After a day and a night, the boat turned back to Hulu Island, which was already crowded with people and busy with people.

In addition to the four or five thousand pirates and their families on the island who are selling their strength to open mountains and split rocks, there are also hundreds of strong men who came from Bengang to build two stone forts and repair the houses on the island.

The way of building is extraordinary, and it is not so easy to build a stone fortress that is strong and durable, and can be fully defended. Moreover, although Li Tianyang and they have a construction weapon - cement, but because of the production of such a sharp weapon, it is a big subversion for the construction industry, so it is necessary for the construction masters to rethink the way of cement construction, so as to ensure a solid foundation and a solid upper level.

The construction that followed this time, led by Wan Liang, was a master who was familiar with the characteristics of cement in the Bengang camp. Wan Liang, before coming to Bengang, was already a master with more than 10 years of experience in building and building, and his family was still good when he was young, and he had been in private affairs for two years, and knew a little bit of pen and ink, and then he also entered the business, served as an apprentice for several years, learned a few hands and arithmetic, and finally entered this line.

Because of his rough understanding of writing and ink, and also learning arithmetic, he was able to make great achievements in architecture, and he was well-known in his township. However, he was unlucky, and it was he who made his fortune by this craft, but a drought came suddenly.

Originally, he had a set of skills, no matter how fierce the natural disasters were, they would definitely not make him like a country farmer, but who knows, his family was rich, but in the end it attracted bandits and strongmen, a fight, a fire, burned his house to the ground, and the family was surrounded by walls overnight.

As a last resort, for the sake of his family's livelihood, Wan Liang had to take his family to the south to seek a living, until he was attracted by the recruitment conditions promised by Li Tianyang in Yuegang, Quanzhou, and finally came to live in Bengang.

In this way, Li Tianyang and the others were lucky to get a master builder with unique skills.

Up to now, Wan Liang has led people not only to build the inner city wall for Bengang, but also to help the residents inside and outside the camp to build a three-storey cement building. It is precisely because of so much construction experience that Bengang Camp is already handy in the use of cement, and there is also a fixed calculation method for the ratio between cement and coarse sand and stones.

And this all depends on the study and practice of Wan Liang, a master architect.

Therefore, when Li Tianyang and them wanted to build a solid forward base in the Ryukyu Sea, Wan Liang, the master builder in the camp, naturally went to sea to survey the terrain for Li Tianyang and them, and calculated and studied the architectural pattern of the stone fort.

Li Tianyang has always been self-aware in this regard, for this kind of high-tech things, it is better to leave it to those professionals to do, what he has to do is to ensure the logistics supply, and formulate the relevant reward and punishment system in advance, in case someone wants to abuse the number and so on!

Until Li Tianyang and they returned from going to sea, the two stone forts on the island were already made of cement boulders, and the foundation was deep enough, and they were only waiting to build a stone wall on them to build a stone fort.

Li Tianyang came and saw that the foundation of the stone fort was not similar to the ancient and modern buildings of China, but resembled the six-pointed star shape of geometric figures, but it looked roughly, but it was like the hexagonal shape, which was extremely strange.

"Master Wan, why is this stone castle building so peculiar?" Li Tianyang didn't know what to do, so he asked Wan Liang, who was patrolling with him.

"The owner of the camp doesn't know that these buildings are what I learned when I went to Macao with the maritime merchants to observe the architecture of the foreigners, and then combined with the geometry of my camp." Li Tianyang asked, just asked the itch of Wanliang, this building, he consciously for its many years of achievements, which has a lot of mysteries, and is looking for someone to elaborate, in order to show its ability: "This hexagonal shape, each has an angle of 90 degrees, where this angle, and the shell attack, eight or nine times out of ten can only hit the outer wall of the stone fort at an inclined angle, with the theory of camp physics, most of the kinetic energy is offset by the oblique angle, in the stone fort damage is not big, and ........."

"Okay, okay, I understand." Li Tianyang also didn't expect that some of the basic geometry, physics and other knowledge he had compiled painstakingly had not been used in his previous life, but was used by the ancients hundreds of years ago, which really made the authors of his era ashamed: "I am worthy of being the first architect in my stupid port, and when the stone castle is successfully accepted, ten thousand masters will be the first credit!" ”

"Thank you, Camp Master!" Wan Liang is actually unwilling, unfinished, and many wonderful things are unknown, which is really the biggest regret of him, the initiator.

"I wonder if these two stone forts will be completed before the end of the year?"

"Well, if the weather is good, it will almost be completed in two months." After careful calculation in his heart, Wan Liang gave a satisfactory answer to Li Tianyang.

The stone fort itself is not a very complicated building, as long as the walls are thick and hard, the walls are high enough, and there are good shooting ports at the top and in the belly. The rest is up to the architect's own ingenuity, and the many additional uses for the defense of the stone fort are just a matter of ingenuity.

However, even if the stone castle can be completed by the end of the year, in fact, the entire construction project will be completed, at least after the beginning of spring.

Guyin Huludao is located in a typhoon-ravaged place, and every summer and autumn, there is always at least one typhoon passing through this place, so the living environment on the island is actually very severe, most of them are bamboo and wood structures made of local materials, but there are few brick and stone buildings.

The reason for this is that no matter how good the building is, it can't withstand the typhoon blowing more than ten levels, and in the face of the typhoon, it is often the consequence of falling apart, so that the people on the island no longer have the heart to spend effort to build brick and stone houses, but simple and cheap bamboo and wood buildings are popular.

Of course, this is a thing of the past, for Li Tianyang and them, since there is cement, the whole body of the cement building, in Bengang is popular, no matter from the construction speed, solidity, and practicality, cement building is the best choice, especially in the place where the typhoon passes through Huludao, it is the only choice for the building.

Therefore, since Li Tianyang chose this place as an outpost to control the Ryukyu Seas, for the sake of the team members stationed on it, and for the sake of guarding against other pirates, it was necessary to make great efforts to consider the construction of the island according to the wartime fortifications.

In this way, in Li Tianyang's plan, as the residence of the island's garrison, it will also be the last solid fortification on the island. Therefore, Li Tianyang decided to unify all the houses in the current residential area, and build them into a dock fort with cement according to the general residence in the coastal countryside of Fujian, which is not only convenient for the management of the team members, but also can effectively resist natural and man-made disasters.

However, since then, there has been a lot more work on building construction and requirements for raw materials such as cement.

(End of chapter)