Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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And more and more people came to watch the excitement.

Repairing houses requires a large number of people, and Zhuang Yu is fortunate enough to have the authority to mobilize all the people in Crimson City to assist, otherwise, who knows when the repairs would be completed.

With a wave of Zhuang Yu's hand, "Tear down all the old houses."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but shudder. If someone else said this, they might have been strung up and beaten.

These are their homes in Crimson City, although they are dilapidated, they are still the places where countless ancestors lived.

In fact, Zhuang Yu had a special affection for these earthen houses, but they were just too dilapidated. People who didn't know might think they had arrived at some ruined place where the wind could blow fiercely at night, making it so cold.

Out with the old, in with the new.

So, everyone gritted their teeth. Since the Young Lord said to tear them down, they would tear them down. Anyway, the Young Lord said they would have better houses to live in.

Then, Zhuang Yu arranged for the ground to be leveled and for the foundations of the houses to be laid.

During this time, it was also when the first batch of red bricks was fired and the ground was roughly leveled, and the foundations were dug.

Of course, the houses weren't repaired one by one, but rather in rows at the same time, because there were many people.

A few days later, when the first batch of red bricks was fired and the ground was roughly leveled, and the foundations were almost dug, Zhuang Yu instructed people to bring over the bricks and began teaching everyone how to build walls with cement.

Building walls is quite a technical task; it can't be crooked, and it must be sturdy.

Zhuang Yu even specially made an ink pot used in ancient times, using charcoal ash from the bottom of a pot instead of ink, and taught everyone how to use it. At the beginning, the teaching was very detailed, and after a few days of such instruction, they officially began building the walls.

Zhuang Yu became busy, he had to run back and forth on the construction site, pointing out shortcomings or mistakes. Although it's just a two-story small building, not easy to collapse, but it's still a house for people to live in, and there's no room for sloppiness.

Basically, Zhuang Yu had to inspect every bit of wall built, and if it didn't meet the requirements, even if it had to be demolished and rebuilt, there was no room for compromise. Moreover, Zhuang Yu's house design included a distinction between the living room and the bedroom, which wasn't that simple either.

So, at the beginning, the speed was as slow as a snail, and mistakes were frequent, requiring demolition and rebuilding over and over again. There was no other way; the tribe's people were all doing this for the first time and had no experience.

It wasn't until the foreign merchants brought the first batch of wood that their houses started taking shape. The beginning is always difficult, but fortunately, everyone gradually understood Zhuang Yu's intentions, and the walls built with red bricks began to meet the requirements.

In order to move into the new houses, the people of Crimson City labored tirelessly day and night.

A group of children who had nothing to do also ran over to watch the excitement. The children of the Golden Centipede Tribe had more experience in living in houses because they had lived in these earthen houses and even caves before.