What Shi Lei cares most about is undoubtedly the progress of the construction of the earthen building. He has been worried about this thing for a long time.

The part of the ground building was carried out in an orderly manner under the command of the contractors under Shen Xing.

The speed at the beginning is also quite fast. After all, the main materials of the building are stones. You only need to choose the right position, build them together, and add a small amount of three-combination soil to fill the gaps, so it takes relatively less time to use them.

But I really started to build the main part by relying on three-combination soil, and the speed inevitably decreased.

First of all, Shenxing has very strict requirements on soil quality. He chose clay, fine sand and lime that he thought was the highest quality and most met the requirements for building a building. He also carefully selected the materials.

The reason why the location of the earth building was chosen in the current place was also considered to facilitate the acquisition of these large amounts of raw materials. Otherwise, with the current transportation conditions and the use of such huge amounts of earth building, just collecting the materials would take too much time.

Even though it is very convenient to use, the preparation of the three-piece soil is also a time-consuming task. It is not that these three things can be simply mixed together, but that these three raw materials must be mixed in a certain proportion, and constantly refined and flipped with bamboo slices or wooden mallets, and then stacked for a period of time to merge and age.

In particular, lime and loess have an evolutionary process from raw to cook. The length of the stop time must be grasped before the mixture has hardened, and it varies for several days or dozens of days, and then it is purified and turned again. The more times such purified, the better the effect is.

Shenxing can be mastered by both proportion and wetness, because the last wall of those large tombs is also the last line of defense used to protect the coffin. It usually has the components of three-combination soil, Shenxing is naturally extremely familiar with this thing.

However, the time required is not transferred by human will. The time it should be spent cannot be paid at all. Especially when Shi Lei made up his mind to build a solid building that could be passed down to future generations, such main materials must be perfect, and there is no rush to move in any case.

Relatively speaking, the underground part, which is huge, is built faster. Those truly trustworthy workers are good at work, and they are all working hard for the head of the family. As for Shi Lei's transformation, they are no worse than any engineering machinery, and their physical strength can keep up.

If Shi Lei hadn't strongly requested, they would have almost worked overtime day and night. In the underground where there was no light, the boundary between night and day was not very obvious. Their perception had been affected, and they were all based on whether they were tired or not as the criterion for whether they needed to rest.

The underground here is mostly soil layers, which is more convenient to dig. They also have a large number of good helpers, some pangolins that have also been transformed by Shi Lei, are in front of them as pioneers, and these loyal subordinates are more cleaning up the earth dug out by the pangolins.

Moreover, they started construction at the same time as the large project outside. The digging of these earths are basically used clay, which is consumed as one of the raw materials for the three-dimensional soil. There is no need to worry that others will notice that they have built huge tunnels through the throughput of the earth. It is also a way to win multiple goals in one fell swoop.

Since the Tulou is also under orderly construction, Shi Lei can rest assured about a private matter in Guangzhou. Then he will explain the official business clearly, leave a few guards, and continue to train those subordinates. Shi Lei can temporarily withdraw and go back to Chang'an with his own caravan.

Of course, he needs to ask for leave from the governor first. After all, he is a banish official who has been arrested by the military and government. The respect he should have must be given in place. It is obviously inappropriate to not tell others about work matters like this. If he really wants to give Shi Lei a charge of dereliction of duty, he has no idea.

However, this old man was still as enthusiastic as ever. He approved Shi Lei's request for leave without a match. Shi Lei's feet were still in Chang'an, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong and others were as optimistic as ever to Shi Lei, so Shi Lei's return was nothing more than a matter of time.

Probably all I need is an opportunity to make contributions, which can be regarded as giving His Majesty an excuse to get him back. The governor still hopes to have a good relationship with Shi Lei and to return to his brothers, so that he will not keep in this corner.

Although he made a lot of money, he didn't even want to spend it. More importantly, he is an ideal and ambitious person. He really wants to have some real achievements. He doesn't want to live a life of retirement in such a place and live a retirement life in advance.

With official approval, Shi Lei's trip became even more open and honest. After waiting for the shopkeeper to count the goods, Shi Lei, who had already returned home, couldn't wait to embark on the return journey with the caravan. It has been too long since he saw Cheng Chuyue and Xiao Shiyu, and I don't know what the mother and mother are now.

Under Shi Lei's repeated urging, the speed of the caravan increased a lot. Fortunately, the caravan purchased the goods this time, there were no fragile products such as ceramics, so there was no need to be too careful.

Although the ceramic industry in Guangzhou has made great progress in scale and technical level after a certain development, the main manufacturing of export porcelain is still incomparable to the top porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, and there is a huge gap between the top porcelain made by Shi Lei's family.

Such things obviously do not meet the requirements of the Shijia shops that have always taken the high-quality route. It would be a bit unworthy for the Shijia caravan to transport some porcelain of this level to the Shijia caravan. On the contrary, the porcelain and purple clay tea sets that the caravan transported over were sold out in Guangzhou in a short time.

The caravan purchased more of the local advantageous raw materials in Guangzhou, such as rhino horns, ivory and tortoiseshell, which are all popular luxury goods, which are more in line with the positioning of Shijia shops. Various pearls and seafood are also popular.

However, this time the transportation capacity is more used to transport a lot of seafood ingredients. Sea cucumbers and abalone, traditional eight treasures, must be indispensable. Dried octopus is also a rare good thing.

There are also many other ingredients that can be used to enrich the dishes in our restaurants. For example, Shi Lei specially renovated the stone clams and frogs that Shi Lei likes the taste very much. He wants to get it to be popular even if he wants it.

Elephant pulling is not too rare here, otherwise where would so many ivory come from? But transporting it to Chang'an is an amazing top-notch ingredient.

In addition, there are also pigs with treasures all over their bodies, which are the Yangtze alligators who protect later generations. Many of them were dismembered. Of course, they had to keep the skins for their own homes and make them into high-end bags to earn the money of those noble ladies and rich men.

The meat cannot be wasted. It tastes good to make it into jerky meat, and it is even better than beef jerky. Shi Lei has been used to eating this thing recently. He just took a piece of it and stuffed it into his mouth to chew it. By the way, he also found some feeling of being a hero. Because of this, heroine Huo Yuanjia in later generations, didn’t he just like this thing the most, and was assassinated by the Japanese.

Of course, the things Shi Lei must be eating are all pure natural, non-toxic and harmless, not the kind of stuff that has been added.

The claws of the crocodile are said to have a good whitening and firming effect, full of collagen, which is easier to use than pig hands. It is also good to bring more back to Cheng Chuyue Meimei.

Who makes Guangzhou City have no shortage of crocodiles? From the smallest crocodiles to the large number of crocodiles, there is really a lot of them. There is no need to worry about killing too many things and not enough. This is also the reason why I am confident that I will open a new crocodile leather series of leather goods, and I don’t have to worry about the source of goods.

The second batch of special silks produced were often stuffed into the car. This thousand acres of mulberry forest is indeed powerful, and the production volume is large and fast enough. In the future, we must take good care of it as an important source of wealth for our family.

Finally, the main purpose of this trip was. Shi Lei brought all the pearls contributed by the big octopus, including the largest peerless treasure. Even the giant clam produced was transported together, and it could be used as a temporary safe. This thing is heavy and sturdy enough, and it just happened to find a good container for these pearls.

Only by bringing them all to Chang'an can we further discuss countermeasures, and the guards there are stronger. Guangzhou City is still not as solid as its own family, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!