The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 202 Rubber?

These artisan masters who also encountered the bottleneck of the realm, although unlike the old dwarf, who lived in seclusion for decades in order to break through the realm, they are also struggling to find a way to break through through various methods and means.

Now I suddenly heard that someone found a way to break through the realm, how can you keep them from falling into a state of madness?
Most of these famous craftsmen and skillful craftsmen are people who have already established a family and established a family and have a career. Naturally, they can't be like a loner like Jia Yekui who is full of food and the whole family is not hungry. If you say take refuge in it, you take refuge in it.

Then, the simplest solution is to send your disciples and grandchildren to [Qingshi Mountain], hoping to join [Tiangongmen] and learn the secret craftsman skills, and then bring the craftsman skills back to their original sect .

Even these craftsman sects can't bear the temptation, let alone those ordinary craftsmen. When the masters urgently pass the news back to the sect and call their disciples to come to "study abroad", the news will leak out without accident , Naturally, there was an uproar among the craftsmen in the wilderness, which immediately caused a wave of "immigration" from the craftsmen!
A huge number of craftsmen, like flies smelling blood, swarmed in groups from all over the Great Wilderness and Jiuyu, and in a short period of time, a large number of people have been added to [Qingshi City] out of thin air , Moreover, I heard that this is only a relatively short distance, and it is estimated that it will take half a year to get there after running on the road for a long distance!
Gu Yi knew very well that if there were no "bait" for these famous craftsmen and skillful master craftsmen, there might not be too many of them left in the end, so before sending someone to take them to "visit and study", he deliberately strengthened the skills of various craftsmen. The defense and confidentiality work of construction sites and factories and mines.

As for some core processes and important production workshops, they are strictly guarded in accordance with the standards of military bases, and outsiders are strictly prohibited from approaching, so they can only see what they can't eat, and take a symbolic tour around the periphery.

On the other hand, he himself avoids the other party and never meets him. If he really can't avoid it, he is busy with business and has no time to give a lecture on "Heavenly Creation of Things". , these artisan masters were salivating, but they could only scratch their heads and couldn't figure out the reason behind it.

As for those members of the lower-level craftsman clan, Gu Yi entrusted all his brains to Blacksmith Kui, and those who were willing to sign the "Technical Confidentiality Agreement" as a "deed of sale" would be incorporated into the major work camps according to their respective directors. Put directly into the construction site, if you want to learn the secret craftsman skills, you have to work first.

Professionals are professional. With the help of this group of craftsmen who are at the lowest level of [craftsman], after they quickly familiarize themselves with and master the "high-tech" tools provided by [Tiangongmen], the construction speed is almost With the improvement of geometric figures, the entire Shiyuan construction site presents an extremely vigorous development atmosphere.

As the cold winter gradually passed, [Qingshi City] was gradually completed, and the rest was to wait for the climate to get warmer and drier. After these cement buildings were completely dry, they were going to be decorated in some details.

For example, lime, gypsum, china clay, indigo naturalis, chalk (chalk), ocher and other materials are mixed with a kind of perennial thick vine called [wood gum hemp vine], and the juice squeezed out is similar to paint. The coatings are used to paint the exterior and interior walls of the building, firstly for aesthetics, and secondly for waterproofing.

This technique was invented by a master of [Qigong] in the state of [Small Master and Skillful Craftsman]. It is said that when he varnishes wooden utensils, he often uses this [wood glue hemp vine] glue and mixes it with tung oil. Boil together with rosin to make wood lacquer. The painted wood is not only smooth, shiny and durable, but also insect-proof and moth-proof with a fragrant smell.

This kind of thing that is extremely similar to architectural paint aroused Gu Yi's curiosity. The functions of lime, gypsum and china clay are nothing more than filling the air bubbles on the cement wall to make it smooth, while the functions of Qingdai, Baicheng and ochre are It is not surprising that it is to change the color of the paint so that it appears in different shades such as cyan, blue, white and red.

What really made Guyi curious was the substance that acted as a "film-forming binder". When he found it for himself, he couldn't help being very surprised, because this thing was extremely similar to rubber, but it was not collected from rubber trees. of.

I asked the master of [Qi Gong], and I found out that this kind of perennial woody vine called [Bologna vine] grows all over the mountain and grows fast. If ordinary hunters and woodcutters want to go up the mountain to hunt , Logging, it is impossible to move an inch without cleaning them up.

The most hateful thing is that the hemp vines that contain this gum sap will have a pungent smell and thick black smoke when burned, and they are not even worth burning as firewood.

Moreover, once the milky white juice of this kind of hemp vine gets on the skin and clothes, it is not only difficult to clean off, but also the skin will itch and fester. Therefore, even hunters and woodcutters are reluctant to go to the hills covered with this kind of hemp vine.

