Chapter 36: Salvaging the Mud

Qingsong and Xiaogang have long known that there are many fruit trees on the mountain, because it is not easy to go up the mountain, and there are not enough people to pick them. Xiao Gang said: "That's all for this time!" Besides, the rest is out of range! After saying that, I looked up at the roof, and everyone understood! They all nodded, and then walked out of the cabin. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Qingsong continued to arrange for the righteous sons to use medicine, Zhuang Zhuang and Xiao Gang played, the bee demon turned into a little bee and hung on Xiao Gang's shoulder, and vigorously refined all the remaining medicinal powder into pagoda candy and flew away! After arranging for half of the people to use medicine, Qingsong let the people who did not use medicine go to work.

At noon, the struggle asked the logistics department to bring food, but the people who had used the medicine didn't want to eat! Staggered and slept on the grassland. Qing Song asked the people from the logistics department to send them all back to the barracks to rest in a cart, and asked Struggle to send honey water to the barracks! At the time of Shen Shi, the team that originally transported the Dan furnace also arrived at the grassland lightly. Qingsong beckoned the Yizi to bring all the pagoda sugar back to the station, and when they arrived at the station, they immediately explained that they would struggle to make 30,000 big buns for each of these cows, and send the extra to the barracks! Aunt Cuihua asked her two daughters-in-law to cook a table of food for Qingsong and send it to Qingsong's room, and after the people left, Xiaogang let the bee demon also turn into a human form and eat with Zhuang Zhuang.

While he was eating, the black bull ran back, took a bowl of rice and started eating. While eating, he said, "Why didn't you take me with you today?" Xiao Gang said: "It's not fun today!" Zhuang Zhuang and the bee demon both nodded, and the black bull didn't ask.

After eating, Zhuang Zhuang went to find the struggle, and Qingsong said: "Tomorrow, let the carpenter class go to the grassland intersection, where fifteen rooms have been built and the doors and windows have not yet been made!" The jar I brought back was a medicine called pagoda sugar. You select 200 people in the logistics department, take them tonight, let them prepare tissues, find a good hut and wait to pull out the worms, and the people who take the medicine can sleep until midnight tomorrow and then go to work. Each shift should draw people to take medicine in batches, and let them take it again tomorrow night when they are still young, one pill per person! I know what your battalion is doing, they're busy these days, don't take their pills! Send some to Aunt Cuihua's house as well, tell them how to use it, and tomorrow you will know what this medicine does! Golden Scissors will also send a few pills to the house, so that they can take it tonight! ”

After listening to the struggle, he reported some information to Qingsong, and then went out to arrange things! Qing Song took out a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to write letters under the bright oil lamp, and Xiao Gang and Hei Niu were accompanied by Zhuang Zhuang and the bee demon to play. The black bull found some wooden swords for Xiao Gang to play with, and Xiao Gang took out some iron beads made by the blacksmith class and played with his fingers.

The black bull said, "Brother, you really know how to play!" How did you come up with it? This is fun! Xiao Gang said: "Brother Hei Niu, don't give this to your younger brothers and sisters!" They're still young, so it's great if they swallow it! The black bull thought for a moment and said, "Yes! If you give them a roe deer dog to play with, they may really be eaten! Not to mention the kitten's stupid girl, who is more than three years old and still walks steadily! ”

Xiao Gang said: "Brother Hei Niu, do you miss them? The black bull said, "I kind of want to!" Xiao Gang said, "Let Zhuang Zhuang send you back to have a look?" Black Bull smiled evilly and said, "I haven't played enough!" Xiao Gang said: "I have some games that need more people to play, and we two children can't play them here!" The black bull spirit shook and said, "Let's go back together!" Xiao Gang said: "I still have to study, I can't go!" Xiao Gang mysteriously ran to the cabinet, took out a small bag from the cabinet and ran back to the middle of the room with it.

