Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 47 Dawuzhaibao Cement Plant ([-])
There is a Zhangjiaping village tens of miles away from Wuzhai Fort, and there is a Zhangjiaping Mountain next to the village.

According to the data in Huang Laifu's computer, Wuzhaibao is rich in limestone, clay and other resources, and most of the limestone and clay deposits are distributed in the Zhangjiaping area.

Limestone is a good thing. In addition to being directly processed into stone as building materials, it can also be fired into quicklime for disinfection and epidemic prevention.For example, in Huang Laifu's pig pen and sheep pen, a large amount of quicklime is needed to keep the sheep pen dry and prevent the sheep from getting rotten hoofs and dying of infectious diseases.

Quicklime is filled with water to become mature quicklime, which can also be applied to tree roots to kill insects.Also, there was no such thing as pesticides in Daming at this time. Lime could also be used as an insecticide in the field. Before planting in spring, sprinkle lime on the field, drain water, turn the soil, and soak the field in lime water for a while. , Two days later, the pests or eggs that hid in the soil for the winter can be eliminated.

Huang Laifu only saw this in a little agricultural knowledge by accidently turning to the computer some time ago. Before that, his farm did not kill insects before spring plowing. Next year, this insect must be killed first.

Clay has been the main raw material for making ceramics in China's thousands of years of history.But right now, the limestone and clay are the main raw materials for making cement for Huang Laifu.

Cement is an indispensable material used in various buildings in later generations. Tracing the history of its appearance, it can be said that in 1796, the British Parker fired a kind of brown cement with marl, which is called Roman cement or natural cement.By 1824, the British Asputin had fired limestone and clay into cement. The color after hardening was similar to the stones used for construction in Portland, England, and was named Portland cement, and achieved a great reputation. patent. In 1813, French civil engineering technician Picasso discovered that the cement performance made by mixing lime and clay by three to one was the best.Since then, cement has appeared in large quantities in later generations.

In the era of Huang Laifu's life, cement is always in people's lives. Whether it is civil engineering, water conservancy, or national defense construction, a large amount of cement is needed, and the demand is huge everywhere.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Laifu organized craftsmen to vigorously mine limestone and clay in the Zhangjiaping area according to the distribution map of Wuzhaibao deposit in the computer, and invested 1000 taels of silver to set up a cement factory, thinking that he could make cement for himself. demand.He hopes that after the successful production of this cement in the future, like the farm, it will become another new source of income for him.

Of course, only he himself can understand the purpose and prospects of Huang Laifu's behavior at this time. In the past, he was engaged in farms and other things, which were basically within the scope of everyone's understanding, but no one knew what this "cement" was. Understood.At first everyone thought that Mr. Huang was going to vigorously mine lime and make some clay for ceramics, but later people found out that was not the case.

Everyone is used to Huang's frequent astonishing actions, anyway, the money is not paid by himself, so just keep your eyes open and watch.

When Huang Laifu, Gu Yunniang, Qu Yuanrui, Jiang Dazhong, and Yang Xiaolu arrived at Zhangjiaping Mountain on horseback, they saw a big chimney blowing out thick smoke from afar. The smoke kept drifting with the wind.

Before everyone had time to express their feelings, suddenly there was a loud noise from the other side of the mountain, which made the horses of the few people neigh uneasy.

Gu Yunniang asked in shock: "Brother Laifu, what's wrong?"

Qu Yuanrui also had an expression of surprise and uncertainty on his face. Although he knew that Huang Laifu was currently working on something called "Cement", it was his first time visiting this place, so he couldn't help but panic when he heard the strange noise.

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu looked calm, obviously understood what was going on, Huang Laifu smiled and said: "Don't panic, Yunniang, this is the miners on the other side of the mountain who are using gunpowder to explode the ore deposit and crush the ore for mining." .We'll see what's going on in the past."

"Use gunpowder to explode the mine deposit?" Gu Yunniang's face was full of surprise.However, he still controlled the horse and followed Huang Laifu to that side.

Along the way, you can only hear the rumbling of the guns, and you can only see the billowing smoke, plus the dust from the kiln and the firing of the mountain, which makes the surrounding sky feel gray.When I got closer, I saw that the mountains near Zhangjiaping seemed to be peeled off, and the vegetation was gone, and there were ponds opening everywhere, like scars on people's foreheads.

Environmental pollution, serious damage to the ecological environment!Huang Laifu sighed in his heart, if in later generations, this would be the Sanwu small cement factory that had to close its kilns.But at this time, here, of course, no one dared to close Huang Laifu's small cement factory.

