17. Lime kiln

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All the dividends of Tangliao have been sent to Zheng Kezang's hands, in addition to the 1,070 taels that Zheng Kezhang had spent before, he also got the remaining 2,300 taels. (To read the latest chapter of this book, please visit the biquge.info of the wรจn Aishang Novel Network) What? There is too little money. Don't make a mistake, this is not the plot of the little white drama that costs four or five taels of silver for eating a few buns, you must know that Zheng Tai has mastered the five merchants and ten parties for more than 20 years, and only accumulated a family foundation of no more than one million taels, Zheng Kezhang can harvest nearly 3,500 taels with 20% of the income of a commodity, which is really a lot.

Of course, from a universal point of view, most people's ideas about money are as much as possible, and Zheng Kezhang is naturally no exception, but as the so-called gentleman loves money, he takes it in a good way, and Taiwan is the foundation of Zheng Kezang's foothold and the cornerstone of his flight in the future, so he will never make a stupid act of killing chickens and taking eggs

"Master Ding, is this the abandoned brick kiln of the Ministry of Industry?" With money, it is natural to spend it, and Zheng Kezang's way of spending money may be in the eyes of others as a child who doesn't know that the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt is squandering at will, but he naturally disagrees with this. "It looks like a big place, why should the Ministry of Industry be abandoned?"

"If you go back to the eldest prince, the kiln itself is good," the craftsman surnamed Ding had seen Zhu Chenggong when he was young, so although he was respectful, at least there was no other craftsman who was trembling when facing Zheng Kezang. "It's just that it's not easy to get soil here, and it's not easy to get the grass and trees as dyes, so the Ministry of Industry abolished this kiln."

"That's right." Zheng Kezhang nodded. "It's been abandoned for more than a year, if you want to re-fire the kiln and produce bricks immediately, do you have to send someone to repair one or two?"

"It's like this, but it doesn't take too much labor and materials, and it's just a matter of cleaning up."

"How much will it cost?" Zheng Kezhang asked carefully, he is a novice in this regard. "Thirty taels is not enough."

Ding Dagong calculated it repeatedly for a while, and then gave the number: "It's not so practical, there is twenty taels that are already in the sky." โ€

"Jin Nineteen, wait a minute, go back to the house and give thirty taels to Master Ding." Looking at someone who was a little stunned, Zheng Kezhang smiled indifferently. "Clean up the road surface that comes in, anyone with a leg of mud will not be comfortable, as for more, even if it is a meeting gift for all the masters, I will ask you in the future."

"I can't do it, I can't help it!" Seeing Zheng Kezhang who was frank and saluting himself, a group of craftsmen, you look at me, I look at you, no one thought that Zheng Kezhang would have such a salute, and it was only after a long time that these craftsmen came back to their senses and responded in a hurry. "If the eldest prince has anything to do, just send it, and he will wait for the rest, and he will wait for the rest."

After talking, more than a dozen master craftsmen and small workers began to get busy separately, and at this time, Zheng Kezhang summoned Ding Dagong to the side alone.

"Since it was a brick kiln before, there should still be remnants of adobe and some burnt bricks, right?"

"Even if the adobe or something has not been transported away by the Ministry of Works, it will definitely not be used anymore if it is blown away by the wind and rain, and as for the burned and abandoned bricks and tiles, there is a lot behind the kiln."

Zheng Kezhang became happy when he heard it: "Take Yu to take a look." โ€

Soon, a mossy pile of rubble appeared in front of the two of them: "The eldest prince, this is it, this is the pickled here, the eldest prince still don't stay for a long time." โ€

"You draw a few people, smash all the waste bricks and tiles, and then grind them into fine sand-like materials, which will be useful for the rest of the future."

"No!" Zheng Kezhang looked at Ding Dagong in surprise and agreed, grinding the mountain of brick and tile waste into sand powder under the current technical conditions is extremely huge, doesn't the other party feel a headache at all? Zheng Kezhang thought about it, maybe this is the blind spot in his own understanding, he thinks that the work that is very cumbersome, tedious, time-consuming, and laborious is actually a normal job for craftsmen in this era.

"I saw that there was a stream on the side, and the water was quite urgent, so I built another water mill and used the water mill as much as possible when grinding brick and sand." But even if he thinks about it, Zheng Kezhang also has compassion, of course, if he insists on agreeing to it, it can also be said that Zheng Kezhang is for the efficiency of work, after all, it is impossible for people and livestock to rotate for twelve hours. "Also, when screening and dividing materials, tell the craftsman to cover his mouth and nose with a linen cloth, and don't loosen the cover because he feels inconvenient." Although I don't know why Zheng Kezhang said this, judging from the previous words, Zheng Kezhang is for the good of the craftsmen, so Ding Dagong still responded. "I won't say much else, when the brick kiln is repaired, burn a batch of fire bricks first."

"Fire bricks?" Ding Dagong touched the back of his head and asked uncertainly. "Eldest Prince, what is a fire brick?"

"I'm down!" Zheng Kezang, who was wading through a dirt road, almost stumbled when he heard this, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, yes, Ding Dagong may not have heard of what fire bricks are, so he thought about it, the so-called fire bricks are refractory bricks, and refractory clay has refractory clay, flint clay (hard clay), ball clay (plastic clay) and kaolin, but all refractory clay contains kaolinite, which is one of the raw materials of porcelain. "It's a kind of brick made of clay from firing porcelain, wait a minute, tell you the shape of the brick, you can wait according to the map."

