The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 139 Guanggu City is under construction
Not long after leaving Liu Tai from Jingling Hall, Liu Tai took the initiative to look for Cao Yi.

Because Liu Tai wanted to know the progress of the construction of Guanggu City.

Cao Yi was actually waiting for Liu Tai. When Liu Tai saw him, he immediately came over to greet him and said, "I have met the Duke."

"Uncle Cao, you did a great job in building the Jingling Palace this time, giving the soldiers who died in the battle a home!" Liu Tai said.

"It is the benevolence of the Duke. If it were not for the Duke, I would not have built this Jingling Palace!" Cao Ni shook his head and couldn't help but look at the Jingling Palace in front of him, and couldn't help sighing, "This place makes people unconsciously feel at ease. If When I die, the Duke will bury me here!"

"Oh?" Liu Tai smiled and said, "When the time comes, it seems like a good idea for Uncle Cao to join me in joining the Nine Netherworlds to become the King of Hell!"

When Cao Yi heard Liu Tai's words, he shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't accompany the Duke to fight, but I am willing to do my best to build a city for the Duke."

"Uncle Cao is serious!" Liu Tai said to Cao Yi, "By the way, how is the work progress in Guanggu City?"

When Cao Yi heard Liu Tai's words, his expression straightened, and he said, "It will take at least two years to build up Guanggu City.

This year's work is mainly about laying the foundation and reserving space according to what the military official said. It will take quite a long time to lay the foundation.

Moreover, the subsequent construction of the city wall also needs to be reinforced with waterproofing and fireproofing, especially the rammed earth, which requires slow work and meticulous work. It cannot be done quickly! "

Liu Tai heard Cao Yi's words and nodded thoughtfully. He finally understood why those time travelers went to get cement as soon as they came to ancient times. There was no way. In this world, how could they build anything if they didn't get cement? !
"There is no rush to build slowly. However, a detailed list of the materials needed to build the city this year will be given to me at the end of the year when making next year's financial budget. This financial budget will determine the funds allocated for next year.

By the way, since the preliminary planning of Guanggu City has been completed, let Guo Pu survey the river from Guanggu City to the Bohai Sea to see if the river can be widened. If so, how much water will be needed? Let him give me a number for the labor and supplies! "Liu Tai ordered Cao Yi.

"Okay!" Cao Yi heard Liu Tai's words and quickly agreed. After all, if you are a construction engineer, you can't do anything if you don't work hard if you want money.

"By the way, you can experiment and add a steel-forged support structure to the inside of the rammed earth, just like we humans have bones. Let's also add bones to the rammed earth to see if we can increase the structural toughness of the building!"

Liu Tai said, "Do experiments first to try this idea? After all, this Guanggu City cannot tolerate any loss."

Although Liu Tai is not from civil engineering, he also knows about reinforced concrete. However, in Liu Tai's impression, steel bars and concrete work well together because the expansion coefficients of the two seem to be similar, thus forming a new stress structure.

As for whether steel bars are suitable for rammed earth to fully reinforce the building, it needs to be tested.

"No!" Cao Yi heard Liu Tai's occasional whimsical thoughts, so he decided to record them down and try them out first.

Cao Ni gradually became familiar with Liu Tai's working style and knew that Liu Tai would occasionally come up with some wonderful ideas.

Of course, the most important thing is Liu Tai’s money-taking model. For any project, Liu Tai will formulate an economic budget, and then design it into several phases of the project according to each year. Generally, there will be a 10% surplus. .

If there is still more, it would be easy to make a surprise use of the money when the time comes, but if there is no money, then we will definitely investigate carefully where the money has been spent. There must be a reason for the amount.

Liu Tai knew that as long as the money was put down, it would definitely not be enough. The excessive issuance of currency is a century problem that cannot be solved in the 21st century. It is not a dream to expect ancient people to be completely incorruptible.

Liu Tai said that if the money was spent in advance, he would send someone to investigate the accounts.

Under such circumstances, it is much more convenient to deal with these corrupt officials yourself, and clearing them out is not a pig-raising policy. It is purely to cut some vacant official positions and place them at the grassroots level for soldiers who retire every year.

It's just that if you set the rules first, you won't have any burden to kill them when they become corrupt.

