Guo Nuer brought eight soldiers to help, and five potters built the stone-burning clay stove overnight, and invited Han Qian and them to see these craftsmen burn lime with ancestral craftsmanship early the next morning.

Shen Yang took advantage of the existing villages in Taowuji to set up more than a dozen porridge farms overnight, evacuated 30,000 or 40,000 hungry people to these porridge farms for relief, and then sorted out the soldiers' registers, and the scene was not as chaotic as it seemed yesterday.

In the early morning, Han Qian and the others went out, and they had already seen the family soldiers and the children of the family soldiers who were temporarily seconded to Shen Yang with Fan Dahei and Lin Haizheng were cleaning up the road with some hungry people, which showed that Shen Yang's efficiency was higher than they imagined.

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong stayed in the villa, not as scared as before, so they were not busy returning to the city, and followed Han Qian to see the burning lime as a pastime; He also specially sent someone to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion to say that he had been working on the military government for the past two days, thinking that he could escape two days of hard training in cavalry and archery.

The third prince, Yang Yuanpu, has always been very diligent, and he especially wants to gain the recognition of others, and he rides and shoots every morning and evening for an hour, so that Feng Yi and Kong Xirong accompany him and are miserable.

Han Qian saw that the chaotic situation on the lake beach had changed overnight, and he thought to himself that after they returned to the villa last night, Shen Yang might not have slept all night, and he didn't know how this little old man could hold on.

On the side of the workshop, the burnt stone clay stove has been built, only to the height of the thigh, more simple than the stove that is usually seen, even the stove door, the tuyere is not left, it can be said that it is a circle of low walls for the stove, but directly in the stove to spread a layer of rice and wheat stalks and dead branches, and then spread a layer of blue and white stone that is knocked into the size of a fist, and then use yellow mud to seal the top of the stove to leave a small mouth for ventilation, it is said to burn for a day and night.

The whole process is to calcinate, so that the blue and white stone thermal decomposition into quicklime.

In the dream, Zhai Xinping's chemistry is very poor, and the little chemical knowledge he learned in middle school has been returned to the teacher, but the basic concepts can still be known, which is also why Han Qian felt at a glance that the so-called ancestral craftsmanship of these potters was really rough and primitive.

The stone-burning earthen stove didn't even have a stove door, so naturally there was no stove.

Without a furnace and tuyere, there is no way to control the fire, and at this time, if you want to build a larger stone stove and fill it with more limestone at once, how much lime can be produced and what quality of lime can be produced, it will be completely out of control.

To build a large stove, the key is that the large stove must have a furnace or tuyere that can control and observe the fire.

The question is how to build such a furnace, what refractory materials to use, not only not afraid of fire, but also to leave enough and large enough holes for ventilation, but also to be able to support thousands of pounds of limestone and charcoal to prevent the furnace from collapsing in the process of burning stones?

Han Qian thought to himself that the stone-burning earthen stove didn't even have an air outlet, and he used wheat straw as firewood, so the flame temperature of the stone-burning should not be too high, so he asked Guo Nuer to insert a long iron drill used for quarrying into the stove from the top of the stove.

After a long time, the long iron drill was inserted, and the iron drill was just burned red, and it seemed that the temperature of the calcined limestone furnace was really far from enough to melt the iron drill.

Since the furnace can be made of cast iron, Han Qian doesn't feel that there is any difficulty in rebuilding a large stove at all.

"Build a big stove, leave a ventilated hearth at the bottom, put iron grates on top of the furnace, spread a layer of charcoal on the upper layer to ensure that the stone powder does not leak down, and then layer by layer to spread green and white stones, firewood, burn for a few more days to see the effect!" Han Qian called Fan Xicheng over, drew the envisioned case with a pen and paper, explained it to him, and asked him to find a few more tenants to come over and help Guo Nuer and a few potters try to build a big stove together.

"My lord, if this doesn't work, I will destroy thousands of catties of Qingbai stone and dozens of loads of firewood at once." A potter felt that Han Qian was a bit nonsense, so he mustered up the courage for a long time to come forward and give him kind advice.

