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"What is this?" Several people looked at Zhuge Tian curiously as he fiddled with a white board.

"Projector!"

Zhuge Tian didn’t have time to discuss the last birthday present he received with everyone before he went to Wuyin County to fight.

Then they went directly to Jiangdong, so it was the first time for several people to see this thing.

Everyone is no longer surprised by Zhuge Tian taking out some magical weapons from time to time.

I just asked curiously: "Projector? What's it for?"

"That's it..." Zhuge Tian thought for a moment and felt that it would be difficult to explain it to them clearly based on his own understanding.

"It will be fine soon. You will understand when you see for yourself."

This thing isn't difficult to install.

Once the screen is in the right position, just connect the speakers.

Zhuge Liang and his men were unable to help and could only watch from the side.

Finally, Zhuge Tian stood up straight: "Okay, it's installed!"

As he said that, he turned on the projector and the movie he watched last time began to play automatically.

It was a zombie movie that was rated 18+, and coming from the real apocalypse, he was just watching it for fun.

It's not the kind that's over 18, but... the scenes are a bit scary.

As the screen lit up, a rotten face appeared on the screen, accompanied by a shrill roar coming from the speakers.

"boom!"

Zhuge Tian felt the whole room shake.

Looking back, I was completely dumbfounded.

Because the door of the room, along with the bolt and other things, broke into pieces and fell to the ground.

"Oh my god, what's going on?" Liao Hua jumped up in fright.

"It seems... it's Zhongkang..."

Several people stared at the big hole in the door in amazement...

"Hahahaha!"

"Last time when I saw Fei Tou Man, I felt something was wrong. It turns out that Zhong Kang, such a big guy, is afraid of ghosts!"

"Alright, go get it back for him! If he gets scared and runs away from the village, that would be disastrous!"

After a while, Xu Chu was pulled back by several people embarrassedly.

"Um... I just had to pee..."

"Pfft..." Liao Hua couldn't hold back his laughter, then quickly stopped laughing: "I know, I know, I do the same when I have to pee urgently."

Several people sat down again, and Zhuge Tian also found a way to make cement at this time.

To build a city wall, it needs to be covered with bricks and stones on the outside. Zhuge Tian felt that cement would definitely be a suitable material.

After all, if you want to buy it, the ones in the system are not only expensive, but also limited in quantity.

I don’t know how many months it will take to repair this circle of city wall.

The best way is to fire it yourself during the Han Dynasty.

He just didn't know whether it was difficult or not, and he believed that he had no advantage over Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu in terms of intelligence.

That's why we called everyone here to study together. With everyone's brainstorming, we should be able to make cement faster.

More than ten minutes later, snoring sounds began to rise in the room where Zhuge Tian was showing the cement-making tutorial.

Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu looked at each other. Apart from them, only Zhao Yun was trying hard to keep his eyes open, but his head was also nodding.

Even Zhuge Tian had already closed his eyes...

"You guys...get out!"

Zhuge Liang started to chase people away, and the snoring of several guys almost drowned out the tutorial explanation coming from the speakers.

Zhuge Tian rubbed his eyes. He actually fell asleep?

This thing is too hypnotic!

A few people left the room with embarrassed smiles, just like poor students who were caught sleeping in class.

"Hey..." Liao Hua stretched lazily: "What are they talking about? I seem to know every word, but when they are put together, I don't understand a single word!"

Gan Ning nodded in agreement and said, "Don't ask us to handle this kind of thing in the future. Just let Kong Ming and the others take a look."

"That movie you mentioned at the beginning is quite interesting. You can invite us to watch it!" Zhao Yun rarely spoke, and it was obvious that he was really interested.

"Just...just call us along!" Xu Chu's voice trembled a little, and it seemed like he was holding on.

"Alright, let's leave it to Kong Ming and Yuan Zhi. Let's... grill some barbecue. A new batch of beer is brewed!"

"agree!"

"I'll get some firewood!"

Several people felt at ease leaving this matter to the two "academic masters" in the room.

When they finished the barbecue, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu came out each with a notebook.

It is densely packed with records of how to make cement.

"This doesn't look too difficult to make, but first we need to find the raw materials," Zhuge Liang said, looking at his notebook. "The raw material used in the largest amount is limestone."

