Legendary star: Signed to the Palace at the beginning

Chapter 128 Cement Plant

Chapter 128 Cement Plant

Everyone said one after another: "Cousin is refreshing, let's toast to cousin."

Xiao Chuan said: "Okay, let's have a toast, but Brother Yu can remind you brothers that if you want to buy the house in Qujiangchi, you must start early, and the house will become more and more expensive in the future."

"Okay, my cousin, let's go and have a look in a few days."

Everyone drank again. After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, we became familiar with each other and talked more.

Xiao Chuan and Dugu Wu had just left the gate when someone called him.

Xiao Chuan looked in the direction of the sound and saw Dugushan's eldest son Xiao Chuan waving to them at the entrance of an alley.

Walking closer, Xiao Chuan smiled and said, "Brother Cheng, what do you want?"

Xiao Chuan was a little embarrassed and said, "Cousin, I want to ask you something."

Xiao Chuan said, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Chuan stretched out his hand to scratch his head, blushed and said: "Cousin, you also know that I am a concubine, and my status in the family is not much better than that of a servant. The monthly allowance is very little, and I have no skills, so my cousin has a look. Do you have any profitable business arrangements there?"

Xiao Chuan thought in his heart, his current career is getting bigger and bigger, and he also needs more reliable people to help. People from his own family are more reliable than those found on the street. Looking at Xiao Chuan again, his eyes are clear, Unlike treacherous people.

Seeing Xiao Chuan's silence, Xiao Chuan thought he was in trouble, and hurriedly said: "Cousin, if you are in trouble, just treat him like a brother."

Xiao Chuan smiled and said, "No embarrassment, I was thinking about how to arrange for you just now. In this way, you will wait for me at my house tomorrow morning, and I will help you arrange it."

Xiao Chuan was overjoyed, and quickly cupped his fists to salute, "Thank you, cousin."

Xiao Chuan waved his hand, stopped Xiao Chuan from saluting, and said: "Brother Cheng, our business is public or private, and the ugly words come first. I am partnering with other nobles in these businesses. I am just a rascal, humble , you can’t make mistakes, don’t use your power for personal gain in it, and shoddy it.”

Xiao Chuan's face turned serious, and he said seriously: "Brother Cheng, you can rest assured that you are a brother, you will definitely do your best to do a good job, and you will never lose face, and you and the nobles will never ruin your reputation."

Xiao Chuan said: "Okay, see you tomorrow."

The next day, Xiao Chuan came as expected.

Xiao Chuan took Xiao Chuan to the foot of Limestone Mountain.

Looking from a distance, the gray rocks on the stone mountain are stacked in piles with sparse vegetation. It is indeed limestone.

Limestone can be used to burn both lime and cement, which solved a big problem for Xiao Chuan's dream.

Yujuluo has already prepared the selected hundred steps and the mountain-opening stone tools.

Yu Juluo knocked on the limestone with a big hammer, and the limestone fell down rustlingly, saying: "My lord, this limestone is not strong, it is not good for building a house."

Xiao Chuan bent down and picked up a small piece of limestone, rubbed it with his fingers, and said, "I don't build a house with stones, I want to burn these limestones to ashes."

Yu Juluo said: "My lord, how can I use the ashes of the stone?"

Xiao Chuan said with a smile: "A house built with lime and cement is much better than a stone."

Then Xiao Chuan ordered: "Yujuluo, you arrange fifty parts to go over there to build residential houses, and the remaining fifty parts to build cement workshops here."

Yu Juluo bowed and saluted, "The final general will obey the order."

Xiao Chuan said: "Let the Huotou army bury the pot and make food first, so that the soldiers can eat and drink enough."

Yu Juluo reminded in a low voice: "My lord, if we are full, the military rations will not be enough."

Xiao Chuan said: "Don't worry, the Sir is not short of money. If you have money, are you afraid that you won't be able to buy food?"

Yu Zan said loudly, "My lord is right, you can only do activities when you are full."

When the soldiers heard that they could eat with their stomachs open, they all rejoiced and thanked him again and again, so they almost confessed to Xiao Chuan as their ancestor.

After eating enough, Yu Juluo led the trilogy to build simple houses and factories near Shishan.

All the soldiers moved after hearing the news, because they often helped the generals with their work, so they were very skilled in their work.

The soldiers knew that they were building houses for their own families, and no one was fooled. They all wanted to build tall and thick houses.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Chuan said, "You don't need to build your house too strong. In the future, these houses will be pulled out. When we burn out the cement and bricks, we will build brick houses for you in the future, which is better than those landlords. A better place to live.”

The soldiers were even more excited when they heard the words, and said boldly: "My lord, if we can live in the adobe house, our ancestors will burn incense. We dare not think that we can live in a better place than the landlord."

Xiao Chuan said: "Okay, everyone will live in brick houses in the future, so I will leave this adobe house for you."

When the soldier heard the words, he was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, I'm just kidding. When we divide the brick and tile houses, please don't leave me behind."

It made all the soldiers laugh, and they became more motivated.

Yu Juluo came over with two buckets of water, and said, "Everyone works hard for me, if anyone is lazy, I will let his whole family live in a pigsty in the future."

All the soldiers said one after another: "Alright, Centurion, when did we ever embarrass you?"

The adobe is dried in the sun and built into houses and workshops. It is estimated that a residential area and cement workshop can be built in less than ten days.

"Brother Cheng, you and some craftsmen come here."

Dugu Cheng and several craftsmen followed Xiao Chuan to the simple shed.

Xiao Chuan looked at the craftsmen and said, "My lord wants to produce a building material called cement. Whoever researches it first among you will be rewarded by the lord."

The craftsmen heard that there would be a big reward, and they were gearing up one by one.

Xiao Chuan used the printer in the system space warehouse to print out the cement production ratio yesterday, and then sent a copy to each craftsman, asking them to lead some strong labor experiments.

Of course, the cement formula is kept secret, and each craftsman is monitored by soldiers.

Xiao Chuan said to Dugu Cheng: "Brother Cheng, from now on you will be in charge of this cement factory. Cement is very useful. If it is done well, we will get rich."

There used to be a brick kiln near Chang'an City, and Xiao Chuan built another brick kiln near Shishan. Gaoxin hired brick-burning masters and started to burn bricks.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. According to the production method, a craftsman finally produced cement. Although the quality is not as good as that of later generations, it was already the most advanced building material in that era.

Under Xiao Chuan's instruction, Dugu Cheng immediately appointed this craftsman as the head craftsman of the cement workshop, and several other craftsmen as assistants. They signed a confidentiality contract and started mass production of cement.

Xiao Chuan decided to build a cement road from the limestone mountain to the fiefdom first, so as to facilitate transportation, so he ordered the workers to measure, level, and lay stones, and then mixed cement and sand together to start building the cement road.

Yu Wenyan and He Tuo also specially came to watch.

The roads in the past were all dirt roads. Because horse-drawn carriages were used all the year round, the road surface was full of deep grooves pressed by the wheels of the horse-drawn carriages. The wheels of the carriages could only roll in the deep grooves, so the common people used to call them roads.

During the Warring States period, the axles of each vassal state were different, so the distance between the two deep grooves on the roads of each country was also different. For better transportation, Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and implemented the same track.

As the craftsmen worked hard, a two-way four-lane concrete road with a separation belt quickly extended outward from the stone mountain.

(End of this chapter)