On February 21st, the tenth year of Tianxuan, while Kong Ming, Xuande, Bi Sheng, and Yan Qisheng were all in Lian Dao, Qu Mao set off early in the morning with these men, as well as Nan Li and Mu Desheng, on horses, towards Lian Dao. Depart from Green City in the southwestern area of the island.
About a week ago, the owner of Green City sent a message to Qu Mao, wanting to invite Qu Mao to visit a newly repaired seven-story building in Green City.
The reason why Qu Mao was invited to see a seven-story building was mainly because under the past construction techniques in King Yi's territory, the highest floor that could be built was a four-story tube building. Gamification protection, otherwise, it would be impossible for every four-story tube building in Yiwang's territory to be successfully built.
The seven-storey building in the green city is a tube building built by the construction workers in the early days of King Yi's territory. If the building is further designed and constructed, if it is approved by the system or Qu Mao, it can be used as the latest building in King Yi's territory. With breakthroughs in construction technology, more seven-story buildings like this can be built on King Yi's territory in the future.
Qu Mao was very impressed with the past four-story tube building. Each floor was a passage, and there were independent rooms on both sides of the passage. At that time, this kind of tube building was designed mainly to solve the problem of the number of soldiers in the self-built military camp. The problem.
Of course, the main reason for this design is that the walls of each house must bear a certain load-bearing role, otherwise it would not be able to support the existence of high floors such as the third and fourth floors.
Fortunately, once this kind of tube building was built, it was approved by the cheating system and the birdman system, and the construction drawings were solidified. Currently, most of the school dormitories, military camp dormitories, and factory dormitories in Yiwang territory use this kind of tube building.
From the description of the lord of the Green City, Qu Mao is more interested in the seven-story building, because each floor of the seven-story building in the Green City is not cut into fragments by load-bearing walls, which means that once the load-bearing is still OK, then Qu Mao will be able to transfer the current factory workshop in King Yi's territory to a higher floor and ask for space in the air, which means that more factories can be built on the 15 islands in the holy land of King Yi's territory.
On the way to Green City, Qu Mao also introduced the newly built seven-story building in Green City to Kong Ming, Xuande and the four leading scientific research figures of the younger generation in King Yi's territory, and also talked about the importance he attaches to this breakthrough in architectural technology s reason.
Before the seven people walked into the city wall of the green city, they saw the seven-story building, because the city wall of the green city had only three steps, and the height was between 9 and 10 meters, and the whole of the seven-story building The height is definitely more than 22 meters, and it can be clearly seen outside the city wall.
When entering the green city, the city lord of the green city had already greeted Qu Mao and others at the gate of the city. Under the leadership of the city lord of the green city, Qu Mao, Kong Ming, Xuande, Bi Sheng, Yan Qisheng, Nanli and Mu Desheng walked straight there. Below the seven-story building.
This seven-story building is not very big, only about 20 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 22 meters high, but it certainly cannot be regarded as a small building, but when Qu Mao came downstairs, the birdman system or The cheating system didn't even give a hint, so it can only be defaulted that this seven-story building is not yet recognized by the system.
There are 15 islands in the Holy Land of King Yi’s territory. Except for the seven-story lord’s hut, there are no such tall buildings. Even the magic communication tower standing in the front yard of the lord’s hut has a total height of only about 15 meters. The one-story building is much shorter.
Qu Mao went directly to the wall of the seven-story building, reached out and knocked on the wall, then took out a dagger and stabbed it in vigorously, then shook his head, and said to the Lord of the Green City: "Oh, I originally wanted to take a good look at it. Let’s take a look at this building to see if it can increase the industrial density of our holy land in King Yi’s territory, but now that I see this wall, I think I’m thinking too much, this seven-story building is still not strong enough.”
Our construction workers use bamboo strips as bones and composite soil as flesh, and tamp them down layer by layer. There is no problem at all in building a nursery on the seventh floor..."
Qu Mao waved his hand, interrupted the city lord of Green City, and said, "How much does a nursery weigh? How much does a lathe weigh? It's not the same.
I think: We already have lime and river sand in King Yi's territory, and these materials are everywhere. We only need to get the cement out, and then we can try to make concrete.
The iron and steel industry has been developing very fast in recent years. At that time, steel bars will be used as the bone and concrete will be used as the flesh. Building reinforced concrete buildings will be called solid, and only then will I be able to meet my demands for space from the sky..."
The lord of Green City hurriedly took out a pen and paper to record what Qu Mao said. Kong Ming, Xuande and the four scientific researchers had already taken out a pen and paper to record it with ease.
Qu Mao had no choice but to continue: "The process of cement should be somewhat similar to that of lime, and I don't know very well. However, if you hold a stone and burn it vigorously, you can always burn cement, but I don't know what kind of stone to burn.
If you have time, you can organize some people to conduct experiments, and it should be done soon.
I think that if the reinforced concrete is developed, Xuande, I suggest that you methodically promote the innovation of all the factories in the Holy Land of King Yi's territory. Don't do it all at once, come one by one, and gradually replace it under the premise of ensuring production capacity.
Think about it, now our workshops are all on one floor. If we can build a seven-story building, and each floor can be arranged as a factory workshop, wouldn’t the total number of our factories in the Holy Land be expanded sevenfold?
This doesn’t require you to consider building a new military industrial park on the main continent, right? ..."
Xuande's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote a few words in his notebook, saying, "My lord, when I turn around, I will organize people to study cement and concrete."
Since Qu Mao, Kong Ming, Xuande, etc. have all come to Green City, it is natural to climb up the seven-story building to see it in person.
After climbing down from the seventh floor, Qu Mao was full of praise for the building. Although the walls were still not solid enough, there were only eight columns on each floor in this building, which completely solved the load-bearing problem.
And it has been supporting the height of the seven-story building. On each floor, soil is also laid for nursery cultivation. Although it is not as heavy as the factory's machinery and equipment, the weight should not be underestimated.
So after returning to the ground, Qu Mao said to the lord of Green City: "This breakthrough in architectural technology is still of positive significance. You need to study it further. This means that the holy land of King Yi's territory can accommodate more people in the future."