Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 278 Step by step!

"Don't use the common people as an example. What can you do? If you stay here again, believe it or not, I will really beat you up?" Niu Jinda couldn't sit still, he snorted coldly, and raised his hand again Get up, pretending to do it again.

He has no doubts about Zhang Yi's intelligence at all. Even someone who can think of a way to make salt from seawater, in his opinion, even if he thinks of a way to build a city wall in Shuofang City, it is only natural. matter.

"Uncle Niu, as you said, the most stuff in Shuofang City is loess and hay, so I can't figure it out, why can't we use it to make bricks?" Zhang Yi slightly cupped his hands at Niu Jinda, and said in doubt: " Although dry grass does not burn as well as wood, I believe it can be successful if it is enough.

You see, we Han people have invented the invention of firing bricks and tiles with clay as early as 1000 years ago, and I have always used it in the Central Plains, but why do you not use it when you change places?And what makes me most depressed is that most of us, whether we are government soldiers or auxiliary soldiers, are from peasant households. There should be no one who doesn't know about such a method! "

As Zhang Yi said, the appearance of bricks and tiles actually existed as early as the Xia Dynasty. Although there have been some changes in size, it is actually just a change of soup.Moreover, in Zhang Yi's memory, when he was a child in his hometown, he had seen an earthen kiln that used firewood to fire bricks and tiles in small batches. Although the output was not large, it was only because of the shortage of manpower.

If there are sufficient manpower and the good viscosity of the soil in Shuofang, Zhang Yi believes that if some earthen kilns are built here for firing city bricks, the quality will definitely be much better than that of clay fired in other places.

Of course, the non-sustainable combustibility of hay is a problem, so while a large amount of hay is needed, the earthen kiln cannot be too large. If it is too large, the bricks in the heart will not be burnt, resulting in defective products.

But it is undeniable that even if it is an over-the-top defective product, as long as it is built into a city wall or a fortress, its strength will definitely be far higher than the Shuofang City they are in!
But if it's just like this, the fortress built is just useless. In Zhang Yi's eyes, since it is helping the old man to defend the city, since everyone has come, he has to do things well, so he There is also a god-defying artifact that can be taken out, and after this artifact is taken out, Zhang Yi believes that as long as there are a certain number of defenders guarding the city, the entire Shuofang is really like an iron plate, no matter what the Turkic barbarians do You can only stare with two eyes!
And this artifact is cement!
Hearing Zhang Yi talk about burning bricks to build the city wall, besides Tang Peng's joyful face, both Niu Jinda and Xue Wanren couldn't help but look ugly.

The old cow shook his head, sat down with a fart, and remained silent.

After Xue Wanren sighed, he murmured: "Brother Zhang, you don't know! There is no problem with firing bricks. In fact, I tried it when I came to Shuofang, and it can be fired. I thought The city wall of the north gate was repaired with fired bricks, but in the end it was still..."

When Xue Wanren talked about firing blue bricks, his face was full of helplessness. Although he didn't continue, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the result would definitely not be optimistic.

"Yes! At the beginning, the old man and Lu Guogong were planning to build some defenses in Shuofang. The bricks were fired, but they just couldn't find good soil to glue them together!" Niu Jinda also sighed, and said: "In the end, it will be the same. It's nothing! So boy, don't think that you are the smartest person in the world, in fact, we can also think of things you can think of, but there is really no way!"

"Using soil to glue?" Zhang Yi couldn't help being taken aback.

"That's right! It's impossible to pile up these bricks directly, right?" Xue Wanren smiled wryly again, and continued: "When we build those houses in Chang'an, we can add cow urine and glutinous rice slurry to the soil to achieve good viscosity. If there is no accident, it can be maintained for three to five hundred years. It's just that once the house is built, it's because no one moves it, but ours is a city wall, and it is a city wall that will face foreign siege at any time.

Whether it is hitting wood or chopping with a knife and gun, if the clay is not sticky enough, a single encounter can poke a hole in the city wall for you.What's more, our place is relatively humid, and once the soil gets wet, it will become soft. If there is another heavy rain, hehe, even if no one comes to attack the city, it won't take long for it to collapse by itself!So, it's not that we haven't thought about this, but that there is simply no way around it! "

Both Xue Wanren and Niu Jinda looked helpless, and then they stopped talking. One of them was sitting, and the other was standing, just like two gods, in a daze.

Zhang Yi didn't care what the two of them were thinking now, after hearing Xue Wanren's bitterness, he laughed instead, and said in the surprised eyes of the three of them: "Is it difficult for such a small matter? I?"

Zhang Yi immediately said to Niu Jinda and Xue Wanren: "Uncle Niu, Second Brother Xue, we are all on our own and I won't hide it anymore. I will let the old guys from Zhangjiazhuang I brought here later." How about a trick?If I make something later, no matter who you two are, it doesn't matter if you use a knife or a horse, as long as you can break it open for me, I will lose five pennies to you. "

Zhang Yi's voice was not loud, but it undoubtedly attracted the attention of the two of them. Not only that, even Tang Peng, who had already lost hope for the future, looked over.

However, all three of them knew very well that Zhang Yi's so-called trick must have something to do with building the city. Although they also didn't have much hope in their hearts, they still felt that they could take a look, and let Zhang Yi give up by the way, so that they don't waste their time in vain.

Discussion, nothing to discuss.

Soon, a team of one hundred people came to a place with very suitable soil outside Shuofang City.

"Old Wu, you should take a team to look for materials first. Although it is estimated that there are few places producing gypsum in this place, there should still be some!" Zhang Yi gave instructions to Wang Laowu, and then said to another veteran who came out of Zhangjiazhuang: "Don't be idle, you are all old people in the village, you should not have lost the ability to build earthen kilns, right?"

"Hehe! Uncle, look at what you said, isn't it just to build an earthen kiln? Look at me, I will guarantee you a good earthen kiln within half a day!" The veteran who was greeted by Zhang Yi laughed and patted He patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry about me doing things?"

(End of this chapter)