Daming pirates
Chapter 84 Road construction begins
Once these roads are completed, no matter if there is a problem anywhere within the jurisdiction of Tamsui City, people and materials from other places can easily and quickly reach the accident site. At the same time, it will also greatly increase the flow of materials in Tamsui City.
Provide favorable conditions for continued expansion of the territory in the next step.
Although this kind of road would not be considered wide in later generations, in this era, it is definitely considered a Sunshine Avenue. Even the post roads between cities in the Ming Dynasty on land are far from such a width. Some important
The width of the post road is not even less than two meters. A post road with a width of one meter is considered a good road.
Most of the post roads on land are just a solid road surface rolled out on the land with stone rollers. It is neither paved with sand or gravel, nor paved with stone slabs. It is just a dirt road, and there is no maintenance at all.
There are no drainage channels on both sides of the post road. When walking on the post road during drought, one foot is deep and the other is shallow, full of floating soil. The ancients received friends and said they would wash away the dust. In fact, it is very vivid. After walking on such a road,
They didn't even have enough food to eat, and all the passers-by looked shabby.
Over the years, this kind of road has been run over by pedestrians and vehicles, and the road surface will gradually degrade. Over time, it is said to be a road, but in fact it is more like a ditch. Once it rains, the road will become a ditch. In addition, there is no
People maintain it, and there are potholes everywhere, which have been crushed by vehicles. On rainy days, the road is simply a series of mud pits. It's hard to walk even if you walk on it, which is a compliment to them.
It’s no wonder that military operations were very difficult in ancient times. The preparation time for a large-scale battle was very long. Sometimes it took even a year from the decision to launch troops to the actual launch of troops, and the shortest took three months.
Time will make the difference.
In addition to the procrastination of bureaucrats, the difficulty of traveling on the roads is also a very important reason. War requires supplies, and all kinds of supplies must be gathered at the starting point. The roads are really not strong enough. If it rains a little, it is basically impossible to leave.
, so the material preparation time takes a long time.
Even after finally preparing supplies and starting to march, the army's movement speed was as slow as a snail. When Yu Xiaotian was reading or reading, he saw a lot of information about the speed of ancient marches. It was said that ancient armies marched in one day.
The distance usually does not exceed thirty miles, but sometimes it can only go more than ten miles. He was very puzzled as to why.
But after he walked on land a few times, he understood why. The ancient roads were really speechless. The movement of the army was not only for soldiers, but also to carry a large amount of baggage materials and cannons. These things must be
Relying on vehicles for transportation, it is simply impossible to go fast on such a road.
Soldiers had to build roads as they walked to clear the way for vehicles, and they had to stop and set up camp early in the afternoon. They couldn't walk very long in a day, and the roads couldn't meet the large-scale transportation of supplies.
However, Yu Xiaotian is determined that similar situations will not happen again in the territory he controls. Roads are the basis of people's livelihood and are also important military facilities. Without decent roads, it is impossible. Once something happens, materials and manpower will be scattered.
It is difficult to mobilize quickly, let alone respond quickly.
In the Ming Dynasty, the northern slaves and the Ming army fought in a mess. The northern troops were never very sufficient. Even at the most critical moment, the Ming court did not easily transfer the southern troops to the north. This was also because of the roads.
When the troops are transferred from Sichuan to Liaodong, it takes a long time from sending people to convey orders to the local army to receive the order and start preparations. Then it takes a long time to march again. It often takes a long time for the local army to arrive at the place where the accident occurred.
The war in the Ming Dynasty had ended long ago, so it is said that the Ming Dynasty had a large standing army. However, until its demise, it rarely mobilized troops from the south to the north to participate in the war. Road restrictions were undoubtedly an important reason.
This time Yu Xiaotian is going to make a big move to completely improve the roads in Tamsui City and completely change the previous poor traffic situation here.
The road construction project was started at the same time as the canal construction project. After nearly half a month of rectification, the previous sanitation rectification in various townships and villages has become much better. No one dares not to pay attention to their residences under the stick.
The sanitation situation has improved. Every village has access to clean drinking water, and sewers for drainage have been dug. Sewage no longer flows across the village, and puddles in many places have been filled in, improving the environment around the village.
In addition, after preliminary mobilization, each village has also begun to make preparations for building water canals. The construction planning drawings responsible for each village have also been distributed to each village. It does not matter if the people in the village cannot understand it. Tamsui City will send people to
In their village, they can use white ash to draw lines on the fields and let them carry out construction according to the lines drawn with white ash.
