The gradual construction of the city began.
First, Zhuang Yu asked the Jiaokang family to go to the market to announce the purchase of timber.
The acquisition this time is completely different from the last acquisition of wood for waterwheels, because the amount this time is large enough.
Things like wood are worthless outside, but because of the long distance and hardships of the journey, you have to pay for it no matter what.
The foreign businessmen are all dumbfounded, buying so much wood again
Especially the people of small tribes, their eyes are bright. Their tribes are small, and there are not many supplies in the first place. After they are used to exchange salt, they will be dwarfed by comparison.
After inquiring about the good news, I didn't expect to get so many good things in exchange for just one shipment.
Not only the small tribes, but the caravans of the big tribes are also a little bit excited. After all, it's just a trip, and they are idle when they are idle.
So a very strange large-scale purchase of timber in the eyes of foreign businessmen began.
In the past, a caravan basically only went out once, but now it seems that the previous rules have been broken.
Of course, there are also requirements for the purchased wood, which must be strong enough and large in size.
Because the purchased wood is too much, even though it is not particularly valuable, but the quantity is large, it is also a considerable expense.
Zhuang Yu made a rough calculation. Just the wood needed to repair this area at the beginning is a bit overwhelming, let alone the entire Chidi City.
It seems that I have to find a way to earn more supplies.
However, before that, Zhuang Yu went to ask his clansmen to build more fire kilns, and started firing a large number of red bricks, porcelain floors, pottery pipes...
Zhuang Yu originally planned to use glass pipes as water pipes, but after careful consideration, he decided to use ceramic pipes.
Because the glass tube is easy to break, if broken, the glass slag will easily hurt people if it enters the water, and the second is that the glass tube is transparent, and after a period of use, once there is dirt, it is easy to be adsorbed on the tube wall. It's very dirty, and it's not a long-term solution.
The whole Chicheng was busy again.
Zhuang Yu asked the clansmen in the area he planned to live in the houses of other clansmen first.
A group of people were overjoyed, because Shaojun said that he was repairing a house for them, building a better house, and after a period of time, the house was repaired, and they could live back.
The tribe's trust in Zhuang Yu has reached the level of madness, and they don't even look at how beautiful the outside of their Red Emperor City is now. It's not that they are bragging, other forces are definitely not as good as the environment outside their Red Emperor City.
Now they can walk around in front of the businessmen outside with their heads held high every day, and sometimes they can say a few words with those foreign businessmen, and they are extremely proud.
The day when you raise your head, that is life. It is not like before, it is always said by foreigners that you are poor and poor.
A group of people packed up their things and left. Of course, they didn't go far. They gathered around outside to see how Zhuang Yu repaired the house.
And more and more people came to see the fun.
Building a house requires a lot of manpower, and fortunately Zhuang Yu has the right to use all the people in Chidi City to assist, otherwise I don't know how long it will take to repair it.
Zhuang Yu waved his hand, "Push down the old house."
Everyone who heard the words couldn't help but tremble, if someone else said that, they would have to be hanged and beaten.
This is their home in Chidi City. Although it is dilapidated, it is also a place where they don't know how many generations have lived.
In fact, Zhuang Yu also has special feelings for these earthen houses, but they are too dilapidated. People who don't know it think that they are in some place with broken eaves and broken walls, and the wind can blow hard inside at night, which is why it is so cold.
If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come.
So when a group of tribesmen gritted their teeth, Shaojun asked them to push them away, anyway Shaojun said, they would have a better house to live in.
Then, Zhuang Yu arranged to level the ground and lay the foundation for the house.
During this period of time, it was also just waiting for his red bricks to be fired.
The ground began to be leveled and foundations dug.
Of course, the houses are not repaired one by one, but in a row at the same time, because there are so many people.
A few days later, when the first batch of red bricks were fired, the ground was almost leveled, and the foundation was almost dug.
Zhuang Yu asked people to bring the bricks over, and then began to teach everyone how to build walls with cement.
This wall-building is a technical job, but it cannot be crooked or weak.
Zhuang Yu also specially made an ink fountain used in ancient times. The ink was replaced by carbon ash from the bottom of the pot, and he taught everyone how to use it.
At the beginning, I taught very carefully. After a few days like this, I started to formally build the walls.
Zhuang Yu became busy, and he had to run back and forth on the construction site to point out deficiencies or mistakes.
Although it is said that it is only a two-story small building, it is not easy to fall down, but this is a house for people to live in, so it cannot be sloppy.
Basically, Zhuang Yu has to look at it once if he builds a little bit. If it doesn't meet the requirements, even if it is pushed and built again, it can't be settled.
Moreover, Zhuang Yu's house designed the difference between the living room and the bedroom, which is not so simple.
Therefore, at the beginning, the speed was like a snail, and there were frequent mistakes, so I had to push and start over and over again.
There is no way, the people in the tribe are all new and inexperienced.
It was not until the foreign businessmen brought the first batch of timber that their house started.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but fortunately, everyone gradually understood what Zhuang Yu meant, and the walls built with red bricks began to meet the requirements.
In order to live in a new house, the people in Chidi City are working day and night.
A group of little radishheads also ran over to look at it when they were free. The children of the Golden Centipede Department were relatively experienced in housing, because they had lived in caves in addition to this kind of earthen house.