Ordinary craftsmen can only get five or six thousand yuan after a year of hard work.

Two or three thousand catties of Qingbai stone were burned and wasted, which is equivalent to three or five months for some potters, and it is true that they dare not easily try the new method, but if Han Qian is reluctant to even waste this little bit, what else does he want to do?

Han Qian smiled slightly, he didn't want to explain too much at this time, after all, these potters didn't know a single big word, their concepts were outdated and stubborn, no matter how much he tried to explain, it was better to directly command them to make it to see the effect.

"How can you do such nonsense?" Feng Yi pulled Kong Xirong over to see the excitement, seeing that Han Qian had never been in contact with this kind of cheap industry before, I heard these craftsmen say it again last night, and I got up early today to see the earthen stove made by others, and I want to directly rebuild the big stove, I don't think it's reliable.

"If I can mess around with some Mingtang, how much will you lose me?" Han Qian asked Feng Yi with a smile.

Although in the middle and late period of the former dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, and the influence of the imperial examination that had just been raised was relatively limited, and the scholars were not so high, and the wealthy families were relatively more pragmatic, but whether it was a scholar or a child of the family, no one would engage in these cheap industries, let alone someone to study.

This makes every traditional craft in the world want to improve, it depends on the accumulation of several generations or even dozens of generations of craftsmen, and the whole process is naturally extremely slow.

Although Han Qian did not have the illusion that he could make the jaw-dropping industrial system in his dream out of thin air, he could not improve such a simple craftsmanship in the world to a certain extent, and he was really ashamed of the thinking and knowledge that the dream brought him beyond this era.

Of course, Han Qian did not expect to build a large kiln that could produce tens of thousands of catties of quicklime all at once, and decided to transform it on the basis of the soil method first, try step by step, and then let Fan Xicheng and them organize another person to specialize in quarrying operations and carry out division of labor and cooperation.

"A gold coin." Although Feng Yi didn't believe that Han Qian was omnipotent, he also learned to be obedient and would not jump into his pit casually.

Han Qian rolled his eyes and gave it to Feng Yi, he was only a bet made of gold, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him.

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In the past, although Fan Xicheng was responsible for the construction of houses and courtyard walls in the villa, he hired nearby masons to do things, and he took other family soldiers as overseers to keep an eye on it.

At this time, he was asked to go on the field in person and work with tenants who didn't know anything, and Han Qian just drew a sketch with a pen and paper, and even said it with a stroke, he seemed to understand, but when he really started to do it, he was a little blind.

And those stone-burners, the earthen stoves built before are based on experience, the stove walls are not thigh-high, and the more important thing is that the charcoal and gravel are directly piled on the ground, and the earthen stoves do not bear much weight, and it doesn't matter if they are built crookedly.

Now the big stove to be rebuilt, the diameter circumference should be doubled, and the stove should be left below, and it is planned to stack six to seven layers of limestone and charcoal on the top, almost one person is high, and the stove should be suspended to bear the weight of five or six thousand catties of gravel and charcoal, which is much more difficult than imagined.

The wall of the stove is slightly crooked, and it may be that the lime has not yet burned out, and the big stove will collapse first.

However, Fan Xicheng didn't want to show his cowardice in front of the young master Han Qian, so he took people to pick up bricks and mud from the house, so he started to do it first.

Han Qian, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong went back to the villa for breakfast, watched the sun climb up the treetops, and then took Qingyun, Zhao Ting, Zhao Ting'er, and Zhao Wuji back to the workshop, and saw that the stove wall had been built to be half a person high, and the speed was not slow.

It's just that no matter how you look at the stove wall, it's all crooked.

"Do you want me to send someone to Shaofu to find a master craftsman to help you? Otherwise, this wall will fall down, and you will lose me a gold coin. Feng Yi asked with some schadenfreude.

The real level craftsmen near Jinling have almost all been recruited into Shaofu.

Whether it is the construction of the imperial palace, the firing of the utensils used by the royal family, the weaving of robes and robes, or the minting of the ships and weapons of the guards and the army, or the casting of coins, they are all the finest creations in the world, or at least in the Jianghuai region.

