Two months passed quickly, and Liu Mang really fell into dire straits during these two months. He really underestimated the counselors of this era and caught the loopholes in his call-up order A big hole was dug directly for Liu Mang to jump in. .
The past two months were really difficult. The consumption of food, if the seeds brought by Liu Mang hadn't been sown into the land, I am afraid that the rations would be even more insufficient.
With a population of 1.2 million, Liu Mang was almost killed. Although Yangzhou was rich, even in its heyday, Shouchun could not support 1.2 million people. You must know that Shouchun and Lujiang are three One-third of Yangzhou, the current Yangzhou is still a mess left by Yuan Gonggong.
All businesses in Shouchun City are waiting to be flourished, and the 1.2 million people, they not only need to eat and drink, but also have a place to sleep!
Building houses, people's rations, people's clothes and so on all need to be done. More than one million people, when did Liu Mang manage so many people, and these people came here with nothing.
Liu Reck also read the letter from Lu Bu and Chen Gong to Liu Reck, and it said nothing more than breaking the boat, but Liu Reck didn't immediately agree, because he had done so much, not because he wanted to help his cheap father-in-law, but also For those who followed Liu Mang to have a good background and a good destination! If all the Shouchun and Lujiang rivers are lost, they don't want them all. Even if they cross the Yangtze River and turn Jiangdong upside down, what will Lu Bujun get! The battle of Guandu won't last long, once the two behemoths Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are free! There is really no chance in this world. Lu Bu is not Liu Bei. He can still play Chibi with Jiang Dong and play Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou. Lu Bu and Jiang Dong Sun Ce are mortal enemies, and it is impossible to form an alliance. If they go down, the two of them will almost be the result of mutual losses, and then the world will really miss the two of them! Just like Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian, they can only be buried as a pile of dead bones in this land of mountains and rivers.
Liu Reck can't do that, since it's Liu Reck's disaster, let him solve it!
"Successful!" Liu Wei looked at Liu Ye with dark circles on his face. Liu Ye also didn't sleep well for a few days. Now that he has his own paradise, he can use his mechanical knowledge, and Liu Mang's pile of books really makes Liu Ye sleepless nights! And what Liu Mang and the others are discussing now is one of them—cement!
Liu Mang couldn't find so many wood and bricks to build houses for those people, and he didn't have the time. Up to now, most of the people still live in the wilderness, and they just used simple camps for marching.
And cement became Liu Mang's life-saving straw, because once this thing is manufactured, some buildings can be built quickly by relying on his quick-setting surname, without the need for those clay and glutinous rice soup to solidify The gap between the masonry, that is too slow.
Liu Mang can't remember much about the records of cement, but he knows that it is made by mixing lime and clay in a ratio of 3:1. Lime is limestone. , and then polish it so that it can be truly successful.
The principle is so simple, but the actual operation is not so simple. It took two months, two months for Liu Ye, a great inventor of the Three Kingdoms, to really develop the most elementary cement, so that The high-quality cement can only be used to strengthen ordinary houses and city walls, and it still has no effect on underwater buildings, but it is enough.
"Zi Yang, ask the common people to send out thirty teams to collect as much limestone as they can from Shouchun, and then send out another twenty teams to collect clay!" Liu Mang sent all the 1.2 million people They were divided into teams of 10,000 people, and there were 120 such teams.
Fifty teams dispatched together amounted to 500,000 people. Liu Mang couldn't support them for nothing. If they didn't work, there would be no food distribution. Among the population of 1.2 million, 200,000 were elderly. The weak, sick and disabled also had children. These people Liu Mang did not embarrass them, and they also distributed food on a daily basis. The rest of the people were not so good. All the food and grass have been moved to Shouchun, but that's it, Shouchun can only last for less than half a year. It has been two months, and the food and grass in the army have begun to shrink.
"It's my lord!" Liu Ye nodded, and ordered to one of his deputy next to him. Cement is a very important thing. Liu Ye has also tested the hardness of cement. Compared with those who use bricks and wood blocks But it is really much stronger, and it is difficult to split with a sword. Even bed crossbows and crossbows can only crack him, but cannot directly smash him. Liu Ye certainly does not want the formula of such a thing to be left in the hands of the enemy. It can only be supervised by Liu Ye himself.
With a large number of people and great strength, with the concerted efforts of 500,000 people, pieces of limestone were peeled off, clay was dug out one by one, and all were sent to a huge camp outside Shouchun City.
