Infrastructure masters in the red building

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In the newly built large meeting room in Taoyuan Village, five village chiefs, two inspection captains, heads of various departments, and several researchers from Xiaoxiang Academy heard that bandits have gone and returned, and the number of them may double , were all shocked by this appalling news.

Both Zhao Wuguang and Wang Erlang jumped up, the older village chiefs sat in place, Lao Jin and the others shook their heads solemnly, and finally Village Chief Tao mustered up the courage to ask Jia Fang: "Is this news true? "

Jia Fang nodded: "The news should be true. The only thing that may change is whether the bandits will arrive in four to five thousand or seven to eight thousand, and whether they will arrive at Taoyuanzhai in three days or five days."

Village head Tao sat back slumped, and murmured, "It doesn't really make any difference."

All eyes are focused on Jia Fang at this moment.Jia Fang is their backbone, and everyone is waiting for Jia Fang to give them an idea.

"Under the current situation, we have two ways to go." Jia said slowly, while keenly observing everyone's reactions.

"The first way is for everyone to put down all their work now, take a few items with them, and set off for Wuyuan County immediately. The county magistrate of Wuyuan County should be willing to open the city gate, looking at the official's face. Let everyone go into the city and take shelter for a while."

People frowned, and seemed to have some doubts about the plan of going to Wu Yuan to take refuge temporarily.

"The second way is for everyone to stay in Taoyuan Village, unite as one, follow my command, and guard our Taoyuan Village." Jia Fang showed his trump card.

Wang Erlang clenched his fists tightly and knocked on the table with two "bangs".Zhao Wuguang had already stood up and said loudly: "It's needless to say! Mr. Jia, why are you asking this? Do you think anyone in the village is unwilling to listen to you and guard their home?"

This excitable young man stood in front of Jia Fang and asked Jia Fang like this, his eyes were shining and tears were streaming down for a while, it seemed that Jia Fang's questioning had caused a lot of damage to his self-esteem.

The other mature and prudent ones did not answer right away, but looked at Jia Fang silently, waiting for his further explanation.

Jia Fang said: "I ask everyone this because this time the bandits killed the carbine, which is no different from the original one. Even I, I am not fully sure that I can protect everyone comprehensively. This matter is risky. If you can't achieve unity, then go to the trouble of asking for sex, and run away before it's too late!"

Jia Fang's words are also a kind of provocation, and at the same time, he also depends on the attitudes of these important people in front of him, whether everyone can gather together and go towards the common and only goal.

Village head Tao and the other four village heads looked at each other.Village Chief Tao coughed twice first, and said: "Master Jia, the old man expresses his attitude first. The old man has lived here for so many years, and it is because he has seen the change from the small village to the current stockade. This is the old man's home. , I believe that everyone in Taoyuan Village is like the old man, as long as there is any hope of keeping it, they will stay here."

"Everyone in Taoyuan Village listens to you, there is no second word." Village Chief Tao expressed his position first.

"That's what we said too!" The other four village chiefs followed suit.Village Chief Qin paused and added: "Since we moved here from Yujiang, we people have received too much favor from you. You healed our diseases, let us take root here, made a living for us, and planted land for us... ...this is our home!"

"Yes, for the sake of your own homeland, who would not want to guard his own place? Who would be willing to watch his hard-earned foundation go to waste?"

"Master Jia, we listen to you!" Several village chiefs patted their chests. "All the available people in our village are at your disposal."

Jia Fang nodded after hearing this: "Then it's decided..."

Before he finished speaking, he felt that two eager eyes were staring at him closely, and when he turned around, he saw Gui Xiaxue.This guy's eyes were bright, and his eyes were full of excitement. Seeing Jia Fang's eyes turned away, Gui Xiaxue immediately smiled and said, "Did Mr. Jia already have an idea and know how to defend against the mountains?" Bandit?"

Jia Fang couldn't help but want to flatten his mouth, thinking: This guy is about to become a genius.

