Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 711 Everything is Difficult at the Beginning

At the Xinmacheng construction site, the jungle has been cleared for several miles to the north, and the piles of timber on the ground have been lined up like mountain ranges.

Taichang held up the binoculars to scan, and discussed with Wang Chong, Su Feng and others for a while, and decided to build a row of city walls first, and then build a row of suspended wooden buildings behind the city walls to try.

This city wall must be built, because there is no artillery that can destroy the city wall at this moment, and the city wall is still a natural fort and bunker, which is still very useful for defense.

Moreover, European countries don't have many infantry fighting vehicles at the moment. It is almost impossible for them to destroy the city walls made of concrete and steel bars.

As for why he built a row of suspended wooden buildings behind the city wall, the main reason is that the suspended height of the wooden buildings in his plan is one foot, and the height of the city wall is also one foot, that is to say, the top surface of the city wall and the wooden buildings The platform is basically level.

In this way, by directly setting up the springboard on the platform of the wooden building, the defenders of the city can quickly run to the city wall.

This is a brand new way of defending the city, and he really wants to see the effect.

Moreover, the suspended wooden building is tantamount to a new architectural model, and he doesn't know how effective it will be unless he builds a row first.

This kind of wooden building is not a pure wooden building on stilts, but supported by reinforced concrete pillars. There must have been no such houses in the past, and it seems that there will be no such houses in later generations.

To be honest, he didn't even know what the effect would be when it was built, so he wanted to build a row first to see.

At this moment, the civilians of the Indian tribes in the entire Xinmacheng area have migrated out, and the young and strong of the North American Indian tribes are fine for the time being, just let them build the city walls and houses.

10 young and strong from the North American Indian tribe, plus nearly [-] civilians from this tribe, plus the Jinyiwei and Shenwuying generals who helped command, it is roughly [-] horses. It is still very easy to build such a small thing.

This section of the city wall is actually less than ten miles, because both sides are tributaries of the Amazon River, and the city wall cannot be crossed.

Although the section of the port wharf is more than [-] miles wide, the tributaries on both sides shrink in the middle at the entrance, so it narrows less than three miles behind the wharf. It is still very simple to build this section of the city wall.

However, there is another problem. More than ten tributaries are equivalent to cutting the south wall of Xinma City into more than ten sections, and these tributaries have penetrated into the city. The entrances of the tributaries must be defended, otherwise the city wall will be white. built.

There is no way to solve this problem for the time being, and we can only wait for this section of the city wall to be built.

Taichang, Wang Chong, Su Feng and others roughly discussed the location of the city wall and the style of the foundation, and 10 people started digging the foundation together.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the excavation was started, there was another problem.

The ground is full of stumps left after the trunks were sawed off!
Moreover, the tree stumps are densely packed with tree roots, and in some places, the tree roots are like spider webs, which are frighteningly numerous.

This tree root is fresh, not the kind that has been buried for a long time and rotted. Ordinary hoes can't dig it out at all.

This may also be one of the reasons why no one has developed the virgin jungle in South America. It is simply too difficult to dig out a foundation in such a place.

However, this does not seem to be a big problem for Daming.

Because Daming has many people and is not afraid of difficulties.

Taichang looked at the dense tree roots underground, then at the blunt hoe, thought for a while, and then said decisively: "Try it with a black iron knife."

Hearing this, Su Feng waved his hand quickly, and several young and strong men from the North American Indian tribe immediately pulled out their black iron knives, and slashed at the roots of the trees underground.

This effect is not bad, at least, the roots that are not thicker than the wrist can be cut off with a single knife, but no matter how big the roots are, it will be a bit difficult to cut with a black iron knife, especially some roots that are thicker than an arm, Even the dark iron knife can't cut it.

After all, this thing is underground, and the black iron knife is equivalent to chopping with the soil, which is equivalent to increasing the area of ​​chopping.

Taichang thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Take an ax and try it."

He still didn't believe that a pile of tree roots could stop them.

Soon, a Jin Yiwei brought an axe.

As soon as Taichang waved his hand, he directly swung the ax and went down a few times at the tree root thicker than his arm.

Fortunately, the ax was not very difficult to cut, and it was cut off in a few strokes.

