Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

After hearing this, Xiao Zirong looked at the black shadows of the mountains in the distance and said, "Terraces, but you can't expand the terraces casually. If you expand too much, it will easily cause water and soil erosion, and mudslides will easily occur at that time."

The people around him were ignorant of what they heard, but when they heard the word "final mudslide", they were a little frightened, and Ah Yin whispered, "If it's so dangerous, don't spread it."

Xiao Zirong smiled and said, "It depends on the situation."

He just had this idea. However, the current grain yield per mu is not high, so it may be necessary to expand the terraced fields by then.

As for the irrigation of terraced fields, since there are already keel waterwheels, this is not a problem.

Thinking of this, Xiao Zirong couldn't help but feel a little pity. When Jiahe appeared before, he thought he could start researching hybrid rice, but he didn't expect that there were so many plots of land, and in the end, Jiahe was produced by Ayin, Aman and the others.

Xiao Zirong was disappointed and thought about it. If this thing came out so easily, it would not be regarded as auspicious. Gene mutations in nature are inherently uncontrollable, not to mention that although in Xiao Zirong's view, their arable land area is not Small, but actually not a lot overall.

The number of occurrences of the auspicious Jiahe recorded in the history books is limited, and here they... can only rely on luck.

That one Golden Harvest plant harvested more than 100 seeds in the end, which is considered a good number. An ordinary rice plant only has fifty or sixty seeds.

After all, this rice is not the hybrid rice of later generations, otherwise Xiao Zirong would not have to worry.

But even if this output is completely unacceptable in Xiao Zirong's view, when it is time to harvest, watching the sacks of rice being transported to the resident, and then collecting taxes according to the output of each household, the scene is indeed impressive. Inspiring.

The granary was soon filled to half full. Although it was not full, but with grain in hand, everyone did not panic.

Moreover, the harvested rice stalks can also be used for heating in winter. Although it is impossible to completely replace firewood, it can also save a lot of things.

After the harvest, everyone will start preparing for the winter. They planted late rice, and by the time the harvest was over, it was already October, and it was almost November.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively late, so they need to start preparing from now on, because there are too many things they need to do, the first thing is... to build a house!

Before the rainy season, everyone could only stay in the two dormitories. Later, because they were too busy farming, they didn’t have time to repair the house. Now that it’s time for the slack season, it’s best to organize as soon as possible to repair as much as possible. Let everyone move in before Zhengdan.

The planning map of the city has always been engraved on mud boards and put up in the square. Everyone can see it when they come and go, so they are also looking forward to their future houses.

And this time building a house is the same as before. Points are given according to the level of work, and the points will be used to exchange for homesteads.

This is also impossible. Although their city is not big, it can accommodate 300 people. It also includes hunting grounds, horse farms and some other large-scale recreational facilities. According to Xiao According to Zirong's plan, it's unreasonable for them to live in this city with 500 people.

Since it is so big, there are naturally good locations and bad locations.

Among other things, everyone must think that the closer the city lord's mansion is, the better. If the price is not clearly marked, what will happen when everyone fights when the house is divided?

After hearing Xiao Zirong's thoughts, Bai Yan tilted her head and thought for a while and asked, "But now there are many people with high points, and many of them are very competitive. What if they grab it?"

Xiao Zirong rubbed his chin and said, "Since this is the case, let's just leave it like this, and keep the places closest to the City Lord's Mansion first, so they will be useful in the future."

Bai Yan asked curiously: "Keep it? What's the use of keeping it?"

Xiao Zirong pointed and said: "I want to build a library here, but I don't have time now, so I don't need to build it for now, this part should be reserved for the future management, oh, it's the officials, this is the treasury property, well, there are still some places to get later.”

The more Xiao Zirong talked, the bigger his head became. He deeply felt that it is not easy for people who can start a business from scratch.

Bai Yan looked at the area circled by Xiao Zirong and felt that the problem she had just now was not a problem. Except for that area, all the other areas were similar, and a trading area would be arranged near the middle, with fewer people. There are few people, but looking at it this way, the city is indeed small and complete.

