At the end of November, all the load-bearing beams were erected, and the formal laying of wooden planks began.
By this time, the majestic body of the entire bridge has begun to take shape.
The embankments on both sides of the river are basically completed.
In order not to delay the upcoming spring plowing time and to take care of tribes such as the Moteng and Tage tribes who came from afar, Xu Chen asked the Yizheng Hall to issue an order announcing that the first phase of the river embankment construction task had been successfully completed and that all tribes could begin
Return to the tribe.
However, all the tribes were reluctant to leave and wanted to see the bridge officially open for traffic.
In order to speed up the construction of the bridge, Xu Chen simply mobilized more hunters to participate, and finally formed four construction teams to lay the bridge deck from both ends and the middle.
So in just three days, as a large number of bridge deck planks were lifted onto the bridge using hangers or ropes, and then neatly laid on the load-bearing beams by craftsmen, the suspended bridge became fuller and fuller day by day.
stand up.
On the third day of December, when the last plank was laid, the entire bridge deck was closed.
At this moment, hundreds of construction workers on and off the bridge and thousands of onlookers on both sides of the strait cheered in unison.
This is an unprecedented miracle.
Compared with such a large-scale civil construction project in the Royal City, the size of the cross-river bridge cannot be compared.
But the success of the wooden bridge is no less significant than that of the Imperial City.
Because this represents a great initiative for mankind to conquer nature, and a great beginning for mankind to conquer nature through labor, overcome difficulties, and create a better life.
At this point, the natural chasm on both sides of the Royal City has been transformed into a thoroughfare, and there is no longer a barrier. There is no longer any danger of floods blocking the travel between the two sides, just like one body.
One day after the bridge was completed, under the leadership of Xu Chen, a group of witches and officials from various departments in the royal city became the first batch of passers-by.
When everyone stepped onto the wooden bridge along the newly built approach bridge, they felt the extremely heavy and solid state of the wooden bridge, looked at the several-meter-high suspension under the bridge and the river up and down, as well as the unobstructed emptiness and high distance on both sides of the bridge. Everyone had a sense of wonder.
An extremely strong sense of unreality.
It seemed as if what they stepped on was not a bridge, but a road leading to the other side of happiness.
The Jicang River, which used to be terrifying with its tumbling waves, is now at your feet.
The river surface, which I always felt was extremely wide before, now looked like a small river ditch, and there was no longer any fear or awe.
The pontoon bridge that has not yet been demolished looks so crude and frivolous when viewed from a high position.
This river that divided the Gonghuo Basin and was once regarded as a restricted area for activities, now fell into everyone's eyes, but was no longer in any danger.
A group of witches and officials followed Xu Chen along the nearly three-meter-wide suspended wooden bridge, nervously and excitedly slowly moving forward, and finally reached the other side smoothly.
"Wuga~~"
Onlookers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait burst into loud cheers at the same time, and then squatted down in dense crowds. Some people fell to the ground on all fours with tears streaming down their faces.
From rafts to pontoons, and from pontoons to wooden bridges, everyone has witnessed with their own eyes the tremendous changes in cross-strait traffic in the past few years.
Only those who live near the Royal City and travel to both sides of the river every day can truly understand the huge benefits brought by this wooden bridge.
For the various tribes and groups coming from north to south, this wooden bridge is also of great significance. In the future, you can easily cross the river whenever you come to the royal city. You no longer need to worry about the swaying pontoon bridge like before.
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"Now, everyone is allowed to go on the bridge to experience the passage. The Imperial Guards are responsible for maintaining order at the bridge ends on both sides of the strait, allowing orderly passage, and no crowding!"
After getting off the bridge and standing on the high berm at the head of the bridge, Xu Chen told Feng to start organizing people on both sides of the strait to go on the bridge to experience it.
"Yehao..."
As the order was conveyed, enthusiastic cheers broke out again on both sides of the strait, and groups of men, women, old and young rushed to the approach bridges on both sides of the strait.
"Woo~~"
The imperial troops blew their trumpets and beat their war drums.
