The two of them talked and laughed and walked to the mountain, leisurely a little like going to the autumn, but the "Buzhou Mountain" is not big, not high, there is not much scenery along the way, although the late autumn in the south is not as dry and cold as the north, and at the same time there is no rich autumn composed of fallen leaves, but compared with the hot summer is still a little more slaughtered, even the original insect song that is not lacking in the mountains is much quieter.

Approaching the foot of the "Buzhou Mountain", several large piles of dead branches and grass in front of the mountain came into view, Hu Guang asked curiously, "Brother Huang, do we collect these firewood and grass on the island for fuel?" ”

Hearing Hu Guang say this, Huang Shi noticed that there were still a few piles of firewood and grass on both sides of the road up the mountain, although he often went up and down, but he never paid attention to it, so he replied, "Of course not, this should have been collected after we first landed on the island, and it was piled up here, but it was not used later." ”

"Oh, so what do we use now?" Hu Guang asked again.

Huang Shi's heart is very warm, because Hu Guang no longer has the difference between "I" and "you" as in his earlier speech, and now there are only two words "we" left between the lines, indicating that he has begun to integrate into his small group.

"We now use anthracite in our kitchens."

"Oh, for ......" Before the words came out, Hu Guangzhi said that he almost asked a stupid question.

"Ha, Xiaohu, do you want to ask us why we don't burn oil or gas?"

Hu Guang scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and nodded again.

Huang Shi knew that Hu Guang was silent because he already knew the reason, but he still explained, "It's because of money and safety!" ”

Although there are trees and grass on this Dongluo Island, the population will be large in the future, and these firewood and grass will not be enough at all. So on the second day of the attack on the Jiang family, Huangshi considered the problem of replacing the fuel.

In the modern world, Huangshi has to think carefully about which fuel to replace, but in the 16th century he only chose anthracite as fuel, and the price factor accounted for a small part, in addition to the price, there are also the difficulty of handling and storage, and safety and other factors.

Now anthracite is very cheap, for example, a tank of liquefied gas costs 110 yuan, and the smallest piece of smokeless honeycomb coal is only about 3 jiao, and the largest is only 8 jiao, and the cost is far below liquefied gas. In addition to the price of diesel, it is also related to the fact that he intends to use it to focus on ensuring power generation.

Although diesel and liquefied gas are not included in the ranks of "hazardous chemicals", their transportation requires special vehicles and special licenses to transport, not just find a cat or dog who can drive a truck, so these two types of fuels are naturally abandoned as soon as possible.

It's just that the type of fuel is easy to choose, but the real "coal shops" on the street are not easy to find now, because as the city modernizes more and more, the "coal yards" that were originally in memory, like those tickets that need to queue, have long disappeared for decades.

Huangshi ran for a long time and found that even the stalls on the streets now use small gas canisters. Fortunately, now that there is an Internet, there are really sales of keywords on the Internet, so Lao Huang contacted the "coal boss" Master Kong on the grounds that the boiler room of the shipyard wanted to buy coal.

Master Kong said that despite the fact that there are now coal ban regulations in the city, in fact, the small restaurants and teahouses in the city are still his main "customers", and he has to make two trips from the coal wholesale market every morning and evening to meet their needs.

The two sides exchanged interesting stories about the use of coal in a friendly manner, and the conversation could be said to be very harmonious, until the price was discussed, the two sides had some disputes, it turned out that Master Kong had done the business of restaurants and teahouses before, and these places used honeycomb coal.

The current honeycomb coal is a honeycomb-shaped cylindrical briquette made from anthracite. It is composed of raw coal, carbonized sawdust, lime, yellow mud, charcoal powder and other mixed base materials and flammable accelerants composed of nitrate and potassium permanganate. Then use the above-mentioned materials to make 100 mm diameter flammable honeycomb coal test burning, has the characteristics of fast ignition, flame up to 140 mm or more, burning time up to 1 hour, smokeless and tasteless, complete combustion.

Because the reason why people want to use this kind of high-grade honeycomb coal is mainly because it is used for fires and heating in restaurants, teahouses, and living homes, which naturally needs to be tasteless, smokeless, non-toxic, and must be quickly combusted.

And Lao Huang's shipyard boiler, or the real user behind the Dongluo Island kitchen, there is no need to use this "high" briquette, although it also has to be processed into honeycomb coal, but those messy accelerants are not sensitive, just ask for the use of yellow mud.

