"It's July now, and in three months at most, the weather in the north will get colder. What we have to do now is to transform the entire Mayi County. After all, Mayi County is too small to accommodate so many of us. We
Build a lot of housing so that 200,000 people can live in warm brick houses this winter!"
Old Man Wang was puzzled: "This is a big project. In our hometown, only landlords have brick houses to live in!"
Xu Wei said with a smile: "This year, it will be simpler. We will build Datongpu first. 10 people live in one room, and 200,000 people are 20,000 houses. 5,000 bricks should be able to build a Datongpu. As long as we burn 1
With hundreds of millions of bricks, these 20,000 houses can be built. If we all work together and imagine, we can definitely do it!"
"One hundred million?" This number made Old Man Wang and others dizzy.
Why can’t the captain understand me? Ordinary people like us can live in brick houses! There are also many empty houses in Mayi, so everyone can just squeeze in.
Is it that exaggerated?
It’s just 100 million bricks, I didn’t even say 100 million tons of steel!
Well, 100 million tons of steel is indeed an exaggeration. In this era, the big guys can't even produce 100 million kilograms of steel.
Old Man Niu said realistically: "Everyone should find a way to live in a tent first. As long as there are city walls, tents can withstand cold winds. This is how we used to live. One hundred million bricks is too unrealistic. The old man has never seen it before."
With so many bricks, even if we demolish all the bricks in the city walls of Mayi, it won’t be enough for us to build so many houses.”
Old man Wang also advised Xu Wei not to be so overjoyed: "The winter in the north is about 100 days away. According to what you said, captain, it is equivalent to making 1 million bricks every day, not to mention that this brick kiln has not yet
Once built, will there be a brick kiln capable of producing one million bricks in the world?"
Hearing this number, Xu Wei also scratched his head. He knew that there was a steel plant with a daily output of 100,000 tons. Could it be that these 1 million bricks were more difficult to produce than the 100,000-ton steel plant?
Two thousand years is too big! Xu Wei thought it was a small number, but to Old Man Wang and others, it was an astronomical figure.
Considering that this is the feudal era, it is indeed difficult to produce 1 million bricks per day.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "We can build 10 brick kilns, so that each brick kiln can produce up to 100,000 bricks per day."
Old Man Wang smiled bitterly and said: "Captain, in the half year we were in Zhongshan Kingdom, we only made 100,000 bricks, and the kiln did not produce bricks every day. It takes time to make bricks, and it takes time to bake bricks.
It takes time to cool down the kiln, and it won't come up quickly at all. Let's build a wooden house. There are giant trees everywhere on the hills near Mayi. Building a wooden house is relatively simple, and it can withstand cold winds better than a tent! Three months
Time, plus the empty houses in Mayi itself, are enough for us to live in."
Wang Lei also said: "Captain, you must not forget that we are now within the attack range of the barbarians. Even with bricks, we cannot build houses. Instead, we should expand the city wall of Mayi County. If safety cannot be guaranteed, we will be dealt with by the barbarians."
After all, we are the only ones with money in the entire Northern Xinjiang!"
Xu Wei scratched his head, as if he had decided on a goal that could not be achieved. Moreover, what Wang Lei said made sense. It was easy to be attacked by barbarians after leaving Yanmen Pass, so it was indeed necessary to build a city wall for defense first.
There are too few talents. If the unmentionable department of Mao Xiong was there, I wouldn't have to go through such trouble. There is still too little talent, and now we can't even do urban planning.
Xu Wei is self-aware. He is an Internet geek and may have more knowledge than other people in this world, but he is far inferior to others. He has to make concrete objects by himself, but he doesn’t know how to start.
But he still said: "Then let's do it in two steps. First make wooden houses as a temporary residence, and at the same time make bricks to expand the city wall of Mayicai. But there must be a fire pit in the house. In the cold northern Xinjiang, there is no fire pit.
It’s going to kill someone!”
Old Man Wang and the others all nodded to this point. Last year they used the fire kang in his Zhongshan country. It can be said that everyone who used it said it was good!
Xu Wei thought for a while and then said: "The old man just said that we can't produce bricks every day. I know a kind of horizontal kiln. The kiln is made into a circle with a partition in the middle to block the heat. I want to finish firing the bricks in one furnace."
After that, the partition can be put down to cool down, and other bricks can continue to be burned. After all the bricks are transported out, new bricks can be put in for burning, so that there will be a continuous flow of bricks made in a streamlined manner."
Xu Wei remembered that this seemed to be a method he had seen in a farming novel. It was said that it could increase the speed of making bricks by more than ten times.
Old man Wang thought for a moment about the kind of brick kiln Xu Wei mentioned, and combined with his own brick-burning experience, this method can really increase the efficiency several times. Of course, partitions are nonsense, but making a horizontal kiln can indeed improve the efficiency of every brick kiln.
Placed bricks.
Old Man Wang said: "We 200,000 people can't just sit here and eat nothing. Even if we have 2 million shi of food, we won't be able to live for long. We still need to open up wasteland first. This year we will open up wasteland and plant some soybeans to nourish the land. Wait.
The harvest will be better next year, otherwise there won’t be much harvest at all from reclaiming raw land like this next year.”
Niu Guidao: "Old man, we have too many things to do. There are so many people to open up wasteland. To open up wasteland, we need plowshares. If we need farm tools, we need to make iron. If we want to make iron, we need brick kilns, steel plants, and buildings."
An iron ore plant also needs to burn charcoal and build a wood kiln. How much manpower will be wasted in doing this?
Judging from the poor situation in Mayi, how can we have the manpower to open up wasteland? Even if we open up wasteland, we can't open up many acres of arable land. It seems to me that there are grasslands everywhere in Mayi. Why don't we graze them? Anyway, there are more in the Huns.
For cattle and sheep, buy some calves and lambs from the Huns to graze, so that the elderly and children can graze while us young and strong people do some heavy labor."
"Herding?" Old Man Wang and the others have never done this before.
During this period, Jizhou had a registered population of 8 million. If the hidden population is included, the number may exceed tens of millions. Therefore, there is no idle land in the entire Jizhou Plain. Old Man Wang and the others have not let their herds go at all. If the people of Youzhou say
Maybe they also know something about herding.
"Herding is what the barbarians do. None of us know how to herd!"
Niu Guidao: "This is not easy. Just go to the Xiongnu and buy a few slaves and let them teach us how to herd."
Old Man Niu said: "We are all Han people. From now on we will have to rely on herding to support ourselves instead of farming. We will become barbarians. How will we face our ancestors in the future! This is wrong!"