Two months passed quickly, and in a flash, Liu Mang was really in dire straits during these two months. He really underestimated the strategists of this era, seized the loophole in his conscript order and directly dug a big hole for Liu Mang to jump in.

These two months have been really hard to bear. If the food consumption was not for the seeds brought by Liu Mang and sowed into the land, I would probably have insufficient food.

A total of 1.2 million people almost didn't kill Liu Mang. Although Yangzhou is rich, even at its peak, Shouchun could not raise one.2 million people. You should know that Shouchun and Lujiang are only one-third of Yangzhou. Now Yangzhou is still a mess left by Yuan Gaolu's classmates.

There are hundreds of industries in Shouchun City waiting to be developed, and those 1.2 million people not only need to eat, drink, defecate, but also have a place to sleep!

Building houses, people's food, clothes, etc. all need to be handled. There were more than one million people, and when did Liu Mang take care of so many people? And these people came here without anything.

Liu Mang also read the letter from Lu Bu and Chen Gong to Liu Mang. It was just a matter of burning the boat, but Liu Mang did not agree immediately because he did so much, just to help his cheap father-in-law, or to those who followed him Liu Mang had a good background and a good home! If all the Lujiang Rivers in Shouchun were lost, don't you want them all. Even if you cross the Yangtze River and make Jiangdong turn upside down, what did Lu Bu's army get! The battle of Guandu cannot last.

How long will it take? Once Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are all out to take action! There is really no chance in the world. Lu Bu is not Liu Bei. He can still play Jiangdong with Chibi and Liu Bei borrows Jingzhou. Lu Bu and Jiangdong Sun Ce are mortal enemies. It is impossible to join forces. And if they follow the current script, they will almost lose both sides. At that time, the world will really have no chance with the two! They can only become a pile of dead bones like Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian and others.

Liu Mang couldn't do that. Since it was the disaster created by him, Liu Mang, let him solve it!

"It's been successful!" Liu Mang looked at Liu Ye, who was also dark in his eyes. Liu Ye hadn't had a good sleep for several days. He had been studying things. Since he arrived at Liu Mang, Liu Ye really found his own paradise. He could use his own mechanism to learn. And Liu Mang's pile of books really made Liu Ye forget to eat and sleep! And what Liu Mang and the others are talking about now is one of them - cement!

Liu Mang couldn't find so many wood bricks to build houses for the people, and there was no time. Until now, most people still live in the wilderness, just simply paved with marching camps.

Cement became a life-saving straw for Liu Mang, because once this thing was made, it could quickly build some buildings with its fast solidification without the need for clay and glutinous rice soup to solidify the gap between bricks and stones. That would be too slow.

Liu Mang didn't remember much about the cement records, but he knew that it was made of three to one mix of lime and clay. Lime was just forged by limestone after high temperature. Then put the mixed things into the forged lime and cook them, and then polish them to make them truly successful.

The principle is so simple, but the actual operation is not so simple. In two months, Liu Ye, a great inventor of the Three Kingdoms, truly developed the basic cement. Such cement can only be used on ordinary houses and city walls to reinforce them, and it still has no effect on underwater construction, but that's enough.

"Zi Yang, ask the people to send thirty teams to collect as much limestone near Shouchun as possible, and then send 20 teams to collect clay!" Liu Mang allocated all of these one and two million people, with ten thousand people as one team, and there were 120 such teams.

Fifty squads were dispatched together to 500,000 people. Liu Mang could not raise them for nothing. If they didn't work, there would naturally be no food distribution. Among the 1.2 million people, 200,000 were the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and children. Liu Mang did not make things difficult for them. He also distributed food on a daily basis. The remaining people were not so good. There was not much food and grass in Liu Mang's army. Lu Bu moved all the food and grass that Lujiang could provide to Shouchun, but even so, Shouchun could only hold on for less than half a year. Two months have passed, and the food and grass in the army have begun to shrink.

"It's lord!" Liu Ye nodded and ordered a deputy next to him. Cement is of great importance. Liu Ye has also tried the hardness of cement. It is much stronger than those with bricks and wooden blocks. It is difficult to split it with swords. Even the crossbow and crossbow cannon can only crack him but cannot be smashed directly. Liu Ye must not want the formula of such a thing to stay in the hands of the enemy, so he can only rely on Liu Ye to supervise it himself.

With a large number of people and great strength, with 500,000 people working together, pieces of limestone were peeled off, and clay was dug out, and all were sent to a huge camp outside Shouchun City.

This fast camp has been arranged by Liu Mang to be called an industrial zone. It not only has cement construction, but also has large chimneys that are upright, and there are also government camps, which are specially made of bed crossbows and crossbows. If it weren't close to the waters, Liu Mang might have to turn the dock over. The city management black chess army changed defenses here every day. As for the defense in Shouchun City, it has been replaced with garrison troops. Anyway, these people have to be maintained by themselves, so Liu Mang was not polite. He recruited more than 50,000 troops from a population of 1.2 million.

