At the end of the year, there were ten days of rest, and these people shouted to go out of the city to get land.

Long Xiang saw that the clay brought into the west of the city had piled up more than a dozen hills around the earthen kilns, and that continuing to transport the soil would occupy the place where the bricks were drying, so he asked these energetic people to dig several large brick kilns nearby.

Standing above the new kiln and watching, Long Xiang had already thought of the scene of the kiln moving bricks.

The time to focus on work always passes quickly.

By the time the brick kiln is completed, there is not much left for the first month of the new year.

Long Xiang forced the people to rest for more than ten days, and then it was the busy spring plowing and sowing season.

Hefei now has no officials to receive money, and Long Xiang levied taxes on the people under his rule simply and rudely, that is, the grain output per mu of land is equally divided between public and private.

In the event of a poor harvest, it will be tilted towards the peasants, and the grain from the public warehouse will be used as a strategic reserve for consumption in disaster years and wartime shutdowns.

There are no middlemen to make the difference, there is also the army to protect the farming, and the people are very careful in farming.

In addition to the young and strong men who reclaimed the famine last year, adult women also participated in the spring ploughing, and for a time Hefei was in full swing outside the city.

The people of Hefei are full of confidence in the future, while the people in the north of Huainan are becoming more and more desperate about life.

Yuan Shu said that the emperor did not fight for a year after the founding of the country, but lost the land north of the Huai River in several wars.

The huge bureaucratic elite and Yuan Shu 'sucked blood' together, coupled with the drag of natural disasters and wars, the increasingly exhausted Huainan court could only meet the expenses of the interest groups by constantly exploiting the people under its rule.

It is obviously the spring of hope, but the people choose to help the old and the young to leave their hometowns.

In March of the third year of Jian'an, Hefei's spring ploughing had not yet ended, and the sentinels outside the city successively found the displaced people going south.

Long Xiang was short of manpower, so he asked Tang Yu to open the north gate of Hefei and temporarily place the new refugees in the north of the city, and Cao Xing counted the number every day, and then reported to Feng Zhong for approval of the distribution of rations.

The new residents missed the spring ploughing, but Long Xiang had work for them to do.

The clay brought into the city last year has been dried for months and is now ready to be used to make bricks.

In April, when farming is a little free, in addition to the farmers who need to patrol the fields on a daily basis, most of the people also return to the city to make bricks, and personnel activities are very frequent for a while.

By the end of April, Hefei had received nearly 1,000 displaced people in two months, and the difficulty of personnel management had surged, and the workload of Feng Zhong, Tang Yu, and Cao Xing had also increased.

When the three of them arrived at the Hou Mansion in Hefei, they found that there was no one in the lobby of the main hall, and finally found Long Xiang in the garden.

Long Xiang was painting on the ground with tree branches, and the painting was a square frame with a straight line in the middle.

Feng Zhong asked curiously, "Yunqi, what are you painting?" ”

"I'm designing houses for the people."

Long Xiang did not look back when he spoke, but continued to paint with a branch.

Tang Yu squatted down after listening, he looked at it carefully for a while, and asked, "I don't understand, how can this house be so weird, can it build so many floors?" ”

"Hahaha, this is the floor plan, which is what it looks like from the sky." Long Xiang was instantly amused.

"Flat?" Everyone looked at each other.

Long Xiang turned around and picked up the branch and introduced like a real estate consultant:

"This location is the front yard, where you can grow fruit trees and vegetables; This is the middle hall, and here are several dormitories,... There's a pigsty in the backyard that can be used as a chicken coop next to it..."

The design of Longxiang's house type is reasonable, and compared with the ancient houses, it is almost crushing.

Seeing that Feng Zhong was yearning, he said that you didn't learn in vain in your dream, and couldn't help muttering: "It's so good..."

"What are these lines in between?" Cao Xing asked, pointing to the painting.