The black bull asked in a low voice, "What is it?" Xiao Gang slowly opened the baggage, picked up a piece of armor made of wood chips, and put it on his body. Xiao Gangren was too young to wear it, Zhuang Zhuang and the bee demon helped to put it on, Xiao Gang picked up the wooden sword of the black bull and put it on his waist. The armor was made so big that you accidentally stepped on it and fell. Xiao Gang said: "Alas! If it's bigger, I'll go find scissors and cut it in half! The black bull said greedily, "Don't! Brother, give me a try, I'll try! ”

Zhuang Zhuang and the bee demon helped Xiao Gang take off the wood chip armor and put it on the black bull. The black bull monster shouted, "Wowhaha, it fits!" This is worn by a general, how can there be no soldiers? It really takes a lot of people to be fun! My brother is so good at playing, you won't do it for me, will you? "Actually, it's made of gold scissors! Xiao Gang said: "Please do it adults, but unfortunately there is no good bamboo here, the bamboo is bright, and the bamboo is beautiful and strong!" The black bull said, "I'll take this back and let the carpenter at home make it with bamboo chips!" Xiao Gang said: "There should be a lot of children in the family now, and it is fun to do a few more sets to form a children's group!" ”

Black Bull can't wait to go back to form a children's group and take the children to play at home! Xiao Gang said again: "At home, you have to read in the morning, you can play by yourself in the afternoon, and you can practice the pace formation in such a big open space outside the yard, you can really play!" Hei Niu said: "Zhuang Zhuang sent me back and made a set for Xiao Gang!" Xiao Gang said: "Then you have to train the formation well!" Wait for me to come back and play together! The black bull nodded and said, "Of course, it must be a lot of effort to train them!" It's not a day or two, I'll go back and practice first and wait for you to come back and play together! ”

The two children played for a while, and when it was almost time, Qingsong's letter was finished, and he took out a box of pastries! The black bull stared at the box with sharp eyes, and Qing Song opened the box and took out a pagoda candy and ate it. The black bull was clamoring to eat it, and Qingsong gave him one. The black cow chewed two bites and melted away, but Qingsong didn't give it anyway, and put the box away! The two children played for a while, and the black bull suddenly wanted to go to the hut. Zhuang Zhuang took the black bull to the thatched house, and Qingsong also followed! After a good pull, the black bull's feet are soft after pulling, and the green pine is almost the same.

Zhuang Zhuang poked his head out and looked at it and said, "Okay! You don't have to continue! Qing Song nodded, Zhuang Zhuang helped Qing Song, and went back to the room to sleep with the black bull! Something similar was happening in many parts of the station, and many people were screaming, "That's a lot of bugs! Until the struggle yelled: "Except for those on duty, go to sleep!" The crowd slowly calmed down, and the whole station was quiet!

On the eighty-fifth day of entering the mountain, Yikang took the more than 200 cows that returned to the city together last time to carry volcanic ash, peat and finished medicine and set off slowly! The team heading to the grassland at the same time also set off! At noon, Zhuang Zhuang carried the black bull on his back to chase Yikang's team. The construction of the barracks at the entrance of the grassland has been much faster with the addition of the carpenter class, and the logistics department has sent a lot of green bricks in a cart, and the soldiers are ready to use the green bricks to lay the entire barracks. New houses are also built with bricks and cement, which is much faster. The soldiers paddled the raft to the middle of the pool and dragged the shovel with a rope to fetch the soil from the bottom of the water. The soil is transported by cart to the warehouse on the opposite side of the mountain stream for preservation, and part of it is poured into the reservoir, and part of it is sent to the pottery class to mix asbestos to make brick embryos. Xiao Gang believes that these soils have incredible power, and the substances emitted by the meteorite are melted into the water through these soils, and even the pool water has such a strong effect, these soils must be more effective, and these muds must be collected quickly before the arrival of the demon clan.

After Yikang crossed the dam with his cattle, the speed was increased, and the roads on the mountain beams were all strengthened and widened, so that even the vehicles could pass safely. The herd reached the supply point at Shen Shi, but Yikang did not advance. The people stationed at the supply point were instructed to help unload all the things that the cattle had brought on their backs, and they were ready to rest here, and before the things were finished, Zhuang Zhuang arrived with the black ox on his back.