He nodded, and casually spread out the map of Taoyuan Village—there was a military sand table for the entire southern region in Wuyuan County, but it was inconvenient to bring it here. The only thing he brought with him was the map of Taoyuan Village.

Jia Fang stretched out his hand to point out on the map: "My plan is: take advantage of the fact that there are still a few days left for the large group of bandits, we will build a few high walls around Taoyuan Village, and enclose Taoyuan Village into a city."

Everyone at the scene gasped when they heard the performance, even the youngest and vigorous Zhao Wuguang and Wang Erlang were no exception.

The most outspoken Zhao Wuguang turned pale: "Mr. Jia, are you kidding me?"

"To build a city wall around Taoyuan Village, wouldn't that stretch for more than twenty miles?"

"There are only a few days left, we can't say anything in time—"

Only Gui Xiaxue showed a smile. He stretched out his hand to stop others, and said blah, "Mr. Jia must have a reason for what he said. Take it easy, everyone, and listen to the old man first."

Jia Fang glanced at Gui Xiaxue, then turned his gaze back to the map spread out in front of him.

"Taoyuanzhai is a basin surrounded by mountains. Taoyuan Village, Xinyu Village, and Xinyu Village are all backed by steep hills. There are two exits from this basin, one is the Taihang and Wangwu that were dumped earlier, and the other is It is the Qingfang River."

"If Taoyuan Village wants to build a city wall, it doesn't need to build a square or a perfect circle like Wuyuan County. Taoyuan Village only needs to build five sections of walls in these five low-lying areas, and then In addition to guarding the main roads, the entire Taoyuan Village can be protected."

This is the inspiration he got after observing the courtyard wall of the Grand View Garden.On the scroll, the courtyard walls of the Grand View Garden are shaped according to the situation, changing with the water potential and the shape of the mountain; in reality, the Grand View Garden already has a part of the courtyard walls, and what we need to do now is to build the courtyard walls for those sections without the courtyard walls. In this way, the courtyard walls of the entire garden are connected to form a whole.

Last time, Jia Fang observed the whole process of bandits attacking Taoyuan Village.He clearly realized that there are too many open areas in Taoyuan Village that are not conducive to defense, and similarly, bandits can only attack Taoyuan Village from these open areas.

So he stretched out his hand, picked up a charcoal pencil, and drew five line segments on the map: "In these five places, five sections of the city wall will be built, with a total length of about eleven miles. The height of the city wall is about ten feet, and it changes with the shape of the mountain. Where the shape of the mountain rises suddenly and steeply, the city wall naturally blends with the mountain."

The design of the city wall is also related to the terrain around Taoyuan Village.There are many karst landforms here, and there are many peak forests, peak clusters, and isolated peaks around Taoyuanzhai. Most of these peaks are like stalagmites in karst caves, straight up and down, very steep.Around Taoyuan Village, there are several such peaks.Between these steep peaks lies flat ground and roads.Therefore, as long as barriers are built on these flat places, the bandits who are still in the cold weapon stage will never be able to attack the interior of Taoyuan Village.

Inside Taoyuan Village, there are fields and food, and it is almost a small society that can be self-sufficient.No fear of isolating yourself from the outside world for a while.

"But... Mr. Jia, you also said that there are a total of eleven miles of walls to be repaired, and we only have a few days..." Village Chief Qin said awkwardly.

"To be exact, three days!" Jia Fang helped Village Chief Qin complete what he wanted to say.

In the meeting room, everyone looked at Jia Fang dazedly, and on the one hand they were infected by his persistence and boldness. After all, Jia Fang's tone was saying: What's so difficult about this?

On the other hand, people felt that what he said was unrealistic: it took ten years to build the Great Wall—three days, and they wanted to build a wall of eleven miles. How is this possible?

Jia Fang continued: "I haven't finished yet, we have a more advanced way of building walls. Do you remember how the piers of the Qingfang Bridge were built?"

The pier of Qingfang Bridge is the first time that people in Taoyuan Village have seen iron-reinforced concrete bridge buildings, and it is also the first time they have used casting methods instead of piled stones and bricks to build large buildings.

