Chapter 727

Wedding new house! This is not only the practice of later generations, but also the Tang Dynasty.

From the previous single village, Mojia village solved the single problem in the village at the fastest speed in two years. Of course, there are the reasons for the continuous rise of Mojia village and the good situation. In addition to the reasons for the gradual prosperity of the villagers, Mojia village directly configures a new house for each new couple, which has a direct relationship.

In this era of the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people only had mud embryo houses covered with thatch. Except for the landlord and where there would be brick houses in the city, the brand-new brick houses in Mojia village are no less than the current villas.

In addition, Mohist children strive to make progress. They have a new house when they get married and the village is rich. Naturally, a daughter is willing to marry Mohist village. After all, no parent is willing to let his daughter marry and suffer all his life.

As the greatest contributor to the change of Mojia village, Merton is about to get married. Naturally, it is necessary to rebuild a new house. As early as Merton and Princess Changle got in love, the Mofu has begun to secretly prepare Merton's new house.

At that time, it happened that a house in the east of the Mohist house wanted to change hands. The Mohist village found the original owner, spent a lot of money to put it under the plate, and has been secretly rebuilding it. Now it has taken a year, and the general building is finally going to be completed.

"One, two!"

With the loud cry of several Mohist children, with joint efforts, the wall blocking the Mohist house and the east courtyard collapsed, revealing a delicate courtyard. Originally, the courtyard had been abandoned, but after one year's improvement of Mohist village, it had changed greatly.

In the center of the east courtyard, a three storey building stands out. Anyone will notice it at first sight. If someone in later generations is here, they will recognize it at a glance. Is this the common villa structure in later generations?

"How is this possible?"

If any bricklayer in Chang'an city saw this scene, it would be extremely shocked, because brick houses can only be built on one floor. If they are built on two floors, they will lack support and will crack due to gravity in a short time. However, the house in the east courtyard of Mofu has three floors.

"Young master!"

The Mohist children who were cleaning bricks and tiles saw Merton coming, got up and saluted.

Merton nodded back and stepped on the chaotic bricks to the east courtyard villa.

In front of the villa, a Taoist with black hair was throwing stones into the gray mud in front of Wu Meiniang. Soon, round pits were exposed in the flat mud.

"The crater on the surface of the moon was really made by impact." Wu Meiniang couldn't help jumping. Now that Taoism has offered astronomical telescopes, Merton naturally has nothing to hide. As a major disciple of Mohism, Wu Meiniang naturally watched the surface of the moon with the telescope owned by Mohism for the first time.

"What benefactor Wu said is true, and I think so too?" the dark haired Taoist turned his head and said in a loud voice. He was an old acquaintance of Morton, Taoist Changsheng.

As the leader of the Taoist sect of waidan, he naturally had the honor to witness the astronomical telescope. He couldn't help nodding. Now he has given up the way of pill and turned to the art of material immortality. The collapse of the laurel myth is regrettable and not unacceptable to him.

"If you test in a sand pile, you will have the same result, and you don't have to splash mud and water," Morton said.

"Master!" Wu Meiniang quickly turned around and said shyly.

The Taoist priest Changsheng turned around and said, "the Mohist family is blessed. Martial benefactor is very spiritual."

"Taoist priest Mu praised." Wu Meiniang said shyly.

"Mo Hou came to see his new house today!" asked Taoist Changsheng.

Merton nodded and said, "if this house can be built, thank Taoist Changsheng for his help."

"I would also like to thank Lord Mo for giving Taoist waidan a chance. If it weren't for the support of the Mohist school, the Taoist school would be able to create strange things such as cement. Although it took a year, it didn't live up to Lord Mo's expectations." Taoist priest Changsheng looked at the mud that Wu Meiniang had just thrown stones, revealing a trace of excitement.

Before Merton set out for Tuyuhun, he specially found the Taoist school and formulated the task of requiring the Taoist school to develop forged lime and seek new building materials. The Mohist paid and the Taoist school contributed. Finally, it took nearly a year to refine usable cement.

not bad I'm afraid it's cement that can make three layers of bricks and tiles. If today's cement production is too small, how many more layers does Merton want?

"What's the quality of cement today?" Merton asked.

"I have gradually controlled the process, and the success rate has been improved a lot, but it all depends on the Mohist reinforcement method, which makes the cement strength double." Taoist Changsheng said.

