Chapter 1,784 The Ecstatic Officials

Zhao Shu was a little lazy after returning from the Northern Expedition and always wanted to take a good rest.

It's just that others can rest, but the emperor cannot, so he took this opportunity today to go out for a walk.

It's sunny outside!

He went back to change clothes, and the ministers went back to the political hall to change clothes.

"Um... Xiren." Zeng Gongliang changed into a green shirt and turned around to show it off, "How about it?"

Men and women alike, no matter how old they are, like to be complimented by others.

Bao Zheng glanced at him and said, "My stomach is too full."

Zeng Gongliang patted his belly and sighed: "I'm getting older now. If I'm not fat anywhere else, I just have fat belly. I can't help it."

Han Qi is here, and the one with a big belly... is not big, but a circle.

The feeling of a bucket waist.

"What are you talking about?" Han Qi stared at Zeng Gongliang's belly as soon as he came in, and then said with a strange smile: "I remember when Zeng Gongliang said that there was meat in his lower abdomen, why did you pay six yuan...how many yuan now? "

Zeng Gongliang raised his head and smiled bitterly: "We have already become one."

Han Qi burst out laughing, "No, no, no, it's ninety-nine. Hahahaha!"

A group of prime ministers and ministers laughed happily, just as Zhao Shu arrived. When asked why they were laughing, I was a little confused.

"I have become a bit heavier in the past few years, and I have eaten less, but it's a pity that it's useless."

He really wanted to go back to the time when he was as light as a swallow and could eat anything without getting fat.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry." Han Qi said confidently: "Look at how strong I am."

Zhao Shu looked at his 'burly' figure, the corner of his mouth twitched, and said against his will: "Yes! Han Qing is strong and strong."

Han Qi said proudly: "I can't ride a horse, so I drive a chariot. I'm not bragging. Back then, I drove a car to chase the Liao army and learned the secret of the integration of man and chariot..."

Han Qi just showed off all the way until he arrived at Wuxue Alley.

They came all the way along Yu Street, and when they arrived at the intersection with Wuxue Lane, they happened to see Wuxue on the right.

The shouts of killing in the martial arts school rang out all day long, but for the first time, no one was interested in listening, and instead looked at the road in front of them.

Gray avenue.

"What's this?"

Zeng Gongliang was a little curious and even stretched out his foot to step on it a few times.

"It's so hard!"

He stepped on it a few more times.

Han Qi's reaction was more direct, and he stamped his feet when he went up.

"Ouch!"

Han Qi's body is self-important. How much force you give to a hard object will be how much force it will give you back.

Han Qi moved his sore ankle and looked around, "It's all paved with stones?"

Zhao Shu also tried it and was surprised.

He regretted it a little and felt that the Imperial City Department should be asked to keep reporting on the road construction process.

There was no one on the street, except for a wooden shelf in the middle with a notice on it.

"Don't step on it, or you'll lose money."

Zhao Shu smiled and said: "Han Qing and Zeng Qing broke the rules."

Han Qi said: "These are all stones. My ankles are sore from the shock. Why don't you let them go?"

"Shen An is here."

Shen An came from the left, followed by a group of students.

"I've met the officials."

Everyone saluted, and Zhao Shu couldn't wait to ask: "Why is this stone paving so smooth? There is no gap at all. How is this done?"

"Stone?" Shen An shook his head, "Guan Jia, this is not a stone, but cement."

"Cement? What is cement?" Zhao Shu was puzzled.

"Cement..." Shen An found it troublesome to explain: "Cement is made by grinding something into powder, then calcining it, and finally it is mixed and laid."

"That's it?" Zhao Shu felt that he had been deceived.

"yes!"

"What kind of material is it?" Zhao Shu stepped on it a few times and felt it was really good.

"Just some stones...and slag. There are mountains of slag piled up in Izumo Temple..."

Shen An said it very naturally, but Zhao Shu frowned and said, "That's all?"

Some stones and slag can actually produce the same effect as stones?

Zhao Shu shook his head slightly and said, "Come and give it a try, gentlemen."

Everyone walked up and felt that the first step was very stable.

"Well, it's a tough road."

Han Qi learned the Yizhou dialect and pressed his heavy body on the road.

"It's very solid."

Zhao Shu felt more and more something was wrong.

"This road...can it withstand being crushed by a large car?"

This question is what everyone wants to ask.

Zeng Gongliang smiled and said: "Just use some stones and slag to pave the road. How long will it last?"

Whenever something new comes out, doubts always follow.

Shen An felt a little lonely, no, he was alone and seeking defeat.

This is cement, something that future generations will see wherever they go.

Whether it is a house or a road, cement can be called the steadfast friend of mankind. As long as you are in the city, you can see this friend when you open your eyes.

But in the Song Dynasty, cement showed up for the first time, like a shy girl who had not yet lifted her veil to reveal her peerless appearance.

Shen An said as he walked: "This Lu Chen first asked people to shovel away the original soil, then laid a layer of gravel, and then crushed it..."

After Zhao Shu listened to his introduction, he felt that there was nothing novel about it.

"I remember that dirt roads also have to be paved, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty is well-read and well-read, and I admire him." Han Qi actually flattered people today, which made people look at him with suspicion. "I remember that I saw them building roads back then. They also had to crush them, and there were many more. Crushed once."

"The dirt road can only be like this. Remember the capital city of the former Tang Dynasty. Whenever it rained, the streets turned into a quagmire. Alas!"

"But what Shen An did is obviously very good." Bao Zheng, the No. 1 heavy blower in the Song Dynasty, came online. "Guan, look at how solid the road is. It can be said to be seamless. I think this is the best. road."

