"Vei!" After receiving Zhang Ran's instructions, Li Chong turned around and acted quickly. In just over a dozen minutes, he found a hundred craftsmen who were good at modeling for Zhang Ran.

With enough manpower, Zhang Ran began to direct everyone and start building the cellar.

Zhang Ran first observed near the Workshop Garden, and then chose a gentle slope facing the wind and the sun outside the Workshop Garden.

Then, the craftsmen brought firewood to light it, burned the ground frozen due to the cold weather until it softened, and told them to dig downwards.

As the soil flew, the craftsmen used pickaxes and wooden veins to dig a pit three or four feet deep and two rooms on the gentle slope according to Zhang Ran's request.

Then, a few rows of house columns were erected in the pit with beams and wood, and wooden rafters were added to the columns, and thatched on the outside of the rafters were covered with soil to cultivate them.

Finally, only a narrow door for entry and exit was left, and the other three sides were filled with soil to serve as walls.

In this way, a cellar that can be accommodated by nearly twenty people has almost been repaired.

The built cellars each account for a part of the underground and above ground, mostly the underground. Moreover, the part on the ground is also covered by thick soil, which can maintain a certain temperature in the house and also serve as a shelter from the wind.

When this cellar was repaired according to Zhang Ran's requirements and fixed with wooden beams and columns, Zhang Ran personally entered it to check the situation.

As soon as Pu entered the door, Zhang Ran felt a cold breath coming towards him, making him tighten his sweater.

After casually glanced around, Zhang Ran found that the ground and walls in the newly repaired cellar were very wet, and there was a very strong smell of earth... At the same time, the temperature in the house was not very high, which was only a little better than the outside world.

Zhang Ran observed carefully and pondered for a while, then turned to Li Chong, who was accompanying him and said, "Zhengbu, it is so cold and damp, and the moisture is too heavy. You have to find a way to dry it here first. Otherwise, after sleeping one night, the moisture enters the body, people will easily get sick... Then, if you let someone build a fire pit in this cellar, burn it here with a big fire to see if the moisture can be driven out..."

Li Chong looked at the wet earth walls and ground around him, nodded in agreement and said, "Don't worry, Zuo Cheng, then I will immediately let someone build a fire pit here!"

"Yeah," Zhang Ran nodded slightly, frowned and looked at the environment in the cellar, touched his chin and said, "It's not enough to have a fire pit alone. The ground is so wet, and it's unlikely to dry it for a while... Then someone is making some wooden racks, putting on wooden boards, and then laying thatch, so that everyone can stay away from the ground as much as possible when living, so as to prevent the dampness and cold energy from hurting their bodies... Also, I instructed the kitchen to make more ginger soup from today, so that everyone can drink a large bowl before resting every day to drive away the cold air..."

After hearing this, Li Chong hurriedly bowed to Zhang Ran and said, "Zuo Cheng is kind, I will do as you tell me!"

"Haha..." Zhang Ran smiled slightly, and then said, "It's only so much for now. Try to do it first. If a craftsman finds other problems during the construction process or has any good suggestions, please report to me... One person's plan is short, everyone's plan is the best. As long as it is a suggestion that is beneficial to everyone, you can adopt it at your discretion!"

Upon hearing this, Li Chong couldn't help but nodded heavily and said, "Yes, I will definitely pay attention!"

...

After proving that the idea of ​​using cellars to live in is basically feasible, the residence problems that trouble Zhang Ran’s biggest craftsmen are no longer a problem.

The next morning, when the craftsmen sent by Zhao Yu arrived at the workshop garden, Zhang Ran immediately mobilized 2,000 people from it, handed over to Li Chong to lead and select a suitable location, and immediately started construction of the cellar.

Compared with building normal houses, it is undoubtedly much easier and more convenient to build a cellar. As long as there is a suitable location and sufficient staff, the cellar can be started at the same time.

Therefore, after Zhang Ran realized this, he immediately grouped the more than 2,000 people, with each ten people as the leader, and was responsible for the excavation and construction of a cellar.

With a large number of manpower and sufficient supplies, it took only one day to build more than 20 cellars near the workshop park that can accommodate nearly 20 people, easily solving the living problems of nearly 4,000 people.

The workers' housing problems have been solved. As for other things, such as workers' food and clothing, working hours, material transportation, etc., they are all small problems.

Zhang Ran only needs to grasp the general direction of these things, and leave the specific matters to Li Chong and the assistants to be responsible and implemented.

Since receiving the task from the emperor, Zhang Ran has been busy in the workshop park for five days. During this period, he didn't even dare to go back home. He only sent a minor official to his house to report his safety, and spent the rest of his time eating and living in the science and technology park.

After many days of hard work, Zhang Ran finally overcomes various difficulties and finally solves a series of headache-inducing problems, allowing the wool cleaning workshop to be quickly established from scratch and gradually get on track.

However, most of the workers in the initial wool cleaning work lacked relevant experience because most of the workers had just settled in. The production speed was actually not fast. On average, every ten people produced less than 500 kilograms of clean wool every day.

However, thanks to the surge in the number of workers to nearly 5,000, the base is large, the amount of wool washed every day is still no less than 200 stones.

At this rate, it only takes about ten days to produce enough clean wool needed for 50,000 sets of sweaters.

As long as Zhao Yu can keep up with the speed of textile and garment making, the tasks assigned by the emperor will be easily completed in ten days.

At this moment, Zhang Ran finally understood that what Zhao Yu said to him before was not bragging!

Judging from the huge number of craftsmen in Shaofu and the amazing production speed, as long as you become serious, just 50,000 sets of clothes are not a big problem.

In other words, Zhang Ran now only needs to continue to maintain the current production speed step by step, so that the task can be exceeded by the end of this month, and it does not take as long as a month.

After reaching this conclusion, the huge pressure that lingers in Zhang Ran's heart for the past few days also disappeared in an instant, and Zhang Ran felt much more relaxed because of this.
Chapter completed!