Chapter 33, fly ash Portland cement
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiang Wei did not go to the night market, because he consumed too much physical strength during the day and stood for too long, and now his whole body is sore.
Ruoniang also rarely didn't go to the night market this time, but stayed with her brother and helped him massage to relieve muscle fatigue.
"Brother, your current body is just like that of your grandfather. So don't run around, just stay at home and tell Ruoniang stories. ”
Jiang Wei sighed, and when he heard Ruoniang's words, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"My brother is in poor health, so he needs to exercise more to go out, if he stays at home all the time, when will he get better?"
Ruoniang tilted her little head and thought about it,
"Wouldn't it be nice if my mother raised my brother in the future?"
Jiang Wei smiled, gently touched her little head, and remembered when she was still in Yunling Village,
"Brother, Ruoniang wants to hear the story."
"Brother will tell you a story about Chang'e running to the moon tonight, okay?"
"Okay, okay!"
Ruoniang looked up at her brother's side face expectantly, and listened carefully with her hands on her knees.
Jiang Wei recalled that this was still the story his mother told him when he was a child, but he still remembered the content very clearly.
"A long, long time ago, there was a man named Hou Yi, because of his meritorious service in shooting the sun, he was respected and loved by the people, and soon Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang'e. People envy this talented and beautiful loving couple.
One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek Taoism, and when he met the Queen Mother, he asked the Queen Mother for a package of immortal medicine. It is said that if you take this medicine, you can immediately ascend to heaven and become an immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily hand over the immortal medicine to Chang'e for collection......"
The night was quiet, and only Jiang Wei's voice echoed in the small courtyard. It was already late that night, and the stalls in the night market were gradually closed, and Xu Hui and others came back one by one.
When Jiang Wei's story was finished, he looked at Ruoniang lying on his lap, his little face seemed to be in a sweet dream, he smiled gently, picked Ruoniang up gently, returned to the room and gently put it on the bed.
This night, Jiang Wei didn't sleep for a long time, and his mind kept thinking about what he needed to do tomorrow.
The night is sultry,
Also unable to sleep temporarily this night was Xu Hui.
Every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was originally Xu Hui's favorite festival, and it was very interesting to sit in the attic with his father, listen to the fighting poems of the talented people in the hall downstairs, and listen to the music.
And in this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, what she heard the most was about Jiang Wei and those unbelievable things.
And these suddenly disturbed her mood and made her suddenly feel strange to Jiang Wei. The magical teenager in people's mouths is really a cousin who usually stays at home all day with nothing to do?
And cousin, is he really a disciple of the Immortal Family?
When he returned home, sitting in front of the dresser, looking at himself with his hair scattered, Xu Hui felt that his cousin had suddenly become very far away from him, very far away.
Next
Jiang Wei slept very late last night, and as soon as it was dawn this morning, he was pulled up by Ruoniang.
Jiang Wei scratched his hair that was a little itchy, feeling that his brain was still in a pulp, and he didn't need to go to class or work, who remembered that it was so early.
But Ruoniang didn't follow.
"Brother, your health is so bad, you still have to sleep lazy, won't your health be even worse in the future? Get up and run. ”
Jiang Wei looked at Ruoniang in a daze for three minutes, but his brain was in a state of release, and it was blank.
Looking at the stunned brother, Ruoniang blinked her eyes and sighed,
"Hey, isn't my brother broken?"
The little hand touched his forehead, and he didn't feel fever, and when he saw his brother fall back on the bed with his eyes closed, Ruoniang had an epiphany in an instant.
"Why are you more sleepy than Ruoniang?"
After nearly half an hour, Jiang Wei finally came to his senses after being tossed by Ruoniang.
Ruoniang said that it was not easy.
After running and doing gymnastics, Jiang Wei felt much more refreshed, although he only ran for more than ten minutes.
Breakfast was still eaten with his aunt, Xu Hui took a bite of the dish, looked at Jiang Wei who was eating at the table next door, and couldn't help but take a few more looks.
Although it was not the same table, because it was almost opposite, Jiang Wei also noticed Xu Hui's gaze, and when he looked up, Xu Hui hurriedly lowered his head again.
Jiang Wei didn't pay much attention to it, and thought that it might be his cousin who heard some rumors about himself yesterday.
After the meal, Ruoniang also followed Sister Xu Hui to play, and Jiang Wei sat alone in the courtyard and waited, waiting for the agreed person.
In the morning, Li De of Yunling Village came to Xu Mansion with two young men from the village, two young men Li Wen and Li Wu, who were brothers.
"Childe."
Jiang Wei nodded and took a deep breath,
"Li De, you are responsible for recruiting people, let's just say that it is charcoal to recruit workers, and I need thirty people for a monthly salary of 350 Wen per person. Li Wen, you go to someone to rent a shop, just cheaper outside the city, it's better to be remote. Li Wu, you go to the seller who sells coal, I need to buy a large amount of coal, and then come to Xufu to find me when it is done. ”
Li Wen thought about it,
"Childe, there are some thatched huts in our village, can we use them?"
Jiang Wei thought for a while,
"Thatched huts are not good and can easily cause fires. Blue brick and green tile houses are required. ”
Xu Wen nodded and said,
"I'm afraid it's hard to find a spare one in such a remote area, and such houses are all lived in by large families. Childe, is it okay to have an embryonic room? The roof was boarded with a wooden plank and covered with a layer of earth. ”
Jiang Wei thought about it, but still shook his head. If it rains like that, won't it leak yellow muddy water everywhere?
Suddenly he thought of cement.
Speaking of cement, Jiang Wei is very familiar with it, because in his previous life, his father opened a cement factory. Cement is divided into seven categories, and the characteristics are divided into five types.
The first thing that came to his mind was fly ash Portland cement, because it was the easiest and most economical.
Why? Because it only requires three materials, the first is the unwanted residue after blast furnace steelmaking. The second is coal ash and gypsum powder formed by coal burning.
Two of these are basically waste recycling, and gypsum already existed in this era. Among them, coal ash and fly ash not only contain unburned coal particles, but also contain a large number of silicon, iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulfur oxides and various trace elements, which is an excellent cement material.
Moreover, fly ash Portland cement has the characteristics of early strength and high strength, and its 3-day strength is equivalent to the 28-day strength of Portland cement of the same label. The frost resistance, impermeability and corrosion resistance are much better than those of Portland cement.
In modern times, it is also a very high-quality cement.
What's more, for Jiang Wei, fly ash Portland cement is the most economical product. And what reason is there not to go far from it?
And he couldn't be more aware of the cement firing, but it was still the same problem, first of all, he needed a factory of his own.
With cement, there are more things that can be done, but for Jiang Wei, these are products made by the way.
But there is a question, that is, are there blast furnaces in this era? Jiang Wei thought about it and decided to ask his uncle at that time, if not, he didn't mind providing it, and by the way, it would be a guarantee for himself to let his uncle's official position be higher.
As for making steel yourself? Don't think too much, Datang's steelmaking industry is basically in the hands of the government, and salt and iron are not allowed to be produced privately.
It was only in the Song Dynasty that the era of private steelmaking began.
"You go to the front teeth first and ask, if it's more remote, it's okay to be close to Chang'an."