Rebirth Craftsman

On the edge of the cliff.

Hundreds of craftsmen, including Wang Jiabao, Wang Afu, Zhu Xiuqing, had been waiting for Liu Xing's arrangements to do things. This saw Liu Xing showing up with a tool bag on his back, and hurriedly surrounded him.

Among them, Tang Guoqing happily took a sip of the dry flue: "Xiao Liu, I heard from the team leaders that the load-bearing beams and the main structure of the main bridge are to be installed today. Isn't it like this?"

Due to age, the craftsmen who build bamboo bridges are now called Liu Xingxiao Liu, but he is not called the boss, and Tang Guoqing is naturally no exception.

This is because Liu Xing usually calls these craftsmen a very good nickname. Otherwise, no one would call him Xiao Liu, but the boss or contractor.

"Yeah!" Liu Xing nodded: "In order to avoid making mistakes, I will not count the pieces for these two days. The big guys worked together to complete the installation of the load-bearing beam and the main structure "Gongtian Pipa Tong"."

"What about the wages?" a craftsman said.

"Fifty a day, including board and lodging, if you are not satisfied, you can go now!" Liu Xing smiled.

"Hahaha..." All the craftsmen also laughed.

In 1994, fifty a day's wages were hard to find with a lantern, so no one would leave!

Seeing that everyone had no problem, Liu Xing took out a drawing about the bamboo bridge load-bearing beam, as well as the combined drawing of the gongtian lute and tenon, and placed it on the side wooden table, and immediately explained it seriously.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you explain it or not, because most of the craftsmen present have not read many books and can't understand the drawings at all. Even the team leaders Zhu Xiuqing, Wang Jiabao, and Wang Afu can't understand these drawings.

They will only do what Liu Xing said, and ask questions if they don't understand.

Fortunately, Liu Xing understands all the processes involved in constructing the bamboo bridge, otherwise he would really have a headache.

However, there are also those who can read and understand the drawings. That is, the supervisors from the old school Liu said that they are supervisors, but in fact they have no rights. They are only responsible for the supply of some special materials for the bamboo bridge.

But today, after seeing the drawings Liu Xing took out, the eyes of these supervisors lit up.

Because the design of the bamboo bridge drawing is really novel and unique.

When they were studying bridge construction related majors in university, they read many foreign bridge design drawings. They thought that those bridge design drawings were very advanced. Now it seems that they think too much. The bamboo bridge design drawings that Liu Xing had It's incomparable.

Liu Xingke didn't have time to manage the ideas of these supervisors. Before he came to Xiangxi to build the bamboo bridge, he used wood to make a small arched lute structure model.

Now he disassembled the model of the arching lute in front of everyone, and then assembled it while explaining it. Whenever he didn't understand, he explained it in detail on the spot.

As for the assembly plan of the bamboo bridge load-bearing beam, he did not talk about it, because it involved some very complicated knowledge. After these craftsmen understood the assembly method of the gongtian lute, he had to assemble the load-bearing beam himself.

To his surprise, as he assembled the Gongtian Pipa and Tenon, the hundreds of craftsmen surrounding him, except for a few, could understand all of them. Some of them expressed their opinions from time to time, even Some suggested ways to save the time of assembling the gongtian lute.

Liu Xing has thoughts about the opinions of these craftsmen. Naturally, they are all in mind, and when appropriate, he refutes one or two sentences with examples.

It's not that he doesn't look down on the opinions of these craftsmen, but that there are some things that these craftsmen only see in front of them, instead of looking at the overall situation.

All craftsmen can make such mistakes, but he alone cannot.

Otherwise it would be troublesome.

Fortunately, these hundreds of craftsmen have gotten acquainted with Liu Xing these days, and instead of arguing with Liu Xing on some subjective issues, they picked up a tool bag and went to work.

The first thing to assemble is the three-meter-long Gongtian lute. This is a big guy, and one can't lift it without five or six people.

But Liu Xing had already prepared a dozen pulleys with a steel frame structure. After putting on the iron ropes, he could pull the Gongtian lute tenon up with a gentle pull.

But one of the most difficult problems now is that these large arching lutes must be assembled on a temporary wooden bridge between two cliffs, which is not possible in a safe open space.

After all, Liu Xing did not call a hoisting machine to help build the bamboo bridge.

As a result, some craftsmen began to make complaints, saying that it is dangerous to assemble the arched lute on the temporary wooden bridge, and they will not do it if they do not process the money.

Liu Xing smiled and ignored the requests of these craftsmen. Instead, he asked Wang Jiabao to take a few apprentices to assemble the Gongtian lute first, and he took Wang Afu, Sikong Lei and other dozens of people to fix it on the temporary wood. The pulleys on the bridge began to assemble the load-bearing beam.

The material of this load-bearing beam is all fine golden nanmu. Although it was not very famous and valuable in 1994, some craftsmen could recognize it.