Of course, if he takes down Wang Jun before the entire Qingzhou job is guaranteed, then Liu Tai will have no interest in cleaning up any dirt.

After all, a positive force can cover up most problems on its own. If it takes the initiative to crack down on it, it will be as if the vulnerable code that originally ran normally has been modified by itself, and problems will occur instead.

As for Liu Tai's model, Cao Yi is still somewhat unaccustomed to it, but he has Guo Pu by his side, and Guo Pu's computing power is still very good. As long as Cao Yi does not want to embezzle himself, then the entire project will not work for Cao Yi. Still controllable.

As for asking Guo Pu to complete the preliminary river survey project, Cao Yi thought about it and wondered what was so difficult about it.

Isn't it just to put an extra burden on Guo Pu? This is because the organization values ​​Guo Pu, and I believe he will be very happy to accept it.

Liu Tai learned about the progress of Guanggu City and thought of his unsatisfactory technical chief engineer Jie Fei.

To be honest, Jie Fei is already busy enough with what he has on hand.

The refining technology of coal and iron ore requires constant follow-up by a team under him.

What Liu Tai said about blast furnace steelmaking, the blast furnace is already being tested, but he doesn't know when the results will be produced.

But this must be invested. After all, steel is the purest expression of national power.

This is just like the bronze tripod being a symbol of royal power in ancient times. You can make a tripod out of bronze, but it is more used to make weapons. If Liu Tai unified the world in the future, you can think about whether you can also make one out of steel. The spectacle comes out.

Then he asked Jie Fei for a team to update the spinning machine, which was a pedal spinning car.

The external conditions for this technology, as well as the technology accumulation throughout the era, have been accumulated to a great extent.

Perhaps even in the remote Jiangnan region, a pedal-operated spinning wheel had been invented.

Because the earliest pedal-operated spinning wheel that can be seen in history appeared in a painting by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

At least the appearance of this thing is not unusual for people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In addition to this, he was also asked to send people to build shipyards in counties and counties to inspect ships for free for the people.

Of course, although the inspection is free, repairs cost money. But generally after pointing out what is wrong with the ship or how it should be repaired, these people basically choose to repair the ship themselves instead of leaving it to the shipyard. Come and fix it.

Liu Tai didn't say anything about this. After all, the lower class people were, the more they cared about the little money and food they had.

Because this small amount of money and food is almost negligible for the upper class, but for the lower class people, it may be the last straw that breaks the camel's back, and Liu Tai acquiesces to this.

After all, his purpose is to first encourage people to go fishing and to meet his own ship's surprise attack plan.

As for making money, before the ships are decommissioned and sold to the people for offshore fishing, Liu Tai feels that it will not be easy to make money from the shipyards he arranged to build.However, they were idle, so Liu Tai came to Jie Fei to find something for them to do!

"Greetings to the Duke!" Jie Fei saw Liu Tai. Although he didn't know why, every time Liu Tai saw Fei, he felt that the dark circles in Jie Fei's eyes were a little darker.

But Liu Tai believes that as a qualified tool man, Jie Fei is absolutely willing to fight for the cause of the revival of the Han Dynasty.

So Liu Tai said to Jie Fei, "I need you to do something next!"

"Please give me the Duke's instructions!" Jie Fei didn't hesitate when he saw Liu Tai and responded immediately.

As a craftsman, he was so valued by Liu Tai, and he had a lot of resources and even rights in his hands.

If Liu Tai hadn't valued him, how could he, a craftsman with no other skills except his craftsmanship, look up to him?
Therefore, in Liu Tai's team, Jie Fei is the one with the most Zero Zero Seven.

Especially when he couldn't meet Liu Tai's requirements despite investing a lot of manpower and material resources, Jie Fei was even more afraid that Liu Tai would lose his current position because of his incompetence.

Liu Tai looked at Jie Fei and told Jie Fei quite normally, "Do you know about siege weapons such as thunderbolt chariots and catapults?"

"Jie Fei knows!" Jie Fei nodded repeatedly, "My subordinates have read through the mechanism techniques of siege equipment in recent days.

If the general next hunts Youzhou in the north and brings Jie Fei with him, Jie Fei will definitely make the siege weapons the general needs! "

Liu Tai glanced at Jie Fei. Obviously, in Jie Fei's opinion, the reason why he failed to capture Youzhou was because he was not good at attacking cities, so he was stopped by Rong Cheng.

