Chapter 145

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"Your Highness, is that all right?"

Zhan Xingchang was a bit reluctant.

"Remember, anger without power is meaningless. Intrigue is just a paper tiger in front of absolute power. Wait, I will let them ask for money and food. But before that, you should focus on the repair of Cangzhou City."

Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

"Yes, your highness."

Zhan Xingchang nodded. These vassal kings are so brazen, he has no way.

Referring to the repair of the city wall, Xiao Ming said, "by the way, you go with me to the workshop area. This time, the repair of the city wall is not the same as before. It's too slow."

After that, they go to the workshop area, and Xiao Ming leads Zhan Xingchang directly to the cement workshop.

"What are these powders, your highness?"

Even zhanxingchang can't get in and out of the workshop area at will. Naturally, he doesn't know what's in it.

"It's called cement. All along, it's only used for the construction of workshops." Xiao Ming took a look around the workshop area, which is now taking shape.

With the improvement of workshop area, living area and workshop area have been separated.

In the living area, a canteen was built to provide three meals a day for slaves, and the houses in the living area were all brick concrete structures, made of cement and green bricks.

The design of these houses naturally comes from Xiao Ming.

Compared with the wooden structure, although it is not beautiful enough, it is very durable and strong. Each house is in the shape of a strip, with a large shop inside, and each room has 50 people.

"Cement?" Zhan Xingchang looked at the things between the green bricks in the cement workshop and asked, "Your Highness, is this cement?"

Zhan Xingchang pointed to the things between the cracks.

Xiao Ming has always kept a low profile on cement. Many people don't attach importance to the role of cement. Now it's time for cement to play its role.

The traditional wall is basically mined rock, and then transported back to masonry, such efficiency is too low.

However, cement is not the same. Green brick or red brick can be made from local materials. It only needs to transport cement from Qingzhou.

In the process of masonry, the amount of cement is not much, one-time transportation is estimated to be able to meet the needs of Cangzhou City.

Moreover, the masonry technology is very flexible, and the speed is very fast. If one layer is not enough, one more layer can be built to continuously strengthen the thickness.

In modern times, there are mature masonry techniques to refer to. Generally speaking, ten craftsmen can build a house of 400 square meters and more than three meters high in three days.

Now Xiao Ming has trained some mature bricklayers in the workshop area, just to prepare for the renovation of the wall of Cangzhou City.

"Well, as you can see, if there is cement between the two bricks, the two bricks will be very firm when they dry up. Now I'll show you how the craftsmen built them, and how to expand the wall of Cangzhou City to be more suitable for artillery shooting." Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

In view of the fact that the barbarians went south this time, the artillery had been put on the agenda, and the repair of Cangzhou city had to be put on the agenda.

During this period of time, when casting artillery, Xiao Ming ordered the cement workshop to speed up the production of cement, in order to give the cement to Zhan Xingchang today and let him go to Cangzhou City to repair the city wall.

Zhan Xingchang nods and follows Xiao Ming to a building under construction in Gongfang district. The building is built near the water and seems to have just started.

"This is the textile workshop. Now we are building a factory. When the textile machine comes out, we will provide military uniform and other clothing for the Qingzhou army." Xiao Ming said.

He is now asking Chen Qi to restore the multi spindle spinning frame with Huangdaopo spinning frame. In Dayu, the spinning frame can only spin one yarn, which is inefficient.

This efficiency is far from meeting the current demand, and once the multi spindle spinning machine appears, this phenomenon will change.

In the modern Yuan Dynasty, the emergence of Huang Daopo's spinning machine once greatly increased the production of cloth in Huang Daopo's hometown. There is a saying that Songjun cotton cloth and quilt are all over the world.

Now Xiao Ming asked Chen Qi to make a more advanced spinning machine than Huang Daopo's, and this spinning machine is also a foot power, which can be popularized among the people, enough to mobilize women's spinning in Liuzhou and promote the development of Qingzhou's textile industry.

When modern Britain rose, it was the textile industry as the leading industry that gathered a lot of wealth.

Therefore, Xiao Ming also attaches great importance to this matter.

While speaking, Zhan Xingchang has been staring at the bricklayer building the wall. Seeing a bricklayer quickly building a thick wall, Zhan Xingchang gradually shows his excited look.

"Your Highness, this kind of masonry technology is much faster than mining rocks to build the city wall. If you give me enough manpower, I can guarantee that Cangzhou City will be built into a grand pass in five months!"Zhan Xingchang said.

Zhan Xingchang is hit hard by the fact that he and other vassal kings ask for money and food. Xiao Ming intends to make him regain some confidence, because he may not be able to do it well. At least Zhan Xingchang also makes king Yong spit out something.

"In that case, it's up to you, but what's your plan?" Xiao Ming asked.

He still wanted to know about the construction plan of zhanxingchang. After all, it was not a joke for the barbarians to go south.

"Building a turret on the city wall is one of them. Second, I will extend the city wall, and build a turret and arrow tower on the extended city wall, so that more guns can shoot."

After a pause, Zhan Xingchang suddenly said with a bad smile: "and seeing the function of the cement and green bricks of his highness today, I suddenly think of a new method, that is, to build brick columns in front of the city wall. In this way, if the barbarians come, they can slow down their attack, and even make them unable to set up the ladder in time."

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, which Zhan Xingchang understood very quickly.

He said that this kind of stone pillar is similar to the function of Juma, but at this time this kind of pillar is used by people.

The artillery is for long-range shooting. When it comes to the city wall, the function of the artillery will be greatly reduced. At this time, it needs a short-range weapon to fight back. Naturally, it is a bow and crossbow.

Zhan Xingchang's suggestion made Xiao Ming suddenly consider making indigenous grenades.

This method is to put the gunpowder in a pottery pot of moderate size, plug the mouth of the pot with a wooden plug, place a medicine twist in the middle, and throw it when it's lit. It's similar to a gun fight, but it's more powerful.

When they got close, these barbarians were blocked by stone pillars. When they gathered in a pile, they threw them inside. It was probably very sour.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming has more confidence in dealing with the barbarians. As long as the barbarians come, they will be scared to death by this new weapon.

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