Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Like a tour guide, Li Wangyou led a group of numerous officials and merchants to shuttle through the Great Ming Dynasty Palace, but they lost their eyes.

Different from the traditional buildings of Great Tang, the Great Ming Dynasty palace built by Li Wangyou presided over extensive use of glass, cement, ceramic tiles and other common building decoration materials of later generations.

In half a year, the Great Ming Dynasty Palace has taken shape.

The palace walls, turrets, gate tower, and several reused palaces in front of the Great Ming Dynasty Palace have all been completed.

Being able to build at such a fast speed, apart from Li Wangyou’s investment of a lot of manpower and material resources regardless of cost, the more important reason lies in the “sloppy-work” of this product.

For example, in the Hanyuan Hall, Xuanzheng Hall, and Zichen Hall, they simply didnt use much wood, almost all of them were piled up by Cement.

After all, according to the Tang system, the wooden beams on the main hall must be high-quality golden nanmu, and the diameter must be hug by two people to qualify.

Not to mention the cost of such a thick golden nanmu, just to transport it from Sichuan Hinterland, southern Yunnan and other places to Chang’an City, you don’t know how expensive it is.

Li Wangyou directly omitted it and changed it to concrete beams.

Of course, with the steel output of Great Tang today, the steel bars in the concrete dont need to be considered.

The huge Great Ming Dynasty Palace, if all reinforced concrete is used, the cost does not seem to be cheaper than transporting wood.

Of course, there must be bones and muscles in the Cement, otherwise the bending resistance and flexural strength cannot be guaranteed, and the built house is also equivalent to the Tofu Engineering Project.

Li Wangyou just wants to “save costs” and does not intend to fool Li Er.

So, he used bamboo instead of steel bars and treated them as concrete bones.

Bamboo-reinforced concrete is not created by Li Wangyou’s invention, but a product that has already appeared in later generations.

Even compared to reinforced concrete, bamboo reinforced concrete is lighter than steel, and easy to be plasticized. Even its strength and elasticity are not affected by temperature, and it will be used more and more in later generations. Wider.

Of course, bamboo-reinforced concrete has many shortcomings. The integrity, moldability, and rigidity of bamboo-reinforced concrete are not as good as steel, and its durability is not as good as steel.

However, these shortcomings are not too big a problem for Li Wangyou.

Although later countries stipulate that the lifespan of concrete buildings is sixty years, in fact, the theoretical lifespan of concrete buildings is very long, even hundreds of years.

The French designed and built the first concrete bridge in 1875, and it still existed when Li Wangyou crossed it.

The first reinforced concrete building in Paris, built in 1853, has experienced the devastation of World War II, and is still intact…

So, even if bamboo is used as a bone, it is much more than steel On the downside, Li Wangyou doesn’t think there will be any problems in the Great Ming Dynasty Palace during his lifetime.

Cement masonry plus concrete, the construction of the palace is amazingly fast.

After all, compared to wooden palaces, those tedious manufacturing techniques, masonry and Cement are too simple.

Several palaces, Li Wangyou directly ordered people to replace wood with concrete stone pillars and stone beams. The exteriors were painted with vermilion lacquer and painted with various colorful paintings, just as beautiful and atmospheric.

Of course, the most important thing is to save money!

Li Er and Chaotang numerous officials are not clear about the mystery. Although they know that the Zhu’zi are not wooden, they are very satisfied with these indestructible stone pillars.

There are large floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows installed everywhere in the hall, which is extremely transparent. Under the sunlight, the whole hall was shining brightly.

In addition, the towering trees transplanted from the Qinling Mountains ordered by Li Wangyou make the completed Great Ming Dynasty palace even more magnanimous.

Nowadays, glass is still a luxury item, and such large-scale use is staggering.

In traditional Chinese palaces, the deeper the palace, the more the lighting becomes a problem.

In the era without glass, the bigger the palace, the darker and more humid. Even in the scorching sun outside, the palace still needs to be lit by many candles.

In addition, it is also a wooden temple. After a long time, it will inevitably give out bursts of decay.

This is one of the reasons why emperors are used to building palaces.

