Chapter 221 Manufacture of cement by soil method

Zhu Daolin, who returned to the main courtyard of Hushan, under the strong request of his wives and concubines, promised to go home every day for dinner for the last period, and try to find time to talk and play the piano with everyone every night.

Zhu Daolin also needs to stay in Hushan Manor and go to major workshops and construction sites to inspect them.

After a month and a half of operation, the recruits who were able to stay behind were able to adapt to the relatively high-intensity training, and the instructor team headed by Chief Instructor Li Yiliang spent more than 20 days with Zhu Daolin, who basically mastered the principles and methods of the new-style training, and could completely follow the training program and continue it in an orderly manner, and there was no longer any need for Zhu Dao to be personally respectful and work hard day and night.

Early the next morning, the refreshed Zhu Dao stood on the review stand on the north side of the playground of the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall before dawn, and more than 400 disciples were very excited to see the long-lost mountain chief, and they all accelerated and ran wildly, completing the four-kilometer morning exercise more than two minutes earlier than before.

Zhu Daolin smiled from ear to ear, a smile that many disciples would never forget, and most of them had never seen the smile of the mountain chief since they entered the martial arts hall to be taught.

The martial arts disciples are all orphans who have lost their parents and families, and everyone cherishes what they have now.

They know that the place where they are is the best school in Daming, the food they eat is ten times better than that of the landlord's house in their hometown, they use items that countless people envy, they wear the best clothes, they step on beautiful sneakers that no one else has ever seen, and they can get a new pair if they are worn out, and even the comfortable **** has as many as four sets per person.

The best academy in the Ming Dynasty has 1 gentleman for every 30 disciples, and the total number of gentlemen in the two branches of the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall is as high as 65, with an average of one gentleman for every 7 disciples. Although Mr. Wu Xue's requirements are strict, his body is getting stronger day by day, his courage is getting stronger day by day, and the knowledge he has learned in half a year is more than ten times that of other academy disciples.

Moreover, it is not difficult to learn at all. In his spare time, he can play to his heart's content, play football to compete for collective honor, and learn music and musical instruments to cultivate his sentiment...... All of this is brought by Zhu Daolin, the mountain chief who is admired and loved by everyone and regarded as a father and brother!

Zhu Daolin noticed the abnormality of the disciples and deliberately stayed to have breakfast with everyone.

The chief teacher of liberal arts and several heads of teaching and research groups were afraid that Zhu Daolin, who was busy, would leave after eating, and hurriedly took out the newly formulated syllabus of various disciplines for Zhu Daolin to approve.

Zhu Daolin took it very humbly, and after reading the syllabus of the chemistry course, he immediately put forward his opinion, but as a result, a buckwheat cake was eaten for half an hour, and most of it was left.

Since the syllabus of each subject is very detailed. Zhu Daolin couldn't read them all, so he had to agree with the gentlemen that for the next five days, they would discuss together for an hour every morning, and then the gentlemen would start breakfast with satisfaction.

On the martial arts side, the highly respected Xuanji Daoist is now in charge, and he is steadily advancing in accordance with the military basic training outline formulated by Zhu Daolin, and he does not have as many headaches as the gentlemen of liberal arts.

Martial arts instructors are familiar with their work, and generally think that the current teaching is too easy. Zhu Daolin was asked to arrange more basic military theory teaching and skill training projects.

Zhu Daolin politely refused, explaining that the first year was very crucial. It is necessary to transform children's interests into good habits, and not let children be burdened too much, as long as the foundation is laid in the first year, the next few years can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Xuanji, the superintendent of the martial arts hall, agreed with Zhu Daolin's views very much, and deliberately compared the two idioms of step-by-step and pulling out seedlings to help grow.

In the subsequent inspections, Zhu Daolin once again showed his distinctive style. Everywhere he went, he chatted and dined with ordinary craftsmen, and carried stone bars with ordinary people for two hours to understand the income of the people and the management level of the construction site, and the results were basically satisfactory to him. Although there were some cases of false reporting of working hours, Zhu Daolin only gave a stern reprimand and did not punish anyone.

