The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

After all, it will be easier to transport materials to the village later if the road is rectified first. Otherwise, it will be difficult for oxcarts and horsecarts to pull things to the village.

"No matter how smooth and compacted the road is, it will be difficult to walk on it in summer when it rains. Vehicles will definitely leave two tracks on the road when they pass by. Even if they walk a lot, the road will still be the same." Li Fu said, "If you want to keep the road smooth, you have to harden it."

"Harden?" Yan Lide wondered, "The ground has been compacted, but after being soaked by rain, it will still be a mud road even if it is hardened."

"Then make the road not mud." Li Fu smiled slightly, "How about using some other materials?"

"For example?" Yan Lide asked.

He couldn't think of what else to use for the road surface, bricks? That would be a death sentence. It's just the road on the village. If all the bricks are replaced, how much money will it cost?

Just to make the road easier to walk on rainy days? After a long time, the bricks and stones on the ground will also break. After they break, they will not be as good as the compacted ground.

On this issue, Yan Lide felt that Li Fu was a little fanciful.

"For example, dig a part under the ground." Li Fu said: "Then use three-cement soil to compact it as the roadbed. As for the surface..."

At this point, Li Fu smiled a little and changed the subject.

"Old Yan, you know, I have a tea shop in Chang'an City."

"Huh?" Yan Lide's doubts were written on his face.

We are talking about road construction, why are we talking about tea shops again?

"Of course I know this." Yan Lide responded: "But what does this have to do with road construction? Don't say that your tea shop makes money, you want to pave the road with copper coins."

Isn't this crazy?

"That's not the case. There are many tea sets in the tea shop." Li Fu said: "We made them ourselves."

"Then what?" Yan Lide asked.

"In order to make tea sets, I asked people to build two kilns in the next county." Li Fu said, "They were bought ready-made, and now they are also the property of Jingyang Palace, specializing in making tea sets and sending them to Chang'an City."

"Go on." Yan Lide waited to hear the next words.

"When the kilns were fired, I asked the kiln craftsmen to pay more attention to whether there were any new things that could be fired in the kilns. I also figured out a formula for them to try." Li Fu said, "Then in the past two years, we have figured out new things."

"I call that thing cement." Li Fu said.

In the past, Li Fu was thinking about whether to build a highway from Chang'an City to Zhuangzi Shang to facilitate the round trip.

Now, let's not worry about Chang'an City, and we have to take care of our own Zhuangzi Shang first.

Cement... Those two kilns have been made a long time ago, but this matter has been suppressed by Li Fu, and no news has leaked out.

The kiln workers had no idea what it was or what it was used for.

They made a batch, but it was just clinker and hadn't been finely ground yet.

However, if they wanted to increase production in the future, they would have to hire special people to mine

limestone, dolomite, and other products with high calcium carbonate content.

"Why don't you start from when Pangu created the world?" Yan Lide said helplessly, "Why don't you just say that the kiln workers under you found a new material for paving the road?"

"Everything has to have a cause and effect. If I suddenly say that I have a new material for paving the road, wouldn't you be curious about what it is, where it comes from, and how I made it?" Li Fu smiled and said, "Then I might as well explain it to you from the beginning."

Yan Lide choked.

It seems to be the same thing.

"Then your new material..." Yan Lide wanted to ask for details, but he felt that it was not appropriate.

With new things, the formula must be more precious, and he couldn't ask.

"Cement, as the name suggests." Li Fu explained.

"Add water, add small stones, mix well, that is concrete, spread on the road surface, level the ground, wait for the water to dry, solidify, it is invulnerable." Li Fu said: "And the road surface is very flat, the carriage runs on it, very stable, and it is completely different from a brick road."

"Invulnerable? Is it so magical?" Yan Lide was surprised: "Huairen, this is not funny."

"How can I laugh, wait for some time, after we are done, we will discuss and rebuild the road."

Even if we discuss it, we can't start this year, and the craftsmen still have to go home and rest first.

The clinker accumulated at present is far from enough.

If we want to repair it, we have to wait until enough materials are accumulated before we start.As the two talked, they arrived at the trading area of ​​the workshop.

Looking at the wide square, the two rows of warehouses that took up a lot of space, and the long row of stables next to them.

I was shocked for no reason.

Next to them was the main trading hall, which had different windows.

Currently, there are only four windows that can be used, corresponding to the four workshops.

If new workshops are added to the workshop area in the future, new windows will be opened accordingly.

Outside the trading hall, on the other side, along the outdoor corridor, are the restaurant and the inn.

These two buildings occupy a large area and are very impressive.

Both the restaurant and the inn are three-story, and there is a corridor between the second floors, connecting the two buildings together. From the second floor of the inn, you can go directly to the restaurant through the corridor.

The large square outside is padded with smooth and flat stone blocks, and the gaps are filled with mixed cement, which has a certain hardness after drying.

The whole square, walking on it, you won't even feel your feet hurt.

There are more than 300 people building this workshop area, and more than 100 of them are dedicated to grinding stones, so there is such a smooth square.

"Huairen, the cement you mentioned, after it is finished, can it be smoother than this square?" Yan Lide asked with a smile.

He hadn't said it until just now, just to ask Li Fu this question after thinking of the place.

Li Fu lowered his head and glanced at his feet.

"Definitely." Li Fu said.

"Definitely what?" Yan Lide smiled and said, "Not as good as here?"

"Definitely smoother than here." Li Fu smiled.

"What?" Yan Lide frowned: "Smoother than this? Can you walk on it?"

"Then you worry too much, the floor in the house is so flat, didn't we fall to death?"

Li Fu walked towards the inn first, and Yan Lide saw this and hurried to catch up, still thinking in his mind, the floor in the house...?