When the pier of Qingfang Bridge was mentioned, Gui Xiaxue's eyes became brighter—it was because of that bridge that he became attached to Taoyuan Village.

"Yes, we have cement, we have concrete, and we can work on an assembly line. This is not a task that can be completed as long as there are many people. It is a task that can only be completed by relying on advanced production methods and scientific organization and management."

Hearing this, Zhao Wuguang had already put down his two iron fists that were like hammers, and said loudly: "Anyway, I can't understand Mr. Jia any more. My current opinion, Zhao Wuguang, is-follow Jia San Grandpa is done."

"Yes, it's over." In an instant, everyone in the conference room stood up and waited for Jia Fang to assign tasks.

Jia Fang did his part and gave orders: "There are five sections of the city wall in total. We have five villages, and each village is responsible for one section."

"The two longest sections are the section by the Qingfang River and the section towards Wuyuan County. The section by the Qingfang River is handed over to Taoyuan Village, after all, it is the closest to Taoyuan Village; the section towards Wuyuan is handed over to Xinyu Village. At present, Xinyu Village has the largest number of males. For the other three sections, one village, two villages and three villages can choose by themselves."

Several villages had no objection to Jia Fang's arrangement.

"Five village chiefs, now it's up to you to go back to your village and announce to the villagers the news of the banditry and the decision you just made. And mobilize all your forces as much as possible. Only the elderly and children are left in the village. All people, men and women Women, as long as anyone who has the ability to work, all go to the construction site—”

There are only three days, even if it is [-], it will be too late. Jia Fang can only mobilize all the manpower in the entire village to work on site.

"Zhang Youshi and Lao Shao," Jia Fang continued to assign tasks, "You two, rush to the cement factory immediately. Inform Lao Yao, let his cement factory start from now, all cement kilns will continue to burn kilns, and there will be a steady stream of kilns. Continuing to produce cement—”

In fact, there is still a lot of cement in stock in the village, but Jia Fang is afraid that there will be not enough, so he tells the cement factory to run at full capacity and produce at full capacity.

"At the same time, the two of you have to coordinate the export of this cement plant and arrange for the villages to receive the cement they need in an orderly manner," Jia Fang explained in a low voice, "Be sure to pay attention to mediating conflicts. Everyone is in a hurry now, but don't cause unnecessary troubles. strife."

Zhang Youshi and Lao Shao got up and agreed, and left with the five village chiefs.

"The inspection team will rest for a day or two. In the past two days, everyone will work hard for a while. You are still responsible for maintaining order in the village, and you will not interfere with other things."

Zhao Wuguang became anxious immediately, but was stopped by Wang Erlang, and said, "Master Jia assigned us so much, there must be more important tasks for us later. Let's listen to Mr. Jia first."

Only then did the two inspection captains go.Looking at their backs, Jia Fang thought to himself: That's true. After three days of hard work, everyone can indeed build the city wall, but the burden of guarding Taoyuan Village will still fall on the shoulders of you young people after all!

At this time, the people from all departments had almost left, and Jia Fang was left with Gui Xiaxue.

"Teacher Gui, I need you to join me, as a project quality supervisor, to inspect the construction sites in each village, try to find various problems in the construction, and find solutions."

If there is another "technical house" like Jia Fang in this time and space, then it must be Gui Yaxue.Jia Fang even felt that he could safely use Gui Xiaxue as "another self" in various construction matters.

"Let's find a section of the project first, do a process demonstration, and ask each village to send people to observe and learn the key points of the work, and then each village will start work by itself. At that time, it will be up to the two of us to patrol around and find out what Correct the problem immediately, solve it as quickly as possible, and share the experience to let other teams know."

After Jia Fang finished explaining, Gui Xiaxue smiled and said, "Just do it like this!"

Gui Xiaxue stretched out his hand and slapped Jia Fang.The two left the office building and rushed to the section of Qingfang River in charge of Taoyuan Village.