As for the excavated earth, in addition to being reinforced and tamped on both sides of the ditch to form embankments, the excess earth is used to fill in some low-lying areas, and is also piled along the road to be constructed.
Nearly a thousand hard laborers from the hard labor camp and slaves purchased from various places were gathered together, and nearly 200 chicken buses were distributed.
In addition, a large number of newly delivered shovels, pickaxes and rattan and bamboo baskets have also been put in place. The stonemasons in the quarry have also used the huge stones they quarried to carve out more than a dozen large stone rollers as a means of rolling the road.
use.
According to the original plan, these hard laborers were divided into six groups, and construction started in six places at the same time. Basically, they were not equipped with animal power, and all had to be completed by manpower.
To this end, a squadron of more than 200 soldiers was dispatched to guard and supervise these hard laborers and slaves, and there were also personnel responsible for planning and recording work to assign tasks to these hard laborers and guide them in construction.
Before the road construction project officially started, Yu Xiaotian had already carried out experimental construction on the road leading to Chuanliao outside Tamsui City, in order to train some supervisors and prepare for the next large-scale construction.
The road construction standards designed by Yu Xiaotian actually copied the construction styles of later rural roads. Due to limited funds and financial resources, many rural roads in later generations did not use cement or asphalt for paving. They also used local materials.
Pure manpower is also used 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 rural roads has been compacted and rolled, and it must be paved with a layer of gravel or slag.
Sand, at least there won't be a lot of mud when it rains.
Therefore, under limited conditions, he could only make do with simplicity and adopt this road construction method.
According to Yu Xiaotian's plan and requirements, two drainage ditches must be excavated on both sides of the road. The excavated earth will be piled on the road as a foundation, and lime and sand will be mixed into it to turn it into three-component soil.
Use tamping methods or repeated rolling with stone rollers to completely compact or compact the roadbed.
After the roadbed is compacted, a layer of slag, gravel, or sand is also spread on top of the roadbed. Lime is also mixed in and crushed thoroughly.
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 be drained away. There will be no accumulation of water on the road, and there will be no continuous damage to the road.
destroy.
As for the slag, Sea Wolf doesn't have a lot of slag at the moment, but a lot of waste slag will be discharged from the iron melting furnace, which can be directly used to pave roads, and it will avoid being piled everywhere and occupying farmland.
In addition, there are also a lot of slag and waste products in brick and tile kilns and porcelain kilns. These can be used for road construction. They can be transported directly to the road, crushed with stone rollers and spread on the road. The crushed bricks and tiles are then mixed with the powder of the porcelain pieces.
After adding some lime, it still has a water-hardening effect, which is similar to soil cement, but actually better.
In short, many problems have been solved this time. Many wastes that had no place to throw away before have become treasures and can no longer be disposed of casually. They need to be transported to the road construction site and spread on the road for use.
In order to solve the problem of manpower, Yu Xiaotian asked some colleagues who had cooperated with them in the past to increase the intensity of transporting slaves to Hailang in the near future, so as to bring more slaves over and put them into road construction.
But it sounds simple, but it is still difficult to build a road. Even if Yu Xiaotian sent people to make some preparations in advance, including carving stone rollers, making chicken buses, and preparing a large number of tools,
Bamboo and rattan baskets are difficult to build in some places because of the abundance of stones.
So Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to use some engineers who specialized in blasting among the soldiers to invest a large amount of gunpowder and carry out blasting operations in order to open up roads in some places. Otherwise, he could only send masons to carve bit by bit.
Then I don’t know that these roads will be built until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse and the Moon.
Road construction is heavy physical work. Although the lives of slaves and hard laborers are not valuable, they are bought with money or effective labor force. They cannot be wasted casually. Otherwise, if the road is not completed, people will be exhausted.
It's almost done, but it's not very cost-effective. After all, there will be a lot of work to do in Tamsui for a long time to come.
So Yu Xiaotian asked for some more food for these coolies. Although it was not too nutritious, two meals a day of brown rice was enough to satisfy them, and salt was provided for them. At least it ensured that they had the physical strength to work and would not be rigid.
After working for a few days, they were exhausted in batches.
Following Yu Xiaotian's order, several road construction sites immediately began to get busy. The supervisors who had just undergone simple training shouted loudly on the construction site, assigned tasks to the coolie foremen, and told them
What to do and how to do it.
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