Of course, this made Master Kong very dissatisfied, if he threw away all kinds of accelerants, then the money he could earn was the hard-earned money for transportation and coal making, so in the negotiations, all kinds of tragic moves were used, and Huang Shi had to take a step back.

In a few days, Master Kong stuffed more than a dozen truckloads of small coal into the shipyard warehouse, and at the same time, the purchase price was also 5% higher than the market price, allowing Master Kong to earn money that could only be earned in two months.

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After moving the coal mountain back to Dongluo Island, Huangshi asked Qu'er to send someone to learn how to make honeycomb coal, and told her that it was not difficult to make honeycomb coal, but the work was dirty and tiring, and it was still manual work, so she had to send two people with great strength.

So Qu'er couldn't bear to send out a few thin little girls under him, but launched two older and relatively "tiger-backed" aunts to come out.

Although the eldest lady is not as eye-catching as the little girl, everything revolves around revolutionary work, so Huang Shi has no problem with this, no matter who it is, as long as he can work.

After meeting people, the next day, he sent several tools. Among them are two small carts, which are responsible for pulling coal from the coal hill to the coal production area. There are also two large shovels, which are used to support the wet slime. This is followed by a "hand grinder" and a "honeycomb coal mold".

After listening to Master Kong's introduction, Huang Shi Zhilu said that if he wants to produce a large amount of honeycomb coal in the future, it is best to buy a "wet coal crusher" and a "honeycomb coal machine".

Because the range of crushed materials of "wet coal crusher" is very wide, it can crush coal gangue, shale, slag, cinder, coal, slime, construction waste, waste waste, etc. Moreover, the biggest advantage of the "wet coal crusher" is that it is very good at crushing high-humidity materials, and the "wet coal crusher" also has a very good crushing effect for crushing materials with strong viscosity.

The "honeycomb coal machine" is the main production equipment of the honeycomb coal production plant in China's small towns, which adds pulverized coal into the mold barrel on the turntable and stamps it into honeycomb coal through the punch. And it can also be easily swapped to produce diameters of 90, 100, 110...... To 250 honeycomb coal and other different specifications, in addition, the "honeycomb coal machine" can also be replaced by different shapes of molds, such as round crutches, square shapes, etc.

With the arrival of these tools, there are also several labor protection appliances that Huangshi brought to the two aunts, such as high-top rain boots worn on the feet, labor protection gloves on the hands, yellow hard hats on the head, and blue overalls worn on the body, etc., I have to say that Lao Huang is a very humane boss.

Huang Shi explained his work with them, and he was also ready to communicate with them, but unfortunately this place in Fujian is ten miles different sounds, not to mention between Fuzhou and Putian County, the communication between the two sides is like a chicken and a duck, and they didn't know Mandarin at that time, and finally called Hong'er to be a translator.

After the exchange, I learned that the two aunts who looked older than his mother-in-law were actually in their early 40s, and they didn't have names, but they only knew that one was called Chen's and the other was Ning's, of course, there were also titles such as "Fifth Aunt" and "Jiang Laosan's" in their village, but Lao Huang couldn't call it that, and what to call "Chen's" and "Ning's" made him feel unacceptable, so he simply called them "Lao Chen" and "Lao Ning".

Lao Ning and Lao Chen are typical, hard-working, and at the same time have no regrets about Putian working women, after listening to Hong'er's relay, they immediately dragged the car in the direction of Coal Mountain and "Buzhou Mountain". The loose coal on the coal mountain is raw coal, and there is no way to make honeycomb coal, and it must be mixed with a certain proportion of yellow mud, so someone has to go to the "Buzhou Mountain" to dig a pit.

After they dragged two carts of raw materials back, Huang Shi instructed them to mix the yellow mud and raw coal powder with a certain amount of water, and then pour it into a "manual grinder" to crush it into coal ash, and then soak it in water with coal ash and stir it again.

It took Lao Ning and Lao Chen two hours to go through such a seemingly simple process, sweating profusely, and Huang Shi asked Hong'er to bring water to them several times. After the mixing work is completed, the honeycomb coal is ready to be printed. Huangshi took out the last "weapon", which was a purely hand-operated "honeycomb coal mold", which was almost available to every household in the city back then, and it was also very cheap, but now to buy it, it costs 260 yuan.

It is not difficult to manually operate the "honeycomb coal mold", it is to fight physical strength, like a person in modern society to skillfully print 1000 grains of honeycomb coal, it takes 2 to 3 hours, and for a person who is not familiar with the operation, especially two people who are relatively other aborigines are "tigers and bears", but in fact they are also malnourished, printing honeycomb coal is not a very easy thing.