.

Why can't your army beat me? for I am well armed, and my armor is strong. Why am I well armed and strong in armor? It's because I have many craftsmen, and the skills of craftsmen are far superior to yours. Therefore, it is better to say that you have been defeated at the hands of my armies than at the hands of our craftsmen.

Among the various craftsmen, there are many craftsmen who can burn bricks, lime and cement. ”

"What is lime and cement?" Hearing this, Bu Qi finally heard two words that he didn't understand.

"I'll explain this later, I want to talk about the brick problem. I, the craftsmen, are responsible for the guidance, and the people and soldiers are responsible for the coolies, so I believe it will not be difficult to build a few brick kilns, right? ”

"If there are people who know how to do it, it is indeed not difficult. The rest is a matter of labor. "Bu Qi Dao.

"Yes, it's just a labor problem. Think about it, what are bricks? It's not just mud. Whether it's brick or tile, it's just a mass of mud with a certain shape.

My carpenter made some molds for the workers, and the workers reconciled the mud, and they could print a brick or a tile with a mold, how fast do you say this production speed is?

These printed bricks and tiles can be burned in the kiln, and the key during this period is the problem of firewood. Where does firewood come from? It's all over the mountains, just cut it.

Although the temperature of the kiln burned with these firewood is not high enough, and the quality of the bricks and tiles produced is not good, but with the improved technology of our craftsmen, the bricks and tiles burned in this way are still no problem for more than ten years. If the officials in charge are honest, if they are diligent enough, a few decades will be enough for them to earn enough money to rebuild a house.

So, in the end, everything comes down to labor. It takes manpower to build a kiln, and mud requires manpower, printing clay blanks also requires manpower, moving billets into a brick kiln also requires manpower, and chopping firewood is also manpower.

That is, as long as there are enough people, these are achievable. And what do we have the most? It's just manpower. We have tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so many people, how difficult do you say to do these things? ”

"So, you have nearly 200,000 men, so ...... It's not that hard. Bu Qi also sighed, this prince is too different, and all the troops under his command are used to help the people build houses and work. Although he had known about this before, he couldn't help but be moved again when he heard Liu Hou mention it again.

"Hey, no, you have a lot of labor, but you also consume a lot of food. If you make them work, you have to feed them, and the amount of food consumed will increase exponentially, so in the end, it comes down to money. Bu Qi suddenly remembered the crux of this matter.

"Hehe, Master Bu, don't they work, so I don't have to give them food? For these tens of thousands of homeless victims, I have been providing military rations for disaster relief. Even if they and my troops don't work, I have to feed them.

Of course, I understand what you mean, what you mean is that if you don't let them work, you can only give them half a full meal. But after labor, they consume a lot of physical energy and eat a lot of food, and if they are not fed, they will not have the strength to work, so when they work, they will consume a lot more food than usual. ”

"That's exactly what I mean."

"That's because you don't know our Shu army, whether our Shu army has gone out or not, whether it has training or not, it is always full of food. We don't have the bad habit of the Wei army and the Eastern Wu army, which usually eat half full, and only when we go out to eat a full meal. ”

"This, no wonder the prince's army is full of energy, all of them have knotted muscles, and they are extremely strong, they are all raised like this. But how much military rations would have to be spent in that case? ”

"Hehe, yes, not only can they eat well, but they can also often have meat, and in addition, they have a lot of money every month. Therefore, they all fought bravely and never feared death.

But it is precisely like this, so I can't afford to raise too many soldiers and horses, unlike Eastern Wu and Wei, which have hundreds of thousands of horses at every turn. I'm on the elite route. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really generous, your tens of thousands of troops, equipment, food, and salary, the combined expenses are estimated to be greater than the consumption of hundreds of thousands of horses and horses in other troops." Bu Qi really couldn't understand where this prince got so much money and food to support such an elite army.

"Yes, the cost of raising such an army is very amazing, but their combat effectiveness is also amazing, not that I brag, even if there are two or three hundred thousand people, I dare to say that my tens of thousands of people can win the battle." Liu Hou patted his chest and said.

Bu Qiu didn't have much doubt about this, after all, he fought with the Shu army repeatedly, and he also had a certain understanding of the Shu army.

"As for the people, for the young and middle-aged, we provide two catties of food per person, and the elderly, weak, women and children are halved, so that they can basically ensure that they have a full stomach.

Although it is a big burden to have tens of thousands of mouths out of thin air, it will not be a problem after we capture Panyu City and obtain a large amount of grain in Panyu City. ”

At this time, Bu Qi determined that Liu Hou came to attack Panyu City in such a hurry, it was indeed because of the food problem, and the grain burning strategy he had set before was indeed hit on the soft underbelly of the Shu army.

Of course, this weakness is ineffective against other warlords, because they can leave their people alone, as long as they ensure the food supply of their troops.

But the Shu army would not do this, as Liu Hou said, he took advantage of the kindness of the Shu army.

"Okay, let me explain the adhesive for bricklaying again, we don't use glutinous rice paste to make bricklaying, but use something called cement. This thing is made of stone, mixed with water, and laid in the brick joints, and after a few days of drying, it will be as hard as a stone, harder than the brick itself. ”

After that, Liu Hou asked his soldiers to park the carriage on a brick-laying construction site and motioned for Buqi to get off the car to see. He watched how the construction workers mixed a packet of gray-black powder with water to make a paste, and then used a gray knife to apply the paste to the bricks, and then put another brick on it.

The whole wall is built very quickly, almost not much different from stacking bricks. This was an eye-opener for Buqi. "This, do these ashes work?" Bu Qi asked with a questioning expression.