Datang Longya

Chapter 19 Cement workshops and septic tanks

The frozen soil in winter was not easy to dig, and it took five full days to dig the vertical and horizontal wells.

It took a month for the masons to lay a layer of blue bricks on the shaft.

Recruiting ten blacksmiths took more than ten days and failed several times before pouring the bottom horizontal railing. The Tang Dynasty, without electric welding machines, could only produce large iron pieces by pouring.

Ten men chanted and lowered the diameter rail to the bottom of the kiln with hemp rope.

"First lay a layer of two meters of firewood, sprinkle with kerosene, then lay a layer of coal, then a layer of stones, then a layer of wet coal, then a layer of stones, and then a layer of wet coal. Wait until the last layer of the shaft is stacked. On the top floor, you can start a fire." Leng Feng explained to the county magistrate.

Luo Minsheng, the county magistrate of Sanshankou County, is very busy these days.At the beginning, I heard that many people with extraordinary behavior came to Chang'an City, and I heard that some kind of cement workshop was going to be established.This is a great thing. A workshop built under his jurisdiction can make his people earn money. As a county magistrate, he must thank the owner of the workshop.

But before he left, the imperial decree arrived!
As a small county magistrate, Luo Minsheng never thought that he would have the honor of receiving the imperial edict.After he prepared the incense table and prostrated himself on the ground, the eunuch who delivered the decree spoke:

"The emperor's edict said: Today, Tianxialou will build a fire kiln in Sanshankou County, which will benefit the people. Luo Minsheng, the county magistrate of Sanshankou County, is ordered to fully cooperate. I appreciate this."

Luo Minsheng was dumbfounded, the owner of this workshop is really fierce!There is actually an imperial decree requiring local officials to work hard to cooperate.

Shocked, Luo Minsheng received the decree, happily inserted incense and offered the decree, and then began to run for the kiln.He did all the chores of finding migrant workers, blacksmiths, and masons.

Today the fire kiln was completed, and as the county magistrate, he was specially invited to participate in the ignition ceremony of the fire kiln.

Holding the torch, Luo Minsheng walked through the horizontal corridor, and cautiously placed the torch on the thin firewood on the horizontal rail.

The firewood poured with kerosene suddenly blazed!
Luo Minsheng rushed out of the crossing in a hurry, watching Leng Feng waiting for the next job.

"When the white stone is 'cooked' by the fire, use a stone mill to grind the cooked white stone into powder, and mix it with sand powder. The ratio is..."

Luo Minsheng immediately stopped Leng Feng from continuing to speak: "Boss, this is a recipe! You can't spread it to outsiders!"

Leng Feng was stunned for a moment, then remembered that in the ancient times when laws were not passed on, many formulas were known only to disciples and sons.

But for some unscrupulous businessmen to blindly imitate, killing people.Leng Feng also gave up the idea of ​​rumors.

Although Leng Feng's lime kiln is also the most primitive, he equips the workers with wet masks and other labor equipment, just because they are afraid that the workers will get sick.The white stone used in the lime kiln is not obtained by mining, but collected by the police from the river.

"Well, I won't talk about it. The person in charge will guide the migrant workers to work. As the county magistrate, you need to come here once a month to supervise the payment of migrant workers' wages and the output of the workshop. The output of the workshop is yours. It is necessary to submit a letter to the Ministry of Civil Affairs as a basis for tax collection.”

Luo Minsheng nodded. With his supervision, there will be no deduction of migrant workers' money and food.

Li Tai asked his father for the steward of the cement workshop, and he was not a eunuch.

Looking at the steward who skillfully assigned the migrant workers jobs immediately after knowing the formula, Leng Feng deeply realized the frightening number of talents in Li Shimin's hands.

The first bag of cement produced was immediately sent to the palace by the steward.

The emperor attached great importance to this kind of material that can strengthen the city gate...

Looking at the big pit full of human and animal feces and weeds, Li Chengqian almost vomited: "Master, is what you said true? This thing can increase food production?"

