On the day of the Lantern Festival, the incident of encountering gods on the banks of Luoshui quickly spread among the people of Luoyang.

"Have you heard that? On the night of the Yuan Dynasty, when I was traveling on the shore of Luoshui, the God of Luo appeared and gave it to the Heavenly Book. I wonder if it was the kind of thing like Fuxi and the River Tu Luoshu during the Dayu period."

"It means that the saint of Zhongxing is now the map of the Yellow River and the Qinghe River is coming out. The decline and chaos of the Han Dynasty over the years is about to come to an end."

"I heard that there is another saying that the Han Dynasty inherited the destiny of heaven with its virtue of fire, so when Emperor Guangwu established his capital, Luo was changed to Luo in order to remove the water that defeated fire.

However, Luoyang was chosen to have a low-lying location and was near the Luo River, which could not be changed by changing its name. The reason why the ancient Han Dynasty prospered for a long time, and the later Han Dynasty declined and the prosperity was short. Maybe this was also related. It would be better to move the low-lying and riverside in the south of Luoyang to high places with heavy yang energy to a place with high yang energy."

Such rumors directly suppressed the unspoken voices of opposition that had not appeared in advance.

In contrast, the official kept silent for the time being and did not immediately take advantage of this opportunity to clamor and make momentum, which seemed very restrained.

There is no way, Li Su doesn't want to actively promote superstition, and what he wants to do can be done, it's nothing more than taking advantage of people's weaknesses in respect of God and suppressing the voices of vested interests and opposing forces.

But even if Li Su does not take the initiative to use it, even if Li Su has promoted five or six years of rational education, a considerable number of senior scholars in Liu Bei's camp can insist on being unspeakable and insane.

However, this kind of education has never been popularized at the grassroots level, and those illiterate people still do not have this understanding in their hearts.

In ancient China, scholars and illiterate people were always two types of dominance. Even when the era of promoting "the people are pure and honest", we knew that scholars could not be "full and honest".

Therefore, Li Su's application of these things is also divided into two ways: for scholars, there is no need to actively promote these things, reason with them, interests, and general trends, and by the way, let them realize which side the people are already on. For illiterate, they have to solve the problem in a simple way.

Of course, this does not mean that this will always be the case in the future. It’s just that the basic literacy rate is too low now and it cannot be reasonable. If the popularity of education in the future is improved, the rule method can be gradually adjusted as appropriate.

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The second half of the first lunar month was spent in such a peaceful and unremitting stability. Li Su dragged it until late January and officially announced the plan for Luoyang New District to the whole society.

In the official document, Li Su was of course talking about the benefits of various economic resource scheduling efficiency, and did not talk about any supernatural reasons. Let everyone imagine those based on their own cognitive level. If you love to believe in any reason, you will support it anyway.

Relevant infrastructure has also been launched simultaneously, but considering the upcoming spring plowing, there is not much manpower and material resources temporarily invested, and it needs to be gradually improved.

Not only the construction of Luoyang New District, but also the military expansion and training work in Gaoshun, the next Nanyang County, and the excavation of the Nanyang-Yingchuan Canal are the same.

In the first half of February and March, a low-speed advancement will be temporarily entered, and people will be assigned to ensure people's livelihood. Many new recruits who had been recruited last year were temporarily taken to help with spring farming as hired farmers, solving the problem of excessive labor intensity in planting land in the first year of immigration and not having time to plant.

Of course, Zhuge Liang also knew that if the final autumn harvest had nothing to do with these soldiers who were temporarily hired to farm, then there would definitely be passive slack work and it would be difficult to manage

There is no doubt about this. Big pot rice will definitely slacken off. It was verified as early as the early Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, the country of Lu tried to "take acre and tax" for the first time in the Spring and Autumn Period because the well-field system collapsed and the fields planted by the public were not put in effort, and the harvest was too poor.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun can definitely avoid this kind of low-level mistake when they come to organize. The specific approach is to change the way these troops distributed this year's military rations.

It was changed to "provision that the military rations of this part of the troops will be issued in half this year, and the imperial court will only pay attention to the food for the first half of the year. The food for the second half of the year will be collected and distributed at a 40% ratio after the harvest of the land they contracted to participate in spring plowing."

In other words, those new immigrants who lack labor and hired recruits and farmers to help with spring farming will give up 40% of the harvest after autumn harvest, as the price for them to use other people's labor. Considering that the fields were originally issued to new immigrants by the imperial court, such temporary measures are reasonable and no one questioned them at all.

After the busy spring farming in February and March, Luoyang built a new district, dug canals, and expanded recruitment of new troops to train in concentrated training. These three matters were considered to be full-speed.

However, while the people were busy with spring plowing, the engineering and technical personnel under Li Su and Zhuge Liang were not idle.

The exploration and measurements are all polished day and night, and the construction plan is prepared in advance for the upcoming peak season.

Huang Yueying also brought a group of craftsmen. Under the general direction of the tasks arranged by Li Su, he created several small mechanical innovations that could make subsequent construction and training smoother, which was considered as sharpening the knife and chopping the wood.

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It was already March 15th. Seeing that the spring busy farming season, which is more than 40 days, is about to end, so there are not many people who need to do the follow-up work.

Not only can the imperial troops be fully engaged in engineering work, even the local farmers and local farmers in Yin, Henan and Nanyang could draw a small half of the strong men to serve the imperial court for more than a month.

Anyway, there are not many jobs left in the field, and each family has a strong man, and the rest can be finished with women and children.

