In the following days, the entire construction team left early and returned late, basically ensuring that enough people participated in road construction every day.
With the support of a large number of sharp and strong bronze tools and wheelbarrows, the progress of the project changes every day. In just seven or eight days, a road of more than four miles long has been excavated in the mountain forest along the entrance of the valley downstream.
This road is two meters wide, and the newly dug soil is very eye-catching. It winds along the woods according to the mountain shape. There are trees and thorns on both sides, making this road hidden in the mountains and forests look particularly open and spacious.
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And as this road continues to extend forward, running back and forth every day becomes more and more time-consuming.
So Xu Chen had people start building wooden houses using felled wood on the construction site.
First find a relatively open place on the roadside, level out a half-acre piece of land, put a fence around it, build it with wood and cover it with thatch. It doesn't need to be beautiful, as long as it is strong and sheltered from the wind and can stop wild beasts.
The current purpose of these wooden houses is to house people.
Because the construction schedule was tight, Xu Chen didn't want to waste time on the way back and forth.
Although people can walk and ride horses on the riverbanks, they cannot drive because the weeds are waist-high or even taller than people. Not to mention there are no roads, even if there are some small paths for hunting, they are still sandy ground left by perennial floods, and the wheels are very difficult.
It's easy to fall into it.
Therefore, it was not realistic to use horse-drawn carriages to transport people and tools to the construction site every day. Xu Chen directly planned to arrange for some people to live and eat at the construction site, which would increase a lot of working hours every day.
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In addition, with these safe wooden houses, all kinds of tools, food, carriages and horses can be put in for safekeeping.
After the road is fully built and put into operation, these wooden houses spaced about five miles apart can also serve as rest areas and shelter from the rain, just like the service areas on the highway.
And as the two tribes become more and more closely related, various wild fruits in the nearby inaccessible barren mountains will gradually become the harvest of the two tribes. In the spring, they collect fresh fruits and wild vegetables, and in the summer, they harvest berries to make wine.
In autumn, yam, fragrant chestnuts and other mountain products are collected. People who come and go can also use it as a temporary storage place or a place to rest overnight.
In short, these wooden houses have many functions and can be used now and in the future.
While the Ba people are busy here, the U people downstream are also working hard to build roads.
Stimulated by His Majesty the Witch King's call and the temptation of beautiful prospects plus various sweet dates, the entire Wu ethnic group became more motivated than the Ba ethnic group.
And because they had a large number of people, they built it faster. The road from Wuzu Pass was like taking a powerful pill, and it slowly extended upstream through the mountains and forests every day.
Of course, in order to ensure the quality of the project, Xu Chen would ride back and forth every two or three days to inspect the Uzbek and Ba construction sites, to guide the handling of some difficult areas, or to arrange for masons to deal with some hard and difficult rock areas.
Go to help, locate some valleys and streams, and plan to build wooden bridges, etc.
Time flew by, and more than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Both ends of the road have seen tremendous changes and progress.
The Ba people's side has been built for seven or eight miles, while the Wu people's side has been built for more than fifteen miles, and most of the overall project has been completed.
According to this progress, there will be no problem in completing all the projects before the Witch Lord Conference.
Of course, this is only the main part of the project, and there are still a lot of repairs left, but at least it can be opened to traffic, and other deficiencies can be left to be completed later.
Therefore, Xu Chen breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart and told the team leaders and leaders of the two ethnic groups responsible for construction supervision to ensure the quality and speed of progress. He put his main target on the rocky slope at the entrance of the Ba ethnic valley.
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The difficulty of building a road on this rocky slope far exceeded his expectations.
Even if there are strong tools such as copper drills, copper hammers, and copper picks that can break mountains and crack rocks, digging is still very slow.
After more than ten days, only a section of about 20 meters from both ends had been chewed off, and it was also very ugly with craters.
And the most difficult thing to chew is in the center of the rocky slope, against the ridge.
At this rate, whether the planned stone slope plank road before the Wu Zhu Conference can be opened to traffic is still a big problem.
Of course, even if this section is closed to traffic, carriages and horses can temporarily detour from the valley and river beach, but there are some shortcomings.
This is no different from that of later generations. It is both a people's livelihood project and a face-saving project. Whether it is good or not is not said, and whether it is good or not is another matter. But first, this thing must be completed on time and shown at the witchcraft conference.
Therefore, after two days of observation and meditation, Xu Chen ordered all work to stop, and then had people pick up and carry firewood and pile it on the rock slope to be excavated to light a fire for smoking.
Xu Chen's behavior naturally left everyone confused. They had no idea what he was doing by lighting a fire on this shiny rock.
