Chapter 2218: River Valley City established

The latest website: "We found a camp of a big tribe ahead! They did not clashed with us!" Li Guoying got a piece of news near a forest.

"How many people are there?" Li Guoying asked the cavalry.

"There are at least three thousand people!" the cavalry replied.

There are a lot of people, so it's a big tribe.

Africa's productivity is lagging behind, and it does not involve farming, and depends on the natural production of the land for its livelihood. Thousands of people living together are considered to be large tribes.

"Does the officer know what to do?" Li Guoying asked.

"Yes, they handled it as ordered!" the cavalry said.

The chief of the troops who went out sent an officer and took a gift to the tribe’s camp to visit the chief there. I hope everyone will be friendly.

On the road to the gold mine, don't fight all the way through. The first enemy is the white skin, and the second is the black skin.

The gifts that were given were all detrimental, including exquisite silver tea sets, tableware, as well as sweets, cigarettes (with a lighter), rum, and clothes made of tea and silk.

The gifts are carefully prepared. As long as the tribes eat and open candies, smoke cigarettes, drink rum, and make tea, once they become addicted, they will be tricked by the Chinese.

If you want to continue eating after eating, you have to come to the Chinese!

If you want to take it, give it first, and you are not afraid of losing money. We have these things in China!

Nowadays, Yan Changwu strongly advocates the development of productivity and everyone consumes. Therefore, material is the richest era in the history of all dynasties.

Not only can it meet the needs of the domestic people, but it also continuously dumps it abroad.

As long as the road to trade is open, the Chinese will be able to gain an advantage, and they are not afraid that foreigners will not cooperate.

Sure enough, the local chief accepted the gift. After eating and drinking, he greeted the Chinese with a smile, and the Chinese were unimpeded in his area.

Li Guoying’s troops built a fortress every 100 li, and stopped when they walked halfway, that is, five hundred li. At the confluence of the two big rivers, they started to build a big city with the wings of the two rivers. , Called "River Valley City"!

This city will serve as a transportation hub and an important support point. It is a city of more than 2,000 steps. It is much larger than the small villages and castles in the white skin, and it is larger than the castles built along the road.

Compared with Chinese cities, River Valley City is not a big city, but it can be regarded as a large-scale city in the military city. In accordance with the practice of building cities in the middle of the country. If the perimeter of the walled city reaches 900 steps, it is called a city; if it reaches 900 to 500 steps, it is called a village; and if it is less than 500 steps, it is just a fort; if it is less than 100 steps, it can barely be regarded as a beacon tower. .

The city, the stockade, and the fort each have their own rules and regulations, and the buildings, warehouses, yamen, and military arrangements inside are all different. As a military city, the ordinary city is nine hundred steps and one thousand steps. The maximum is only one thousand and two hundred steps. When converted into li, it is only three miles away and less than four miles away.

On the way to the gold mine, the South China Army has built a thousand steps in the military city every 100 miles. Now it is a city of 2,000 steps. It has a circumference of six or seven miles. It can be stationed with more than five thousand soldiers, and there are also in the city. Square cities, hotels, military camps, and the subsequent transportation of gold mines will make it prosperous.

The construction of the city adopted the traditional Chinese ancient city construction method, using the three technologies of rammed earth, slab construction and adobe!

When the Chinese were building the city wall, they first filled the soil with a round basket, and then tied it to the basket with a rope. Finally, two people lifted the basket full of soil with a pole, and transported it to the city wall step by step, and then tamped it layer by layer. , The city wall was built in this way.

Rammed earth fortification can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. For example, Zhengzhou City Mall was built in layers. During the Warring States Period, the tall earth platforms in the city were made with rammed earth technology, such as Huangongtai and Xiematai. It is also known that the soil is mixed with lime noodles to make the city stronger.

The second is the plate-building technology, which is to divide the retaining wall with wooden boards and then ramming it.

In the process of construction, it is not difficult to solve the problem if there is a lack of wooden boards. Craftsmen often use rope pulling methods. The two sides of the vertical poles are tightened with ropes to prevent the wooden poles on both sides from swelling when ramming the soil . The most classic is the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. The city wall was built using plate-building technology. The city wall was built with plate-building technology. The thickness of the city wall is generally two to three meters.

Then there is the adobe. The adobe is artificially made, such as the brick mode. The adobe is larger than the brick and can be built into a wall. In short, the adobe is similar to the brick, but the current brick is fired. Otherwise, adobe has already appeared in primitive society.

As far as buildings are concerned, adobe is always the main body. Today, many tiled houses in rural areas use adobe. Don't underestimate the houses made of adobe. Many houses will never collapse after thousands of years, and they can withstand rain and snow. Corrosion, even with anti-ballistic properties, warm in winter and cool in summer, cold and heat insulation.

A step further than the soil embryo is that the outermost wall of the city wall is made of bricks, and the bricks are all roasted, so that the built city wall is stronger and will not collapse even if it goes through heavy storms.

The South China Army used rammed earth, slab construction, and adobe technologies for the fortresses on the way to the gold mines. But here, they found lime ore and yellow mud clay in the hills ten miles away. An important building material, lime can be used in many ways, and yellow clay can be used to make bricks!

The soldiers didn't know the so-called, but the officers knew very well that the country's intelligence service had come before. It was incredible.

According to the previous imperial laws, the Chinese could not cross Mogadishu in Africa. How could they come here to explore and find lime ore and yellow mud clay?

Can you still find such a good place to build a city?

The terrain is dangerous, there is water for water, and it can be attacked and defended, which is extremely beneficial to the initial development of the city.

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The military naturally did not know that apart from the Chinese intelligence agents, there were also Indian intelligence agents and white-skinned intelligence agents. At that time, because the two Chinas were shining like lighthouses, they were attractive and rich, and attracted a lot of foreign intelligence Serving the Chinese!

The army and the civilians worked together to build the city. They built dikes along the river, digging in the hills, building brick kilns, and preparing to burn bricks.

They entered the dry season in South Africa, which is conducive to work, otherwise it would be difficult to carry out any work in the rainy season.

Even when they have free time, the Chinese reclaim wasteland by the river and prepare for farming. At least they have enclosed the land, planted rapeseeds, and started growing vegetables!

Grain, dried meat, dried vegetables, and dried fruit jams can be shipped, but no Chinese will refuse fresh vegetables, so grow vegetables, grow vegetables!

In the hard work, the embryonic form of a city soon appeared. This full-blown scene fell in the telescopes of two white-skinned Hesselinck and Van Nistelrooy in the bushes on the other side of the river, shocking them!