Feng Heming

Chapter 285 Isn't it too good?

Hearing Jiang Yuanxi's words, everyone present became serious.

Jiang Boyong first said: "Wu Niang wants to build a city, should she transform Danyang County or rebuild it?"

"What do you think?" Jiang Yuanxi asked instead.

"If we talk about rebuilding a new one, it will be a waste of manpower and financial resources, and the gain is not worth the loss." Cui Yushu continued.

"I also agree that the best way is to transform Danyang County, but looking at the houses in Danyang County, there is nothing to change," Jiang Bojin said hesitantly.

In the entire Danyang County, the fields and houses are separated and well arranged. The houses are inside and the fields are outside. In Jiang Bojin's view, a county town that is so well-organized is already considered good. It is impossible to remodel it like the capital. They don't have an imperial city here.

The capital city is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The inner city is where the imperial palace and rich and powerful merchants live, and the outer city is for ordinary people. Almost half of the people here are from the capital city. It is only natural that Jiang Yuanxi wants to build the city according to the capital city.

"Okay, little fox, stop teasing everyone, tell us your plan, even if we guess, we won't be able to guess what you think." Duan Gong said angrily.

Jiang Yuanxi shrugged, stood up, took out something from her arms, and nailed it to the shelf behind her.

Everyone's eyes turned to the construction plan on the shelf. When they saw this plan, Hu Qufeng's eyes lit up.

Jiang Yuanxi's voice also followed, "Danyang County is surrounded by the sea on one side and mountains on the other. To defend a difficult place, well, the premise is that there must be a city wall to support it."

Mentioning this, everyone here has strange expressions, without him, Danyang County doesn't even have a city wall.

The entire city gate is just a simple gate.

In fact, everyone also understands why the gates of the city in Danyang County are so simple, because there is nothing worth coveting in Danyang County, even merchants do not come, and Biankang people dare not violate the border. The county magistrate has been suppressed by Xu Feng, and he is too lazy to take care of the affairs of Danyang County. Those who have something to do with their skills will be transferred after the end of the three-year term. As for whether Danyang County can develop or not, what does it have to do with them? ?
Jiang Yuanxi saw that everyone understood the embarrassment of Danyang County, and continued: "I plan to build two walls here and here, the wall is four feet high, and the top of the city is two feet high and wide."

"hiss--"

Many people gasped.

Jiang Boyong frowned, "Wu Niang, no matter whether it is Beiliang or Dajin, there is no such high city wall, they are all two feet high. If such a high city wall collapses after a long time and the city wall is too wide , the general city wall is only one foot thick, only the city wall of the capital is two feet thick."

Jiang Bojin also looked serious this time, "Wu Niang, it will take a lot of people to build two walls like this."

There are only a few thousand young and middle-aged men in Danyang County who can be used as corvees. If we build these two walls, we should include the entire [-]-mile radius of Danyang County. It won’t go well in a year or two. It’s worth wasting manpower on this aspect. ?
You must know that lime and glutinous rice juice and other adhesives need to be rammed while adjusting, and it still needs to be rammed layer by layer. Only in this way can the stones be compacted, otherwise it is very likely that even ten years It will be repaired if the lime and glutinous rice juice are not bonded, and it will even be rammed several times after it is air-dried. In this way, it will take too long to complete.

Jiang Yuanxi wanted to build a city, and they didn't object, but just a single city wall would take a lot of time. For example, Jiang Boyong and Jiang Boxin knew what Jiang Yuanxi wanted to do, and they were all worried, and there was not enough time.

"Thanks to Yue Niang, I found a descendant of a shipbuilding family in Danyang County today, and learned from him a thing called stone mud, which can replace lime and glutinous rice juice. It is not only good in adhesion, but also very strong. , use stone mud to ram it, you don’t need to wait for it to dry and then ram it more, and even the stones don’t need to be cut and leveled, where there is a gap, you can fill it with gravel and sand, and seal it with stone mud to fill it up.”

Huo Jingshan's flat boat also had no stones, but he just used rock mud to make the shape of the boat, which shows that the rock mud is very malleable.

After Jiang Yuanxi's words fell, the others turned their eyes to Zheng Hanyue. At the moment when so many people were watching, Zheng Hanyue's cheeks were slightly hot. Looking at Jiang Yuanxi, seeing her smiling and nodding, Zheng Hanyue tightened her hands on her knees, and began to talk about Huo Jingshan. It's people and things.

After everyone understood what the rock and mud were, Jiang Boyong immediately said: "Wu Niang, those three extinct volcanoes must fall into our hands."

Lime is not uncommon, it can be found everywhere, the key is volcanic ash, which is so rare, everyone thinks of the sea in Danyang County, and a word comes to their minds.

The vicissitudes of life.

They have no way of knowing when the volcano died and when the sea appeared, only that they can benefit from it now.

Immediately, Jiang Bojin took out a small abacus from his waist and began to fight.

Soon, he raised his head and looked at Jiang Yuanxi, "Wu Niang, if you use stone mud instead of lime, build the city wall you want, recruit thousands of people, and it will only take about three months to build it."

Three months!
Although the others were amazed, they would not question Jiang Bojin's calculated time. They all knew that his business skills were excellent, and his planning skills were top-notch.

Jiang Bojin has turned into a businessman, and continued: "Didn't we discover an iron mine? Now that the mining of the iron mine has started, the stones dug out of the iron mine can just be used for building city walls, and can be used externally." The reason for building the city wall is to cover up the fact that we mine iron ore, so that we don't spend a penny on the stone."

Hearing other people nodding repeatedly, Jiang Yuanxi responded with a smile.

Jiang Bojin continued, "As for the manpower, the slack season will soon come anyway. When the slack season comes, we can just hire those young and middle-aged people to build the wall. We can use the pruning of the city wall to replace the corvee. If there are not enough corvees , then spend money to hire, from September to the year before, the city wall can be repaired in about a year."

For Jiang Bojin, all things that can be done with money are not big things.

He looked at the construction plan Jiang Yuanxi released again, and said, "But Wu Niang, you have set aside such a large area on the right side of the city gate for the barracks and armory. Isn't it bad?"

On the construction drawing, there are two circles drawn behind the city gate, one with the word "Military Camp" and the other with the word "Ordnance Station". With the word "cavalry battalion", Wu Niang put the army there, okay?
(End of this chapter)