Yu Zai disseminated some technologies to the local people and conducted a simple inspection. He chose a riverside far away from where they gathered and wanted to build a city there. His original intention was to influence them subtly. If he directly When building a city, considering that the local people may not be willing to suddenly have a new leader on their head, which will lead to some resistance activities, it is best to build the city landmarks farther away from the beginning.
Later migrations can be slowly attracted after they are influenced by culture, just like the recruitment of workers in the stronghold of the Western Wilderness. If there are production positions and they can be fed and clothed, they will naturally attract the surrounding people. gather.
Thus, villages can be gathered together in the first year, towns can be formed in the second year, and capitals can be formed in the third year.
Simply determine the location of the foundation for the fortified city, and at the same time explore some hydrological and geological conditions. Building a city here can also accumulate experience for the construction of Tianfang City when entering the Mesopotamian Plain.
The water and soil here are not the same as those of mountains and seas, but there are similarities.
Before starting to build a building, you must know the soil and water, observe the strength of the ground veins, know the geographical situation and the nature of the soil thickness, and then you can enclose the land and siege the city.
In the methods of soil examination and soil analysis, there are also techniques of "distinguishing soil" and "weighing soil".
When identifying the soil, after the foundation site is selected, first dig a deep well to dig the soil. If the soil is fine but not loose, oily but not dry, and bright in color but not dull, this is the best construction soil and can be used on the site. This is the start of construction.
In the soil weighing technology of the Song Dynasty, "Xiangzhai Jingtu" stipulates that "take a piece of soil and weigh it one inch in all directions. If it weighs more than nine taels, it is auspicious, five or seven taels is medium auspicious, and three or four taels is unlucky. land."
This concept of good and bad luck essentially refers to the compactness and solidity of the soil, which can be used to infer the air permeability and water permeability of the area after the foundation is built, and even the size and height of the building that the foundation can support. These can be further calculated based on the data calculated in the soil.
And even if the local soil is really not suitable for building buildings, this will not be a problem for the great ancient civil engineers.
Don’t be afraid even if it’s mud, just replace it with soil!
Dig away the soft foundation, take the hard soil from other places, add gravel and other materials to it, mix it evenly, and lay it down layer by layer to strengthen the new foundation.
The bottom piles of the foundation have already appeared as early as the time of Chao, and they are even composite piles, which are pile foundations composed of round logs, square logs, and sheet piles.
Yuzai demarcated part of the boundary of this city. Ancient cities were not large. They often expanded outward after the small city's capacity reached its limit.
This is the case in Taotang. There are cities outside the city, one city within another. This is because the population of Taotang City is growing too fast.
Afterwards, after demarcating the place for piling, Dijiang began to dig the soil.
Yu Zai built a huge brick kiln, mixed clay to bake bricks, and soon had the finished product. Yu Zai chose green bricks.
The first city must be stronger. Blue bricks are stronger than red bricks. The first big city is built with blue bricks. This is the real place to live. Other streets can be made with simple red bricks. .
As for the complexity of the firing process, regardless of the complexity of the firing process, for Sunzai, the god of fire and the sun, building a kiln and rolling green bricks by hand is simply a matter of ease.
Moreover, bricks have been burning in the Eastern Land for ten years. Since Cao Cao was introduced to Hongzhou by Dayi to bake bricks, countless brick houses have been built in the mountains and seas of the East.
Yuanzai fired the bricks just for testing. In this city, Yuanzai only planned to build a few foundation points first. The real big work would not be done until the engineering team from the East arrived here.
Of course, the people here can also be requisitioned, but I don’t know if the people are willing.
As for Gugu, he honorably shouldered the task of helping Yuzai and Dijiang hunt and bring food.
Gugu flapped its wings and chased wild beasts on the plains. A huge divine bird appeared in the sky. Seeing Gugu chasing the beast, it quickly focused on Gugu. It fought with Gugu and fought into the distance... ..
........
Unexpectedly, after the people learned about the construction of the city, they decided to move collectively from their current address to the edge of the city. They accepted the King of the East's proposal to build a city here very quickly.
Even if Yu Zai told them that although they could get more goods and eat more with a city, they would also have to do more work. Only through labor could they gain fruitful results, whether it was farming, animal husbandry or making pottery. They are all a type of labor.
And there will be rules, laws, and many restrictions in the city. Maybe even how you get married, how you have children, and whether you are allowed to perform free sacrifices are all decided by the city-state.
But even so, they were still willing to gather around the city.
Just because the city can protect them and allow them to have a place to live and settle down in this vast world.
They held those bricks and were filled with joy. These small, square bricks can become a wall when they are built up. One wall may not be strong enough, but when three, five, or ten walls are built in the same way, , it will become the most powerful shield, able to block the intrusion of wild beasts and disasters.
Strong winds cannot blow it down, and floods cannot make it collapse. The final outcome of a beast hitting a brick wall is to bleed out and die. And further away, there are some powerful tribes gathered, and they don't know how to bake bricks yet. , and there was no city wall. When they came to the city wall, they could only look at the big blue bricks and sigh. The simple stone tools in their hands could not destroy the city wall even if they worked non-stop for three days and three nights.
A citizen found Yuzai and confided to her:
"In the story you told, the ancestors of the Eastern Homeland, the Chao family, built the house."
"In ancient times, there were many animals and few people, so people built nests to avoid them. They camped in caves in winter and lived in nests in summer. Having a house can resist the invasion of wild beasts and the attacks of enemies, and avoid being killed in the wilderness. According to what you said , together with the city, people from all over the world will come and follow, there will be a prosperous market, a developed handicraft industry area, people will have more grain than they can eat, and every household will raise livestock. I can't imagine that kind of prosperity!"
"Youchao brought houses to the people of the Eastern Land, and you brought us the city. You are as great to us as Youchao is to you!"
This is a besieged city.
People outside the city want to get in, but people inside the city... There is no one inside the city yet.
Looking at the prosperous land of Daxia in front of us, people are singing oriental songs and listening to the legends about the eastern land told by Yu Zai. In the land of Daxia, you can hear the songs of Nuwa and Gao Xin. Musically, one can even listen to Huangdi's "Cloud Gate", Emperor Yao's "Ji Soil", Emperor Shun's "Qing Yun", including his own composition "Changsui".
Therefore, in this land, you can see the playing of the flute, hear the sound of the harp and the harp, see the heroic warriors hammering the war drums, and also see people patting pottery and beating the cans while singing. Now in this land In the land far away from the West Pole, this is an ancient custom in the Qin Dynasty. It lasted from ancient times to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. People in the Qin Dynasty still beat the gou and sang songs.
Play Tao Tang's dance and listen to Ge Tian's song!
Thousands of people sing, thousands of people join in harmony, the mountains and hills are shaken by it, and the rivers and valleys are rippled by it!