I never thought that I was just trying out Youzhou.

However, Liu Tai did not explain in too much detail. Instead, he was a little surprised by Jie Fei.

You have a lot of work to do, but you still have time to study siege weapons. Obviously Jie Fei knows that he has stopped at Rong City, so he guesses that he will ask about siege matters. He must have secretly studied it in private!

Liu Tai smiled slightly. Bosses like this kind of roll king. The Jie Fei in front of him seemed to have the potential to become a roll king.

For such technicians who want to make progress, Liu Tai is happy to entrust them with important tasks, even if their ability to invent and create is a little bit poor.

Liu Taidao said, "Your idea is very agreeable to me, but the most important thing is not to study siege weapons but to decompose siege weapons!"

"Decompose siege weapons?" Jie Fei couldn't help but was stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words, a little at a loss.

Liu Taize explained, "I want to dismantle the engineering equipment and put each part at least to the point where a wheelbarrow or a cart can pull it. When we attack the city, we can send the parts to the battlefield from the rear and put these equipment together. stand up.

At the same time, these siege engines are very vulnerable to attack on the battlefield, and will damage a large area in a short time.

Accessories of the same specifications can completely remove the accessories of damaged siege weapons and use them as spare parts! "

"This, this, this?" Jie Fei couldn't help but think deeply after hearing Liu Tai's words. He had never thought of these things!
To be honest, if Liu Tai had not withdrawn the unified weights and measures by measuring mercury, this method was given to other princes, and those princes would not be able to do it if they wanted to.

Why Qin Shihuang is so great is that he really achieved the goal of unification.

"Can't do it?" Liu Tai looked at Jie Fei's appearance and couldn't help but wonder.

"Absolutely, definitely yes!" Jie Fei responded decisively after hearing Liu Tai's words, but Jie Fei said to Liu Tai,

"However, please tell me, the more complex the equipment, the more difficult it will be to disassemble it according to the method you mentioned.

Therefore, if you want to take out such siege equipment in a short time, the engineering distance may be closer than normal engineering equipment.

Of course, Feihui will work hard to improve, and he will definitely live up to the trust of the county magistrate! "

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded, "As late as next year, as early as this year, there may be another war, so I will give you at most one month to modularize these siege equipment.

I will build a specialized production factory based on the spare parts you provide. Do you have any questions? "

"It turns out there is still a month left!" Hearing Liu Tai's words, Jie Fei breathed a sigh of relief and said decisively to Liu Tai, "Please rest assured, Lord, Fei will definitely complete the task."

Liu Tai nodded. Liu Tai believed that the initial disassembly was relatively easy.

After all, I am not asking for it to be dismantled to the point where it can be lifted by humans. As long as it can be pushed with a cart and a cart, it is enough. Jie Fei can definitely do this scale of disassembly.

However, if the siege weapons need to be further dismantled and refined in the future, then Jie Fei will have a headache.

As for now, as long as Jie Fei can solve it to this point, it is enough.

After all, the land in the North China Plain is relatively flat. Usually, you can only cross a river at most, and there is no need to worry about climbing mountains.

Otherwise, the idea of ​​dismantling these things and transporting them by land is probably not a dream.

However, Jie Fei didn't know about the plan for the sea attack, so when he planned it, he must have made it according to the land transportation plan.

In other words, at the last dock where your maritime fleet needs supplies, you also need to prepare some land transportation vehicles to avoid the problem of having these things unloaded from the sea and ending up with no land vehicles for transportation.

Liu Tai thought of this and said to Jie Fei, "By the way, you can open up another group to study something."

"Please give me the Duke's orders!" Jie Fei said respectfully.

"Let people get some shells, grind them into powder, and mix them with clay, sand, and the like, and see if they can make a material that becomes sticky when exposed to water and sticks to things like clay after drying." Liu Tai Said to Jie Fei.

Liu Tai naturally knew that the cement produced by this method was definitely inferior among inferior quality, but no matter what, it was very good at this time, and he would think of ways to replace the materials inside.

"Okay, I'll give the orders when I get back." Jie Fei replied to Liu Tai.

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