Chapter 746: Engineering is More Important

All the subsequent people have arrived; the total number of people in Xiao Town, including the Laborers from the Xuanyuan Tribe, has reached over eight thousand. For logistical support, this is a great pressure, and the amount of grain they need to consume every day is not a small number.

However, for Huaxia, it is fine to eat a lot; as long as the work can be done well, you may eat as much as you like. Huaxia has plenty of pork cracklings, and they are afraid that if they cannot finish eating them, they will become damp and moldy, taking up space in the warehouse. Therefore, from initially rationing these Laborers at every meal, it has now been opened up for them to eat as they please, as long as the food you eat can match the work you do.

The only trouble is the need to constantly transport grain to Xiao Town. At this time, the houses they built on the road come in handy. Starting from one station every day and traveling for a day, they can basically arrive at the next place by evening. Even if they are delayed for some time and the journey is a bit slow, they can continue to move forward with Torches, and traveling a section of the road at night is much safer than camping in the wild.

Moreover, the grain and supplies are placed in the houses, and the people also live in the houses. Once the door is closed and the bolt is latched, they can just fall asleep without having to consider the issue of night watch. For those transporting supplies, the pressure is reduced a lot, and they do not have to worry about the grain being soaked and ruined by wind and rain.

However, the people in the Xiao Town camp still have to consider it. Their grain is currently still in an open-air state. If the rain comes, they can only manage to cover it with something like an animal skin, but this will inevitably ruin a part of it. If the grain transporters arrive late, the eating of these several thousand people will be a very serious problem; relying on hunting is somewhat difficult.

However, they also carry pigeons with them. The people of the Xuanyuan Tribe have already become accustomed to pigeons. Although they do not know why the people of Huaxia want to carry this thing, they have heard that Huaxia raises everything; even cattle can be raised by them to pull carts. Raising pigeons, perhaps it is for the sake of looking good?

After all, these people will pick some plants that are short but strange, or have particularly beautiful flowers along the way, and then dig them up and send them back. It is said that it is to decorate the houses? The people of the Xuanyuan Tribe naturally cannot understand these things, and they are too lazy to care.

In order to ensure the safety of the grain, Che let the Artisans build a warehouse on the spot first. The houses that had been messed up by the people of the Jiangshui Tribe, or rather the Yanhu Tribe, could no longer be lived in or used. Che estimated that even if they were washed with water from the inside out, people could not live in them, so they had long been dismantled and used as firewood.

The people who built those houses were still a bit angry when they saw their hard work being messed up like that. They only heard from those Soldiers that the houses in Xiao Town were messed up beyond recognition, but they could not understand how outrageous that "beyond recognition" was. Fortunately, most people did not see it because they arrived late, which can be considered as having less anger.

Wood that had not yet been thoroughly air-dried was taken to build the warehouse. Of course, it was only for temporary transition. In this place now, the safety of the grain is much more important than the safety of the people.

The pure wooden house structure, and the foundation was raised much higher to cope with all possible unexpected situations. There were no Tiles on the roof, so they let the women go to the alkaline beach in the distance to cut that long and hard thatch. The dry thatch presented a golden color, and then layer by layer, it was all spread on the roof to ensure that the heavy rain would not let the roof leak, ensuring the safety of their grain.

Now that the manpower is complete, the work is much faster. More people go into the forest to cut down trees. The sound of saws and the sound of axes resound in the forest all day long. After a while, there is the sound of big trees collapsing with a boom. In that vicinity, I am afraid that nothing dares to approach.

The remaining people began to go all out to build the city wall. The wooden frames were set up, and logs as thick as purlins were stacked one by one. The two sides had the same structure, forming a gap in the middle. What the Laborers needed to do was to fill it with soil. A portion of the physically stronger women were responsible for the work of digging soil, and the men needed to carry the soil to the bottom of the city wall, and then send it up to fill it into the gap.

The men with the best physical strength needed to use wooden rammers to compact the soil. This is not an easy task. The four city walls started construction at the same time, and the city walls grew slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye every day. Che estimated that by the end of the year, the city wall here could be completely built. The design height could reach five meters. Although it is said that it is not too high, it is enough for a small town, and the necessary protective facilities will all be arranged.

However, Che and other engineers were discussing other things.

"Che, you say that if it goes on like this, won't our technology be learned by the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe? This rammed earth wall is not a difficult thing; they can learn it just by looking at it."

Although Che was a little worried, he was helpless: "What can be done about this? We can't stop them from working just because we are afraid they will learn it. We hired these people precisely because we don't have enough manpower. However, let them learn it. You also said that this rammed earth wall is not a difficult thing. I estimate that a person like Xuanyuan, after looking at it a few more times under our city wall and seeing those traces, could guess how it was built."

Furthermore, for those of the Xuanyuan Tribe, our Engineering Team is also doing construction for them and leading their students. It was something that was meant to be taught anyway. I just think it's a pity. These people will definitely be skilled Workers who can be used smoothly after working here for a year. When they return to the Xuanyuan Tribe, I am afraid they will be kept to work for the Xuanyuan Tribe. Their projects will be much easier to start.

Next year we will have to continue to hire people. If possible, I still hope to hire these people again, even if the price is higher, it doesn't matter. Skilled workers cannot be wasted like this. If more newcomers are sent, let alone teaching them to work, just getting their bodies built up is not an easy task."

Che sighed and pointed to the city wall that had begun to show its height: "The city wall is still very low now, and the soil does not need to be transferred; it can be poured directly into it. When the city wall is higher, the pulleys will have to be used. If they want to learn, let them learn. We cannot delay our project progress for the sake of hiding it from them."

The other engineers also sighed helplessly. All of them wanted the progress of the project to be faster and wanted the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe to come to work, but they did not want the technology explored by their own family to be learned by the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe. Although they were very tangled and embarrassed, they had to do so.