When the cement was just developed, although it can solidify rapidly and be as strong as a rock, the strength under stress is not high. Taoism has studied it for many times, which made qualified cement. In addition, Merton mixed the reinforcement in the cement, which immediately doubled the strength of the cement and the strength under stress.

"Steel is steel and cement is bone. It's naturally very hard. It's not surprising that this is the natural avenue of the human body!" Morton said modestly.

Mixing steel bars with cement to increase strength is certainly a technology of later generations, but it is not difficult to understand in ancient times. When the ancients made clay embryos, they also added straw to the mud to increase toughness. The Mohist road construction also used straw bedding method to increase the strength of the foundation. It is a truth, but Merton, a black sheep, is more extravagant, The use of steel as bones and muscles has doubled the cost, but the effect has also doubled.

Taoist Changsheng looked at the three-story villa in front of him with the same satisfaction. He had seen Merton's design drawings. The whole villa will take steel as the reinforcement, cement as the bone and brick as the muscle, which is very in line with the Taoist way of nature.

"But..." Wu Meiniang, who had been observing carefully, frowned and stopped talking.

Merton noticed Wu Meiniang's expression and said, "just tell me what you have. Mohists and Taoists have no bad habits that can't be violated."

Wu Meiniang said frankly, "the house built by master and Taoist priest is really strong, but it's too ugly! Master is sure that the princess will like to live in such a house."

Wu Meiniang said that the red bricks pointing to the villa were mixed with white cement beams. The appearance was extremely ugly. Not to mention that compared with the palace in the Imperial Palace, it was also very ugly compared with other houses in the Mo mansion. I'm afraid if the royal family knew that the princess lived in such a house, I'm afraid it would give Princess Changle a princess mansion without saying a word, Let Merton's son-in-law directly.

Taoist priest Changsheng on one side was embarrassed. Obviously, he had already found this problem, but he didn't say it.

Merton laughed and said, "Taoism pays attention to both internal and external cultivation. Naturally, so is the house. With internal beauty, external beauty is indispensable. It's just to come in person for this matter.

Merton said and waved his hand. A group of Mohist children came to Merton with several heavy carriages and said, "young master, what you want has been delivered."

Taoist priest Changsheng was curious for a while. Could it be that the Mohist school didn't use any unique skills?

Merton came forward, touched the square objects on the carriage, turned to Wu Meiniang and asked, "as a teacher, build a new house with the human body Avenue. Do you know what can be comparable to skin in this world?"

"Comparable to skin?" Wu Meiniang frowned. "Is it jade?"

Merton said with a bitter smile, "you look too high at being a teacher. How precious jade is. Even the royal family is reluctant to use it, let alone a teacher."

"Is what the master said porcelain?" Wu Meiniang had an idea. Building a house is nothing but civil stone. Porcelain is as smooth as skin. I'm afraid only porcelain is the most appropriate.

Merton looked at Wu Meiniang with appreciation and said, "yes, being a teacher is preparing to take porcelain as the skin."

Merton said, opening the carriage to reveal the palm sized rectangular white and flawless tiles in the car.

"This is white porcelain, the white porcelain of Xing kiln in Hebei?" Taoist Changsheng felt the greasy glaze and exclaimed.

Merton nodded and said, "yes, this is really the white porcelain of Hebei Xing kiln."

Datang porcelain is very developed. It often makes various appliances with porcelain. When Merton placed an order for Hebei Xing kiln, the style had been ordered. The process of flat ceramic tile is simpler than that of porcelain. The only difficulty is the compression process, which is the strength of Mohism.

The two families hit it off immediately. Soon, the first batch of tiles in the Tang Dynasty were burned and transported to the Mo mansion as soon as possible.

"Take porcelain as the skin!"

Wu Meiniang looked at the white tiles in front of her and couldn't help opening her mouth. Even if the construction hasn't started yet, he can imagine how beautiful it would be once the house in front of him was covered with tiles.

However, this is not over. With the arrival of another Mohist carriage, the window frames loaded with transparent glass are transported down. In the sun, they reflect bursts of light, just like lenses..

"Take the mirror as the window!" Taoist Changsheng couldn't help taking a deep breath.

In the end, he underestimated the idea of Mohism. He took steel as the tendon, cement as the bone, brick as the muscle, porcelain as the skin and mirror as the window. Once the house is completed, it will shock the whole Tang Dynasty.