The salt mountain of more than two thousand stones gave everyone confidence. The sales and transportation of salt must naturally be left to Yuelai Trading Company. Some of the salt must be transported to Chang'an via waterway, and the rest can be sold to Longyou Road nearby. , and went to the thirty-six countries in the Western Region for sales.
After leaving the Salt Lake, Li Daozong ordered five thousand soldiers to be stationed near the Salt Lake, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. When he was stationed, Li Daozong made it clear to the captain, school captain, and team leader below that this Salt Mountain was All soldiers stationed in the Western Regions are paid, and you are guarding your own money.
Hearing this, all the soldiers almost screamed. Are you kidding? His Highness gave all their soldiers military pay. This is an unprecedented situation. This is the first time for Datang. Although they cannot go home for the time being, His Highness said that these military pay can be sent back to everyone for free, which means that they can support their families even if they are not at home!
Even if the family doesn't actually need them to raise them, after all, the family has fields.
It's a bit more painful, but why do they have any complaints? You know, in the past, when we were stationed at the border, we didn’t have military pay! People must know how to be content and grateful. Your Highness not only feeds them, but also finds ways to feed those soldiers who were discharged due to war injuries. How many soldiers are there in the world?
Even the imperial court can't afford it, but His Highness is trying to find a way. How can they not be grateful? It's just that all the soldiers can't speak and are uneducated. They can only keep this kindness silently in their hearts.
On the third day after seeing Yanshan, the cavalry led by Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, Qibi Heli rushed back to Chihai.
Li Shimin's order to the three men was originally accompanied by the eight hundred miles expedited for Li Jing. Qibi Heli's soldiers were going back to Longyou Road, while he himself was going to Chang'an and then back.
As for Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun, like Li Daozong, they were stationed in Xizhou.
With the return of the two of them, it also means that the current leadership team of Xizhou's main administrative agencies is complete. Qiao Shiwang is still on the way. It is estimated that it will take at least seven or eight days to arrive. There is no way. In ancient times, carriages and horses were very slow. Moreover, many roads to the Western Regions are not easy to travel.
After they returned, Li Ke held the first Xizhou executive meeting.
Well, Li Ke came up with the name of the meeting, because it will be the norm from now on.
For this reason, Li Ke deliberately took out a large long table from the space and placed it in a separate large tent.
The Duhufu of the Western Zhou Dynasty is being constructed simultaneously with Chihai City. It uses stone + concrete foundations plus masonry structures, and the capping is made of reinforced concrete. It is not easy to make steel bars now, and the hot steel must be continuously passed through a holes and pull them into steel bars. This kind of steel bars can be pulled out to very long lengths, and the quality is also good.
Another way is to pour molten steel directly into the mold to make steel bars, but the quality of the steel bars produced in this way is definitely not as good as that of drawn steel bars.
But it doesn’t matter. Ancient buildings were not about building skyscrapers. The tallest building in the entire Chihai Sea, besides the city walls, is the Duhu Mansion. The current structure of the Duhu Mansion is only three floors, and the reinforced concrete made from the mold is enough. .
The stretched steel bars were mainly used in the construction of the city wall. The non-city tower part at the top of the city wall was 4 meters wide and was required to be able to run horses. The city wall is in the shape of a right-angled trapezoid as a whole, and the outer part is divided into vertical parts perpendicular to the ground.
The base of the wall is 8 meters wide and 11 meters high, with a total circumference of 12,000 meters. Naturally, such a thick city wall cannot be made of reinforced concrete. That would be too luxurious.
The city wall adopts a sandwich structure. The inner and outer layers are made of reinforced concrete. The outer vertical part is a 1-meter-thick reinforced concrete structure, while the inner part is about a 60-centimeter-thick reinforced concrete structure. The empty part in the middle is made of traditional loess rammers. The construction method is to select the clay, let it be exposed to the hot sun, then mix cement, cotton and linen hay into it, then pour it into the hollow part in the middle, and then compact it!
In fact, what is added to traditional loess ramming is not cement, but glutinous rice juice and other things to increase the viscosity. However, now that there is cement, there is no need to add glutinous rice juice.
The traditional inner and outer parts of the city wall actually use special blue bricks. The preservation of green bricks is even better than that of reinforced concrete. However, firing green bricks is too difficult and the requirements are very strict. There is also a problem that the entire furnace of bricks is discarded. Moreover, the firing cycle of finished green bricks is very long.
If the city was built in a traditional way, the cycle would be too long. The typical city built in this way in later generations is Jiayuguan, which is still intact in later generations. It took 168 years to build the city!
But Li Ke is so fast. Now the concrete structure on the west and north sides of the entire city wall is almost one-third complete, and the progress is still accelerating.
Because there are more and more kilns for firing cement in the cement factory, the quantity of cement fired is naturally increasing.
Similarly, the steel output of the steel plants here is also getting higher and higher, which is why such progress has been achieved.
When Xue Wanche and the others came back, everyone was dumbfounded. They had conquered the area near the Red Sea. Of course they knew that the Red Sea was originally a grassland, but how long had they been out? In less than a month and a half, so much of the city wall has been completed!
Even though there are tens of thousands of people working here, the progress is too fast! So scary! If there was such a speed, would Datang be afraid that it would not be able to handle these nomads? Such a fortified city placed on the grassland could guard at least a thousand miles in radius!
Those Turks have no way to deal with such a fortified city!
After inviting these people over, Li Ke sat down on the main seat, and Li Daozong and others took their seats one after another.
Even Lu Hai, Jiang Feng, Li Yan, Li Xin and Li Ke were called, but they didn't come to the table. Instead, they sat on the chairs next to them so they could listen.
Also listening with them were some of the captains below.
"Okay, the first executive meeting of the Xizhou Protectorate has been officially held! Come on, everyone." Li Ke smiled and stretched out his hands to applaud.
Everyone's expressions were a little weird, but Xizhou Li Ke was the boss, so naturally he would do whatever the boss said.
So everyone naturally stretched out their hands and started croaking. This croaking croaking is so vivid that everyone naturally understands what it means.
But this way of holding a meeting... is really novel. Everyone is gathered around a table, and there is a cup of tea in front of everyone on the table.
"Come on, come on, let me just say a few words." Li Ke said, holding back a smile.
Everyone was a little weird. They didn't know why Li Ke was laughing. It was not normal to say a few words.
The main reason is that other people can't get what Li Ke likes. Alas, it's lonely. Li Ke can only enjoy himself, so it's good to come up with some forms of future generations, at least to make him less lonely.
