Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 76 Starting to Develop Cement

After that, Guo An lay down again for three days, and then, under Zhu Liang's urging, he had to come to the iron smelting station in Shangzhuang Village again.

As for the craftsmen, it was still the ten old craftsmen.

This time, the entire iron smelting institute was full of gratitude when they saw Guo An.

Obviously, the rewards that Zhu Di gave to these craftsmen have already reached the hands of these craftsmen.

Especially Zhong Huo, after seeing Guo An, his face was full of hospitality.

"Your servant sees Mr. Guo Xianzun. Mr. Guo Xianzun came to the iron smelter again, but has he come up with a solution?"

"Guan Zhong's eyes are really venomous. After so many days of hard thinking and meditation, I also read hundreds of books, and finally got some inspiration."

Guo An was talking nonsense seriously.

Zhong Huo was full of admiration and said: "Guo Xianzun is indeed a genius of heaven, I don't know what items Guo Xianzun needs, as long as it is in Tieye, the villain will definitely bring it to the county zun."

Zhu Liang on the side had a strange expression on his face, but he knew that the county magistrate Guo had been lying on a chair for the past few days, and he didn't even worry too much about the government affairs in the county government.

If it weren't for His Royal Highness who couldn't stand it anymore and asked him to urge him, the Guo County Lord could still lie at home for another half a month.

And this time, Guo An has already started talking.

"Guan Zhong, with the usual method, it is indeed very difficult to build a three-foot-high house.

Therefore, I plan to develop another building material. "

Zhong Huo's eyes lit up, and he said quickly: "Guo Xianzun just ask the villain."

"Very well, I need some limestone and some clay."

"This matter is easy, these villains can send a stone to the county magistrate in a while."

"Then, the official needs to crush these limestones, grind them to be as fine as clay, mix them evenly with the clay, and put them in the furnace for calcination.

The temperature of the furnace must be at least the same as that of the iron-smelting furnace. As for the calcination time, it should be calcined for an hour first. "

"This……"

Zhong Huo froze for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"The villain will order the servants to do it."

"And plaster, need some too!"

"This matter is also simple..."

Soon, Zhonghuo called several craftsmen to look for limestone, clay, and gypsum.

"Guo Xianzun, I don't know what you are going to do?"

Zhu Liang and Blacksmith No. [-] and the others were all confused.

"I am going to develop a building material that is stickier than glutinous rice. It is called cement, and it will be used to build houses for that giant iron furnace. You should have heard it just now!"

Zhu Liang, Blacksmith and the others all nodded subconsciously.

They heard every word Guo An said to Zhong Huo just now.

"Okay, let's all prepare. When the limestone arrives, we will break it up and calcine it. Maybe after the development is successful, everyone will get ten taels, or even more rewards."

"Guo Xianzun just take a good look at it..."

A group of old craftsmen were suddenly full of energy.

Guo An was not too anxious about developing cement.

Cement is much easier than making iron, just try out the ratio of limestone, clay, and gypsum!

These things, no more than five days.

And the rest is bricks.

Thinking about it, Guo An looked at Zhu Liang beside him.

"May I ask General Zhu, does His Highness have a brick factory?"

"Brickyard?"

Hearing this, Zhu Liang's eyes lit up, "Guo Xianzun is going to use bricks to build a house for that giant iron furnace?"

Guo An nodded, "Yes!"

"For the matter of bricks, don't worry Guo Xianzun, His Royal Highness King Yan really has a brick factory."

Zhu Liang said, "It's just that there are not many bricks fired in the brick factory, which should not be enough for Guo Xianzun."

"It's okay, it's just to build a house, not many bricks are needed."

Guo An waved his hand casually and asked, "After five days, can you send 1 yuan in bricks?"

Because of the habit of building city walls with bricks in the Ming Dynasty, the bricks fired in all brick factories are generally relatively large, which can reach one or two feet.

With 1 yuan of bricks, a house can be built.

"Don't worry Guo Xianzun, 1 yuan of bricks can still be delivered."

After Zhu Liang finished his reply, he said with some hesitation: "Master Guo, let me say something more, Beiping lacks food, and His Royal Highness King Yan will never allow glutinous rice mortar to build a house."

"General Zhu, don't worry, I don't dare to spoil the food!"

Guo An smiled lightly, "When the cement is developed, General Zhu and His Highness King Yan will understand."

"In this way, the general will be relieved!"

Only then did Zhu Liang heave a sigh of relief.

Next, the dry calcined cement process.

While calcining, while testing, while recording.

Zhu Liang couldn't understand these things, and when he reported to Zhu Di, it was only a one-to-one report. Guo Xianzun took the ten craftsmen every day, grinding stones non-stop, and then burning stones and burning stones. Water and stir again.

"Do you still use river sand?"

Zhu Di became more and more confused as Guo An burned the cement.

"Your Highness, that's exactly the case."

Zhu Di rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and looked at Monk Daoyan beside him.

"The mage is very knowledgeable. Looking at the ancient and modern times, I don't know if you have heard of that cement thing?"

"The monk is ashamed. I don't know what object that Guo Xianzun is developing."

Monk Daoyan looked indifferent.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Fu again, and Zhu Fu also shook his head quickly.

When he heard the name of cement for the first time, Zhu Fu searched through the books in the palace, but found nothing.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Liang again, "Guo Anke told you, when will the cement be forged?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, Guo Xianzun said that the cement has been calcined, but in order to make it usable for building houses, we still need to experiment to find out the best ratio.

Therefore, the end will feel that it will take a few more days! "

Zhu Liang hurriedly reported.

"So, after five days, I will go to Shangzhuang Village to have a look!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, then remembered something, and asked again: "Now, how many pieces of the giant iron-making furnace in the iron smelter have been built?"

Zhu Liang said: "Reporting to Your Highness, three pieces have been built, but it will take a few days to use them to make iron."

"Very good!"

Zhu Di asked again: "How is the situation of the farm during this period of time?"

Zhu Fu replied: "Reporting to Your Highness, four chickens died on the farm in the past few days, and one pig died of illness, but there were several veterinarians sent by His Highness, and there was no major disturbance."

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "The farm is very important, and there must be no accidents."

"Please put it down, Your Highness, I must keep an eye on the farm!"

Zhu Fu saluted quickly.

As the foreign official Guo An gradually made contributions to Yan Wang Zhu Di, Zhu Fu, the chief historian of the Yan Palace, and all the officials in the Yan Palace were under pressure.

The farm is the only place where they can make achievements at present.

Therefore, Zhu Fu and some Yan Palace officials did not dare to be careless about the farm.

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(End of this chapter)