Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 201
During this outing, Yang Menglong came here in good spirits and returned disappointed - he had a great time, but when he heard that he had to pay a sharp tax, he felt bad.However, he was the only one who returned disappointed. The children had a great time, and Qi Hu and the others also had a great time, singing happily and going back under the sunset.

After you are happy, what should you do?The next day, Qi Hu embarked on the journey north with dozens of veterans along with the convoy.They want to go to the Daming Mansion to help Lu Xiangsheng train soldiers. In Yang Menglong's words, this is called a business trip. Not only Yang Menglong is subsidized, but Lu Xiangsheng is also paid quite generously, making money at both ends.

This fleet is quite large, with hundreds of vehicles loaded with various supplies.Yang Menglong is also too generous, he will give people whatever they want, it makes Qi Hu feel a little distressed, although you two have a good relationship, you can't do this, right?Only Yang Menglong knows that Lu Xiangsheng has a bright future, and even if he has no friendship with him, he should pay a lot of money to win him over, so that he can reap some benefits in the future!Although my father did not inherit much of his business skills, he still knows the basic skills of investment. If you want to speculate, you can speculate in original stocks, and wait for the stock price to go up before making additional investments. How can there be too much time?In addition to the weapons and armor that Lu Xiangsheng ordered, he also presented a large number of steel ingots, weighing as much as tens of thousands of catties. Whatever weapons the Tianxiong Army needs, they can be forged with these steel ingots. You can't just let him do everything. ?How can he have such leisure!
This little boy Qi Polu also went to Daming Mansion with his grandfather, he wanted to go there to broaden his horizons.Yang Menglong agreed with this with both hands and feet. Without this little kid, his ears are quiet.

After seeing off Qi Hu's grandfather and grandson, Yang Menglong began to worry about running a school.After staying in the Ming Dynasty for so long, his deepest feeling is that there are so many fucking illiterates, so many are insane!It's hard to find one person in a hundred who can read and write. It's no wonder that scholars in ancient times had such a high status. They have become rare animals like wild South China tigers. Can the status not be high?

He can still increase the number of children who can read and write on his territory.No, as soon as Cheng Jun arrived, he asked him to catch Kaizi, and he fooled him into spending thousands of taels of silver to build a school.The site of the school was chosen in a piece of saline-alkali land, and there was no way to grow crops on that land. Yang Menglong bought these tens of acres of land with little effort and only a little money.As for the workers, it was even easier. There were so many people who came to Wuyang to look for jobs that they couldn't be chased away. With the sound of "recruitment", hundreds of people came.Cheng Jun selected about [-] people who were more down-to-earth and capable, and asked someone to design the layout of the school, chose a random date, and then broke ground.It's not a big project, in his opinion, two months will do.

He didn't know how fucking this unreliable guy was until he actually did it.

"What are you doing!?"

With a loud shout, several workers who were mixing the slurry were startled. When they looked up, they saw Yang Menglong coming over angrily, staring at the slurry on the ground and shouting loudly.

The worker boldly said: "Mix... mix oats!"

Yang Menglong asked: "What are you using this paste for?"

The worker said: "Building walls! We have always used this mortar to build walls!"

Yang Menglong roared angrily: "Build your head! How dare you live in a house built with such broken things?"

Cheng Jun ran over, and after figuring out the ins and outs, he gritted his teeth and said to the workers: "Don't use this kind of pulp in the future, use... use glutinous rice pulp!"

In ancient times, mud was always used to build walls. The advantage of mud is that it is cheap, but the disadvantage is that it is not strong, and it will soften when it rains.Therefore, high-end houses generally grind glutinous rice into slurry and mix it with egg white. This is a good bonding material, much stronger than mud. It is usually used when building city walls, but it is too expensive. It is absolutely unbearable.In order to repair the school, Cheng Jun spent all his money, regardless of the cost, he just wanted to build the school as soon as possible.

