The next day, Yang Zhengshan went to Nanling Tun again and discovered that Zhang Hu had already led men in building an ice house.
The ice house was ugly, with no beauty to speak of. It was simply a house piled up from blocks of ice, its outer walls pitted and uneven.
That was normal too. Without a uniform mold, naturally there was no way to build neat, even walls. Besides, the ice houses were being built to settle those Military Households whose Houses had collapsed. As long as people could live in them, that was enough—who needed beauty?
A great deal of straw had been spread over the floor of the ice house, and inside, stones and wooden planks had been used to set up a bed. The bed board was probably a door plank.
Though it looked terrible, At Least there was a place to live.
Yang Zhengshan was very satisfied with this.
Over the next few days, many Thousand-Man Battalion Offices under the jurisdiction of the Tenglong Guard built ice houses.
The wisdom of the common people could not be underestimated. Though building ice houses had been Proposed by Yang Zhengshan, Yang Zhengshan soon discovered that everyone's ice houses were all different.
Some were built just like ordinary houses, with beams added to the ice houses to prevent them from collapsing.
Others were built into hemispheres, not even needing beams.
There were even clever people who simply gathered snow on the spot and built snow houses!
When Yang Zhengshan saw a snow house, he froze where he stood!
This snow house seemed even better than an ice house!
An ice house still had to wait until the ice froze solid, but a snow house could be built directly from nearby materials, saving time and effort, and there