After Li Yu saw the design drawings drawn by Ang Lee, he suddenly felt uncomfortable. His expression was quite complicated. In his eyes, there was joy, embarrassment, and even some dissatisfaction and helplessness.
He sighed slightly, looked at Ang Lee, and said, "If I had known that Assistant Minister Li could draw so well, I wouldn't have drawn it. I wasted half the night."
After saying that, he covered his mouth to prevent himself from yawning as much as possible.
After listening to Li Yu's words, Ang Lee held back his laughter. As the dignified grandson of the Emperor, Li Yu spent half the night drawing a graffiti. This was really damaging to his reputation. If this drawing was spread, Li Yu's reputation would be greatly reduced.
"Haha! How can you say that it was a waste of time? At least, in the process of drawing, Gwangbyeong Of Gojoseon should have thought deeply about the problem of the underground parking lot, right? "
Ang Lee said with a smile.
Finally getting some recognition from Ang Lee, Li Yu's mouth showed a smile. In this way, his night was not in vain. Moreover, Ang Lee was telling the truth. After a whole night of thinking, he did gain a lot. There were many problems that he had not thought of before, but after last night's drawing, he thought of them. He even read some books to understand the population changes in Chang 'an City in the Tang dynasty in the past ten years, as well as the changes in consumer groups, and so on.
He also had a deeper understanding of the necessity of building an underground parking lot. However, due to the lack of professional knowledge, Li Yu had no clue about the specific design of the underground parking lot. Therefore, when drawing the drawings, he did not know how to mark it. He could only draw a simple rectangular tunnel, and then make a few openings in it. He wrote down the various construction materials needed, the estimated cost, and so on.
"Assistant Minister Li is right. Last night, I thought a lot and read a lot of books. I did gain a lot. In recent years, the population of Chang 'an City has increased by two or three times, and there are more and more people who have cars. The traffic pressure on the roads in the capital city is much greater than in the past years. The traffic pressure is not the main thing, but the parking problem is getting more and more serious. It has reached the point where it must be solved."
Li Yu said seriously.
Ang Lee said happily, "It's really a blessing for the Tang dynasty that Gwangbyeong Of Gojoseon can specially look up information for this plan. I'll leave these drawings to you. Just now, the R&D Center sent news that the Long-distance Telepathy Plan has encountered difficulties again. I have to deal with it!"
After that, he smiled bitterly and helplessly.
Li Yu took the drawings drawn by Ang Lee and also took back the doodles he had drawn. He said lightly, "The Tang dynasty has troubled Assistant Minister Li. If you need my help in the future, just let me know. I'll go back and study the underground parking lot with my subordinates. Goodbye."
It was inappropriate for Ang Lee to ask him to stay. He personally saw Li Yu out of the door. Then, he took a sip of tea and set off for the R&D Center. The ongoing Long-distance Telepathy Plan was Ang Lee's most important work. It would play a pivotal role in the development of the Tang Empire in the future.
Although Li Yu had obtained Ang Lee's drawings, he had to carefully discuss and study the underground parking lot plan with his trusted subordinates, which was completely unprecedented in the Tang dynasty. He had to take into account all the difficulties that could be encountered in the plan. There could not be any small mistakes. Otherwise, not only would he lose the chance to make a name for himself, but he would also be labeled as a failure forever. It was difficult for an incompetent and failed imperial grandson to have a future. His incompetence might even implicate his father, the Crown Prince.
Some of the ministers would use the excuse that the Crown Prince was stupid and his son was even more stupid to request the Emperor to remove the Crown Prince and replace him with a smarter one.
There was already a precedent for this in the Jin Dynasty. The son of the Jin Emperor, Sima Yan, the Jinhui Emperor, Sima Zhong, was a fool. His intelligence was much lower than an ordinary person's. This made Sima Yan very vexed. He wanted to remove the Crown Prince and replace him with a smarter son.
