No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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It ’s time for the first brick fired in the brick kiln. A large group of craftsmen are walking towards the top of the brick kiln. There are many large tanks filled with water and many wooden barrels. Their task is to remove cold water from the brick kiln. The upper water injection port is poured into the interior of the brick kiln to cool down the high-temperature bricks inside for easy transportation.

“Hey…”

When a bucket of cold water was poured into an instant of the brick kiln from the water injection port, a crisp sound was emitted, and at the same time, a large amount of white smoke came out from all parts of the brick kiln, leaving the entire brick kiln factory covered with white smoke .

This white smoke, of course, is water vapor. The fallen cold water encounters high-temperature bricks and instantly vaporizes. At the same time, it also takes away a lot of heat from the bricks, so that the bricks can be faster. Cooling down.

“It’s spectacular! It’s been a long time since I saw this scene.”

Li An sighed with joy.

The subordinate who was behind him opened the mouth and said: “It only takes a moment, the mist will dissipate, and the craftsmen can transport out the fired bricks.”

Li An nodded, stepping down the arrow tower, ready to enter the brick kiln to see at any time, although the brick kiln is not at all good-looking, but you must feel it in person to better understand the brick kiln.

The moment passed quickly, and the violently rising steam became faintly discernable. However, as long as it was close to the brick kiln, a heat wave could still be felt, but it was not so strong that’s all.

“The bricks have cooled down. Let’s move in and move the bricks.”

Chief-In-Charge ordered aloud.

The craftsmen who were originally responsible for water cooling were all down, and they wore coarse cloth gloves, ready to go in and move the bricks.

“Okay, everyone.”

Under the leadership of Chief-In-Charge, more than 30 craftsmen stepped into the brick kiln. In order to improve the capacity, they also pushed 7 8 small flat cars.

Li An and his followers also followed in, but naturally it was not to help, but to feel life.

Entering the inside of the brick kiln, I found that it is really hot. Although it can be tolerated, it is very uncomfortable. The temperature inside it still exceeds the comfort level of the human body, which makes people feel uncomfortable. High, there is a small amount of white mist on the top of the head. If you listen carefully, you can hear the bricks not making a loud whine because of the cooling.

The craftsmen scattered the different caves to move the bricks, and placed the fired red bricks neatly on the small flatbed cart. After that, they also needed to arrange them neatly in the designated location outside.

Because the bricks are not uniformly irrigated by cold water, a small amount of water accumulates above the bricks. When a craftsman touches the bricks, a small amount of water will flow down the bricks, which makes the bricks relatively hotter. Part of it, which in turn makes a loud croak.

As the craftsmen continue to move bricks, each and everyone caves continue to make a loud squeak, making people feel that the cave in front of them is hot.

Li An stepped forward and went to get the bricks in person.

“Minister Li be careful, the bricks are hot.”

Chief-In-Charge stopped and said quickly.

Li An didn’t care, and took a burnt brick in his hand.

This is a completely burnt blue brick. You did good, the brick is very smooth, the temperature is still there, and it is relatively hot. It is okay for a short time. If you hold it in your hand, your fingers will hurt. Feeling, a deep burning pain.

Li An still put the bricks on the small flatbed, lightly brushed his hands, and continued to watch the craftsmen work.

“How many bricks are fired here at a time?”

Li An glanced at it and already knew about it, but in order to determine the final quantity, he still had to ask.

“Back to Minister Li, there are a total of 20 5 caves, each cave can put 2 square bricks, a total of 50 squares, each square brick is 510 bricks, a total of 2 20000 bricks.”

Chief-In-Charge answered seriously.

Li An’s satisfied nodded and said: “Yes, it’s quite a lot! However, these productions are still too small, not enough!”

“Minister Li, we have too few people, and we can’t make it fast!”

Chief-In-Charge complained.

After all, there are only more than 100 people in such a large brick kiln. Human resources are indeed quite tight, and it is not realistic to increase production on a large scale.