He went to be a garrison force, and these new recruits really surprised Liu Mang because these soldiers were all good at fighting, and they were not bad at all compared to Danyang ruffians. After Liu Mang asked clearly, he realized that most of these soldiers were Shanyue people. However, whether they were Shanyue or Han people, there was only one name for Liu Mang, that was the Han clan. Liu Mang did not discriminate against them because they were pre-Qin people or Baiyue people. For these foreign tribes who wanted to integrate into the Han Dynasty, Liu Mang would treat them as Han people as the Han people.

The limestone was calcined according to the prescribed supply and demand, processed with clay, and then calcined. Bags of lime were pulled out of the industrial area, and then loaded into carriages and sent to Shouchun City.

"What are those?" Most of the people who stayed in Shouchun were elderly people and children, and there were many women. Don't underestimate these elderly people. These elderly people are basically very prestigious people. They can express their lives to those young people, especially among the people of Shanyue.

"I don't know! One bag after another, is it food?!" Some people are speculating. These cloth bags should basically be food, because they are easy to be afraid of moisture. Once they are wet, they may become moldy. The cloth bags can absorb water, so basically the food is packed in cloth bags, so the transportation of food can be ensured. Of course, the cloth bags here are not those that contain flour in the world, but a kind of coarse cloth bags. This kind of cloth bags are not only waterproof but also not high in manufacturing costs. So there are many such cloth bags in Liu Mang's army.

"Food? Is His Highness the Holy King not much food or grass?" someone asked next to him.

"It's not too much, haven't you seen that His Highness the Holy King has reduced our ration supply?!" An old man stood up and said.

"It's reduced? Why? Isn't it still three meals a day?" Someone next to me was puzzled. Liu Mang treated these people who worked three meals a day, with rice porridge in the morning and evening and lunch, so that he could ensure his physical strength and work.

"The lunch time has not changed, but the amount of water in the porridge in the morning and evening has decreased. There is more water and less rice! "The old man is worthy of being an old man. After dealing with grain for a lifetime, he can naturally calculate the amount of rice porridge and the thickness of the soup to calculate the insufficient food of Liu Mangjun from the amount of rice porridge and the thickness of the soup.

"Maybe you're dazzled!" An old lady next to her glanced at the old man.

"Haha, I've been so confused for so many years, but this food can't escape my eyes. "If I only had one or two times, I might not care so much, but it has been decreasing since the beginning of this month, so I have to let the old man guess.

The old man was right in guessing that reducing the rice porridge in the morning and evening was an order issued by Liu Mang, which was also helpless because there was really not much food and grass in Liu Mang's army, and I was afraid that I would not be able to hold on for two months without any hesitation.

The words of not much food really made people panic. Liu Mang didn't expect that several old men could drink rice porridge as they grew older.

"Bump!" Bags of lime were thrown on the ground after bags of lime. In front of these lime bags was a large open space. All the dilapidated houses were pushed away by Liu Mang. Even if the people were allowed to live in tents, they could not be allowed to live in these old houses, because those houses might collapse by the wind, and then that would be the price of life.

"Tear!" The cloth bag was torn apart, and generations of grayish-white powdery things appeared in front of everyone.

"It's not food!" The old man sighed and shook his head. How good would it be if it was food.

"What are these gray powders for?!" Someone asked the old man if he didn't understand, but the old man didn't know either. They had never seen these gray powders. But an old man seemed to have a little thoughtful and said in a questioning tone, "Is this lime powder?!"

It was not lime powder, but it was not much different. The team leader of an engineering team next to him said to the people below, "This is cement, cement, which is used to build a house and a big house for me!" The team leader obviously saw the passage of cement in the industrial area, so he was very confident and proud when he told the news.

"What? Use this thing to build a house? You're so stupid!" an old man questioned in a rich dialect.

Build a house! In the eyes of these people, it is naturally blue bricks and tiles. Even if you can't afford to turn your head, you have to stick it with mud and bamboo. It's not like this gray powder.

"How many big money can I make if I cheat you!" The team leader who was questioned was not happy. "If you don't believe it, come and see you!"

After the gray cement was pulled down, it piled up into small hills. The engineering team members poured buckets of water on the hills, then dug out a small depression from the hills and stirred it with wooden sticks.

"Water plus ashes? Do you think you are playing house! Playing with mud." Children like to play house like this, but they use urine rather than water.

"If you don't believe it, you'll turn it over!" The captain's face looked annoyed. Come on, let's show these old guys! Don't let them underestimate us!"

The other engineering team members were not very happy, after all, it was uncomfortable to be questioned.

One wooden strip after another was also sent over. Liu Mang had no steel bars and could only use wooden strips as the internal structure of cement.
Chapter completed!