I practiced magic in the Three Kingdoms

Wang Jing gave this task to Jia Xu, and earnestly told him a few things: "Wenhe, the main purpose of the clothing factory is to produce for own use. The people under our army's rule will not buy ready-made clothing, shoes and hats unless the price is affordable or they cannot produce it themselves."

In the current Yan and Han Dynasty, the problem of small peasant economy still dominates, and agricultural civilization itself has strong economic inertia.

In history, even the British were severely taught a lesson by the Chinese market, and in the end they could only rely on selling opium to achieve a trade surplus.

There is a garment factory in Luoyang right now, which was set up by women from the refugees recruited by Lu Fang.
Several Youzhou textile workers who knew how to use sewing machines were invited to serve as technical instructors. They were able to make cloth shoes, straw sandals, uniforms, hats, work clothes, underwear, quilts and cotton socks. The variety seemed quite rich and complete, but the output was not good and the scale was very limited.

In addition, there is a leatherworker who was invited from Bingzhou, who now specializes in making various leather equipment for the soldiers under Wang Jing.

According to Wang Jing's plan, the scale of the bedding factory will continue to expand.

In the future, with the continuous expansion of the army and labor force, as well as the influx of a large number of immigrants from other places, these people's clothes will need to be updated, so the demand for clothing will grow exponentially, and no matter how much is produced, it will not be enough.

After talking about the clothing factory, Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao left with great tact.

Jia Xu then discussed with Wang Jing the infrastructure issues of Luoyang City, which involved future development guidelines and naturally could not be overheard by outsiders.

"My lord, with the continuous influx of refugees, the public security problem in the city is becoming more and more serious."

Refugees have no jobs or income, so they can only commit crimes in order to survive.

Obviously, there are not enough jobs in the society to absorb these surplus population. If it were the previous imperial court, they would have been blocked outside the city and left to fend for themselves.

But Wang Jing obviously would not do this, and Jia Xu also knew what Wang Jing was thinking, so he asked for his opinion on this matter.

Wang Jing thought about it and said, "We made a lot of money from selling glass. Instead of letting it get moldy, we should invest it in infrastructure construction."

If the emperor did this, he would inevitably be accused of being "ambitious" and "a waste of money and time".

But Wang Jing is different. He spends the money he earns himself, so he can spend it however he likes. No one else has the right to point fingers. Otherwise, they would have to ask whether his Hongming Sword is useful or not.

Hearing that Wang Jing was going to carry out civil engineering on a large scale, Guo Jia and Xun You smiled and agreed, saying, "Using construction instead of relief is a very good idea."

Jia Xu also stroked his beard, his face showing joy: "It is indeed wonderful."

Using work-for-relief can absorb a large number of labor force population. With a livelihood, refugees will not always think of causing trouble. This strategy was often used by the Qin State during the Warring States Period, and the effect is obvious to all.

Therefore, Guo Jia and others did not object, but strongly supported this matter.

Even if we encounter some ignorant refugees who want to cause trouble when providing relief, we can deal with them severely without any scruples or leniency.

"I wonder if the lord is planning to build a palace or a garden?"

"Neither. How about we build a large venue?"

Wang Jing then called Zhai Ping, the leader of the road construction team. Now, Zhai Ping has been trained by Wang Jing to become a master architect and engineering expert.

Zhai Ping was also very efficient. In just a few days, he had people draw a lot of conceptual drawings according to Wang Jing's requirements.

Wang Jing looked at the drawings piled in front of him. These were the drawings that his subordinates had spent several nights drawing. In order to draw them successfully, Zhai Ping gathered all the talented people of the Mohist school in Luoyang, and they worked overnight to draw out the details of the patterns one stroke at a time on the drawing board.

Fortunately, Zhai Ping had worked hard to build a road between Yanzhou and Luoyang before. Because there was a demand, he specially trained a group of people who knew how to draw, which came in handy.

"Should we add a runway at this location?"

