Chapter 51 The Craftsman (2)
Su Ming revised the construction plan of the territory on the plan, and then designed the subsequent town planning.
Soon Su Ming began to draw the simple structure of the town, its inner and outer layout, including sewers, divisions of various areas, fences and sentries, etc. After completing the overall design drawing, Su Ming began to mark some buildings.
The most stringent requirements are drainage channels, toilets and military facilities. Drainage channels and toilets are for the safety of the territory, and at the same time, they must prevent groundwater from being contaminated.
In addition, there is also the construction of water diversion canals. Not all land can be directly drained and irrigated. There are also many lands that require water diversion canals. The construction of water diversion canals requires reasonable layout and a certain requirement for height gap.
The key is the water diversion tool. The height of the water diversion canal designed by Su Ming is six meters, so it is necessary to use tools to raise the water from the river surface to six meters. Su Ming intends to use a water truck. In the data recorded by Su Ming, there is a large water truck, but the river in the territory is not large, so the size needs to be reduced a little.
Such a water truck can water about 1,000 acres of land. Su Ming simply estimated that it is not a problem to reclaim 100,000 acres of land around the territory. This world also has water truck technology. Although it is much worse than the technology in Su Ming's hands, it can also be used. However, Su Ming has gone to many places and saw very few water trucks.
The nobles in the territory were not interested in spending money and supplies to build these things, or they didn't care about them at all. Just like urban sanitation, it only took a little financial and some manpower to solve it, but the nobles didn't care.
They would rather endure the filthy and stink of the city, live in manors outside the city than build sewers, toilets, and manage urban sanitation. Such poor sanitation conditions can easily breed epidemics, so people in this world generally have low life expectancy.
In the town, Su Ming planned to build a thousand houses. These houses did not require beauty. After all, this was for those poor people to live in. Sturdy is the most important thing. The materials are made of wood and bricks and stone. In this way, the territory also needs to build a brick kiln.
In addition to these, Suming also has standards for roads. The width of the main roads in the town is twelve meters. The pavement is paved with stones or stone slabs, and there are drainage ditches on both sides of the road. As for the road outside the city, the requirements will be reduced a lot, six meters wide, and the road surface should be flat as much as possible. When the town develops and grows in the future, it will continue to be built.
Put away the drawn drawings, Su Ming left the room and headed to the house where the craftsmen slaves lived.
At this time, these craftsmen slaves were having a meal. Because they had been traveling for two consecutive days, Su Ming promised that these craftsmen could take a day off today and start working tomorrow.
"Who of you will burn the turn head?"
"Sir, I will." A man in his thirties, who looked a little down and out, stood up.
Su Ming glanced at him and continued, "Very good, from today on, you are the foreman. I am a very generous and kind person. As long as you work hard for me, I will give you freedom, including houses and land."
"From now on, you pick ten craftsmen, and I will gather people to guide them in making brick kilns. The next task is to burn bricks and tiles, the more the number, the better."
“Just finish the specified amount every day you can get points, and you get more as a foreman than they do.”
"You should have heard that as long as you get five hundred points, I will cancel your slave status and get another five hundred points. You can obtain citizenship and houses and land in the town."
The middle-aged man's face suddenly showed a look of surprise, and the other craftsmen around him also looked at him with envy.
"Okay, you can go and pick people!" Su Ming waved his hand and asked him to leave, and then continued to say to the remaining craftsmen.
"Who can make a blacksmith?"
"Sir, I can, I can make a blacksmith."
"Sir, I can, I can build armor weapons..."
"Sir, the farm tools I have built are sturdy and durable!"
With the example of the craftsman just now, the remaining craftsmen became very enthusiastic. Su Ming directly asked several blacksmiths to form a blacksmith shop together, among which Su Ming, the one with the best forging technology, was appointed as the foreman.
In the past few days, Su Ming issued many orders and made a lot of arrangements. After allocating these work to the right people, the entire town became a huge construction site, and more than a thousand people were working in a tense and orderly manner.
With Su Ming’s policy of household registration for points, whether it is the poor, slave, or soldiers, they are basically not home. Now they have the opportunity to obtain houses and land, so they are naturally very willing. After all, they are left to find a wife to get married and have children.
I believe that in no time, a large number of poor people will come to Kana City.
After arranging the craftsmen, Su Ming selected several more craftsmen to a separate small courtyard in the town, and he planned to make paper.
Of course, Su Ming did not make paper for writing. Although writing is the most important role of paper, it is not very important to Su Ming at present. The reason why he did papermaking was to use it in the toilet.
In this era, most ordinary people used sticks or leaves to go to the toilet, and the nobles used linens. Su Ming did not want to use sticks and leaves, so he could only make paper as soon as possible.
It is not difficult to make paper, and the raw materials are made of bark, trees and other materials. Su Ming stored a large amount of information in Taling, and papermaking is one of them.
Su Ming asked someone to prepare bark, reeds, straw, etc. as raw materials. There are large areas of reed marshes outside the town, with a large number of reeds, and there are also a large number of fiber-rich weeds on the wasteland. These are the raw materials for papermaking.
"You can chop all these ingredients first, then pour them into a pot and steam them." Su Ming directed everyone to work.
Although these workers were very strange, they still put the bark, reed poles and other materials into the pot to steam and cook according to Su Ming's requirements. In fact, this step can be completely thrown into water and soaked. However, in order to speed up, Su Ming used the steaming and cooking method.
After the steaming is completed, the workers are instructed to mash all the steamed materials and make them into pulp.
Next, the pulp is watered and made into slurry, then scoop up with a special bamboo mat, then spread the pulp into thin slices on the bamboo mat, and finally place the bamboo mats in the sun and dry them, and peel them off and turn them down to make a piece of paper.
Chapter completed!