The fine craftsmen who specialize in their work are mainly concentrated in Shaofu.

Fan Xicheng, who was standing on the side, had a flushed face, but he felt that it was difficult for a strong man to assign him to do this, so it was really better to send someone to invite a master over now.

Fan Xicheng can also be regarded as a capable talent, but it is obvious that there is still a considerable gap between the kind of ability that Han Qian expected, he sighed and said to Zhao Ting'er: "Ting'er, you tell Fan Ye how to see whether this stove wall is straight or not!" ”

"Your slave and maid, can you be worthy of a master?" Feng Yi asked with a smile.

"If Zhao Ting'er can command these craftsmen and build a big stove, how much will you lose to me?" Han Qian happened to have just taught Zhao Ting'er how to measure the level and how to compare the vertical, and looked at Feng Yi with a smile and asked.

"Zhao Ting'er can use these craftsmen to build a big stove, and I will give her this Hepu pearl!" Feng Yi took out a dragon's eye-sized Hepu bead from his arms and glanced at Zhao Ting'er.

A dragon's eye sized Hepu bead is almost worth 100,000 yuan, which is definitely a rarity in Jinling, seeing that Feng Yi actually bet and did not forget to seduce Zhao Ting'er, Han Qian took a bite of him in his heart, and said to Fan Xicheng: "You find a dozen people to go into the mountains to pick blue and white stones, and it may come in handy at night." ”

Fan Xicheng knew that the young master Han Qian had always had a great opinion of him, and at this time, when he saw that the young master Han Qian sent someone to take people into the mountain to quarry, and handed over the matter of building the stove to the half-grown little girl to be responsible, he felt a lot of resentment in his heart.

However, before Han Qian came over again, Shen Yang also sent someone over to ask when the lime kiln would be completed, Fan Xicheng didn't dare to delay this matter, no matter how resentful he was, he could only pick what he was capable of doing.

Zhao Ting'er and Zhao Wuji's father, Zhao Laoqi, was just in time for the farm, and was also pulled over by Fan Xicheng to help build the stove, and at this time he went to the corner and quietly pulled the corner of his daughter's sleeve and persuaded her not to be reckless.

Zhao Laoqi thought in his heart, if this girl harmed the young master and lost such a big bead, she couldn't afford to lose her.

Besides, how can a female baby be allowed to interfere in such a big event as building a big stove, isn't this looking for bad luck?

Zhao Ting'er was eager to try and ignored her father's dissuasion.

Those stone-burners were reluctant in their hearts, but they didn't dare to squeak and say anything in front of Han Qian, they just shrunk and looked at Zhao Ting'er despite the fact that the site was a little muddy after the snow melted, and found a small piece of wood, tied a copper coin to the small wooden board with silk thread, and made the simplest wire hammer.

Press the hammer to the half-man-high stove wall, let the copper coin hang straight down, and the wall of the stove will be more skewed when compared.

"Do you see clearly? Such a line hammer makes a few more pieces, and every two or three layers of bricks can be straightened, and the whole body will not be skewed. "Han Qian always doesn't forget to knock on Fan Xicheng when he has the opportunity.

Fan Xicheng was ashamed and speechless.

Seeing that Zhao Ting'er used such a simple method, he directly grasped the key point, Feng Yi was also a little dumbfounded, and couldn't help but clap his hands and praise: "This method is wonderful, it turns out that the wall is not straight, it's so simple," and asked Han Qian with a thief's heart, "Why don't I take ten Hepu beads, and you will give me such a smart and clever slave?" ”

"That's stupid for you," Han Qian ignored Feng Yi, seeing that those craftsmen and tenants still thought Zhao Ting'er was a girl, he reprimanded, "Tear off the stove wall and rebuild it!" Also, carry a few bags of lime and stumble over the mud wall! ”

The villa had already prepared a batch of lime for emergency, and Han Qian thought that it would be stronger to use lime to stumble into the mud to build the stove wall.