Chapter 49 Honeycomb Coal

Su You didn't know his name, he had already flown to the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and he would appear on the emperor's desk in a few days, and he was planning the next life of dozens of orphaned children.

Early the next morning, Su You bought dozens of cooking cakes and went to the Land Temple.

The girls boiled the porridge, Su You opened the pottery kiln, and collected all the small fish into the basket.

Smoked overnight, this small fish is almost transparent, and the taste is so fragrant.

Su You took out a can of stinky tofu and said, "This is smeared on the cooking cake, and the porridge is drunk with small dried fish, which is absolutely delicious." ”

The babies ate happily one by one, and the leader was changed from Brother Zhang to Young Master Su, at least this food is one in the sky and one in the ground.

Near the water's edge, wooden frames have been erected, and ropes are connected to wooden dustpans.

After eating, Su You told the boys to come to the water's edge with wooden shovels, first dig up a layer of wet sand near the water's edge, and said to them: "Everyone, pay attention to the mud layer here, and there is a thin layer of black sand below the mud layer and between the next layer of sand. ”

After speaking, the mud layer was removed, and sure enough, a layer of black sand was exposed.

Su You scooped up the black sand and put it in the wooden dustpan, asked a boy to water it, and then gently moved the wooden dustpan: "Look, the mud and sand are lighter, you can gently rip out, and the remaining black sand will be piled up at the end of the dustpan, so several times, when only the black sand is left, you can collect it, understand?" ”

The third child asked, "Little Master, what is this black sand?" ”

Su You said: "This black sand is our food in the future, it is iron ore, and it is a natural washed iron ore. The shopkeeper of the Shijia iron shop in the city is my apprentice, and we will sell this iron sand to him in the future, not to the government. ”

Leashed and asked, "Is there a difference?" ”

Su You said with a smile: "The difference is big, sell it to the government for 30 wen per catty, and sell it to the Shijia iron shop for 200 wen per catty." ”

Tie up and said in surprise: "The difference is so big? The government is too dark, isn't it? ”

Su You shook his head: "The imperial court does not strictly control the quality of pig iron, and there is no fixed product level, and there are too many loopholes in the middle." However, there are policies and countermeasures, if the imperial court wants to collect our iron sand, we have to take the iron sand to the Shijia blacksmith shop to exchange the poor iron sand, and then hand over the poor iron sand to the imperial court, just pour it once, and we can't lose the same. ”

"By the way, we have two hundred wen per catty of iron sand, if we want to exchange thirty wen a pound of poor iron sand in the Shi family's blacksmith shop, how many catties can we exchange?"

A group of babies counted for a while, and they all shook their heads, only the bad baby said: "It should be less than seven catties." ”

Su You threw the wooden shovel away: "Tie up brother, you take half of the people to continue to work, the bad baby can do arithmetic, take a team of people to the city mile grocery store to pull things, I will give you a list of things in a while, and then a team of people, follow me and coal dust." ”

The mud pond in front of the land temple has been precipitated overnight, Su You scraped up the mud on the surface and put it into the vat, and said to everyone: "Every morning in the future, everyone should put away the precipitated fine mud, and there will be other uses in the future." ”

Take out the rough yellow mud at the bottom layer, mix it with pulverized coal, basically one to one, and then add some plant ash as a desulfurizer, stir evenly, Su oil took yesterday's bamboo tube, put it on the ground, let Xiao Qi fill it with good cinders, and then smashed it with pebbles a few times, covered the small pottery cake that was burned yesterday, and inserted it into the hole with a bamboo stick, and found that the coal was smashed too tightly and could not be inserted.

Xiao Qi asked, "Little Master, what do you want to do?" Say it and think of an idea together. ”

Su You said: "That's right, I want to use the cavity of the bamboo tube to make a coal pillar, and there is a small hole in the middle of the coal pillar that leads straight to the end, which is aligned with the eyelets on these small pottery plates made yesterday." ”

Su Xiaomei said on the side: "I have a way. Brother Xiaoyou, you cut the bamboo stick a little shorter, so that the bamboo stick is a little higher than the bamboo tube, and not higher than the height of the clay plate! ”

Su You cut off the stick according to what Su Xiaomei said, start again, first put the slime into the bamboo tube, then insert the stick according to the approximate position, and then hold a handful of slime to cover it, and then take the eyelets of the pottery plate to align the eyelets of each bamboo stick, cover the grass, knock the plate down with a wooden stick and match the bamboo tube, then take away the lid, take out the bamboo tube, carefully remove the bamboo stick, and a black coal pillar stood there.

