Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

At the beginning of the next day, the morning hour arrived.

More than 500 people had gathered in the square in front of the Vermillion Bird Gate.

The recruitment notice only said that it was for road construction, and did not require bringing their own tools, but half of these 500 people brought their own digging tools.

As for the fact that there were only more than 50 oxen, it might be that the oxen were paid only 2 wen, and the people were reluctant to let the oxen suffer.

You should know that the Tang Dynasty was in great need of oxen at that time, especially when the Zhenguan plow was not popular.

As Li Tai expected, the tools made by the Ministry of Works were placed in the square at this moment, guarded by soldiers.

Su Chen did not come, but Chang Sun Chong and Cheng Chuliang of the first construction team came to lead the team.

"Everyone be quiet!"

Da Niu squeezed into the middle of the crowd and shouted at the top of his voice!

"Everyone be quiet, listen to me! Your wages will be changed from 25 wen per day to 80 wen per day."

When these people heard 80 wen, they became excited. They had rushed to come before 25 wen.

Many people have few copper coins left at home, but only silk, cloth and the like.

"Go over there and get a sign for each of you now. You must keep it well. You will use it to settle your wages in the future. Stand on the other side if you get a sign."

This is the bamboo piece that Su Chen asked the bamboo craftsman in the village to make, with a four-digit serial number engraved on it.

In the future, it will not be recorded, and wages will be paid based on this sign. Each of the 30 guards carried a bag of bamboo pieces, which was about the size of a mahjong.

After a cup of tea, everyone got a sign.

It took about two quarters of an hour, and Daniu explained the process of road construction to the workers, and the wages were paid every five days.

Finally, tools were distributed and the division of labor was clarified. Some were responsible for soil digging, leveling and tamping. The project officially started, and the roadbed was leveled 100 steps outside Mingde Gate.

One step in the Tang Dynasty was the distance of one step taken by each foot, about five feet.

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Su Chen went to find Li You early in the morning and took him to see the pigs. They were bigger than the piglets he bought in Chang'an for the first time. They were about 30 kilograms and could be cut.

Su Chen planned to keep 50 boars for breeding. He wanted to keep more to avoid castration.

Li You was stunned by these piglets. Where did they come from? There were none yesterday.

Su Chen smiled and said, "Boy, there is feed for pigs in that warehouse. You can do it yourself."

Li You did not answer Su Chen. The boy ran to other pig pens excitedly and checked them one by one.

After returning from the pig farm, Su Chen studied the map of this cement road in the study.

He had overlooked a problem before, because the road had been diverted and the width of the road formed before was not enough.

But after the diversion, there was a ditch about two feet wide. If it was blocked, it would affect drainage, which would require the use of culverts or culverts.

"It's probably troublesome to build a culvert, so let's build a culvert."

Su Chen called Wei Shuyu and Qin Huaiyu to let them understand the necessity of culverts when encountering ditches during road construction.

At the same time, Su Chen also thought that if he encountered a river or a large ditch during road construction in the future, he could only build a stone arch bridge. He couldn't get steel bars now.

Before leaving the manor, Su Chen found the housekeeper Jin'er and asked her to prepare meals for 600 people. They didn't need to be too rich but they had to be full.

Today, the people who were building the road couldn't provide three meals, so they had to have two meals. They would deliver the food wherever the road was built, and only two meals would be provided in the future.

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Su Chen and his party came to the location of the ditch at the diversion point, which was close to the direction of the manor.

There were more than ten ox carts behind them, pulling bricks and cement, most of which were red bricks.

Now wooden stakes have been driven on both sides of the road to mark the width of the road.

Su Chen jumped off the ox cart and first made a simple survey of the terrain. This small ditch did not have much water flow even in the rainy season.

So the culvert does not need to be too wide. I told the village masons about the requirements and asked them to dig out the soft soil in the ditch first.

Then lay bricks and plaster the surface, and finally lay a two-foot-wide culvert cover.

In fact, as long as you tell these craftsmen what the purpose is, they can do the rest by themselves. Some things are just unseen.