Yang Menglong chuckled and said, "It's too extravagant to use glutinous rice milk, let's use cement."

Cheng Jun didn't know what to say: "Cement?"

Yang Menglong said: "It took me a lot of effort to burn this, and I don't know how it will work, so I just tried it." With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen carts were pulled over immediately. The extra-large wooden barrels were unloaded from the car. The wooden barrels were full of a gray powder, so fine that I had never seen it before.That's not to mention, this guy also used a bullock cart to drag steel bars two fingers thick and a large number of frames twisted with iron bars slightly smaller than the little finger, and then instructed the workers to put these two-foot-long steel bars into four They were erected in a group, and an iron frame was placed every one foot away, and they were tightened with iron wires.When these workers were struggling with these iron bars and steel bars, the others were not idle. Under the command of Yang Menglong, they nailed the planks furiously, and made two wooden walls flush with the ground on the foundation. The gap between the wooden walls was just right. A load-bearing frame made of steel bars that can be put down.

"When building a foundation, you must use a load-bearing frame. Otherwise, the foundation will easily deform, and then the house will collapse... There are 1000 or even thousands of people here. Who can afford to suffer if something goes wrong?" Face to Face Cheng Jun is getting darker and darker, and Yang Menglong is eloquent.

After the load-bearing frame was laid, it was Yang Menglong who instructed everyone to mix cement, fine sand, lime, and pebbles in proportion to make cement slurry, pour it into the wooden wall, and finally tamp it with wooden sticks without leaving any gaps.A few days later, the cement dried up and was as solid as a rock. The craftsmen tried to hammer it hard with a hammer, but their hands were so painful that they couldn't make a crack in it. They were very surprised.

Then the wall was built with cement slurry, which dries quickly, and once it dries up, the whole wall is as indestructible as a rock.With such a good thing, the progress of the project will naturally be greatly accelerated.

The wall was finished and it was time to cap it off, but at this moment, Yang Menglong popped up again, yelled "wait a minute", and dragged a lot of steel bars with confidence again... He didn't want to use tiles for the roof, he just ended up with hail They were all broken into countless pieces and were easily crushed by the snow.Under his command, the workers continued to increase the height of the wall until it was more than four meters high, and it was level. Then they erected crossbars, and then laid them evenly with planks. Finally, they made a hollow square steel frame. Lay it down and pour it with cement slurry.

"The roof created in this way is very strong, no matter how heavy the snow falls, we won't be afraid." Yang Menglong explained.

The first floor is considered completed. This is probably the first house in the world to use reinforced concrete, right?Cheng Jun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it's finally done, the budget has far exceeded the budget!
But in Yang Menglong's eyes, the matter is only half done.Under his instigation, the construction started again, and the red brick concrete wall shot up like bamboo shoots, reaching a height of four meters. In the same way, steel bars were laid, cement slurry was poured, and the roof was capped.Then Yang Menglong told Cheng Jun that another layer should be built, the two layers are too ugly, two, it is unlucky.Well, you are the boss, listen to you, it is nothing more than consuming more bricks, cement and steel bars, and paying a little more wages. I can afford this amount...

Under Yang Menglong's repeated interference, the building was built five floors high.If it weren't for the fact that in ancient times it was impossible to make elevators and the like, and it was a bit difficult to build too high up and down, maybe Yang Menglong, who was affordable, would build more than a dozen floors in one go.

Finally, considering that the appearance of this building seems to be too advanced, the whole is just a block of tofu, which is ugly, and Yang Menglong creatively built three gazebos on the roof... The combination of post-modern and classic is so perfect!
After the building is built, it is natural to paint it.Originally, this was the simplest process, just make some yellow mud paste, but... but but, remember?Yang Menglong's standards are very high!Under his insistence, Cheng Jun continued to buy cement with a dark face, and used cement slurry and lime for powder washing.It's not over yet, when Yang Menglong proposed to paste tiles on the outer wall, he almost killed someone!In the end, considering that Cheng Jun's budget had been seriously overrun, Yang Menglong chose to give in and choose the cheapest blue tiles to paste it on.

