Chapter 100: Mining
"The work of transporting timber is also important, but I'm busy doing a cross-generational job right now, and now you're going to help me collect some ore, and you're going to take a slave to help me collect ore, and that's the kind of thing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Yao Ran said, taking out the siderite from his arms.
Yao Ran handed the stone to Wei Mu and continued, "We can extract a new material from this stone, which is harder than the stone and can shape it as we wish, so we need a lot of this stone. You go and bring someone to help me mine this stone first. ”
Wei Mu held the siderite in his hand, weighed it, looked under the sun, couldn't see the reason, and asked, "How can this thing refine something harder?" Alas, I don't understand either, anyway, the patriarch said yes, I'll do it. Where the things are, I will collect them, and how many people I will take with me. ”
Yao Ran touched his temples, looked at the situation at the scene, and said, "I have more than 90 people here now, and you take 40 people away." I'll take you there in the afternoon with the tools you used to dig the pit. ”
After thinking for a while, Yao Ran saw Wei Ni in the crowd, Wei Ni was also Yao Ran's trusted right-hand man, and it was safe for him to take someone to pull wood. Yao Ran then spoke: "Let Wei Ni pull the wood for you." As soon as the words fell, Yao Ran waved his hand to Wei Ni and shouted to Wei Ni to come over. Wei Ni, who was helping to unload the car, ran over in response and gave a chest stroking salute. Yao Ran explained his intention to him.
But Wei Ni's face showed an expression of embarrassment, Yao Ran was a little puzzled, the Nine Knights have always been obedient to their words, what happened this time. Wei Ni actually didn't want to carry out his own arrangement?
Before Yao Ran could attack, Wei Mu did it first, and slapped Wei Ni on the neck, which was very similar to the time Yao Ran knocked on Wei Mu just now. Jin Ping, who saw behind him, shrunk his neck and smiled. But Wei Mu's next words really made everyone laugh.
"You kid, you're afraid of your wife, and you always miss your wife! Look at your little interest, let you go home and solve your wife, and go to the head office after paying the public grain. The people around were stunned for a few seconds, and when everyone understood, the laughter exploded, and even the slaves who understood next to them were laughing.
But Wei Ni nodded with satisfaction and said, "You can go back home, that's great!" Wei Ni's next words caused everyone to laugh again. But Yao Ran only raised his lips slightly. You can't let your ambition affect Wei Ni's happiness. The progress of civilization may not see any significant results in the generation of Weini and Weimu.
They have the right to enjoy life, not to be busy with their wives and children. Yao Ran thought for a while and said, "That's it, Wei Ni, go back at night and ask your wife to pack up her things and follow you to pull wood, so that your husband and wife can be together, maybe it's a little tired!" I don't know if your wife is willing? ”
Wei Ni's eyes lit up when he heard this, followed by a burst of ecstasy: "Really, patriarch? ”
"Can I really take my wife with me to pull wood?" Wei Ni obviously didn't believe his ears, and he could even take his wife with him. Then the wife won't always complain that she doesn't have time to spend with her.
Yao Ran nodded, "What's wrong with having one more person to help me watch the car, do multiple people have more strength?" ”
Wei Ni said: "Then can I go back now and talk to my wife about it?" ”
Yao Ran nodded with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "Go quickly!" Hahaha! Wei Ni made another chest salute at Yao Ran, turned around and ran to the location of the camp in front of the Yao clan's mansion. Wei Ni's wife should live there.
Yao Ran looked at Wei Ni who ran away, turned to look at the people in front of him, and said: "You are not working for anyone, you are just working for your own happiness, the family can provide you with food, and every work you are engaged in now is for the family." The stronger the family, the safer we become. Living in this precarious era, only when the whole family is strong, we are safe, and we can live to see our grandchildren, and to live to be great-grandchildren! Do you understand? ”
Yao Ran's words have gradually begun to become more and more simple and easy to understand, because there are more lectures to everyone, except for the professional knowledge that Yao Ran himself does not understand very well, as long as it is not from the script, Yao Ran can speak in an easy-to-understand manner, so that the vocabulary that primitive people lack can also understand what Yao Ran is telling them.
"Xiaoping, try how the temperature of the pipe is, if you can, let's try whether the sealing of the splicing is good." Yao Ran didn't go into a tirade. Instead, it turned around and studied its own blast furnace parts.
Xiao Ping approached the outer wall of the pipe with the back of his hand, turned back to Yao Ran and said, "It's not hot, you can try it." ”
Yao Ran nodded and said, "Okay, be careful, it's best if the characters don't have problems." Laughing and joking with everyone, several people worked together to splice together the heavy pottery pipes. The three pipes are almost about one meter and a half together, which is enough to be as tall as an adult primitive.
