Iron Dynasty

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Your Highness, is this matter?

Zhan Xingchang was a little unwilling.

Remember, anger without strength is meaningless, conspiracy and tricks are just paper tigers in the face of absolute power, wait, this king will let them beg for money and food, but before that, you should focus on your energy. Let's repair Cangzhou City.

Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

Yes, Your Highness.

Zhan Xingchang nodded, these vassal kings were so brazen, there was nothing he could do.

When it comes to repairing the city wall, Xiao Ming said: By the way, you and this king go to the workshop area. This time the repairing of the city wall is not the previous method, it is too slow.

After all, when the two arrived in the workshop area, Xiao Ming took Zhan Xingchang directly to the cement workshop.

Your Highness, what are these powders?

In the workshop area, even Zhan Xingchang couldn't come and go at will, and he naturally didn't know what was inside.

This thing is called cement. For a long time, this cement was only used for the construction of the workshop area. Xiao Ming glanced around the workshop area that was beginning to take shape.

With the improvement of the workshop area, the living area and the workshop area have been separated.

In the living area, a canteen was also built to supply the slaves with three meals a day, and the houses in the living area were all brick-concrete structures, composed of cement and blue bricks.

The design of these houses is naturally from Xiao Ming.

Compared with the wooden structure, it is not beautiful, but it is very durable and strong. Each house is in the shape of a long strip with a large shop inside, and each room houses fifty people.

Cement? Zhan Xingchang glanced at the things between the blue bricks in the cement workshop and asked, Your Highness, is this cement?

Zhan Xingchang was pointing at what was between the bricks.

Xiao Ming has always kept a low profile when it comes to things like cement. Many people don't pay attention to the role of cement. Now is finally the time to let cement play its role.

The traditional city walls are basically mining rocks and then transporting them back to build them, which is too inefficient.

On the other hand, cement is different. The firing of green bricks or red bricks can be obtained from local materials, and it is only necessary to transport cement from Qingzhou.

In the process of masonry, the amount of cement is not much, and it is estimated that one-time transportation can meet the needs of Cangzhou City.

Furthermore, the masonry process is very flexible and fast. If one layer of bricks is not enough, another layer can be built to continuously strengthen the thickness.

In modern times, there are mature masonry techniques for reference. Generally speaking, ten craftsmen can build a house of 400 square meters and more than three meters high in three days.

Now Xiao Ming has trained some mature bricklayers in the workshop area to prepare for the renovation of the city walls of Cangzhou City.

Well, as you can see, if cement is stuck between the two bricks, the two bricks will be very firm when they dry up. Now I will take you to see how the craftsmen build it. Think about how to put it together. The expansion of the city walls of Cangzhou City is more suitable for artillery shooting. Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

In response to the barbarians going south, the artillery has been put on the agenda, and the repair of Cangzhou City has to be put on the agenda.

During this time, when the artillery was being cast, Xiao Ming instructed the cement workshop to step up the production of cement, in order to hand over the cement to Zhan Xingchang today, and let him go to Cangzhou City to repair the city wall.

Zhan Xingchang nodded and followed Xiao Ming to a building under construction in the workshop area. This building was built next to the water and seemed to have just started.

This is a textile workshop. The factory is currently under construction. When the textile machine comes out, it will provide the Qingzhou Army with uniforms such as military uniforms. Xiao Ming said.

He is now making Chen Qi restore the multi-spindle spinning machine with Huang Daopo spinning machine. At present, the spinning machine in Dayu country can only spin one yarn, which is inefficient.

Such efficiency is far from meeting the current needs, and once the multi-spindle spinning machine appears, this phenomenon will change.

In the modern Yuan Dynasty, the appearance of Huang Daopo's spinning machine once greatly increased the production of cloth in Huang Daopo's hometown.

Now Xiao Ming makes Chen Qi's spinning machine more advanced than Huang Daopo's, and this spinning machine is also pedal-powered, which can be popularized in the private sector, enough to motivate women in six states to spin and promote the development of Qingzhou's textile industry. .

The rise of modern Britain was precisely when the textile industry was the leading industry in which a great deal of wealth was gathered.

Therefore, Xiao Ming also attaches great importance to this matter.

While talking, Zhan Xingchang kept staring at the mason building the wall, and seeing a mason soon build a thick wall, Zhan Xingchang gradually showed an excited look.

His Royal Highness, this kind of craftsmanship is much faster than mining rocks to build a city wall. If you give me enough manpower, I promise to build Cangzhou City into a mighty gate in the world within five months!

Zhan Xingchang said.

The matter of begging for money and grain from other vassal kings has caused Zhan Xingchang to suffer a lot. Xiao Ming intends to restore some confidence to him, because this matter is asked to do, but it may not be able to be done well, at least Zhan Xingchang also let him. King Yong spit out something.

Since that's the case, this matter is left to you, but what are your plans? Xiao Ming asked.

He still wanted to know about Zhan Xingchang's plan to build a building. After all, the barbarians going south was no child's play.

Building a turret on top of the city wall is one of them. Second, I will extend the city wall, and also build a turret and arrow tower on the extended city wall, so that more artillery can be fired.

After a pause, Zhan Xingchang suddenly laughed wickedly: And seeing the function of the cement and blue bricks of His Highness today, I suddenly thought of a new method, that is to build brick pillars one by one in front of the city wall, so that if the barbarians come , it can slow down their attack, and it will prevent them from setting up the ladder in time.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, but Zhan Xingchang realized it very quickly.

The stone pillars he mentioned are similar to the role of horses, but at this time this kind of pillars are used by people.

Artillery is for long-range shooting. When it reaches the city wall, the effect of this artillery is greatly reduced. At this time, a short-range weapon is needed to fight back, naturally the bow and crossbow.

Zhan Xingchang's suggestion made Xiao Ming suddenly consider making a native grenade.

This method is to put the gunpowder in a moderately sized clay pot, plug the mouth of the pot with a wooden stopper, place a medicine screw in the middle, and throw it when it is lit, similar to a gun battle, but with a higher power.

When they were near, these savage soldiers were blocked by stone pillars, and when they gathered into a pile, they were thrown into it, which was probably very sour.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming became more confident in dealing with the barbarians going south this time. As long as the barbarians came over, they would definitely be frightened by this new type of weapon.