Hu Hanyun's first "Construction Corps" is mainly responsible for the supply and transportation of construction materials at the construction site.
The building materials required by Yanhuang Academy generally include five types: adobe bricks, lime, glutinous rice mortar, stone and wood. The first three are bought from various places with money. Those with particularly large demand, such as adobe bricks, are A small team must be sent to the brick kiln to carry it back.
In the Tang Dynasty, many brick kilns had appeared among the people, but most of them were small in scale. This time, the "construction corps" of Yanhuang Academy reached cooperation with an official kiln near Chang'an City, more than 30 miles away from Meicun, Chang'an. The city walls and the palace were built with adobe bricks from that brick kiln.
To be honest, it is not impossible for Li Zexuan to build his own brick kiln, and the bricks produced by the brick kiln he built will definitely be stronger than those from other brick kilns.
Building a kiln may seem like a very high-level job, but actually getting started is not difficult at all. As long as you master the skills, building a brick kiln is even easier than building a house.
The only difficult thing to solve is the chimney problem. You must know that the chimneys of common brick kilns in later generations must be thirty or forty meters high. This was a bit difficult in the Tang Dynasty when there were no tower cranes or scaffolding.
But there is no solution. Li Zexuan knew that there was a way to bake bricks without a chimney - a circulating kiln!
Circular ballads look like a row of long bunkers, with a height of less than five meters but a length of two hundred feet. The biggest advantage of the circulating kiln is that it can burn bricks cyclically. It can build twenty cave dwellings, and each cave dwelling can be ignited independently.
Compared with the conjoined brick kilns of this era with each group of eight holes, the circulating kiln is more efficient and more fuel-efficient.
Although there are many benefits to building a brick kiln by yourself, Li Zexuan does not intend to do that. He can't build all the materials to build an academy, right? That would take a lot of effort, and this kind of monopoly idea is unacceptable! You have to leave some profit for others, right?
Afternoon.
Hu Hanyun took more than 3,000 people from the 1st regiment to "field" in the mountains. Ahem, to be precise, they went to cut wood!
They had to bring back a batch of wood and hand it over to other regiments to build temporary residences for the workers. For the entire "Construction Corps", on this first day of construction, in addition to dividing the formations, the only thing they had to do was to build a place to stay. The official construction of the academy had to be Just wait until tomorrow.
Fortunately, it is summer, and the worker's residence only needs to be able to block the sun and rain. There is no need to consider the thermal insulation effect, so it will be very simple to build.
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The sun sets in the west.
Yunshan is still very lively.
Rows of small work sheds are arranged in the mountains and forests, and each shed has a license plate number in front of the door. In fact, 99% of the people do not know the written language, let alone Arabic numerals, but there are so many work sheds, in order to avoid "getting off work" at night. Later, the workers went to the wrong residence, and Li Zexuan could only order each of them to remember the appearance of the number on the sign of their work shed.
Seeing that the gates of Chang'an City were almost closed and the workers' residences on the construction site were almost completed, he asked people to find Li Tai and prepare to return to the city!
As the commander-in-chief of more than 10,000 people, Yan Shaoning felt that he now shouldered a heavy responsibility. The accommodation for the workers here had not been fully implemented, so he did not go back with him in the evening.
As for Yan Lide and Uncle Fu, they had gone back an hour ago.
"Uh, Xiaoxuan, why don't you go back alone! There are still two people in our eighth team who haven't set up shelter yet~!"
Li Tai seemed to be "on top". This was his first sentence when he was called to Li Zexuan.
Hearing this, Li Zexuan glared and cursed: "Go away! If you stay outside the city, if your majesty and the empress find out, won't they have to skin me? Before the residence is set up, you can just leave it to Gu Xiaomao. You are just messing around here." What’s the excitement?”
Li Tai then returned to "reality" and remembered that he was "a child with parents." He also understood that what Li Zexuan said was the truth, and couldn't help but touch his nose, accepting the "organizational arrangement" by default.
Li Zexuan glanced at him angrily, and then said to Gu Xiaomao: "Xiao Mao, the remaining tasks of the Eighth Regiment today are left to you, are there any problems?"
Gu Xiaomao was very discerning and knew that this was his chance to show off. He quickly said loudly: "Master, no problem, absolutely no problem! You and the captain can just go back to the city without any worries!"
"Did you hear that~? There's no problem with them. Qingque, why don't you get on your horse? It won't be good if the city gate is closed in a while~!"
Li Zexuan urged.
"Oh~! Okay~! Gu Xiaomao, I'll leave it to you for Team 8~! I'll come back tomorrow morning~!"
Li Tai nodded, got on his horse, but still warned with some worry.
"Yes, captain, don't worry~!"
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The two rode together, riding fast and hard, and finally returned to Chang'an City before sunset.
Li Zexuan naturally returned to Yonglefang, and the little fat man had to go to the palace before returning to his Prince Wei's residence. After all, he had not yet obtained Li Er's consent for his decision to participate in the construction of Yanhuang Academy today~!
"Qingque, why are you sweating profusely? And I haven't seen you all day today."
In Li Zheng Palace.
Li Tai met Li Er and Empress Changsun. They had just finished their meal, because Li Tai could still smell the aroma of the food lingering in the air. He didn't eat well at noon, and he didn't bother to eat at night. The little fat man was very hungry now. If your breasts are pressed against your back, of course you will be more sensitive to these fragrances.
"Back to my father, the construction of Yanhuang Academy started today. I went to Yunshan with my husband. I just returned to the city after a busy day there and didn't have time to take a bath. Therefore, I was so rude. Please forgive me, my father!"
Li Tai answered Li Er's question, but in his heart he was thinking about how much food and wine he would have the cook prepare when he returned to the palace later.
"Oh~? Qingque, you actually go to Yanhuang Academy to help~?"
How could Li Er, a father, not know what kind of character Li Tai was, so he was so surprised when he heard what Li Tai said!
Empress Changsun also interjected: "Quier, you went out of the city quietly for a day, but you didn't expect to go to the barren mountains and wild mountains. It's so hot in the summer. I'm afraid you will suffer a lot, right?"
Thinking of what he had experienced on this day, although Li Tai felt hard, he felt even more fulfilled. This day was worth the previous month!
"Mother, I don't have to work hard! On the contrary, I learned a lot from it! I plan to help my husband build the academy in these two months. I hope my father and my mother will give me permission!"
"What~?"
Li Er raised his eyebrows, stared at Li Tai, and asked: "You have never experienced construction work, how can you help Li Zexuan build the academy~?"
Empress Changsun also frowned at this time and asked: "Quer, as far as my mother knows, Xiaoxuan has invited more than 10,000 craftsmen and civilians to participate in the construction of the academy, and the construction progress is naturally safe. And Que'er, you have lived in Shenzhen since you were a child. How can you go through such suffering in the palace?"
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