Thanks to the hard work of Ye An, Li Zunxu and many other people, all the ground in Xinlingfang was shoveled away in just one night. The dug-out soil could not be wasted, but was piled in the Hou Mansion.
It is used as a small landscape in the garden.
The Song Dynasty people's persistence in gardens made Ye An involuntarily change her aesthetics. Qin Mumu always felt that there was no rockery in her backyard that was inappropriate, but the hill made of dirt still surprised and made her happy.
The biggest difference between earth mountains and stone mountains is that plants can be planted directly on earth mountains. As long as they are cultivated well, small earth mountains can be turned into green hills. This is a different scene in the flat terrain of Kaifeng Prefecture. Of course, in Tokyo
There are many houses in the city with rockeries in their gardens, and they are also exquisite and unique stone mountains.
Never underestimate the wisdom of wealthy people. They are the elites of this era. They have the best nutritional intake, the best education system, and extensive knowledge and experience reserves. How can they lose to ordinary people?
Home?
Although there is a saying that "a noble man will be killed after five generations", the inheritance of the family will continue to revive them one day. This is almost the case for the noble families of the Song Dynasty.
Ye An would never underestimate the powerful people of this era. Of course, they were also human beings and they would make mistakes. As an outsider, Ye An finally decided to get involved in their mistakes.
Li Zunxu didn't know how Ye An knew about him and the princess's wet nurse. He kept trying to test Ye An's sideways, but he was always brushed aside by Ye An and couldn't get the answer at all.
Of course, Ye An would not tell him that he knew it from history books. In fact, after seeing Li Zunxu's horrified expression and the way he was working hard to carry earth and rocks, Ye An still felt a little bit of enjoyment in his heart.
Paving roads is not actually a technical job. Of course, laying a smooth cement road is a very technical thing.
Li Zunxu watched in surprise as Ye An directed the people in Xinlingfang to lift the sand and stones up to an iron net. The fine sand leaked through the iron net, while small stones and the like were left behind.
Fine yellow sand and gray-black cement were piled up in a pile. Ye An dug a hole in the middle with a shovel, mixed it with water, and soon it became a lump of cement slurry. The residents of Xinlingfang used wood to
The bucket carries the mud and pours it into the ditch that has been paved with gravel.
The mud covered the stones, and then the villagers took out a log that had been planed flat and smooth, tied ropes to both ends and dragged it over the mud.
The originally bumpy mud surface instantly turned into a smooth surface like tofu. Li Zunxu looked at these changes in surprise and soon understood Ye An's intention. He planned to make the roads in Xinlingfang as smooth as this.
"Changsheng, can this thing become as hard as a stone?"
Li Zunxu quickly asked about his guess, and Ye An answered with a smile: "Of course, this is a cement road, which is extremely smooth and strong. Even if it is damaged, it only needs to be filled with cement, and it will be restored again."
In perfect condition."
"Scare! Can it really be so magical?! Cost, how much is the cost?!"
As expected of a businessman, Li Zunxu immediately thought of the cost issue. In his opinion, such paving technology could be promoted in Tokyo and even the entire Song Dynasty. The business opportunities and market would naturally be extremely huge.
Ye An handed the shovel in his hand to Tieniu who was rubbing his hands next to him, and smiled and said to Li Zunxu: "Being close to the Yellow River, yellow sand naturally doesn't cost much. As for cement, it is calcined in the brick kiln on Zhuangzi outside the city.
The raw material is also the most common calcined lime."
Following Ye An's words, Li Zunxu's eyes suddenly glowed "goldenly", as if he saw a big business that was making money every day, and the initial investment was not large.
But he knew it was not as simple as Ye An said. If so, wouldn't anyone be able to make cement? But lime had appeared as early as the Han Dynasty, so why had no one discovered that it could be turned into cement?
He smiled with a hint of meaning, looked at Ye An and said: "If my nephew has a magic trick, there is no need to tell me. Anyway, this business belongs to our family, but we must be careful of others prying at us!"
Ye An smiled: "It is not as easy as Uncle Li imagined. It will take a long time to crack the secret of cement. By then, our cement workshop will be able to monopolize the market in Tokyo City, and
When it comes to downward promotion, it has a unique advantage that is almost impossible for outsiders to surpass!"
Li Zunxu breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "That's good, that's good!"
Ye An looked at the people's concerted efforts, but sighed slightly in his heart, how can it be so easy to imitate cement? Lime is lime, and cement is cement. The two are similar but cannot be confused, and their functions are also different.
If lime is used to pave the road, it will only become tofu dregs.
The simple truth involves chemical knowledge. In this era when chemistry only relies on alchemy, it is extremely difficult to reversely produce cement from a raw material.
This is also the reason why Ye An calcined limestone in a brick kiln in a village outside the city, to hide it from others!
In Ye An's plan, brick kilns are an extremely important part. In the future, there will be more variants of brick kilns to achieve wider applications, including the glass planned by him and Qin Mumu...
The road paving was actually very fast. With the efforts of the people in Xinlingfang, digging the road, transporting soil, laying gravel, mixing cement, and smoothing the road were all carried out at the same time.
The value of labor force is also reflected here. If it weren't for these people, Ye An would have to hire people to pave the road, and at the same time, he would also have to worry about the increase in costs, etc.
Now that he has the people of Xinlingfang, he can use this power. Of course, the only difference is that in the eyes of the people of Xinlingfang, paving the way is related to the business of his family.
Li Zunxu watched from the side and gradually understood what Ye An was doing. He made a contract with the people in the soul, and while helping them make money, he was also making money for himself!
The better the public's business, the better his Ye An's business... no, his and Ye An's business. At this time, Li Zunxu no longer cared about his privacy being exposed by Ye An, although he couldn't figure out how he could do it.
I knew it, but seeing Ye An's attitude, I knew it was impossible for him to publicize this matter, and it was impossible for anyone to know about it.
The flat road stretches from a large open space in front of the Yunzhong County Marquis' Mansion to the blacksmith shop at the innermost part of Xinlingfang.
Although spring has begun, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, but fortunately it is not freezing cold, and the heat emitted will be taken away by the cold air, but even so it will take twenty-eight days for it to completely solidify.
However, three days are enough to withstand the walking needs of people coming and going. Time will only make the ground stronger.
This effect has left Li Zunxu dumbfounded. He saw a smooth and somewhat outrageous road. Although he didn't know what it would be like in the end, it was at least cleaner and neater than the road paved with Sanhe soil.
Unknowingly, the night passed like this. Fortunately, there were enough people and the street in Xinlingfang was not too big. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to complete the paving in one night. However, this speed was already very amazing in Li Zunxu's opinion.
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Li Zunxu squatted with Ye An in front of the gate of the Hou Mansion with a big bowl, drinking the bone soup made by Ge Shanshu. He suddenly felt that he had exerted strength all night, and now his whole body felt much better.