At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 11 Value of Cement

Luoyang is the eastern capital, with many strong soldiers, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The interior is guarded by Yang Yu, the current king of Yue, who is the grandson of Yang Guang, so it is not so easy to be attacked.

But outside Luoyang City, there are two granaries.

After Emperor Sui Yang ascended the throne, he inherited the idea of ​​Emperor Wen of Sui and continued to build a large amount of infrastructure, including granaries.

Large granaries have been built in major cities and counties all over the world.

It is ordered that in the harvest year, the people all over the world will take the initiative to pay for food and store it all in it.

Outside Luoyang city, there are two granaries, one is Luokou warehouse and the other is Huiluo warehouse.

Among them, the Luokou warehouse is known as the world's largest warehouse, and its grain reserves are said to have reached 2000 million shi!

Some people in later generations even archaeologically said that the grain in the granaries built in the Sui Dynasty was enough for the people in the Tang Taizong period to survive 50 consecutive years of disaster years!

Although it is a bit exaggerated, the food in Luokou warehouse is amazing.

"Li Mi's traitor, His Majesty is still here, how dare he do this!"

Dugu Sheng stared angrily, drew out his knife and cursed loudly.

Pei Qiantong glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Don't be angry, General Dugu, let's think about how to get through this disaster."

"What do you mean by that?" Dugu Sheng restrained himself, retracted the scabbard, and asked.

"Yangcheng is the main road to the east of Luoyang. Li Mi... must pass through here if he wants to attack Luokou Cang!" Pei Qiantong stared at the map and said in a deep voice.

"Ten days at the latest, Pei Renji will lead Mr. Zhang's old troops to attack."

Pei Qiantong was in a great headache at this time, the Xiaoguo army had [-] soldiers here, but Li Mi had assembled a [-] army, including Pei Renji's [-] soldiers.

Pei Renji, this person was originally an important minister of the Sui Dynasty. After Zhang Gong died in the war, he gathered Zhang Gong's old troops.

Afterwards, he led the army to suppress the rebels in Wagangzhai. It turned out that Liu Changgong and others were defeated by Li Mi when they crossed the river.

Now it's all right, there are a few more fierce generals in the Wagang Army.

Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin are all powerful generals in the world.

The sentry came to report that Pei Renji, as the vanguard, was mobilizing his troops and preparing food and grass.

"So, I will give you five days at most, and you must find His Majesty, otherwise..."

Pei Qiantong looked at Dugu Sheng with a solemn expression.

At this point, even if they have a rift, they still need to focus on the overall situation.

Dugu Sheng said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, general, the heavy snow will melt tomorrow, and the general will go into the mountains to look for His Majesty at dawn the next morning!"

Pei Qiantong's furrowed brows finally eased a little.

Your Majesty the Great Sui is really worrying.

If the rebels find out that His Majesty is here, they will probably fry the pot directly.

Nowadays, the number of rebels in the world is unknown. If they knew that His Majesty was here, they would probably attack them as if they had eaten five stone powder.

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Wanmin City.

In the early morning of the next day, just before dawn, Xu Mu was woken up by the sound of military drills.

After simply washing up and having breakfast, Xu Mu went straight to the Lord's Mansion building to prepare for work.

This is his extremely healthy daily routine since he traveled through time.

Tired, fulfilling day.

He lives in a small three-story western-style building next to the Lord's Mansion.

It is only a dozen steps away from the Lord's Mansion Building.

Every time he approached the lord's mansion, Xu Mu had the illusion of... struggling alone.

Nuoda has a lord's mansion, and he works alone.

It seemed that he was the only one working hard on the matter of rebellion.

Although Zhang Mengnan promised himself to rebel, he once said that he would not rebel until Yang Guang died.

So although Zhang Xutuo has been with him for two years, he has only been training soldiers.

I have never participated in any rebellion planning or anything like that.

So now Xu Mu is at a loss as to where to rebel in the future.

He is in urgent need of counselors, rebel experts like Liu Bowen.

Looking at other people's famous sayings, the more Xu Mu thought about it, the more he felt that it was extremely correct.

"Hey, counting the time, it's time for Zhang Mengnan to come back, right? Nothing will happen, right?"

Approaching the building, Xu Mu couldn't help muttering to himself.

But thinking about Zhang Mengnan's killer weapon, Xu Mu didn't worry too much.

At the age of 50 or [-], he could still beat a cow to death with one punch. Xu Mu felt that if he was killed by someone, he would not die.

That's right, Xu Mu saw it with his own eyes. Zhang Xutuo made a bet with himself, but he didn't believe it. Then this simple and honest General Zhang directly killed an old scalper.

At that time, Xu Mu was terrified. Although Zhang Xutuo was playing tricks and knocked on the fragile neck of the cow, his strength had reached an abnormal level.

That night, Xu Mu didn't even sleep well.

Because the beef hot pot is too full.

When traveling through time, the pepper crops were also in the two-acre field, so Xu Mu enjoyed the peppers that only the Ming Dynasty could have in advance.

Every time he, Zhang Xutuo, Kong Xingyue and others set up a game, they couldn't avoid the hot pot.

"Huh? Lao Yang came to work so early?"

Passing by the third floor, Xu Mu saw that the gate of the Municipal Planning Department was actually open.

