Building houses and establishing new rural areas is not only to restore agricultural production in Tianjin and stabilize the regional situation, but also to restore agricultural production in Tianjin and stabilize the situation. Because the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance caused huge damage to the rural areas in Tianjin, many villages were basically destroyed. This is also an important step for the Time Travel Group to break the old rural system in Tianjin and establish its own grassroots ruling system.

Only by building new houses, reorganizing villages, and resetting farmers' residences can we completely break up the old rural clan system, establish a rural grassroots administrative system that is truly controlled by the Travel Group, and establish a complete tax system, becoming a source of fiscal revenue for the Travel Group.

Li Songchen is the main planner and person in charge of promoting the new rural plan. However, building a new rural area is a project with an important component of construction projects. Li Songchen is not a construction engineering technician. Fortunately, the Time Travel Group has enough engineering and technical talents, so Li Songchen doesn’t have to worry about it.

The chief engineer responsible for building a new countryside is Tang Songlin. He is 65 years old and is one of the oldest people in the entire travel group. He has been engaged in construction engineering for more than 40 years. He was originally a rural person and only studied. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to work as a bricklayer in the township and town to earn money. A few years later, he joined a construction team and started his own construction engineering career.

Later, through his continuous hard work and study, Tang Songlin finished his junior college and graduate studies, and was finally promoted to the position of chief engineer step by step. Originally, this foreign aid project was Tang Songlin's last job. After the project was over, he was about to retire, but unexpectedly he encountered a time travel.

However, living to Tang Songlin's age, I have taken many things lightly. I have a very free and easy mind. Anyway, I am at this age, I have to make a living every year, and my children have achieved success in their careers. My spouse who stayed in the old time and space did not have to worry about it. Therefore, I have neither the ambition to be king in this era nor the blame for the heavens. I complain about time travel all day long, and I think it is just a time travel through time.

But after spending most of his life, Tang Songlin couldn't stay idle. When he learned about the Interim Executive Committee's plan to build a new rural area, he immediately became interested, because Chief Engineer Tang was originally a rural person and built a tall building for a lifetime, but he had not built a rural area. He also felt a little regretful. He did not expect that he would have traveled through this time and space to fulfill his wish.

Therefore, Tang Songlin immediately volunteered to be responsible for presiding over the engineering project of the new rural plan. After Li Songchen talked with Tang Songlin once, he listened to Tang Songlin's lectures and paintings and explained his construction plan. He made a decision on the spot that Tang Songlin would serve as the chief engineer of the engineering project of the new rural plan.

It turned out that Tang Songlin proposed that the houses in the new countryside adopt a unified shaping structure, which can speed up the construction speed and reduce project costs. The main material for building houses is not to use fired bricks, but to use local materials and adobe bricks.

People who have experienced rural life in the 1950s and 1960s in the old time and space are not unfamiliar with adobe brick houses. At that time, the standard building materials for rural construction in that era. Until the time of travel, a large number of adobe brick houses were still retained in the northwest China. Tang Songlin grew up in the countryside and became a bricklayer when he was a bricklayer. Of course, he knew this construction method and also knew the making process of adobe bricks.

The so-called adobe bricks refer to the making of ordinary soil, which are generally made of loess, soaked in water, and added straw or other fibers to strengthen the strength of the adobe bricks, mix well and pour it into the mold to compact it, dry it in an open and sunny place, and it is the finished product.

Compared with firing bricks, the materials used for adobe bricks are easy to obtain and the construction is simpler. They do not need to be fired in a special brick kiln. They can be made directly on site, which also reduces transportation costs. In addition, the tiles can also be made of adobe tiles, which can naturally greatly reduce the construction cost.

Although the strength of adobe bricks is not as high as that of firing bricks, flat floors or two-story buildings are enough, and in terms of insulation and moisture, adobe brick houses have relatively good performance. Because the size of adobe bricks is generally large, with sufficient thermal resistance and thermal insulation effect, another performance of adobe brick house is to maintain a certain humidity. When the air humidity is too low, part of the moisture inside the adobe brick can be evaporated to increase the air humidity. When the humidity is too high, part of the water vapor can be absorbed to reduce the indoor environmental humidity.

However, the biggest shortage of adobe brick houses is its poor seismic resistance, which is mainly due to insufficient strength of adobe brick components, weak joint connections, and stable structural system. Therefore, during earthquakes, adobe brick houses are prone to collapse. Of course, these shortages can be ignored now.

Although there is a brick and tile factory in the Tianjin Concession, its production capacity is too low and it is impossible to supply brick and tile materials for building new countrysides. In addition, the cost is too high. Therefore, using adobe bricks to build a house is the best choice at present. This is also the main reason why Li Songchen chose Tang Songlin at once.