The interior walls were rinsed with lime powder... Thank God, Yang Menglong finally did not raise any objections this time.Cheng Jun breathed a sigh of relief.

But you can hide from the first day of junior high school, but you can't hide from the fifteenth day.When preparing to install the windows, Yang Menglong jumped out again and yelled "slow!" He wanted to install glass windows, and it was the kind of transparent glass, so that there would be plenty of light in the classroom, even if it was closed on a rainy day Windows, the students inside can still read books.This time, Cheng Jun finally couldn't bear it any longer. Looking at the row of windowsills, which were 1.3 meters wide and 1.4 meters high, he yelled at Yang Menglong: "Do you know how expensive colored glaze is!? Let's not say whether such a large piece of colored glaze can be made." , even if I can make it, I can’t afford it! Are you trying to make me go bankrupt!?”

Yang Menglong probably had so much fun bullying Cheng Jun that he completely forgot that the eldest son of the Cheng family also had a temper. He was so frightened by his roar that he blinked his eyes for a while and asked, "Is glass expensive?"

Cheng Jun looked up at the sky in grief and indignation, spurting out a mouthful of old blood.

When Wuyangwei's craftsmen carefully transported pieces of glass more than half a meter wide and more than one meter high to the construction site, Yang Menglong picked and picked, and smashed some of the glass that he thought were of poor quality in dissatisfaction. Only then did Cheng Jun know that glass is really not expensive... After a year of repeated experiments, this bastard actually managed to get the transparent glass out without even guessing, and it became a big piece...

The windows made by Yang Menglong are similar to modern aluminum alloy windows, but he really doesn't have the ability to make aluminum alloys, so he had to use tinplate instead, which is a bit heavier, but it won't rust.When opening and closing the window, you only need to pull it lightly to open it, which is very convenient, and you don’t have to use a bamboo pole to support it like before... Without the bamboo pole to support it, the bamboo pole will naturally not fall down; the bamboo pole will not fall down , it will not hit a white-faced scholar like Ximen Qing, which will lead to an adulterous relationship, and the tragedy of Wu Dalang can be avoided. See, is it a great invention that can benefit all people?

Then again, with this glass window, the indoor light is indeed very abundant. Compared with traditional buildings, it is like a sky and an underground.Cheng Jun secretly made up his mind that he must find a place to live in this school by himself. Who would be willing to give up the building built after spending so much money to a bunch of little kids like this?
With the teaching building, of course we have to build canteens and dormitory buildings, which cost a lot of money.It's not over yet. Considering that the children have to go to class all day long, it's a bit boring. It is necessary to add a little fun to them. Yang Menglong decided to build a garden and plant all kinds of flowers and evergreen trees to add a bit of fun to the school.Before he finished his great idea, Cheng Jun was about to bite his teeth: "This place is three miles away from the river. If you want to plant flowers and trees, where can you get water!?"

Yang Menglong chuckled: "Well, I just made a kind of iron pipe, the quality is not so good, it can't be used to make guns, but it can be paved into water pipes, it's still possible to lay it three miles long, what a joke... Hey , why are you staring at that brick all the time?"

Without saying a word, Cheng Jun firmly nailed a section of red brick on the ground, quickly evaluating the hardness of this red brick and Yang Menglong's head in his heart, and what would happen when this red brick hit Yang Menglong's head. s consequence.

Yang Menglong made him stare nervously, and quickly said: "Okay, okay, I know you spent a lot of money during this time, but it's so far away from the river, it's really inconvenient to have no running water. You can do it Well, 99 knelt down and bowed, not bad for this last shiver!"

Cheng Jun still didn't speak, his gaze stayed on the brick all the time, as if frozen...

(End of this chapter)