Just as the various professional groups of the Executive Committee were arguing over the right to choose labor, Xiao Zishan received another call from Ran Yao: Li prisoners were found during the interrogation.

"Really?" Xiao Zishan was taken aback, in this place of Hainan Island, the Li nationality has always been a very powerful Liliang, open the county records of each county, "Li Qing" has to occupy a separate space, since the Yuan Dynasty, there is almost no year that the Li people do not launch a riot, and the conflict between Han and Li is quite fierce. Defending Lebanon has always been an important task for the local government. Because of the resistance of the Li people, the Han immigrants have not been able to penetrate into the core area of Hainan Island, and the crossers must be extremely cautious in the Li issue if they want to develop and grow in Hainan.

"What's going on?"

"According to them, the county recruited them to be crossbowmen, and there were thirty of them, and now we have caught eight." Ran Yao said on the phone, "Tell you something else, do you remember that family?" I got involved by accident—"

"Remember, isn't that woman from a police officer, and she was sent to you to interrogate prisoners."

"She is the Li nationality, and her ancestral home is Hainan, which is wonderful, right? I feel like I can take advantage of this relationship. ”

"I remember her mouthful of Trump? Many of today's ethnic minorities are very watery. Besides, she didn't live there anymore, what else could she know? ”

"No, she knows a lot about her own people. A few Li captives are now throwing themselves on her," Ran Yao's laughter came from PHS, "You see, talents sometimes appear inadvertently. ”

Guo Yi has almost all been screened: the vast majority of the people are peasants - small landlords often participate in the labor themselves, and a few craftsmen are actually half-farmers and half-laborers, who burn some pottery tools in their spare time, or build houses for others. A little jishu is a rough carpenter, a half-old man. There is only one person who can read, and that is Zhang Xingjiao. He was called out alone, followed Xiong Buyou to learn Mandarin, and became the clerk of the entire labor team, responsible for things like keeping records.

Wu De drew the craftsmen individually to form a team. All but twenty wounded were divided into five labor teams, led by the first five captives. When he was organizing, according to the records of the prisoners, he disorganized the Lingao natives, the Fujian cultivators, and the immigrants from all over the country, and still engaged in the same set of mutual restraints -- you can't unite anyway. Lin Xing and the others have now become captains, forgetting their identity as half-captives and half-slaves, and they all feel quite happy, and they all made flogging sticks for themselves without waiting for Wu De's instructions. I'm ready to urge the new poor worm hard.

Strict hierarchical relations, absolute power between superiors and subordinates, and benefits through power are extremely tempting in the human community. Wu De, who has worked in the army and the judiciary for many years, knows this well. So he deliberately deepened these things, and each of the five captains was given an ugly rattan helmet - an unsuccessful trial of the Industrial Committee, which was intended to be burned as firewood, but Od brought them back, distinguishing the status of the captives with such obvious markers as hats and hatless.

Due to the urgent need for the project, the labor team was all assigned to the construction team to produce the construction raw material: bricks.

Modern buildings have shifted from brick to reinforced concrete, but fired clay bricks are still one of the most widely used materials. Naturally, the engineering and construction team will not give up.

According to the reconnaissance team, they found a brickyard three kilometers away from Bairentan, which is a typical traditional brick and tile yard. There are three clay round kilns, and although the workers have all gone, the contents are still there: fired haode bricks, dried bricks and a lot of "cooked soil".

The process of firing bricks and tiles is quite cumbersome, first of all, the raw soil is mined - that is, the clay that does not contain organic matter, the raw soil is dried, crushed, and then repeatedly trampled after adding water to make mature soil, and then made into bricks. The bricks can not be burned directly into the kiln, if there is too much moisture, it will be directly burned and deformed in the kiln, so it has to be dried in the shade for ten days and a half months, and the sun can not be seen during the dry period, there can be no strong wind, and no cold can be encountered, so under normal circumstances, bricks and tiles cannot be burned in winter. After drying, the bricks can be fired in the kiln.

It is difficult to imagine the problem of production efficiency if the traversers are allowed to make bricks and burn bricks by themselves, but the traversers have a combined brick making machine, which is driven by a pot camel machine, and the efficiency of brick making is only about how much raw soil they can mine.

Mei Wan thinks that the production efficiency of the earth round kiln is too low, and the kiln needs a skilled master to do it, not that they can do it by reading the manual. Fortunately, there were a large number of ready-made bricks available, so the construction of a 16-hole wheel kiln began.

