Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 683: Overarching Strategy, Cement! (II)

Chapter 683: Overarching Strategy, Cement! (II)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"We've experimented and learned that a mix of around three parts lime and one part clay has the best effect. But even so, this one compared to the previous slurries is like a soldier who retreated fifty paces laughing at a soldier who retreated one hundred paces," Zhao Jingdian said respectfully.

Wang Chong nodded. Zhao Jingdian and his group had managed to produce some results from their research in this period. That they could find out the best ratio of lime and clay was already rather decent. Wang Chong also felt that the correct recipe used proportions like this.

However, just this was clearly far from enough. Wang Chong needed a cement path that could endure the weight of dozens of people at a time, of several thousand jin. It was obvious that the slurry before him would not be able to do this.

Moreover, just like Zhao Jingdian had said, cement of this level could truly only be called 'slurry'. Something was evidently missing from the mix.

Wang Chong stood up and asked, "Jingdian, have you gotten any of that thing that I mentioned before?"

"Is Young Master speaking of that 'lu ore'? A few days ago, as Young Master ordered, I sent people to a mountain near the Silk Road in the northwest and had them dig up the ore Young Master spoke of. But whether it is the 'lu ore' that Young Master spoke of still needs Young Master's confirmation. Someone, bring that ore over."

Zhao Jingdian waved his hand, and a few guards quickly brought in a box of ore.

As he looked at the red-brown stones within, Wang Chong inwardly smiled. This world naturally didn't have anything like 'lu ore¹'; it was just aluminum. But this world of martial arts only regarded metallic-looking ores with great importance.

As for 'aluminum ore', such a thing simply didn't exist to them.

"It should be this."

Wang Chong nodded as he looked at the ore in the box. Aluminum itself was not red-brown and only gained the color when it was mixed with iron.

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