That's it.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Divide the hands into one part. First use black iron knives and axes to cut off the roots of the tree, and then use a hoe to dig. The two cooperate with each other in turn."

Wang Chong, Su Feng and the others hurriedly cupped their hands and said, "The general will understand."

Such a foundation is indeed a bit difficult to dig, but fortunately, they have 10 horses.

These 10 horses are scattered on a line of less than ten miles, and every meter is equivalent to about twenty people. No matter how many stumps and roots there are on the ground, it will not delay too much time.

Moreover, the young and strong Indian tribes in North America are quite familiar with digging foundations, firing bricks and tiles, and even pouring columns.

However, at this time, they discovered another embarrassing problem, there was no wooden cubes and planks for watering the columns!

A lot of cement and steel bars have already been pulled here, because there are already so many trees here that Taichang didn't think about pulling any planks and wooden squares from other places!

Moreover, there is not even a sawing machine here, so no matter how many logs there are, it is impossible to automatically turn them into wooden squares and planks!
Looking at the logs piled up like mountains, Taichang was extremely embarrassed.

There are quite a few manpower saws here, but Daming has not used saws to saw squares and boards for many years.

Because it is too strenuous to saw the square and plank with manpower, and the efficiency is very low, which is a waste of time and manpower.

He stood on the construction site, frowning and thinking for a long time, and finally remembered that when the transit base was built in the southernmost part of the New Yindu Islands, he pulled a lot of sawing machines, and that side was only more than three thousand miles away from here. It only takes a few days.

As for the 10 horses, they don't have to be idle these days, they can fully build the city wall.

Thinking of this, he said decisively: "Zi Ru, order Yuanfang to send a ship to the transfer base at the southernmost part of the Western Yindu Islands, and pull all the sawing machines over there. Wang Chong, Su Feng, you take everyone to build it first." Wall."

With so many people working together, the construction speed of the city wall is quite fast, and it is not a problem to increase the height of two feet in a day.

Six days passed, and the sawing machine on the New Yindu Islands had just been pulled over, and the one-foot-high wall foundation was almost built.

With the sawing machine, sawing the squares and planks is easy, and the squares and planks used for the inverted columns were sawn out in less than two days.

When it was about to be cast, Wang Chong found it again.

What's the problem?

Taichang followed Wang Chong to the construction site and took a look. The wooden frames about ten feet high had already been erected, the steel bars inside were tied up, and the wooden platforms about ten feet high were also built. Just go up and pour the mixed concrete into the wooden frame.

This seems to be no problem!

Taichang couldn't help looking at Wang Chong with a puzzled face.

However, Wang Chong carefully pointed to the top of the wooden frame and said, "Your Majesty, if we pour all the concrete pillars and then build wooden squares on top, the wooden squares will not be able to be fixed on the concrete pillars. That’s like being built on a concrete pillar, and the wind might blow away the wooden houses above!”

Uh, this.

Fortunately, Wang Chong didn't act recklessly, otherwise, once the cement was poured, there would be nothing to do.

Taichang touched his forehead in embarrassment, then walked up to the wooden frame himself, and looked at the steel bars in the wooden frame.

The steel bars are well tied, square and square, as long as the wooden squares used as beams are stuck inside.

He took a closer look, then pointed to the top of the steel bar and said, "Tie around here again, about the height of the wooden square, then put the wooden square on top and then pour the cement, it should be no problem."

Wang Chong carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, we use one-inch wooden squares for the beams. It is better to say that there are two pillars here. If it is three or even four pillars, the wooden squares are placed on the top. The cement that has been mixed with gravel is basically impossible to pour down!"

This is simple.

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "You can pour the cement mixed with gravel until it is almost level with the newly-wrapped steel bars on the top circle, and then put the wooden squares on it, so that this little bit on the top can be directly covered with cement mortar. no problem."

Ok.

Wang Chong hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The general understands."

Taichang looked at the wooden frames all around, but secretly sighed in his heart: "Oh, everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is even more difficult without help.

If there are officials from the Ministry of Industry, these problems may not arise, and there is no need to worry about them.

I don't know when the officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture will arrive. "

(End of this chapter)