Liu Bei left, Zhang Fei followed him, Jian Yong also left quietly, and Tian Lei and his entourage who usually came to Shanjun for "sponsorship" also left.

What to do with the rest?

Of course, farming.

March 4th.

Li Mengxi went to inspect the city and outside it.

In the city, infrastructure construction has begun.

Due to the war, Julu City was in a mess, and there were not many good houses left in the city.

Now that the weather is warm and the soil is easier to dig, we can start building a soil-based house.

The dilapidated Julu City can no longer be dilapidated, and the messy city can no longer be in a mess. However, there is a saying that after the great destruction, there will be great establishment.

Julu City was in dilapidated condition, so it was completely postponed from the ground up.

Li Mengxi didn't understand city planning, but he had a powerful craftsman under him who could build city walls and was proficient in surveying.

This powerful craftsman was able to build and measure everything, but he couldn't figure out how to build the most comfortable and clean city. And Li Mengxi knew this.

The city has been cleared. There are ruins all over the city. After more than ten days of vehicles driving in and out, the city is completely clean.

On this day, Li Mengxi inspected everywhere. He saw that there were criss-crossing checkered marks sprinkled with white ash everywhere. In many places, long poles tied with cloth strips were inserted. These lime marks were consistent with the long poles.

The poles are the handiwork of the city builders and are marks left by measurements.

Li Mengxi turned from east to west, from west to east, and inspected a full circle. He was very sorry that many facilities could not be built due to lack of technology and resources. For example, Li Mengxi wanted to divert the river into the city and then use it to provide

There is also a source of drinking water for irrigation, but when I asked the locals in Julu, they said that water used to come into Julu City, but the water has dried up for decades.

There is no way, there is no water, so the city can only rely on those wells for water.

In the overall planning of the city, Li Mengxi considered the location of the barracks, residential buildings, schools, and various necessary production facilities such as blacksmith workshops, carpentry workshops, papermaking, charcoal burning, etc., plus residential buildings, markets

, markets, warehouses, and so on, Li Mengxi found that there was not enough open space in the city.

Li Mengxi also thought about moving some buildings outside the city, but he considered a problem. Considering whether it was iron smelting, papermaking, or military training, Li Mengxi considered that all these technologies were related to the military, and he had to participate and take care of them at all times.

The technical centers are all in the city, making it easy to inspect nearby. If they were built in the city, running back and forth every day would be a waste of time.

Also, based on the consideration of technical confidentiality, it is better to keep the technical center confidential if it is built in the city than outside.

If we continue to consider the war, if the iron workshop is built outside the city, then once the enemy besieges the city, the iron workshop will be outside, and the city will lose all its ability to repair and produce weapons.

Considering the need to defend the city, Li Mengxi felt that considering the worst-case scenario, the worst-case scenario is that one day the army is defeated and the troops and many people have to retreat into the city. Then, there must be enough people in the city.

living conditions.

Regarding living, Li Mengxi thought of firstly reforming the way of living, which could increase the density of living by using beds on three floors above and below, and secondly, increasing the utilization area of ​​land per unit. To put it simply, building high-rise houses with two or even three floors

storey house.

However, Li Mengxi learned that the difficulty and cost of building multi-story houses are much higher than that of ordinary houses.

The cost-effectiveness is too high, which directly blocks the necessity of building multi-story houses.

Unable to exert force at a high altitude, Li Mengxi thought of building the house as compactly as possible.

Li Mengxi ingeniously designed a cross-shaped house. This kind of cross-shaped house is a large house with four rooms back to back, that is, the four middle walls are shared.

In this way, for every four houses built, four walls will be saved on average.

If you ask Li Mengxi if there is a more efficient way to save materials, the answer is, yes, honeycomb. According to scientists, the hexagonal honeycomb of bees is the most scientific and most economical construction method of building materials.

Li Mengxi considered building a hexagonal house, but when he considered the difficulty and trouble of construction, he simply gave it up.

In the planning, there are no separate rooms in Julu City. All rooms are large rooms. All rooms are at least four rooms, distributed back to back in a cross shape from east to west, north to south. This is to make the walls as common as possible and improve construction efficiency as much as possible.

Save man-hours.

Compared with ordinary people, Li Mengxi has extremely high requirements for quality of life.

He required that the walls of all houses should be tall and solid. The height was to take into account the subsequent use of supporting raised beds, and for the sake of durability, he also required that all houses should have windows.

The requirement to have windows is a bit unrealistic. In the countryside, making windows is extremely cost-effective because the wood required to make them requires a lot of labor. The windows are not well made and also leak air.

In the late Han Dynasty, making windows was extremely cost-effective.

However, when Mr. Li came, the situation changed.

The people of Julu don’t know what a lake paper window is and what a window paper is.