However, although the extremely viscous juice squeezed from this hemp vine is regarded as a poison by the people in the wilderness, it can prevent insects from eating wood, so it is used by craftsmen as paint and glue.

What Guyi heard was a sweat!Although the varieties are different, this nima is rubber, right?
Using rubber as paint to paint the exterior walls of buildings?
luxury!

So fucking extravagant!
If it weren't for the fact that tung oil and rosin were far more difficult to obtain than this kind of "hemp rattan glue", Gu Yi guessed that the master of [Qi Gong] could use wood lacquer to treat buildings as wooden utensils!
The appearance of hemp rattan gum gave Gu Yi an unexpected surprise, because with the emergence of this material instead of rubber, he can push the technology tree to a higher level and manufacture items such as tires and sealing rings.

And some problems that bothered him, such as the sealing problem of the steam engine boiler, were also solved with the emergence of rubber!

It's just that for the application of this new material, I'm afraid it will take a period of time to test it before it can be put into use. Gu Yi has no energy to make any inventions and creations for the time being, because as the winter passes, a lot of things will follow. Let him deal with it.

For example, Gu Ning, who has been busy for a whole winter, has achieved remarkable results. Not only has he attracted a large number of customers for the "Construction Agency Investment Company for Trapped Horse Roads", but he has also received the first batch of orders for horse roads from Fort 81 in Jiucheng in [Qingshanfu], and has also followed the ancient According to Yi's request, among the various cities and castles, the land of "Zangkong Furniture City" and "Zangkong Food City" was obtained.

In addition, with the efforts of Gu Ning, a large amount of food, various materials, and raw materials have also been transported by water for a whole winter, continuously filling a large number of huge warehouses built near the Shachang Wharf, and passing through [Shawa Horse Road] and [Shiwa Horse Road] are transported to [Qingshi City] and [Qingwa City].

As for the population required by Guyi, Gu Ning even collected all the scribes and scribes in [Qingshan Mansion], and searched for as many artisans and scribes as possible. It was really not enough to gather 2000 million, so he used the young and strong scribes. people instead.

After one winter, the population of [Qingshi City] has been pushed to close to the 500 million mark, and it is expected to complete the migration of the remaining 500 million slaves before the end of the year.

[Qingshi City] has entered the stage of completion and drying, but Guyi did not stop the slaves at this point. Due to the ten-fold increase in population, he directly started construction of [Qingwa City] and [Shachang City] at the same time, and invested a saturated labor force , to build as fast as possible.

At the same time, the construction of the city walls of the three cities was also started simultaneously. As long as the factories and mines in [Qingwa City], which had expanded nearly a hundred times in one winter, supplied various building materials, Gu Yi even wanted to use a long line for each of the three cities. More than 50 kilometers of Great Wall-style walls are enclosed!

After seeing the miracle of [Qingshi City] rising from the ground in one winter, Gu Ning, Zi Yu and others have already begun to get used to Gu Yi's crazy behavior, and his plan will never keep up with it. on the changes brought about by his "construction paranoia".

One winter passed, not only was there an extra construction plan for [Sand City] and three city walls, but if it wasn't for the production speed of building materials, he really couldn't keep up with the consumption speed, and he might even plan to build a [Salt Bitter City].

Fortunately, the order for horse trails brought back by Gu Ning required a large amount of cement, which suppressed Guyi's "construction paranoia" a little bit, and began to free up the share of materials to lay horse trails on a large scale.

The only thing that makes Gu Ning very depressed is that Gu Yi, who has collected a large number of people in a short period of time, is like the most stingy iron rooster. A [horse road construction engineering team] as a guide.

[Qingshi City] is only responsible for the supply of building materials, and all the manpower for building the horse trails is taken care of by the taxi cities and military forts connected by the horse roads, and the labor under his name is all invested in the crazy construction of his own territory. middle.

In addition, the masters of the craftsman family who had been left out for a whole winter by Gu Yi finally settled down gradually when spring came. Except for some [famous craftsmen] who were attached to the names of the princes and powerful and could not help themselves, the others had Two-thirds of the independent [famous craftsman] and [crafty craftsman] chose to stay.

They even made the decision to sign Gu Yi's "Technical Confidentiality Agreement", which is equivalent to a "deed of sale", and join [Tiangongmen] as an "external technician", and began to transfer the sect under their own name to Tiangongmen. door, the whole moved to [Bluestone City] to take root.

It's no wonder that their willpower is not firm. It is really that they stayed in [Qingshi City] in the name of "research and study" in this mere winter. Both their senses and their hearts have been affected by this miracle In the city, the huge impact and shock brought by various novelties.

(End of this chapter)