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Qu Laisan suddenly became interested, he may not be willing to give up tea smuggling, but it is always good to have one more way to make money, and he laughed at the moment:

"I knew that Mao Junshi was a great talent, and he would definitely be able to have high skills. I don't know how to arrange this fired brick? ”

Mao Geng calmly replied:

"This matter is not difficult, the first step is to test the burning of slabs, and after the brothers in my church make slabs and burn slabs and bricks, they can burn slabs and bricks in large quantities. However, the next step in making the bricks is to use a hydraulic mechanism, so that there is no need for too many young people. The things needed to fire the bricks are nothing more than loess and charcoal, and there are two carpenters to make the molds of the bricks, that is. It's as simple as that. ”

Of course, Mao Geng has not yet reached the point of building an automatic brick making machine, but if you want to bluff people, you might as well say it a little mysteriously.

When Qu Lai Sanyi heard the word "charcoal", his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately asked:

"Coal, it's a coincidence, my Qu Jiatong just dug a charcoal kiln in a place, but I don't know how, the dug up charcoal is worse than other charcoal, I don't know how to use this charcoal to burn bricks?"

Is it such a coincidence? Why didn't he hear Xiang Yixuan talk about it, Mao Geng replied immediately:

"Burning bricks, you don't need to pay attention to whether the charcoal is good or not, the charcoal is a little worse, as long as the charcoal can be burned, it's a big deal to put more charcoal!"

Speaking of this coal kiln, that is, the coal mine, it is due to the rumors of gold and silver mines that were circulating some time ago. As one of the local forces, Qu Jiatong will certainly not stay out of the search for the legendary gold and silver mines. Qu Laisan naturally also arranged manpower, looking around for the gray light stone and the impenetrable black charcoal, but by mistake, a coal mine also appeared near Lianxi. However, the quality of the coal here is not very competitive, and it is a grade worse than the coal produced in other coal kilns, so that it cannot be sold at a high price. This period of coal excavation everywhere, already digging too much, this time it can't be sold at a price, Qu Laisan accepted this coal kiln dug out of the charcoal is even less interested, so that this coal kiln in the eyes of the owner is a bit like chicken ribs. Xiang Yixuan probably felt that there was nothing to boast about this charcoal matter, so he didn't tell Mao Geng.

But the charcoal here can't do anything else, and it is more than enough to burn bricks.

Mao Geng was overjoyed when he learned that this coal kiln was on the tributary of Zishui, and his mind turned sharply, thinking about how to go to this coal kiln through guò firing bricks, seeing the opportunity, finding a reason, and letting himself try to go there to take charge, and then he had a chance to get out. But this matter can't be rushed, it has to be done step by step.

When the lord of Qu Tong learned that as long as it was charcoal, it could be used to burn bricks, and he was overjoyed. The scar-faced collar is even more happy, this coal kiln is still dug out by him, and then grabbed this coal kiln, his scar-faced face is also a great contribution, some time ago the charcoal could not be sold and it was frustrating, and now suddenly this coal mine can come in handy, so that people don't like it!

Qu Laisan immediately asked Mao Geng, how much manpower to fire bricks, in Qu Laisan's impression, firing green bricks is not simple, Mao Geng said that tens of thousands of bricks will be produced a day, Qu Tong said in his heart, should all the 600 young Zhuang go to burn bricks!

Mao Geng had already calculated it clearly, and immediately told him that with only 200 young people, he could produce more than 50,000 bricks a day. According to Mao Geng's idea, more than 200 barbarians here claim to train every day, and a practice is two hours, so use this strong and strong more than 200 barbarian soldiers, brick-making is a very reliable physical training, do this brick-making work every day, at least the arm strength will be bullish.

Do the math, a person can produce 100,000 bricks a day with 500 bricks, and even if 100 people make bricks and 100 people do other work and transport bricks, then 50,000 bricks can be produced.

Qu Laisan did not hesitate at the moment, and immediately made a decision, asked Scarface to arrange manpower, and instructed the thin monkey Xiang Yixuan to follow Mao Geng at any time and cooperate at any time. It is said that the lord of Qutong has great expectations for being able to burn the so-called invincible bricks with charcoal, which he originally thought was a waste.

