After the child finished eating the oranges one by one, Sister Liu looked at the remaining orange peel in her hand and couldn't help but shouted: "Oh, Brother Tang, how to deal with the remaining orange peel? Can it be eaten?"

The short man touched the straw rope on his waist and smiled, "How can that be eaten? Just throw it away!"

"This color is so cute that it is red and yellow. What a pity to throw it away!"

As the sixth sister-in-law said, she looked at the orange peel in her hand, and she was hesitant for a moment.

Sun Erlang, who had been leaning against the car and watching the people make trouble, suddenly got up and whispered to everyone: "Don't make trouble, there are officials over there! There are so many people, I don't know what to do."

The people were afraid of officials. As soon as Sun Erlang said that, the originally chaotic crowd suddenly calmed down.

Seeing Xu Ping and Chen Yaozuo walking in front of the crowd from afar, Sun Erlang clapped his hands: "It turned out to be the deputy envoy from a few months ago. This is a good person. He is a high-ranking official in the court, so don't be afraid!"

Last time, Xu Ping stayed here for nearly a month, caught a bet, locked up the largest local household, and distributed the land to the poor to manage it himself. Even this small business was started by him when he was there. He heard that he was here again, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and the atmosphere became lively again.

When he arrived at a place not far from the valley, Xu Ping saw a lot of people gathering in front of him and said to Tan Hu: "Why are there people gathering in front of him? Come and see if something happened?"

Lu Fang said: "Officials don't need to worry. There is a small valley there, and there is a small village. This valley is at the exit of the north end of the gate, closest to the deciduous pier, so it will naturally become lively during this period."

Li Shen said: "There is a business and sales club in that small village, which is the best-made in the nearby townships. Every day, idle people gather there, just like a market. When the wharf is built, it is hard to say that it will become a town here."

Xu Ping nodded and then understood the truth.

There is a barrier to the south of Guangwu Mountain, so it is not easy to build a road. If you cross the bridge of Guangwu Mountain across the river, you will become the best route. When the river is completed, you don’t have to worry about the flood gathering when the water is big. The road to Xingyang to the south is chosen here. Based on the principle that the closer you are to the road, the small dock radiating to the south of the river is chosen at the exit of the bridge.

The model that Lu Fang led people to repair with cement was in this small wharf, which was also where Xu Ping and Chen Yaozuo wanted to see.

When they arrived near the entrance of Honggou, Chen Yaozuo's guards stepped forward to separate the crowd and the crowd arrived at the selected river channel.

At this time, the river channel had not been excavated yet. It was just that Lu Fang led his men to repair a small section of embankment, which was made of large stones, and the joints were smeared with cement mortar in the middle, which was extremely flat. When the river channel was excavated, it extended from this small section of embankment to the river channel. The steps were not only where workers walked when unloading, but also the daily water level in the river.

When he arrived at the river embankment, Chen Yaozuo walked back and forth on the repaired stone platform and asked Xu Ping in confusion: "Longtu, this is just a big stone paving. Where is the cement you are talking about?"

Xu Ping pointed to the gap in the stone and smiled, "My husband, look at what is filled in the stone, it is cement. This cement is not afraid of water, and it can withstand the wind and sun, and is as hard as a stone. It is a good thing."

Chen Yaozuo looked at it again and again, and finally shook his head: "No matter how good it is, how useful is it to fill the cracks of rocks? The cracks of rocks can be filled with mortar, but they are not that durable."

Xu Ping smiled and turned to Lu Fang and said, "Didn't you even bring someone to build a small canal? Let's take a look at Mr. Chen."

Lu Fang Yingnuo, took the two of them to the side, lifted up the pile of straw laid on the ground, and said with his hands: "My husband, this small section of the canal is paved with cement, please refer to it!"

Chen Yaozuo walked up and saw a small section of ditch dug out from the ground, which were all covered with cement. It looked blue-gray and very detailed.

He stepped into the small ditch and stepped on it with his feet. Chen Yaozuo nodded: "No, it's really strong to try."

He bent down and touched the four walls with his hands: "It's also delicate enough, it should be waterproof."

Xu Ping smiled and said to Tan Hu: "Take people to get a few buckets of water!"

Tan Hu Yingnui, after a while, he brought people to carry four or five buckets of water and put them on the side of the small canal.

Chen Yaozuo came out of the small canal. Xu Ping ordered someone to pour the water from the bucket into it and said to Chen Yaozuo: "My husband, let's see if the water inside is leaking."

After bent down and looking for a while, Chen Yaozuo shook his head: "How can I see this?"

Xu Ping originally wanted to say that he couldn't be in a hurry, but he would see it after two days? Then he thought that when the wind and sun were exposed outside, the water would naturally be less in two days. After thinking about it, he said to Lu Fang: "How many people do you bring? Use a shovel to hollow out all the mud and sand around the canal, leaving a sink alone, and show it to my husband."

Lu Fang brought people, took the shovel over, breathed a sigh of relief, and dug up around the small canal.

Chen Yaozuo stared at the shovels in Lu Fang and others' hands. They were all forged with good iron, and the blade was wrapped in fine steel. After a while, he couldn't help but sigh: "Longtu, are the military equipment used in bridge road wings?"

Xu Ping replied strangely: "Yes, they specialize in building bridges and roads, so they naturally need to have these in their hands."

"These iron tools are very valuable!" Chen Yaozuo kept shaking his head. "If the people who come to work, they use this kind of iron tools in their hands. What's the point of digging a river? There is mud and sand on the beach of the Yellow River, so how many days can I use it!"

In this era, iron tools have become popular. Whether it is an official smelting farm or a private iron smelting, the number is very considerable. However, even if it is popular, it is far from the point where all tools are used. For many people, wooden plows are used, let alone tools such as iron smelting, which are rare among the people. In the official river building, most people still use wooden smelting.

Since Xu Ping has been making various tools by himself in Yongzhou, and there are some simple machinery for forging die-casting, and even simple grinding wheels with sharpening edges. After getting used to this, he almost forgot that these iron tools alone have far exceeded the level of this era. The tools used by Lu Fang and others in Xu Ping's eyes were extremely normal and even thought they were very simple, but in Chen Yaozuo's eyes, they were very amazing. It is not that the technical level of this era could not be made, but they could still be made, but it was expensive and could not be spread out and widely used.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to Chen Yaozuo: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Your husband, the bridge road army is specially designed to build bridges and pave roads. The tools in your hands are naturally stronger than others, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of time?" (To be continued.)
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