Reborn Craftsman

Among them, Tang Guoqing happily took a puff of dry smoke and said, "Xiao Liu, I heard from the team leaders that the load-bearing beams and main structure of the main bridge will be installed today. Is this true?"

Due to age, the craftsmen who build the bamboo bridge are now called Liu Xing Xiaoliu, but they are not called the boss. Tang Guoqing is no exception.

This is because Liu Xing usually treats these craftsmen very well. Otherwise, no one would call him Xiao Liu, but would call him the boss, or the contractor.

"Yeah!" Liu Xing nodded: "In order to avoid mistakes, the pieces will not be counted in these two days. Everyone worked together to complete the installation of the load-bearing beam and the main structure arching the sky."

"What about the wages?" said a craftsman.

"Fifty a day, including room and board, if you are not satisfied, you can leave now!" Liu Xing said with a smile.

"Hahaha" all the craftsmen also laughed.

In 94, it was hard to find a salary of [-] per day with a lantern. How could anyone want to leave?

Seeing that everyone was fine, Liu Xing took out a drawing about the load-bearing girder of the bamboo bridge, and put the drawing of the combination of the pipa tenons on the arched sky on the wooden table beside him, and began to explain it seriously.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you explain or not, because most of the artisans present have not read many books and can’t understand the drawings at all. Even the team leaders Zhu Xiuqing, Wang Jiabao, Wang Afu, etc. can’t understand these drawings.

They will only do what Liu Xing said, and ask when they don't understand.

Fortunately, Liu Xing knew all the procedures of building the bamboo bridge, otherwise he would really have a headache.

However, there are also those who can read and understand the blueprints, that is, the supervisors sent by Mr. Liu. They say they are supervisors, but in fact they have no rights. They are only responsible for the supply of some special materials for the bamboo bridge.

But today, the eyes of these supervisors lit up after seeing the drawings that Liu Xing took out.

Because the design of this bamboo bridge drawing is really novel and unique.

When they were majoring in bridge construction at university, they had seen many design drawings of foreign bridges. They originally thought that the design drawings of those bridges were very advanced, but now it seems that they were thinking too much, and the design drawings of this bamboo bridge by Liu Xing are completely different from those of Liu Xing. No comparison.

Liu Xing didn't have time to worry about the ideas of these supervisors. Before he came to Xiangxi to build the bamboo bridge, he used wood to make a small structural model of the arched pipa tenon.

Now he disassembled the pipa tenon model in front of everyone, and then assembled it while explaining it. If there was something he didn't understand, he would explain it in detail on the spot.

As for the assembly plan of the load-bearing beam of the bamboo bridge, he did not talk about it, because it involved some very complicated knowledge. After these craftsmen understood the assembly method of the Gongtian pipa tenon, he had to assemble the load-bearing beam by himself.

To his surprise, as he assembled the tenon of the Gongtian pipa, all the hundreds of craftsmen around, except for a few, could understand each of them, and some of them would express their opinions from time to time, and even Some pointed out ways to save time in assembling arched pipa tenons.

Liu Xing still had thoughts about the opinions of these craftsmen, so he naturally kept them all in mind, and gave some examples to refute them when appropriate.

It's not that he doesn't like the opinions of these craftsmen, but that there are some things that these craftsmen only see in front of them, instead of looking at the overall situation.

All craftsmen can make such mistakes, but he alone can't.

Otherwise, it would be troublesome.

Fortunately, these hundreds of craftsmen have become acquainted with Liu Xing these days, and they did not argue with Liu Xing on some subjective issues, but picked up tool bags and started to work.

The first thing to assemble is the three-meter-long arched pipa tenon. This is a big guy, and it can't be lifted without five or six people.

But Liu Xing had already prepared a dozen pulleys with a steel frame structure. After putting on the iron cables, he could pull up the tenon of the Gongtian Pipa with a light pull of his hand.

But the most difficult problem now is that these large arched pipa tenons must be assembled on a temporary wooden bridge between two cliffs, not in a safe open space.

