No matter what the future holds, no matter what happens, we do not lose hope: hope is a virtue - Hugo

In the next few days, Li Baoqiang used the same method to blow up iron ore, lignite, limestone and other ore layers, and it was much more convenient for the villagers to mine, but transportation has always been a bottleneck, or use a basket to carry out the mountains little by little, Li Baoqiang is very speechless, now it is a semi-primitive society, no electricity, no gasoline, no diesel, transportation is a bottleneck.

Li Baoqiang was very busy, Zhang Juncai found him and said that the salt was completely gone, the brine pool was too bitter to cook, and it was impossible to cook, so it was up to Li Baoqiang to find a way to make some salt. Li Baoqiang inspected the brine pool, thought about it, or used nitroglycerin to blow up the rocks around the pool, organized a few people to dig up the rubble, and slowly dug a well up to 30 meters deep.

The brine slowly accumulates and fills the well in a day. Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to build a few simple stoves next to the well, put a large pot on it, pull a pile of loose coal, and start boiling salt. The efficiency was still too low, so the villagers rested a few pieces of flat land and tamped the flat land, which was surrounded by a 30-centimeter-high cofferdam.

When the brine is poured into the flat ground while the salt is boiled, the brine is evaporated by the wind and the sun, which is the salt pan. This is how Li Baoqiang's hometown is drying salt by the sea, so Li Baoqiang is quite thoughtful in commanding. One of the salt pans is used as a reservoir, the second is used as an evaporation pond, and the third is used as a crystallization pond, and the three plots are gradually lowered in height to facilitate the flow of brine to the next plot in turn.

The speed of boiling salt is fast, but the output is small, and coal is wasted; Salt production is slow, but yielding is high. Even so, it can produce forty or fifty catties of coarse salt every day, and coarse salt can be eaten, but because it contains impurities and impurities such as calcium and magnesium, which is harmful to human health, Li Baoqiang decided to refine salt.

Li Baoqiang organized people to transport the coarse salt back to the school, found some clean cloth, made it into a filter screen, and used well water to boil and dissolve the coarse salt, filter out the soil impurities, and collect the solution.

Then find some baking soda, then find some quicklime, put the lime in water, after the reaction becomes hydrated lime slurry, baking soda is added to the lime slurry, stir to speed up the reaction, wait for a while after the reaction, let it stand for a while, with the precipitation of calcium carbonate, the supernatant is sodium hydroxide, collect sodium hydroxide, that is, soda ash, and evaporate a part of the water to form a relatively pure soda ash solution.

Then put the soda ash solution and the filtered coarse brine together and stir together, and heat together, the solution is gradually stratified, a part of the precipitate slowly appears at the bottom of the liquid, continue to filter, collect the solution, basically a pure salt solution, originally Li Baoqiang also wanted to make some hydrochloric acid to continue to purify, thought about it, the current refined salt solution has basically been relatively pure, so he gave up this idea.

Li Baoqiang heated the pure salt solution, and slowly precipitated white crystals on the surface of the liquid, Li Baoqiang tasted it, there was no bitter taste, and the exquisite bagged salt sold on the market was basically the same, so far, Li Baoqiang has refined the well salt into table salt.

In the process of refining salt, Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to take a few villagers to watch and teach while doing, and when the refining was completed, several villagers also basically mastered the practice of refined salt, and Li Baoqiang breathed a sigh of relief, and finally lived up to the teaching of the Marine Corps instructor.

Zhao Xiaoxiao, who has been by Li Baoqiang's side for the past few days, watched Li Baoqiang busy in surprise. She was surprised by Li Baoqiang's erudition and hands-on ability, although He Qun Fat and himself are college students, it is a pity that they are only limited to book knowledge, and they are the first to talk about the principle, but they are blind when they really practice it, Zhao Xiaoxiao secretly pondered to himself, he still has to learn some practical skills, so as to survive better in the apocalypse.

Zhao Xiaoxiao took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat beads on Li Baoqiang's forehead, recently she has become more attached to Li Baoqiang, Li Baoqiang enjoys a little tenderness, "Don't be too obsessed with brother, brother will be lost." Zhao Xiaoxiao was about to fight, and Li Baoqiang suddenly became serious: "Xiaoxiao, I want to confess my past to you, in fact, I have the longest love history......"

Zhao Xiaoxiao suddenly became nervous when he heard this, and seeing Xiaoxiao's nervous appearance, Li Baoqiang almost laughed and then said quite narcissistically and intoxicatedly: "Actually, I have the longest love history throughout my life, that is, narcissism." Zhao Xiao was careful and saw that Li Baoqiang was teasing himself, "Looking for a fight, if you don't open the house for three days, this girl will implement the family law today." I'm kicking! ”

kicked Li Baoqiang's lower body with his legs, and Li Baoqiang dodged dexterously, "It's really ruthless, don't affect the sexual well-being of your lower body." ”

Since the breakthrough in the relationship between the two, Li Baoqiang suddenly became enlightened, and his mouth was full of flowers all day long, constantly teasing Zhao Xiaoxiao and making the girl happy. Zhao Xiaoxiao scolded the fat man several times for teaching Li Baoqiang badly, and the fat man was speechless: "I was really wronged, I was shot while lying down." ”

In the next few days, Zhang Juncai also produced refined salt according to the procedure taught by Li Baoqiang, with a daily output of about forty catties, Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to find a special room, in addition to daily use, and kept hoarding, because he knew that in the last days of this primitive society, these refined salts would bring him great benefits.

