Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 28 Cement
"Your Highness, it's successful, it's successful!"

"Amazing."

"It's really amazing."

Early in the morning, Uncle Zhong hurried to the palace to have an audience, speaking incoherently, and holding two green bricks firmly glued together by cement mortar in his hand.

If you don't consider Uncle Zhong's identity, you might think it's a lunatic.

Qian Yuan was washing up, and when he saw Uncle Zhong, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which could make Uncle Zhong, who is known for his calmness, so excited, it can be seen how shocking the cement was to him.

No wonder Uncle Zhong is so exaggerated.

After waiting for five hours, Uncle Zhong couldn't bear it any longer, and no matter it was still late at night, he got up and tested the hardness of the cement mortar himself, and the result was beyond his imagination.

He cut it down with a sword, and only a small hole was missing at the glued part.

Although the strength of a monk is not comparable to that of a martial artist, Uncle Zhong is already a monk at the out-of-body stage. After his body has been washed and strengthened several times, his strength is more than ten times that of an ordinary person.

Although this sword has no skill at all, it is really powerful.

It can be seen that the hardness of cement mortar is so high that it is more than enough to build dams.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Uncle Zhong wouldn't have believed it. In less than half a day, the cement that was still soft at first became so hard in a blink of an eye.

Simply a miracle.

This is of course not a miracle, but the power of science.

Qian Yuan wiped his face casually, invited Uncle Zhong to the main hall, and his own maid brought hot tea, and at the same time served breakfast as Qian Yuan ordered.

Breakfast is very simple, soy milk, deep-fried dough sticks, buns, pancakes, no different from ordinary people's homes, at most, the ingredients are more expensive and the workmanship is finer.

This was specially ordered by Qian Yuan.

Only after eating such a breakfast can Qianyuan find a sense of the earth. When the original owner was in the capital, the breakfast was extremely gorgeous and filled the table.

"Let's eat together."

Qian Yuan invites Uncle Zhong to sit down together.

Noticing the smile in His Highness's eyes, Uncle Zhong smiled smugly, and then realized that Meng Lang was his, put down the blue brick in his hand, ran out to wash his hands, and then sat down next to him.

The ancients had a rule: don't get tired of eating, don't talk when you sleep.

Qian Yuan didn't care, on Earth, the wine table is the best place to talk about things, but during this period of time, Uncle Zhong gradually got used to Qian Yuan's occasional deviant ways.

The master and servant are not embarrassed.

Qian Yuan took a sip of hot soy milk and said with a smile, "How about it, don't you feel relieved now?"

Uncle Zhong nodded vigorously, but his face still couldn't hide his excitement, "Your Highness, with the cement, if the construction is carried out in stages, the embankment can be completed in at most 20 days, and it will definitely be completed a year ago."

"The raw materials for calcined cement are sufficient, right?"

"No problem, I have already prepared it in advance. Before I came, I had the craftsmen start large-scale calcination. The furnace kept running day and night to ensure sufficient supply of cement."

Qian Yuan smiled, Uncle Zhong is still so reassuring when he does things.

"Your Highness, I heard that Zhang Huairen is playing, proposing to postpone the flood control project until the beginning of spring?" Uncle Zhong suddenly remembered something, and his words were very playful.

Qian Yuan drank up the soy milk and said with a smile, "He is really enthusiastic."

Uncle Zhong didn't say any more, thinking that His Highness knew it well, there was no need for him to remind.

…………

On the first day of December, it is sunny and it is advisable to start work.

The person in charge of water control who had disappeared for almost a month, Li Zhong, the governor of the vassal's palace and the master of the county government, suddenly appeared with a group of craftsmen at the construction site of the river embankment closest to the county seat, causing a commotion.

Under the instigation of people with ulterior motives, some people surrounded Uncle Zhong and his party, clamoring for the county government to give everyone an explanation, or stop working altogether.

It's freezing cold, everyone is not guilty of this.

Uncle Zhong didn't say anything, but announced on the spot that the construction of the embankment had officially started.

Then, regardless of what others thought, he began to instruct the masons to stir the cement mortar, and glue the uncut stones together with the collected pebbles together with the cement mortar.

On the first day, 100 meters of masonry were built.

Although the embankment materials are angular and very irregular, if they are properly matched, the surface of the embankment can still be ensured to be smooth. Just use a little more cement mortar.