Zhai Ping, who was in charge of planning and design, stood next to Wang Jing and carefully asked about the needs for improvement.

Wang Jing held his chin and thought for a moment, then expressed his thoughts: "The runway still needs to be built, as it will be used during the military parade. As for the materials, we can just use coal slag. The site should be paved with sand and lime and compacted, so that there will be no water accumulation when it rains. As for other facilities, it is better not to build them for the time being."

Although we are rich, we are currently in short supply of building materials, so the large stepped stands surrounding the conference venue will not be built for the time being.

The focus of the entire project is mainly placed on the main podium.

According to Wang Jing's idea, this main podium must be magnificent and solid, so that people can feel awe at first sight, so as to strengthen the court's authority in the hearts of the people and thus gather people's hearts and morale.

"It should be majestic, magnificent, and very stable, you know? Stability symbolizes great power and a prosperous future..."

Wang Jing tried his best to describe and describe the needs with words and informed them one by one. Since he had spent money, he naturally wanted to achieve the best results.

Zhai Ping felt a little embarrassed after hearing this: "Some of the effects on the blueprint may not be achieved by our road construction team."

Although the road construction team has also begun to take on a large number of various engineering construction orders and is building houses as fast as making dumplings, they now have a killer weapon like cement.

However, the mechanical engineering and construction technology that the Mohists excelled in were still very limited. Zhai Ping was simply unable to create many of the cool architectural effects that Wang Jing wanted.

Wang Jing had no choice but to compromise: "Do your best to achieve the desired effect. You can call together the craftsmen and brainstorm. I will reward anyone who can make a contribution."

So at night, Zhai Ping gathered the craftsmen and draftsmen of the road construction team and began to brainstorm the structure of the large podium. The podium that Wang Jing requested was very special.

There is a high platform in the middle, and the two wings are slightly lower stands extending out.

There is an overhanging rain canopy above the podium. It is very traditional, but quite practical. However, this design is too ordinary and obviously cannot fully meet some of Wang Jing's requirements.

In order to pursue a more perfect effect, Wang Jing directly used the tactic of throwing money around, offering extremely high rewards and soliciting drawings or design ideas from the public.

This is a new way to play!

After this incident spread, many folk craftsmen came to the road construction team to offer suggestions, and various renderings came out.

Finally, Wang Jing chose a classical building with a very clever design and decided to build it. Wang Jing himself also added and deleted some details and gave it many new elements.

A huge brick and stone staircase, meters long and meters high, with a colonnade running through the entire staircase on the top. In the middle of the colonnade is a huge screen wall, which can be used to hang military logos or even national emblems in the future. There are evenly distributed rectangular screen walls on the entire colonnade for hanging flags.

At both ends of the steps, there is a square pedestal similar to a beacon tower. According to the design, two huge torch cages will be installed here.

A model was made of this design, and as soon as the plaster model appeared, it caused a shocking effect.

The final design decided to use lime water to paint the house white. Anyway, the ancients also painted their houses white with lime water, and I haven’t heard them think it is an ominous color.

In the official drawings, the large podium was missing the colonnade above it. With the current technological level, it is difficult to mass-produce such giant stone pillars.

However, during construction, enough width was left for future additions, and the height of the entire building was also increased significantly, creating a very shocking visual effect.

Although the colonnade above was not built, the screen wall for hanging badges still appeared in the official drawings.

As for the screen walls where the flags were hung, Wang Jing decided to temporarily replace them with wooden frames.

Each wooden frame is built high enough to be used to hang a flag. Of course, it can only be used when the wind is relatively light, otherwise the flag will be blown up like a sail.

After the design was approved, Zhai Ping began construction with Mo's disciples and skilled construction workers.

One advantage of rammed earth structures is that workers do not need too much skills, and ordinary laborers can be used on a large scale. The roads in Yanzhou are well connected, so there are many craftsmen with road construction skills.