It's just that when Huang Laifu saw this kind of environmental pollution, he felt hesitant for a moment. Is it suitable for him to start this kind of industry?But soon he came to his senses, even the modern western industrial revolution was at the cost of destroying the ecological balance. After all, he came from later generations and knew some concepts of ecological protection, so he just had to pay as much attention as possible.

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When I got to the bottom of the mountain, I saw a large group of people busy around the freshly blasted limestone ore, or holding a big shovel, sending ore to the wheelbarrow one after another. Some people pushed their carts quickly towards the lime kiln and cement factory.

These people include men and women, old and young, but without exception, all of them have become "gray men". Only the teeth are still white.All of them yelled and yelled, but these people seemed to be very happy. Many of them yelled some folk tunes loudly while they were working.Huang Laifu listened, quite a bit like Xintianyou.

Huang Laifu recognized that some of these people were villagers from nearby Zhangjiaping. In fact, a month and a half ago, when this place called "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" in Zhangjiaping started mining and blasting, it was far away from the limestone. Some villagers near the kiln and the cement factory couldn’t bear the dust and noise, so Mr. Zeng recommended the respected old village chief to come and respond to Mr. Huang Laifu, telling their difficulties, meaning that after the construction of this cement factory, the whole The cannon fire that day frightened the pigs in my village to stop eating, and the chickens stopped laying eggs.

After all, the meaning is that the village has suffered heavy losses, can the young master Huang Laifu do that... what?

For Huang Laifu, who came from later generations, this situation seemed familiar and familiar. He said nothing at the moment, and each household in the village paid five taels of silver for the "little pig and chicken scare fee". 100 taels of silver.

For Huang Laifu, this compensation fee is very cheap, and it costs a little money.But five taels of silver per household is a huge sum of money for the villagers of Zhangjiaping Village.Everyone's complaints dissipated immediately, and everyone praised Young Master Huang's benevolence.

Huang Laifu also allowed the villagers of Zhangjiaping Village to work in the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory". Like those miners, each of the strong laborers paid a tael of silver per month, and they also took care of their food.The old men and women who can do active work each get five renminbi a month, and the children who can also work also get two renminbi a month. If they do well, they will be rewarded. This makes the villagers in Zhangjiaping Village cheer even more .

Although the work at the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" is tiring and dirty, everyone, whether it is the miners or the villagers, is doing it happily.For them, it doesn't matter if they are tired or dirty, and they are satisfied if they can bring a good life for themselves with their own hands.Moreover, in their eyes, this price is really worth working hard.

Speaking of wages, the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" is indeed much higher than that of other farms in Wuzhaibao, because the work here is really tiring, dirty and dangerous.In fact, regardless of whether it was the Ming Dynasty at this time or the mining area of ​​later generations, the wages in the mining area were higher than those of other factories.It is because of the well-known tiredness, dirtyness and danger.

Huang Laifu, Jiang Dazhong, and Yang Xiaolu have been here several times before, so there is no novelty for them.

But Gu Yunniang and Qu Yuanrui looked left and right, their faces were full of excitement and curiosity. The situation in front of them, in terms of impact, was indeed greater than everything on the farm. This is where industry is more shocking than agriculture.

However, both of them didn't pay attention to everything here, which may cause adverse effects on the surrounding environment.In fact, at the beginning of the Western Industrial Revolution, Westerners only had the joy of "overcoming nature" and did not realize the importance of environmental protection at all. After hundreds of years of joy, people realized the importance of environmental protection.

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Seeing Huang Laifu and others approaching, Deng Zisheng, the manager of the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory", saw it, and rushed to meet him from a distance.

This Deng Zisheng is a military craftsman Xiaoqi from Wuzhaibao, who is acquainted with Liu Zongqi. Originally, Huang Laifu, the manager of the "Great Wuzhaibao Cement Factory", was interested in Liu Zongqi. Deng Zisheng.

Deng Zisheng was suddenly given great importance, so he was naturally trembling and did not dare to neglect.

The "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" has more than 200 factory workers, miners, and Zhangjiaping villagers. Among them are five craftsmen who were former miners in Kelan Prefecture and experts in burning lime.

More than a month ago, after the construction of Huang Laifu's "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" started, he invited them through several businessmen.Two taels of silver per person per month, plus rewards, this price is enough for them to work hard.

(End of this chapter)