Mao Geng estimated that according to the size of the red bricks in later generations, he asked the five carpenters found by Panling to lay down fifty brick molds in one go, and the next day, he began to arrange for people to make bricks by hand.

In fact, there is nothing particular about making bricks, eleven or twelve-year-old children can make blanks manually, only need to catch a ball of mud in the yellow mud pile of harmony, knead into a ball, and then lift this ball of yellow mud mud blank, and fall hard into the brick wood mold, relying on the effect of impact force, it becomes a shape in the wood mold, scrapes off the excess mud that is higher than the mouth of the wood mold, and then pours out the brick, a complete brick is made, before and after, but it is a matter of more than ten seconds. But the bricks for making green bricks are different, the green bricks are three times larger, and you have to be strong laborers to eat the work of green bricks and bricks.

Comparatively, green bricks are certainly a grade higher than red bricks, but it is not easy to make bricks from green bricks, it is more difficult to fire, time-consuming and laborious, and the cost of firing is high.

Scarface's enthusiasm is also extremely high, and he deliberately selected fifty sturdy brute soldiers to make bricks, such a simple job, these brutes fell wildly and made 20,000 bricks in one go.

Immediately, Mao Geng appeared, and he had to help the bandits solve further problems, just because they had to scrape off the residual mud that was higher than the edge of the wooden mold, and the tool used was a bamboo bow, in which the string of the bamboo bow was used to scrape off the remaining mud. Although the beef tendon for this string is also okay, it is far from being easy to use with iron wire. Moreover, the follow-up has to surround the bunker brick kiln, and the straw rope or something cannot be used at all, and the iron wire that can withstand the fire must be used to tie the bunker kiln tightly by the iron wire so as not to collapse.

Well, I have to teach these bandits to draw wire, and when I think of the use of wire, Mao Geng hesitates. In this era, the technology of drawing wire can be called the high-tech ahead of the times, and it is also a technology of great military value. In case Qu Jiatong's gang of bandits used barbed wire to perfection, wouldn't it make the officers and soldiers helpless in front of Qu Jiatong's defense!

But the matter of firing slabs and bricks is already on the line, and Mao Geng has no choice but to take chances, maybe these bandits will not dig out such an evil weapon as barbed wire except for learning to make strings with iron wire to enclose the kiln.

Fortunately, after the bricks are made, they have to wait for the bricks to dry before they can be officially fired, and the drying process will take at least four days. There may be nothing else among the bandits, but the blacksmith must have it, and if you want to rebel, you can only secretly build weapons by yourself, anyway, the Great Song Dynasty government will never give Qu Jiatong weapons.

Qu Jiatong's blacksmiths were gathered, there were eight, Mao Geng selected them one by one, and finally picked three, one is called Qu Quan, the other two are brothers, the elder brother is called Qu Deyi, and the younger brother is called Qu Deer.

There is not much mystery in drawing wire, first use wrought iron to make a thin stick with one end, and then draw it repeatedly through guò on the basis of the thin stick, and finally draw it into a thin wire of suitable size. Mao Geng has no experience in this thing, but it is easy to understand the principle, after some experiments, the longest can pull out two zhang long wire, Mao Geng has been satisfied so far, a section of iron wire is connected together, and it is not long. Mao Geng had no intention of training these bandits into masters of continuous wire drawing, and of course, continuous wire drawing was not so simple.

Sometimes, that's how the line of defense loosens little by little. For example, first teach the bandits to burn bricks, then teach them to draw wires, and then I'm afraid that I can teach them more powerful, and then, maybe they will completely become the bandits' military advisors, Mao Geng thought of this section, and couldn't help but panic.

The people of Qu Jiatong saw Mao Geng's methods, and after coming and going, they developed the habit of looking for Mao Geng in everything, and when they encountered problems, the first thing that these bandits thought of was to find the new Mao Junshi. The bricks had to be dried, and how to keep out the rain found Mao Geng again, and Mao Geng had to teach the women of the Yao family to make zuò thatch. This thatch is used to block the rain for the bricks is the best, there is no plastic film in this era, but it is not difficult to weave thatch with bamboo, there is a lot of thatch in the mountains, and you can weave as much thatch as you want. So the men made bricks, and the women made thatch, and they were very busy for a while.

