Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 192, Cement Road

"Let's go and see how they build the road."

Li Dongyang looked at the busy scene here, it was hard to imagine that in the age of famine, these victims actually ate meat to get by, shook his head slightly, and looked at the official road ahead, it was extremely busy here.

On the road several kilometers long, tens of thousands of people are working together and working in full swing. Not far away, close to Tianjin City, a section of the road that has been repaired is spacious and tidy. It is divided into two sides, and trees are even planted in the middle.

This is where the three of them are very curious again.

Soon, the three of them came to the place where the road was being built, and saw that the victims were divided into many working groups, some were in charge of developing roads, some were in charge of leveling the land, and some were in charge of transporting gravel...

"Why did they pour mud on the official road?"

Zhou Jing's gaze quickly locked on to the area in front of him. On the official road that has been developed and leveled, a large number of people are pouring loads of gray mud onto the wide and leveled official road.

The mud looks similar to the mud in the fish pond, and there seems to be no difference at all, but there are still a lot of sand and stones in the mud.

"Go, go over and have a look, it's just nonsense, this is not building a road, it is destroying a road."

When Li Dongyang saw it, anger immediately appeared on his face. The importance of officialdom is self-evident, and it is the blood vessel that connects every place in Daming.

He was very happy when he saw people building roads at first, because building bridges and roads has been a good thing for the benefit of one party since ancient times. It is considered to be praised by the locals with a thumbs up.

Without it, in this era, transportation is extremely inconvenient, and building roads and bridges is a very expensive thing to do, and it often requires the government to call in the common people in the form of corvees to build bridges and pave roads during the slack season.

Now seeing that these people were building the road by pouring mud on the official road and destroying a good official road, Li Dongyang was very angry. The road was not easy to build, but now it is unforgivable to destroy it.

He walked over angrily, and before he could speak, someone came up to stop them and said, "My lords, I'm really sorry, the road is being built here, and you can't pass through it for the time being, please detour."

"Are you building roads?"

Li Dongyang pointed to pour cement slurry on the official road and asked, "You guys use rotten mud to build roads?"

Dong Xiaoshan looked at the people in front of him. The three leaders were dressed in extraordinary clothes and had extraordinary manners. They had a long-standing aura coming towards them. Coupled with the guards around them who were in charge of protecting them, it was clear that these people had extraordinary backgrounds.

"My lord, these are not rotten silt, this is cement, which is made by mixing cement, sand and stones, etc. Don't look at it like silt now, but after a few lines, after the water inside dries up, it will It will be as hard as a rock."

Dong Xiaoshan smiled and explained that people who have never seen cement thought it was rotten mud, so many jokes were made.

"cement?"

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao looked at each other, and they all saw a blank look in each other's eyes. They had never heard of or seen such a thing.

"This cement was invented by Mr. Liu. Although it is gray and inconspicuous, it is the best adhesive. It is suitable for building roads, houses, cities, etc. But that's all."

"Adults, please follow me, and I will show you."

Dong Xiaoshan was very busy at first, so he didn't have time to pay attention to the three of them, but judging from the appearance of the three of them, if he didn't explain clearly, trouble might happen.

Hearing Dong Xiaoshan's words, the three of them hurriedly followed. Dong Xiaoshan said as he walked, "Please look, three adults. This is the road we just paved with cement. Because the cement is not dry, it is mixed with mud. Almost, you can step on a deep footprint with a light step."

As soon as Dong Xiaoshan's foot stepped on the cement that had just been laid, a footprint appeared immediately.

When Zhang Mao heard it, he was not afraid of getting dirty, so he stepped on it himself, and there was also a footprint.

"Hurry up and fill in the footprints and smooth them out."

Dong Xiaoshan smiled and said to the road builder next to him that he was wearing the clothes of a manager, and the victims of the road builder next to him knew immediately at a glance, and hurriedly filled in the footprints that had been stepped on.

Dong Xiaoshan took the three of them and continued to walk forward. After walking for more than ten meters, he pointed to a piece of cement road that was slightly dry and said: "This piece was repaired more than an hour ago, and the water is still not dry, but It's kind of firmed up already."

Zhang Mao didn't believe it, and stepped on it with his feet, this time it took a little force to make a footprint.

Without stopping, Dong Xiaoshan continued to walk forward with a few people. This time, he walked a few hundred meters and said: "We repaired this piece yesterday afternoon, and it is almost ready to leave now, but we still can't walk too hard. I have to wait a few more days for the carriage."

When he came here, Dong Xiaoshan no longer walked the side road, but went directly to the concrete road.

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Mao and others saw it, and they all stepped on it one after another. The feeling under their feet was like stepping on a big rock, which surprised the three of them slightly. Zhang Mao didn't even believe in evil. A stomp on the cement road.

"Oh, it's so hard."

After stomping his feet, Zhang Mao couldn't help crying out in pain, and then suddenly regained his energy. He couldn't help squatting on the road, tapping with his fingers, and studied it carefully.

Li Dongyang and Zhou Jing looked at each other, and they also knelt down and touched and knocked with their hands, as if they were knocking on a hard stone.

"This is simply unbelievable!"

Li Dongyang was a little unbelievable, he got up and looked back at the side, the cement slurry that was constantly poured on the official road, which was like mud, turned out to be as hard as a stone after it dried.

Look at the cement road in front of it. According to the standards of later generations, this cement road should be a two-way six-lane road. It is very wide and very smooth, just like a mirror. It has long since lost the appearance of the original official road.

Although the original official road is the best road in this era, but this official road is actually no more than an ordinary dirt road. It is normal to have potholes, and it is relatively narrow. It is not even half as wide as it is now. If it rains If the official road becomes muddy, it will be very difficult to walk.

But now, Li Dongyang looked at the front, and at the official way behind him, he was extremely shocked.

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