The cold wind in the depth of winter could not stop anyone's enthusiasm. People cheered and queued up to step onto the wide and strong wooden bridge to start experiencing this magical journey. The sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling instantly echoed across both sides of the Jicang River.
Looking at the lively scene in front of him, Xu Chen smiled all over his face.
The lively scene after the first successful installation of a simple pontoon was almost exactly the same as now.
But time has passed, and both the quality of the bridge and all the people in front of it are actually different from the past, and have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Pakistan today is very different from a few years ago.
The starting point of happiness for all tribal people has become higher and their goals are further.
In order to celebrate the completion of the embankment and bridge, Xu Chen announced a grand celebration.
Although the Wu Zhu Conference has long ended, and the hunting competition and trading activities have not been held, Xu Chen decided to make up for this regret and loss, and asked the Military and Government Hall to organize various tribes to dispatch elite hunters to go out in all directions to round up the wild beasts. In addition, he also asked the Royal City Warehouse to take out some
Hundreds of jars of fruit wine will be given to all the craftsmen and hunters who participated in the construction of the bridge and the embankment. Special rewards will also be given to the tribal groups and individuals who worked actively and achieved outstanding results during the construction of the river embankment.
Thousands of men, women and children gathered together on the river beach where bonfires were burning.
The hunted beasts were continuously transported back by the team of hunters, and then slaughtered and cut on the river beach, and set on the bonfire to start grilling.
The strong smell of blood stimulated everyone's enthusiasm even more.
Men and women sang and danced around the bonfire, cheering to celebrate this great achievement.
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After a grand carnival, the tribes who participated in the construction of the river embankment set off one after another, reluctant to leave on their journey home.
The royal city gradually became quieter, but instead of relaxing, it became even busier.
The river embankment is currently only completed in rough form and needs to organize manpower to continue to improve it.
The foot of the embankment should be reinforced with stone masonry, steps for up and down passage should be built, the internal and external slope protection should be leveled and compacted, in addition, turf should be laid and some berm trees should be planted, etc.
The bridge will also need to install guardrails, conduct secondary reinforcement of the entire bridge, and conduct load-carrying tests.
Although some government offices planned by the Royal City have been put into operation, ancillary projects such as schools, clinics, markets, workshops, shops, etc. have not yet been completed. Some are still being roofed or renovated internally and externally. In addition, some planned streets and drainage projects are still being completed.
The ditches have not yet been repaired and need further improvement.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The second round of house expansion projects of various tribes is still in full swing. Most of them have completed the construction of rough houses, and some have been built and are being covered and decorated.
Some are still stepping up rammed earth construction, but the capping is not far away.
If it weren't for the deployment of a large number of manpower for the construction of river embankments and bridges, the construction of houses for all tribes would have been completed by now.
Compared with building houses using mud bricks in the past, rammed earth is faster and more convenient. There is no need to wait for the mud bricks to dry out. However, rammed earth has higher requirements for craftsmen.
The large number of construction craftsmen trained in the construction of the royal city greatly filled the technical shortcomings. Although this round of housing construction was somewhat hindered due to lack of manpower, it did not affect the overall construction progress.
Xu Chen believes that before entering the rainy season, the main construction of houses in all tribes will be completed without causing any losses.
The second round of rice field renovation project is also due to lack of manpower, which has affected the progress. The originally planned 3,000 acres of paddy fields are now less than 60% completed. In order to achieve this goal, more efforts need to be made in the last month.
With so many major projects and projects piled up, manpower is naturally stretched thin.
However, all things have different priorities, so they don't have to be completely crowded together. Xu Chen made some different manpower arrangements for these different projects at the large and small meetings.
The finishing of the river embankment no longer requires too many manpower, so a team of about a hundred people from each tribe was deployed to slowly construct the project. This project can last until the end of March.
As long as the river embankment reinforcement is completed before summer, there will be no problems.
The same is true for the finishing of the wooden bridge, and it is very professional. A team of twenty carpenters and apprentice helpers can be arranged to complete it in up to one month.