He explained the characteristics of the limestone mine. Liao Hua raised the grilled fish in his hand and said, "I remember this kind of stone you mentioned. It's in Gongjiaya, Dangyang County."

"Dangyang?" Zhuge Tian nodded. Dangyang was not too far from Deng County. It was near Jingmen City in later generations.

The location is about 300 miles south of Xiangyang.

The Han River flows south, so it is not too difficult to get there.

In addition, their relationship with Cai Mao is currently in the honeymoon period, so it is not difficult to find some people to mine.

The other materials are clay and iron ore.

A lot of clay is needed to build city walls, and making cement just requires digging more soil.

As for iron ore, it is not so easy to get in this era.

However, compared to the amount of iron ore required for cement, it is not that much.

Wolong Village is rich, so it is not too difficult for them to buy this little iron ore.

"Then let's ask everyone tomorrow if anyone is willing to go to Dangyang." Zhuge Tian thought for a moment and said, "Probably seven or eight hundred people would be enough for Xingba's fleet to make a trip."

"Well, even if the fire isn't enough, it'll still take a long time to build the city wall. We can just dig while we're at it!"

The traditional method of firing cement is not too difficult.

Grind limestone and clay together to make raw meal.

Next, the raw material is calcined until it is partially or completely melted, which is called clinker.

Finally, cement can be obtained by grinding the clinker with iron powder or iron slag.

Zhuge Tian and the others don’t need to worry about labels or anything like that, as long as it can be used.

If you get some river sand from the river, you can stick the bricks together.

As for bricks, Zhuge Tian and his friends planned to buy them in Xiangyang.

In the Qin Dynasty, there was already a very mature brick-making technology.

Isn’t there a word called Qin bricks and Han tiles?

A few people assigned the tasks, and Gan Ning led people to Dangyang to dig limestone.

Liao Hua went to buy some iron ore.

Xu Chu stayed near Wolong Village and led people to dig clay in preparation for the city wall and the firing of cement.

Zhao Yun was going to Jiangdong with the letters from the one thousand miners he brought back this time.

At first, the miners thought they would work here for a year and then go back.

But after coming here and seeing the life in Wolong Village, I changed my mind.

Anyone who wants to go back is a fool. Of course, we should bring our family here and live a good life!

Many miners even can't wait any longer.

Zhuge Liang and others helped write the letters.

Wolong Village wanted to build a fortress, but felt that they were short of manpower.

If these miners could call their families over, it would greatly speed up their progress.

This was the case with Niu Si and Yu Dashan, two miners who were close to Deng Zhong in Jiangdong.

"Brother Zhong, let's not go to your house!" Niu Si said a little embarrassedly.

"That's right!" Yu Dashan nodded. "Since we came here, we've been paid for our work. We're embarrassed to keep going to your house!"

"When we save up some money, we'll treat you and your sister-in-law to a nice meal."

"Okay, both of you, stop being polite to me!" Deng Zhong said with a smile, "Today is our eldest brother's birthday, so I called you over to celebrate."

Talking about his children, Deng Zhong's face is full of smiles: "Our Deng Ai can crawl now, hahahaha!"

After hearing Deng Zhong say that it was their child's birthday, the two had no choice but to agree.

When we arrived at Deng Zhong's house, Deng Zhong's wife had already prepared a table full of dishes.

After a few people sat down, Niu Si asked anxiously, "Brother Zhong, when will there be any big work to do?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Yu Dashan nodded and asked, "When can we bring our family over?"

Now it is not spring yet in Wolong Village, so spring plowing has not started yet.

Usually these people just do odd jobs in the village.

Although there is salary and food is provided, it is not too much.

So both of them were anxiously waiting for the village to arrange some big work for them.

"Hey!" Deng Zhong poured a bowl of beer for both of them and said proudly, "You two really asked the right person. I called you here today because I wanted to tell you about this."

Deng Zhong is an active person. He has risen to the position of team leader in Wolong Village, so he is naturally well-informed.

"The village is about to start building the city wall..."

"Where should we go to build the city wall?" Niu Si and the others still didn't understand.

"Let's repair it in our village!" Deng Zhong pointed outside and said, "Start from that crooked tree over there, and go all the way to the mountain behind."

"Let's surround the entire Wolong Village. From now on, our Wolong Village will become a fortress."

"Really?" The two looked surprised.

With city walls, we feel safer.