When they saw this bamboo bridge cost such a big price, they were all embarrassed.

But if you let them know that these golden nanmu were given by a mysterious old man, Liu Xing didn't have a penny, I'm afraid he would be more envious and jealous.

Once the installation of the load-bearing beam starts, it cannot be stopped, because the load-bearing beam has some tenon and wood structure, which must be carried out simultaneously with the Gongtian lute.

In other words, the assembly progress of the Gongtian Pipa Tong can be slowed down or even stopped, but the assembly of the load-bearing beam must be done in one go.

This bitter Liu Xing, braving the scorching sun, had been working from morning until three o'clock in the afternoon before eating, and then only drank a bowl of herbal tea, and took Sagong Lei and others to continue working overtime to assemble the load-bearing beams.

It doesn't matter if other people don't understand assembly, or don't understand the principle of tenon-wood combination, as long as they work hard and obey Liu Xing's command, the progress of the load-bearing beam will go up.

By the evening of the third day at sunset, the main structure of the load-bearing beam of the first one-way road was finally assembled with Liu Xing's efforts.

From a distance, the beauty of the mortise and wood structure is everywhere.

However, the assembly of the load-bearing beam was successfully completed.

There was a problem with the assembly of the Gongtian lute. It turned out that when the Gongtian lute was made in advance at the market, one of the key mortises was forgotten.

Many craftsmen say that it will be fine, one more tenon and one less tenon should not hinder the main structure of the main bridge.

When Liu Xing heard this, he went wild on the spot.

He is not easy to criticize the craftsman who makes the gongtian lute.

But Zhu Xiuqing can be scolded. After all, Zhu Xiuqing is in charge of quality. Now that such a problem arises, it is natural to be held accountable.

Zhu Xiuqing cried on the spot when she was scolded, but she did not hate Liu Xing because of it, because she knew that the bamboo bridge was not making dustpans. Once a mistake was made, the loss would not only be money, but also a workshop of bamboo products. Reputation.

When the craftsmen who had been messing around saw Liu Xing's fierce appearance, they all hurriedly shrank their heads to do things.

As for the mortise that I forgot to open, naturally I worked overtime overnight to fix it.

No one dares to raise wages this time.

After all, this mistake was committed by them, and Zhu Xiuqing had done his best for them.

After this incident, no one dared to raise wages at every turn, because Zhu Xiuqing had a lot of strict quality control, even if there was something wrong, she asked for rework.

Those who are disobedient are fired straight away and get paid for the money.

Liu Xing saw this scene in his eyes and didn't say much.

Because in his mind, Zhu Xiuqing's approach is right. If there is no good quality control in the construction of the bamboo bridge, it would be too late if something went wrong in the later stage.

But this also has a big drawback, that is, hundreds of craftsmen can't stand such strict quality control. In two days, more than 20 people have left.

For these people who left, Liu Xing didn't care about it.

Called Zhu Xiuqing to continue to recruit people.

Anyway, the hot summer is coming soon.

At that time, the order for bamboo mats will definitely be huge. No matter how many people are recruited, as long as they are willing to endure hardship, they are not afraid of nothing to do.

On the afternoon of April 18th, the first super-large gongtian lute was finally assembled with everyone's efforts.

It is like a large arched centipede, standing on two cliffs.

People walking on it don't even feel any looseness, but some have a compact structure.

However, Liu Xing's quality inspection of this Gongtian pipa mortise is not just that it will be fine as long as people walk on it. He found Liu Lao immediately and asked with a smile: "I don't know if you have a large truck left in Xiangxi. If anything, trouble will come."

"What do you want to do?" Liu Lao was confused when he heard that.

"Check the load-bearing capacity of the main structure of the bamboo bridge!" Liu Xing said straight out without turning a corner.

The main structure of the bamboo bridge is now about four meters wide. Although it looks a little narrow, there should be no problem passing a large truck.

Of course, that kind of super truck is not included here.

"What? Use a big truck to detect?" Liu Lao widened his eyes: "Is your kid crazy? Even if I can agree, then who driver would dare to drive through the middle of the two cliffs?"

This bamboo bridge in Xiangxi, according to his intention, can ride motorcycles and bicycles. As for large vehicles such as small cars and large trucks, he didn't even think about it.

After all, how big the carrying capacity of the bamboo bridge is, everyone thinks about it.

Once the carrying capacity is exceeded, the consequences can be imagined.

However, Liu Xing used a large truck to inspect the main structure that was just built. This was either crazy or drank too much, and it was just death.

Only Liu Xing knows whether it is crazy or not. He said seriously: "You can just drive the truck to the edge of the cliff. As for the driver if no one is willing to do it, I will do it myself."

The reason why the Gongtian lute has this name is because its structure is designed to carry weight. The word'Gongtian' explains how terrifying the weight of the Gongtian lute.

It can be arched even in the sky, not to mention this small big truck!