At the entrance of the grassland, there were already twenty new brick houses, and the doors, windows and roofs were missing, and the water in the new brick houses could only be volatilized faster by deliberately not building the roof. The doors and windows of the wooden houses made yesterday and the day before yesterday were also made, and the contents of the wooden houses were removed from the house, and then covered with green bricks and covered with thick wooden boards. There was no longer too much moisture in the wooden house, and the synthesized gunpowder and unsynthesized raw materials were also moved into the wooden house again. At the time of unitary, the people on the grassland call it a day and go home. There are already more than ten rafts in the pool, leaving Dingtian with 200 soldiers to continue to work overtime to collect the soil at the bottom of the pool! After Qingsong arrived at the station, he asked the logistics department to send tents, dinner and a large number of torches to the soldiers working overtime on the grassland, and asked the logistics department to make overtime buns and send them to the grassland at the time of the child!

On the eighty-sixth day of entering the mountain, Qingsong led the team to the grassland early in the morning. The logistics department sent people to build a brick house on the opposite side of the mountain stream to increase the storage of the soil salvaged from the bottom of the pool, and the pottery class used a windmill to speed up the drying of the brick embryos made of the mud. Bai Ping and Zhu led his sons and nephews to open up a vacant land three miles away from the grassland, preparing the conditions for building a blast furnace.

Yikang and Zhuang Zhuang set off to descend the mountain at the time of Chen, and the roads down the mountain were all strengthened and widened. Before passing the mountainside supply point, twenty-five wooden houses have been built here. At the end of the day, they reached the supply point at the foot of the mountain, where the ground was covered with green bricks, and the houses were built to fifty brick houses. Yikang asked the people at the supply point at the foot of the mountain to help unload the supplies and deliver concentrate to the cattle, and the people also made some fresh meals for Yikang and the black cow. After dinner, there is a hot bath, soft quilt and a wide wooden bed!

At the end of the work on the grassland, there were forty brick houses, and all the barracks in one square meter were paved with green bricks. The salvage team of Shuitan continued to replace people to work overtime to salvage the mud in the pool, and the pottery team sent the dried brick embryos into the brick kiln overnight and began to fire. People who have taken pagoda candy have significantly increased their physical strength and their complexion has completely improved. At that time, the 200 people who used medicine in the logistics department yesterday continued to consolidate once, but the killing of pigs was temporarily stopped.

On the eighty-seventh day of entering the mountain, the salvage team stopped salvaging the mud in the pool, dismembered the raft that had sprouted, and did not ride back to the station to rest until the arrival of the green pine team. The logs were dragged ashore and sent to the entrance for stacking, and the mud salvaged at night was transported by cart to the warehouse on the other side of the mountain stream. After the log was salvaged, Dingtian continued to synthesize gunpowder with fifty soldiers, and Qing Song commanded the construction of the barracks. Bai Ping and Zhu led the team of sons and nephews to open up open space, and struggled to send people from the logistics department to notify each supply point to stop the expansion, collect the manpower of the supply points, and leave only ten people on duty at each supply point.

The convoy descending the mountain set off for the new city at the hour of the hour, and arrived at the new city in time. Aoyama received the supplies, read the letter that Qingsong gave him, and after settling the black cow, he asked the blacksmith battalion to immediately shape Yikang's Yizi Gold Medal. The cattle went to the horse pen to rest as usual, and the bun shop hurriedly made buns and sent them to the horse pen! Convene a council of elders to discuss how to implement it.

On the grassland, the work was finished, and sixty brick houses were completed, but the roof was still not covered. All the gunpowder was synthesized and stacked in the wooden house, the mud was also transported, and the soldiers were led to complete the agreement of Yikang and struggle at night.

On the eighty-eighth day of entering the mountain, because Xiao Gang felt that it was going to rain, Qingsong set out with his team early in the morning to tile all the sixty brick houses. The long four-wheeled cart underwent the first load test, and the weight of more than 3,000 catties was pressed on the cart, and the lime-reinforced roads were pressed out of the mark. When we arrived at the grassland, since some carts were crushed, all the 400 carts arrived safely, and the blue brick floor in the barracks also withstood the test and did not completely sink into the ground. As soon as the cart stopped, the whole team began to tile the roof.

