Chapter 129                                                             

Zhou Mengchen said, "It's OK."

Zhou Mengchen could see that if Zhou Dazhuang continued to smash like this, he would definitely be able to break it. But this was meaningless. After all, as long as he was willing to smash it, there would be no things that could be smashed.

Zhou Mengchen was already very satisfied with the hardness of the cement and a series of symptoms.

Although Zhou Mengchen didn't know how many years this cement could last, I think there would be no problem for decades. Besides, Zhou Mengchen built a city wall, not anything else. What is the city wall? It can be simply regarded as a wall with a wide bottom and a narrow top. This shape itself is very stable.

As for future events, it will not be too late to talk about them in the future.

What Zhou Mengchen values ​​most today is not the quality of the project, nor does he have the intention to do a century-old project. Instead, let the refugees inside and outside the city have a meal first. Save their lives.

Zhou Mengchen asked: "Can mass production be produced?"

Xu Gao said: "Of course it is OK. The temperature of the iron smelting furnace in the factory is not as high as that in the factory, it is only necessary to change the iron smelting furnace to be used. I have a small furnace for experiments outside the city. But I went to see it yesterday and Zhongguan Village was already white, and I don't know who burned it."

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen couldn't help feeling a little distressed. Many workshops in the Zhou family were in Zhongguan Village. Now that a fire was burned, the biggest loss was Zhou Mengchen.

At least Zhou Mengchen was prepared and brought the Zhou family members and even the tenants from the imperial village to the capital. There were not many people dead in the family. There were only some old people who would rather die than leave. There was nothing to do.

From this point of view alone, the Zhou family actually has an urgent need for the construction of external cities.

Zhou Mengchen said: "No problem. This can be rebuilt. You can put down everything immediately and start designing a large cement furnace."

"No problem." Xu Gao said: "How much production is needed."

Zhou Mengchen was silent for a while and said, "You can design it based on billions of pounds first."

When Xu Gao heard this, he was shocked and said, "So many?"

Zhou Mengchen is just an estimate. The Beijing city wall should be at least five meters high, and four horses should be able to be parallel to the top to facilitate the mobilization of the army. The bottom should be wider than the top, seven meters or even more, which is not rare. There should even be some foundation problems.

Now that the design drawings are not determined, it is difficult to determine the total amount. But billions of kilograms sound like a lot. To convert to tons, only 100,000 tons, is it considered too much?

However, even so, Zhou Mengchen expected it. I am afraid that the biggest difficulty in expanding the army in Beijing is the production of cement.

The main raw materials of cement are clay, limestone, and gypsum. There is almost no problem with the first two. Zhou Mengchen didn’t know about gypsum. After all, using a small amount of gypsum is completely different from using a large amount of gypsum. Moreover, due to the traffic conditions in the Ming Dynasty, the gypsum mine is too far away, and it loses its meaning.

Because the cost is too high.

However, Zhou Mengchen is going to put this question aside first.

Cement production is certainly a problem, but it is much better than rammed earth. After all, there are many strong men who need to rammed earth, and they can be rammed out one by one. Just pour cement directly.

Moreover, it is an extraordinary time and the cost issue cannot be understood in ordinary ways, such as clay, limestone, and coal. Zhou Mengchen never thought about where to sell it. He knew where to find it, so he just sent someone to mine it. Anyway, there were a large number of victims. He could only take care of the food. These things were free of money.

As for some people, are these mine owners happy?

Zhou Mengchen did not want to collect the mine for national use. It was just mined for a few months. Even if it was from the British government, Zhou Mengchen dared to fight. Moreover, all the kings and lands were kings. Most of the mines in the Ming Dynasty were illegal. They were not registered with the court and rarely paid taxes. They could almost not pay taxes, so Zhou Mengchen could be justified in being hooligan.

It was said to be excavated on the white ground.

Anyway, the land belongs to the country and the emperor, so where is yours.

However, all of this requires food.

Even if we can open up the channels for the nobles of various families, Zhou Mengchen would not use such hooligan means at all.

So, this is the top priority.

As soon as Zhou Mengchen confirmed that the cement could be used, he immediately rushed to the Fengcheng Marquis' Mansion.

