Chapter 52: Materials for Building the Tian Du Fortress

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  Wen Fei was taken aback: "It should be square!" He himself didn't dare to confirm, because at first only the small ones were called forts, two hundred steps, which is equivalent to about three hundred meters now.

  "That's not big at all, 300 square meters, at most it's just a small villa!"

  Wen Fei broke out in a cold sweat. He thought about it and felt that something wasn't right. Could this small fortress really be smaller than the villa? Suddenly, he was drenched in sweat.

  "Let's just assume it's 50 meters, you know I'm clueless about this. If I have to answer in front of the boss later and can't, that would be terrible! Beautiful lady, please help me out! Oh right, there are no machines, it's all manual labor."

  The person opposite quickly sent over a picture, on which were dense and crowded numbers, making Wen Fei's eyes dizzy.

  "I did a 4,000 square meter clubhouse before, just look at these numbers yourself. Without machinery, it would take 10 times the current time... This is a 3,000 meter wall, and the required man-days..." Another table was sent over.

  Wen Fei almost cried: "My math teacher died early... Can you help me see how much cement is needed?"

  "Oh, I see. Let me take a look... the 750-meter city wall is about 1/4 of mine. That's equivalent to 159.13 tons. My wall is three meters high, by the way, how tall and thick are the walls of your castle?"

  Wen Fei was still puzzled and didn't know what to say, so he just sent a row of ellipses.

  "How did your boss even hire someone like you, it's really lacking in discernment... Never mind, the height is 2.5 times mine and the thickness is 5 times mine, isn't that fine?"

  Wen Fei hastily sent a smiling face over.

  "That's 795.65 tons!"

  When he heard this number, Wen Fei's eyes turned black and almost fainted. Originally thought that it would be easy to build the fort by just pulling a few trucks of cement, helping Zhang Shu finish building the fort. Who knew it was actually 800 tons?!

  According to his small cargo box, it can hold 6 tons when fully loaded. Let's just say it's overloaded at 10 tons. That would be 80 cars... It'd be better if I just transported 800 tons of salt over and wiped out Western Xia once and for all.

  One ton is 2000 catties, and 800 tons would be 1.6 million catties. If we convert it to salt, wouldn't that drive the Western Xia to bankruptcy? They won't even be able to sell their own salt catties! And it's better than just building a defensive fortress against the Western Xia bandits!

  "What's wrong?" asked Little Yu from across the way.

  "I want to buy a piece of tofu!" Wen Fei said: "Go ahead and bump into it directly."

  It was said that Wen Fei had pulled a car of cement over again and stopped it right in front of Zhang Shu Ye.

  "What is this?" Zhang Shuye curiously asked Wen Fei.

  "Cement?" Wen Fei asked succinctly.

  "It seems like there's no water?" Zhang Shuye was somewhat perplexed.

  "Try adding water," said Wen Fei in a bad mood. After another night of intense mental struggle, Wen Fei decided to just pull the cement after all.

  Suddenly gaining great fame is unlucky, you have to really haul several million tons of salt over. That's called stupid, in the Northern Song Dynasty it was impossible to stay. However, hauling a few trucks of cement wasn't a big deal.

  Wen Fei pointed at Zhang Shu Ye's hands, explaining how to mix cement and use it for construction. He was also a talker, having never eaten pork but seen pigs walk. However, if he were asked to do the work himself, that would be impossible.

  Zhang Shuye was curious in his heart, but he was a talented person of the Northern Song Dynasty. Looking at this momentum, he vaguely guessed that it had something to do with building his own fort and became more courteous to Wen Fei.

  Cement is not something that can be dried in a short time, even if it's fast-drying cement, at least two or three hours are needed to see the results. Just like chatting with Zhang Shuye, he suddenly said: "I heard that Xian Shi is a true Wu Zu Shi, we also believe in Zu Shi, and now we have built a Taoist temple in Lanzhou Military Region, specifically for worshiping True Wu Zu Shi. Speaking of which, Zu Shi is the god of martial arts, my grandfather's generation has been believing in him!"

  The worship of Zhenwu Dadi has the saying that he dominates the military affairs of the world. In the beginning, he was worshipped as a god of war and water. Firstly, Xuanwu belongs to water and is the northern water god. Secondly, at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was threatened by the Khitan and Liao nationalities in the north, and in order to enhance the confidence in defending against invasion, they prayed for the protection of the great northern god Xuanwu.

  Wen Fei was taken aback, and suddenly remembered. The True Martial Great Emperor also had the Lei Department's Deng, Xin, Zhang, Tao, Pang, Liu, Bi... each of the divine generals, among whom there seemed to be Ge Tianjun, with the title of Zhongtian Main General Hu Fa Shenwang. Could it be that Zhenwu was protecting him? He shivered with a chill and didn't dare think about it anymore.

  This quick-drying cement only takes thirty or forty minutes to set. The two of them chatted for a bit, and before long the cement had dried.

  "How is this possible? It's actually as hard as stone?" Gently patting the cement, Zhang Uncle Ye revealed an unexpected expression and sighed: "Indeed, it's a wonderful treasure of the immortal family, and it has such benefits!"

  At that time, the construction technology was still very backward. The buildings were all made of rammed earth. Rammed earth refers to the process of pounding wet soil layer by layer to make it solid. Some people would even mix in glutinous rice paste as a bonding agent. Others would use egg whites or even blood as a bonding agent.

  Don't underestimate the city walls built with rammed earth, they are quite solid and almost more solid than those made of cement. For example, during the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, that madman Helian Bobo built the Tongwan City, which was made of steamed rammed earth mixed with glutinous rice paste and cow and sheep blood, and it has lasted for thousands of years without being damaged!

  However, this project is too time-consuming. You have to take the soil from the ground, and of course, sandy soil can't be used. Then you have to sift out all the large debris in the soil, lay a layer, and then use heavy objects like big stones to pound it down. The entire construction process takes a long time, far more difficult than what Xiao Yu calculated. Even if it's just building a 200-step fort, according to records, it would require mobilizing 13,000 laborers, and several months of work to complete.

  But with cement, it's different, and can be completed in just over a dozen days. Of course, Wen Fei is not possible to transport eight hundred cars of cement.

  "Good, with this thing, Tianbao will be waiting for a good day!" Zhang Shuye was overjoyed.

  Wen Fei poured cold water and said: "This thing is not considered anything in our place, but it's extremely heavy. I can't carry much at a time, you just use some cement in the key places!"

  Zhang Shu Ye was overjoyed and said: "Even if it's like this, it has greatly reduced the workload!"

  The two of them were talking at Zhang's campsite when Yanbu and his men came over. Upon seeing Wen Fei, they said: "Witch doctor, do you still have the knives and guns you mentioned last time?"

  Wen Fei hadn't spoken yet, but Zhang Shuye's heart skipped a beat as he asked, "What are you going to use the knife and gun for now?"

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