Although Xu Chen wanted to explain, he actually felt that the explanation was not clear, so he simply did not explain it. He just asked people to burn it with high fire, burning seven or eight meters in length at one time. After burning for a whole day, he burned it with a big fire.
Small and large clay pots take water from the river and pour it on the rocks that have been dried until they are hot and white.
Amidst the billowing steam, a group of people became even more confused.
First burn it with fire and then pour it with water. Could it be that his brain is damaged?
However, considering Xu Chen's always magical attributes, naturally no one dared to speak out these doubtful words.
But Xu Chen’s head was still good after all, not bad.
And he once again conquered everyone with his wisdom and magic that were astonishing.
Because these stone slopes that had been heated by a fire and then poured with water to cool down began to explode. They only needed to be lightly tapped with a copper drill hammer a few times to pry them off easily. Some even did not need a copper drill at all.
, can be pried open with a wooden stick.
Faced with such unpredictable wisdom, a group of masons were naturally so excited that they howled like ghosts and wolves. They all rolled up their furry arms, spit in their palms, picked up copper hammers, and used crazy force on the stone slopes that were beginning to explode and loosen.
, in just two hours, a passage was cleared out of a seven- to eight-meter long rock slope that was hard and difficult to chew, and it was wider and deeper than those dug manually.
A group of people worked hard for half a month, and Xu Chen completed nearly half of it in just one day. This was both a blow and a miracle to a group of tribesmen who had just been promoted to masons.
And when this method spread, in the next two or three days, not only men, women, and children from the Ba ethnic group came to watch the fun, but also many people from the Uzbek tribe came to see the strange thing on horseback.
A group of stonemasons have also become addicted and continue to burn and smoke the stone slopes with fierce fire. Even if the excavation is successful, the area will be expanded again, smoked and poured with water.
Under such constant attack from the two layers of ice and fire, in just five or six days, this hard and difficult rock slope was quickly completely conquered, and a road appeared out of thin air on the hillside more than two meters away from the river beach.
Although this road is very ugly, with potholes and pits of different heights and depths, and many places are smoked black, I have to admit that this road has been completely opened up, and the only thing left is to repair it and dig it out.
Continue digging, filling in the places that need to be filled, and reinforcing the places that need to be reinforced.
In fact, after being treated with this fire method, the width of this pure rock road has basically reached about two meters. There is no problem in walking a carriage alone, but Xu Chen still requires that the stone piers and plank roads below still need to be
Continue to complete and try to widen the road to three meters, so that a row of wooden railings can be installed on the roadside to increase safety.
With the opening of this road, the Ba people's hand-drawn carriages, tools, and food can actually begin to officially pass and be transported downstream along this road. There is no need to detour around the river beach, making the back and forth faster and more convenient.
Time flies and it enters September in a blink of an eye.
Thanks to the continuous hard work of nearly three hundred strong men and women from both ethnic groups, a carriage road spanning more than 30 miles from the Ba ethnic group to the U ethnic group was completed.
In the slightly empty mountain forest after the autumn leaves have fallen, a newly dug road appears in the eyes of everyone from both tribes, just like a road leading to happiness and dreams.
Especially when the roads built by the two tribes were about to intersect, hundreds of people from both sides worked hard to cut down trees and dig soil, fearing that they would fall behind and not receive the protection and care of the gods. So after a round of crazy output
, when the roads at both ends were finally connected, enthusiastic cheers erupted from the scene, and the sound of wuga wanga echoed through the mountains and forests and reached into the sky.
This is a huge project that has never been done before, and it is also a great project that has never been done before.
The two groups hugged each other and cheered, and some even couldn't help but burst into tears.
In order to celebrate this great victory, Xu Chen planted a huge stone monument two meters high at the intersection of roads.
It is said to be a stone tablet, but it is actually a large piece of natural rock, with one side chiseled and flattened, and then words engraved on it.
Among them, there are four neat pictographic characters of Bawu Avenue, and the left and right sides record the purpose of the road construction, the start and end time, the number of participants and other information.
This is the first road and the first stone monument in human history.
Of course, this is also the first model project of cooperation between different tribes, and it will shine brightly at the witchcraft conference, allowing other tribes to see the benefits of building roads and transporting vehicles and horses.
In order to celebrate the completion of the Bawu Avenue, Xu Chen decided to hold a grand celebration ceremony, inviting the twin little witches to jointly hold a sacrifice and blessing ceremony on the river beach near the stone monument, praying to God to bless and protect this connected road.
From now on, all pedestrians, carriages and horses traveling on this road will go smoothly and safely.