Chapter 15 Cement (1)

"Your Highness, everyone has been settled." It happened that Li Ergou had resolved the battle and came over to report to Li Zhen: "Twenty-two people, except for one specially left, the rest have all broken their limbs, and there are only a few minor injuries on our side, and there are no serious injuries." ”

"Very well, the injured brother needs more compensation." Li Zhen was very satisfied with Li Ergou's efficiency: "Now take me over to have a look." ”

"Yes."

Outside the door of the Heavenly Workshop, the battle has completely ended, and all the guards of the Han Wangfu have fallen, and their limbs are showing all kinds of abnormal twists and turns. Only the person who was specially left behind was a little better, but he was also beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and was pressed by Wang Jin and another guard, Zhu Wang, backhanded, and struggled violently.

Seeing Li Zhen coming over at this time, Zhu Wang immediately pulled his hair and lifted his head: "This is His Royal Highness the King of Yue, let me be honest if you know each other." ”

Li Zhen motioned to Zhu Wang that he didn't have to be like this, and looked at this person: "What is your name, and what is your position in the Han Palace?" ”

"The villain Wang Tixin is a chief of the Han King's guard."

"What's the chief, you should be able to see King Han, right?" Li Zhen asked Li Ergou that he was afraid that Wang Tixin would not be qualified to see Li Yuanchang and could not bring his words.

“...... OK. "Li Ergou is also drunk, isn't this nonsense? I sent so many people to look for trouble, but there was no news, and now I finally have news, not to mention the one who came back, even if it was a beggar I didn't know, the king of Han would have to see it.

"That'll do." Li Zhen nodded, and looked at Wang Tixin again: "I can let you go back, but you have to help me bring a message to King Han." Let's just say that I have made a note of today's events, and I will repay him when I have the opportunity in the future. In addition, if you want something in the future, you will ask me in a dignified manner, don't play any small tricks if you don't have that ability, and being looked down upon by others will also make people look down on our royal family. You'd better bring these words back to me word for word, or you'll ......."

"Yes, the small ones must be brought verbatim." Wang Tixin was busy responding, but as for how angry the King of Han would be after hearing this, he couldn't control it.

"Alright, let him go."

"Get out." Wang Jin kicked him in the ass and kicked him far away.

When Wang Tixin walked away, Li Ergou whispered: "Your Highness, is what you just said a little inappropriate, His Royal Highness the King of Han is your elder after all, if this word spreads, will it ......?"

"It's okay, Li Yuanchang is just a villain, he will only make small movements behind his back, let him stand on the table, I'm afraid he won't dare." Li Zhen felt disdain for Li Yuanchang is heart, a tiger without a backbone, in the eyes of others, it is certainly powerful, but in Li Zhen's eyes, it is not as capable as a pheasant.

"Yes, it's the subordinates who talk too much."

"Let's go, go to the farm outside the city." Li Zhen didn't say anything more, rode a pony, and walked out of the city with brisk steps, and Li Ergou and the others hurriedly followed.

There is a place outside Chang'an City, where almost ninety percent of the royal manors are gathered, and the manors that Li Shimin rewarded Li Zhen and Li Zhi are also here, and they are the two best located among all the manors.

"Wu Xiangyang has seen His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness was named King of Yue, and his subordinates are very happy." Wu Xiangyang is an old man in his fifties, and he is also the manor manager personally promoted by Li Zhen, who has worked in the manor all his life, and is an old man in the manor.

"Shut up, what is all this nonsense?" Li Zhen finally recovered a little bit, and after hearing the word King Yue, she became extremely bad again.

"Yes, yes, it's the subordinates who are talkative." Wu Xiangyang hurriedly shut up.

"How's the preparation going?" Li Zhen did not pursue it, but led the topic to the main topic.

"It's all ready, and you can experiment today." Seeing that Li Zhen was asking about the matter, Wu Xiangyang also accepted a flattering expression.

"Good." Li Zhen was very satisfied: "Lead the way." ”

"Yes."

Following the afternoon to the sun, the group came to an empty square, which was originally a special place for drying grain in the manor, but at this time a tall building was built in a corner of the square, with thick smoke billowing on it, very much like a porcelain kiln, but there was a choking smell, and it did not look like it was burning porcelain.

There are also several large grinding discs and grinding discs outside, and from time to time someone takes out a lot of gray-white slag blocks of different sizes from the kiln and throws them into the grinding pan to crush into pieces, and then grinds the grinding disc into powder, and finally puts them into special bags for storage.

This series of processes is very simple, but Li Zhen is very satisfied: "Yes, it seems that everyone is already very skilled, tell everyone, work hard, as long as you can burn the finished product, Your Highness will be rewarded." ”

"Yes, thank you, Your Highness." Wu Xiangyang's face was happy, but then he frowned: "It's just that there is another problem, that is, there will be a lot of powder leakage during the firing process, and the crops in this vicinity are all contaminated by these powders, and many of the farms in the fields have even dried up and died." ”

"I know, you can rest assured, as long as it is successful, I will move out immediately, and as for the destroyed farmland, you can compensate as appropriate." Li Zhen doesn't care, in fact, even in later generations, firing cement is very polluting to the environment, not to mention that he is still using the soil method of firing, which is even more polluting.

That's right, Li Zhen is firing cement, in fact, the reason why Li Zhen asked Li Shimin for a porcelain kiln is to prepare for firing cement and glass.

Although there are huge differences in the firing equipment and firing methods of cement and glass and ceramics, they are the same in some aspects, such as the reaction is carried out at high temperatures; Another example is that all the physical and chemical changes that occur are complex; Another example is that there are great similarities in raw materials, so in a certain way, the three still have a lot in common.

In particular, cement and glass are made of similar materials: cement is made by calcining limestone, clay and gypsum at a mixed high temperature, while glass is made by mixing limestone, quartz sand, soda ash and other materials at high temperature. The degree of similarity is even higher, and in some ways, glass and cement are just different products of the same material fired using different firing methods.

The difference between the three is that the firing method is different, so the firing equipment used is also different. But in the current situation, there is nothing to want, and Li Zhen can only settle for it. Simply according to the structure of the porcelain kiln, slightly changed, the current soil cement kiln was built, if the soil cement can be successful, then according to the cement kiln method to build a glass kiln is easy.