But onlookers were skeptical about such a "randomly" sticking together of the embankment.

"What's the use of building it together like this? The water will cross it as soon as it is washed."

"That's right, isn't this tofu dregs?"

"It's too perfunctory. If you do this, aren't you afraid that the river god will punish you?"

Because of suspicion, these people were very uncooperative. They neither helped to mix the cement mortar, nor helped the mason to transport the stone to the feet, but just watched the fun from the sidelines.

Uncle Zhong didn't reprimand, anyway, it's useless to explain now, there's no point in competing with these people.

Wait until tomorrow, and everything will be revealed naturally.

The next day, in order to demonstrate the miraculous effect of cement, Uncle Zhong specially called the people together and asked them to hit the embankment with a hammer.

Rock solid.

"This……"

"This is impossible……"

Everyone couldn't believe their eyes when they saw that the dike, which was crooked when stepped on yesterday, became so hard overnight.

Among the crowd, a disciple of the Zhang family suddenly stood up and said loudly on purpose: "Could it be that he used some magic technique to fool us sincerely?"

Indeed, if it was a monk who made the move, there would be a reasonable explanation for everything.

The crowd is relieved.

The cost of magic is huge, if it can strengthen 100 meters, can it also strengthen the 30-mile long embankment?

Uncle Zhong glanced at the Zhang family disciple, and said with a sneer, "It can only be said that you are ignorant and ignorant. Listen carefully, this is a new type of cementing material invented by the prince—cement. It is not a magic technique."

The next words were spoken to everyone.

"What is cement?"

"No way, it's just that dingy powder that has such a magical effect?"

"If you don't believe me, we can do an experiment alone." Uncle Zhong asked someone to fetch the green bricks, repeated the operation in the cement factory, and then said: "The bricks are here, and everyone can supervise them at any time. Let's take a look tomorrow. Isn't it so amazing?"

Seeing Uncle Zhong's words were convincing, the onlookers believed them a little bit, but the Zhang family child's eyes flickered, and he quietly left the crowd. Looking at his direction, he should be returning to the county seat.

Uncle Zhong saw it from a distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. With such a sharp weapon as cement, anyone who tried to sabotage the water control project would be like a mantis.

If Zhang Huairen really did something small, it would be exactly what he wanted, and he would just grab Zhang Huairen's pigtails. I guess the other party is not that stupid.

Of course, prevention must be taken.

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It's night, Zhang's house.

After receiving the report from the clansmen, Zhang Huairen has been restless. He has basically decided in his heart that the thing called cement is real.

Otherwise, the opponent would not have made such a big battle.

"So, were you all confident from the beginning? What a scheming and calculating person!" Zhang Huairen stood in the courtyard, looking at the cold moon in the sky, his face extremely solemn.

He realized that the crisis of the Zhang family was approaching quietly.

"This year, it's not easy."

…………

Just as Zhang Huairen predicted, after the miraculous effect of cement was proved, the next water control project, under the command and dispatch of Uncle Zhong, moved forward at an alarming speed.

The people are real.

Although they are easy to be incited by others, they are still very simple and realistic in essence. Seeing that there is hope for flood control, and they will no longer have to face flood disasters, they burst out with unparalleled enthusiasm in an instant.

Even those villagers who were not included in the corvee, after learning about the miraculous effect of cement, spontaneously participated in helping to transport sand and gravel.

From north to south, along the river for more than [-] miles, there is a scene of excitement everywhere.

The big guys are full of enthusiasm, and they don't feel the chill of winter at all. They only hope that this historic long embankment will be built before the end of the year, and they will have a good and stable year.

At the same time, as the "inventor" of cement, driven by Uncle Zhong's conscious propaganda, Qianyuan's prestige among the people is increasing day by day.

The favorability is overwhelming.

Many people didn't know until now that Yize County had really changed.

As long as Qianyuan went down to inspect a certain construction site, the people would all line up to welcome them, expressing their joy and gratitude with the greatest enthusiasm and awe.

Many people shouted, Master Qingtian.

In the county yamen, the officials of the lord's family straightened their backs, and all of them were in good spirits; while the officials who were related to the Zhang family were all sweating coldly in their hearts.

Everyone knows that after the water control incident, from now on, no one can shake the prestige of the prince, and Zhang sent officials to behave with their tails between their legs.

And in the depths of the Yingshui River, that mysterious being opened his misty eyes again...

(End of this chapter)