However, this stupid Sima Zhong's son, who was also Sima Yan's grandson, was exceptionally smart. This gave Sima Yan hope. Even if his Crown Prince's son was not good, his grandson's intelligence level was high enough. This way, the Great Jin Empire's future still had hope. This way, he did not remove his foolish Crown Prince. Moreover, the ministers were willing to let a fool be the Emperor in order to better control the political power.
In other words, if Sima Zhong's son was also rather stupid, he would lose his position as Crown Prince. Of course, for the Great Jin Empire, losing his position as Crown Prince might be a good thing.
As for Li Heng, because he was worried that others would accuse him of having ulterior motives, he had always been hiding like a turtle. He had never done anything of the sort. Although he was relatively smart compared to Sima Zhong, he was not much smarter. At the very least, in the view of many people, there were still many princes smarter than Li Heng.
In this situation, Li Yu's performance was very important. As long as he could display his intelligence and strong organizational skills, then he would be able to gain more prestige for his father, the Crown Prince. This would give the Emperor even less reason to depose the Crown Prince.
Li Yu still needed to work for a while before he could propose the construction of an underground parking lot to the Imperial Court and the Emperor. On the other hand, Ang Lee's construction of the Mount Li Breeding Base could be carried out very quickly. After all, Ang Lee had chosen the Mount Li Valley, a very inconspicuous place. Moreover, Ang Lee's status was relatively high. As long as he proposed the construction of a research base for breeding wild animals, no one would stop him.
The approval document was quickly issued. After receiving the document's approval, Ang Lee immediately had his steward lead a construction team of more than a hundred people into Mount Li. Accompanying them were several dozen soldiers. They were mainly responsible for security. There were many wild animals in the depths of Mount Li. If these construction workers were to be attacked by wild animals, it would be bad.
The construction of the base required many materials, such as wood, bricks, concrete, steel, and so on. Among them, the valley already had wood. However, in order to protect the ecological environment of the valley, Ang Lee decided not to use any of the trees in the valley. All of the wood was purchased from the market.
The breeding area, living area, food storage area, planting area, watchtower, and so on were all clearly marked on the map. More than a hundred craftsmen only needed to build according to the information on the map.
In Chang 'an City, because all of the civilian buildings couldn't exceed the walls of the Imperial Palace, there weren't many tall buildings. Other than the Big Wild Goose Tower, it was already considered good if a commoner's house had three stories. Houses with four or five stories were all in the southern part of the capital, far away from the Imperial City.
However, this situation didn't exist in the valley of Mount Li. The valley was very steep, so it wouldn't be a problem to build a tall building with more than ten stories at the bottom. Such a tall building wouldn't even reach halfway up the mountain, let alone spy on Pure Flowers Palace.
The tall building had a stronger viewing function. As long as a tall building with more than ten stories was built in the middle of the valley, the people standing on top of it would be able to have a panoramic view of the entire valley. This was undoubtedly very beneficial for management.
The lower floors could be used to store animal ingredients. The higher floors could be converted into staff dormitories, and the tallest one could be used as a viewing platform. There was nothing inside, only fences and glass. This would allow the people standing on top to have a better view.
In addition, Ang Lee said that he wanted to build an ornamental suspension bridge in the sky. This tall building with more than ten stories could be used as the foundation of the suspension bridge.
After much consideration, Ang Lee decided to design the tall building in the heart of the valley with twelve stories. Each story was about three meters tall, so the building would be about thirty meters tall.
In order to make it easier to observe the situation in the valley, the building's shape wasn't square. It was cylindrical, just like the Big Wild Goose Tower. However, the tower that Ang Lee designed was much stronger than the Big Wild Goose Tower. It wouldn't collapse even after several thousand years.
A height of thirty meters wasn't much. What was even more amazing was that this tower had a diameter of eight meters. It was much thicker than the Big Wild Goose Tower, which had a diameter of four to five meters. Therefore, it was naturally much stronger.
In the middle of the sixth floor, suspension bridges stretched out in four directions. These suspension bridges gradually lowered at a certain range. For safety, there was a column at every distance. Most of these columns were disguised as reinforced concrete columns. When there were tall trees, they would be used directly. This way, some columns could be saved and thus cost savings.