After receiving the appointment of Li Songchen, Tang Songlin immediately found several of his students, Zhou Peng, He Xin, Li Shijun and Xu Shan, and immediately went to the countryside to conduct on-site inspections. He also negotiated with Li Songchen about the functional requirements of the house and village, and then started deepening the design.

Three days later, Tang Songlin's team came up with a preliminary design plan. According to Li Songchen's plan, the total number of houses in each village is between 10 and 150 households, and a township consists of 5-8 villages. In this way, each village is not big and easy to control and manage, and there will be no excessively large village, which will increase the difficulty of management. Of course, with the stability of life and social and economic development, each village will gradually expand, but after the village expands, the rule of the time travel group will stabilize.

The whole house covers an area of ​​about 80 square meters, a width of 10 meters, a diameter of 8 meters, and a foundation is raised about 0 cm, compacted, and 45 degrees of footing on the slope to ensure the stability of the foundation.

The entrance door is located in the middle of the house and is about one meter deep into the roof. The threshold stone is made of a whole piece of stone, with a height of about 15 cm. There is a stone squat on the left and right of the gate, and a large slope is made at the door.

The layout inside the house is: after entering the door, the main hall is 4 meters wide and about 5 meters deep. There are two rooms on both sides, both length and width are about meters. The partition walls of the main hall and the room are both 5-6 cm thick wooden walls, and the adobe walls in the room are smoothed with lime. The main hall and the back of the room are kitchen, toilet and livestock circles, and the front main hall. The room is separated by adobe bricks. There is a back door in the kitchen, which can be used to the front and back. However, only the two rooms outside have windows, and the two rooms behind are black rooms, and the window frames are naturally made of wood. There is only a glass factory in Tianjin Concession, with limited production capacity, so you can only temporarily use cloth and paper instead, and then replace them after the glass is produced.

All rooms have pit shops, which is also a major feature of northern China. There is also a stove for adobe in the kitchen, and a septic tank with a width of 1.5 meters long and 1 meter deep is also dug out in the toilet. Because in this era, the main fertilizer for agricultural cultivation was still manure. According to the calculations of agricultural experts in the old time and space, it was calculated that for every 100 kilograms of rice produced, about pure nitrogen must be absorbed. kg, about 100 kilograms of corn must be about .5 kilograms of pure nitrogen, and about 100 kilograms of wheat must be about .0 kilograms of pure nitrogen; it is equivalent to 500 to 600 kilograms of manure and urine in human or pigs, so these manure and urine cannot be wasted.

The livestock circle is also a feature of rural houses. Its size is about 4 meters and can raise about two large livestock; 5-8 medium-sized livestock or poultry are of course not necessarily used to raise livestock, but it can also be used for other purposes.

Such a room can basically meet the lives of a family of 6-10 people in three generations, and it can be sufficient for ordinary rural families to live in. Moreover, in this era, it is a very good house, and ordinary farmers cannot live in such a house.

The layout of each village will be determined according to the topography of the whole body and is not generalized. However, 5 to 8 houses are arranged side by side, and a meter of aisle is left between each group. The distance between the houses is about 10 meters away. A sewage trench is dug at the back door and directly leads to the nearby ditch and river. Domestic sewage can be discharged and water inlet pipe culverts are reserved, while cable pipe culverts are reserved in front of the house.

Overall, the planning and design made by Tang Songlin's team fully utilized the existing conditions and construction convenience in Tianjin's rural areas, while also leaving enough room for future water and electricity.

After the design was completed, Tang Songlin's team also made a rendering of the new countryside, which was the one posted on the construction site. The design and construction plan of Tang Songlin's team was also recognized by the temporary executive committee, so it approved 3,000 prisoners to invest in the construction of the new countryside and pulled out a batch of project funds. Although the bricks and tiles were made by homemade and the wood could be cut down by itself, there were still some materials that needed to be purchased, such as glass, lime, cement, etc.

The travelers participating in the project were selected by Li Songchen and Tang Songlin, and as a result, more than 400 people were selected. After the staff and funds were in place, they immediately started to organize construction. Since the travel group now has a large amount of free labor, and Tang Songlin's team all have a lot of experience in construction organization. Because he is good at organizing the construction of large-scale projects and can fully arrange the construction of flowing water, these prisoners were divided into four batches, and six villages were built at the same time, and other technical jobs were selected.

In fact, among the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance, many people do bricklayers or woodworking work, and the construction technology in the new countryside is not complicated, so these people naturally entrust them to use them. Others without skills can only do some physical work, mainly digging soil, mud, making bricks, compacting, etc. In short, they all take their own responsibilities and perform their own duties. In addition, Tang Songlin's team has strict supervision and management, and the project is also going very smoothly.
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