Su You stood up and laughed: "Little sister is so smart! Honeycomb coal succeeded! ”

This is the two-point zero version, and then continue to upgrade, first pad a mud tray with eyes at the bottom, insert a bamboo stick and put a bamboo tube on it, then fill it with slime, and then make it into a briquette according to Su Xiaomei's method, and then take away the upper part, turn the bamboo tube over, and then take away the mud tray, bamboo tube, bamboo stick, so that the honeycomb coal poop hole is very clear.

The production process was finalized, and Su You handed over the method to Xiao Qi and asked him to lead someone to make honeycomb briquettes.

I have one more thing to do.

A lot of the small bamboo that was baked on the side of the stove yesterday has already been shared. Su You collected some, cut into bamboo strips, and then cut out a small section of an inch and a half long from the two ends of the knot, one side is long and the other is short, and then finely sharpened, scraped smooth, and the bamboo meat is dug on the side of the long section with the knot, the thinner and thinner the digging, and try to bend the small bamboo stick while digging, until it is just enough to bend the bamboo stick to the point where the two tips meet, and it will be straight when you stretch out your hand.

Gou Yu looked at the knife in Su You's hand and was very envious: "Little master, why don't I come?" ”

Su You was very generous and handed the knife to him: "Okay, be careful not to cut your hands." ”

Six groups of people, counting fifty-four people from Suyou, and a few girls were removed, and all of them were sent to work.

The bad baby took a group into the city to pull things, the dog left to make bamboo sticks, Xiao Qi took a group to make honeycomb coal, tied up and the third took two groups of people to dig iron sand, and the remaining group cut bamboo and picked mud.

Su You told them that if there was a termite nest or something, it must be good mud, even if it was brought in.

There were a few girls left, and Su You didn't let them be idle, sorted out a long hemp rope, and then tied a section of thin hemp rope at certain intervals.

Su You taught them to learn to tie eight bytes and tie them to the hemp rope, so that they could be tightened more and more tightly and not loose.

After the arrangement, Su You went to a red-mouthed taro field on the edge of the city to dig out the red-mouthed taro and roast it in a fire.

By the time the red-mouthed taro was baked, the bad baby's team had already pushed things over.

There was an adult in the middle, who turned out to be the butcher shopkeeper.

As soon as the butcher shopkeeper saw Su You, he fell to his feet: "My little young master Su, why did you come to suffer this sin!" After my wife heard about it, she asked me to pick a pair and come into the water, saying that the young master will rectify it, so get some for the children. ”

"Don't dare to say anything else in the future, every seven days, I send a pair of pig offal, Amitabha Buddha Tiangong is really evil......

Su You was secretly amused when he heard it, could it be that your butcher still believes in Buddhism?

smiled and said, "Thank you uncle, partners, what should I say to my uncle?" ”

While the babies were working, they raised their heads and said thank you to the shopkeeper.

On the contrary, the shopkeeper was so ashamed that his face was flushed: "What is this, a pair of worthless people who go into the water, don't thank you, don't thank you, I have to leave first......

Su You said: "Uncle, wait, I have something to tell you, how is your chicken blood soup selling?" ”

The shopkeeper's eyebrows opened and smiled: "Thanks to the little young master, it sells well!" There are also sick people at home, who came to buy it, saying that the little daughter-in-law of the Cheng family was greasy after her illness and ate pig blood soup, not only did it not hinder her, but she was also cured? ”

Su You said: "This thing can't cure diseases, but it's a good thing to nourish after illness, since it sells well, then I'll tell you one more thing." ”

After speaking, the bamboo branch drew the shape of a pig on the ground: "Look, this is a big pig, tie the four hooves and put it down, take a sharp knife from here, below the side of the neck, and break the blood veins, you can collect the pig's blood in a big basin, use the method I taught you, condense it into squares, add cold water and heat it over low heat, and tighten it into a blood brick, and it is a lot of chicken blood to buy." ”

The shopkeeper said, "Really? That's a good feeling! ”

Su You said with a smile: "There is another benefit, after putting out the blood, the quality of the pork will be on the next level, less fishy and more delicious, and the meat color will be more beautiful, and the meat in your shop should be more popular." ”

The shopkeeper was so happy that he bowed deeply to Su You: "Thank you, little master, my small shop has received too much favor from you." ”

Su You waved his hand: "This is the blessing of your kindness, if you didn't come today, I might not remember to tell you this." ”