Ding Dagong suddenly realized that Zheng Kezhang suddenly thought of one more thing: "Yu almost forgot, you set up another lime kiln." โ€

In the early days, Zheng Jun mostly used oysters and other shells to burn as lime, and sometimes it was not even too late to burn, so it was directly used to build walls, and there are similar national surname walls on both sides of the Fujian Sea. Of course, there were no conditions to do this at that time for convenience, but now Zheng Kezhang has people and time, and there are a lot of limestone mountains in Tainan, so naturally there is no need to simplify because of ugliness.

"The villain obeys, but, only"

Ding Dagong's voice was a little hesitant, no wonder he was timid, after all, Zheng Kezang's identity was really unattainable for him, he was not sure if he asked these words, would it make the other party feel offended?

"Just what?" Zheng Kezhang looked at Ding Dagong, who was a little trembling, suspiciously. "Just say, Yu won't blame you."

Seeing that Zheng Kezang's attitude was not fake, Ding Dagong gritted his teeth: "Can the eldest prince tell the villain, what kind of refractory bricks, broken brick powder, and now the ash kiln is going to be raised, what is the eldest prince going to do, in case the Ministry of Industry sends someone to investigate, the villain can also report truthfully." โ€

"The Ministry of Industry will ask what Yu is doing?" As soon as Zheng Kezhang said this, Ding Dagong couldn't hold it anymore, and suddenly knelt down, seeing that he was begging for mercy with sincerity, Zheng Kezhang smiled faintly. "Get up and speak," Ding Dagong lay there and didn't dare to move, Zheng Kezhang signaled the waiter to help, and when he saw that the waiter really came over to support him, Ding Dagong jumped up like a frightened rabbit. "Yu knows the difficulties of waiting," Zheng Kezhang said when he saw Ding Dagong get up. "I also know that someone is secretly staring at Yu, forget it, it's not difficult to wait, if someone asks, you can tell him, Yu is preparing to make a cement thing"

"Cement? Is it to turn water into mud or to replace mud with water? The report was delivered to Chen Yonghua's desk, and Chen Yonghua, who looked at the report and smiled bitterly, put it into the file with his hand, muttering while writing in the submission to Zhu Jin, but after writing a few sentences, he suddenly put the pen aside. The eldest prince, the eldest prince, as a prince but not doing his job, how do you let the ministers explain to the king. With that, he burned out the half-written piece in a brazier, and then commanded. Someone," the attendant outside the door ran in. "Go and invite Lord Yang Xianyang of the Ministry of Industry to come over for lunch and drink"

Zheng Kezhang didn't know about Chen Yonghua's cover-up, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care, because the cement kiln was just the first step he had to do, and then he had to speed up his pace and try to get involved in the shipyard, the iron shop, the gunpowder workshop, and the arsenal one by one - the turning point of the unpredictable fate of the future that Fang Ming mastered to seek for himself in this life.

Of course, the meal has to be eaten bite, and the road has to be walked step by step, and the main task of Zheng Kezang, who is only thirteen years old now, is to study with Lu Fuzi and use most of his leisure time to train the future descendants of the boy boy camp, but then again, there are many things that Zheng Kezang, who is still young, can control, such as

"Mother, what do you have to do when you call your son over?"

Zheng Kezhang rushed back from the children's camp covered in sweat, and he didn't think that he was called over by Chen Zhaoniang before he could wash up.

"Khinshe, don't go to the children's camp tomorrow to play." Zheng Kezhang was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know what his mother meant, so he listened to Chen Zhaoniang reveal the mystery herself. "Tomorrow, General Chen's envoy and the relatives of several important ministers will enter the palace to visit Guotai, and they may come to visit their grandmother by the way, and you will stay with your mother to meet them."

Ministers and dependents? Zheng Kezhang was a little confused, thinking about it, although Zheng Kezang's status is noble, but after all, he is only a teenager, with his father Zhu Jin on his father and Chen Yonghua, what does this important minister's family have to do with him?

However, in this era of emphasizing filial piety first, his mother has already spoken, and even if Zheng Kezhang is confused, he can only bow down and obey.

The next day, Zheng Kezhang asked Dong Guotai for good morning, and Dong Guotai actually made an exception to leave him behind. Before Zheng Kezhang could figure out what day it was, after Zheng Keshuang, Chen Yonghua, Feng Xifan and other wives of Zheng Chongchen came to pay their respects. At this time, Zheng Kezang, who was standing behind Dong Guotai, saw the beautifully dressed young ladies behind the ladies, how could there be anything he didn't understand, this was clearly a blind date, but it seemed that the time was too early.

"Grandmother, my grandson still has homework here, so it's not good to keep the master waiting."

Since they have taken care of each other, and it is useless to slander, Zheng Kezang, who does not want to stay under the scrutiny of the women for a long time, will find an opportunity to leave, Dong Guotai has fulfilled the responsibility of his grandmother, and he will not keep it, so Zheng Kezhang was able to retire, but his interview is not over yet, wait a minute, this dry woman will go to Chen Zhaoniang's lotus house after seeing Dong Guotai and Mrs. Tang, so he has not completely gotten rid of the situation of his mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law

has left Dong Guotai's house, but the sound of conversation in the house still remains in Zheng Kezang's ears: "The eldest son, you will be fourteen years old in the new year, when you see the eldest prince, the concubine seems to have seen the national surname of the year."

"Am I like Zhu Chenggong?" Zheng Kezang, who was walking all the way, asked himself. "No, Zhu Chenggong can't do anything, the only thing he can do is to recover Taiwan, I must do better than him in the future!" Zheng Kezhang secretly made up his mind. "Kang Mazi, since I am here, there will be no more so-called Kangqian prosperous times!"

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