Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The salt mountain of more than 2000 shi gave everyone confidence. The sale and transportation of salt is naturally handed over to Yuelai Commercial Bank. The salt must be transported to a part of Chang'an by water, and the rest can be sold to Longyou Road nearby. And go to 36 countries in the Western Regions for sale.

After leaving the salt lake, Li Daozong ordered [-] soldiers to be stationed near the salt lake, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. All the soldiers stationed in the Western Regions, you are guarding your own money.

Hearing this, all the soldiers almost screamed, what a joke, His Highness paid all their soldiers, this is an unprecedented situation, this is the first time for Datang, although they can't go home for the time being, but His Royal Highness said that these military salaries can be sent back for free for everyone, which means that even if they are not at home, they can still support their families!

Even if the family does not need them to raise it, after all, the family has a field.

Bitter is bitter, but where do they have any complaints?You must know that before stationing on the frontier, there was no military salary!People need to know how to be content and be grateful. His Highness not only feeds them, but also finds ways to feed those soldiers who have been discharged from the army due to war injuries. How many soldiers are there in the world?

Even the imperial court can't afford it, but His Highness is trying to find a way, can they not be grateful?It's just that all the soldiers don't know how to speak, and they have no culture. They can only keep this kindness in their hearts silently.

On the third day after seeing the Salt Mountain, the cavalry led by Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, and Qibi Heli rushed back to Chihai.

Li Shimin's order to the three came along with Li Jing's [-]-mile rush, Qibi Heli's soldiers were going back to Longyou Road, and he himself was going to Chang'an and then back.

As for Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun, like Li Daozong, they were stationed in Xizhou.

With the return of the two of them, it also means that the current leadership team of the main administrative organization of Xizhou is considered complete. Qiao Shiwang is still on the way, and it will take at least seven or eight days to arrive. There is no way, the ancient times are very slow, Moreover, many roads to the Western Regions are not easy to walk.

After they came back, Li Ke held the first executive meeting of Xizhou.

Cough, Li Ke came up with the name of the meeting, because it will be the norm in the future.

For this reason, Li Ke deliberately made a long and large table from the space, and placed it in a large tent that was built separately.

The Duhufu of the Western Zhou Dynasty is being built simultaneously with Chihai City. It uses stone + concrete foundations plus masonry structures, and reinforced concrete is used for the roof. It is not easy to make steel bars now, and it is necessary to continuously let the hot steel pass through a holes, and pull them into steel bars, which can pull out long lengths of steel bars, and the quality is also good.

Another way is to pour molten steel directly through the mold to make steel bars, but the quality of the steel bars produced by this method is definitely not as good as that produced by pulling.

But it doesn’t matter, the ancient buildings are not skyscrapers, the tallest building in the entire Chihai Sea is the Duhu Mansion other than the city wall. The current structure of the Duhu Mansion is only three floors, and the reinforced concrete made by the mold is enough. .

The steel bars pulled out are mainly used in the construction of the city wall. The top of the city wall is 4 meters wide, and it is required to be able to run horses.The city wall is in the shape of a right-angled trapezoid as a whole, and the outer part is perpendicular to the ground.

The base of the city wall is 8 meters wide and 11 meters high, with a total circumference of 1 meters.Naturally, such a thick city wall cannot be made of reinforced concrete, that would be too extravagant.

The city wall adopts a sandwich structure. The inner and outer layers are reinforced concrete. The outer vertical part is a reinforced concrete structure with a thickness of 1 meter, while the inner part is a reinforced concrete structure with a thickness of about 60 cm. The remaining part in the middle is a traditional loess ram. The construction method is completed, that is, the selected clay is exposed to the scorching sun, then mixed with cement and cotton hay, and then poured into the hollow part in the middle, and then compacted!

In fact, the traditional loess ramming is not cement, but glutinous rice juice and other things to increase the viscosity, but now there is cement, so there is no need to add glutinous rice juice.

In fact, the inner and outer parts of the traditional city wall are built with special green bricks, which are even more durable than reinforced concrete. However, it is too difficult to fire the green bricks, and the requirements are very strict, and if there is a problem, the whole furnace of bricks is discarded. Moreover, the firing cycle of finished blue bricks is very long.

If the city was built in the traditional way, the cycle would be too long. The typical city built in this way in later generations is Jiayuguan, which is still intact in later generations.That is, it took 168 years to build the city!

But Li Ke's speed is fast. Now the concrete structure on the west and north sides of the entire city wall is almost one-third complete, and this progress is still accelerating.

Because the number of pit furnaces for firing cement in the cement factory is increasing, the amount of cement being fired is naturally increasing.

Similarly, the steel output of the steel plant here is getting higher and higher, which is why this progress has been made.

When Xue Wanche and the others came back, everyone was dumbfounded. They were the ones who shot down the area near the Chihai Sea. Of course they knew that the Chihai Sea was originally a grassland, but how long have they been out?In less than a month and a half, the walls of this city have been completed so much!

Even though there are tens of thousands of people working here, the progress is too fast!too scary!If there is such a speed, is it possible that Datang will not be able to handle these nomads?Putting such a strong city on the grassland, it would at least guard a radius of a thousand miles!

Those Turkic people have nothing to do with such a strong city!

After inviting these people over, Li Ke sat down on the main seat, and Li Daozong and others took their seats one after another.

Even Lu Hai, Jiang Feng, Li Yan, Li Xin and Li Ke were called, but they didn't sit at the table, but sat on the chairs next to them, so they could listen in.

Along with them, there are also some captains below.

"Okay, the first executive meeting of the Xizhou Protectorate's Mansion is officially held! Come on everyone." Li Ke stretched out his hands and applauded with a smile.

Everyone's expressions were a little weird, but Xizhou Li Ke was the boss, so naturally the boss would do whatever he said.

So everyone naturally stretched out their hands and started chirping.This quack, quack, chirp is too vivid, and everyone naturally understands what it means.

But this way of meeting... is really novel. Everyone is gathered around a table, and there is a cup of tea in front of everyone on the table.

"Come on, come on, let me just say a few words." Li Ke said with a suppressed smile.

Everyone is a little weird, I don't know what Li Ke is laughing at, and it's not normal to say a few words.

The main reason is that other people can't get Li Ke's point, hey, lonely, Li Ke can only cheer himself up, so it's good to come up with some forms of later generations, at least to make him not so lonely.