The first kiln slab bricks were successfully fired as they wished, which filled a group of bandits with the joy of success, and they had never seen this kind of kiln burning bricks. In Mao Geng's view, the bricks burned too hard this time, and the firing temperature was too high, which cost coal. But the lord of Qutong already felt that the bricks were too good to be good, and the lord of Qutong tried the feel, and deliberately led a cow and patted a brick, but the cow was really scrapped, and the lord of Qutong was very happy and confirmed that the "invincible bricks" was true.

The bricks are burned, this is not over, next, you have to teach the bandits how to build the wall, the solid wall is good to build, Mao Geng taught these bandits how to build a hollow wall, so far, Mao Geng thinks that there is still a deficiency, it is rare to see someone with red bricks to build a house, and later generations will sell pre-sale to build a model house, Mao Geng will build yì Qutong Lord may wish to build a brick model house everywhere, in addition to printing some leaflets with a mimeograph machine, to the wealthy, the advertising effect must be immediate.

During the days in Qujiatong's bandits' nest, Mao Geng had no freedom, and he was completely cut off from the outside world, but every day was very fulfilling, and his mind was full of bricks and tiles, buildings and the like these days.

In order to build a model house, Mao Geng taught his three blacksmiths to make horse nails, and then taught carpenters to use horse nails to build beams and build houses.

Mao Gengxin said in his heart, his understanding of building materials and architecture seems to be so much, almost all of them are selflessly dedicated to these bandits, alas!

Mao Geng stayed in the bandits' den, if he could be willing to be like a glutton, it was a strange thing, this bandit's den was a nest of barbarian bandits, and his family members were also bandits, and no one would send any information for him. Fortunately, in addition to not being able to leave the bandits' nest, there are no restrictions, Qu Tong's attitude towards himself is getting better and better, for the money of the bricks, Mao Geng is even more wanted, Mao Geng worries about the bricks, construction and other affairs, his mind is still not idle, so he picked up the design of the pendulum clock, Mao Geng claimed that this is a divination of the need for things, the bandits' nest to Yixuan a little bit of understanding some organs, Mao Geng has no doubt about this, and others are even more convinced that Mao Geng is indeed to make some kind of artifact.

On this day, Mao Geng was carving a plaster model of the escape wheel, and Xiang Yixuan suddenly ran to call Mao Geng to the main hall to discuss matters.

Today, in addition to Qu Laisan and Pan Wengu, there is also Qu Yaolong, the right leader who runs the rivers and lakes outside most of the time, and the three of them and Xiang Yixuan are not happy today.

Qu Yaolong was forty years old, his face was ruddy, and he said:

"Master Mao, here's the thing, although this brick is good, but there is a bad thing, that is, it is a taboo, we also know that this red brick and tile, only the royal palace, temples and imperial ancestral halls can be used, although the people use this brick is not expressly prohibited, but large families are taboo. So far, the Yao people have seen that this brick is cheap and bought a lot. However, after all, the Yao people do not build many houses, and most of the Han people dare not use this brick, so they have to find a way to do this. ”

Mao Geng was a little stunned when he heard this, he once read a report in his later life, saying that the houses built with red bricks in southern Fujian have a history of thousands of years, is this wrong?

Among the five people here, the other four people all set their eyes on Mao Geng, and now the red bricks are piled up, but the ones sold are limited, so how can they not worry! Mao Geng, as a military advisor, has seen Mao Geng's endless methods before, and of course he has to count on Mao Geng this time.

Mao Geng pondered for a moment, feeling that the matter was now, good people would do it to the end, send the Buddha to the west, and simply come up with a package for them:

"It's a matter of a few steps. First, Yao Min is willing to buy this brick to build a house, then you might as well give Yao Min a special price, such as 75% off, the two bricks are only sold for 1 Wen 5 to Yao Min, and the Yao Min brick house will not be taken care of by the government, as long as it is said that Yao Min has always used this brick to build a house, and the government will not be unable to get along with Yao Min for this trivial matter. For the Han people, there is also a nine-fold discount, one penny and eight pieces, and there is always a cheap picture. This is one of them. ”

Mao Geng has almost said nothing in Qujiatong these days, even in the face of the bandit leader, he said it very calmly, Mao Geng laughed at himself that he was really a bit of a military teacher.

