Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 609 "Ambition"!
If you don't pursue too high quality, cement is actually very simple to make.

But there is another problem, how to crush those ore materials. Thinking about it at this time, if you only rely on purely manual materials to crush the materials, the efficiency is really impressive.

Fortunately, the hydraulic bellows have already been made, and now they only need to be modified to crush materials.When the time comes to build a cement plant by the Yellow River, the problem of power will not be a problem.

To say that the strongest part of cement is actually after mixing gravel into concrete.

Think about the scene of pouring reinforced concrete in modern buildings, it can be poured into any shape you want.

Whether it is a rectangle, a triangle or a cylinder, you only need to build a mold and put steel bars inside, and then any shape can be poured out, and it is extremely strong after it is formed and dried.

In modern warfare, as long as you look at the bridge decks that have been blasted out of the holes by shells, you can clearly feel the strength of reinforced concrete.

Ordinary red bricks are most useful for building houses quickly.

Coupled with the fire resistance of red brick itself, building houses with it is not only fast and strong, but also can resist fire to a certain extent.

After the cement is successfully made, the next step is to experiment with the combination of red bricks and cement.

Under Lu Yan's explanation and personal demonstration, several plasterers who are good at building quickly learned to build one layer of cement and one layer of bricks.

Under the astonished eyes of everyone, it took only half an hour for four plasterers to build a wall that was as tall as a person and more than ten feet wide.

The point is, the speed is high, and the quality is still good, which makes everyone present a little excited.

"With cement and red bricks, it will be much faster to build a house in the future!"

Geng Liang felt a lot of emotion, and it seemed that he had some resentment towards building the house.

There is no way, the general supervisor is now a steel factory and a shipyard, and now there is a cement factory coming, the demand for craftsmen is too great.

After the craftsmen came to Chenliu, their families needed a place to settle.

In the past, traditional wooden houses were built. Not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive construction, the quality is not necessarily good.

Now that there are cement and red bricks, won't building a house in the future be a matter of sprinkling water?
Zhuge Liang also thought of using cement to strengthen the city wall; Liu Bei thought of using cement to build roads.

It has to be said that the wisdom of the people is infinite.Lu Yan didn't need to remind too much at all, most of the functions of cement had already been excavated by them.

But after all, they missed a function that can be called a plug-in level, and that is "fortification!"

To be precise, it is to build a city wall.

With a steel factory with a daily output of [-] jin of steel, there will be no shortage of steel bars in the last two years.

When building the city wall, after setting up a mold for a section of the city wall, and then pouring it with concrete, the efficiency is simply heaven-defying!

As long as there are enough materials, a strong city can be built on the ground in half a month.

At that time, clean and solid cities will suddenly spring up on the grassland one after another, and those grassland people will probably be scared to death.

"Brother Xuande." Lu Yan suddenly shouted to Liu Bei who was squatting on the ground and carefully observing the wall.

Liu Bei stood up, ran to Lu Yan in small steps, cupped his hands and said, "Sir, what's your order?"

"I will leave the construction of the cement plant to you. No matter whether you supervise it yourself or assign people, I only have two requirements, efficiency! Keep it secret!"

Liu Bei's face turned serious, and he bowed to salute and said, "Beidin will personally supervise such an important matter. If there is any mistake, I'll come and see you!"

After all, he used to be a warrior. After receiving the important task assigned by Lu Yan, Liu Bei issued a military order without even thinking about it.

Lu Yan looked around and said to everyone present: "Cement is a top secret, and its level of secrecy is not lower than that of battleships and artillery. Anyone who leaks the secret will be severely punished!"

The craftsmen have long been used to all kinds of top-secret information, and they basically don't leave the area of ​​the prison, so the secrecy is pretty good.

What Lu Yan mainly warned was those officials. If they are not kept together, some of these officials will be corrupted by money or beauties because of their unsteady thinking.

"Your subordinates obey!" Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, including Geng Liang and other officials and petty officials, all saluted very solemnly.

After the cement experiment came to an end, Lu Yan, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang left the general prison.

When he reached the empty official road, Lu Yan suddenly reined in his horse and stopped.

Seeing this, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang also stopped.

At this time, Lu Yan suddenly said to Liu Bei: "Xuande, after you build the cement plant, store as much cement, steel bars and sand as possible, and don't disclose cement-related matters to anyone for the time being."

Zhuge Liang's eyes flashed when he heard the words, as if he had thought of something!
But Liu Bei asked suspiciously, "Shouldn't we use it immediately?"

Such a good thing, why not immediately use it to pave roads, repair bridges, and build houses?

Lu Yan pointed to the northeast and said: "I want to lay roads in the west of Liaoning, and I want to build three strong cities in the west of Liaoning, so I need enough raw materials!"

"!!!"

After hearing Lu Yan's "ambition", Liu Bei slowly widened his eyes, and Zhuge Liang also opened his mouth slightly.

"Sir. Do you want to." Zhuge Liang asked in a whisper.

"That's right!" Lu Yan grinned at the corner of his mouth, and said proudly: "After Liaoxi is Liaodong, after Liaodong there are Sanhan and Goguryeo! I want to collect all the grasslands, and I want the north to be my territory. I want to eradicate the troubles of the grassland forever!"

Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were frightened by Lu Yan's "crazy" idea.

But now with cement, building roads and cities in the grasslands is not such an unattainable dream.

The two of them were infected by Lu Yan's pride. At this moment, there seemed to be a panic in their chests, and there was an urge to scream up to the sky to feel comfortable.

Seeing that the two of them were a little uncomfortable, Lu Yan couldn't help smiling and said, "It's easy to say, but it's very difficult to actually do it."

After Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were poured a basin of cold water by Lu Yan, the burning flames in their chests became slightly smaller.

"But no matter what kind of difficulties and obstacles lie ahead, we are going to do this. So Brother Xuande, how much cement, steel bars, and sand and stones you have, stock up for me!"

Excited, Liu Bei clasped his fists and performed a military etiquette: "The last general swears to die to complete the task!"

Lu Yan nodded, then turned to Zhuge Liang, and said, "Kong Ming, arrange the manpower for the shipyard as soon as possible, and free yourself from the tedious work. Old Geng is not young, and his health is not very good. I am afraid it will not be possible to be a prisoner." It will take you too long to take over."

The Jiangzuojian was established and developed by Lu Yan on his own, and it is the core and most precious property for Lu Yan.

Liu Bei heard that Lu Yan intended to hand over the supervisor to Zhuge Liang to take care of him.

Immediately understood,

Lu Yan, this is to train Zhuge Liang as his successor!

(End of this chapter)