Xiaoping took the water basket with animal skins inside. I began to pour water into the pipes, and poured three baskets of water in succession, and after pouring them full, some of the pipe connections still seeped out of the water. But the water flow was not very large, and then another pipe was tried, and under Yao Ran's supervision, these finished products were passed.
In fact, Yao Ran's retinal system has long detected the quality of the product. However, it is not possible to check the quality of all products by themselves, and it is better to teach people and fish than to teach people and fish. Therefore, a complete set of processes, of course, is production, inspection, and use, and none of the three steps is missing.
"Alright, you guys go ahead and make these plumbing parts. I'll take Weimu to mine siderite, and before the full moon, our blast furnace will make the first furnace of iron. The first group of fifteen potholes on the other side of the charcoal pit, which I opened when I came back at noon. It is not allowed to open it without permission on the way, this hole is dangerous, and you will be burned to death if you are not careful. ”
Yao Ran arranged the work, and did not forget to remind everyone of the problem of charcoal pits, because there is no oxygen in the charcoal firing hole, but there is still a dark fire, and there is so much charcoal, if there is a dark fire once it is opened, it is very likely that a huge flame will be spewed out at the moment of contact with oxygen. Then the person at the entrance of the cave is in danger.
And the charcoal in the cave was gone. The charcoal itself is used as an accelerant for ironmaking, and the limestone is a key material for ironmaking.
After speaking, Yao Ran sat in his "special car" sedan chair under Wei Mu's surprised gaze. This sedan chair has been improved by Yao Ran, turned into four bamboos, arranged in a tic-tac-toe shape and a row of baffles in the middle of the well to prevent deformation from pinching the people sitting in the middle. On the seat, Yao Ran made a chair with a backrest out of bamboo and wooden wedges. I also made a foot pedal under my feet.
Yao Ran sat up, the pedals were very close to the ground, and the comfort of sitting rose sharply, especially when Yao Ran was in the seat, and a large piece of leather spliced together by small animal fur was added to the whole chair.
If you change it to a tiger skin and put a mink hat on Yao Ran, you can sing the "mountain carving" in the model play. It turned out that two people were carrying, but now it has become four people carrying it in four directions, and the direction Yao Ran is facing the four people in front of him and the two top corners of the two people walking forward, and the two people behind can follow.
In this way, the weight shared by four people is much lighter than that of two people, but there are some requirements for the height of the four palanquins, but fortunately, the nutrition of this era cannot keep up, and the height of all of us is very similar. So I found four people who were basically the same height, and under Yao Ran's retinal system, I clicked on the physical characteristics and was called out.
And this "sedan chair" shocked Wei Mu again. The patriarch always finds some way to rest and recuperate after he is injured. It turned out that when he was in a hurry, the patriarch always sprained his foot, and this time he was whipped by himself, and now he can think of a way to let people carry him, and it looks very comfortable.
Yao Ran's four-wheel drive "sedan chair" opened the way in front, and Wei Mu followed closely behind with the 40 slaves he had just called out in the mud. After walking for half an hour, I finally arrived at the destination of the trip, the original limestone mining site. No one is here anymore. Only the stones that had been turned over were left, and there were also pits dug by Yao Ran on the ground during the prospecting.
Yao Ran's retinal system identified a few pieces that were closest to the surface and the most convenient to mine, relatively speaking, the bonanza was pointed out to Wei Mu, and Wei Mu was nailed to the ground with wood to make a mark.
After doing all this, Yao Ran didn't get out of the sedan chair, but just turned his head and said to Wei Mu, "You just take them here to mine and hand over their women to cook here for them to eat." Then you come and put the salt. The ore dug out is put aside first, and you can wait for me to send someone to pick up the goods at any time, and you can't be greedy at a time, because the ore is very heavy, and you can load half a car at a time, but don't crush my car. Yao Ran grinned, "If it's crushed, you'll have to pay for it!" ”
Wei Mu hurriedly nodded yes. Yao Ran nodded and looked at it, reached into his arms, threw the siderite in his arms to Wei Mu and continued: "Use this and the ore excavated to pile it aside first, and I'll come over and take a look when the time comes." ”
Because iron ore often has some associated ores, these semi-raw ores are sometimes very useful metal materials. After Yao Ran arranged all the work, he said goodbye to Wei Mu and sat in his sedan chair, and rushed in the direction of the river. At noon, a charcoal hole will be opened. If you don't have a problem, you can get a lot of charcoal today, and you can knock the charcoal into small pieces and save it for later use.
It seemed that the work of the warehouse should be completed as soon as possible, and I walked back to the riverbank, where everyone was busy, and there were more than two dozen people among them. It's a new face. Of course, it is Lin Lin and his son, who take advantage of them first.