Chapter 331 Teaching Building Foundation (Please vote and subscribe)
At the beginning of the second month of summer, on May 3, the elders of the Xin tribe began to work on the car-making business under the threat of the leader. On the Han tribe side, Luo Chong had just led people back to Hanyang City from the new city area and planted the five precious seeds in his yard.
Yes, in the yard. Luo Chong was not at ease if he planted them somewhere else. There were only five seeds in total, and he really couldn't afford to hurt them. If they were destroyed outside, it would be completely over. There were only two people in Luo Chong's family, and Xiaodie would not cause trouble for no reason. This was the safest place.
After planting these seeds, Luo Chong began to study the next grassland transaction. Now the Han tribe has encountered a commercial rival, and the white salt and pottery business that was originally monopolized by the Han tribe is not doing well. Fortunately, the Han tribe still has advantages. The woolen cloth and ironware are still monopolized by the Han tribe, which is something that the Xin tribe cannot match.
After figuring out the key, Luo Chong began to urge his tribesmen to continue producing these goods. After five months of construction this year, the warehouse area and breeding area in the city have been completed. Luo Chong asked the 200 slaves to start building a more difficult building, a three-story school.
The slaves have begun to dig the foundation of the teaching building under the guidance of a special person. At this time, Luo Chong also set aside two more warehouses from the newly built warehouses to be used as textile workshops, and unified the management of all the looms in each household to facilitate large-scale production.
The two warehouses, one is used as a spinning workshop, mainly responsible for combing yarn and spinning yarn, and the other is used as a weaving workshop, which is full of flying shuttle looms.
A two-meter-long and two-meter-wide flying shuttle loom, leaving space for walking and transporting raw materials, can be placed in a warehouse. Sixty units can be placed, and each machine is operated by one person. Ten meters of cloth can be produced in a day, and a workshop adds up to 600 meters. The production speed is still considerable.
The textile industry has always been a labor-intensive light industry that employs the most people, but the Han tribe has no shortage of women, especially with thousands of people joining this time, it is no problem to draw one or two hundred people to do this.
After arranging the weaving, Luo Chong began to let Da Zui continue to smelt iron. The last time he smelted iron was in winter. After half a year of preparation, the Han tribe has once again reserved three furnaces of molten iron materials, and the tribe's iron ore reserves have basically been exhausted. Luo Chong plans to wait for another month, when the farmland in the new city area is cultivated, and then he will draw 300 slaves from the new city area to go to the salt lake to mine and replenish the loss of the Han tribe's iron ore.
With the rapid increase in population and the construction of the new city, the amount of iron needed by the Han tribe has also increased a lot. Every family in the tribe needs iron pots, more iron tools, and iron weapons, and they must reserve enough stocks for trading. After all, the iron pots and scissors sold to the grassland also use a lot of iron.
Since Da Zui and his team already have experience in iron smelting, Luo Chong did not personally manage the smelting process this time, but ran to the carpentry group to let them build more two-wheeled carriages.
These two-wheeled carriages were produced to be sold to nomadic tribes. The nomadic tribes really needed this kind of transportation equipment, so Luo Chong naturally didn't mind ripping them off.
Moreover, the two-wheeled carriages were relatively simple to make. They only needed a pair of wheels, a frame and a wooden flatbed. For the Han tribe, which already had a wind-powered sawmill, it was very convenient to make.
In addition, compared with four-wheeled vehicles, two-wheeled flatbed vehicles not only saved labor and materials, but also saved a lot of metal parts used for steering shafts. The cost was also relatively cheaper, with a higher cost-effectiveness. Moreover, such vehicles could carry less things, so Luo Chong could sell a few more.
Well, although there was a suspicion of being a profiteer, for the development of the tribe, it was nothing. It was a profiteer, as the saying goes, there is no real friendship between countries, only eternal interests, so Luo Chong had no guilt at all for cheating those nomadic tribes on the grassland.
One is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten. It is a matter of mutual consent. There is nothing to say.
After arranging these three major events, Luo Chong asked the grassland savages brought back by Youfu to form a new cavalry unit. This time, two cavalry general flags were formed, with a total of 76 people, each with two horses.
This cavalry unit will be responsible for protecting the caravan in the future. In addition, it is also to grab more trade space. How to grab it? Of course, the caravan of the Xin tribe is driven away. It is driven away as far as possible. Otherwise, the Han tribe will not be able to sell even white salt and pottery. How much loss will it have? It will hinder the development of the Han tribe. There is nothing to say. In a word, do it if you don’t agree.
The formation of the new unit is managed by the cavalry general flag Chai Duoduo, assisted by several authentic grassland people. Luo Chong is very relieved and goes to do other things. The teaching building of the Han tribe has started construction. This is the first time that such a high building has been built. The tribesmen have no experience, so Luo Chong has to supervise and guide it personally.
Although Luo Chong had never learned to build a building in his previous life, he had learned to blow up a building. Well, they were similar things anyway. Although the purpose was opposite, they both needed to understand the building structure and the load-bearing structure of the building. As long as the load-bearing problem was solved, it would not be difficult to build a three-story building. The ancient ancestors were able to build temples and pagodas that were several stories high. There was no reason why Luo Chong
, who had attended a modern university, would be worse than them. If you want to build a brick-concrete structure building, you must first know how much weight the building has. Therefore, for the safety of the building, the foundation is the top priority. This must not be sloppy. Without a strong enough foundation, how can it withstand such a great pressure?
The foundation of the teaching building was dug very deep, a full four meters deep. This was just the foundation groove of the wall. As for those key load-bearing nodes, Luo Chong simply had people dig a six-meter-deep vertical shaft, pour limestone, charcoal and iron smelting slag into the well, plus clay and gravel, and pound it for a few days. Although there was no steel bar, this primitive concrete was strong enough.
Limestone is a heavy alkali that can kill plant roots and seeds in the soil, so that tree roots will not grow and collapse the foundation. In addition, charcoal and limestone can also prevent moisture and prevent the foundation from becoming damp and soft. The slag, gravel, and clay that follow will disperse the weight of the building and bond it together, making the entire foundation a whole.
Wells are dug at all the bearing points, and deep trenches are dug for the wall foundation trenches. Finally, all of them are padded with this mixed material until they are three meters deep from the ground. This is equivalent to three meters of base material in the vertical shaft and one meter of base material in the wall foundation. Then the foundation of the wall is built from this level.
The wall foundation is one meter thick and is built entirely with large blue bricks used to build cities. Lime, slag, and gravel are poured on both sides of the wall foundation until the foundation trench is filled. Finally, the soil is sealed. Then the one-meter-thick wall foundation continues to be built up until it is one meter above the ground. Only then is the foundation of the entire building considered complete.
After the construction, the foundation alone was four meters high and one meter thick, and there was a waterproof, shockproof and decompressive concrete layer underneath, which was enough to bear the weight of the building above.
Luo Chong was very satisfied with the foundation, and because there were many people, enough building materials, and easy-to-use tamping tools, the construction speed was also impressive. It took only ten days for 200 people to build the foundation of a building, which was considered a very fast progress.
(End of this chapter)
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