Chapter 144: The benefit of cement

PS: I opened the fan list and saw a leader. Thank you yang199174 for your reward. I will add more updates for the leader tomorrow. At the same time, I feel everyone's support. By the way, I can ask for votes!
"His Royal Highness, can this matter be forgotten?"
Zhan Xingchang was a little unwilling.
"Remember, anger without strength is meaningless. Conspiracy and tricks are nothing but paper tigers in front of absolute power. Wait, this king will let them ask for money and food, but before that, you still mainly focus on energy. Let’s repair Cangzhou City."
Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Zhan Xingchang nodded, these feudal lords were so brazen, he was helpless.
Speaking of repairing the city wall, Xiao Ming said: "By the way, you go to the workshop area with this king. This time, the repairing of the city wall is not done in the old way, it is too slow."
After all, when the two arrived in the workshop area, Xiao Ming took Zhan Xingchang directly to the cement workshop.
"His Royal Highness, what are these powders?"
Even if Zhanxingchang can't enter and leave the workshop area at will, he naturally doesn't know what's inside.
"This thing is called cement. For a long time, this cement was only used for the construction of the workshop area." Xiao Ming glanced around at the workshop area that is now beginning to take shape.
With the improvement of the workshop area, the living area and the workshop area have been separated.
In the living area, a canteen was also built to provide the slaves with three meals a day, and the houses in the living area were brick-concrete structures made of cement and blue bricks.
The design of these houses naturally came from Xiao Ming.
Compared with the wooden structure, although it is not beautiful enough, it is very durable and strong. Each house is in the shape of a long strip with a large pavilion inside, and each room accommodates fifty people.
"Cement?" Zhan Xingchang glanced at the things between the green bricks in the cement shop, and asked in confusion, "His Royal Highness, is this cement?"
What Zhan Xingchang is pointing at is between the bricks.
For things like cement, Xiao Ming has always kept a low profile. Many people don't pay much attention to the role of cement. Now it's finally time for cement to work.
Traditional city walls basically mine rocks and transport them back for masonry, which is too inefficient.
Cement is different. The firing of green bricks or red bricks can be made locally, and only needs to be transported from Qingzhou.
In the process of masonry, the amount of cement is not a lot, and it is estimated that one-time transportation can meet the needs of Cangzhou City.
Moreover, the process of masonry is very flexible and fast. If one layer is not enough, you can build another layer to increase the thickness.
There are mature masonry techniques for reference in modern times. Generally speaking, ten craftsmen can build a house of 400 square meters and more than three meters high in three days.
Now Xiao Ming has trained some mature bricklayers in the workshop area to prepare for repairing the walls of Cangzhou City.
"Well, as you can see, if cement is stuck between the two bricks, they will be very strong after they dry up. I will now take you to see how the craftsman builds it. Think about how to put it together. The extended walls of Cangzhou City are more suitable for artillery shooting." Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.
In response to the barbarian's southward move to achieve the city's strong artillery, this artillery has been put on the agenda, and the repair of Cangzhou City must also be on the agenda.
During this period of time, when the artillery was being cast, Xiao Ming ordered the cement shop to step up the production of cement, so that he could hand over the cement to Zhan Xingchang today and let him go to Cangzhou City to repair the city wall.
Zhan Xingchang nodded, and followed Xiao Ming to a building under construction in the workshop area. This building was built near the water and seemed to have just started.
"This is the textile workshop. The workshop is currently under construction. When the textile machine comes out, the Qingzhou Army will provide military uniforms and other quilts." Xiao Ming said.
He is now letting Chen Qi restore the multi-spindle spinning machine with Huang Daopo spinning machine. In Da Yu, the spinning machine can only spin one yarn, which is inefficient.
Such efficiency is far from satisfying the current demand, and once the multi-spinning machine appears, this phenomenon will change.
In the modern Yuan Dynasty, the emergence of Huang Daopo's spinning machine once increased the production of cloth in Huang Daopo's hometown. There is a saying that Songjun cotton cloth and clothing are all over the world.
Now Xiao Ming makes Chen Qi’s spinning machine more advanced than Huang Daopo’s, and this spinning machine is also pedal-powered, and can be promoted among the people. It is enough to mobilize women in the six states to spin and promote the development of Qingzhou’s textile industry. .
At the time of the rise of modern Britain, it was the textile industry as the leading industry that gathered a lot of wealth.
So Xiao Ming also attached great importance to this matter.
While talking, Zhan Xingchang kept staring at the masons building the wall. Seeing a bricklayer quickly build up a thick wall, Zhan Xingchang gradually showed excitement.
"His Royal Highness, this craft of masonry is much faster than mining rocks to build city walls. If I have enough manpower, I promise to build the city of Cangzhou into a world-renowned pass in five months!"
Zhan Xingchang said.
The matter of negotiating with other vassal kings for money and food caused Zhan Xingchang to suffer a big blow. Xiao Ming intended to restore some confidence to him, because this matter let him do it, and it may not be able to do well, at least Zhan Xingchang also let King Yong spit out something.
"If this is the case, this matter is left to you, but what are your plans?" Xiao Ming asked.
He still wanted to know about the plan of Zhanxingchang, after all, the barbarian going south is not a trifling matter.
"Building a gun tower above the city wall is one of them. Second, I will extend the city wall. I will also build a gun tower and arrow tower on the extended city wall, so that more artillery can fire."
After a pause, Zhan Xingchang suddenly smirked: "And seeing the function of the cement and blue bricks of His Highness today, I suddenly thought of a new method, which is to build brick pillars in front of the city wall. , It can slow down their attack, and it prevents them from erecting the ladder in time~EbookFREE.me~Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, this exhibition Xingchang realized quickly.
The stone pillar he said is similar to the function of a horse, but at this time the pillar is used by people.
The artillery is for long-range shooting. When it reaches the city wall, the effect of the artillery is greatly reduced. At this time, a short-range weapon is needed to fight back, which is naturally a crossbow.
The suggestion of Zhan Xingchang made Xiao Ming suddenly consider making an indigenous grenade.
This method is to pack the gunpowder in a moderately sized clay pot, with a wooden stopper at the mouth of the pot, and a powder twister placed in the middle.
When they got closer, these savages were blocked by stone pillars and threw them inside when they gathered in a pile. It was probably very sour.
With this in mind, Xiao Ming has become more confident in dealing with the barbarians going south this time. As long as the barbarians come over, they will be frightened by this new weapon at that time.
(To be continued.) Enable new URL