The Turks are actually relatively leisurely all year round because their main job is to grazing. After each of these Turks transplanted alfalfa into their own land this year, they don’t have to worry about the forage this year, and their work is much simpler!

When it comes to grazing, you can just hand over the cattle and sheep from several families to one person to grazing, and even the cattle and sheep from a village to a few people to grazing, and the rest can come out to work.

Currently, there are about 100,000 Turks, and the population gathering near the Huoci River has exceeded 70,000.

As Annu and his friends began to recruit workers, and when they heard about working for their leaders, countless Turks began to gather here, leaving their homes with their women, old men and half-aged children, and almost all the strong laborers arrived here.

From 15 to 40, Turkic men, who were about 30,000, gathered here.

Annuo and his team quickly allocated these Turks, and it was impossible for them to work in the Industrial City. The current Industrial City cannot accommodate so many people, and the entire Industrial City can currently accommodate only about 3,000 people.

However, since the rest of the people were here, Huo Gang simply did not let them go back. Instead, after careful consideration, he began to build the road directly.

Because as the blast furnace and open furnace of Industrial City gradually began to be successfully built, the population of Industrial City is increasing, and the roads between Industrial City, Yangguan and Yumenguan will inevitably be larger and larger. Now Huo Gang cannot create asphalt pavement, but the concrete pavement is enough.

The main purpose is to build the roads between Industrial City and Yangguan and Yumenguan. The construction of the roads on the Gobi Desert is actually relatively simple, mainly because the ground on the Gobi Desert itself is relatively flat and hard.

Although the wind can blow up yellow sand here, the roadbed below a few centimeters of yellow sand is very hard.

For this era, such roads are actually enough, but these roadbeds need to be compacted at a certain amount. First, use rice ropes to straighten the road detected in advance, then use a limited shovel to shovel a few centimeters of floating soil on it, and then use three flat stones that can be lifted to compact the road below.

After the entire road surface was compacted, it was actually very hard, and there was no problem with using it as a roadbed, especially the roadbed of this era, and there was no problem.

The road is 4 meters wide according to the design, with an overall length of about 110 kilometers and a thickness of 15 cm.

As for the concrete formula, Huo Gang didn't know whether it was applicable. Anyway, he remembered a formula, which was about 0.47:1:1.59:3.39. This ratio is the ratio of water, cement, sand and gravel.

The reason why Huo Gang knew this was because when Huo Gang built villages and opened roads in his hometown in his previous life, he seemed to be using this ratio. He didn't know whether he was qualified or not. Anyway, he remembered it when he was chatting with that guy.

Regardless of whether it is qualified or not, it will definitely be sufficient for this era.

This ratio is about the proportion of these components in a cubic cube of concrete, that is, 175 kilograms of water, 372 kilograms of cement, 593 kilograms of sand, and 1260 kilograms of gravel. After Huo Gang gave it to Wang Luo, he ignored the rest.

However, one thing is that, in theory, the edge part of the concrete road is more likely to be damaged, so a reinforced concrete structure must be added to the edge part. However, Huo Gang does not have steel bars now, let alone steel bars or iron bars, so he will not add them for now.

Moreover, the four-meter-wide road may need to be expanded in the future, so I will use it when it is expanded in the future. If the four-meter-wide road is two high cars, it is enough to cross back and forth, and it is more than enough, so there will be no reinforced concrete structure on the edge of their road for the time being.

It is impossible to pour concrete directly on the road on the compacted road surface. There is also a cushion layer on it, which is a cushion layer composed of slag mixed with gravel, etc. The cushion layer is about 15 cm thick. It doesn’t matter if the slag required for the cushion layer is because as long as they start smelting iron, the amount of these slag will be huge.

They have tested the cement side, and grated iron ore can also replace slag, and there is almost no difference in structural strength, etc.

For roads with a width of four meters and 15 cm thick, an average of about 1.6 meters of concrete can be poured into a length of 110 kilometers, and a road with a length of 110 kilometers requires about 26,000 tons of cement. Now, the entire industrial city's cellar furnace can be fired to produce about 10 tons of cement once, and it can be fired about 7 times a day, which means that 70 tons of cement can be produced every day.

