Chapter 24 Gains and Losses
It is always a long time to plan for the future. Chen Jian just thought about it temporarily and there are still a lot of things to deal with in front of him.
Winter is coming soon, and the problem of wood has been temporarily solved. Even if there is no river, I will use the solution to solve the problem of wood transportation.
The mine cave has also been built into a prototype. A total of two deep pits were dug as the entrance to the mine, and the distance supported by the wood is also extending day by day.
These tribesmen not only tried to get slaves to work earlier in order to improve efficiency, but also learned to dig wells during work. This is of great significance to the development of cities. In the future, several villages must be arranged in the north and south of the Caohe Valley, and there is not necessarily a river water.
The engineering volume required for wooden structure wells is too large, while the wells of brick and stone structure need to be issued a coupon structure. They cannot be built after digging, but instead fall down from above and squeeze the bricks into it, which is a bit like a castle in the air.
Chen Jian just knew that he had never seen it with his own eyes. He could not figure out how to build it out for the time being, nor could he figure out how to prevent those bricks and stones from falling off.
There were only a few bricklayers with a little bit of two brushes in the city. Chen Jian didn't dare to take this risk and broke all those people into the well. Now talents are precious. Not to mention being able to order bricklayers, even those who cut wheat faster in Xiacheng are already considered talents.
The tribesmen of these mining wells did not quite understand the principle, so they could not put forward any constructive opinions and could only use wood to support and reinforce them according to Chen Jian's request.
The tribe members don’t need to dig too deeply, they just need to make a model, and the rest of the matter will be followed by slaves to continue digging into the mine veins.
The entrance of the mine was reinforced with a large amount of wood and mud, and the ground was leveled in the mine that was not dug deep, and a layer of logs was laid as the ground, but I didn't know what these logs were used for.
Chen Jian plans to have the opportunity to make some wooden bucket mine trucks in the future and save as much labor as possible. There is no technical difficulty for wooden bucket mine trucks now. If possible, it is best to use wooden rails, which can save more effort.
It’s not that it’s horses that can’t get away from the sleepers, but these slaves can push the mine cart. The knowledge on paper is shallow, and you must practice it. Chen Jian felt that it should not be technically difficult, but he didn’t know whether it could be done in practice. He might encounter more problems. All of this is just a plan for the time being. He wants to go back and discuss with the tribe members who smelted copper mines and ox carts.
After the entrances to the two mines were basically completed, Chen Jian asked his tribe members to build several houses here, and he led some people to survey the road here along the valley.
There is no road in the world, and more people walk, it becomes a road. Chen Jian saw all this happening and changing with his own eyes. After half a year of trampling by slaves carrying mines, a small path that can allow one person to pass leads to the distance.
I looked at the trend of the valley on the top of the mountain. If this road is rebuilt, it can shorten the distance of seven or eight miles.
The roads of this era are different from those of later generations. They are not flat, but concave shapes.
The middle is higher, and the two ruts are very low, just so that the wheels are in the rut. This is also the reason why the Qin unified the six kingdoms and required the same track.
Because the wheels bear most of the weight, unless the entire road is built hard, the cattle and horse carriage will definitely rut the road after walking over. Instead of constantly paving it, it is better to follow the trend and build it into this shape.
Moreover, before the horseshoe appears, too hard road surface will damage the hooves of cows and horses, which is one of the reasons why straight roads and hard road surfaces cannot be repaired.
I took a few people to measure the rope ruler. This road requires six watt-width width, and people walk on both sides and cars in the middle, and only one-way roads can be used.
The entire road to be built is about forty miles long. It is not necessary to cut mountains and build stones through the valley. It only needs to burn off the trees along the way and use the soil to cushion a little higher.
Since it has been decided to expand the scale of the mine, there must be such a way to transport the ore.
The best choice is to melt it directly here. The capital moved several times in the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the past was to find new copper mines, but that was the premise of having enough population. Now, the population and family of the city can make it impossible for the city to recover within three years by moving the capital in one go.
There are no rivers here, and the heavy metals in the groundwater must exceed the standard, and it is not suitable for cultivating land nearby. It has no advantage except being close to the mine.
The road that is forty miles long does not need to be built very hard, and it is not a huge project for a city with a population of thousands and a large number of slaves.
The fastest way is to divide the road into several sections according to the population of each tribe. Each tribe completes part of it. Sixteen tribes and more than a dozen wild tribes. Each tribe is divided into seven or eight hundred meters of road, which can be completed in one month. It can save a batch of food. As the obligation of each tribe, it will not have too much resistance.
However, this shortcoming is a long-term hidden danger. Chen Jian tried his best to weaken the rights of tribe leaders and try his best to separate and disintegrate various tribes. If this kind of thing is distributed according to tribes, it will definitely strengthen the rights of tribe leaders and make tribes closer.
Another way is to use the rights of the city leaders to recruit the population of various tribes, with 400 people as a batch, and produce public food.
Four hundred people are the limit of long-term labor that cities can support. In addition, the people who transport food and alert people need nearly five hundred people in total. Moreover, after being disbanded, these people need a certain amount of time to get in, and at least one tenth of time will make them familiar with new, similar to the organizational methods of the army.
If there is such a rotation, the entire city will not have large-scale military mobilization before the road is completed, and sufficient food and some other goods are needed from the public property as rewards for over-completed rewards.
After thinking about it, Chen Jian decided to use the second method, which could no longer allow the tribe leaders to have a certain organizational and appeal, but it would only consume a large amount of food and a certain amount of support from the tribe's people.
The disintegration of tribes is not enough to be said. The habit of family existence and family production requires a long-term process, which can only be guided and cannot be enforced, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
This ideological change cannot be accomplished overnight. It also requires the development of productivity to keep up with it and ensure that the survival of family members can be ensured based on small families: good varieties, metal farm tools, and ox plowing are necessary, or slaves are divided into families.
In this excessive process, tribes can not disintegrate into families, but use a deformed planning society under the control of city leaders and officials to quickly overeat. Planned society is a social system suitable for rapid catching up. The concentrated population can ensure the completion of some large-scale projects. Under the premise that the city is not large in size and its own city is the most advanced in technology, it is the most efficient social structure.
This excessiveness must be familiar with the new life and working methods of tribe leaders from the details of eating, drinking, water, fighting and doing work.
Chapter completed!