Using these people as foremen for tamping the earth, and cooperating with workers recruited from outside the country, the project was carried out vigorously.

At the busiest time, there were nearly a thousand workers working hard on the entire construction site, and even in each quarry, there were more than two hundred people quarrying and cutting stones at the same time. The scene was extremely spectacular, and Wang Jing, who came to inspect, was excited. Once upon a time, he had only seen this scene when he was playing "Dragon Rise" in his previous life, but now the simulation business is no longer a game. He only needs to give an order, and countless people will respond to his orders and change the world for him.

It has to be said that the feeling of holding power is so wonderful that Wang Jing even has the illusion that he holds the world in his hands.

But Wang Jing quickly regained his composure. With the Central Plains still unsettled, it would be unlucky to open champagne at halftime.

In order to speed up the progress of the project, Wang Jing ordered the use of a lot of engineering machinery to assist. Digging, stacking and simple compaction were all done with machinery, which greatly improved efficiency.

Due to the limitations of the stonemasons' processing capabilities and technical levels, Wang Jing discovered that some large and complex components could not be processed by stonemasons of that era at all.

Even the local stonemasons in Luoyang who had participated in the construction of the imperial gardens, the largest stones they had processed, after measurement, were only stone arch beams for building bridges, and they had not been doing this for many years.

Wang Jing was very upset about this. He wanted to build a conference hall according to the standards of the industrial age, in order to establish his own authority.

"Oh, if only we had steel bars, we could just make prefabricated concrete parts. Why would it be so troublesome?"

After Wang Jing came back from the material yard, he felt very regretful. He wished that the Yanhan Dynasty could directly enter the industrial age so that all kinds of mature building materials could be purchased by just spending money.

Instead of being like today, where we have money but nowhere to spend it.

Lu Fang, who was accompanying the inspection, was shocked when he heard this: "My lord, steel is so scarce now, isn't it too extravagant to use it to build a house?"

In his entire life, Lu Fang had never heard of anyone using steel as reinforcement to build a house. Even the emperor was not so extravagant.

How much will this cost?

Lu Fang felt a chill just by imagining it.

Wang Jing thought about it and felt that it made some sense. The current steel production had to be used to meet the needs of war and to produce armor, weapons and arrows.

However, there is a solution. Thanks to Li Feng's improvement in steelmaking technology, when more steel mills are built, steel production will be further increased, and the steel produced will be sufficient to meet construction needs.

Unfortunately, this is not a goal that can be achieved overnight. Far water cannot quench immediate thirst. At present, we still have no idea how to build a conference venue of unprecedented scale.

But Wang Jing was reluctant to just give up, or settle for second best and lower the scale and standards.

Fortunately, when it comes to technological research and development, as long as you are willing to keep investing money in it, you will eventually reap results.

The most difficult part is nothing more than whether the research ideas, research methods and a complete and usable research system can be established.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. This is the difference between fish and fishing!

Wang Jing still attaches great importance to infrastructure. After all, the more powerful a country is, the more it will become an infrastructure maniac. He thought about it and looked at Lu Fang: "Zhengliang, what do you think about using bamboo instead of steel bars?"

Because he had provided technical support to the road construction team, Lu Fang had accumulated a lot of experience in construction. He was a little surprised when he heard this: "Bamboo reinforcement plus cement?"

“It’s not cement, it’s a stronger concrete.”

Wang Jing then informed Lu Fang of what he knew about the design ideas of reinforced concrete.

Lu Fang is indeed a genius in Mohism, and he has inherited a lot of Mohist traditions from Moshi. At this moment, his talent is fully displayed. With his own talents and accumulation, he understands the wonderful use of steel bars with only Wang Jing's words: "Steel is tough, and it is used as a skeleton, and then filled with cement. The lord's idea is really wonderful."

Cement is indeed very useful as a building material.

However, the strength of the material itself is ultimately not as strong as that of hard stone, so the building height is difficult to meet Wang Jing's requirements for building a conference venue.