The Great Ming Dynasty Palace built by Li Wangyou does not have these problems at all.

Even Li Er, after seeing the palace of the previous dynasty, was very excited about it and wished to move in immediately.

Unfortunately, now the Great Ming Dynasty Palace Engineering Project is just over half of the time.

Li Er wants to move to a new home, but he still needs to wait for a while.

After visiting several temples of the Great Ming Dynasty Palace, the numerous officials and merchants have been shocked not knowing what to say. In addition to shock, they are shocked.

Of course, those numerous officials who were born in the Aristocratic Family, in their hearts, even scolded Li Wangyou as pure fools and wasrel.

The Great Ming Dynasty Palace of such a scale, I don’t know how expensive it is.

Even if everyone knows that Prince of Qin is rich in the world, but he paid for Li Yuan and father and son to build a palace, it was either crazy or stupid.

The Aristocratic Family is still unclear. The Engineering Project for the construction of the Great Ming Dynasty Palace and the expansion of the Chang’an City, the Imperial Family and various government offices have also taken shares in it, and only for the money. It was the pocket of Prince of Qin Li Wangyou.

Aristocratic Family mocks Li Wangyou’s stupidity in his heart, but has nothing to say about the palace in front of him.

Everyone walked to the Hanyuan Hall, and Li Er was even more satisfied with the main hall of the Great Ming Dynasty Palace.

Looking up at the aloof and remote in the middle of the hall, Li Er couldn’t help but be moved by it. He simply took off his boots, stepped into the hall, and prepared to walk up to the palace himself under the service of Mi Tuo. , Feel it up close.

The floor of Hanyuan Hall is laid with golden tiles specially fired by Li Wangyou’s craftsmen. It is splendorous and majestic, so noble that words cannot explain.

Li Er was about to move forward. Suddenly some of the numerous officials stood up and said to stop him: “Your Majesty wait a minute. According to This old official, the Great Ming Dynasty Palace supervised by Prince of Qin , Magnificent, its impeccable. However, if its dense and sparse, the Prince of Qin shouldnt be laying floor tiles in this Hanyuan Hall. If this old official is correct, should the floor tiles be made of porcelain?”

“Yes, the prince has good eyesight.” Li Wangyou smiled nodded.

It was Tai Changqing Wang Ying who stood up and spoke. This old man from start to finish looked unpleasant to Li Wangyou, and always wanted to make Li Wangyou trouble.

Today I visited the Great Ming Dynasty Palace, but the old man was stunned for a while. Even if he wanted to be a sprayer, he couldn’t tell the wrong thing, but he was extremely uncomfortable.

At this moment, he finally found a mistake in Li Wangyou, so he naturally wanted to jump out and criticize it.

“Your Majesty, since Prince of Qin also admitted that the floor of the Hanyuan Hall is tiled, this old official thinks it is very inappropriate. Your Majesty is now in the twelfth lunar month, if you are barefoot How cold is it to step on it? In the future, the Hanyuan Hall will be put into use. Wouldn’t the numerous officials have to sit on this icy floor tiles Attending the Imperial court in winter? Your Majesty, this is probably wrong!”

Wang Yings this remark caused Li Er and the officials to be taken aback. Then they turned their heads and looked towards the hall with weird faces. They could not help but nod their heads, thinking that the old man this remark made sense.

The custom of Great Tang is to take off your shoes and socks when entering the hall.

When Attending the Imperial court, numerous officials knelt and sat in the hall.

Therefore, including Taiji Palace, the floors in the palace are all wooden. Even in winter, due to the heat preservation of wood, even if you step on it barefoot, you will not feel too cold.

But if it’s masonry, it’s different.

Li Er can’t help but frown, turning his head to look at Li Wangyou: “Ziyou, have you considered this matter?”

The construction of the Great Ming Dynasty Palace, although Li Er The progress is understood, but the specific details are not clear. He, the emperor, would naturally not care about such trivial matters as what kind of floor was laid in the Hanyuan Hall.

Li Wangyou hearing this, but he smiled: “Your Majesty, princes, what on earth, dont you ask Your Majesty and princes to find out…”