Cement, a magical adhesive for the construction industry, uses cement as glue and sand and gravel as bones, and mixes it with water in proportion. After solidification, it is concrete. If steel bars are added, it is indestructible reinforced concrete.

In reinforced concrete, the tensile strength of the steel bars can ensure the tensile strength of the concrete. The emergence of reinforced concrete has made a qualitative leap in the construction industry. If the steel bar output is insufficient, bamboo tendons can be used instead, which is bamboo reinforced concrete.

The soul that travels through time and space has built countless magnificent projects with reinforced concrete in this era, including the Yellow River Bridge, the Yangtze River Bridge, the cement road, the indestructible concrete Great Wall, and the impeccable super concrete fortress.

Even a small county town, relying on the tall bamboo reinforced concrete wall, can leave the nomadic army at the city at no choice. At this point, wherever the sun shines, there is a "well" flag representing the nine states in the world...

"Bang!"

Yuwen slapped the mosquitoes buzzing in his ears, looking at the bloody redness in his palm, the grand idea of ​​the previous vanished with this sound, and the smell of mugwort filled the entire room. Although it was not strong, it could be smelled.

The moonlight shone on the floor through the gauze window, bringing some light to the dark room. Yuwen Wen sat up from the bed and started to kill mosquitoes. He remembered that before going to bed, there were still fish that missed the net.

Fan Yu's mosquitoes are very poisonous. They are swollen and itchy when they bite them. It's okay during the day. A few of them leak into the mosquito net when they go to bed at night, which can make people unable to sleep well all night.

Sitting still, listening to the movements inside the mosquito net. After a moment, the "buzzing" sound came out again. Yuwen Wen killed the fish that had escaped with lightning speed and was able to close his ears. He carefully checked it in the moonlight and found that one corner of the mosquito net was kicked out of the gap.

After stuffing the mosquito net, Yuwen Wen lay down again. The trouble made him sleepless. He simply thought about the thing that he had not made a decision during the day: the plank road of Zhenyang Gorge.

After all, it is just the construction cost. If you just solve the problem of existence or not, you can build a fully wooden plank road that can allow a single person to carry a basket to pass through. The cost of such a plank road is not that exaggerated.

However, Yuwen Wen felt that either it would not be repaired, or to repair a plank road with practical significance. This plank road must be able to pass through ordinary carriages, and again, it must be a human-powered cart to ensure the basic cargo transportation volume.

In this way, the width and load-bearing requirements of the plank road have increased significantly. In order to achieve "design pass capacity", new building materials are required, which leads to a surge in construction costs. The estimated cost can be used to train a new strong soldier of thousands of people.

The discount is equivalent to one million guan of copper coins. Such funds are not a small amount. If Yuwen Wen is shameless, he can cheat and scare him or her, so the key to the problem is:

Is it worth it to spend a huge amount of money to repair this plank road?

For hundreds of years, even if there are no plank roads, ships heading north from Qinshui have been passing without obstacles, and they are nothing more than consuming a lot of manpower to sail against the current. Even if the cost of cargo transportation increases, as long as the selling price is increased, the cost can be passed on to others.

If there is not enough troops, then spend money to recruit soldiers and horses as soon as possible. Why not fill a large sum of money in order to save the people's living costs? Could it be to win people's hearts? Is this useful?

It’s useful. Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people will win the world!

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world. This sentence is familiar, but first of all, we must clarify one question: Which people are they?

Anyway, it was not a commoner. In the farming era, the "people" referred to the landlord class, but there were different dynasties. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they referred to the powerful landlords, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they were poor landlords, and in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they were literati and officials who were closely integrated with the imperial examinations, and they were also the landlord class.

Don't bribe, kill with a knife, kill the survivors kneel down and sing to conquer. Is this OK? No.

Even though he was as powerful as the Mongol Yuan and the Qing Dynasty, he was killed when he entered the Central Plains, he had to use the landlord class to rule the world. After all, the imperial power was not inferior to the county, so he needed to rely on the landlords and gentry to control the grassroots.