The two became more anxious to bring their families over.

"Hey, this can't be fake. All of us team leaders have received missions today."

Deng Zhong picked up a pickled pig ear with chopsticks, chewed it with a crunching sound, and then took a big sip of beer.

"The selection will begin tomorrow, so I don't need to hide it from you."

Deng Zhong stretched out his fingers and recounted the several tasks he had to do this time.

"These are basically big jobs, so the wages are naturally higher."

"What do you two want to do?"

Niu Si hesitated for a moment and said, "Actually, if I had to say what I want, what I want most is to follow General Zilong to bring my family over."

"But... I'd better go dig in that limestone mine."

When Zhao Yun went to pick someone up, of course he had to bring some local people with him, otherwise what if people didn't believe him?

"Me too!" Yu Dashan nodded and said, "I want to go mining too."

Because the wages vary according to the difficulty of these tasks, mining limestone in Dangyang is the most difficult, so the wages are the highest.

The second thing is to stay near the village and dig clay.

The two felt that it would be better to save more money so that they would feel more at ease.

They both have elderly parents and young children, a whole family.

"Row!"

Deng Zhonghe and the other man clinked their glasses and said, "Everything we do in our village is basically voluntary. Only when there are more people can we choose one."

"You two both have a lot of strength in your bodies. Even if you have to choose someone, you will definitely be the one to choose."

As Deng Zhong was speaking, he felt someone pulling his belt from behind. Turning around, he saw it was his youngest son Deng Ai.

He happily picked up Deng Ai and wanted to put his face against him.

"Your beard pricked him!" Deng Zhong's wife was not happy and snatched Deng Ai away.

"Hey, don't you like my beard the most?"

"What... nonsense are you talking about?" Deng Zhong's wife blushed and kicked Deng Zhong.

This made Niu Si and Yu Dashan burst into laughter.

Sure enough, the next day, Zhuge Tian and others gathered everyone together.

After asking for everyone's opinions and making a rough distribution, more than half of the people in Wolong Village left.

Of course, those who stayed behind were not idle either. They started planning to dig a moat first.

The mud dug out from the moat is just enough to build the city wall.

When the time comes, we can bring in the water from the Yu River.

Xu Shu was actually opposed to digging a moat at this time at first because the weather was still a bit cold.

In his opinion, excavating this frozen soil now would be more efficient.

However, Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Tian both thought it was feasible, so he no longer objected, but he was always curious about what Zhuge Tian and the others would do.

That morning, Xu Shu had just prepared breakfast for his mother when he heard a loud noise outside.

Out of curiosity, Xu Shu opened the door and saw a tall colorful monster passing by his door.

There was another person sitting inside, who else could it be but Zhuge Liang?

Zhuge Liang sat in the cab of the heavy truck with a smug look on his face and said to Xu Shu, "Yuanzhi, you must come up and take a look."

Xu Shu climbed up stupidly as Zhuge Liang said.

Not only him, many people who later came to Wolong Village did not know the existence of this heavy truck.

However, everyone had occasionally seen Zhuge Tian’s pickup truck, so although they were shocked, they were not scared.

"We... still have such a big... car?"

Xu Shu looked around and found that the place where Zhuge Tian's courtyard used to be was empty.

"Hahaha, you didn't expect that, did you? This is actually the house my clan brother lives in. When he needs it, it can turn into this magical artifact called a heavy truck!"

Zhuge Liang looked proud of it.

"Since there is such a divine weapon, why..."

Before Xu Shu finished speaking, Zhuge Liang interrupted and said, "Why didn't it use it on the battlefield?"

"We'd like to, but heavy trucks can't run on these roads. Also, they need to be exposed to the sun for a sufficient amount of time before they can run."

Although Xu Shu didn't understand, he was deeply shocked.

"But there are no problems near the village. That's why the roads in our village are wide and hard."

Zhuge Liang patted the steering wheel, acting like a seasoned driver: "With this heavy truck, my brothers and I can start digging the moat right now."

This heavy truck cannot be used as an excavator.

But it can loosen the soil just like plowing the land.

Only Zhuge Liang drove the heavy truck in front to turn the soil.

Then Xu Chu led his men to move the loosened soil to the side.

Zhuge Liang sat in the driver's seat, changing his usual calm and steady demeanor and shouting loudly: "Sit tight, go, go!"