Although the harvest was just finished and it was time to rest, everyone was very active when they heard that they were going to build a house. Those with less strength picked up the shells, those with more strength were responsible for crushing them, and some were responsible for transporting straw over and lighting the fire to make sand. .

This time is different from the previous ones. The collective dormitories that were rebuilt before were all made of ordinary soil, which can be obtained directly from the site. Now lime mortar and bamboo are used, so a large amount of them needs to be transported over. In fact, the salt factory also used this kind of soil when it was built. The method is just that when the salt factory was built, it was very close to the sea, and the project was not very large, so the difficulty of transportation was not obvious at that time, but now it needs a lot of raw materials.

Among them, the shells are better. These days, people occasionally go to the sea in the morning. If they can find crabs and octopuses, they can enrich their food, so they usually pick up some shells when they go to the sea. After a few months They also hoarded a lot of shells, and occasionally crushed them when they had time, which can be regarded as hoarding some calcium carbonate.

But the sand is not good. The quantity needed is huge and must be transported.

Xiao Zirong saw that it was too hard for everyone to walk the mountain road, so he simply suspended the transportation first, called everyone together and said: "It's impossible to continue like this, it's tiring and slow, let's build a road to go there from today."

road?Everyone looked at each other, and Zhai Wei sat down with her hands on her chin and said, "But the city lord, it takes a lot of time to build the road? I'm afraid it won't be finished until winter."

Everyone echoed, even Lu Liu, who had always been silent, said: "If the city lord dislikes slowness, we can just get up early and go to bed late and work a little longer."

Now they basically stick to the routine of sunrise and sunset, even Xiao Zirong is no exception. After all, they need to save energy, and even if Xiao Zirong is lying on the bed, he can call up a lot of interesting things from his brain. In terms of books, there is no need to worry about being bored.

After hearing Lu Liu's words, he quickly waved his hands and said, "No, that's too unsafe."

This is really not his alarmist talk. The dangers of the girls in later generations come from men and other natural and man-made disasters, but the dangers of the little ladies here now come from all kinds of wolves, tigers and leopards.

In this era, because the ecological environment has not been destroyed much, these large carnivorous beasts have not yet entered the endangered category. Even if they are endangered, it is due to natural selection and has nothing to do with humans.

It's just that these ferocious beasts are not stupid. When there are many people, they usually measure whether they can beat them, and if they can't beat them, they will retreat.

They also encountered wolves when they first settled down here, but they were beaten back by everyone's joint efforts at that time, and those wolves never came again.

But those wolves didn't come because of their numbers and strength. Once they were alone, they might still be in danger, especially at night.

Liu Cainiang said: "How does the city lord want to repair it?"

She knew at a glance that Xiao Zirong had already made a decision. Anyway, he could persuade everyone every time they felt inappropriate, so Liu Cainiang simply skipped this step.

Of course, it’s also because Xiao Zirong’s decisions are correct every time. Whether it’s a canal or a waterwheel, although it was a waste of time at first, after using it, everyone realized that it really saved a lot of energy. The little ladies praised again and again, saying that farming at home has never been so easy. At first, these little ladies would take over the employment of one family, and later because it was too easy, even capable little ladies took over two families to farm at the same time, which was not delayed.

From then on, Liu Cainiang felt that she had a little understanding of the meaning that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Xiao Zirong is still the same theory now, but he has the confidence to build roads, and he doesn't want to build cement roads, which must be very troublesome. What he wants is to widen the original path, level it, and ram the earth Compact it, and finally make two more tracks.

After he uttered the plan, everyone in the front can still understand it, but the track in the back...?What it is?

Seeing that everyone didn't understand, Xiao Zirong asked, "Did you know that the cars in the Qin Dynasty were on the same track?"

Then what was waiting for him were small heads shaking rapidly.

Xiao Zirong: ...

Nine-year compulsory education is imperative!