Long Xiang replied: "This is an underground sewage culvert, the sewage generated by washing dishes and vegetables at home, and the filth excreted by people and animals can be discharged into the sewage pool outside the backyard through this culvert. ”

Cao Xuan scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks after listening, he followed Lu Bu to Chang'an, and he could be regarded as having seen the world, and he said in his heart that it was Dong Zhuo's Taishi Mansion, and he had never heard of the sewage culvert.

Is Long Sima whimsical?

"Old Feng."

Tang Yu looked at Feng Zhong with a confused expression, "Do you understand what Yunqi said?" ”

"I understand a little but I don't understand it very well..."

Feng Zhong frowned, shook his head slightly, pointed to the middle line and asked, "Sewage can flow down the culvert, how can the feces flow to that pool?" ”

Cao Xuan added: "Cesspool. ”

"Yes, yes, cesspool." Feng Zhong nodded straightly.

"Why don't you just find a slope? It's just..."

Long Xiang's words came to an abrupt end in the middle of his words, because he began to make difficulties in his heart, there was no PVC water supply and drainage pipe in ancient times, if you want to consider doing sewer when building a house, what will you use to replace the convenient sewage pipe in later generations?

Feng Zhong has a lot of life experience, he heard Long Xiang mention the slope, tried to make a few strokes with his arm, and suddenly felt that if he made a certain slope and then washed it with water, maybe he could really bring it to the cesspool.

"Yunqi, tens of thousands of bricks have been made now, if you build a house according to your drawing, how many bricks do you need to use for a house?"

"Maybe thousands or tens of thousands, the specific number has to be calculated in detail..."

"Shhhhh

The three of them were shocked at the same time, they originally thought that tens of thousands of bricks were enough, and they heard Long Xiang say that the number of vests was cold, and the heart said that a family would have tens of thousands of bricks, and now there are more than 1,000 households in Hefei, why not tens of millions of bricks? Can you still live in a new house in this life?

When Long Xiang saw the expressions of the three people, he immediately understood the other party's worries, and hurriedly comforted: "When the brick-making kiln forms a scale, the speed of brick production will be much faster, and when there are more people in the city in the future, we will arrange people to do this." ”

"If they specialize in brick kilns, what do they eat?" Feng Zhong didn't understand.

Long Xiang explained: "At the beginning, we distributed grain, and later it could be distributed in the same way as farming, and the households who needed to build houses exchanged grain for bricks. ”

"Do you want to exchange it for food? That's not a good deal..."Tang Yu shook his head.

Long Xiang smiled and said: "It's all the same labor, there is nothing cost-effective or not cost-effective, if you don't want to live in a new house, you don't need to change the bricks, we can take the extra bricks to repair the city wall." ”

"How is it distributed in the same way as farming? Is it according to the number of people who make bricks in the kiln, and then divide the fired bricks equally, and then let them change the grain themselves? ”

Feng Zhong is now in charge of taxing grain and is most sensitive to distribution issues.

Long Xiang: "The price of private transactions is chaotic, and when the time comes, I will set a standard, and all the bricks will be handed over to the government, and then they will be converted into grain and sent to the craftsmen, and the households who need bricks will go to the government to exchange them." ”

"Wonderful." Feng Zhong said yes again and again.

Tang Yu nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked: "By the way, Yunqi, what kind of bonding do you plan to use for bricklaying?" Yellow mud mixed with hay? ”

"Yellow mud? Cement, of course..."

Long Xiang mentioned cement, he couldn't help but give himself two slaps, and said in his heart how could he forget this stubble? Although there is no machinery and equipment in this era, it is not a problem to make a soil cement.

The main material of soil cement is the same as that of bricks, that is, the sun-dried clay is ground into powder, plus limestone calcined mature material, and finally ground into ash together with the slag left over from ironmaking.

Long Xiang thought about building a cement plant in the Three Kingdoms, and it seems that the conditions are not too harsh.

Thinking of the wonderful, Long Xiang couldn't help but smile like an aunt.