Datang romantic little landlord

A group of military leaders who had fun even called the waiters to get drinks, and continued to "fight" while drinking.

Even Li Er was the same, he continued to drink the fine wine in his cup, laughing happily.

Li Wangyou was completely speechless, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't beat these bastards, he would have fought hard with this group of old men who ruined the construction sand table of his manor mansion.

It's just too much!

This is not a military sand table!

A group of old men, old killers!It's really weird to think hard one by one, how to destroy his small castle that hasn't started construction yet!

However, as a young Jianguo County man, he really doesn't have any right to speak in front of Li Er and these old hooligans who are all princes of the state, so he can only grit his teeth and endure it!

Finally, this group of military bosses got too addicted, and even drank several jars of wine. This military flag deduction is finally over.

Satisfied, Cheng Yaojin slapped Li Wangyou's small shoulders again with his big slap.

"Nephew, yes, this sand table is a good thing! You bastard, you finally came up with something interesting. It's a waste of time to get waterwheels and horse-drawn carriages all the time!"

Cheng Yaojin's words made Li Er want to hit someone.

Waterwheels and four-wheeled carriages are so important to Datang that he is willing to ennoble Li Wangyou, but this old man said it was a waste of time!

Li Er didn't bother to pay attention to Cheng Yaojin, a bastard, so he stretched out his hand to bring Li Wangyou to his side.

"Ziyou, tomorrow you will teach the Ministry of Industry how to make this sand table. Look at what you have made so rough, it is really unusable." Li Er also disliked that the sand table made by Li Wangyou was not exquisite.

Li Wangyou only felt his teeth itching, he really wanted to bite!

Enduring Li Er's ridicule, Li Wangyou rubbed his hands, and looked at Li Er with a smirk: "Your Majesty, look at my mansion, can it be built like this?"

He made this sand table mainly to get Li Er to nod his head in agreement. Now that their "war" is over, he has to ask quickly.

Li Er cast his eyes on the sand table again, and said after a long while, "Ziyou, your castle is costly and expensive, I'm afraid I can't agree with you to build it like this."

Hearing what he said, Li Wangyou became anxious, how could it cost so much money?

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid you made a mistake, right? I calculated with Feng Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, and the copper coins needed are not very much, and it does not exceed the construction cost of the Nan's Mansion in Jianguo County."

This is really not Li Wangyou's nonsense. Although his manor occupies a large area, it does not cost much to build because it does not have the complex structure of painted beams and carved buildings like traditional buildings.

For traditional Chinese wooden buildings, the labor cost during construction is quite huge.

Just those mortise and tenon joints that do not use iron nails but are only fixed with mortise and tenon structures, it takes a lot of skilled craftsmen to build them.

In later generations, the cost of restoring ancient buildings is far more than that of cement buildings, mainly due to labor costs.

And Li Wangyou felt that his manor mansion didn't need so many skilled craftsmen to carve those complicated patterns. Why did Li Er still say that it took a lot of money?

Li Er pointed to the small castle on the sand table, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "Ziyou, how many stones do you need to build this castle? How many corvee laborers do you need to conscript to transport stones for your castle? I can't agree with you like this Nonsense! Now that the Tang Dynasty is in ruins, and the locust plague has not been extinguished, how can so many corvees be conscripted at will, just to build a mansion for you?"

What Li Er said made Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing.

It turned out that Li Er had misunderstood, and he quickly explained: "Your Majesty, you misunderstood, my small castle does not need stones to build, but bricks are enough, and there is no need to conscript corvee to transport stones."

Many traditional European castles are built of large stones.

But Li Wangyou is not ready to fight again, he just wants to build a castle-style house to "pretend".

So Li Wangyou's plan is to burn bricks and then use cement to build a castle-like house.

Made of bricks?Li Er was slightly taken aback, but still shook his head.

"Nonsense, how can bricks be used to build a house?"

When Cheng Yaojin and the others heard the conversation between Li Er and Li Wangyou, they all joined together.

"Ziyou, how do you build a house with these bricks? Besides, your castle is still several stories high."

"That's the case. The old man has never heard of building a house with bricks. Ziyou, you better stop messing around."

"Haha, Ziyou has the talent of heaven, but there are times when such jokes are made. The old man has never heard of building a house with bricks."

"Using bricks to build city walls and towers, the old man knows how to build your castle?"

In Datang, because there was no cement, sticky loess mortar was used as adhesive for bricks.The city walls of the Tang Dynasty were all built with loess and covered with bricks.

Although strong, it is not suitable for building houses.

If you use glutinous rice to cook the pulp and add it to lime to build bricks, it will be strong and durable after solidification, which is not inferior to the cement of later generations.But doing so was expensive, and only a small number of royal buildings could be used in this way.

In the history of China, it was not until Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was building the Forbidden City that bricks were used to build houses on a large scale.

Therefore, what Li Wangyou said, to Li Er, Cheng Yaojin, and Li Jing, they all regarded him as talking nonsense.

Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing.

"Your Majesty, gentlemen, do you want to make a bet with my nephew?"

242 Do you want to make another bet?

Li Er, Cheng Yaojin, Li Jing and others were all stunned, betting?

What bet?

Li Wangyou laughed and said, "I bet I can find a way to make the bricks stick together, and it's very strong. If I can do it, how about His Majesty agreeing to build the mansion according to this? Money, how about the woodwork in my mansion?"

Woodwork refers to the decoration and furniture that later generations said.Because most of the buildings at that time were made of wood, the mansion was also mainly decorated with wood.

Li Er said that he would build the county man's mansion, but the decoration and furniture were not included, and he was as stingy as the developers of later generations.

Since Cheng Yaojin and the others don't believe that they can use bricks to build a house, Li Wangyou naturally doesn't mind betting with them and extorting money, who will make him poor.

Li Jing heard the words but suddenly asked: "Ziyou, can you glue the bricks together? How strong can you be?"

"You can't fall with a hammer." Li Wangyou replied confidently.

Li Er's eyes also lit up, and he and Li Jing exchanged glances with smiles in their eyes.

"But, I've made a bet with you! Ziyou, if you can build bricks that won't fall down with a hammer, I will promise you to build this castle!"

Li Jing also twirled his beard and laughed, "Haha, Ziyou, if you can really do it, what if the old man pays for the woodwork of your mansion? Ziyou, how long will it take you to get it out?"

Li Wangyou, who thought he had taken advantage of Li Er, Li Jing and others, smiled until his eyes narrowed.

He thought about it, when the old house was renovated last time, there was still a lot of substitute cement that he manually ground.When I go back to Dingzhou Village, I can ask the masons in the village to help me build a brick wall, and wait for two days for the cement to solidify.

Li Wangyou raised three fingers at the crowd: "It will be enough in three days. After three days, Your Majesty and the princes can come to Dingzhou Village. I will show you the brick wall that cannot be knocked down by a hammer."