Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 111 A Miracle

Two days later it was sunny.

On Chenjiazhuangzi, a large group of people, including old Chen Tou, were waiting eagerly.

The legend is that a very important project awaits a decision and is currently experimenting with something called cement.

Earlier, Zhao Cheng asked Guijiaoqi to go to Yangshan Village to find Bai Chenxiang, and he took about one hundred catties of cement from the extremely scarce supply and sent it to Chenjiazhuang for trial use.

Old Chen ordered people to dig a small hole on the ground after following the instructions and the mud, and smeared the surface with cement, and it is now dry.

Many children came over and lay down on the ground, touching the small "reservoir" with their hands. The feeling is very delicate, and the feel is very different from other things.

"Get out of here! How can such an expensive thing be touched by you and other brats."

Chen Xiaohu came over and slapped everyone on the back of the head and knocked the children away.

"Go to the water."

Lao Chen gave the order, and the people around him poured the water prepared in the bucket into it.

Under normal circumstances, even if the soil is saturated with water during the rainy season, the amount of water in such a mud pit will be lost quickly and slowly swallowed by the land.

The villagers kept their eyes wide open, seeing as much water as they could get in. After waiting for half an hour, the water was not swallowed by the land as if it was in a tank.

For a moment, everyone around was full of surprises, especially the group of women, as if they had seen a miracle, they all shouted "miracle" and bowed down.

Because this is really a miracle for farmers, and everyone is still unclear about how to operate it.But this at least means that it is possible to store excess summer rainwater in local areas until it is needed and then withdraw it.

"Get rid of these troublesome bitches!"

Lao Chen was also very excited, because the convenience of this thing exceeded his perception.But it didn't affect him to blame these women, he couldn't stand it, he had to observe more to confirm that it wasn't, how could he start worshiping for a quarter of an hour and regard it as a miracle.

Of course, objectively speaking, if they were not so stupid, Lao Chen's rule would not be so easy.

What followed was completely a group of novices. More than a hundred people at the scene were all in a hurry, yelling about "miracles", and said that they should quickly get all the magic mud back and put it in Chenjiazhuang. monopoly.

Lao Chen ordered people to bring chairs and tea without haste, and just kept observing the water level changes by the small reservoir under the sun.

The water level is almost unchanged, and the disappearing part is easily recognized by the hot sun.

Afterwards, Lao Chen went into the pond himself and felt the cement surface soaked in water for nearly half a day with his hands and feet.

Using a dagger to scratch on the dried cement can leave traces, but it has almost no impact on the integrity of the cement.

"Come on, smash the old man's reservoir with a sledgehammer!"

Finally, Lao Chen issued an extraordinary order.

"Don't... Third Uncle, you are committing a crime!"

The group of people suddenly became chaotic again, and they all beat their chests and feet as if they were afraid that the miracle would be destroyed. The situation was very exaggerated.

"Really... going to smash it?"

Chen Xiaohu also hesitated a little.

"Broken."

Lao Chen felt that they were a bunch of idiots, so he didn't bother to go into details.

Then four strong men came into battle, holding a sledgehammer and starting to smash the water reservoir along the edge.But the extent of the damage was not as easy or as big as imagined.

Old Chen watched silently from the side with a very wretched and cautious look. Smashing can be smashed. The bricks in the brick kiln and the rocks used to build the city wall can be smashed. Of course, the cement can also be smashed.There is nothing in the world that cannot be smashed, including mountains and rivers.

The only thing that needs to be observed is its firmness and ability to withstand damage. This is very important. Whether it can be like Zhao Cheng said "passed down from generation to generation and left to future generations" is actually judged by its strength.

As long as it has the strength of very expensive fired bricks, it can be classified as handed down in this era.Based on the traditional thinking of the Han people, expensive or cheap is relative. As long as it can be passed on to future generations and continue to generate benefits, then the price is really acceptable.