In the new city outside the mountain, Yikang set off with some salt and iron ingots at the end of the day, and there was no need for food in the mountains, and the return of the oxen team was equivalent to setting off lightly. The black bull stayed at home and pestered the carpenter's camp to make bamboo armor for him, and this time it is estimated that he will be able to stay at home honestly for a few months.

When the grassland was raised, the sixty brick houses had all been tiled with the efforts of 700 people, and Qingsong immediately ordered Dingtian to take ten soldiers to stay in the guard barracks, and the rest of the people unloaded the remaining tiles and returned to the station immediately. When the brigade was about to arrive at the station, it began to rain in the sky, and everyone accelerated back to the station. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and all the outdoor work could not be carried out. Qingsong asked the soldiers who had not taken the medicine to take the pagoda candy back to the barracks in the garrison to eat, and asked the carpenter class and the stonemasons class to make the entertainment tools that Xiao Gang explained, checkers, billiards, bowling, shuttlecock, and badminton. It is estimated that it will rain for a long time, and it is good to pass the time with these, and sure enough, it has been raining intermittently for several days, and Yikang and Zhuang Zhuang have to brave the rain to rush back.

On the ninety-second day of entering the mountain, the weather was clear, and the refractory bricks were also out of the kiln. With the assistance of the entire logistics department, the uncle and the blacksmith class built a circular blacksmith base with a vertical and vertical one mile on the basis of the open space opened up by Bai Ping and the pillars. Yikang and Dingtian led 300 soldiers to the barracks at the entrance of the grassland to build a wall, horse shed, and drainage system, and reinforced the ground with cement.

Bai Ping and Zhu led his subordinates and nephews and two hundred soldiers to patrol the mountain on horseback, strengthen their understanding of the surroundings, and prepare to choose a good location for the next step in opening up the road.

After Qing Song and Xiao Gang, accompanied by Zhuang Zhuang and the Bee Demon, checked the Artemisia Acaris by the waterhole, the Bee Demon went to check the strongholds near the Honeycomb Mountain and the grassland, and Xiao Gang asked Zhuang Zhuang to take him and Qing Song to find the iron mine.

Zhuang Zhuang ran for most of the hour and arrived at the iron ore location at the end of the day. These are a few hills about 500 feet high, a little reddish, steep, with low trees, and it seems that there are frequent landslides. This is not very easy to mine, but it is very good for Xiao Gang, Zhuang Zhuang can easily climb up with a human form to install gunpowder, and after it is blown up to no longer landslide, send someone to carry it at the foot of the mountain. Xiao Gang asked Zhuang Zhuang to pick up a few red stones and returned together.

It was already too late to return to the grassland barracks, and after eating some of the food that was delivered, Qing Song and Xiaogang inspected the grassland barracks that had just been established. Since the timber of two wooden houses was still sprouting, it was made into rafts in waterholes, and Qingsong had these two wooden houses dismantled and used as fences for horse pens. There were no leaks in all the brick houses, no leaks in the wooden houses, and no leaks in the brick walls made of cement.

Qingsong asked Yikang to lead the team back to the station in Shenshi, and he took Xiaogang to the new address of the blacksmith class. The uncle was directing the construction of a large blacksmith furnace, and when he saw Qingsong and Xiaogang coming, the uncle didn't have time to say hello, so he turned around and went to arrange the stacking of the materials that had been transported. This large blacksmith furnace adopts a closing groove type, which is divided into two layers of furnace bridges that can be replaced, the bottom seal is supplied with a windmill, and the air supply belt made of python skin can be connected to multiple windmills to supply air at the same time. This blacksmith furnace can raise the temperature to a very high level, and the pig iron furnace bridge cannot withstand many days of burning, so it is easy to replace it, but fortunately charcoal is used, and the fire is easy. On both sides of the blacksmith furnace are cooling pools, and the cooling pools used for quenching are also divided into water cooling and oil cooling. The drainage canal was dug into the wild boar forest in the southeast, for fear of polluting the water quality on the grassland, and some sedimentation tanks would be added to the canal in the future. This is not the best location for the blacksmith class, which will be replaced by a hydraulic blast next to the dam, and the chimney of the blacksmith furnace can be connected to the station with a ceramic pipe for heating. There aren't so many carpenters doing the gearing now, so I'll have to settle for it here.

