Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 43 What is the formula of cement?

Zhao Wen led the crowd to stand on the ruins of Longmen Fort. Looking at the messy ruins, he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

"Cheating father, this mother's cheating father, this is cheating father!!!"

Zhao Wen covered his head and roared into the sky.

Li Xiaosan looked at the ruins all over the ground, and said coldly: "The court is bullying people, and this court is too bullying. There is nothing in Longmen Fort, so let Big Brother Zhao be on guard. Isn't that clearly bullying people?"

"Brother Zhao, let's quit. Let's go directly back to Fengsui. We shouldn't be guarding this shit." Li Xiaosan directly pulled up the corner of Zhao Wen's clothes, and was about to walk back.

Song Hu slapped the back of Li Xiaosan's hand, and scolded: "Nonsense, how can this defense be said to be inappropriate? This is an order from the imperial court. Thunder, rain and dew are all benevolence from the king. How can it be such a joke?"

"Little San, what Hu Zi said is right." Zhao Wen stood up straight, touched Xiao Sanfang's head, and said earnestly: "The emperor appointed me as the guard of Longmen Castle. It’s dilapidated, but soon, I will give you a different Longmen Fort.”

Looking at the ruins, Zhao Wen suddenly said to Liu Wu: "Have those large carts been pulled over? Come with me to the Zhangjiakou market place tomorrow. The market place has been parked for such a long time, so I reckon it should be open. Now, let's change some silver."

"Here it is, just leave it outside."

……

As night gradually fell, Zhao Wen and the others found a mansion that hadn't collapsed in the ruins of Longmen Fort, cleaned it up casually, and stayed inside.

This mansion that has not yet collapsed is the garrison mansion in Longmen Fort, which is where Zhao Wen will live in the future.

Zhao Wen and others lit a fire in the hall of the Garrison Mansion and sat around the fire.

There is a large iron pot on the fire, and rice is steaming in it.

Beside the fire, some unfinished pieces of horse meat were roasting.

The aroma of rice filled the hall.

When the lid of the pot was opened, a burst of white water vapor permeated the air.Zhao Wen and the others hurriedly scooped some into the bowl, then picked up the jerky beside the fire, took a bite of rice, took a bite of the jerky, and ate it with relish.

Li Xiaoying sat beside the fire in a daze, unwilling to make a move for a long time.

Zhao Wen noticed Li Xiaoying, so his mouth was full of rice, and asked vaguely: "Why don't you eat? You haven't eaten for a whole day. As the saying goes, people are like iron and rice is like steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. Hurry up and eat."

Li Xiaoying looked at Zhao Wen, and said with some embarrassment: "You guys eat first, I'm not very hungry."

"Not hungry? How is it possible?" Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying and understood immediately.

That's right, she is a lady from a scholarly family, when did she have dinner with these rough soldiers?In addition, Zhao Daniu and his gang kept sucking and sucking for a long time when they were eating. After hearing this, they lost their appetite.

Thinking of this, Zhao Wen put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, swallowed the rice in his mouth, then he clapped his hands, took out a clean bowl from the side, and shouted at Zhao Daniu who was constantly picking on the iron pan: " Get out of the way, what do you look like one by one? Starving ghosts reincarnated?"

Zhao Daniu was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his hands and neck, and looked at Zhao Wen with his eyes rolling.

Zhao Wen scooped out a large bowl of rice from the iron pot, then picked up a piece of dried meat from the fire, blew the dust on it, and said to Li Xiaoying: "Follow me, these rough soldiers, I can see I can't eat it either."

Zhao Wen picked up his bowl and chopsticks from the ground and walked outside.

Li Xiaoying hurriedly followed.

Zhao Wen sat on the stone steps outside the hall and said to Li Xiaoying, "Come here, come here, sit here."

Zhao Wen pointed to the stone steps next to him with a smile on his face.

Li Xiaoying was a little embarrassed, after all, the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty was no joke.She was instilled by her father since she was a child, saying that men and women should not get along with each other, and she looked at Zhao Wen for a while, feeling a little overwhelmed.

But then I thought about it, when I saved myself, I did nothing to myself.So she laughed at herself and sat next to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen watched her sit down, and put the bowl and chopsticks in Li Xiaoying's hands directly.