I kept observing until the end, and indeed the whole pool was smashed, and the sun was about to set.Now Lao Chen also fell into a state of astonishment, with his mouth half-opened and unable to speak for a long time.

If you look at the strength, this thing is of course much higher than the burnt bricks. The burnt bricks will be smashed as a whole, but the cement will not. Look at the feeling when the sledgehammer is smashed. It can be clearly identified. The cement has very strong adhesion and compression resistance. ability.A hammer can only leave traces in a small local area, and it has very little destructive power to others and the surrounding area.

That is to say, one difference between this thing and fired bricks is that it is very easy to repair if a part is damaged, and it will not damage the whole, and children can easily complete the repair.

And it can be smashed because the cement applied is only a thin layer, and the foundation has not been strengthened, which means that there is no support behind the cement, which causes the damage.

Two masons in Zhuangzi were experts, and they also came over to suggest: "Third Uncle, this is really a good thing. It can be smashed because the foundation is not consolidated. If you first use strip stones and hammer it in when building Knock in the soil by squeezing the density of the surrounding soil for stability, then pave a layer of irregular small stones, and then fill the gaps between the small stone layers with this magical cement to make the adhesion stable, let alone the reservoir, it is The walls used as borders are strong enough."

"really?"

Lao Chen is not a mason, so he deliberately asked one more question.

"I can absolutely guarantee that." The two masons were sure.

Lao Chen still touched his chin with a wretched look and hesitated.

A group of black people fell around, almost wailing and shouting miracles, "Third Uncle, my Chenjiazhuang needs to act quickly to take advantage of this rainy season to build a large reservoir on the high ground so that the next year will not look at the sky." , can guarantee our own farming.”

"Yes, we must attack decisively. Whoever grabs the cement with us will stab him with a dung ladle together!"

This is simply a group of uneducated sticklers, but helplessly, their thoughts are basically Lao Chen's thoughts.

Land is everywhere in this year, but it is not called a field without water.In other words, where there is water, there are fields.

Thinking of this, Old Chentou murmured to himself, "Zhao Cheng's turtle is too stupid. It's a good thing, but... it's too expensive."

The surrounding crowd wailed again on a large scale:
"Third Uncle can't hesitate, there is a reason why you are expensive, and you have to cultivate if you are expensive."

"That's right, like land is becoming more and more expensive, it is no longer worthwhile to calculate the price of food, but there are still many people who buy land again, because it is the foundation of their livelihood, and it can be passed down from generation to generation, not to mention enjoying happiness, it can be real Of course, things like clothing and food can’t be cheap, but expensive things have to be purchased first.”

Lao Chen approached the mason whom he trusted more and whispered, "Please roughly calculate how much cement is needed to build a larger reservoir in Wangjiapo."

Because the scale cannot be determined and there is no specific experience reference, it is difficult to measure.

However, one of the masons said excitedly: "Third Uncle, I don't think there is any need to worry about it. Its strength is indeed handed down once and for all. In this way, there is no need to calculate short-term gains and losses. Even if the scale is larger, there should be hundreds of thousands of catties of cement. Enough is enough, no matter how dark-hearted that kid Zhao Cheng is, it’s only a few hundred pennies. He can also turn some of the unusable land in my Chenjiazhuang into arable land for this, and it will make money in the long run anyway.”

"Yeah, I'm afraid that Zhao Cheng won't spread the secret recipe to the outside world. The cement production is limited. If we don't quickly win the share, it will be difficult for our water environment to improve within a few years."

Chen Xiaohu also stepped in to encourage.He is very clear about how many group fights are fought every year to protect the water, because Xiaohu takes the lead every time.

In the end, Old Chen had no choice but to sigh and laugh miserably, "This time he won. The cabbage seeds that I have accumulated for many years were all picked up by his chopsticks. Okay, we need to repair this pool, and we must repair it quickly!"

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(End of this chapter)