From morning to evening, after several hours of firing, the kiln was finally stopped, the kiln mouth was opened, Xia Yuan ordered someone to cover his mouth and nose, and took a part of the clinker from the twenty kiln mouths one by one to serve as a sample.

Zhu Houzhao had been waiting for a long time, and he couldn't wait to be the first to rush up to take a look, and then he was stunned.

But I saw clods of different colors arranged together.

Burned for most of the day, waited so long, that's it?

After a short moment of stunnedness, he covered his mouth and nose with his hand, the smell was too strong.

Xia Yuan also covered his mouth and nose and came up to observe such a sample of cement.

Some are whitish, some are yellow, and some are blue, all of which are congealed lumps.

I turned around, but I didn't see the gray one, and I failed at all.

Hundreds of people were gathered around, they didn't understand what these clods were, but staring at Xia Yuan's disappointed expression, they couldn't help but whisper.

"The master doesn't seem to be very happy, isn't it wrong for us to burn it?"

"These clods of dirt have a lot of burning heads, and I look at the color of them."

"This is a clod of soil and not a mother-in-law, why do you want to be so good-looking?"

A bunch of people were talking, Xia Yuan was about to order someone to reopen the kiln, and then burn it again, but he looked at the green clinker again.

He is a student of politics and law, a liberal arts student, after leaving the society, he passed the public examination, served an iron job for two years, was young and vigorous, disgusted with the low salary, and resigned blatantly to go to the sea to do business.

The business failed, and in desperation, he became a North Drifter, and began to enjoy good fortune in the administrative department of a company, not to mention the salary, anyway, the daily pie was enough.

It doesn't matter if he regrets it or not, but Xia Yuan really doesn't know much about this chemical doorway.

However, with the lack of knowledge in his head, he also knew that the cement fired from limestone and clay was just ordinary Portland cement, with medium strength, which was not suitable for building high-rise buildings, but rural people would burn it for use.

As a rural person, when he was a child, he saw people in the village burning cement, and it seemed to be this kind of cyan color.

"I didn't see the six green clods of earth, and I smashed them all, and the more broken the better."

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but leaned over, "What are you going to do here?" ”

After burning for most of the day and delaying such a long time, but burning so many broken clods, Zhu Houzhao definitely had reason to suspect that he was annoyed and angry.

Xia Yuan didn't have time to pay attention to him for the time being, and then ordered: "Go get some more water, and the sand in the river." ”

This is on the edge of the Tonghui River, and there is as much water and river sand as there are, but now the river is frozen, and it takes a lot of effort to dig the ice surface.

The six parts of the green cement clinker have been beaten into powder, or close to powder, but this is only a semi-finished product, mixed with water and sand is cement mortar, plus stones is concrete.

Water and river sand were soon brought in, and Xia Yuan commanded people to mix cement clinker with river sand.

Then add water, start stirring with a spatula, and mix well.

Six parts of cement, one by one, to find out the strongest one, and then see whether it is put into production, or then improved.

Zhu Houzhao became more and more incomprehensible, he just opened his mouth to ask, and remembered that this dog didn't pay much attention to himself, so he simply went to Gu Dayong, "Gu Companion, what do you think this is doing?" ”

"The slave maid felt that this was playing with the mud, and His Royal Highness often played with the mud when he was young."

And also play with the sludge and urine.

This is Gu Dayong's inner monologue, and he didn't say it, otherwise it would be easy to destroy the friendship between the two of them.

"Hongu looks like it."

Zhu Houzhao thought so, but he had to admit that Xia Yuan was really ahead of the world by several dimensions in the way of mud, and ordinary people and mud were nothing more than just looking for some mud at random, getting some water and starting to make peace directly, which had to be burned first, burned out and then reconciled.

Interesting?

A piece of cement reconciled, Xia Yuan ordered people to dig six square pits on the ground, in each pit was evenly smeared with good cement, not only thick, but also full of paint, and finally inserted a sign, marked with a number, representing the cement clinker burned by several kilns.

As for the ratio of clinker in each kiln, I remember it in a notebook.

Xia Yuan took two steps back, looking at the masterpieces in these six shallow pits, feeling like a scientist who had devoted himself to great scientific research, and the cement in these six shallow pits was his great experiment.

"Lao Wang!"

"The villain is here!"

"I have to work hard for you once, don't go back tonight, just stay here, take people to keep an eye on these six pits, and these kiln mouths are also staring, don't let others approach."

Lao Wang promised loudly with a serious face, "Don't worry, young master, the villain will definitely wait here and will not let others approach!" ”

As he spoke, his sharp eyes scanned the crowd of onlookers around him, and pressed the saber on his waist with his hand, "If anyone dares to approach, this knife on the villain's waist is not vegetarian!" ”

With such a big man, a body temperature of 36 degrees, and the threatening words in his mouth were so cold, the surrounding onlookers were numb, and many people couldn't help but take half a step back.

"It's not so serious, don't let people come over and step on it, especially children, you must take strict precautions."

Why are mysterious footprints and handprints frequently appearing on the cement road?

Why is there a mysterious pattern on the concrete wall that resembles a crop circle?

Is this a moral distortion or a degradation of human nature?

What kind of shocking secret is hidden behind this?

Without getting close to science, Xia Yuan can answer from a professional point of view, this horse is done by a bear child!

He had done this as a child.

"Yes, the villain must take strict precautions and not let others approach."

Lao Wang didn't know what this was and what it was about, but he still took the order very seriously.

Zhu Houzhao thought thoughtfully, this and the mud that came out had to be guarded by someone, so serious, and such a big battle, isn't this and the mud that came out?

Xia Yuan looked up at the sky, it was already dusk, the sky was dark, and it was estimated that it would not be long before it would be completely dark.

And this day is freezing, if you want to wait for the cement to dry thoroughly, you have to wait for a night.

"Originally, today was Chinese New Year's Eve, and others kept the New Year, but you kept this."

Speaking, Xia Yuan took out the money bag from his arms and took out a silver ingot weighing twenty taels from it, "Take it, buy some wine and meat at night, it will be a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”

"Young master, this is too much."

"More is your year-end bonus this year."

After giving the silver, Xia Yuan remembered something again, and advised: "Go find a few more straw mats, thicker ones, cover these six pits, and pour water on the straw mats every other hour, splash warm water, don't splash cold water." ”

After thinking about it, there seemed to be no other advice, so he beckoned Zhu Houzhao to go back, and after getting into the carriage, Zhu Houzhao asked, "What is the one you made?" ”

"Cement."

“.”

Oh, and sure enough, it's still mud.

In the morning, I ran over with anticipation, but I squatted next to the kiln and watched the kiln for a day, and the burned out was still some broken clods, and then I brought it to the mud.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but feel disappointed in his heart.

I knew that I would have fired a cannon battle.

(End of chapter)