There is no optimum, only better.

One plus three plus three, one bag of cement makes ten bags of effect.

The results were also very encouraging.

I saw that this last section of the city wall was changing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The first is the foundation, which was filled in just two days with a foundation of nearly five meters.

As long as you keep adding soil to it, you don't need to worry about the template, which is the easiest.

After all, the materials can keep up, and the rest is all manual work.

The next one is called difficult.

Pouring and shaping, the formwork is several kilometers long, but the shaping is not so easy.

Wood is made into molds, and this work is noticeably finer.

Zheng Xiong's time simply does not allow for this.

Fortunately, there is no endless road.

The foundation was filled in two days after the construction began, and on the third day, there was a slight stagnation for an hour, and the transport ship sent by the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Transport Envoy arrived at the riverside.

It is filled with piles of earthen bricks fired from all over the place.

The good news is that there are bricks.

The bad news is that there are only bricks, and the supporting stones are still waiting to be transported as the main part of the city wall.

Normally, it doesn't work.

These adobe bricks are more of a decoration function.

It is basically to wrap a coat on the main body and look beautiful.

Dry building first decoration can be OK.

Obviously, in order to deal with Zheng Xiong, these people are taking great pains.

Doing things is the same as not doing them.

But there are two sides to everything.

In the eyes of others, these bricks are the last to be laid.

In Zheng Xiong's eyes, it is completely different.

You can build it first!

After the masonry is built, a layer of soil is added to the outer layer to reinforce it to resist the pressure from the main part, which is completely sufficient.

Moreover, the wall tiles are larger than the ordinary bricks of later generations, and one piece weighs ten to twenty kilograms.

It couldn't be better for reinforcement, and it also saves a lot of trouble for future construction.

Sure enough, powerful people are even more favored by God, otherwise you won't be able to grasp the opportunity even if you are given the opportunity.

"Master Hou ordered, the bricks have arrived, first lay the outer layer of bricks, after the bricks are built, fill the outer layer with another layer of soil, build a layer and pour a layer, there is not much time left for us, hurry up and pass it on, hurry up and start construction."

"By the way, Master Hou also has an order, you don't need to use glutinous rice juice or anything like to connect the bricks, you can directly use cement and sand to solve the problem."

"Okay, head."

The order was passed from Zheng Xiong to the head of the iron bull, and then from the iron bull to the foremen below, and finally to the workers.

What is said above and how to do it.

Workers just have to do their work.

With a goal.

The workers have the strength and the work is vigorous.

The walls of several kilometers long rise rapidly at a rate of one meter per day.

The further you go to the back, the faster you get.

I thought that the situation of insufficient cement did not appear, but there was still wealth.

The city wall is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, more than ten meters at the bottom, and four to ten meters wide above.

So the easier it is, the faster it is.

From the beginning to the end, for most of the month, with the pouring of the last layer, the entire section of the city wall is only left with the last step of capping.

And this is not in a hurry, wait for the concrete to dry for a while.

"What you said is that the main stone did not arrive, so Zheng Xiong built the wall and built it with the cement of Nalaoshzi and the gravel of river sand, right?"

"Yes! The stones have only been sent here for a few days, and the last section of the city wall over there is the same as the connected section, and the stones transported are stacked on the riverside wharf, and no one has pulled them, so I think it should be unnecessary! And that was it. ”

"He~he~Hahaha, now I don't think you're dead, it's okay to build a sand wall with sand and gravel! Sure enough, it's talent. I don't know how to remove the soil and wall tiles outside, how can this tofu-like project be explained to His Majesty, and how can it be explained to the people of the world? I suddenly looked forward to it! ”

"Hehe, haha, goose goose goose goose~"

After waiting for a few days, there were only two days left before the construction period, and the cement began to solidify, and the hardness was greatly improved.

The final capping has also officially begun.

The same cement-Gaza connecting wall is covered with bricks, inside which some stone slabs and stones are pulled back from the riverside and laid on the ground, while a guardrail is built to resist attacks.

On September 25, the last section of the city wall was officially completed.

This also marks the official end of the third phase of the Nanjing City Wall project.

On this day, that is, the morning of the second day after the completion of the project, Wang Peng was being held accountable by the Zhongshu Province and the hundred officials.

"Wang Fucheng, although the Zhongshu Province has issued a letter urging the construction period, the situation has changed, and it is not that it cannot be accommodating, and it will be dealt with as appropriate."

"But as far as I know, before the capping yesterday, only a little stone was taken from the riverside, and most of it was not used, but the inside of the city wall was completely filled with river sand and gravel."

"The city wall is related to the safety of the Jingshi, such a city wall, the cannon bombards it twice, and it will collapse!"

"Wang Peng, as the prince of Yingtianfu, do you have to give an explanation to Your Majesty and the world."

"Zheng Xiong is in charge of the post of Fu Yin, why is he acting like this? Where is your majesty and the safety of the people? ”

"I don't know how Wang Fucheng taught me?"

Ay!

Wang Peng sighed deeply.

Damn, there's something good that you can't think of yourself.

It's all this all day.

How to give an explanation, I didn't get it, I have the ability to find Zheng Xiong!

What are you doing with the scourge yourself!

Reluctantly lifting his spirits, Wang Peng hurriedly replied.

"Your Majesty, my lords, Zheng Mansion Yin has his own reasons for acting, and Ying Tianfu also follows its promise to complete the construction before the deadline comes."

"I don't know what you mean? But I've reached the limit in Tianfu. ”

"When I came, Zheng Fuyin said."

"Without an investigation, there is no voice."

"The same sentence, the lower officials also give it to all of you."

Is there no voice without an investigation?

Interesting.

Lao Zhu quietly looked at Wang Peng, who was rising in the audience.

As always, continue to wait and see what happens.

To be honest, since I learned that Zheng Xiong filled the city wall with sand and gravel, his expression was the same as at the scene.

The first feeling is anger, and the second is that he wants to kill Zheng Xiong.

But Lao Zhu's investigation is still more detailed.

The things investigated in the province and everywhere are still too superficial and one-sided.

First of all, Zheng Xiong went to Guanyao Mountain to get cement, and Lao Zhu was clear in his heart.

But I just paid attention and didn't care.

After the cement is solidified, the hardness shown is just like that, which is not enough to make Lao Zhu look sideways.

However, the people of Guanyao Mountain have been in contact with it for a long time, and they also know some of the characteristics of cement, and the construction at the city wall has made the small pieces of concrete sputtered out and the concrete blocks on the construction site harder and harder with time.

These details are the most direct to the human senses on the construction site.

However, few officials are able to go down to the grassroots level to investigate, and they continue to be kept in the dark.

At the same time, the most direct sense is Lao Zhu.

At the same time, he was shocked and brought cement from Guanyao Mountain for experiments.

Practice makes sense.

So after learning about Zheng Xiong's construction of the city wall, he did not stop it at the first time.

Instead, it's the default.

(End of chapter)