People from the engineering camp are already in place, working hard during the day and resting at night.
During the break, I also went to night class first, and the cultural instructor remained the same.
The king of a country personally built a city in the suburbs and participated in the construction of the new capital, which greatly encouraged the people in the engineering camp.
They were no strangers to the official family who lived on Gaogang. They once led them to win three Youyan wars and destroyed the arrogant Jurchen Jin Kingdom.
He would eat with everyone around the campfire, laugh heartily at vulgar country jokes, and occasionally brag with the soldiers around him.
It was he who single-handedly improved the treatment of soldiers, so that when everyone risked their lives to fight, they had a reason to persuade themselves to die for the country.
The suburbs of Hebei are dotted with stars, shining like fireworks that will never dissipate all over the sky.
On a hammock, Yang Lin rested his hands on his head, looked at the stars in the sky, and went through the recent events in his mind.
Bai Shizhong has fully agreed to this reform, and it will definitely make Daxia go further; Fang Qifu is still chasing the chieftain, is it possible that he is going too far and not going too far? When the whole world is enjoying a prosperous age, central Guizhou is still full of bloodshed;
The civil war in Goryeo subsided, and you need to pay close attention to the trends of the two forces; Yelu Dashi won another battle. After this grandson sold the Song army once in Yunnei, he swept away the decline of repeated defeats in the previous battles. It was like cheating
Sweeping across the West...
It was easier to get on this dragon chair because I controlled the army, but after sitting on it, I had more worries.
You can't imitate Zhao Ji and create a prosperous world in the capital, just eat, drink and have fun.
As for Goryeo, we can only wait and see what happens, waiting for the final pattern of the peninsula to be formed.
As for the Liao people in the west, their business was prosperous. If Yelv Dashi was determined to be a traitor and wanted to fight back to the east, he would have to make plans early.
After all, the birthplace of the Liao people has become Changchun Prefecture today, and cities and buildings are being built one after another.
While I was meditating, there was a burst of laughter next to me. I turned around and saw several little palace ladies playing a chess and card game.
This was invented by Li Qingzhao, a female member of the Jinshi Museum, and was most popular among the women of wealthy families. In this era, spiritual entertainment and recreation were still too scarce.
A prosperous society actually needs people like Li Qingzhao and Li Bai. Their talented poetry and creativity can relieve people's spiritual emptiness after eating and drinking.
The same is probably true for the star-chasers of later generations, but compared to the likes of Li Bai and Li Qingzhao, the stars of later generations are a bit far behind.
A gust of breeze blew by, making Yang Lin snort in comfort, cross his legs and look up at the stars in the hammock.
"No matter what, just build a prosperous world according to what I want in my heart."
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When Yang Lin got up early in the morning, he heard a noise outside.
Normally, the emperor should not have such disharmony here. After Yang Lin washed up, he went to the city below where construction had begun.
The two groups were quarreling fiercely, but the people around them gathered around them and listened to their quarrel.
After Yang Lin arrived, he realized that it was two groups who had a disagreement over the materials used.
When the engineering camp built the city, they used soil or stone to build the city wall.
Some people changed the materials without authorization, causing the joints of the city walls to become unable to be fixed.
Yang Lin stopped the quarrel and took people to see the connection. There was a city wall that was obviously stronger and had no gaps.
Yang Lin was stunned for a moment and immediately thought that this was the prototype of cement, right?
Having learned the lesson from the last firecracker, he did not hold out much hope this time.
In Youyan's military training school, someone mixed lime and clay to make building materials that could be quickly fixed and formed.
Yang Lin asked with interest: "Who made this and what is its name?"
"Back at the official house, this was done by Dean Yang Tianci of the Military Academy. Because this thing requires water and soil to be mixed, it is called cement. And after it dries and hardens, the color is blue-gray, somewhat like the volcanic ash in Tianchi, so
It was named Tianchi Cement.”
Yang Lin felt his face light up and said with a smile: "I just don't know how hard it is?"
The ordinary engineers around were all a little disdainful. They used traditional fortification materials and didn't really believe in such dusty things.
He who graduated from Youyan Military Academy was very confident and said loudly: "The officials can let us each build a wall, and then use the army's siege equipment to test the strength and we will know."
His words were so arrogant that he made other engineers very dissatisfied. Yang Lin was happy to see this kind of competition.
He waved his hand and said: "Today, I will give you a testimony to see if this Tianchi cement can work."
Hundreds of people were selected from each side and began to lay foundations and build walls in the open space.
After the third day, a simple small wall was piled up and allowed to dry for a while. After waiting for the ordinary clay wall to take shape, the competition began.
The early morning sunshine was very comfortable. Yang Lin sat under the tree under the cover and was specifically told not to hold an umbrella and bask in the sun.
In front of him was a small wooden table. After he sat down, he was surrounded by the concubines Zhong Guiyi and Xiurong Lingyun.
Yang Lin was very interested, and the two concubines also looked curious. The people below were naturally working hard to prove themselves in front of the emperor.
In the distance, people from the Beijing Camp New Army were divided into two teams, preparing to crash cars and use explosives to break down the wall.
Yang Lin smiled and gave Zhong Guiyi the command flag in his hand, "Little Taozi, go and give the order to start!"
Zhong Guiyi's eyes lit up, he got up, stepped forward excitedly, raised the flag and waved it vigorously.
As soon as the trumpet sounded, everything was in order. The elite of the new army in the Beijing camp first used ramming cars and began to hit the city wall.
Neither wall collapsed, but the mud wall was more seriously damaged.
Immediately afterwards, someone stepped forward and warned that explosives were about to be used.
Yang Lin quickly took the two concubines into his arms and helped them cover their ears.
A booming explosion sounded, and the ordinary earth wall was in complete ruins, but half of the Tianchi concrete wall was still standing.
Yang Lin stood up and clapped his hands. The cement was finally finished. The other soldiers in the engineering battalion were also very excited.
They argued not for themselves, but because they felt that this unsightly soil would delay the progress of the city wall.
Since I have better raw materials, my work is easier to do and the quality is higher.
In Yang Lin's mind, the most important significance of this matter was not to build the city walls of the new capital, but to finally be able to build roads.
"Youyan Military Preparation School has done a great job in making Tianchi cement. I immediately sent an order for Yang Tianci to come. I want to ask him how to produce this thing."
The principle of cement is very simple. Yang Lin’s first lesson after accepting his apprenticeship was to take the disciples to see the lime workshop.
Lime and cement are now available, and in the coming summer, it will be time to change it to a new look!