Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 41

Is it possible that with the introduction of this kind of cement, all the houses in Ming Dynasty will be greatly renovated?Are all Daming houses more than two stories high?

Having imagined this scene in her mind, the Crown Princess found it a bit hard to imagine, and her mouth formed an "O" shape without even realizing it.

A two-story house is definitely better than a one-story house, especially in the south, where the air is humid and rheumatism is a common disease if you sleep on the first floor.

Of course, if conditions permit, the ground must have been treated. For example, if the underground has been dried and then laid with flat stone slabs, etc., it will be better.

But for most people, there is definitely no such condition.

Now with this cement, at least in Liujiacun, every household lives on a two-story building. With this condition, it was definitely the only village in the Ming Dynasty!
After a while, the princess came back to her senses and asked Zhang Yifan in disbelief: "You said, if steel were used instead of bamboo and wood, this house built with cement could be built higher? How much higher is it? High? Won't it fall?"

She asked several questions in a series, staring at Zhang Yifan's face with a look of surprise.

Not only her, but everyone else, including Zhu Jingjing, also looked surprised.

They were already surprised by this cement, but they didn't expect that the prospect Zhang Yifan would describe here would shock them again.

If you really want to put it this way, cement is much more powerful than that Sanhe soil!
At this time, Zhang Yifan looked at the surprised Crown Princess and just smiled and replied lightly: "If there are reinforced concrete to build it, in theory you can build it as high as you want, even a hundred stories..."

"This is impossible!" Upon hearing this, the princess subconsciously interrupted him.

When she thought about it, Zhang Yifan said that he could build a multi-storey building, so being able to build it as high as three or four stories was already the limit, right?

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yifan dared to say that there was no problem at the [-]th level. How could this be possible? What if they all went into the clouds and hit the heavenly palace?
Really, this was beyond her imagination!

This time, even Zhu Jingjing, who had always believed in Zhang Yifan, looked incredulous and did not interrupt to say "I believe him."

It's as high as a hundred stories. Is it really impossible?
Seeing them like this, Zhang Yifan couldn't help but say silently in his heart: Don't talk about a hundred floors, I have been to more than 100 floors!

Of course, there was no way to say this, so I heard him answer the princess's question: "I'm talking about theory. For now, it's definitely impossible. How to build a higher-floor house with cement?" , there are many problems to be solved here. However, what is certain is that with reinforced concrete, it is definitely possible to build high-rise buildings. As for how high, we will only know after research and practice."

In ancient times, flat floors were generally used because there was no cement.Even the most powerful people cannot live in high-rise buildings.The most fundamental reason is the lack of one type of thing: bending members, that is, beams and floors.

Walls and pillars are easy to make and can be made of stone, bricks, or even rammed earth.However, in ancient times, it was impossible to build bricks into suspended boards, let alone place furniture and people on them. They could only be made of wood.There are very few suitable woods, which is why there is the idiom "the material of the pillars".

This time, in order to catch up with the work, Zhang Yifan only used wood and bamboo because he only built two floors. Of course, the more important thing is that there is no place to buy steel at this time.At this time, Zhang Yifan continued to answer the princess's words: "If sister-in-law is interested, you can pay someone to study and see how high you can cultivate at the current level? You can rest assured that there will be no wind. It will fall if you blow it, of course, if the earth dragon turns over, it will still fall."

When the earth dragon turns over, everything will fall over!
Regarding this issue, the Crown Princess simply ignored it.

At this time, she was very interested, and she definitely wanted to try this matter.

Climb high and look far away, haha, maybe you won’t have to climb mountains in the future, you can see it from the house you live in.Just sit in the house, drink tea, and look at the distant scenery...

After thinking about it, the Crown Princess thought it was beautiful, but of course she knew that the tallest building must be where her father lived.However, when the prince ascends the throne in the future, she can live there!
But immediately, she thought of another question, so she stopped worrying about this issue that needed time to be tested, and immediately asked: "How much does this kind of cement cost?"

She had heard Zhang Yifan say before that this cement was very cheap.However, she still didn't know how cheap it was.

Now that Zhang Yifan said that the usefulness of this cement was far beyond her imagination, she couldn't believe how cheap this cement was!
After hearing her words, Zhang Yifan didn't answer immediately. He just stretched out his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't you go and see the cement workshop first?"

Previously, the Crown Princess was quite sensitive to Zhang Yifan calling her sister-in-law, and she had directly said that it would depend on whether Zhang Yifan had the ability to call her sister-in-law.

And so, Zhang Yifan had called her "sister-in-law" several times in succession, but she simply ignored it, or acquiesced, because she was too shocked to care about these details.

On the other hand, Zhu Jingjing, who was next to her, was actually very sensitive to the word "sister-in-law". Hearing Zhang Yifan calling each of them "sister-in-law", her heart was sweeter than any delicious food.His attention was no longer focused on the cement, but instead he was peeking at Zhang Yifan as he introduced it with confidence and calmness. It was so beautiful!

At this time, the princess listened to Zhang Yifan's words and immediately went to the cement kiln without saying a word. She knew that place.

However, what she had seen before was just a construction site that was not under construction. When she met again, she saw a large chimney smoking, and it was surrounded by a large wall.

Inside the wall, in addition to the cement kiln, there were several other houses connected to this one. I didn't know what they were doing inside, but I heard noises.

The door was very wide, but there were two villagers standing there, obviously guarding the door, holding wooden sticks in their hands.

Naturally, there would be no problem for the Crown Princess to enter.Accompanied by Zhang Yifan, we started to visit inside.

At this time, a wave of cement was fired. They were all hard lumps and were sent to the hydraulic forging hammer workshop. A large hammer hammered regularly one after another. After that, it was a huge stone mill. , still powered by water power, the hammered cement lumps are completely ground into powder, and finally the materials are loaded into bags.

One of the more eye-catching things is that the people who work here all have their faces covered with a piece of cloth, like a masked person.

(End of this chapter)