Lord of Rot

Chapter 119 Magical Red Brick
Li Qi didn't have a headache like Crow at the moment, and getting rid of Crow really saved him a lot of worry, and he didn't have to listen to Glenn complaining.

He rode a horse to the temporary brick kiln factory.

The brick kiln has been built, and the masons are very efficient in their work. The key is Li Qi's spending a lot of money.

The sum of money for selling horses in Mama City obtained from the Murloc Crypt was just enough to solve the urgent need.

The masons are making clay, referred to as playing with mud. As for Li Qi... he just understands a concept, don't expect him to be able to burn bricks, he can only roughly describe the appearance of a brick kiln, the general principle of burning bricks, etc., but absolutely does not include Do it yourself.

The first is clay.

There is clay beside the channel inside the porcupine collar, the soil is fine, and there are almost no hard pebbles.

Apprentice carpenters rushed to make the car body, and the excavated soil was sent to the wooden car body on the two-wheeled cart, and then sent to the brick kiln factory by a horse-drawn cart. The so-called brick kiln factory is actually a wasteland, except for the distance from the brick kiln. Nearby, no one usually comes here.

In Li Qi's brick-burning plan, the carpenter played a very important role.

Compared with the high price of iron, wood is cheap and can be found everywhere. Even if it is exploited destructively, the dense forest can support the development of porcupine collar for many years.

The brick embryo is made of a rectangular frame nailed by wooden boards, which is transparent from top to bottom.

The slaves put the mixed soil into the frame and squeezed it out to form a wet brick embryo.

It's simple to say, and it's not complicated to do, it's all hard work.

The first step is to loosen the soil. The soil dug out is very tight, like stones that can be crushed with fingers.

Then soak it in water and knead it into mud. It is very tiring to use your hands. Some apprentices who are in charge of hard work choose to step on it with bare feet.

This is the raw material for making red bricks. The specific trick is to add soil when it is thin, and add water when it is dry.

After making the mud, the next step is to apply what Li Qi called the "mold".

It is the masons who make the bricks by hand, and after they have mastered the technology themselves, they will hand over the hard and tiring work to their apprentices.

It is very tiring to simply build a stone platform with stones, level it, and make brick embryos. If you keep bending over, it will kill you and affect your work efficiency.

The flat wooden board is the table top.

The mason beats it with mud.

Then put the mud into the mold, use a knife to cut the mud sticking to the wooden board, and then just lift and push to remove the shaped brick embryo.

But in the first step of production, a problem was encountered. The brick embryo could not be released from the mold, and the brick embryo would leave two finger holes if it was pushed with fingers forcibly.

Seeing this, Li Qi thought about it and said, "Find some firewood ash from the stove, sieve it, and then put it in the mould."

"Yes!"

The mason immediately ran to find firewood ash, and after a few tries, he was able to remove the mold completely.

"Praise the lord!"

Rainbow Fart arrived as expected.

Brick embryos are made very quickly, and the formed brick embryos will be placed on the open space to dry, and only thoroughly dried brick embryos can be fired.

After watching for a while to make sure there was no problem, Li Qi went to see the brick kiln again.

The brick kiln is built according to the horseshoe kiln, and the porcupine collar does not need too many bricks, so there is no need to invest too much.

More importantly, because Li Qi doesn't know much about brick kilns, and he doesn't understand complex kilns, everything is usable, and the development and innovation are left to the craftsmen inspired by him. A sum of money is used as a reward, and then technical updates are carried out.

Entering from the kiln door, the kiln head is the place where the firewood is thrown, and there is a firewood opening and a fire chamber.

The kiln chamber is where the brick embryos to be fired are placed. There are kiln entry and exit ports, which are convenient for the unloading of the brick embryos and transfer after firing.

In order to ensure full firing, the stacking of the brick embryos is very particular. It needs to be divided and built to keep the gaps, rather than tightly bonded together. Only when the clay embryos are fired into red bricks can it be considered successful.

Red brick, waterproof, cold-resistant and corrosion-resistant.

And it is not difficult to make, as long as you dare to fail, you are willing to try.

