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"Your Highness, is this matter over?"

Zhan Xingchang was a little unwilling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Remember, anger without strength is meaningless, intrigues are just paper tigers in the face of absolute power, wait, this king will let them beg to send money and food, but before that, you should mainly focus on repairing Cangzhou City."

Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Zhan Xingchang nodded, these vassal kings were so brazen, he had no choice.

Referring to the repair of the city wall, Xiao Ming said: "By the way, you go to the workshop area with this king, this time the city wall is repaired using the same method as before, it is too slow." ”

After that, the two arrived in the workshop area, and Xiao Ming took Zhan Xingchang directly to the cement workshop.

"Your Highness, what are these powders?"

In the workshop area, even Zhan Xingchang can't enter and exit at will, and he naturally doesn't know what is in it.

"It's called cement, and all along, it's only used in the construction of the workshop area." Xiao Ming glanced around at the workshop area that was now beginning to take shape.

With the improvement of the workshop area, the living area and the workshop area have been separated.

A canteen was also established to provide three meals a day for slaves in the living quarters, and the houses in the living quarters were made of brick and concrete, made of cement and grey bricks.

The design of these houses is naturally from Xiao Ming.

Compared to the wooden structure, although it is not beautiful, it is very durable and sturdy, and each house is in the shape of a long strip, and there are large bunks inside, and each room lives 50 people.

"Cement?" Zhan Xingchang glanced at the things between the green bricks of the cement workshop, and said suspiciously: "Your Highness, is this cement?" ”

Zhan Xingchang pointed to something between the brick joints.

Xiao Ming has always kept a low profile about cement, and many people don't pay attention to the role of cement, and now it's finally time to let cement play a role.

Traditional city walls are basically mined from rocks and then transported back for masonry, which is too inefficient.

Cement is different, green bricks or red bricks can be fired from local materials, only need to transport cement from Qingzhou.

In the process of masonry, the amount of cement is not very much, and one-time transportation is estimated to meet the needs of Cangzhou City.

In addition, the process of masonry is very flexible, and the speed is very fast, if the brick laying is not enough, you can build another layer of masonry to continuously strengthen the thickness.

Generally speaking, ten craftsmen can build a house of 400 square meters and more than 3 meters high in three days.

Now Xiao Ming has trained some mature bricklayers in the workshop area, just to prepare for the renovation of the city walls of Cangzhou City.

"Well, as you can see, if there is cement glued between the two bricks, when they dry up, the two bricks will be very strong, I will take you now to see how the craftsmen built them, and you can think about how to expand the walls of Cangzhou City to be more suitable for artillery firing." Xiao Ming said to Zhan Xingchang.

In view of the barbarian southward movement this time, the artillery has been put on the agenda, and the repair of Cangzhou City has also been put on the agenda.

During this time, when casting artillery, Xiao Ming instructed the cement mill to step up the production of cement, in order to hand over the cement to Zhan Xingchang today and let him go to Cangzhou City to renovate the city wall.

Zhan Xingchang nodded, and followed Xiao Ming to a building under construction in the workshop area, which was built near the water and seemed to have just started.

"This is a textile workshop, and a factory is currently being built, and when the textile machine comes out, it will provide military uniforms and other uniforms for the Qingzhou Army." Xiao Ming said.

He is now asking Chen Qi to restore the multi-spindle spinning machine with Huang Daopo, which is currently only capable of spinning one yarn in Dayu, which is inefficient.

This efficiency is far from sufficient to meet the current demand, and this will change once the multi-spindle spinning machine is introduced.

In the modern Yuan Dynasty, the emergence of the Huang Daopo spinning machine once greatly increased the cloth production in the hometown of Huang Daopo.

Now Xiao Ming has made Chen Qi's spinning machine more advanced than Huang Daopo's, and this spinning machine is also a pedal power, which can be promoted among the people, which is enough to mobilize women in six states to spin yarn and promote the development of Qingzhou's textile industry.

When modern Britain was rising, it was the textile industry that amassed a lot of wealth.

So Xiao Ming also attaches great importance to this matter.

While speaking, Zhan Xingchang kept staring at the masonry of the wall, and saw that a mason quickly built a thick wall, and Zhan Xingchang gradually showed an excited look.

"Your Highness, the process of masonry is much faster than mining mountain stones to build a city wall, if you give me enough manpower, I promise that Cangzhou City can be built into a world Xiongguan within five months!"

Zhan Xingchang said.

The matter of begging for money and food with other vassal kings hit Zhan Xingchang a lot, and Xiao Ming intended to let him restore some confidence, because if he let him do it, he might not be able to do it well, at least Zhan Xingchang also made King Yong spit out something.

"In that case, the matter is up to you, but what are your plans?" Xiao Ming asked.

He still wanted to know about Zhan Xingchang's construction plan, after all, it was not child's play for the barbarians to go south.

"One of the things is to build a turret on top of the wall, and second, I'm going to extend the wall, and I'm going to build a turret and arrow tower on the wall where it's extended, so that more artillery can shoot."

After a pause, Zhan Xingchang suddenly smiled evilly: "And seeing the function of the cement and blue bricks of His Highness today, I suddenly thought of a new method, that is, to build brick pillars one by one in front of the city wall, so that if the barbarians come, they can delay their attack, and even more so that they can't erect the ladder in time." ”

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, this Zhan Xingchang comprehension was very fast.

The stone pillar he spoke of resembled the role of a horse, but at this time it was used by people.

Artillery is long-range shooting, and when it comes to the city walls, the role of this artillery is greatly reduced, and at this time a short-range weapon is needed to return fire, which is naturally a bow and crossbow.

Zhan Xingchang's suggestion made Xiao Ming suddenly consider making Tufa grenades.

This method is to put gunpowder in a moderately sized clay pot, the mouth of the jar is plugged with a wooden stopper, and a twist is placed in the middle, which is thrown when it is lit, similar to a cannon battle, but it is more powerful.

When they got closer, these barbarians were blocked by stone pillars, and when they gathered in a heap, they threw them inside, which was probably very sour.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming became more and more confident in dealing with the barbarians going south this time, as long as the barbarians came, they would definitely be frightened by this new weapon at that time.

(To be continued.) )