Papermaking technology has made a breakthrough, and papermaking technology has made a breakthrough to the point where large amounts of cheap paper can be produced at any time.

Windows in the Han Dynasty were very expensive, but windows with only one frame and paper on them couldn't be any cheaper.

In addition to windows, Li Mengxi required that the floors of all houses must be smashed to a solid level.

Another technology provides assistance to house construction-burned earth technology.

According to the way of cooking in the Han Dynasty, a large urn was placed with a pile of firewood underneath, and the firewood was placed on the ground to burn. Over time, the soil on the ground burned red and hard.

The earth-burning technology is that the anti-justice army has a large number of industries that need to stew charcoal and build heat treatment kilns. There is a large amount of kiln-burning production. By borrowing these productions, some soil can be put into the kiln. In this way, along with the production,

Just tons and tons of fired clay were produced.

This fired soil will not be damp or insect-infested, and is an excellent material for bedding houses.

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Living necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation, a house for living, and aisles for walking. Taking into account the convenience of transportation and transportation, Li Mengxi compacted the house and made the aisles very spacious. The aisles are wide enough to accommodate two carts at the same time.

OK.

In Li Mengxi's plan, he had a plan to reform cooking technology.

In the future, earthen stoves will inevitably become popular with iron pots, and with it, kitchen chimneys will also become popular. Considering the reality of compact houses and scarcity of housing land, Li Mengxi used a row kitchen when designing the kitchen.

That is, there are three or five households in a large courtyard. The stoves of these three or five households are built one by one against the wall. It is enough to build a straw shed on top of the stove.

In this way, there is no need for a separate kitchen, and multiple stoves can be built using the area of ​​​​one kitchen.

Or else, Li Mengxi's requirements for the quality of life were too high. People in the late Han Dynasty could cook with just a pile of firewood in the house, but Li Mengxi required a stove, an iron pot, a kitchen, and future frying and cooking

A bunch of delicious food.

Bedrooms, kitchens are all there, as well as a yard.

Because the houses are compact, there is not much space in the yard. Moreover, a large number of people in Julu City are blacksmiths, carpenters, papermakers and other production workers. In other words, the residents of Julu City are not farmers, but handicrafts.

population.

Based on this population characteristic, Julu residents do not need to raise large livestock such as cattle and mules. They can at most raise chickens and ducks. Raising chickens and ducks does not require much space.

When a complete residential system is implemented, a large house with three bed frames and three bed frames can accommodate a family of eight or nine people. In addition to the house, this family also has a stove and chickens.

The area of ​​​​the open space where you can pile firewood and dry clothes is roughly equivalent to the area of ​​a house.

In addition to the living area, Li Mengxi distributed public toilets among residential buildings, with an average of three to five households having one toilet.

There are also places to use water and wash clothes. The wells in the city are scattered and unevenly distributed. I asked a craftsman who knows how to dig wells. The craftsman said that there is water underneath, but some are deep and some are shallow. The water is shallow.

It is easy to dig a well in a place with deep water, but it is difficult to dig a well in a place with deep water.

Since there was water everywhere, Li Mengxi arranged wells at intervals as neatly as a chess piece.

On average, there is one well for every ten households.

Where the well is located, the space left for laundry is roughly the size of two houses.

There are often millstones in rural villages. Li Mengxi considered that the millstones took up space and were too inefficient. He planned to build a hydraulic millstone outside the city by the river in the future, grind the grain by the river, and bring it back to the city for the people to exchange.

The last item that Li Mengxi considered to be a necessity for people's livelihood was a public bathhouse. Since there was no water source, it was too difficult to support a public bathhouse by drawing water from wells. Therefore, Li Mengxi reserved the location of the bathhouse there in preparation for one day solving the water source problem.

Then start building the bathhouse.

Considering the size of Julu City, there is no need to build hospitals and clinics everywhere.

Li Mengxi divided the medical structure into several departments, leaving some in remote corners to build hospitals for wounded soldiers and hospitals for critically ill patients.

In the other part, an isolation area was established at the corner of the highest north wall of the Julu City wall. The isolation area was used to gather patients there for isolation in case of an outbreak of plague.

The reason why the isolation area was built on the north wall is because the north wall is tall and has excellent wind-shielding effect. With good wind-shielding effect, the plague will not easily spread with the wind.

Regarding the overall layout of Julu City, there are roughly three areas. On the left is a large area of ​​residential buildings. Among them, with the city main palace as the axis, there are schools, hospitals, markets, public bathhouses in the front and rear, and there are also reserved entertainment areas for people to come and go.

There are inns for business travelers and accommodation, etc. To the right of the city is the production area, with blacksmith workshops, carpenter workshops, charcoal kilns, paper workshops, warehouses for storing finished products, warehouses for storing supplies, etc.

A city is divided into three distinct parts: residential area, public facilities area, and production area.
Chapter completed!