According to this speed, Huo Gang needs to produce cement for one year before he can completely build it on this road alone.

Of course, the output of cement will definitely increase. The first thing that restricts cement production is that there are too few workers, which can be solved immediately. The second is that the new cellar furnace is still being built, but it has not yet been put into use.

The third is that the amount of slag cannot keep up with the firing of cement, but this is simple. Just increase the mining of iron ore and other aspects. Using iron ore directly without slag is a bit luxurious, but for Huo Gang, this kind of waste is worth it.

The last point is that the grinding speed is relatively slow, but this can be solved quickly, because with enough manpower, more large windmills have begun to be built in Rumu.

The sufficient wind resources here allow these large tower windmills to operate continuously almost 24 hours a day. In fact, there is no light at night in this era, otherwise Huo Gang could directly implement the double shift system.

However, according to the plan given by Sun Er, they can expand the cement production capacity by 5-7 times in about one month. As for the subsequent situation, it depends on the mining situation of the iron ore.

Otherwise, 5-7 times is basically the limit. This is because Huo Gang has enough people to use, but his staff is still too small. If there is another 200,000 people, Huo Gang can mine new limestone mines near the iron ore.

On the other side of the iron mine, Huo Gang has discovered a new limestone mine nearby. Although the number is not as large as here, it is no problem to accommodate at least a few hundred people to mine.

As the road begins to be built, there is no shortage of cement for the time being. After all, these cements have been continuously fired for more than two months. Although the output is definitely not so much at the beginning, it has been almost a month since the output of 10 tons per time.

So the cement reserves are now close to more than 2,000 tons. From the cement reserves, we can roughly estimate how much materials the Li family in Longxi has transported to Huo Gang and others during this period.

One ton of cement can pave roads of about 4 meters long, more than 2,000 tons, and almost 8 kilometers of concrete roads can pave.

However, the laying of concrete roads is not that simple. For example, a expansion joint should be reserved every 5-6 meters to avoid cracks caused by thermal expansion and contraction of concrete. Wooden strips are stuffed at the bottom of the gap, and the upper half is stuffed with slag and other filler.

For example, after the concrete is poured, watering is required for maintenance, which will last at least 7 days.

Huo Gang told Wang Luo everything he could know, and they would control the remaining construction technology on site.

With the development of the road construction project, the entire Yangguan area instantly became a busy construction site. Looking at this scene, Huo Gang felt a little excited. Huo Gang saw such a scene when he was a child in his previous life.

And in this era, only some large-scale projects in China have so many people.

But those projects were completely different from what Huo Gang did! For example, the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou was opened in the former Sui Dynasty, and they were all in labor service. Not only did the people who came to work had no salary, they couldn't even have enough food. At that time, not only did the civilians use them, but even when the labor force was short, it also marked a large number of women joining the work.

Even if they can't eat enough, these folks are naturally in a state of depression every day, but the scene in front of them is different. Almost everyone is working with their arms out of their arms, because they not only eat better every day, but eat more fuller every day, but more importantly, they still have a salary to get every day.

The food they receive every day is enough for everyone to eat for a whole day. In this way, the food in their family can be saved? For ordinary people in this era, a little bit of food is a must-have.

Anyway, they are idle. If they are at home, they cannot create any value every day and they still need to consume their own food. These people clearly distinguish which one is more important.

What's more, they are working for their leaders, and it can be said that everyone is working with their best efforts.

Annuo and the others also showed signs of many women, but they did not work, but cooked. After all, more than 20,000 people were more than 20,000 people, and the number of people who needed to cook was not a small number.

Of course, people who cook can also take care of the meal, but there is no wage for the time being, but even so, the women who registered almost squeezed out the registration points.

If Annuo's people hadn't said there were more actions to ask them to do, many women would probably be able to fight on the spot, and these Turkic women were very tough.

For them, although they are just cooking and have no wages, they are also very important. After all, because one more person works, it means that one less person is eating at home, and they can save more food at home, so that they don’t have to endure hunger in winter.

Huo Gang was naturally not afraid to control food, because for Huo Gang, he didn't care whether he had money or food. These people came to Huo Gang for dinner, and they saved their own food. For Huo Gang, the food was still within the entire Han Dynasty.
Chapter completed!