The main construction parts of the royal city have basically been completed, and the unfinished ones are not in a hurry to be put into use. Therefore, Xu Chen disbanded most of the participants and returned to their respective tribes, leaving only a team of more than a hundred people to continue finishing work.
The construction of houses in various tribes is nearing completion. Except for those that have not yet been capped, which require additional manpower, other tribes that have capped their houses or have begun interior and exterior renovations are beginning to dedicate manpower to the renovation of rice fields and the upcoming plowing of farmland.
In the midst of my busy schedule, time flies by and it’s mid-December.
After continuously replenishing manpower, rice field transformation has ushered in a rapid development, and the number of paddy fields planned by various tribes has continued to increase rapidly.
As the tribes began their annual large-scale burning operations, blazing wildfires could be seen everywhere on both sides of the Jicang River near the Royal City every day starting from early December.
Large areas of withered farmland turned into large areas of gray-black scorched earth amid the billowing smoke, and the entire royal city was filled with a strong smell of fireworks all day long.
And this kind of breath makes the cold winter atmosphere become extremely warm, indicating that the new year is coming.
The plan for the year begins with spring.
Grain production is the solid foundation for Pakistan's stability and prosperity, so spring plowing and sowing is the most important task of the year for Pakistan.
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For spring planting, all other projects and work must make way.
Therefore, after mid-December, Xu Chen announced that all projects near the royal city would be suspended. Whether they were craftsmen, apprentices or officials and soldiers, they would all stop other work and devote all their efforts to preparing for farming and production in the new year.
Men, women, old and young from all tribes went into battle together and began the most lively work of plowing and cultivating the fields every year.
The Forbidden Army is no exception. There are thousands of acres of Wangcheng Farm near the military camp and warehouse, with planned farmland, vegetable gardens, orchards, fish ponds and other agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry industries. These are usually managed by the Ba and Gonghuo tribes, but
Such heavy labor as plowing and sowing couldn't be done without fewer people, so Xu Chen decided to let these forbidden soldiers, who had eaten and drank enough all day long and only used iron and lifting stones to exercise their tendons, do it.
The palace garden and the temple garden are both large in size, with dozens of acres of vegetable gardens and farmland planned. However, instead of planting ordinary wheat, beans, and rice, they cultivate some fruits, vegetables, and some newly discovered special crops.
Cultivation and improvement of fruits and vegetables is also a major topic and learning content in the Witch College.
Xu Chen attaches great importance to this project, and the little witch also likes this kind of learning and knowledge accumulation. Therefore, when all the tribes and the imperial army are fully involved in the preparations for spring sowing, the palace and temple gardens can also be used all day long.
I saw Xu Chen and the little witch with a group of little witches from the witch academy, who were also busy plowing the fields.
In the past two years, not only have there been a large number of ornamental plants and flowers in the garden, but there have also been many transplanted wild fruit trees, special spices and cash crops.
Peach, plum, pear, apricot, pepper, wild onion, wild ginger, and some unknown special spices, etc.
This year there will be more popular hot and sour fruits and wild citrus.
If we continue to expand and develop in this way, in ten or twenty years, the entire palace garden and temple garden will become a huge melon and fruit plantation.
Xu Chen's plan was to introduce fruits, vegetables and cash crops found everywhere in the royal city.
The mission of the Witch College is to select and cultivate several vegetable varieties that can be promoted as daily food.
The role of witches is not only spiritual leaders. As intellectuals, they have the responsibility and obligation to gradually get rid of their belief in primitive gods through continuous exploration and learning, and change their jobs to become doctors, teachers, agricultural technicians, veterinarians, and even scholars and scientists.
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Only in this way can witches truly shoulder the arduous mission of leading mankind to continue to forge ahead.
After this round of large-scale infrastructure construction, Wangcheng will also usher in a period of stable development for a long time.
Pakistan will also officially enter a new stage of development. The transformation of various basic fields such as politics, economy, culture, transportation, agriculture, etc. has been fully completed and the goals have been achieved.
The next task is a new round of world exploration.