Li Xiaoying held the bowl and chopsticks, smiled sweetly at Zhao Wen, and buried herself in eating.

……

When the sparrows were chattering on the branches, Zhao Wen rubbed his sleepy eyes.He looked at Li Xiaoying who was leaning on his shoulder, and called softly, "Girl, it's dawn."

Li Xiaoying's eyelashes trembled, and then she opened her eyes.

"Dawn?" Li Xiaoying looked at herself leaning on Zhao Wen's shoulder, stood up hurriedly, turned her back, her face flushed.

"Yes, it's dawn." Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying, who was reacting fiercely, and scratched his head in doubt.

As a person from later generations, Zhao Wen has never felt ashamed of a woman sleeping on a man's shoulder.

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying, didn't think about it, then turned his head and shouted to the people in the hall who had woken up for a long time: "Hey, let's set off while it's still early."

Half an hour later, the four carts drove slowly towards Zhangjiakou under the driving of the crowd.

Zhao Wen sat on the front cart, and Li Xiaoying leaned tightly beside him.

Zhao Wen was thinking about the problem while driving the carriage.

If such a large Longmen Castle is rebuilt using the methods of this era, it will probably take a lot of time.I have to think of a way to save time.

In this era, building a city wall is nothing more than ramming an earth wall with rammed earth, and then wrapping the rammed earth with green bricks.

Many strong cities were built using this method.It's just that things like glutinous rice juice, egg whites, and brown sugar water were added to the rammed earth of those strong cities.As long as these things are added, the entire city wall will become extremely strong.

But these things are not ordinary things. The glutinous rice juice alone is worth a lot, let alone the other two?

Zhao Wen sat quietly on the shaft of the car. He suddenly thought of the cement of later generations, so he slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "Yes, I can use cement to build a city."

Li Xiaoying next to her was taken aback. She looked at Zhao Wen nervously, and asked softly, "What is cement?"

"Nothing!" Zhao Wen responded immediately, and then thought: "I am really a genius, this cement city is not only fast, but also strong, although it is not as good as those special rammed earth, but it is cheaper. "

A smile appeared on Zhao Wen's face, but the smile was fleeting. With a bitter face, he lamented in his heart: "I forgot the formula of the cement."

"What is cement used to burn? Stone? Not right. Gypsum? Not right. It seems to use lime and something to burn at a high temperature of more than 400 degrees, and then mix it with gypsum and grind it into powder. But What is the lime burned with?" Zhao Wen thought for a long time, but couldn't think of it.

"There seems to be limestone, yes, there must be limestone. But what are the other ingredients?" Zhao Wen kept thinking while pinching his sparsely bearded chin.

"Damn it, it's a shame that I'm still a top student who graduated from a prestigious university. How could I have forgotten such a simple thing? In future generations, it's something that can be found on the street. If you just search the Internet, you can find it. How can I give it to you? Forgot?" Zhao Wen kept rubbing his head, his face full of bitterness.

Li Xiaoying looked at Zhao Wen's appearance and asked in a low voice, "What are you thinking about?"

"cement."

"Cement? What is this? Is it mud mixed with water?" Li Xiaoying asked softly.

"Cement for building a house."

Li Xiaoying looked at Zhao Wen with a sad face, and said: "I heard from my father that the best material for building a house is Sanhe clay. Although I don't know what the cement you are talking about is, I think it is the best material for building a house. It’s better to use triadic soil.”

"Sanhe soil?"

"That's right, it's a mixture of clay, lime and fine sand. I heard from my father before that those big families would add glutinous rice juice, egg whites and brown sugar water to it. The houses built in this way can live for many years."

"Clay, lime. Clay, lime..."

Zhao Wen kept chanting these words, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he laughed loudly, "Haha, I finally remembered!"

Zhao Wen hugged Li Xiaoying excitedly, and kissed Li Xiaoying on the cheek with a bang.

Li Xiaoying blushed directly from Zhao Wen's sudden action. Her whole face was flushed red, buried on her chest, her ears were red, and she didn't dare to look at Zhao Wen.

(End of this chapter)