Chapter 283 Start Construction
There is no doubt about whether Liu Bang can deal with these businessmen. Li Chen believes that if these businessmen are intrigue and Liu Bang, they may not even have the qualifications to carry shoes. After the wine and food, Liu Bang can even pretend that these people are fooled by them.
After throwing these merchants to Liu Bang to deal with them, Li Chen returned home early. Since Zheng got married, Li Chen has become more and more disliked socializing. After all, he has to drink for socializing. When this man drinks, his heart feels like he is on fire, but after drinking, his hardness is not enough. The hardness is not enough, and the feeling of catching fire in his heart is really too much.
"Husband, aren't there any social engagements today? Let's come back so early." Li Chen entered the room, and Ying Yue was gathering his jewelry. Seeing Li Chen, she asked.
"Leave it to Liu Bang to deal with it. The big things are not as important as our Yue'er." Li Chen then pulled Ying Yue up and sat on his lap.
"Stop making trouble." Ying Yue blushed and broke away from Li Chen's arms. She walked straight to her dressing table and took the boxes of things she had just packed into front of Li Chen.
"I heard from the people in the village that you want to build a new city. I think it will cost a lot of silver to build a city. I can't wear these jewelry on weekdays, so you can take it." Ying Yuesheng said.
Ying Yue brought a lot of dowry when she got married, and these dowry are now in the warehouse of Lijiazhuang. But now in order to help Li Chen establish a new city, she even took out her close-fitting jewelry. Ying Yue knew that it was not easy to build a city. When the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, in order to establish this new Xianyang City, it was emptied the entire Qin royal family.
Ying Yue's action really made Li Chen feel mixed emotions. He is such a good wife. Ying Yue gave everything to him.
"Follower, how could Wei Hu have fallen to the point of being your jewelry? Don't worry, it's not about building a city, it's just building a larger Lijiazhuang. Let's see how Wei Hu is giving you a white wolf with empty hands and a Shimenshan Economic Development Zone." Li Chen pinched Ying Yue's nose and said in a voice.
"What nonsense? Can such money fall off the top?" Ying Yue glanced at Li Chen and said angrily.
"Of course, you won't lose money, but these merchants have money in their pockets. Once the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone is built, it will naturally become a holy place for these merchants to trade. The wool comes from the sheep, so the money will naturally be taken out of their pockets." Li Chen said with a sarcasm, and it doesn't seem like he is lying, so Yingyue felt relieved.
Nowadays, countless construction workers are building the Shimenshan Development Zone step by step. Since the money for building the development zone has been settled, it is nothing to pay for the early construction by Lijiazhuang. After all, Lijiazhuang is now a developer of Shimenshan Special Economic Zone, so it is normal to advance funds first.
Now is the time of slack farming, and there is not much, and it is the time when there are the most idle people. Li Chen set up a sign of recruiting workers in various places in Xianyang, and immediately tens of thousands of farmers and craftsmen came to apply for the job. Whether it is Lijiazhuang or Li Chen, the Ronglu Hou, he is well-known in Xianyang. This job is not heavy, his wages are also high, and he is also in charge of food. Naturally, he is rushing to do a good job.
Under Li Chen's guidance, the masons were building new-style walls. They first dug out troughs on the ground, then supported the shells with wood on the surface. They built a rack with steel strips in the shell, poured the live cement on it, and then pounded it with huge wood.
Li Chen's construction method made these old masons with decades of construction experience a little psychologically irritating, and they were really confused for a while.
When the old masons came, Li Chen was awesome, but the masons were not proficient in the masons. In their opinion, the best material for building the city walls was naturally bluestone, just like the city walls of Xianyang City. They were made of huge bluestone, and even a standing beast a hundred years later. If you think the cost of bluestone is too high, can you use blue bricks? The construction method of Li Chen using steel sticks and cement has never been seen by many craftsmen. Although cement has been widely used in paving roads, the cement road is more than ten centimeters thick and the ground is used as a focus point, and the construction of the wall is several meters high. How to focus?
"This is called a reinforced concrete structure. The strength of this structure may not be as strong as bluestone, but it is much faster than that of bluestone walls. However, this speed is much faster than bluestone structures. If you use bluestone to build a wall, you need to find a suitable stone ore, and a stonemason will also chisel out stone bricks. The whole process is too cumbersome. But if you use reinforced concrete structures, this speed is more than ten times faster than using bluestone bricks." Li Chen explained to the masons.
The cement produced by Daqin today is far inferior to the quality of his previous life, so the walls built with this reinforced concrete structure are naturally not as good as bluestone walls. However, this reinforced concrete structure is much stronger than the blue bricks fired in this era. Whether it is durability, plasticity, or cost and construction speed, it is much stronger than blue brick walls.
Building Shimenshan Economic Development Zone requires a large amount of manpower, and the one that is most inexpensive during the slack season is manpower. Li Chen's wages are twice as much as usual, and he still manages three meals a day. You should know that in this era, most people eat two meals a day, and those who can eat three meals a day are rich families. Of course, under such superior treatment, the workers are like chicken blood, and they all seem to treat the work in their hands as their wives and work hard.
Lao Qinrao is essentially pure and simple. When Li Chen saw the workers working hard, the food on the construction site was improved by several levels. Now the food on this construction site has almost reached the food standard of the Shenwu Army, and there is almost a meal of meat. These workers are not willing to eat meat on weekdays, and they are only willing to cut some meat during festivals. Now they have meat all day long, and they have oil and water in their stomachs, so they naturally work harder when they work.
At this time, it was already dark. On the construction site of Shimenshan Economic Development Zone, some people were still watching torches. Craftsmen with craftsmen were waving hammers with "bang, bang, bang", while those without craftsmen pushed cement with wheelbarrows and poured cement into the area where the craftsmen made. Some people who were struggling with craftsmen were holding giant trees and driving piles hard.
"My fellow villager, why are you still working so late? Is the supervisor here so unreasonable?" Someone from someone's spy quietly touched in while the night was dark and inquire about the news at the craftsmen.
"Where are supervisors, we work consciously, and overtime is also voluntary."
"The pattern is here, man, you're too pattern. The Marquis gives us twice the wages, and there is still a meal of meat every day. If we don't do twice the work, isn't this money hot? Is this meat not stuffed?" The old craftsman taught the young man who came from somewhere.
Chapter completed!