Therefore, if Yuwen Wen really wants to win people's hearts, he also gives priority to buying the landlord class rather than the common people. However, his ideals are full and reality is skinny. Even if he is shameless and wants to "win people's hearts", there may not be many noble families or powerful families.

The other party doesn't care about him, so he also sneered at these high-ranking families?

Yuwen Wen did not think that "if the butcher Zhu was gone, he would eat pigs with hair." He pulled up a group of people, as long as he could fight, kill those who were dissatisfied, and then absorbed the people who were seeking the input, supported his own people to become new landlords and gentry, and replaced the original grassroots power vacuum.

So what he has been buying is the tyrants of all the states under the Huangzhou General Administration. If possible, he would also buy the tyrants of all the big and small in Jiangzhou. The way is to form a community of interests.

Just like when Yuwen Tai entered Guanzhong, he absorbed the local tyrants in Guanlong into the system through various "concessions" including the military system, forming the Guanlong Group.

So, using the Zhenyang Gorge Plank Road, which is discounted by one million, let the local tyrants from Huangzhou and Jiangzhou gather closer together around him and slowly form a cohesive interest group. What's wrong with it?

After understanding this, Yuwen Wen no longer struggled. The plank road in the Zhenyang Gorge must be built, and he could not "pay" the full amount of materials worth one million yuan. The governments along the coast of Qinshui gave a part of it, and he found a way to raise some of it, and the remaining big money had to rely on "raising donations".

He called on stakeholders in Huangzhou and Jiangzhou to donate money and materials to do their part in building the plank road in Zhenyang Gorge. Yuwen Wen did not think that these people could not see the benefits of the plank road, so the other party's attitude determined his attitude.

Those who are willing to donate money and materials, regardless of the quantity, have submitted a letter of fame and excuses to shirk responsibility. There is no need to "buy" them, and they will drink the northwest wind from now on.

This is not because Yu Wen Wen lacks money and forces him to donate, but because he has no intention of playing guessing games.

Since he figured it out, his ideas quickly spread. Yuwen Wen began to think about how to maximize his interests with the help of the plank road project in the Zhenyangxia. He did not want to embezzle the project funds, but wanted to let everyone "equality the interests".

When building the Zhenyangxia plank road, an emerging building material will be used, that is, "bamboo reinforced concrete (civilized method). This thing cannot compare to real bamboo reinforced concrete, but it has been used for several years of practical use experience, at least it is useful.

But the durability of this thing is still poor. It is not possible to build dams or to make house beams. If you use it to build a bridge, it will gradually become a dangerous bridge in about five or six years.

A plank road built with bamboo reinforced concrete (civil method) as the pillars, as long as the pillars are thick enough, it can indeed achieve the ability to pass a carriage. However, it will probably be replaced one by one from the fourth year of its completion, and there will be another cost at that time.

But so what? Changing every four years is better than changing the wooden pillars of the plank road every year. Using bamboo reinforced concrete as the pillars to build the plank road, the owners of cement kilns in Huangzhou will be so happy that even if they run to Zhenyang, Qujiang, which is upstream of Zhenyang Gorge, the huge demand will also bring huge profits.

The coolies who build plank roads will be mainly slaves and will not affect the daily lives of the people. As a result, huge manpower demand will make the slave hunting team laugh so hard that they can't even close their mouths. When the plank road that can pass through ordinary two-wheeled carriages is built, everyone will laugh so hard that they can't even close their mouths!

Donating money and materials to build a plank road. Even if the expenses are huge, most of the benefits will benefit one's own people. Everyone knows that following the King of Xiyang will have food and making money, will the cohesion be stronger?

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen decided to build a plank road. Anyway, he was responsible for fundraising, and Yang Ji was responsible for the specific construction work. So the next question was how to raise funds.
Chapter completed!