The height of the sixth floor was about fifteen meters. In other words, the highest point of the suspension bridge was fifteen meters. After the gradual downward shift, the lowest point was only four to five meters high. If it was any lower, it wouldn't be safe. After all, there were wild animals below. It was safer to stay away from them.
The length of the suspension bridge was very long. The length of the four suspension bridges was about one to two miles. Moreover, they could continue to improve in the future and build more suspension bridges. As for the width of the suspension bridges, there wasn't such a high requirement. As long as it could allow two or three people to walk side by side, it would be fine. Ang Lee's design was two meters wide.
When it came to the suspension bridge, many people's first impression was that it was a simple bridge with wooden planks below. It was a simple bridge that swayed when walking, just like the Flying Luding Bridge in the textbooks.
The suspension bridge designed by Li An was obviously not this kind of soft and swaying bridge, but a rigid one. In addition to the tall building and pillars at the bottom, the suspension bridge was supported by steel beams on both sides, and there were two smaller steel beams inwards. There was also a steel beam at regular intervals on the horizontal road, and the rest of the bridge was paved with wooden planks thick enough to support many people. In this way, there would be absolutely no accidents, and there would be absolutely no safety accidents.
Such a project was not small. Was more than a hundred craftsmen really enough? If all the parts were to be processed by the craftsmen temporarily, it would definitely be too late. For example, the demand for the wooden planks of the suspension bridge was so high that even if they found a thousand carpenters, it would be enough to keep them busy. It would take even more time to build the steel beams on the spot.
Therefore, in order to build the breeding base as soon as possible, Ang Lee decided to buy all the finished products. Anyway, Ang Lee was filthy rich. No matter how much he wasted, the money in his hands would never run out. Since he could pursue efficiency, why not pursue it?
The reason why Ang Lee could buy these ready-made materials was that after so many years of development, many industries in the Tang Empire had developed. The finished steel beams had already entered the market, and wooden planks of various lengths had already entered various carpentry shops. As long as you had money, you could easily buy these raw materials, so that construction could be done quickly.
For example, Ang Lee designed the span of the suspension bridge to be two meters. In addition to the two-meter width being enough, there was another reason. Most of the wooden planks on the market were two meters long. Therefore, after these planks were bought, they did not need to be processed. They could be directly laid down. Naturally, the labor requirements were greatly reduced.
As for the steel beams, they were formed as more and more railways were laid down in the Tang Empire. Many businessmen saw that the number of railways laid down in the future would not be small, so they bought iron to build the steel beams for the rails. In this way, they could earn a lot of processing fees.
The quality of the rails was needless to say. Dozens of trains could run on them without any pressure, let alone people walking on them. Therefore, there was no pressure to use the rails as the steel beams of the suspension bridge. The construction progress was bound to be very fast.
In addition to these main buildings, there was a more important building, which was the separation wall. Although the valley was relatively closed, there were still two directions where the slope was not so steep. There was also a passage into the valley. These places must be dealt with to ensure that wild boars and other animals could not pass through. Only one gate was needed, and it had to be built in a grand manner.
After everything was ready, the next most important task was the construction. Because the construction required a lot of materials, the requirements for transportation were very high.
For this reason, Ang Lee specially spent a lot of money to recruit a complete transportation team. This team was very good. It had dozens of motorized vehicles and hundreds of carriages. Its transportation ability was not ordinary. Usually, the main business was to help merchants transport short-distance materials. In order to prevent robbers from robbing, the team had special guards.
After more than a hundred craftsmen were stationed in the valley, the transportation team also began to get busy. Every day, they went to the markets inside and outside the capital to transport various construction materials bought by Ang Lee's butler to the valley, so that the construction could proceed normally.
Three days later, Ang Lee decided to go to the valley to see how the construction was progressing. The vehicle quickly took Ang Lee to the valley entrance. At this time, the construction of the courtyard wall and gate had begun. The gate was very wide, enough for four vehicles to pass at the same time. A large number of construction materials were piled up inside and outside the courtyard wall.
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