After all, among the nobles of each family, Zhou Mengchen had the deepest friendship with the Fengcheng Hou Mansion and was quite good at engaging in the family.

After he came to Fengcheng Marquis' Mansion, he also found that Fengcheng Marquis's Marquis's current situation is different. After all, after Qiu Luan's defeat, Fengcheng Marquis's statement before His Majesty was attracted by His Majesty's eyes. Many people said that Fengcheng Marquis's Marquis's three camps were in charge.

Here I want to talk about the news that Zhou Mengchen heard from the Ministry of War.

That is, Your Majesty is very annoyed by the performance of the Beijing Camp in this battle, and wants to reorganize the Beijing Camp and reform the Beijing Camp system, and it seems that it is necessary to rebuild the three camps. Fengcheng Hou is likely to be the main general of one of the three camps, or to take charge of the three camps in full.

Anyway, the developed nobles of the Ming Dynasty, from Wuding Hou Guo Xun to Xianning Hou Qiuluan, now it seems to have arrived at Fengcheng Hou's family.

The Marquis of Fengcheng jumped up and the current situation was in full swing.

However, Zhou Mengchen is not the same as before. He became the upstart of the Ming Dynasty. When the Marquis of Fengcheng saw him, he immediately introduced Zhou Mengchen.

The Marquis of Fengcheng was about to go out. When he saw Zhou Mengchen coming, he also pushed the social engagements outside and said, "Mr. Zhou is a busy man and will not go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. Now there must be something wrong. You and my family are not ordinary. Let's talk about anything."

Zhou Mengchen immediately bowed and said, "I am ashamed of my nephew. But there is really no other way today. I will ask my uncle to be the best person." Then Zhou Mengchen presented the imperial edict in his hand with both hands.

The Marquis of Fengcheng took it and opened it, looked at it, and rolled it together again. He put it aside and said, "My dear nephew, I am so glorious. I wonder why this is for?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Uncle should not cancel it, so my uncle naturally knows why it is for? For food, at least 300,000 people can eat food for five months."

To be honest, Zhou Mengchen has already made up less. You should know that Chengzu could use the Dagong City, which had 700,000 people to build Beijing City. Now, the projects in the outer city of Beijing are only a lot larger than the projects in Beijing City. Of course, Chengzu built not only the walls of the Beijing city at that time, but also various palaces and yamen. In this way, it is hard to say who is bigger or smaller in the size of the project.

Fengcheng Hou said: "Three hundred thousand people. According to one liter of the solar eclipse, it is 450,000 stones of grain, and the number of labor is absolutely not worth it. Nephews have to use labor for relief. Do those young families ignore and don't buy all kinds of tools? Multiplying this number by three may not be enough. Now it is considered extraordinary to be able to do this with one million. "

"Even if the Dukes and Marquis of each family have cleared their assets, there is no such thing as this one.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Uncle, the Ministry of Revenue said that the first batch of food will arrive in two or three months."

Fengcheng Hou said: "Can this food be allocated to you?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Uncle means -----?"

Fengcheng Hou said, "We don't mean not to help. It's just that you asked my family to take out at least 100,000 stones of grain. I don't have to be a good person in this matter. I can't even get over this matter."

With the current status of Fengcheng Marquis among the nobles, if the entire noble group wants to share 1.5 million stones of grain, it is normal for Fengcheng Marquis to pay 100,000 stones. This is indeed difficult for Fengcheng Marquis. There may be a squeeze of 100,000 taels of silver. However, it is indeed much more difficult for the Fengcheng Marquis to spend 100,000 stones of grain.

Of course, the entire noble group may not be able to squeeze out 1.5 million stones of grain. But this is how many families tighten their belts. Jiajing may not be able to do such a thing, let alone Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen estimated that 1.5 million stones were a bit inflated. However, at this time, he didn't say much. After all, the Marquis of Fengcheng thought that more food was consumed, so he had more room to bargain.

Zhou Mengchen said, "I'm right. I have a plan here. Uncle can listen. Whether it's OK or not." So Zhou Mengchen told him all the real estate plans.

After hearing this, Fengcheng Hou touched his beard, pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "My dear nephew has never been able to express his ideas, but it doesn't work."
Chapter completed!