But looking at the new house under construction, Monk Zhang Er was also puzzled.
"Brother Yu, does the new house have our original cave and earthen house?" asked expectantly with shining eyes.
Zhuang Yu replied, "Of course, I also designed a kang inside the house."
kang!
The eyes of a group of little radish heads were shining, and then they screamed.
Did they sleep on Kang again
The people in Chidi City are really nice, but the inside of the house is uneven and there is no kang. The house they lived in before had a wooden floor and a warm kang to sleep in.
How could they brag with the children of Chidi City
It's all right now, they will have to sleep on the Kang again soon.
A group of little radish heads were so excited that they asked loudly, "Brother Yu, do you have a wooden floor?"
Looking at the little red faces, Zhuang Yu thought to himself, these children miss their old nest very much.
To be honest, Zhuang Yu is also nostalgic. They used to live a difficult life, but their nests did not wrong anyone at all, and they were all very comfortable.
Zhuang Yu replied, "Yes, the second floor is a wooden floor, a pure wooden floor."
Because he plans to lay floor tiles on the first floor.
One house, two floor experiences are also very good.
A group of radish heads screamed like crazy, screaming and jumping, and the young mushrooms were lifted into the air and ran around.
The little mushroom's calf kicked straight, and the sky was turned upside down. Do you know who is the boss
However, can I live in the comfortable and warm house before? It is now curled up in the cold every night.
I couldn't help but think of the empty wooden house that the big bear made for it that day. Hmph, Mushroom is very particular, so he doesn't live in such a dilapidated house, he's so proud.
Shaohao has recently tossed and turned that wooden house countless times. Little Mushroom was interested in it at first, but in the end... Zhuang Yu started to build a new house, and it is estimated that Little Mushroom will not be disgusted with it to death.
The walls of the house were built up little by little, and Zhuang Yu directly asked people to use the dried tree trunks as reinforced concrete boards, and put them on the floor of the second floor.
One tree trunk is next to the other to form a floor, of course, it must be paved with a flattened wooden floor.
And it is the kind of double-sided laying, that is, the floor is laid on the top and bottom of the trunk, so that no matter whether you look upstairs or downstairs, you will only see flat wooden boards, not uneven trunks.
To minimize noise, the empty space between the tree trunks was filled with cement, and a wooden floor was laid over the concrete.
The function of the big tree trunk is actually the function of the reinforced concrete board.
Of course, the lower layer does not need to use cement, otherwise the cement will keep falling from the top of the head, and if there is a gap, there will be a gap, anyway, this side cannot be stepped on.
Zhuang Yu assigned some people to specialize in chopping wood. Zhuang Yu used to melt the iron tools used to make hoes. They were all broken and unnecessary. They still have some intact iron tools in Chidi City, which are spoils of fighting with the people of Ruidi City. .
Just right for splitting planks.
With their strength, the sharpness of the iron tools, and the skills they have practiced all year round, there is no problem at all in chopping out wooden boards of the same size and with smooth cut surfaces.
These planks, if you chop fast enough, can become very smooth, and then treated with gum, it is as if waxed.
The unique color of the gum, coupled with the original pattern of the board, is also very beautiful.
In addition to the wooden floor, after the walls of the house are built, the porcelain floor on the first floor must also be pasted, and the specially reserved windows must also be installed with glass.
What makes Zhuang Yu more frightened is that his second floor is designed with floor-to-ceiling windows, that is to say, almost one wall can be installed with glass. It is comfortable to sit by the large floor-to-ceiling windows and watch the scenery outside.
Then came the construction of kangs and chimneys.
While building the house, Zhuang Yu started to build the road again.
For a flat road, the lower layer is cement, and bricks or tiles are added on top of the cement.
The tiles are definitely different from the tiles in the house. They are slightly smaller, just like the tiles on the pedestrian street. They are dirty, durable, wear-resistant, but beautiful.
The house and the road are basically being built at the same time, but the speed of road construction is a little faster, after all, it is a good job, and the technical content is also less.
More people means more strength. A few days later, when the people in Chidi City got up as usual, they were ready to go out.
When they passed the gate of the city, with the help of the dim light, they found that something different seemed to happen to the strange house they had built.
The footsteps could not help leaning over. Two days ago, Shaojun told them not to approach, saying that the road was not good enough, and they were afraid that they would trample on it, so they didn't even look carefully.
Now the wooden stakes blocking there are gone, so it should be possible to pass.
The light was still too dim to see clearly.
But as it got closer, it became clearer and clearer, and then, a person stood there motionless like a tree stump, with his mouth open enough to stuff a duck egg.
Suddenly, earth-shattering, incredible howls spread throughout the entire Chidi City, even the merchants in the market outside the Chidi City were awakened.
What did they see!
Rows of small red brick buildings are so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off.
The red bricks form small airtight grids, which are beautiful no matter how you look at them.
On the second floor, there is also a small balcony, which is extremely chic.
And the exaggerated floor-to-ceiling windows have raised the style of the whole small building by more than one level.
In fact, this is just the most common design of townhouses, but for people of the tribe who have never seen this style of house, the kind of surprise is no less than that of people who have never watched TV watching a TV show for the first time. kind of shock.
In particular, compared with the small, air-tight earthen houses that have not yet been pushed to the side, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground.