Chapter 84 Begins Road Construction

Once these roads are completed, no matter where there is a problem in the jurisdiction of Tamsui City, people and materials from other places can easily and quickly reach the scene of the accident. At the same time, it also greatly improves the speed of material flow around Tamsui City, providing favorable conditions for the next step to continue to expand the territory. .

Although this kind of road is really not wide in later generations, it is definitely a sunny road in this era. Even the post road between cities on land and Daming is far from reaching such a width. Some important post roads are even less than two meters wide, and a one-meter-wide post road is a good road.

The post road on the land is mostly just a solid road surface on the ground with stone, which is neither sandstone nor stone slabs. It is just a dirt road, and it is not about maintenance.

There are no drainage channels on both sides of the post road. When it is dry, I walk on the post road, with one foot deep and one foot shallow, full of floating earth. The ancients received friends and said that it was actually very vivid. Walking down such a road, you can't eat less soil, and each pedestrian is gray-faced.

This kind of road has been run over by pedestrian vehicles for many years, and it will gradually reduce the road surface. Over time, it is said that it is a road, but it is actually more like a ditch. Once it rains, the road will become a ditch. In addition, it is no one to maintain it. The road is run over by vehicles is full of potholes. On rainy days, this kind of road is basically A series of mud pits praised them when they said it was difficult to walk.

No wonder military operations were very difficult in ancient times. A large-scale battle took a very long preparation time. Sometimes from deciding to move troops to really start troops, it took a long time or even a year, or three months at the shortest.

In addition to the delays of bureaucrats, the road is also a very important reason. Materials are needed for war, and all kinds of materials must be concentrated at the place of departure. The road is really weak. With a little rain, it is basically impossible to walk, so it takes a long time to prepare materials.

Even if it is difficult to prepare supplies and start to march, the army's movement speed is as slow as a snail. When Yu Xiaotian read books or surfed the Internet before, he saw a lot of information about the speed of the ancient march, saying that the ancient army's march distance in a day generally did not exceed 30 miles, sometimes only If he can walk more than ten miles, he wonders why.

But after walking on land several times, he understood why. The ancient road was really speechless. The army not only acted as a soldier, but also carried a large number of heavy materials and cannons. These things must be transported by vehicles. If you want to walk fast on such a road, it is impossible at all. Yes.

Soldiers have to build roads while walking, open roads for vehicles, and stop to camp early in the afternoon. It really won't take long in a day, and the road can't meet the large-scale delivery of materials at all.

However, Yu Xiaotian is determined that a similar situation can no longer occur on the territory under his control. The road is the foundation of people's livelihood and an important military facility. It is impossible to have no decent good road. Once there is something to disperse materials and manpower, it is difficult to quickly mobilize, let alone react quickly.

The northern Jiannu and the Ming army in the Ming Dynasty fought in a mess, and the troops in the north have not been sufficient. Even at the most critical moment, the Ming court did not easily transfer the southern army to the north, because of the road.

It takes a long time to transfer troops from Sichuan to Liaodong. During this period, it takes a long time to send people to receive orders and local troops to receive orders to prepare, and then march. It often takes a long time to wait for local troops to go to the place. The war in the place where the accident has already ended, so the number of standing army in Daming is not Few, but until its death, it rarely transferred troops from the south to the north to participate in the war. Road restrictions are undoubtedly an important reason.

This time, Yu Xiaotian is going to make a big move to completely rectify the roads in Tamsui City, and completely change the previous situation of poor road traffic here.

The road construction project started at the same time as the canal repair project. After nearly half a month of rectification, the previous sanitation in each township and village has become much better. No one dares to pay attention to the sanitation of their residence. Each village has drunk clean water and dug drainage sewers. There is no sewage flowing in the village, and water pits in many places have also been filled, improving the environment around the village.

In addition, after the early mobilization, the villages also began to prepare for the construction of canals. The construction planning drawings responsible for each village were also sent to the villages. It doesn't matter if the people in the village can't understand it. Danshui City sent people to their village and draw lines for them with white ash on the field and let them follow the white The gray drawn line can be used for construction.

As for the excavated earthwork, in addition to strengthening the dam on both sides of the ditch, the extra earthwork is used to fill some low-lying places, and also stacking it along the road to be constructed.

Nearly 1,000 hard laborers in the camp and slaves bought everywhere were gathered, and nearly 200 chicken buses were distributed.

In addition, a large number of newly shipped shovel picks and rattan baskets and bamboo baskets have also been put in place, and the masons in the quarry have also carved out more than a dozen large stones with the mined boulders to crush the road.

According to the initial plan, these hard laborers were divided into six groups and began construction in six places at the same time. They were basically not equipped with animal power and all had to be completed by manpower.

To this end, a squadron of more than 200 soldiers were also assigned to supervise these hard laborers and slaves, as well as personnel responsible for planning and recorders to assign tasks to these hard laborers and guide their construction.

Before the official start of the road construction project, Yu Xiaotian had carried out experimental construction on the road to Chuanliao outside Danshui City to train some supervisors to prepare for the next large-scale construction.

The road construction standard designed by Yu Xiaotian actually copied the construction style of rural roads in later generations. Many rural roads in later generations did not use cement or asphalt to pave the road because of their limited funds and financial resources. They are also local materials and almost used pure manpower to build roads, but The roads built are basically dirt roads.

But even the most backward rural roads in later generations are much stronger than the main roads here now. At least the roadbed of the rural roads has been compacted and crushed, and it will be more or less covered with gravel or slag sand. At least there will not be much mud on rainy days.

Therefore, under limited conditions, he can only adopt such a road construction method.

According to Yu Xiaotian's plan and requirements, two drainage ditches must be dug out on both sides of the road, and the excavated soil must be piled up on the road as the foundation, and mixed with lime and sand to turn it into three-in-one soil, and then repeatedly crushed by ramming or stone to completely compact or compact the roadbed. .

After the roadbed is ground, a layer of slag, gravel, or big sand can be laid on the roadbed, and it is also mixed with lime to completely grind.

The cross-section of the road is curved, so that even if it rains heavily, the rainwater will immediately flow into the ditches on both sides and drain away. There will be no accumulated water on the road, so that it will not cause continuous damage to the road.

As for the slag, there is not much slag of the sea wolf for the time being, but there will be a lot of waste residue from the melting iron furnace, which can be directly used to pave the road, which also saves the piles everywhere and occupies farmland.

In addition, there are also a lot of slag and waste in brick and tile kilns and porcelain kilns. These things can be used to repair roads and be transported directly to the road. They are ground with stone and ground on the road. After mixing some lime, there is also a water-hard effect, which is similar to earth and cement, but it is better.

In short, many problems have been solved. Many wastes that had no place to throw away before have become treasures. They are no longer allowed to be dealt with casually and need to be transported to the road construction site to be paved for use.

In order to solve the problem of manpower, Yu Xiaotian asked people to inform some colleagues who had cooperated with them before. Recently, they have increased the efforts to transport slaves to sea wolves and get more slaves to invest in road construction.

But it's simple to say, and it's still difficult to build roads. Even if Yu Xiaotian sent people to make some preparations in advance, carved stone, made chicken buses, and prepared a large number of tools, bamboo baskets and rattan baskets. Some places are still difficult to build because there are many stones.

So Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to use some engineers who specialize in blasting, put in a large amount of gunpowder and carry out blasting operations to open the roads in some places. Otherwise, he could only send masons to carve a little bit, so he did not know that these roads would be repaired until the year of the monkey.

Road construction is heavy physical work. Although the lives of slaves and hard labor are worthless, at least they are bought by money or effective labor, and they can't be wasted casually. Otherwise, if the road is not repaired, it will almost exhaust people to death, and it is not very cost-effective. After all, for a long time to come, freshwater There is a lot of work to do.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian asked to add some diet for these coolants. Although it is not too nutritious, brown rice is almost enough for them to eat two meals a day. Salt is provided for them to eat, at least to ensure that they have physical construction and will not be exhausted in batches after working for a few days.

With Yu Xiaotian's order, several road construction lots immediately began to work. The supervisors who had just received simple training shouted loudly on the construction site and assigned tasks to the foreman in the coolies and told them what to do and how to do.