The wheel kiln is a kind of "foreign kiln", of course, it is very backward compared to the more advanced modern brick kilns such as the Suidao kiln, but it is definitely an advanced thing in this time and space.

It is a continuous production kiln that can be loaded with blanks, bricks, and cleaned at the same time. The kiln is composed of a number of interconnected chambers, like a circular channel, surrounded by many kiln doors, all of which are connected to the main flue in the center of the kiln. The fuel is fed from the charging hole in the roof of the kiln. When the wheel kiln works, it is divided into four working belts: drying, preheating, calcination and cooling. A 16-room kiln, the first room is out of bricks, the sixteenth room is already cleaning, the fifteenth room is loading blanks at the same time, and then the second room is deliberately bricks, the first room is cleaning, and the sixteenth room can be loaded. Once ignited, it can be continuously produced 24 hours a day without interruption, which is beyond the reach of traditional kilns in terms of work efficiency and heat utilization. An ordinary wheel kiln can produce more than 50 million bricks and tiles a year.

In order not to waste time, while installing machinery and building a wheel kiln, Mei Wan decided to burn out all the bricks and tiles that had been dried first, but the brick loading kiln of the earthen kiln was a jishu job, and no one had done it before, whether it was a traverser or a laborer. When the news was sent back to the Executive Committee, Luo Duo of the Intelligence Intelligence Group once again used his two-legged dictionary function, and soon found an electronic version of a booklet from the computer hard drive entitled "The Method of Making Bricks and Tiles by Clay Law", and in less than an hour, the printed book was quickly sent to the kiln, and the laborers were surprised to see that the "pirate craftsman" was instructing them on how to install the kiln with a book - a secret that only the master knew!

There is a large amount of thatched grass near the brick kiln, Mei Wan asked the laborers who had worked in the brick kiln in the past to know that this was specially planted as fuel, and the earth kiln can burn well with such "soft firewood", and the hard firewood is too fierce to control the fire. Naturally, these fuels were also unceremoniously used by the Travers.

When the kiln was burning bricks, Mei Wan commanded the labor team, constantly cutting grass and digging the soil, and the bales and mounds were piled high and high. Some of the captives felt that the pirates were probably going to toil them to death—so much soil that they couldn't use up without food or sleep.

When the pot and camel machine was adjusted, black smoke suddenly appeared, and the flywheel rotated, driving the combined brick machine to operate, and the captives only saw piles of cooked earth being poured into the big opening of the steel, and many iron pieces were dazzlingly rising and falling, and then they saw that the flat adobe was neatly cut into whole bricks as if it had been spelled! Even the most skilled brick maker can't do it so quickly! Everyone was dumbfounded - pirates can do anything! And the speed at which they can build things is not at all what mortal Liliang can do, and some people simply kneel in fear in front of the roaring machine and kowtow repeatedly.

"Kowtow, go and transport the material!" Mei Wan yelled at Lin Xing, who was in a daze.

"Got it! Heads. "I don't know which man who was full of food and had nothing to do taught him this title, but now when he sees the people, he is called the chief.

"Get to work! Work! He waved his stick vigorously, "Go and carry the earth, hurry, and throw the slow ones into the iron mouth!" ”

This intimidation was much more effective than his stick, and every captive had a superstitious terror at the machine, and all of them went to work very hard, lest they would be thrown into the mouth of the machine if they did it slowly—that such a thing would be sacrificed to a living man.

The bricks were pulled to the stockyard by a trolley, and the original dry shed was vacated to pile up these newly made bricks, all of which were made according to the past standard of eight or five bricks.

Obviously, the production speed of the machine was much higher than that of this era, and before evening, the cooked soil that the bricklayer had prepared for several months was exhausted, and the machine had to be stopped for a while.

To build a wheel kiln, Mei Wan's other task was to make cement. For him, cement is just a phone call to make a delivery. Even the cement used after D-Day was brought from the original time and space. Now it's completely unthinkable to make him from scratch. Mei Wan knows that there is such a thing as soil cement on this shijie, but it is not clear how to build it and what kind of performance it can have.

In modern society, the cement industry has become a highly specialized, mechanized large-scale production, which involves many special large-scale special equipment, such as crushers, rotary kilns, ball mills and so on. Replicating such a large piece of equipment is too much of a luxury for the traverser, and even if they buy ready-made equipment to install it, this kind of giant equipment is not something they can handle.