Chapter 42


    They understood building houses, but what on earth was cement?


    Was this thing used for building houses?


    Why had they never heard of it?


    Upon seeing their expressions, Lin Beifan knew what puzzled them and chuckled, Cement is indeed used for building houses! Its a product synthesized by mixing iron g, quicklime, and y after calcination!


    Using cement to build a house, if done quickly, can take only three to four days to harden, and its sturdiness is no less than that of our imperial pcepound. Understand?


    The two of them gasped in astonishment.


    A house can be built in three to four days, and its sturdiness isparable to the imperial pcepound?


    How is that possible? Stop joking around.


    I know you dont believe it, but soon you will understand!


    Lin Beifan handed over the freshly written paper to Heshen, instructing him, Follow the method outlined here and immediately organize manpower to produce cement, the more the better! Once the cement is made, I will teach you how to build houses!


    Yes, Your Majesty! Heshen respectfully received the paper filled with writing.


    Although he still had many questions in his mind, seeing that the emperor did not wish to borate, he refrained from asking further.


    The tasksmanded by the emperor, no matter how trivial, were of great importance.


    After returning, Heshen quickly gathered his people and, following the instructions on the paper, produced cement.


    Additionally, in ordance with Lin Beifans requests, he also made many brick molds.


    Three dayster, Heshen entered the pce once again: Your Majesty, the cement and molds have been made!


    Lin Beifan put down the fruit in his hand, pped his hands, and said, Good, then lets start building the house now! Call some craftsmen over, I will teach them how to use cement to build houses!


    Half an hourter, Lin Beifan and the others arrived at an open space outside the city.


    Watch carefully, I will only teach this once!


    Yes, Your Majesty!


    Everyone bowed and obeyed.


    First, mix the sand and cement together, it must be thoroughly mixed!


    After the sand, stone, and cement are fully mixed, pour in water and stir until even! The ratio of sand, stone, cement, and water is


    The resulting slurry is poured into molds to form mud bricks!


    After these mud bricks are dried, they be as hard as ourmon red bricks and green bricks and can be used for building houses!


    Of course, during this process, Lin Beifan was mainly just talking while the people below were busy working.


    A day passed, and the main task of the day was the production of mud bricks.


    Once they are dried, they can be used for building houses! The sun has been shining brightly these past two days, so they should be ready to use the day after tomorrow!


    On the third day, Lin Beifan came again.


    The mud bricks have dried and can be used to build houses! You are all skilled craftsmen, so you should know how to build, right?


    The only thing to mention is that this mud can be used as an adhesive between the bricks, and its very strong


    Under Lin Beifans guidance, the craftsmen began to build the house with the mud bricks.


    In about a days time, they had finishedying the four walls.


    Let it dry for a day, and once the cement ispletely dry, we can start constructing the roof!


    Two dayster, Lin Beifan came again and found that the cement in the walls hadpletely dried, bing extremely hard.


    Now we can put up the roof! Install the beams, and after the beams,y the cement boards


    The workers carried several long and thick wooden beams, cing them into the notches above the walls to form the horizontal beams.


    Then, theyid the pre-dried cement boards on top of the beams.


    Look, isnt this a big and sturdy house thats been well-built? Lin Beifan said with a smile.


    Everyone was very astonished.


    Really its been built!


    And it only took 5 days! Such a fast construction speed!


    Yes, the usual construction time takes about 10 days to half a month, but now its done in 5 days!


    A miracle! No it should be called a divine feat!


    Lin Beifanughed and said, Actually, it could be even faster because we spent two days making cement bricks! If we had the cement bricks ready to build the house, we could have built the walls on the first day, let them dry on the second day, and put up the roof on the third day. It could have beenpletely built in just three days!


    Everyone nodded repeatedly, utterly astonished in their hearts.


    At that moment, Heshen arrived in front of the cement house, pulled out a knife, and chopped down with a bit of force.


    The result was that the structure remained unscathed.


    Then he exerted twice as much strength, only to find that it still could not be prated.


    Next, he used three-tenths, four-tenths, five-tenths of his strength


    It wasnt until he used six-tenths of his strength that he managed to leave some marks.


    But his knife had already be notched.


    Heshen eximed in amazement, Such a hard wall! This humble servant had to exert 60% of my strength just to leave some marks! The robustness of this wall is no less than that of the walls of the imperial pce courtyard!


    Really? Is it that sturdy?


    Then I, too, shall give it a try!


    Everyone took turns trying and found that, indeed, as Heshen had said, the house was extremely sturdy.<hr>


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