Here, Village Chief Tao has already mobilized the labor force of the whole Taoyuan Village to gather on the bank of the Qingfang River.

The bustling food street here in the past has been temporarily withdrawn.The river bank has been leveled to create a clearing.A man picked up a load of freshly burned lime from Lao Yao's cement factory.The other two stretched the long rope straight on the ground, and then drew a long straight line with lime along the straight long rope on the ground.

The lime line was still extending in the other direction, and the man with the shovel had already pounced on him. He quickly dug out a six-foot-long, two-foot-wide, and three-foot-deep foundation, and then dug into the foundation. A few iron rods.

Immediately after that, four planks prepared in advance were supported in the pit, surrounded by a cube, and the verticality was corrected with a heavy hammer.Immediately, someone erected a long ladder beside it, and buckets and buckets of fully mixed concrete were immediately poured into the huge cube until it was full.

The men had fastened the planks with long ropes outside the cube.This part of the city wall is ready for everything, just waiting to dry.

This city wall is equivalent to repairing six feet, although follow-up work will take time to help the city wall become dry and strong.

Gui Xia learned, "According to this speed, the wooden planks can be dismantled in one day. It will be completely dry in three days. As long as we are fast enough, the city wall can indeed be repaired."

Next, the men separated a space of six feet and continued to repeat the operation just now.The curious baby couldn't help but asked again: "Why is this?"

Jia Fang stretched out his finger and pointed: "After the two city wall columns are initially dry, remove the wooden boards and cast the space in the middle separately. This will ensure that there will be no gaps in the cast wall."

"good idea!"

Smart people admire smart people, and Gui Xiaxue admires Jia Fang so much at this moment.Jia Fang had no choice but to twitch the corners of his mouth at him—this is a way to beat the deadline, and it can't be used all the time.

"There is another problem. For the eleven-mile-long wall, our steel brazing is definitely not enough." Gui Xiaxue finally raised a very practical question.

"If the iron brazing is not enough, use bamboo!" Jia Fang said, "The iron bars are built into the cement board because the pure cement concrete is too brittle, adding iron bars can enhance the toughness. From this perspective, although bamboo is not as good as iron brazing, but In the absence of iron brazing, bamboo can also be completely substituted."

As soon as Jia Fang finished speaking, someone had already written down his words and went to mobilize bamboo. In order to prevent bandits earlier, Taoyuan Village harvested a large amount of moso bamboo from the back mountain.After the bandits left, most of the moso bamboo was still useless—it happened to be used as bamboo-reinforced concrete at this time.

In the entire Taoyuan Village operation site, the work efficiency is astonishingly high.Everyone knows what to do and when to do it.The people in this village are like a huge whole, and each individual is a cell and an organ of the whole, and they run very smoothly without stagnation.

Representatives of several villages in Xinyu heard the news earlier and rushed here to observe the whole process of casting walls in Taoyuan Village.They jotted down the whole process on paper and hurried back.There, the engineering sections assigned to them also started construction one after another.Jia Fang and Gui Xiaxue went to the other construction sites respectively, watched them demonstrate the construction process for a while, and then gathered here in Taoyuan Village when they saw that there was no problem.

It was getting late, and the five wall construction sites in Taoyuan Village were lit with torches—tonight must be a sleepless night.

Jia Fang looked at the concrete walls rising from the ground one after another, and the villagers who were sleepless on the construction site and didn't know what fatigue was, and couldn't help but feel a layer of excitement in his chest.

He really wanted to tell these hard-working ordinary people that in another time and space hundreds of years later, their nation would be crowned with the title of "infrastructure madman".For the well-being of the people, this "infrastructure maniac" can open roads in the mountains, build bridges in the water, and dig tunnels in the sea... It can build the world's longest road network and railway network, the densest urban agglomeration, and provide traffic to the most remote places. Hydropower... As long as you can think of it, there is nothing that cannot be built.

Just like Taoyuanzhai today, for the sake of the homeland, do not be afraid or discouraged, do your best to create "possibility" in the "impossible".