Chapter 162: Repeated defeats and indomitable battles

Unexpectedly, the Han army also stopped advancing, and a big man galloped forward: "Suli, people say that you are a good man, wouldn't it be a pity to miss the handsome, we met and had a fate, do you dare to fight with me?" ”

Singled out! This man is so bold, he has a heavy army, but he wants to fight alone to fight the winner, hum, isn't this a big gift for me?

"Brother Tai delineated, how can I Suli not follow, let the horse come, you and I will fight each other, if I Suli is defeated, you can dispose of it at will. But I got lucky to win......"

"Let you go away and fly high, Brother Taiping will never make it difficult!"

"Is that true?"

"A word is spoken, the horse is difficult to chase, and I, Li Yi, never break my word!"

"Okay, Brother Tai is really refreshing!" Su Li turned around and instructed: "Brothers, watch the enemy plundering for this commander!" ”

"Dashuai, ...... you are injured," one of his relatives frowned, worried about Su Li's unhealed injury.

"Hugh said a lot, Ben Shuai naturally knows it!" Fearing that the heavens had been revealed, Su Li scolded sharply, and he clamped his legs between his hips to get a good horse, and the snow leopard was like a spirit, and his four hooves flew out of the air.

How did Li Yi come to this coincidental time? How can we start from the beginning. Since the defeat of Su Li and the lifting of the siege of Taiping, Li Yi has concentrated on development again, and he led the craftsmen to chisel out the stone mill.

Generally, there are two kinds of large grinding and small grinding. As the name suggests, large grinding is difficult to achieve by manpower, and is generally driven by animal power, which has the advantage of higher work efficiency and more cooking per unit time. The small mill is driven by manpower, which has the advantages of being suitable for both young and old, and easy to move and use.

The stone mill is divided into two fans, both of which are distributed with divergent grooves, and the center is connected by grinding wedges. The structure is simple, easy to manufacture, but it has many uses. Grinding soy milk, pushing rice porridge, making pancakes...... All pastes are indispensable. It can also replace part of the function of the mill to grind flour in an emergency.

The stone mill was built, and Li Yi continued to trial produce bricks and tiles. Food, clothing, shelter and transportation go hand in hand. Productivity is low, and you can only do what you can. The first two phases came to an end, and they fell into the third house, which entered Li Yi's agenda.

Almost all thatched houses are in urgent need of renovation, and before the invention of cement, stone houses have many hidden dangers, but red brick houses are a good choice.

The bricks of the Han Dynasty are cyan, and its production process is ominous, and only the wealthy families use the blue bricks to build houses. In the wilderness outside the Saiwai, no one has mastered the technology of making green bricks.

The manufacturing process of red bricks is simple and convenient, low cost, practical and beautiful, and has many advantages, while the material required for brick making is only clay, which can be seen everywhere in the land of western Liaoning.

After a period of busyness, the brick kiln was finally built. Since it was winter, it was difficult to remove the blank, so the first brick kiln was built on the mountain, hollowing out the soil in the small hillside to build the shape of the kiln, digging ventilation holes, and the chimney was built with the help of the steep mountain. With his memory, Li Yi restored the brick kiln.

In winter, the wind is biting, and the billet removal can only be carried out in the house, and it is necessary to have a relatively warm room. and mud, debilitating, air drying, kiln, ignition, sealing kiln...... After a few days of busyness, everyone finally looked forward to opening the kiln for the first time.

Li Yi's prestige is rising, and now it is in full swing, and the people who heard the news have stepped to witness the grand occasion of the red brick being baked.

The north wind was bitter, the snow was white, and the temperature plummeted to more than 20 degrees below zero, but it still could not stop the enthusiasm of the onlookers. People braved the wind and snow to come to the location of the first brick kiln. Crowded with people, very spectacular, Li Yi looked at the villagers who were whispering and talking to each other, his heart was tumbling and magnificent, he suddenly felt an invisible pressure, and he couldn't force himself through.

Looking at the villagers full of expectation and happiness, Li Yi was in a nervous mood, and he realized that he covered his unconscious face and his ears that were almost frozen. "Open the kiln!" Finally, the voice that everyone had been waiting for for a long time was shouted.

Several participants were also cold in their hands and feet, standing aside and shivering, they couldn't wait for a long time, and when they heard the order from the lord, they rushed to the brick kiln.

Three or five men rushed up together, pushing and shoving. There was a soft "boom", and a gap was opened in the adobe of the sealed kiln, and green smoke floated out.

"Wait a minute, wait until the smoke is exhausted...... residual carbon monoxide can cause poisoning shock and even death, and the residual carbon dioxide will also suffocate the entrant by crowding out the share of oxygen...... The fire was lit in the brick kiln for a few days, and who knows what other harmful gases were produced, and when the smoke dispersed, the safety of those who entered could be guaranteed.

As soon as Li Yi's words were halfway through, the men couldn't wait and broke in desperately. The ignorant are fearless, Li Yi didn't have time to stop it, and stared at the entrance of the cave with anxiety in his heart.

Worry is unnecessary, maybe the concentration of harmful gases in the cave did not exceed the dangerous value, or did not go deep into the cave, in short, the few people who went in came out safely, they were holding warm and heavy bricks, their faces were full of happy smiles, and there were black stains of smoke and dust.

Due to excessive excitement, the man who walked in front was extremely happy and sad, slipped under his feet, and fell a dog to chew. The red bricks in the man's arms were out of his control, and they all fell on the ice and snow. There was a soft "crackling" sound, and then looking at the finished bricks, they turned into large and small pieces in an instant.

"Ahh The crowd of onlookers erupted in exclamation, first for the man's carelessness, and then for an incredible scene, isn't this red brick comparable to a stone? How is it as soft as dirt?

Seeing a pair of questioning eyes looking at him, Li Yi's frozen purple face became like a purple eggplant, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down, and before they fell to the ground, they froze in the placket of his clothes.

Li Yi walked like a fly, running to the men who were stunned in front of the kiln: "Throw all the bricks on the ground!" Li Yi's voice trembled a little.

There was a crisp sound of "crackling", and there was not a single red brick left, only the shattered dirt!

How is this possible? After several days of hard work, it is not possible to burn high-quality turns, and it has to be stronger than adobe. And these "bricks" are clearly inferior to adobe, isn't this a waste of manpower, material and material resources?

The people gradually dispersed, with disappointed eyes, shaking their heads and commenting as they walked, and after a while, only Li Yi, who was standing in place in a daze, and more than a dozen big men who collaborated to burn bricks.

What went wrong? Li Yi fiddled with the broken bricks, which could be turned into powdered broken bricks by pinching them with his hands. The broken bricks like tofu scum are not useless, performing acrobatics and magic tricks, but they are good props. Li Yi thought to himself, but he couldn't perform magic, and this brick became a complete waste.

"Clean up the scrap and get ready for the next firing!" In the face of setbacks, we must not bow our heads, but pick ourselves up again to meet the next challenge.

The second kiln, the third kiln...... What awaits Li Yi is continuous failure, and he finally knows that failure is the bitterness of the sentence "The mother of success".