As one of the few skilled trades among the homeless people, these masons received some preferential treatment - at least the relief paste mixed with earthworms, mealworms and trash fish meal was sufficient. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Regardless of the taste of the relief mush, at least these animal-based ingredients added to it still provide some fat and protein. Although according to the nutritional standards of later generations, the fat and protein intake from the relief paste is still insufficient, but for these homeless people who have earned their lives in the ice and snow, it is really as delicious as dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

Even if the earthy and fishy smell in this relief paste always lingers, from the lowest-level workers to these masons who are valued by Xiao Daguan in the other eye, they still hold bamboo bowls and drink very sweetly.

Liaojing has never been the origin of bamboo, and there is no bamboo and wood affairs and bamboo supervisors who are specifically responsible for bamboo and wood production and trading like the Great Song Dynasty. But now in the city of Zhuozhou, everyone eats bamboo bowls and bamboo cups, and sits on bamboo mats and bamboo mats, which really implements Su Shi's sentence "I would rather eat no meat than live without bamboo" to the extreme.

In this regard, Xiao Daguan simply sighed that "the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty is far from being comparable to that of Liao", and he can't say that he has a little more expectations for a better life under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty officials in the future. And once human beings have hope for the future, their motivation will increase a lot.

Xiao Daguan didn't care about the masons in front of him holding the bamboo bowl and refusing to let go, as if he was reincarnated as a starving ghost, and still showed a temperament he had learned from his superiors.

He is upright and shy, looking easy-going and graceful, which is very much in line with his vision of his future career:

"Several of them have earned their lives from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and they are also thanks to the grace of my Great Song Dynasty official family, and the mercy of all Taoist officials, who have taken you to this paradise. Not to mention that building a city is also a good way to protect everyone, so everyone must do it with their hearts and make a good living! The board must be erected steadily, and the pole must be firmly rooted, otherwise this life-saving porridge and rice will not be fed to the dog's stomach!"

This sentence is just Xiao Daguan's official article at the beginning, but it made the foreman who looked the oldest in the mason stop drinking relief mush, and snorted: "Master Xiao, I have also been building it all my life, and there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not......

At the beginning of his words, Xiao Daguan frowned and said: "Tian Lao, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, this city building is a big thing, and there is no room for mistakes." It's a good thing that you say something in advance. Let me tell you, when the previous dynasty was building the city wall, they used to smash the wall bricks with big awls, and if they couldn't get in, the people who accepted the city would be beheaded;

When these words came out, several masons immediately shrank their heads, and the old man Tian who opened his mouth also flinched slightly, but when he heard Xiao Daguan say it miserably, he plucked up his courage and said: "Xiao Ye Rongyu, originally our business is just how the master commands, how we do it, as long as our own family can mix a belly, we don't care about other things, the craftsmanship passed down by the little old man for several lifetimes, I don't know how to build a city, I only know how to build a wall." In the mind of the little old man, building a wall in the middle of the world is nothing more than mixing up the loess wicker, and then driving piles and tamping them. If they are more particular, they will mix the plaster and put bricks and stones. If you are still worried that it is not firm, then you can only mix the plaster with glutinous rice slurry water, and you will not get rid of this charter......"

Xiao Daguan heard him chatter, and waved his hand impatiently: "Everyone knows these things, but they use you to make noise?"

Tian Laohan responded: "Master Xiao, in the past few days, we have been sifting sand and moving stones, and I know that this is to adjust the plaster and build a stone wall." But now that the weather is cold, the plaster is mixed up, and it will not be long before it will be frozen. I'm afraid that it will be slow and urgent, and I will miss the big thing of the masters. ”

When these words came out, Xiao Daguan groaned, and several masons on the side saw Xiao Daguan groaning, and they also followed the gossip and offered treasures: "In the past few days, we have been making poles and erecting planks here, and we are not stupid. I discussed with Tian Ye at night, but I am afraid that the real people are not going to build the stone wall, but to build the ice wall!"

Tian Laohan took advantage of the situation and said to Xiao Daguan: "According to the old man's humble opinion, the board we set up before is an ice mold, and the pole inside is used to support the ice cubes. If you simply pick up the water, you will go in, and all the seepage will seep away. But if the plaster is poured down, the muddy water sticks together, and it is not afraid of seeping away, so that the cold winter weather will become a lump of frozen soil in a blink of an eye. According to the little old man's thoughts, the real people from the Great Song Dynasty wanted to build the city wall like this. ”

These words were reasonable, and even Xiao Daguan had to bow his head slightly.

Seeing Xiao Da's head, the old man felt that there was a drama in his heart, and took a few steps forward and said: "However, the frozen castle that has been repaired like this will melt away as soon as spring begins, and it is very laborious to reconcile the plaster. Since the real people are only temporarily repairing some high walls to ward off the enemy, the little old man has a method, which saves a lot of time and effort, I don't know ......"

Xiao Daguan was originally a good thought in front of these Great Song Dynasty officials, but now seeing that this old man is quite knowledgeable, and he can talk to himself about entering Hong Kong, he can't help patting his chest and saying: "If the old man has a clever plan to say to me and offer it to all the real people, it will naturally have infinite benefits for you!"

Tian Laohan smiled and said: "Little Lao'er only relies on Xiao Ye to take the lead, how can there be any side thoughts? Since it is an ice castle, the plaster does not need to be adjusted, only fill the sand with straw bags, and carefully build it." Build a sandbag, pour a water, and it will naturally freeze into one, which couldn't be easier, and I don't know how much labor to save!"

When he said this, Xiao Daguan bowed slightly, but he looked in all directions, and on all sides of Zhuozhou City, which should now be called Zhuozhou Inner City, eight tall towers were erected according to the direction of the gossip. The towers were all blue and gray, and there was a cold smell under the hazy sky.

These homeless people don't know, but he has seen it with his own eyes, and several Taoist officials took a few tower molds that are no more than two feet high, and filled them with mortar with jade buckets. Eight towers were built overnight!

Such magical miracles also made Xiao Daguan instinctively unwilling to have the idea of disobeying these Great Song Dynasty real people.

In the end, he waved his hand first: "Uncle Tian will go with me to see Mu Zhenren, explain it clearly first, and then decide not too late." Such a big thing, it is better to be steady, steady!"

(End of chapter)