Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 535 City of Miracles
Taichang gave an order, and the main roads and tributaries of the Xinliao River were full of cruise ships.

Hundreds of Spike Warships of the Daming Navy kept going back and forth between the Sioux territory and Xin Liaoyang City. The soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and the young and strong Sioux gathered towards the New Liaoyang City like flowing water.

In less than ten days, the originally empty city of Xin Liaoyang was full of tents, and it was extremely lively.

At this moment, not only the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion are extremely skilled in their work, but also the young and strong of the Sioux and Apache tribes. They are not too familiar with cutting trees, digging soil and burning bricks and tiles, digging foundations and so on.

Because they have been learning and doing these things for almost a few months.

The foundation of an ordinary shed does not need to be too deep, because the surrounding walls are only a single wall about one foot high, and the foundation can be half a meter wide and half a person deep.

Digging this kind of foundation is not too simple. More than a hundred thousand people worked together. In a few days, the city of Xin Liaoyang was dug like a spider's web, with long tunnels everywhere.

The next step is to pour the concrete columns and fill the foundation.

How to pour this cement column?

Although Taichang is not very skilled, he still has relevant pictures in his mind.

He roughly explained it to Peng Bin, and soon, various baffles and brackets were made.

I don't need to worry about the casting. Anyway, the columns they need are not very big, one foot square is almost enough. There is no danger in casting such a small column.

However, what he didn't expect was that the various tribes of the Apache tribe responded so quickly. In just ten days, more than 20 tribes, large and small, from the nearby Navayo Tribal Alliance have migrated over one after another.

Immediately outside the city of Xinliaoyang, there were grass sheds all over the mountains and plains.

Standing on the city wall, Taichang looked at this scene, and couldn't help thinking of the Liaodong people who gathered outside Ningyuan City.

He couldn't help sighing slightly: "Oh, this scene is so similar to that outside Ningyuan City. Once foreign enemies invade, the common people will suffer."

Cao Wenzhao and other generals who fought in Liaodong all nodded silently, followed by a sigh.

Taichang looked up at the sky, then looked back at the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and the young and strong Indians who were struggling to build the tents, and then said decisively: "Wen Zhao, go and gather five thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to build [-] tents in the north of the city." , Call another two thousand cooks from the Shenwu Camp, set up a thousand pots in the middle of the camp, and cook more porridge, fish soup, broth, etc. Anyway, since they have gathered here according to my order, I can’t Let them suffer more."

When Cao Wenzhao heard the words, he quickly cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

Seven thousand soldiers from the Shenji Battalion rushed out of the city carrying tents, iron pots and tools.

They directly found an open space in the north of the city, roughly leveled it, and then began to build tents and stoves.

This job is their old job, marching and fighting, making a living, and they don't have to be too quick to do it.

Rows of tents and rows of pots and stoves popped up almost instantly, and it didn't take them an hour to set up a camp of 10 people.

Taichang held up the binoculars to scan, and then said to Chen Siming: "Go, let the young and strong Apache tribe in the city send some people out, and tell their clansmen to start moving into the barracks."

The Apache tribe civilians around you don't know that the tents are built for them. The young and strong Apache tribe rushed out of the city to shout, and more than [-] civilians immediately cheered.

Seeing this scene, Taichang sighed again, and then said to Peng Bin: "Yan Ru, please work hard, arrange your officials to supervise the work day and night, and build the work shed as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Peng Bin quickly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

It doesn't take much time to cast the one-foot-square pillars, the most time-consuming thing is waiting for these pillars to solidify.

If more than [-] people rush to work day and night, it will not be a problem to cast tens of thousands of columns a day. The problem is that it will take at least six or seven days for these columns to solidify to the point where they can be used as beams. You have to wait at least half a month.

In fact, it doesn’t take too many sheds to shelter millions of people from the wind and rain. There are about two thousand sheds with an area of ​​more than [-] square meters.

Because these sheds are not residences, the civilians of the Apache tribe can only make do with them for a few months at most. When the army starts to attack the British, they can move back to their territory one after another.

In this kind of temporary shelter from the wind and rain, one person can have about two levels, and it is no problem to lie horizontally or vertically.

And this kind of work shed with more than a thousand square meters is enough to have a hundred pillars.

Calculated in this way, they would cast a total of about one hundred thousand pillars.

With such a large amount of work, it would naturally take a long time if hundreds or even thousands of people worked on it. It would be different if more than [-] people rushed to work day and night.

Ten days later, Peng Bin took the initiative to find Taichang, bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, all the pillars have been casted, and the first cast pillars can also be used for beams, eaves, and tiles."

When Taichang heard the words, he couldn't help but said happily: "Great, when will the civilians outside the city be able to move in, and when do you estimate the construction will be completed?"

These days he was really in a hurry.

Because more and more civilians gathered outside the city, he ordered people to set up all the remaining 3 sets of tents, which seemed to be a bit insufficient.

Now it's all right, the columns are cast, and it doesn't take much time to put up the beams, put up the eaves, cover the tiles, etc.

Peng Bin reckoned: "In about five days, civilians outside the city can move in. However, there are not a lot of wood and bricks and tiles in the city, and we have to organize a lot of people to cut down trees and burn them. Bricks and tiles, the construction speed may not be fast, Weichen estimates that it will take at least three months to complete the construction of these work sheds."

This speed is actually not slow, but Taichang still wants to go faster.

Because after the construction of the work sheds, they still need to organize the training of the young and strong of the Apache tribe. If they wait three months before the training, I am afraid that it will be winter when they can send troops. By then, these civilians will move back to their territory. It's inconvenient.

He thought for a while, and then said decisively: "How about this, you let all the young and strong Apache tribe return to your own tribe, and lead their tribe to cut trees and burn bricks and tiles, while the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and the Sioux tribe The young and strong only need to build work sheds in the city, which means nearly 20 more people are working, and the speed should be more than doubled, right?"

When Peng Bin heard this, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "Your Majesty, there are almost all old and weak women and children outside the city. It is hard work to cut down trees, and they have never learned how to make bricks and tiles. Can this work?"

Taichang said without hesitation: "Don't worry, it can be done. It's enough to cut down trees and let the young and strong grow up. The old, weak, women and children can clean up the branches and leaves. Besides, don't they have to finish the brick wall behind them? Sooner or later, they have to learn How about firing bricks and tiles, it’s better to start learning now, so as not to teach them later.”

In this way, the speed is indeed much faster.

In fact, old and weak women and children can not only clean branches and leaves, but also collect and carry dry branches and leaves, burn kilns and watch kilns.

With everyone's concerted efforts, the construction speed of the shed was amazing.

With the continuous joining of the following tribes, all the work sheds in Xinliaoyang City were completed in less than a month.

Have to say that this is a miracle.

Later, the people of the Apache tribe liked to call Xin Liaoyang City the "City of Miracles".

(End of this chapter)