But forget it now, he simply explained what is the same track of cars, but Xiao Zirong's concept of the same track is different from others. For two-wheeled vehicles, people will also lay a "railway network", and those wheels can run on railways and roads because of their unique characteristics, but Xiao Zirong can't make these railway networks, and they even have two-wheeled vehicles. There are only three or four carts, which are specially used for mules and horses. Usually, everyone uses more wheelbarrows.

It takes some skills to use a unicycle well. Anyway, Xiao Zirong is not very good at using that thing, and once the thing encounters bumpy mountain roads, the difficulty will increase exponentially. This is why Xiao Zirong wants to build roads.

His plan is to create two sunken runways on the side of the road near the curb, and lay a layer of lime mortar inside to make the ground smoother and easier to push. As for people, they can only walk behind as far as possible to avoid places with tracks .

This does not require lime mortar to lay the whole road and can greatly facilitate the advancement of the wheelbarrow.

Moreover, in Xiao Zirong's design, the distance between the two tracks was designed according to the tracks of ox carts and horse-drawn carriages. Although they don't have many ox-drawn carts and carriages now, there will always be more in the future.

Everyone had habitual doubts before, but under Xiao Zirong's persuasion, they basically decided to try to see if they could build the road first.

Anyway, they don't really want to go directly to the seaside, but to connect to the salt field, and then level the road leading to the seaside. What is needed to get from the seaside to the main road is manpower, after all, the current level of technology can't do it Build roads on soft, sunken sand.

Xiao Zirong directly planned the shortest route. Liu Cainiang looked at it and said, "This is a bit closer than the current route, but the detour was because there were rocks in the middle. How do you solve this?"

Xiao Zirong looked at Liu Cainiang and said softly, "Are those gunpowder bamboo tubes in our warehouse just for display?"

Liu Cainiang stopped talking when she thought of the power of the gunpowder bamboo tube. The power of a gunpowder bamboo tube may be average, but the amount of this thing can be increased or decreased according to the situation. If you are happy, you can blow it up directly.

After Xiao Zirong completed the planning, the first thing everyone had to do was to remove the grass on the road first, and then rest.

There is basically no technical content in this project, and even the lime mortar does not have to worry about cracking when it is laid-the place is too humid and there are many trees on both sides of the road, so there is no need for them to cover it with other things at all.

It took a total of half a month to build this road. Fortunately, their place is not very far from the sea, otherwise it would take two or three months to build.

On the day when Lu Xiucheng was completed, Xiao Zirong was very happy. He wanted to gather everyone together and have a fun party, but when he was looking for someone, he found that Liu Cainiang and others had disappeared. Yan asked: "Where did they all go? Why are there no one?"

Bai Yan raised her head and said, "Cai Niang took everyone to worship the mountain god. They said that the gunpowder and bamboo tubes used before were a bit too much, and they were worried that the mountain god would be unhappy."

Xiao Zirong: ...

It's really... very in line with the feudal superstition of this era.

But he was also a little strange: "Why didn't you tell me?"

Bai Yan hesitated for a while and said, "They are afraid that you will be unhappy."

Xiao Zirong's first reaction after hearing this was, do these people also know what atheism is?But he never said that he is atheist. When he was alive, he was indeed atheist, but later when he became A Piao, his beliefs changed. Some things would rather be believed than believed.

Maybe seeing his doubts, Bai Yan whispered: "Cai Niang said that you are a god who came down from the sky, so you might not be able to deal with the mountain god."

If it wasn't too difficult to deal with, how could there be such a sharp weapon to blow up mountains?

Xiao Zirong: Convinced!

He really underestimated the wisdom of the people. These people don’t just work hard, but why can’t you use your intelligence in the right place and study hard?fall!

The three sisters Zhai Xi haven't even finished half of the books in the first grade of primary school, and Xiao Zirong's heart is about to break depending on the progress of the study.

Forget it, let them do whatever they want, Xiao Zirong reckoned that he would still be in the mood to worship the mountain god, it seemed that he would be too free, especially Liu Cainiang.

So when the construction of the city started, Xiao Zirong found out that he could hardly get involved in building the house, and then decisively announced: "Let's go to the state capital sometime!"