This fast camp has been arranged by Liu Mang to call it an industrial area. There are not only cement buildings, but also large chimneys erected one by one, and an agency camp. Bed crossbows and ballistas are specially manufactured in it. If it were not here If it is not close to the water, maybe Liu Mang will turn the dock over. The black chess army of the urban management is here to change defenses every day. As for the defense in Shouchun City, it has been replaced by a garrison. Anyway, these people have to support themselves , so Liu Mang is not polite anymore. He has recruited more than 50,000 soldiers from a population of 1.2 million, and they are all going to serve as the garrison. These new recruits really surprised Liu Mang, because these soldiers They are all kind of fighting characters, no worse than the Danyang ruffian soldiers. When Liu Mang asked clearly, most of these soldiers were from Shanyue, but whether they were Shanyue or Han, there was only one name for Liu Mang. That is the big Han clan, and Liu Mang will not discriminate against them because they are people from the pre-Qin period or from Baiyue. Liu Mang will treat these foreigners who want to integrate into the big Han people as Han people.
Limestone was calcined according to the specified supply and demand, processed with clay, and calcined again. Bags of lime were pulled out from the industrial area, and then loaded on horse-drawn carts one by one to Shouchun City.
"What are those!" Most of the people staying in Shouchun are old people and children, and there are also many women. Don't underestimate these old people. These old people are basically people with high prestige. People speak from ear to ear, especially among the people in Shanyue who are the most rigorous.
"I don't know! One bag after another, could it be food?!" Some people are speculating that basically all of these cloth bags should be food, because food is easy to be afraid of moisture, and once it gets wet, it may Moldy, and cloth bags can absorb water, so basically the food is packed in cloth bags, so as to ensure the transportation of food. Of course, the cloth bags here are not the cloth bags that hold flour in the world, but a coarse cloth bag. This kind of cloth bag is not only waterproof but also inexpensive to manufacture, so there are many such cloth bags in Liu Mang's army.
"Food? Is there not much food for His Highness the Holy King?" someone asked.
"It's long gone. Don't you see that His Highness the Holy King has already reduced our ration supply?!" An old man stood up and said.
"It's been reduced? Why? Isn't it still three meals a day!" Some people around him were puzzled. Liu Mang gave these working people three meals a day, rice porridge in the morning and evening, and meals at noon. In order to ensure physical strength to work.
"The meal at noon has not changed, but the amount of porridge and water in the morning and evening has become less. There is more water and less rice!" The old man is indeed an old man. Calculate the food shortage of Liu Mang's army based on the thickness of the soup.
"Maybe it's your eyesight!" An old lady next to him cast a glance at the old man.
"Hehe, it's been so many years. Although I'm old and confused, this food still can't hide from my eyes." If it's just once or twice, I might not care so much, but it has been decreasing since entering this month. Had to let the old man guess.
The old man guessed rightly. It was Liu Mang's order to reduce the amount of rice porridge in the morning and evening. Can't last a month.
The words that there was not much food really made people panic, Liu Mang didn't expect that several old people could drink rice porridge, and the older they got, the better they became.
"Bump, touch!" Bags of lime were thrown on the ground one after another. In front of these bags of lime was a large open space. The dilapidated houses were all pushed down by Liu Mang. People living in tents cannot be allowed to live in these old houses, because those houses may collapse when the wind blows, and that will be the price of human life.
"Tear!" The cloth bag was torn open, and generations of off-white powdery things appeared in front of everyone.
"It's not food!" The old man first sighed and shook his head, how good it would be if it was food.
"What are these gray powders for?!" Someone asked the old people who didn't understand, but the old people didn't know, and they had never seen these gray powders before, but there was an old man who seemed to be thinking a little bit and asked questions. The tone said, "Is this lime powder?!"
It's not lime powder, but it's not much different. A small leader of an engineering team next to him said to the people below, "This is cement, cement, and it's used to build me a house, a big house!" The small leader obviously The most important thing is that he has seen the process of using cement in the industrial zone, so he was very confident and proud when he told the news.
"What? Use this thing to build a house? You're out of your mind!" an old man questioned in a strong dialect.
build house! In the eyes of these people, it is naturally blue bricks and big tiles. Even if they can't afford to turn around, they have to be glued with clay and bamboo. Where is this gray powder.
"I can make a lot of money by lying to you!" The team leader who was questioned was not happy. "If you don't believe me, come and see!"
The gray cement was pulled down and piled up into hills. The engineering team poured buckets of water on the hills, and then dug a small depression from the hills and stirred them with wooden sticks.
"Water and ash? Do you think you are playing house! Playing with mud?" Children like to play house like this, but it uses urine instead of water.
"If you don't believe me, pull it down!" The captain's face showed a sullen look, "Come on, let's show these old guys a look! Don't let them underestimate us!"
The other engineering team members were also not very happy. After all, it is very uncomfortable to be questioned.
Wooden strips were also sent over one after another. Liu Mang had no steel bars and could only use wooden strips as the inner structure of the cement.
Wooden pillars and strips are built into a general frame, and the cement is smeared and suppressed one by one. A large number of people means great strength. With the efforts of tens of thousands of people, one house after another was built. Although the outside The cement has not yet dried, but the general framework has been completed. Liu Mang's first wave of construction is a row of bungalows. These houses are only temporary, but they must be strong. Liu Mang just planned to lay the foundations to make buildings one by one. (To be continued.)