The extreme north in November is cold, gray and silent, like a grizzly bear preparing to hibernate. However, in an instant, the sunshine spanned 30 latitudes and arrived at the Kingdom of the Lake, where the autumn harvest was over and it was the festival season.

The Mexica Plateau in this season is warm, bright and prosperous, and it is also the most suitable day for mobilizing large-scale manpower. Looking down from a height, the entire basin and the kingdom in the lake area are like a huge and prosperous ant nest, full of marching, running and busy people everywhere!

"Yeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyahyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyah!''

With an orderly shout, two or three hundred peasants tried their best and shouted in unison. A group of more than a dozen of them used ropes to pull up the big stake in their hands at the same time. After a few breaths, the huge wooden pile fell down hard again, beating on the newly paved secondary county road, that is, the Sanhe soil road, making a huge "bang bang" sound! And with the impact of the big wooden pile, the somewhat flimsy road surface was also forcibly smashed into a section.

"The Lord God testifies! Be careful, tamp repeatedly, and tamp hard! Tamp the roadbed hard for me. It must be so strong that your little finger can't get in! Today you have to tamp at least two miles. If you can't finish it or don't meet the requirements, you will be whipped." Five strokes, work all night!"

There was a lot of dust, and there was a lot of noise. Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, carried the village flag, shouted for instructions, and checked carefully back and forth. According to the instructions of the village priests, they gathered young people in units of villages and flag teams, and each village was responsible for a section of road. And if something goes wrong, it will be held accountable according to the village. At that time, he will be the first to be whipped, punished and even beheaded!

"Damn it! You stupid turkeys! How did you dig the gutters on both sides? Straight, straight! How could they be dug obliquely, and the stones of the roadbed were dug? It's gray and white, you Are you blind and can't see?!"

Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, stared fiercely at the men who were digging the canal with one eye. The killing power made the other party tremble in fright, and he couldn't hold the wooden shovel in his hand. Tai Shishan was originally a Prepecha warrior who joined the army. He was injured during the Northern Expedition and was shot blind in one eye by a dog descendant, so he withdrew from the Kingdom Legion. Then, he became the head of a village directly under the jurisdiction of Hekou County, that is, the de facto head of the village.

In the Kingdom of the Lake, since the old nobles in the countryside have been cleaned up very cleanly, most of the villages are directly in the hands of the Kingdom. Many of the wounded and retired veterans like him have become village chiefs or militia captains in charge of a village. Because their loyalty is the most reliable, and they can hold down the countryside!

"Lord God, what are you doing here! The priests said that these two ditches are for drainage during the rainy season, and they must be dug below the road surface! The ditch must be level with the road, and the bottom must be flat, so that water can flow! If you gather too much and soak the road for a long time, this roadbed will be destroyed! At that time, you will not only have to be whipped, but also have to rebuild..."

Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, sternly cursed a few words, and then explained to the peasants in these villages in detail. After all, they are all from the same village, and they can be regarded as his "soldiers", so they should be more sympathetic. And if the patrolling kingdom warriors and temple guards were replaced, the whipping would be fatal.

"Show me everything, watch how I dig! Remember, you have to be as diligent as digging a canal in the field!... You stupid turkeys, you have been repairing it for half a year last year, and after planting the field this year, give it to me again." I forgot all about it!..."

As he said that, Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, swung his shovel and dug out a small straight, even and deep ditch. Although he was blind in one eye, he was much more vigorous in his work than the lean peasants. And the shovel in his hand was made by iron smelting in Heiyan Mountain in the south of the kingdom, and was distributed to the village by the village priests, only a few leaders had it.

To be honest, these iron tools were not as strong and durable as bronze tools, but they were definitely better than stone tools. He heard from the priest that the main advantage of this thing is that it is cheap and large, and there will be more and more in the future!

"The Lord God's testimony! That's it, dig me, dig me hard!...Which team does a good job, when we go to the post station for lunch, each person will be rewarded with an extra cake! Cornmeal!"