Bao Zheng swore that he had traveled all over the country and had never seen such a real road except for those stone roads. He looked at Shen An with pity and whispered: "Did you spend a lot of money? Hey!"

He felt that Shen An had used money to create this path.

"It cost a lot, but it's okay." Shen An still looked like a rich man.

This is not a highway, so there is no need to build any structures. The only extra cost is gravel and cement.

The gravel needs to be pounded, there is no way around it. I remember that earlier that year, there was this business all over the country, which was to recruit some workers, each with a hammer, to break stones.

I was able to do it then, and now it’s even better.

"Don't say anything next." The older Bao Zheng gets, the more boundless his thoughts become. "Let the officials provide the money when the time comes."

Bao Zheng glanced at Zhao Shu, "Just say that this road is the first cement road in the capital, and you don't dare to specialize in it..."

Shen An understood.

This world belongs to the Lao Zhao family, and the Lao Zhao family has to do everything for the first time.

Then the cement road is naturally the same.

Then use this as an excuse to cheat money.

Mr. Bao is indeed hiding his secrets!

But Shen An refused.

"good!"

"The human body is just light. What if it is run over by a big car? Will it vibrate?"

"It's hard to say, I'm just afraid that the big car will directly cut off the road."

This is a good insight. In the future, crushing by heavy vehicles will indeed be a fatal injury to concrete roads, but now...

Where is the heavy truck?

Where are the overloaded trucks with dozens of tons in future generations?

At present, it is considered a big deal if a so-called heavy vehicle weighs one ton. Such a heavy vehicle can crush deep ruts on a dirt road, but it is just a joke on a cement road.

Below is a foundation of crushed gravel, and on top is a concrete pavement. A one-ton vehicle...

hehe!

That's a joke!

Shen An smiled and said, "How about... try it?"

A thousand words are worth a demonstration. It's a mule or a horse. Let's pull it out and run around.

Zhao Shu nodded, "I want to see it too."

Shen An was already prepared and ordered: "Let Anxiang's motorcade come."

There was the sound of a whip whipping to the right, and then the motorcade came.

"What are these big cars loaded with?" Han Qi put his hand on Zeng Gongliang's shoulder, and Old Zeng almost stumbled.

"It's all alcohol. One jar weighs two hundred kilograms. It contains eight jars. Plus the weight of the cart, it weighs at least one thousand seventeen or eight hundred kilograms."

Everyone is watching the large convoy coming.

"Will it be crushed and broken?" Zeng Gongliang muttered.

Shen An smiled and waved over there.

"Hurry up!"

The leading carriage sped up.

A group of heavy vehicles are accelerating, that feeling...

Shen An had seen more in his previous life, so he didn't feel much, but Zhao Shu and others were like old haters, staring at him.

The heavy vehicle rolled over, and the ground... didn't even feel any vibration.

Isn't this right?

Han Qi winked and bumped Zeng Gongliang with his shoulder, asking him to ask Shen An.

But what kind of figure is he?

With just such a bump, Zeng Gongliang jumped out as if he had been hit by a big car.

Zeng Gongliang turned around and glared angrily.

outrageous! Zhao Shu coughed with a straight face, and Chen Zhongheng asked: "Why didn't the road surface vibrate?"

Shen An said calmly: "Because it's not heavy enough."

Chen Zhongheng was almost angry to death at these words, "It's almost two thousand kilograms, isn't it heavy enough?"

"Four or five thousand pounds is nothing." Shen An suddenly felt that everything in front of him was boring.

This is just an ordinary concrete appearance. If rails are made in the future...

That guy weighs not just a few thousand kilograms, but hundreds of thousands of kilograms. Do these monarchs and ministers think it is a divine weapon?

Chen Zhongheng glanced at him, and his eyes seemed to say that Shen An was bragging.

"Get up!" Han Qi was most sensitive to speed. When he saw the carts starting to accelerate, he couldn't help but get excited.

The large convoy began to accelerate, and Zeng Gongliang said in surprise: "Those horses can pull it with ease? Officials, when the army goes out, those horses pull the baggage to follow, and it is so slow that it makes people anxious. If you rush faster, it won't take long for the horses to pull. He was sweating profusely, and his whole body was white with breath... But why are these horses so relaxed?"

Zhao Shu also discovered this problem, but Han Qi first glanced at Zeng Gongliang with disdain, and then said ecstatically: "Guan, this is because the road surface is smooth!

Think about it, if the roads in the Song Dynasty were so smooth and solid, it could only pull a cart weighing 500 kilograms, let alone a thousand kilograms. The place that originally took ten days to reach can be reached in five or six days. Calculated in this way... Guan Jia, how big a benefit is this? "

Zhao Shu murmured: "If you carry a few hundred kilograms more, you can run easily and fast. How much food can you save?"

When the army goes out for an expedition, the baggage is the first priority, but the baggage has to be transported up. The speed along the way is so slow that the general in charge of the army wants to kill people. That's not even a big deal. The cost of eating horse chews for people along the way is so great that it can make the three commanders want to commit suicide.

And all of this has something to do with roads.

The dirt road is uneven and full of potholes. How can we get up quickly?

The dirt road was too soft, and it became rutted when heavy vehicles rolled over it, making it slower and slower.

When it rains, the dirt road turns into a quagmire, and the big car will get stuck in it, making it impossible to walk...

There are so many problems that cannot be solved in thousands of years.

But today Zhao Shu saw a solution.

His eyes were shining brightly, and looking at the concrete road was like seeing the avenue of governing the country.