Han Xiang

Chapter 80 House Layout

After ten days of rest at the end of the year, these people clamored to go out of the city to fetch soil.

Long Xiang saw that the clay transported to the west of the city had piled up more than a dozen hills beside the kiln, and if he continued to transport the soil, it would occupy the place for drying bricks. He asked these energetic people to dig several large brick kilns nearby.

Standing on the sidelines of the new kiln, Long Xiang had already imagined the scene where the kiln was burning and moving bricks.

The time to focus on work always passes quickly.

By the time the brick kiln was completed, there was not much left for the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year.

Long Xiang forced the people to rest for more than ten days, and then came the busy season of spring plowing and planting.

Hefei currently has no officials receiving salaries, and Long Xiang's taxation of the people under his rule is simple and rude, that is, the grain produced per mu of land is divided equally between public and private.

If there is a bad harvest year, the farmers will be tilted to the side, and the grain in the public warehouse will be used as a strategic reserve for consumption in disaster years and wartime stoppages.

There are no middlemen to make the difference, and the army protects the farming. The people are very attentive in farming.

In addition to the young and strong men who reclaimed wasteland last year, adult women also participated in the spring plowing. For a while, the outside of Hefei was in full swing.

The people in Hefei are full of confidence in the future, while the people in the north of Huainan are increasingly desperate for life.

Yuan Shu proclaimed the emperor and established the country for a year without making any territory, but instead lost the land north of the Huaihe River in several wars.

The huge bureaucratic and powerful group "sucked blood" together with Yuan Shu, coupled with the drag of natural disasters and wars, the increasingly exhausted Huainan court could only meet the expenses of the interest groups by constantly exploiting the people under its rule.

Obviously it is the spring of hope, but the common people choose to help the old and the young to leave their hometown.

In March of the third year of Jian'an, the spring plowing in Hefei had not yet ended, and the sentries outside the city successively discovered the refugees going south.

Long Xiang was short of manpower, so he asked Tang Yu to open the north gate of Hefei, and temporarily resettled the newly arrived refugees in the north of the city. Cao Xing would count the number every day, and then report to Feng Zhong for approval to distribute rations.

The new residents missed the spring plowing, but Longxiang had work for them.

The clay transported into the city last year has been dried for several months and can now be used to make bricks.

In April, farming was a little less busy. Apart from the farmers who needed to patrol the fields on a daily basis, most of the people also returned to the city to make bricks, and personnel activities were very frequent at the time.

In late April, Hefei accommodated nearly a thousand refugees in two months, and the difficulty of personnel management increased sharply. The workload of Feng Zhong, Tang Jue, and Cao Xing also increased. They went to the Hou Mansion to discuss with Long Xiang.

The three arrived at Hefei Hou's Mansion, but found no one in the main hall, and finally found Long Xiang in the garden.

At that time, Long Xiang was painting on the ground with branches, and the content of the painting was a square frame and a square frame, with intersecting vertical and horizontal straight lines in the middle.

Feng Zhong asked curiously: "Yun Qi, what are you painting?"

"I am designing houses for the common people."

Long Xiang didn't look back when he spoke, but continued to paint with the branch.

After listening to Tang Yu, he squatted down. He looked at it carefully for a while, and asked, "I don't understand. Why is this house so strange? Can it be built so many layers?"

"Hahaha, this is the floor plan, which is what it looks like from the sky." Long Xiang was instantly amused.

"Plane?" Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Longchamp turned around and picked up the branch, and introduced like a real estate consultant:
"This location is the front yard, where fruit trees and vegetables can be planted; this is the main room in the middle, several bedrooms are here, and there is a pigsty in the backyard, which can be used as a chicken coop next to it."

Longchamp's house type design is reasonable, compared with the ancient houses, it is almost like a crushed existence.

Seeing it from the side, Feng Zhong yearned for it, and said in his heart that you didn't learn in vain in your dream, and couldn't help muttering: "That's great."

"What are these lines in the middle?" Cao Xing asked, pointing to the painting.

