Lord of the People: Start a monster island

Chapter 22 Building a Kiln and Burning Charcoal

"In addition to fighting, we are also good at poisoning, smelting metals, making tools, building houses, and have some experience in finding minerals."

Blue said.

After understanding, Jiang Heng almost understood, similar to what he understood. Except for the extraordinary speed of reproduction, goblins are average in other aspects.

"How about this, these two days, some of you are responsible for burning charcoal, turning those dragon bronzes into weapons, some of you are building houses, and some of you are responsible for doing chores, hunting, and looking for treasures."

After thinking about it, Jiang Heng made an assignment.

The most important thing at present is to deal with the first wave of monster invasion after 20 days, and other constructions can be postponed.

All Dragon Bronze must be used, and turning these bronze into weapons can improve the strength of these goblins.

To forge weapons, burning charcoal is the first thing on the agenda. With charcoal, not only can bronze be forged, but other metals can also be smelted in the future to make some necessary tools.

As for planting crops and the like, you can delay it for a while, and don't rush it for a while.

Another thing is to explore the surrounding area. Everything in Ziyun World belongs to him, but the things on the natural island outside belong to whoever discovers it.

Today, the goblin tribe was almost cut off, which means that other people have also started to explore and search for supplies.

He has goblins, more manpower, faster exploration, and can collect some precious resources in advance, as well as some precious magic plants and spiritual plants.

"Okay, let's allocate it like this first, and we will divide the manpower tomorrow morning."

After roughly finalizing everything, Jiang Heng waved his hand, indicating that they can go back.

"Yes, Master!"

Bruce nodded yes, and left with the goblin elders.

After taking a sip of water and a simple wash, I fell asleep.

In the blink of an eye the next day, Jiang Heng woke up very early, time is money, and he cannot be wasted.

After a simple breakfast, the goblins gathered and started a new day of work.

"Bru, you take people out to cut trees first. Remember, don't destroy the trees that bear fruit such as Ling Zhi, and transplant them all to Ziyun World."

"Yes, Master!"

The goblin chief replied respectfully.

Except for five or six goblins who were good at building wooden houses to help build wooden houses, the other goblins all went out to cut trees.

With Ziyun Whale as the center, it spreads to the surroundings.

Jiang Heng took a few goblins to find a suitable place to build a charcoal kiln in Ziyun World.

"It seems that the charcoal kiln can only be built outside."

Half an hour later, Jiang Heng gave up helplessly. The loess needed to build a charcoal kiln was not found in Ziyun World, and the black soil and sandy soil were not sticky enough to build it.

There are a lot of loess lands outside Ziyun World. Not far from the small river, Jiang Heng found a place with very high viscosity of loess.

"Very well, the charcoal kiln will be built here."

Jiang Heng nodded, turned around and looked at the goblins behind him: "Let's dig, first level the ground."

"Yes, Lord!"

Goblins don't know how to build charcoal kilns, and Jiang Heng can only guide them.

When leveling the land here, Jiang Heng ordered Bruce to transport the timber and saw it into different lengths as required.

"Dig [-] centimeters down the line I drew."

Jiang Heng drew a roughly trapezoidal pattern on the leveled land. This is the basic outline of the charcoal kiln. Just dig out the foundation according to this pattern.

Jiang Heng knows that the charcoal kiln he made is definitely not the most professional, but it is definitely usable, because the basic principle is correct.

After the foundation has been dug, the next step is to fill in the wood. Saw the wood into sections of different lengths and fill them vertically, starting from the bottom of the trapezoid, and finally make sure that the wood forms a hump shape, that is, the middle wood is higher, and the two sides lower.

This is because the loess is not viscous enough. If the two pieces of wood are made to be the same length and finally form a cuboid charcoal kiln, the roof will easily collapse.

The principle is very simple, just like you only need a hollow cuboid with soil, its top is easy to collapse, but it is not easy to collapse if the top is made into a hump.

"I choose this kind of iron wood for the wood."

Jiang Heng instructed that before the novice protection period ends, probably only one kiln of charcoal can be burned, so it is natural to use good wood.

This kind of iron wood has a high density, and the calorific value of the charcoal produced is also higher. This kind of charcoal is called tungsten steel charcoal, and it is said that its hardness is comparable to steel.

Kiln loading begins, and when the wood is loaded to about three-quarters of the position, it is time to start filling the firelight.

First, some thicker, oily, dry wood should be filled, preferably dry pine.

After the thick dry wood is installed to about four-fifths of the whole, it is necessary to start to install dry branches and small fire starters.

This is also the most important step in burning charcoal. If the fire starter is not done well, after the kiln is sealed, it is found that the fire cannot be ignited, so the calf will be finished directly.

To be on the safe side, Jiang Heng asked the goblins to pick up a lot of turpentine and throw it in.

Huoyin is also a pine needle with a particularly high oil content.

After this step is completed, there is only the last step left, building the kiln.

The outside of the wood is covered with loess, the thickness of which must be more than [-] cm. The loess must be rammed, and the kiln door must be left during the construction process, which is specially used to extract charcoal. There must be a series of smoke outlets on the kiln roof, and A large flue opening at the rear.

The charcoal kiln built by Jiang Heng is four meters long. The kiln door is naturally opened on the front. There are four openings in total. They are currently closed and will not be opened until they leave the kiln.

Currently only the top smoke vent and the rear ignition port are open.

The entire charcoal kiln has been built, and it has been completed here, and it took a whole day.

"Light it up, let's start the last step!"

Jiang Heng looked at Bruce and said.

"Yes, Master!"

Bruce took burning charcoal and stuffed it through the ignition hole, and after a while, he could hear the crackling sound of burning pine needles.

After about a few minutes, you can see thick smoke from the smoke hole on the top of the kiln, which means that the ignition is successful.

"Very good, now we just need to wait for the thick smoke to dissipate to indicate that the wood is on fire, and then come here and seal the eyes."

Jiang Heng nodded in satisfaction, feeling a sense of accomplishment.

Although he knows how to fire a charcoal kiln, this is the first time he has done it himself.

In the process of burning charcoal, the smoke that comes out of the smoke hole at the beginning is white, because the smoke contains a large amount of water vapor evaporated from the wood.

As the white smoke gradually decreases, it is necessary to gradually seal the smoke outlets. When the smoke turns completely blue, all the smoke outlets must be blocked to allow the smoke to come out from the rear flue.

Finally, when the green smoke disappears, it means that all the wood has been burned and turned into charcoal.

At this time, it is only necessary to seal all the outlets of the charcoal kiln to isolate the air, so that the charcoal in the kiln loses oxygen and cannot continue to burn. After two or three days, the charcoal cools down, and the kiln door can be opened to discharge charcoal.

"Okay, just wait."

Jiang Heng nodded, it was getting late, so that's all for today.

(End of this chapter)