If this project is forced into action, it could lead to a huge landslide.

If you can use steel bars as bones, there will be no such worry. After the steel bars are twisted together, they are incredibly tough and enough to serve as load-bearing pillars. Modern architecture is based on this, and it constantly makes technological breakthroughs to build skyscrapers of astonishing height.

But in ancient times, this was incredible and unimaginable.

Therefore, Wang Jing's mere description was enough to make Lu Fang fascinated.

However, the steel production is still insufficient, so this method is useless at the moment and we have to find another way.

"Zhengliang, can bamboo replace steel bars as a building material? I need you to set up a new research team to specialize in research and development."

Wang Jing heard about the idea of ​​using bamboo instead of steel bars to make prefabricated structures in the Time Travelers Alliance forum in his previous life, and some people have actually done this in real life.

It was popular for a while in the 1930s and 1940s, mainly because it was during the world war and countries were short of materials, so they had to resort to such unorthodox methods to meet existing needs.

"Don't be stingy with the money. Do it with great fanfare and get results as soon as possible."

In order to solve the problem of disaster relief for the victims, Wang Jing spared no expense in infrastructure construction.

"Yes, I obey."

Seeing that Wang Jing attached so much importance to this matter, Lu Fang dared not be vague and immediately took the order and took action. For this purpose, he specially set up a carpentry team and assembled hundreds of craftsmen who had a certain understanding of bamboo materials to work together to tackle technical problems.

Not only that, in order to produce technical results as quickly as possible, Lu Fang also specially called upon Li Feng and Lao Li, the two big guys in the metallurgical group, and asked them to make a batch of steel bars for construction and conduct comparative tests.

After tinkering with it for a while, Lao Li came to report the situation to Lu Fang with a depressed look on his face: "No, we tested it, and the bamboo we found is far less flexible than steel."

Lao Li himself is a blacksmith. After entering Qiqiao Pavilion, he has been exposed to a lot of relevant physics and chemistry knowledge. Looking at the current situation, he is already a world-renowned master of steel frame structure.

In fact, bamboo is indeed not a good material, otherwise a certain Eastern power would not have abandoned it in its large infrastructure projects in later generations.

"If it doesn't work, keep trying. Since the Lord told us to use bamboo, there must be a reason. It can't be that the Lord is wrong. If one kind of bamboo doesn't work, try a few more. We can always find a suitable alternative material."

Lu Fang thought to himself that if this technology was successfully developed, it would be great news for the road construction team. They would no longer have to waste a lot of wood to make beams, columns and floors, which would save a lot of man-hours and money, and they would be able to build taller and larger buildings.

You know, the taller the building, the harder it is to build, and how high you can build the house represents your architectural level!

If it succeeds, not only Luoyang, but all the powerful, wealthy families and wealthy people in the world will beg the road construction team to build houses for them!
The market and profits involved here are simply unimaginable.

After sharing his ideas with Lao Li and Li Feng, they immediately became full of energy.

make money!

They knew how important money was, and after joining Qiqiao Pavilion, they knew it even more clearly.

Let’s not talk about food, clothing and other daily expenses. People are always unsatisfied, but the real money spent is not on luxurious personal enjoyment, so how much can one spend at most?
Doing scientific research is really about burning money, and most of the time, it is wasted.

Therefore, research that can make money is naturally very important. No matter whether it is Li Feng or Lao Li, their eyes are shining at this moment. They don’t talk about the hard work and difficulties anymore. They just work hard to develop the technology!

Old Li, who had just complained to Lu Fang, was now full of energy: "Master Lu, don't worry, we will go down and give it another try. At worst, we can start with small parts first."

The technical idea of ​​using bamboo reinforcement as a substitute for steel reinforcement is definitely a very attractive topic.

After all, bamboo has a fast growth cycle, can be found everywhere, is cheap, and is easy to process. Once it is put into practical use, it will definitely save a lot of costs. (End of this chapter)