Seeing that the construction was about to start, Li Su also took time to spend more than half a month to inspect the preparations in all aspects, and the itinerary would involve two counties.

He planned to go to the construction site in Luoyang New District first, then take the Yichuan waterway to flow over Yique Pass to the new city, and instead go to Wancheng by land, and finally inspect the canal construction site between Ye County and Bowang.

Zhuge Liang also knew his mentor’s work itinerary in advance, so he had already arranged all the newly created things this winter and spring.

On the 16th, Li Su and his party took a boat down Yichuan. It took only half a day to arrive at the construction site of Luoyang New District in the afternoon.

After two months of preparation, Li Su saw that although the remaining slopes of Mangshan have not been completely leveled, the land has been roughly divided and planned. According to the blocks planned in the future, blocks will be formed and the road will be leveled first.

At the same time, a pool was dug in each block and a certain amount of water was stored to facilitate leveling the horizontal plane during subsequent construction, ensuring that the road has a slope and the walls of the house are absolutely plump and not skew.

In addition, drainage ditches were roughly dug on both sides of the road, which not only made it possible to plan drainage and sewage discharge in advance before the new urban area was built, but also facilitated measurements when building a house in the future.

Before the Spring Festival, the "Water Truck Round Saw Workshop" that Huang Yueying had been thinking about has now been implemented on a large scale, and dozens of water trucks were specially built on the banks of Luoshui.

Considering that the Luo River flow rate is not fast enough and the water energy is not turbulent enough, a reservoir was specially built next to it to divert water from several miles upstream, and temporarily raised the impact water level drop near the hydraulic workshop.

These water trucks all dragged the prototype serrated blades, and were not fast, but they kept processing the wood for building houses and building towers for twelve hours every day.

These machines are not helpful in the tree cutting process. So far, we still have to rely on reciprocating large saws or use an axe to cut trees.

However, it is very helpful to process the materials that can be used to form a square column, at least it saves dozens of times more labor than a carpenter's manual saw.

The fine construction wood processing links have a sudden increase in efficiency.

Of course, because Huang Yueying is not a time traveler after all, it is impossible for her to know which scientific research directions have prospects and which have no futures.

So after the successful technological tree point of "Water Truck Round Saw Processing Wood", she once tried to promote it, wanting to see if it is feasible to use hydraulic power to process other building materials.

For example, I built a few water trucks, like the previous hydraulic wrought iron workshop in Chengdu, but I changed the hammer head to a shape similar to a chisel and adze, and wanted to use the reciprocating chiseling and hitting action to smash the stone.

However, this is not very successful. The main reason is that the stones are relatively brittle, and it cannot be guaranteed that the brittleness of each batch of stones is the same. It is often impossible to smash the stones directly and cannot be used. Considering that Luoshui's water energy resources are not very rich and there are not so many water trucks and parking spaces for these things to be wasted, Huang Yueying's spontaneous attempt was considered a failure.

There is nothing to blame for this. Technological progress was originally tried. It cannot completely replace labor, and at least it can be partially replaced by labor and moved to the vegetable market at the source for use. If there are water energy resources with a large drop and momentum near the quarry, it can be used.

In general, the subsequent housing construction speed in Luoyang New District will be increased by at least 10% or 20% due to the attempts of these prefabricated building materials, and the construction time will be shortened by 10% or 20%. Invisibly, in the future, the savings will be at least more than one billion yuan during the completion of the entire Luoyang New District.

However, prefabricated building materials will inevitably lead to the subsequent size standardization. The finishing of wood is no longer a temporary carpenter after it arrives on the construction site, but it is done in the wood processing factory in advance and transported to the construction site.

Many construction links have to standardize the sizes, otherwise once the site size is long or short, pre-processed wood will not be used, which will be very troublesome.

Although we had unified the weights and measures as early as when Qin Shihuang was, in fact, the length of the ruler used by folk carpenters may not be accurate and unified.

This time, for the pre-processing of wood in Luoyang New City, Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying had to vigorously promote a wave of machining and building length and dimensions. All carpenters who were going to work in Luoyang New District uniformly received the official standard length carpenter rule.

At first, those craftsmen thought they were very profitable. For the first time, they heard that they worked for the court and even distributed free production tools.

But soon they also found that these tools were not gray-haired. If they were used after being sent, they had to buy them by themselves, or make sure to make a new one with the same standard as the one issued by the government. If they had obtained the measurement tools issued by the government and found that they were not standard and that they had defective products, the government would intervene in the punishment.

"These things have been implemented for more than a month, right? Do the people and craftsmen complain about this?" Li Su was very curious about the effect of the promotion, and after the inspection, he couldn't help but ask Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang replied confidently: "No, after all, we all start with courtesy and then fight, and strictly declare the laws and regulations first. Moreover, the first batch of measurement tools were paid by the government to give money to the craftsmen. The subsequent law enforcement was very fair, and those who were punished would recognize it."

Li Su nodded with satisfaction: "Those who have strict criminal policies and no complaints should be encouraged by their calmness and wise advice. As long as the court has always been polite and then military, enforces the law strictly, and ensures that they are not punished without any education, the people can be educated.

A Liang, you must maintain this advanced experience in the future. Even if I didn’t explain it, you should not be discouraged. You don’t know everything about it. Keep your curiosity and try it out if you think there is hope. Don’t be afraid of losing money. Research and tinker with some machinery and make a few samples, how much money can you lose.”
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