Hearing the reward of a "corn flour cake", the young men who built the road swallowed their saliva and gained some strength in their hands. In the past two years, under the guidance of the village priest, composting, using farm tools, and building some canals, not only has more farmland been opened, but the harvest has also increased by 20 to 30 percent. When I came out to build roads this time, I opened the barn in the village, and each person could eat three meals a day, full of pumpkin and bean paste. However, the tortillas that have always been eaten only by warriors can only be available to teams that do a good job.

"Ahem! Lord God, such a big smoke is still choking!..."

A gust of wind blew, bringing black smoke from firewood, and a faint choking smell. Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, lowered his head, covered his mouth and nose, and coughed a few times. His one eye was choked to the point of tears, so he quickly circled around to avoid the downwind direction, and finally came to a group of busy peasants with their mouths and noses covered and their heads bowed, hundreds of steps away.

"Cough! Have your cooked ashes burned yet?"

"Come on, come on! Boss, look, the limestone is swollen, and the big stones are cracked into small pieces... I guess it will burn until evening, let it cool overnight, and it will be ready for use tomorrow!"

"What! Do you have to wait until tomorrow?"

"Yes! It is the order of the priest, and it is the kind of master with two words on his clothes!"

"Huh? It's the order of the divinely inspired priest... That's fine! Although they don't understand what they said, it should be taught by His Majesty. It must be reasonable..."

Hearing this, Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, scratched his head and looked at the site where the slaked lime was fired in front of him. I saw a large pile of limestone blocks or powder, which were piled up into the shape of a small hill by the peasants, and there was a small opening for fire in the center. Such a huge pile of ashes, even more than one, was smoking at the same time.

Looking closely, at this moment, firewood is being piled up in these small openings, and a small fire is lit, continuously roasting the surrounding limestone. From time to time, some folks carefully used a long wooden clip to add firewood to the fire in the middle.

"Huh? Limestone is swollen? How can you tell it's swollen? ... Well... the big stones are indeed cracked, and this pile of small broken stones is just like the clinker for road construction!..."

The burnt slaked lime is the most important binder in the construction of sandy soil roads. It reacts with the clay in the soil, making the soil particles more tightly bonded, that is, making the road stronger and more durable. Likewise, slaked lime improves pavement waterproofing, reduces soil erosion, and keeps weeds from growing. Therefore, in the rainy lake kingdom, much more slaked lime should be added to the road than in the dry place! This is also after the road was built last year and after a rainy season, the experience and insights discovered by the priests of God's Enlightenment were quickly spread to other places.

"When ordinary limestone is burned, it turns into boiled ashes that can build roads... Huh! It's really the power of the Lord God, praise the Lord God!"

In Central America, where volcanic activity is frequent, there are large reserves of limestone, and the output is also very abundant. This white-gray stone is no more common.

Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, watched it closely for a while, and then he was hot and sweating. He looked at the peasants around him, and they also looked like they were sweating, as if they were fished out of the water.

"Where is the water?"

"Boss~lightnovelpub.net~ is there! The ones with the lids on them were brought in from the well of the post station in the morning, and they were brought in by wheelbarrow!"

"Google! Google!"

Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, left the ashes of the fire and strode to a row of large wooden barrels. He lifted the lid, picked up a wooden ladle, scooped out the cool well water, and drank it in big gulps. Some salt was added to the cool well water, which made it quite refreshing to drink, and it was also one of the few regulations required by the kingdom.

"Praise the Lord God! You did a good job! It's not easy to burn the ashes. When you come to the station for dinner, each person will add a pancake!"

"Ah! Can I eat pancakes?...Praise the Lord God! Praise the boss!..."

"Haha! And praise Your Majesty!"

"Yes! Praise Your Majesty!"

Tai Shishan, the leader of the village, drank the water and ordered another batch of pancakes. Then he strode towards the post four or five miles away. The sun was almost in the sky, and it was hot and a little hot. After half a day of heavy work, everyone is probably exhausted. He had to hurry to see how the lunch meal was prepared. After all, there are hundreds of young adults in the village! This meal alone requires 20 people to cook and eat hundreds of catties of grain.

"It's almost there! This new station is really enviable!..."