He told Lao Yang and Lao Lai yesterday that the working hours start at Si Shi and rest at Shen Shi.

That is to go to work at [-]:[-] in the morning and to leave work at [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

Standard civil servant routine.

Because he was so close, it was only Chen Shi, and it was about eight o'clock in the morning before Si Shi.

As a result, Lao Yang arrived.

"Well, it seems that I have sincerely surrendered, and the person I selected is quite reliable."

Xu Mu was quite satisfied, and couldn't help walking towards the Municipal Planning Department.

Before he reached the door, he heard the voices of two people talking in the room.

"Master, do you really want me to go?"

"Ah."

"Master, I really can't do it..."

"Go quickly." Lao Yang's unquestionable voice.

"promise."

Afterwards, Xu Mu saw Lao Lai holding a blueprint, a rope, a pole and a blueprint in his hands, and walked out with his head down.

He didn't even lift his head.

Walk right past him.

Xu Mu didn't care too much about it.

As the boss of the rebel group, he likes such employees.

"What are you going to do this early in the morning?"

Xu Mu walked to the door and knocked a little. Yang Guang noticed him, so he went in and asked.

To be honest, Xu Mu suddenly felt like a former office worker through time travel.

If this rebel group continues to develop like this, the future is boundless.

Yang Guang raised his head, with thick dark circles in his eyes, but his spirit remained undiminished: "Last night, a certain person had some opinions on the residential area project, but there was no field data, so I asked him to go there early in the morning. Measure on the spot."

As for the rope and pole in Lai Huer's hand, they are ancient measuring tools.

"Well, this method is too slow. The research institute should send a batch of construction tools today, and I will teach you how to use them later."

What Xu Mu has always believed in is that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

The improvement of work efficiency is very necessary.

Yang Guang did not refuse, nodded slightly, sat on his desk, took out a brief planning drawing that Xu Mu had made before, and asked: "According to the previous plan, the building in the residential area will also have four floors? There are only four floors, and the residential area is built like this, is it over the limit?"

This was a problem he discovered yesterday, so when he met Xu Mu early in the morning, he directly brought it up.

Xu Mu smiled faintly. In fact, he had already considered this point.

In ancient times, there were rules for what kind of clothes to wear, what kind of car to ride, and what kind of house to build.

If you exceed the system, you will be cut off from officials and ranks if you are young, and you will be beheaded if you are big.

"Old Yang, do you think that our lord's mansion will only have four floors in the future?"

Xu Mu made a stool, a Hu stool without a back, and sat opposite Yang Guang.

"I looked at the architectural diagram of the Lord's Mansion last night, and found that the current construction of four floors is the limit." Yang Guang sipped the tea that Lai Huer had poured for him before he left.

"That's right, this structure diagram was developed by the research institute, and it only meets the current needs, because the Wanmin City does not need taller buildings, but... if the Wanmin City grows to 10 people in the future, the research institute will inevitably launch ten thousand people. floors, even dozens of floors!"

As Xu Mu talked, he pursed his dry lips, but Lao Yang obviously had no eyesight at all, so he didn't take the initiative to pour tea for him.

Helpless, Xu Mu could only stand up by himself and pour tea.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Anyway, the entire lord's mansion is his.

"Dozens of floors?"

Yang Guang showed surprise in his eyes: "I am afraid that only the Qianyang Palace in Luoyang can be built so high."

He is well aware of the difficulty of designing.

When Luoyang, the eastern capital, was built, a large number of palaces were built in it, among which the height of Qianyang Hall was the highest.

It is more than fifty meters high.

It is equivalent to a ten-storey high-rise building in later generations.

A triple eaves structure was used, and an unknown amount of giant wood tens of meters was used.

There have even been cases where 2000 people pulled the same main beam!

He made a little calculation. In the case of Wanmin City, do you want to build a building tens of meters high?

almost impossible.

Seeing the disbelief in his eyes, Xu Mu was not annoyed, and said with a smile, "Throughout the ages, building tall houses and using huge trees is not only laborious for the people, but also a waste of money."

The people are labored because of moving and building, and the wealth is also because of moving and building.

"But Lao Yang, you have been in Wanmin City for several days, what do you think of cement?"

When asked about cement, Yang Guang sat upright and analyzed carefully: "The city wall is quite strong, and the same is true for the Lord's Mansion. After I was on duty yesterday, I asked my servants to try it, and it was very strong."

The corners of Xu Mu's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help saying, "No wonder I said it seemed like someone was smashing the wall yesterday."

He got off work a little late yesterday, around six o'clock, and felt that the walls of the Lord's Mansion building seemed to be being smashed.

It turned out that the old guy did it!
"Do you know how much this thing is worth?" Xu Mu asked again.

"It's so strong, it's worth a lot of money." Yang Guang said solemnly.

In fact, if he could, he would want to use this thing called cement to build a palace.

In his opinion, although it is expensive, he is rich.

As the son of heaven, being rich all over the world is not a bragging rights.

Unexpectedly, Xu Mu shook his head and said with a smile: "This thing is easy to make, and the materials are easy to get. It's not worth a lot of money."

It is just a combination of limestone, clay, and some slag, and then refined.

According to the research, Xu Mu spent a month and finally got the correct formula and proper ratio.

(End of this chapter)