When the sky was unknown, Chen Yue suddenly woke up, got dressed and came to the courtyard. This period of martial arts training allowed him to form his own biological clock, and he would get up by himself every morning without being called.

The wings on both sides are quiet, it seems that my father Chen Jianghe and the three family members were tired enough from playing iron last night, but they don't know if the briquette machine is made.

Chen Yue squatted for half an hour with two stone locks, then punched and kicked again, and finally picked up the spear and began to stab at the wooden rake on the wall a thousand times a day. The dull crackling sound sounded again, and Du Yuan, a military household next door, woke up from his dream leisurely, and his hand habitually touched his wife's fat buttocks. The sound of snapping was continuous, accompanied by a dull and suppressed moan......

After the martial arts practice, the master and servant of the east and west wings still didn't get up, Chen Yue went to the well outside the alley to fetch water, and after filling a tank of water, the genius just became brighter, Wu Wan'er got up with hazy eyes and began to dress up.

Chen Yue entered the kitchen and lifted the iron plate that sealed the coal stove, and unsurprisingly the coal fire was extinguished again, Chen Yue could only sigh and make a fire by himself. Wu Wan'er, a woman, is a fool in the kitchen, and letting her make a fire will only make the yard full of black smoke. It seems that we have to hurry up and make honeycomb coal, with honeycomb coal, cooking and lighting a fire will not be so troublesome!

When the sun was three strokes, Chen Jianghe came out of the bedroom and handed Chen Yue the briquette machine with a proud face. Yesterday, he fought with the three family members until midnight, and even the martial arts practice that he insisted on every day was pulled down.

Chen Yue took the briquette machine in his hand and looked at it carefully, it was no different from the briquette machine in his memory, and his father's craftsmanship was really good!

After having "breakfast", the family came to the coal yard outside the city in high spirits. Chen Jianghe was very satisfied with Chen Yue only spending 30 taels of silver to buy such a large yard and 100,000 catties of raw coal.

Under the command of Chen Yue, the process of making honeycomb coal began.

The yard was full of raw coal dug out of the coal mine, and large and small pieces were piled up in the yard. In order to make high-quality honeycomb coal, it is necessary to first grind the large coal pieces into small pieces, and then filter them with a sieve to filter out very fine coal dust. Then mix the pulverized coal and clay, add water and mix it together, and form a thicker slime, and then you can make honeycomb briquettes.

Chen Yue began to divide the labor, and asked Chen Ping and Chen Yan to go to the moat to pull the clay back, and their father Chen Jianghe and Chen Mo were responsible for crushing the coal with a stone mill and filtering it in an iron sieve. Chen Yue himself is responsible for mixing clay with pulverized coal and mud.

The coal was crushed and sieved into pulverized coal, and the clay was transported in two large carts, and Chen Yue mixed the pulverized coal with the clay according to the ratio of four shovels of coal and one shovel of soil, and then watered and formed a thick slime. Chen Jianghe and the three family members watched with wide eyes, watching how Chen Yue made the so-called honeycomb coal.

Poke the briquette machine heavily on the slime pile, the connecting rod part in the middle of the briquette machine is jacked up, lift the briquette machine to an open place, the bottom of the briquette machine is half a foot high from the ground, gently press the crossbar that is jacked up, and a briquette falls to the ground.

The flat column, with twelve evenly arranged holes in the middle, does not look ugly.

"This is honeycomb coal!" Chen Ping and the others looked at it blankly, this is what they spent most of the night working on to make the briquette machine.

"When it's dry, you can put it in the coal stove and burn it." Chen Yue proudly said to a group of soil buns, honeycomb coal, the first thing he brought to the world, will surely sweep the entire city of Beijing, triggering a revolution in the coal industry!

"Is this really as good as you say?" Some people questioned the honeycomb coal, which made Chen Yue furious, and when he looked up, it was not someone else who questioned him, but his father Chen Jianghe.

"Of course, Daddy, you see, each briquette has so many holes, and it forms a natural vent when placed in the coal furnace, so that the briquettes can be fully burned, at least improving the combustion efficiency by more than 50 percent, and a briquette like this can burn for at least half an hour, and there is no problem at all in making a meal. When not in use, you can seal the coal stove with iron sheets, and it will never extinguish the fire, so that as long as three briquettes, you can burn all day, which is at least half less coal than cooking with traditional coal. Chen Yue said in a barabala, and Chen Jianghe and the three family members listened dumbfounded, looking unaware.

"Forget it, the benefits of honeycomb coal can't be said for a while, and you will all know it when it is dried and used for a day! By the way, Dad, is the coal stove I asked you to make? Chen Yue suddenly remembered that only briquettes were not enough, and there must be a stove with matching sizes.

"It's ready, the stove is very simple, and it's in my blacksmith's shop." Chen Jianghe replied impatiently, reaching out to take the briquette machine from Chen Yue's hand, he wanted to try it himself.

One after another, briquettes were made and lined up in neat rows in the open space, and gradually there were more and more briquettes, from one row to two rows, and finally into a phalanx.

Chen Ping, Chen Mo and Chen Yan worked happily, scrambling to do the work of making briquettes. Chen Yue smiled and stood aside and watched, thinking about what to do next. A briquette machine was obviously too slow to make briquettes, and I had to ask my father to make more. In addition, the special coal stove still needs to be made, which is too simple and has no technical content, and can be entrusted to others, such as the old Zhang blacksmith shop where my father once stayed.

After making a batch of honeycomb coal, you have to sell it out, which I am afraid you have to go out in person, Chen Ping's heart is the most active among the three families, and there should be no problem to sell honeycomb coal, although Chen Mo does not like to talk much on weekdays, but he is also quite clever, and he can also do sales work. As for Chen Yan? Forget it, let him honestly follow his father to strike iron.

After making about three or four hundred briquettes, Chen Yue asked everyone to stop, today is just an experiment, there is no need to fight so much. In the following time, Chen Yue took a few people and began to clean up a few rooms in the courtyard. There are 10 rooms in total, and although they are low mud houses, the roof is covered with thick thatch, so there is no problem for the inhabitants.

When the original coal yard owner left, he took most of his belongings with him, leaving only a few rooms with a black earthen kang and a black pot in the kitchen. Most of the rooms can be occupied, there is a kitchen and a warehouse, and it is very spacious.

Chen Yue decided to live here tonight, not only did he live here, but Chen Ping and Chen Mo also had to stay, and as for Chen Yan, he was taken back by Chen Jianghe to help strike iron.

When she went back to carry the quilt and luggage, Wu Wan'er had to come over and live in the coal yard with her, on the grounds that she would cook for everyone early tomorrow morning.