When my uncle was free, Qingsong took out the stone that Zhuang Zhuang picked up, and my uncle said: "This can be used, although I have never smelted iron, but when my teacher was learning art from my teacher, the teacher took me to smelt iron for the government." Time flies so fast, it's been ten years since the teacher passed away! I can try the block method, instead of an iron furnace, I can use this blacksmith furnace. Put these ores in the middle of the charcoal every time the fire is raised, and take it out when the fire is turned off to know if it will be successful. ”

Qingsong said, "It's okay, let's try it!" If it can be done, just do it first! I went to see the mine, and if it is not good to mine, it may landslide at any time! Only risk picking up some that roll down. The uncle said, "It's too dangerous, let's not do it, you have a lot of gold, take the gold and exchange it for iron ingots!" Qingsong said: "It's too troublesome to transport it from the mountain, and you also need iron ingots at home, so let's try these!" It would be nice if I could get some iron! I also went to the reservoir to see the dam and chose a site outside the dam to build a paper mill! The paper-making work has to be handed over to the people at home, and if you can get the iron here, you will also help make some tools for the paper mill. Okay, Xiaogang and I will go to the reservoir, you can go to the reservoir! After Qingsong finished speaking, he climbed on the back of the cow and left.

When Qingsong and Xiaogang came to the previous mountain stream, there was already a third of the water in the reservoir. The logistics department is also salvaging trees at the water's edge, making rafts to the dam and salvage them to transport them to both banks. Qing Song and Xiao Gang got off Zhuangzhuang's back, found a hidden place and let Zhuang Zhuang transform into a human form and go down to the bottom of the outer dam along the road built by the stonemason class on the outside of the dam. There was no suitable place to build a paper mill at the bottom of the dam, so I had to go back along the road.

As he walked, Xiao Gang pointed to the distance to the east and said, "This location is relatively gentle, you can dig a pool, then dig a cave, and build a paper mill in the cave." The sugarcane bagasse left over from boiling sugar can be transported here to soak, and the paper can be carried to the warehouse of Shanliang by hand! Qing Song asked, "Why don't you choose the gentle slope to the west?" Xiao Gang said: "There are more stones in the west, and it will be more difficult to dig a cave." And in the future, a ceramic pipe will be laid to heat the station! The bottom of the dam is only enough for the blacksmith class to make an iron-making site, and it is not enough to place the blacksmith furnace to make iron! Seeing that it was not too early, they began to return to the station.

It's already late when I return to the station, and the struggle has already asked the battalion to deliver the food to the door of Qingsong's room. After Zhuang Zhuang entered the small courtyard, he turned into a human form, and the little bee had already returned, sticking to the eaves and waiting for Xiao Gang, and when he saw them coming back, he also turned into a human form and flew down! The little bee carried the lunch box, Qingsong opened the door, everyone entered the room and put the food, and when they were almost finished, they struggled.

After reporting on the work, Qingsong asked the logistics department to start sending 50 people to build a paper mill tomorrow, and 50 people to develop vegetable fields around the station. The supply points from all over the country are building roads, and the logistics department has more and more manpower, so it is not a problem to transfer a hundred people. But the things outside the station can only be done by the righteous sons, and Qingsong asked the struggle to select a hundred logistics personnel who are physically strong and have some courage to follow the children and nephews to patrol the mountain, and the matter of taking pagoda sugar to fight insects must continue. Now there are not so many wild boars in a hurry to deal with them, and the people in the gang's camp also have to take pagoda candy in batches. The pork neck meat and the lard boiled in the offcuts were to be sent to the barracks on the steppe to be stored and prepared to make soap. Arrange for people to go down the mountain to get some fish fry, silver carp, grass carp, crucian carp, and some ducks and geese in the reservoir. The largest herd of wild boars around the station has been wiped out, and some goats have to be brought down the hill to graze. The medicine field under the mountain beam has to wait for Qingshan to arrive to visit together, and it is estimated that Qingshan is also about to arrive, and he will prepare a residence for Qingshan. Struggle to see so many things, afraid that I can't remember clearly, and take out a pen and paper to record! The green pine also made Zhuang Zhuang take inkstone and ink for struggle.

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