Li An opened the mouth and said: “This Official doesn’t mean to blame you. The manpower is not enough. It is indeed unrealistic to increase the output. However, the future demand for bricks is indeed very large. These outputs are far from enough. Yes, This Official will find a way to recruit manpower. At the same time, the scale of the brick factory also needs to be expanded, which needs to be done step by step. “

In order to build a large number of brick-wood structure houses, as the most used bricks and wood, these two building materials are absolutely indispensable.

After walking out of the brick kiln and breathing the fresh air outside, Li An felt comfortable all over his body. The environment inside was too bad, not only the temperature was unbearable, but the air quality was also very bad, as long as it was not bypelled by circumstances, yes will not be willing to work in this environment.

It is used to place the fired blue bricks at a distance of 300 steps from the mouth of the brick kiln. It is not very far, but it is not close at all. Therefore, you must use a small pallet truck. It’s too much.

7 8 small flat-panel vehicles are transported back and forth, 3 people per vehicle is enough, one side can transport bricks, 5 bricks, enough for them to transport.

An entire hour passed, and the 30 craftsmen successfully transported all 50 bricks to the designated location.

However, they can only rest for a while, and then they have to transport 50 cubic meters of adobe into the brick kiln to start a new round of firing.

These guys are really tired. I heard that they can rest for a moment, all sitting on the ground with their buttocks, and even lying directly on the flatbed, closing their eyes and enjoying a moment of comfort.

“All got up and started working.”

Chief-In-Charge loudly shouted.

These craftsmen who have just rested for a moment, after hearing the order, had to get up to work. It can be seen that these guys simply do n’t want to work, each and everyone are all twisting their necks to be lazy, they still want to continue to rest for a while, after all, just now It’s really tiring to work continuously for so long.

However, Li An has just stated that the demand for bricks in the construction of Harbor is extremely large. Therefore, there can be no delay in making bricks. The highest brick kiln utilization rate should be achieved.

Therefore, these craftsmen must get up and work immediately. After putting all the 50 cubic meters of clay in the brick kiln, they can rest again, and the rest can be slightly longer. After all, the work intensity is too great, and a little rest is also incomparable. Less.

Except this one third artisan is transporting bricks, the rest are all mud and billet, and the mud and billet are not much technical content, a little learning, but it is also more tiring, and, Manufacturing speed is difficult to increase quickly.

According to the standard brick making process, the soil excavated should be dried for several months to let the soil become mature before the blank can be made. However, Li An has to wait for it and you do n’t have to follow these rules. Anyway, the requirements for bricks are also Not high, as long as it’s almost the same, it doesn’t need to be made very well, and the quality requirements are not so high, so, just dry it for a day and make the blank.

There are two methods for making blanks. One is the manufacture of bricks by bricks, that is, the size of the abrasive tool is the size of a brick. Just put the soil.

Another method is to make a large abrasive tool, which can put a lot of mud, and the bricks produced are also very large, but you can use a small tool such as iron wire to accurately cut this huge mud blank. Finally, many blocks of clay were cut in one go.

The second method can greatly increase the speed of making blanks and reduce the labor intensity of craftsmen. However, this has a relatively high requirement on the personal ability of craftsmen. If the cutting is biased, then the produced blank will be of different sizes. The thickness is uneven.

Li An often saw bricks with different thicknesses and sizes in later generations. This is because the craftsmen responsible for cutting were too technical and could not always cut them properly, which caused this phenomenon, and Seriously affected the use effect, so that the bricklayer who encountered this situation scolded.

Knowing that some artisans are not skilled, and some artisans are veterans, so this brick kiln took two methods at the same time.

The old craftsmen used the wire cutting method, and the new rookie can only obediently and honestly, making the clay blank piece by piece.

This effect must be that the work efficiency of the old craftsman is far higher than that of the new craftsman, and the income will naturally exceed that of the new craftsman.

The new craftsmen ca n’t be convinced, who ca n’t make their skills work? If they have this skill, they can come here to do it.