From the construction quality of the completed craftsman residential area and the two camps, Zhu Daolin saw the attitude of excellence and the spirit of meticulousness, and had a deeper understanding of the interim manager Li Kuanji.

Before leaving the construction site of Gushan Iron City, Zhu Daolin privately asked Li Kuanji for his opinion and asked him if he would like to serve as his staff member as a garrison of Gushan Iron City? moved Li Kuanji so much that he almost cried on the spot, and felt that all his hard work was worth it!

The only thing that Zhu Daolin could not evaluate was the newly completed horse farm located at the foot of Lao Mountain in the northwest corner of Ziyang Temple.

Master Xuanqing Daochang personally commanded more than 5,000 craftsmen to spend two months to build a horse farm covering an area of 380 acres surrounded by mountains on three sides into a high-grade manor, and a solid embankment of more than 80 meters long was built on the northernmost foot of the mountain, and the water source area in the mountain nest became an excellent reservoir with an area of more than 100 acres.

Before the completion of the construction, the head of Xuanqing Dao actually launched 20,000 people to raid for three days, picked up tens of thousands of tons of fertile soil from outside the valley, and spread it on the uneven barren land on both sides of the stream, creating two flat and thick plains, and the seeds of alfalfa have been sown.

Zhu Daolin, who was dumbfounded, asked the master? Daoist Xuanqing immediately sank his face and asked Zhu Daolin how much silver did he spend to buy a stallion? Zhu Daolin was speechless after hearing this--even the cheapest Indian horse costs 1,200 taels of silver!

In the following seven days, Zhu Daolin and a group of large and small managers spent in the industrial research institute, major workshops and three construction sites, until the afternoon of the eighth day, Zhu Daolin finished dealing with the backlog of cumbersome affairs, and brought a group of managers and more than 200 valuable talents of the research institute to hold a meeting to discuss and adopt the "three-year development outline of industrial technology", and it was already dusk when he returned home.

Zhu Daolin just entered the courtyard gate and couldn't catch his breath, and the housekeeper Gu came running with a boxy "stone" and asked Zhu Daolin to see if he was qualified?

Zhu Daolin was in high spirits after reading it: "It's done?" ”

Butler Gu was equally excited: "It's done!" The first few times were either too brittle after condensation and drying, or the coagulation time was too long, but this time it was really done! ”

"More than 500 villagers have been busy for four months, and they have spent more than 600 taels of silver just for the money for firing the kiln and grinding the calcining powder, and most of the materials are ready-made, not counting the money, only counting the expenses of buying coal, paying labor, buying hammers for beating stones, buying carts, repairing dams, building windmills, and ordering large iron mills, which add up to more than 4,200 taels of silver!"

"This is still according to the cheats provided by the owner, if you fumble around, even if you spend another 10,000 taels of silver, you won't be able to do it by this time next year!"

Zhu Daolin immediately instructed: "You find the craftsmen of the research institute as soon as possible, bring the secret book with you, and ask the two research groups of machinery and chemical industry to see your cement kiln, and after they read it, they will refer to the design on the secret book and make several sets of machines to help you install and debug." ”

"What about you, organize the villagers to build the cement factory as soon as possible, I will pay for the construction of the factory, you will do the things, I and you account for 50% of the shares, and the villagers of the three villages around Lime Mountain will give them the opportunity to share 50% of the shares regardless of whether they participated in the previous experiment or not...... How to divide these fifty percent of the shares let the villagers discuss it themselves, just be fair, do you think it's okay? ”

Where is the reason why Butler Gu can't do it? I was so excited that I almost knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhu Daolin has always been generous to his own people, if it were not for the villagers under the lime mountain to have a backbone, in order to deter Xiaoxiao and the local gentry from coveting, Zhu Daolin would not have asked for the shares of this small cement factory, and gave them all to the loyal housekeeper uncle and villagers.

Four months ago, he handed over the technical information of the soil method to produce cement to Gu Da housekeeper who was born in burnt lime, and then gave Gu Da housekeeper 10,000 taels of silver to do the test, telling him how to unite the villagers and how to recruit good players in the industry to carry out the experiment together.

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