Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 398 New Luoyang City
New Yuzhou, new Luoyang City, everything is new.

This is the newly opened territory of Ming Dynasty, and it is also a brand new city, even the docks are brand new.

Taichang stepped on the large pier constructed of pure cement and steel bars, couldn't help jumping up and kicking hard a few times, then nodded slightly.

Yuan Keli was leading several civil servants and military generals to meet him, seeing the emperor's sudden movement, he was stunned.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but smiled and said: "What's the matter, Li Qing, why are you in a daze?"

Yuan Keli greeted him with a few civil servants and military generals, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, are you so cold?"

Most people would subconsciously stomp their feet when the cold was unbearable, but the emperor jumped up and stomped his feet, probably because it was too cold.

The weather here is indeed a bit cold. It's only the end of October, and the wind is howling, as if it's going to snow.

Of course Taichang wasn't too cold, he was the emperor, no matter how poor he was, he still had some clothes to keep out the cold, so it was basically impossible for him to stamp his feet in the cold.

He shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "I just tried the hardness of this reinforced concrete pier. To be honest, this kind of pier is much stronger than the original wooden pier. It didn't even shake when I jumped up and kicked hard."

It turned out that the emperor was trying this.

Who said no.

Yuan Keli couldn't help sighing: "Yes, Your Majesty, this cement is really a good thing, it can be built quickly, and it will be even stronger after adding steel bars."

Well, cement is indeed a good thing, and steel bars are even better. Using these two things to build a city is even more frighteningly fast.

Taichang looked at the nearly completed city wall not far away, and couldn't help asking: "How is it? How is the construction of the new Luoyang City?"

Yuan Keli said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, the construction of the new Luoyang city is almost finished. Except for some large factories and a few city gates that have not yet been capped, everything else is almost finished."

In fact, there are only a few tall buildings in the current city. The rest are basically bungalows or small second-story buildings, built with cement and steel bars, and the speed is really scary.

However, the construction of the new Luoyang city seems to be less than two months old!

It's almost ready?

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but startled, "Is it so fast?"

Yuan Keli said with a little pride: "My minister is just doing a little trick, and these Japanese pirates went crazy and tried their best to build the city. Therefore, the speed of building the city is really scary."

A little trick?

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help asking with great interest: "Oh, what trick did you use?"

Yuan Keli said without hesitation: "I just ordered them to build their houses to avoid the cold at the end. Moreover, I ordered people to tell them that if the houses are not built when the cold winter comes, people will freeze to death. in spite of."

Well, this trick is really powerful.

You must know that this place is equivalent to the extreme north of Ming Dynasty, almost as far north as the original location of the Haixi Jurchen Department.

Moreover, it is still the Little Ice Age, so one can imagine how cold the winter is.

If there is no airtight house and a hot kang head, it will really freeze to death.

This is also the main reason why there are few people here.

You must know that Dongying is far behind Daming at this moment. Their construction level is not comparable to that of Ming. In addition, this is the barbarian land of Dongying. Naturally, it is impossible to build an airtight house.

So, it turns out that there are very few Ezo here.

Speaking of this cold winter, Taichang suddenly remembered.

He hurriedly asked: "By the way, how is the ice cellar here? Have you ordered them to dig enough ice cellar?"

This of course.

This is a transaction of millions of taels a year.

Yuan Keli nodded without hesitation and said, "Your Majesty, the ice cellar has almost been built, and there are only some finishing touches left."

Hearing this, Taichang immediately waved his hand and said, "Go, take me to have a look."

Uh, this.

Yuan Keli thought about it, and ordered someone to make arrangements.

Soon, hundreds of guards came on horseback.

Of course, these are all for horses.

Taichang saw the steed brought over, and asked curiously, "Isn't this a local horse from Japan?"

Yuan Keli nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is a newly bred war horse from Liaodong. It has good stamina and is quite cold-resistant. Isn't there a lot of grass here? I feel that I can try to raise horses. It is for breeding next year."

Well, there are so many old hero ideas in the past few decades.

It is absolutely right to entrust the development of the newly opened territory to this kind of experienced old hero.

Taichang nodded slightly, then got on his horse, led a group of master guards, and followed Yuan Keli to the right side of Xinluoyang City.

In fact, the area where the ice cellar was dug was not far from the pier. It was located in the mountainous area outside the west gate of Xinluoyang City, only one or two miles away from the city gate and a few miles away from the pier.

Because there happened to be a large lake here, it was quite convenient to mine ice, and it was not far from the pier, so Yuan Keli decided to dig the ice cellar here.

At this moment, the mountainous area by the lake has already been dug into caves as tall as a man. The densely packed cave openings can hardly be counted. I don’t know how many thousands of captives Yuan Keli used to dig out in such a short period of time. So many caves.

At this moment, the captives who were busy mopping up here were all driven away, and there were rows of things that looked like railroad tracks on the ground.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help getting off his horse and saw that it was really a railroad track!
He couldn't help but wonder: "Li Qing, are you going to connect these ice cellars with rails?"

Yuan Keli nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, Wei Chen is going to connect the ice cellar, lake and dock with rails, and make a batch of simple flatbed trucks. In this way, it will be much more convenient to carry ice cubes."

It has to be said that this Wen Guogong really uses his brain, he even thought of railroad tracks and rail flat cars.

Taichang walked into several ice cellars to have a look, and couldn't help nodding.

Cement structures are used inside, not only the ground is paved with cement, but the surrounding walls are reinforced with cement, and the roof is also supported by wooden squares, and the volume inside is also surprisingly large.

It seems that Daming's local cement production is already very high.

A group of people came to the huge lake to have a look again, and there was a pile of three-foot-square wooden frames densely packed on the ground.

Taichang couldn't help but asked curiously: "What is this thing for? Why do you make so much of it?"

Yuan Keli quickly explained: "This thing was specially sent by Weichen to the palace to inquire about the old father-in-law who is responsible for collecting ice cubes, and this is what they specially use to frame ice cubes.

When the lake is about to freeze, these wooden frames are neatly connected to the lake, so that there is no need to dig ice.

At that time, just use the big wooden block to shake it a few times, and the three-foot-square ice cubes will come out. "

Taichang still couldn't help but asked curiously: "When the water freezes, doesn't the wooden frame also freeze together? How can the ice in the middle be easily shaken out?"

Yuan Keli continued to explain: "This is the method that the old man in the palace came up with. Before the wooden frame is put into the water, it is enough to smear the special salt water on it. Even if it freezes, it will not freeze the wooden frame to death. "

When Taichang heard the words, he immediately understood.

The salt water seems to have a lower freezing point than fresh water, which is why sea water does not freeze easily. If something unique is added to the salt water, the wooden frame may not be able to freeze.

I have to say that people these days are really smart, they can even come up with such a method.

He nodded slightly, looked at the sky again, then clapped his hands and said: "Okay, there should be nothing wrong here, let's go, let's go to the city to have a look."

(End of this chapter)