The end of the kiln is a chimney.

In addition, there is an ash pit under the fire chamber, and the ash from burning firewood will be collected. Whether it is used for fertilization or mixed for building a house, it is an excellent material.

The weather was fine, and it only took two days to make brick embryos and dry them.

The first batch of brick embryos was sent into the brick kiln in this way.

There are a total of more than 7000 brick embryos, and a large earth pit has been dug beside the river. Li Qi plans to dig it deep and release the water to make a fish pond, which can be regarded as waste utilization.

Send firewood, ignite and burn.

Its terrifying temperature can be felt from far away.

Li Qi drank iced honey beer and watched the black smoke billowing into the sky.

The entire firing process lasted for half a day, from noon to dusk.

Followed by natural cooling.

After two days, cool completely.

The masons walked into the still warm brick kiln and used a two-wheeled cart to pull out the bricks. Everyone was sweating profusely.

At this moment, the first batch of fired red bricks was placed in front of Li Qi.

Because the iron element in the brick embryo soil is oxidized to ferric oxide, it is red.

A mason picks up a red brick.

Cracked.

"My lord, this..." The mason didn't know what to do. The idea of ​​burning bricks was proposed by the lord. They had never thought of burning bricks before. The lord must be right. on them!

"Try another piece." Li Qi was relatively calm.

"Yes!" The mason obeyed the order and picked up another piece, which was very complete.

It didn't even break when it hit the ground.

"This!" The mason was shocked.

Long before that, when it comes to the bricks used to build houses, isn't it the stone bricks obtained by knocking stone mines?

Then use rice milk as an adhesive.

Lurea's castles are built like this.

Commoners generally choose to live in wooden houses or mud houses.

Some wealthy civilians would choose to use crushed stones, and only when building castles would they laboriously beat the stones into angular stone bricks.

So when the earth was burned to stone, the masons only thought they saw a miracle, no, it was magic!
Can they build castles in this way in the future?No, this kind of red brick is not as strong as the huge stone bricks of the castle, but it is certainly better than the thatched house, the mud house or the wooden house.

Praise the wisdom of the lord!
"Calculate the situation of all the bricks." Li Qi said to the mason. Seeing the helplessness on the other side's face, he added: "Go to Gu Lan and ask him to borrow an apprentice to help you record."

"Thank you, my lord!" rejoiced the mason.

Soon the statistical results were sent to Li Qi. Of the 7000 brick embryos, only 5305 were solid and intact. The rest were deformed and broken due to various reasons, and some of the red bricks were black hearts.

The deformation is due to a problem with the temperature. Li Qi can only talk on paper, and the specific operation needs to be handed over to his subordinates for experimentation.

The black heart is due to insufficient combustion.

Part of the breakage may be that the brick embryo is not completely dry.

After briefly describing the possible situations and possible solutions, Li Qi left the brick kiln factory, and the first batch of 5305 red bricks would be sent to the commercial area. After enough red bricks were collected, the house could be formally built.

In order to speed up the work of the masons, Li Qi asked the slaves sent by Lintawan to make bricks. 400 people started the work. The bricks covered the brick kiln in one day, and even occupied a lot of open space outside.

Population is productivity!
This group of people can only be changed jobs on the same day, because they exceeded the quota in one day.

Tens of thousands of brick embryos were sent into the brick kiln and calcined in high fire.

The success rate has been getting higher and higher, and the masons are quickly summing up experience.

When stacks of red bricks piled up in the business district, it was not Li Qi who was most proud, but the masons.

There is no need to be overwhelmed by resource issues, and there is no need to jump up and down in anger because the rice milk used to build the house will always be stolen. Li Qi's invention and creation have helped them successfully make pieces of flat magical red bricks. It is conceivable that in the future, this There will be beautiful red houses rising from the ground in the business district.

The masons took the design drawings and designed huge double doors and windows according to Li Qi's requirements. The windows can be opened during the day for lighting and closed at night.

While the entire porcupine collar was busy, Li Qi received bad news.

His first good Tinker helper, Fra the dwarf, is dying.

(End of this chapter)