After all, when Liu Xing built the bamboo bridge, he didn't call a hoist to help.

As a result, some craftsmen began to complain, saying that it was dangerous to assemble arched pipa tenons on the temporary wooden bridge, and they would not do it if they did not increase the money.

Liu Xing smiled, and ignored the demands of these craftsmen, but asked Wang Jiabao to take a few apprentices to assemble the tenons of the Gongtian pipa first, and he took Wang Afu, Sikong Lei and other dozens of people to use them to fix them on the temporary wooden tenons. The pulleys on the bridge began to assemble the load-bearing beams.

The material of this load-bearing beam is all high-quality golden nanmu. Although it was not very famous and valuable in 94, some craftsmen could still recognize it.

When they saw that the bamboo bridge cost such a big price, they all sighed.

But if you let them know that these golden nanmu were given by a mysterious old man, Liu Xing didn't say a penny, I'm afraid they will be even more envious.

Once the installation of the load-bearing beam starts, it cannot be stopped, because the load-bearing beam has some mortise and wood structures, which must be carried out simultaneously with the mortise and tenon of the Gongtian Pipa.

That is to say, the assembly progress of the arched pipa tenons can be a bit slower, or even shut down, but the assembly of the load-bearing beam must be completed in one go.

It was a pain for Liu Xing, braving the scorching sun, he worked from morning to three o'clock in the afternoon before eating, and then only drank a bowl of herbal tea, and continued to work overtime with Sikong Lei and others to assemble the load-bearing beam.

It doesn't matter if other people don't know how to assemble, and it's okay if they don't know the principle of mortise and wood joints. As long as they work hard and obey Liu Xing's command, the progress of the load-bearing beam will go up.

At sunset on the evening of the third day, the main structure of the load-bearing beam of the first one-way road was finally assembled with the efforts of Liu Xing.

From a distance, the beauty of the mortise and tenon structure is everywhere.

However, the assembly of the load-bearing beam was successfully completed.

However, there was a problem with the assembly of the arched pipa tenon. It turned out that when the arched pipa tenon was made in advance at the market, one of the key tenons was forgotten.

A lot of craftsmen say that it’s okay, one more tenon and one less tenon should not hinder the main structure of the main bridge.

When Liu Xing heard this, he lost his temper on the spot.

He doesn't like to scold the craftsmen who make the tenons of the arched pipa.

But you can scold Zhu Xiuqing. After all, Zhu Xiuqing is in charge of quality. Now that such a problem has arisen, it is natural to be held accountable.

Zhu Xiuqing cried on the spot when she was scolded, but she didn't hold grudges against Liu Xing because she knew that building a bamboo bridge was not making a dustpan, and if she made a mistake, she would not only lose money, but also the bamboo workshop reputation.

Seeing Liu Xing's vicious look, those dawdling craftsmen immediately shrank their heads and went to work.

As for the mortise that I forgot to open, I had to work overtime overnight to fix it.

This time no one dared to mention wages.

After all, they were the ones who made this mistake, and Zhu Xiuqing's taking the blame for them was already the utmost benevolence.

And after this incident, no one dared to raise wages any more, because Zhu Xiuqing's quality control was much stricter, and even if there was something wrong, she would ask for rework.

Those who are disobedient will be fired directly, and get out with pay.

Liu Xing saw this scene in his eyes and didn't say much.

Because in his heart, he felt that Zhu Xiuqing's approach was right. If there was no good quality control in the construction of the bamboo bridge, it would be too late to make up for it if something happened later.

But there is also a big disadvantage in doing so, that is, many of the hundreds of craftsmen can't stand such strict quality control. In two days, more than 20 people left.

For these people who left, Liu Xing didn't take it seriously.

Just ask Zhu Xiuqing to continue recruiting.

Anyway, the hot summer is coming soon.

At that time, the orders for bamboo mats will definitely be huge. No matter how many people are recruited, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, they will not be afraid of having nothing to do.