The loud sound of continuous bombing of the mountain and the rising fireworks of boiling refined salt finally brought vitality to Hope Village, and at the same time, it also attracted disaster victims, and disaster victims from five or six nearby towns and villages continued to come. Li Baoqiang and the people in charge of Hope Village are very busy.

Li Baoqiang immediately organized the young and middle-aged men and women among the victims to go up the mountain to cut down tree branches and transport them back to build shacks, and the school could no longer accommodate so many people. The shacks were built in accordance with the practice of the Xinjiang Construction Corps when it was stationed in Xinjiang.

Li Baoqiang chose a hillside outside the campus, which is inclined at more than 30 degrees, which can be used as the back of the shack. First dig a pit about one and a half meters deep on the ground, the bottom of the pit is smoothed, and then level the section of the earthen wall, the branches are tied up in pairs, and there is a horizontal log across the intersection at the top, and the thin branches and weeds are paved, and the ground hut is basically formed, although it is simple, but basically there is no big problem in sheltering the wind and snow.

Finally, the victims were settled.

According to the final statistics, there were more than 200 people who came to the disaster, including 132 young and middle-aged men and women, and more than 70 elderly and children. But the changes in Hope Village have brought them more shock.

I hope that the villagers look much better than them, and occasionally they can eat meat. At the front of the valley there is a five-meter-high city wall, a suspension bridge, a moat, an urn city is unheard of, and a huge dammed lake is on the stream outside the village. Salt wells, salt ponds, black smoke from salt stoves, and a cement kiln are being built, everything seems tense and orderly, full of vitality. The hearts of the newcomers were suddenly quiet, and they felt the hope and safety of survival.

Because of the increase in manpower, Li Baoqiang expanded the armed team, and now the armed team is composed of three main squads, two reserve squads, and a female soldier team, each team is eleven members, including a squad leader, plus the deputy captain Fat, Thin and Captain Li Baoqiang, a total of 69 people, the armed team has been out of production, and every day under the leadership of Li Baoqiang and the vice captains, they train hard.

The construction of Hope Village is gradually on the right track, and the increase in manpower has gradually given Li Baoqiang the idea of further construction. Because every time he sees the miserable city wall, Li Baoqiang is always faintly worried, can he resist the attack of the rats? Can it withstand foreign aggression? Li Baoqiang finally decided to produce cement.

Li Baoqiang found Zhang Juncai and asked him to go to the villagers to find villagers who understand cement production. Fortunately, four or five villagers had worked in a cement factory before the end of the day and knew some of the basic processes and methods of producing cement. Li Baoqiang gathered these villagers to study the method of making cement under the current conditions.

The process of making cement is complex. The production of cement is mainly divided into three stages: raw meal preparation, clinker calcination, and cement grinding. Among them, the main raw materials for making cement are limestone, clay, iron powder, fluorite, and gypsum. These raw materials can be found, and there are many coal reserves that have been excavated.

At present, the most critical thing is to build kilns for calcining cement and machinery for grinding cement. Based on the current situation and the conditions at hand, everyone finally began to make cement. Without electricity, it would take a lot of energy. Zhang Juncai hired a few stonemasons, made three large grinding discs, and then built a calcining kiln by the dammed lake with the last few bags of cement.

Zhang Juncai's organizational skills are indeed very strong, and after arranging the collection team, he organized all the people in the village to smash limestone, clay, iron powder, fluorite, and gypsum into walnut-sized pieces, and put them in the grinding disc to grind into powder and mix them.

Because the temperature of the calcining kiln could not reach the temperature of the chemical reaction, everyone discussed for a long time, and then grinded the lignite block into powder, which was very compatible with the previously ground raw materials, so that when calcining the raw materials, the pulverized coal can be fully burned, and the temperature of the calcining kiln can also meet the requirements.

Li Baoqiang and everyone stayed up for a few days and nights, and finally the first kiln cement was calcined, at this time the cement was still blocky, Zhang Juncai used the three grinding discs, grinding in cycles, and finally produced fine cement powder. Li Baoqiang finally landed a stone on the ground.

Li Baoqiang organized people to continue to increase the height and reinforcement of the city wall, and finally the height of the city wall reached seven meters, and in this mountain pass, it was like a castle. Although the weather is still cold, but it also makes the thick cement condensed on the city wall and the urn city quickly condense, the smooth cement surface is solid, Li Baoqiang thought that even if the cannonball fell on it, it would smash a pit, or even a white spot, it should be able to resist the attack of the rats that would drill holes, Li Baoqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Under the leadership of the village committee, the villagers saw the changes in the small village day by day, especially the gradually taller and stronger city wall, and their hearts were full of security, and at the same time, they were full of respect for Li Baoqiang, who was busy with work in no white or black, and it was he who gave the villagers a comfortable nest.

In addition to leading the team to train, the fat man often came to observe Li Baoqiang's busy work, and he jokingly called Li Baoqiang the "industrial king of the last days", explosives, refined salt, cement, and soda ash were all produced one by one, and there was nothing that could not be made.

The fat man patted Li Baoqiang's ass in front of Zhao Xiaoxiao: "He is arrogant, but he is kind-hearted, he is low-key, but he is admired by thousands of people, he can use the fire given by God to mankind, and burn a super dish that can be called the art of fire, is he the embodiment of the gods?" Or the messengers of hell? No one knows, but it is certain that everyone gives him a title - Food~~ God! ”

"Oh, I misremembered the lines, Li Baoqiang is the god of creation!" The fat man worships Li Baoqiang thoroughly.