Or they are called differently, their skills and workmanship are not necessarily worse than modern people.

"Master, just leave this job to us, and we guarantee that we will do it clearly."

The villagers all understood what they were going to do. This job was very simple for them. The road was only two feet wide, so there were not many brick walls to be built.

Now the wages of the villagers have also increased, all 80 wen per day.

"Okay, Uncle Zhao, let's go to the front and take a look. You are busy here."

Su Chen asked someone to unload a cart of bricks. He and Wei Shuyu and Qin Huaiyu jumped on the ox cart and continued to move towards Chang'an.

He didn't know how many workers came today.

Almost an hour later, Su Chen saw the road repair team ahead.

Ox carts are much slower than horse carts, so time cannot be used to calculate the progress of road construction.

Three peopleHe jumped off the ox cart and walked towards Cheng Chuliang.

"Su Chen, why are you here?" Daniu looked like a contractor now, holding a piece of paper with the construction steps of the road construction written on it.

He was responsible for leveling the front of the team, and Chang Sunchong was responsible for compacting the back.

"Daniu, how many people came today?" Su Chen looked at the road construction team in front of him, and could only see the front part, not the back.

"532 bamboo signs were issued, 56 cows."

Su Chen nodded, which was about what he expected, "The recruitment notices have been re-pasted!"

"I asked someone to paste them after I came to Chang'an City."

"That's good, where there is a need to fill the soil, compact it layer by layer, and don't pile too much soil at a time. Remember it!"

Su Chen reminded Daniu again that this can't be sloppy.

It will be no fun if the cement road collapses after pouring it. This is a demonstration project for the outside world.

"Don't worry, I remember everything!" Da Niu patted his chest and shook the paper in his hand.

Su Chen smiled, "I'll go to the back to take a look, you continue!"

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"Chang Sun Chong, how many miles do you think you have repaired now?" Su Chen felt that it was almost time for lunch.

Chang Sun Chong thought for a moment, "Two quarters of an hour ago, I could still see Mingde Gate from a distance, and now it is estimated to be more than two miles."

Su Chen calculated in his mind that 500 people could advance two miles in the morning, and that would be about 5 miles a day.

Looking at the situation on the scene, it would be inconvenient to add more people to the construction, so only these 500 people could continue to level the roadbed.

The people recruited today are going to be taken to mine gravel and sand after gathering tomorrow.

Su Chen has never known that one mile of land in the Tang Dynasty is actually only more than 450 meters and less than 500 meters.

Turning his head to look at the people in charge of tamping, he didn't know where they got the huge stone mill, so he used the stone mill to roll first.

The people behind were in groups of four, tying a large stone at both ends with a rope, lifting it up and putting it down again and again.

Su Chen was amazed. This stone seemed to be specially made, with a round hole at each corner for the rope.

This stone was obviously not found temporarily, it looked very old, and the stone was shiny black.

After asking Chang Sun Chong, I learned that the people didn't know what road they were building at first, and later when the construction started outside Mingde Gate, the people suddenly realized it.

So they took the initiative to tell Chang Sun Chong that they had this kind of stone tool for tamping the road surface, which was very convenient for construction.

Chang Sun Chong took people and bull carts and returned to the people's homes to get these tools.

The people called this tamping stone "tamping stone". Su Chen learned a lot.

Su Chen instantly felt that he was being smart. The production conditions in ancient times were just backward, which did not mean that the wisdom was not as good as modern people.

Su Chen did not plan to return to the manor now, and just waited for the person who delivered the meal.

It is not easy to deliver food to hundreds of people. If there is a problem, we will find a way. If it doesn't work, we will cook on the roadside, just like marching to war.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the food delivery came as expected. There were more than 20 carriages, which were filled with wooden barrels.

The staple food was corn rice with three dishes, orchid, yellow roll, and cabbage.

Su Chen also gradually got used to eating this corn rice, and it didn't feel rough and hard to swallow like at the beginning.

The names of the three dishes in the Tang Dynasty were different from those in modern times.

Orchid (lotus root), yellow roll (soybean sprouts), cabbage (a kind of cabbage).