Long Xiang replied: "This is an underground sewage culvert. Sewage from washing dishes and vegetables at home, as well as excrement from humans and animals, can all be discharged to the cesspool outside the backyard through this culvert."

Cao Xing scratched his head after hearing this, he had followed Lu Bu to Chang'an, and he had seen the world, he thought it was Dong Zhuo's Grand Master's Mansion, and he had never heard of the sewer.

Is Long Sima imagining something?

"Old Feng."

Tang Jue looked at Feng Zhong in bewilderment, "Do you understand what Yun Qi said?"

"Slightly understand and not quite understand."

Feng Zhong frowned, shook his head slightly, pointed to the line in the middle and asked, "Sewage can flow down the underground drain, but how can the feces flow into that pool?"

Cao Xing added: "The sewage pool."

"Yes, the sewage pool." Feng Zhong nodded straight.

"Isn't it enough to find a slope? It's just"

Long Xiang stopped abruptly in the middle of the conversation, because he began to feel troubled. There were no PVC water supply and drainage pipes in ancient times. If building a house should be considered as sewerage, what should be used to replace the convenient sewage pipes of later generations?
Feng Zhong has a lot of experience in life. He heard Long Xiang mention the slope, and tried to draw it with his arm a few times. He suddenly felt that if he made a certain slope and then washed it with water, he might really be able to bring it to the sewage pool.

"Yunqi, tens of thousands of adobes have been made, if you build a house according to your picture, how many bricks are needed for a house?"

"It may be several thousand or tens of thousands, and the specific amount needs to be calculated in detail"

"hiss"

The three of them were shocked at the same time. They thought that tens of thousands of bricks were enough, but when Long Xiang said the number, they felt cold. Thousands of bricks?Can you still live in a new house in this life?
Seeing the expressions of the three people, Long Xiang immediately understood each other's worries, and quickly comforted him: "When the brick-making kiln takes shape, the speed of brick production will be much faster. When there are more people in the city, we will arrange people to do this."

"If they specialize in making bricks and firing kilns, what would they eat?" Feng Zhong didn't understand.

Long Xiang explained: "In the beginning, we will distribute grain, and later it can be distributed like farming. Households who need to build houses exchange grain for bricks."

"You still need to exchange food? That's not worth it." Tang Yu shook his head.

Long Xiang smiled and said, "It's all labor. It's not worth it. If you don't want to live in a new house, you don't need to change the bricks. We can use the extra bricks to repair the city wall."

"How to distribute like farming? Is it based on the number of people who make bricks in the kiln, and then divide the fired bricks equally, and then let them exchange for grain?"

Feng Zhong is now in charge of taxation and grain, and is most sensitive to distribution issues.

Long Xiang: "Private transaction prices are chaotic. At that time, I will set a standard. All bricks will be handed over to the public, and then converted into grain and distributed to craftsmen. Those who need bricks will go to the government to exchange."

"Miao Miao Miao." Feng Zhong said yes again and again.

Tang Xi nodded with a half understanding, and then asked: "By the way, Yunqi, what do you plan to use to glue the bricks together? Yellow mud mixed with hay?"

"Yellow mud? Cement, of course."

When Long Xiang casually mentioned cement, he couldn't help but slap himself twice, thinking how could he forget this?Although there is no mechanical equipment in this era, it is not a problem to make indigenous cement.

The main material of earth method cement is the same as brick adobe, that is, the sun-dried clay is ground into powder, and limestone is added to calcined clinker, and finally it is ground into ash together with the slag left over from ironmaking.

Long Xiang thought about building a cement factory in the Three Kingdoms, but the conditions seemed not too harsh.

Thinking of the beauty, Long Xiang couldn't help but smile like an aunt.

　There must be some space for farming, but please rest assured that it will not be too much. Handsome readers who are not addicted to watching can save it for two days to watch together. The big story before the release is coming soon, and the specific release time is still waiting for the editor to arrange.

　　
　
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