The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 16 Song Jiawa, do you really know how to change the bellows used in brick kilns?

"Hey, your doll seems to be an apprentice. This brick mold is well made." The person who beat the gong to collect the carpenters at the construction site was holding the wooden brick mold made by Song Yingkui and nephew Song Yingkui to test their skills.

"He was an apprentice! Carpenter, do you think my third father and I can stay in the craftsman's camp?" Now that he had passed the test, Song Yingkui hurried down the donkey, wanting to make sure that he stayed in the craftsman's camp.

I want to join the craftsman camp so eagerly, so that I can take care of the food here.No matter how poor the food in the craftsman camp is, it is better than cooking porridge every day.If you eat millet porridge all the time, you will starve to death.

"Stay here. Although there is only one carpenter who can watch, you do a good job. With your third uncle, you can hold the job. My surname is Qin, and I will take care of all the work in the craftsman's camp. When you come to the craftsman's camp, you have to work hard. I will tell the supervisor later, let the team that dug the pit for your village come in and replace the two of you." Carpenter Qin kept watching Song Yingkui carefully while Song Yingkui was making brick models.As an old carpenter, he could naturally see that Song Yingkui's third uncle was just messing around with his nephew.But Song Yingkui, this young man, is indeed a capable doll.

At the age of 16, he was able to hold a job. Carpenter Qin took a high look at the doll and acquiesced in bringing his third uncle into the craftsman's camp.Anyway, in the artisan camp, there is also a need for someone to do pure strength work, and it can still be used for a start.

"Kuiwa, it's great to be a craftsman. In this place, you can have a house to live in, a bed to sleep in, and two meals of dry food. I followed you to get rich." With my third uncle, I moved the guy to the dormitory built by the craftsman camp, and spread a hay mattress on the bed in the Datong shop in the dormitory.The third uncle Song Xueliang expressed emotion.

Although the conditions of the artisan camp are very average, compared with the pure laborers digging pits, it is much better, at least it is like a place to stay alone.

The craftsman camp that Qin Jiangtou was in charge of was a craftsman camp that served the strong men, not a craftsman camp that made utensils for the royal tomb.That kind of work is done by real professionals. They are not strong men, but officials of the palace.

When the strong men came to work, they brought their own tools, but many professional tools were still used to repair the tomb, and brick kilns and lime kilns were also set up to burn bricks and lime.In addition, if the tools brought by the strong men are worn out, they have to be repaired on site.Therefore, a craftsman battalion serving the strong team should be allocated.There are very few skilled people who come to be strong men, and it is not easy to find usable craftsmen from among the strong men.For those who are really capable, it is cost-effective to spend money to take care of the manpower, and there is no need to suffer this kind of suffering.

It is not that there is no expenditure at all for the palace to build the tomb. It still costs money to use craftsmen and some special materials.This money is not paid by the Wangfu, but by the Wazhou Prefecture, except for Yuyuan County, and several other counties to pay for it.That is to say, the entire Wazhou Prefecture, Yuyuan County is responsible for the manpower, and other counties and prefectures are responsible for the money and food, and jointly build the tomb for King Sukang.

It is also appropriate to distribute some of the money and food supplied to the craftsman battalion of the young men's team.After all, most of the work of repairing the grave was done by the young men, and it was unreasonable not to show it to the young men at all.

After entering the craftsman's camp, Song Yingkui suddenly felt alive. Compared with pure hard work, the work in the craftsman's camp is much easier!Food is also much better.In addition to the two meals a day, Song Yingkui and the third uncle took turns cooking a bowl of millet for themselves when they got up in the morning.The two liters of millet brought from home would not last a month if eaten normally, but now it is fine, and the remaining millet can last for two months, so there is no need to find a way for the family to bring food over.

"Carpenter Qin, what kind of wind box did you ask the carpenter to make? It's just exhausting people to death, and it's useless at all. Hurry up and arrange for a knowledgeable person to make a few wind boxes that can be used in brick kilns." The person who spoke was the head craftsman in charge of firing bricks in the craftsman camp, and he was here looking for work.There is a problem with the wind box made by the carpenter camp for the brick kiln, which greatly affects the efficiency of burning bricks.

"Tan Yaotou, you just use it! None of us here has ever made wind boxes for brick kilns. What do you want me to do?" Carpenter Qin was also very helpless. His previous work was mainly to build houses. He had never seen what a wind box used for a brick kiln looked like, and other carpenters couldn't count on it, and couldn't think of a way!
"What are you talking about? I don't care. If you can't make the bellows, I will go to the top to respond. If you delay the production of bricks, you have to be responsible." Seeing that Carpenter Qin didn't want to improve the bellows, Carpenter Tan became angry.

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the brick kiln to see if I can change the bellows to be more usable." Song Yingkui, who was working next to him, heard the conversation between the two craftsmen, and he felt that he should have a way to solve this problem.The purpose of doing this is to help Carpenter Qin and rescue him from the siege, and the other is to show off his skills so that he can spend his days in the carpenter's camp better.

"You know how to make wind boxes for brick kilns?" Tan Yaotou turned his gaze to the talking brat. This doll's hair has not even grown, can it work?
Seeing Tan Yaotou's eyes full of doubts, Song Yingkui didn't take it seriously, and said, "Is it possible? I'll go over and take a look. I'll talk about it after I read it!"

As he said that, he went straight to the brick kiln. There are too many people who doubt brother, so let's speak with facts.

When he arrived at the brick kiln, he saw the bellows made by the carpenter before, and after asking the brick kiln staff to pull a few, Song Yingkui felt confident.Know where the problem lies.

The wind boxes used in brick kilns require a strong wind, which is naturally not enough for ordinary household use.The solution that the people arranged by Carpenter Qin thought of was to enlarge the household wind box and make a larger version.When using it, the problem came out, the bellows is too big, one person can't push it, and if two people push it, it's not easy to push it hard, and it can't connect!As a result, the wind box made is hard to push and cannot continue to output.

This problem is easy to solve. Song Yingkui doesn't know what craftsmen in the current era use to solve the problem.But the way he can think of is to strengthen the vertical tie rod, and then make a crankshaft that changes the mechanical direction, so that the two people who pull the bellows stand on one side and push and pull the bellows horizontally.In this way, it is easy to exert strength, and it can still be connected.

"Song Jiawa, can you really fix the wind box?" Back at the carpenter's yard, Song Yingkui told carpenter Qin that he was sure to fix the wind box.Carpenter Qin was both pleasantly surprised and somewhat skeptical.

"It can be improved. Uncle Qin, can you find some paper for me? I need to draw a picture to calculate the size of the parts that need to be improved." We are mechanical engineers anyway, and we can't do a small air box improvement design?But this thing has to do a good job of calculating the mechanical structure and drawing design, if you can't get started, just do it!

(End of this chapter)