Mao Geng decided that the Great Song Dynasty government would definitely back down on the national issue, and the four bandit leaders below the Qu Tong lord also agreed with this principle and nodded in agreement. This section of the firing of bricks, calculated, the cost of firing is pitifully low, loess, charcoal does not cost money, but it consumes some manpower, even if the selling price is a penny, it is not a loss, and the price is nothing.

"Second, although this brick is red, it is not difficult to make it gray, and after the wall is built, it is gray if you paint a layer of cement on the wall."

When building a model house before, Mao Geng designed a cement floor, Mao Geng originally thought that when these bandits went to the Su family to buy cement, the Su family might be able to get clues about themselves, but these bandits seem to be used to smuggling, and their anti-reconnaissance ability is very good, and they actually succeeded in buying back the cement without making the Su family suspicious at all.

The four of them all saw the wonder of cement, and when they heard the words, their eyes lit up, and their hearts said that this method was good, and if they smeared a layer of cement grout on the outer wall, a wall would become gray, similar to the color difference of the blue brick wall, and they would no longer commit taboos.

Everyone present smiled, Scarface gave a thumbs up, and Qu Yaolong smiled:

"It's a good idea."

Mao Geng thought about it one layer deeper than them, and then said:

"Third, maybe someone has to want green bricks, we might as well fire some green bricks, it is not difficult to build a kiln with bricks, and the size of the green bricks is also according to the bricks, so that it does not take so long to fire. The price is just two or six for a piece. ”

Seeing that everyone was still nodding, Mao Geng felt that he was greatly respected, so he threw out the final plan:

"There is also a plan below, in fact, the lord of the mountain can not only sell bricks, but also let his capable people, each lead more than ten or twenty people, go to the bustling town, go to the work of building a house, people only need to pay, our Qu Jiatong people will help him build a good house according to the requirements of others, in this way, the bricks are also sold, and they can also earn wages. When you meet a big family, you can afford a lot of money, and you can earn more. What do you think? ”

Mao Geng is to let the owner of the mountain be the biggest contractor, and the leader of his subordinates will be the small contractor, after becoming the contractor, he will make money and make a soft hand, and he will probably not worry about rebelling, Mao Geng thought so. Besides, Qujiatong is a semi-military organization, and it is unique to organize the construction team, but it has natural competitiveness.

There are many places where Qu Yaolong goes, and he also knows some about the market in various places, so he thought about it and said:

"It's also a good idea to take care of building a house. Nowadays, to build a brick house, buy bricks and tiles to build a house by yourself, even the narrowest barracks, a room at least eight times or more, if you add wages, at least eleven or twelve, if you take over, build a house, in addition to bricks and tiles, earn three or four times the least money, but, the military division, this method, will work? ”

"yes, who's going to believe us and let us take over the house?"

Mao Geng was confident and said with a relaxed heart:

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, but it is not difficult to say, as long as you go to a place, you will build two model houses there, a red wall, a gray wall, and build a model house beautifully. Then just hand out the flyers, and someone will come to the door and let us build a house. ”

Building a model house and selling pre-sale properties, that is, fishing, is the crystallization of human wisdom, and it is a pity not to use it! When the people of the Great Song Dynasty see the beautiful model house, it is strange that those who want to build a house are not itchy! As long as there is patience, someone will inevitably take the bait, and it will be easy to do at the beginning, as long as there is one, there will be two, and I am not afraid that there will be no more people in the back. But it was said that this group of people were beating rabbits with grass that day, and they robbed the 2oo Guan that Fuguo Tiegang gave to Mao Geng, and later Mao Geng took out the military teacher, and the 200 natural objects were returned to their original owners, but now Mao Geng feels that these 200 Guan are useless in his hands, and it is better to use them as bait for contractors.

Mao Gengxin said, our military advisor has really done his best to be benevolent and righteous, and the knowledge about construction and real estate in his mind is so much, almost all of them have been given to these bandits, and this Qu Jiatong can always find a few decent contract foremen! Go to this military division for a short training, and then go all over the world to be a contractor.

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