People in Datang believe that plant ash is the best fertilizer, and the smoke from burning straw will be endless every day in autumn.

Above the court hall, Sinong Temple scoffed at Li Chengqian's proposal, and took off his official hat and placed it in front of Li Chengqian as a bet, inviting Li Chengqian to fight in the coming year: a piece of Tianzi Haotian was divided into two halves, and Sinong Temple and the prince had various half.If the crown prince wins, he will sue (resign!) directly!Li Chengqian was also full of confidence in his master, picked up the hat of Si Nong Temple Minister, and said that if he lost, he would join Si Nong Temple!
"Of course!" Leng Feng said firmly.

Although he didn't know what happened to the poop and weed accumulation, it was what the farmers did when he visited his grandfather in the countryside when he was a child.

Since farmers are doing this, it must be useful, and it is better than using plant ash as fertilizer anyway!
"That's good." Li Chengqian believed in Master, but he couldn't help gaining more confidence from Master.

As for Li Tai, he was very interested in the explosive methane gas that Leng Feng said.

Ever since Leng Feng demonstrated the dust explosion to him, Li Tai has been deeply obsessed with the word "explosion".Now I cover my nose with a handkerchief and approach the septic tank, thinking hard about the circumstances under which the septic tank can also be detonated.

As for Li Ke, Leng Feng deliberately asked him to be Yu Chigong's side general, following Yu Chigong to transport cement to some key city gates, responsible for explaining the application of cement, and familiarizing himself with the composition of the army by the way.

After a whole day of busy work, when Leng Feng returned to the bedroom exhausted physically and mentally, Xiao Shuwen had already prepared the bath water.

Although this woman has left her humble status, she is still used to doing some servant work.

Leng Feng has also learned to enjoy it now, lying in the tub to receive Xiao Shuwen's massage.

Playing the piano can play the little hands of the sounds of nature, and massage can also make people feel ecstatic.

Leng Feng knew that Xiao Shuwen secretly had correspondence with the queen, and the pigeon he knocked down with stones that day had a note on what Li Chengqian and Li Tai had learned in the past few days.People in the royal family all have this virtue, they all like to discover things from the subtleties, and they all like to find many people as their eyes, even if they live in the deep palace for a long time, they still want to know things that they can't see.

The queen is like this, and so is Li Shimin.

Yesterday Wei Zheng went to the construction site to eat and drink under the pretense that he was hungry after inspecting the village. In fact, he planned to see if such a workshop could be promoted throughout the country.When he was full of wine and food, he told Leng Feng the interesting things that happened in the court:

The emperor bestowed two beauties on Fang Xuanling, but Fang Xuanling was afraid of guilt and allowed Mrs. Fang to drive the two beauties away. Li Shimin planned to blow Mrs. Fang's arrogance.So it was reported that Fang Xuanling's wife pointed to the two beauties and a jar of black liquid and said, "If you drive these two beauties away, you are resisting the decree. I will give you two ways, either bring the beauties back, or take the beauties away." The altar poisoned wine has been drunk!"

Knowing his old wife's temper, Fang Xuanling knelt down and begged the emperor to let her go, but Mrs. Fang didn't change her face, and drank the poisoned wine in one breath.

In fact, the so-called poisoned wine is a jar of vinegar, and it is impossible for the emperor to really kill the prime minister's wife.So it's over.

After this incident, Mrs. Fang's name as "Madame Drinking Jealousy" spread...

Leng Feng didn't think that the two beauties were just a simple reward. He estimated that they were the two pairs of eyes released by Li Shimin to spy on the high-ranking and powerful prime minister.

Who is Fang Xuanling? One of the "Fang Conspiracies and Determinations", how could a delicate heart put a time bomb in the house!
However, Wei Zheng deliberately told this story with an unusual meaning... He was clearly pointing out that there was Li Shimin's eyeliner beside Leng Feng.

What does he want to do?
　I was afraid that someone would read the sentence in the imperial edict as: Today, when I went downstairs, I added a space on purpose, but after sending it out, it was still put together. I didn’t add "-" until people around me reminded me...

　　
　
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