According to the different requirements for bricks, the time for firing the bricks can also be flexible. For example, Li An requires that the blue bricks in the brick kiln should be fired for one day one night, which is enough time to make the mud brick into a hard brick. As for how high the quality is and how hard the bricks are, Li An will not consider it, it is almost enough, as long as it can be used successfully, it is a successful brick.

The desire for high-tech money tickles the craftsmen with poor skills. When they are working, they will go from time to time to see how old craftsmen cut, and try every means to practice. Every new craftsman, every day Will take the time to practice, in order to eventually eliminate the stupid way of a single blank.

After looking at the location of the billet, Li An took people to the burning place. At this moment, 5 6 craftsmen were busy carrying the firewood. They had to prepare the firewood in place before the craftsman who moved the bricks. After the 50 cubic blocks are all in place, they can immediately ignite and start firing bricks.

Li An glanced at it. The fuel for burning red bricks is ordinary firewood. These firewood are small trees, or side branches and small branches of large trees. The cost is very low, and it is not even a cost. After all, the brick factory There are also a lot of trees nearby, just cut some branches to dry and use it as fuel.

However, this is temporary. As the bricks continue to be burned and the scale needs to be expanded in the future, the demand for fuel will become higher and higher. Simply cutting branches from nearby may be difficult to meet the demand, and this Will seriously waste artisan resources and reduce the output of fired bricks.

Therefore, in order to avoid the shortage of fuel, a large amount of firewood must be transported from other places. The village where Li An has been to has already set off a wave of tree cutting. A large number of villagers cut trees day and night, and sold the trunks to Great Tang, the remaining branches do not have much value, and the local villagers ca n’t run out of firewood. Great Tang sent soldiers and horses to pull. It is estimated that the local 100 surnames will not have any opinions. After all, they have earned a large part Too.

Li An knows how much firewood is needed to fire bricks. If firewood is not available, it will seriously delay the progress of firing bricks.

Before noon, Li An returned to his residence and ate a meal. Then, he led the horses to the village where trees were cut down. In addition to the guards and horses, a transportation team of 200 people was also dispatched, one car for every 3 people. There are 50 vehicles in total, and the remaining 50 are responsible for security.

When this team of Grandiose arrived in the village, it was already afternoon, but the sky was still very bright.

The arrow tower at the entrance of the village can be seen very far away, and there are a large number of trunks stacked together. Of course, there are also a large number of villagers and Great Tang soldiers, and a group of Brat who have nothing to do.

These trunks were bought by Great Tang, and Harbor needed these materials urgently. At the same time, the vacant lot of the village entrance was about to be filled up, so it must be transported back as soon as possible to support the construction of Harbor.

“You immediately transported all the wood back.”

Li An spoke and gave orders.

The 200 transport soldiers, including the guards, were all busy together to remove all the timber as soon as possible.

At this time, the Great Tang soldiers were busy transporting timber, while the villagers transported the freshly cut timber into the village entrance and continued to sell it to Great Tang.

The transportation capacity of carriage is much higher than that of a small flat car. However, even so, the transportation volume is limited. There are so many timbers accumulated at the village entrance. It is not possible to transport a few trips. Fortunately, the distance is not very far. nothing much.

In addition to the demand for wood, Great Tang also needs enough firewood. These firewood are the side branches that remain after logging. Nowadays, most of these side branches are scattered in the mountain forests in the vicinity. Great Tang transports horses and horses. Looking everywhere will be a waste of energy and the efficiency of transportation will be greatly reduced. Therefore, you must find someone to help you transport all these side branches to the village entrance.

The villagers are busy cutting trees to make money, letting them transport the side branches, and no one is willing to do it if they do n’t give money, and this will delay them from cutting the trees, and if the money is lower than the price of the trees, they will also be unwilling of.

However, the side branches are not very heavy, and it does not require villagers to spend energy on transportation. It is enough to let the child who has nothing to do to transport. So many Brat, it is a large amount for one person to do a little.