The days of making red bricks are very busy, and the men on the grassland have a lot of strength, but they are a little rusty to do this kind of manual work.

In the whole production process of bricks, there are two processes that take a long time.

One is drying, after the adobe is done, it needs to be stacked neatly for air drying, this process can not be exposed to the sun, can only be naturally air-dried, and it takes a long time.

Another process is firing, the air-dried brick blank is loaded into the brick kiln, and the coal is used for calcination, which takes half a month from filling to extinguishing the kiln.

Qin Liu first arranged for people to dig up the high-purity yellow clay more than one meter below the surface.

The clay is concentrated in a flat circular pit, put in an appropriate amount of water, fully penetrated, and then lead the ox to trample back and forth in the soil pit until the loess is fully combined with the water, has enough viscosity to be able to shape, and the process of trampling and kneading the soil takes about a day.

The next day, after the kneaded loess is collected in water, the loess is gathered into a pile to make raw bricks.

Traditional handmade bricks, only two bricks can be made at a time.

Qin Liu has a large number of cattle and horses from herdsmen as labor, so he has upgraded his brick-making tools.

She had the herdsmen who knew how to carpenter make several large wooden lattice boards, a total of 100 spaces.

The kneaded clay is loaded into the wooden grating, filled, covered with a large wooden board, pulled over the cow and horse to step on the big wooden board for a while, and then filled with clay and tamped, scraped off the excess clay, and continued to be trampled and compacted with the cow and horse.

After demolding, the bricks are stacked, covered with felt and waiting for air drying.

During this period, people were arranged to dig coal and build brick kilns.

When the brick kiln and coal are ready, the bricks are almost dry.

At this time, it is time to consider installing the kiln.

Kiln loading is a process that requires manual cooperation, and there are requirements for the placement of bricks.

When stacking, it is required to mix and match horizontally and vertically, leave a ventilated gap at a certain distance, fill the gap with coal, and match a certain number of bricks and tiles with a certain amount of coal to ensure that the coal can burn the bricks and tiles through.

The first time Qin Liu used a primitive clay kiln to burn bricks, he only came tentatively.

It takes a whole day to load the kiln at a time.

Fortunately, with the prince of Bals, the champion of Bock, taking the lead, the herdsmen were also happily busy with the prince and the prince's fiancée, expecting them to lead them to a new life.

After the kiln is installed, the kiln door, skylight, and floor window should be sealed, and the kiln door should be repaired to the shape of the stove, with a fire pit and an observation window.

For the first two days, heat slowly with a low temperature to prevent cracks from occurring if the temperature rises too quickly.

On the third day, when the temperature reaches a certain height, the calcination begins and the color change is checked through the observation window, so that there is no need to add coal after three days of continuous high-temperature calcination.

After firing to the seventh day, the skylight, floor window and kiln door are sealed with mud, the kiln top water tank is filled with water, and the water in the water tank is cut into the kiln with an iron drill, so that the water in the water tank slowly flows into the kiln to achieve the effect of cooling under oxygen-free conditions.

After the cooling in the kiln is finished, the kiln door can be opened to take out the fired bricks and tiles.

Before the door of the kiln was opened, a large group of men and horses came to Doron—Prince Urus, who had gone to the right flank with a thousand iron horsemen.

Urus frowned when he saw that the still green grassland had been dug up, revealing the black soil, loess, sand and gravel, and coal mines, and he sneered at Bars and Qin Liu, who had come to greet him.

He waved his horsewhip and quipped to Bars: "You are going to listen to this Han woman and abandon the thousands of years of grazing on our grasslands?" Dig up the pasture we rely on for our livelihood, and you are not afraid of Tengger's retribution? ”

Bars's face turned cold: "Urus, she is my fiancée and deserves the respect you deserve." What are you doing here? ”

Urus looked at them with a smirk and waved his hand.

One of the guards beside Urus said triumphantly: "The Great Khan personally enshrined our prince as the right-wing thirty-thousand-household Jinong, and honored him as 'Abahai'.

We, Abahaijinong, are on our way to the right flank to unify the tribes of Mert, Ashebu and Ordos. ”

Qin Liu knew that Jinong meant prince in Mongolian. Bars had previously told her that the jinong system was a tradition of the original Mongol rule, and that the jinong was usually held by the eldest son of the Great Khan.

This confirmed the possibility that Urus would succeed to the throne in the future.

Bars's face turned gloomy, and he frowned and slowly swept over Urus, an elite soldier not far away, and a bad premonition surged in his heart.

"Urus, they are not sheep. I just refused to marry his daughter, and I was hunted down for thousands of miles.

You're going to be their leader, how can he be obedient? ”

Urus leaned slightly on the horse's back, looking condescendingly at Bars standing in front of his horse, the corners of his mouth curled with a sneer.

"I don't want to be the daughter of the Grand Master, no matter how many people want to ask for a marriage, they can't ask for it, and only you, a little fool, refuse to marry this little widow who has nothing."

Seeing that Urus didn't listen to his words at all, Bars was a little anxious: "These soldiers of yours are a little small in number, go to the right flank to pay attention to safety, don't let the guards stay away from you!" ”

Urus was stunned, a hint of guilt flashing in his eyes.

In the last shamanic incident, he promised Baals to send his own soldiers to the scene to maintain order, but in the end he broke his promise.

Bals didn't care about his past suspicions, but he still cared about his own safety, and it was impossible for him not to be moved.

Now that the dust has settled, Bars is just a small thousand households, and there is a lot of mud and dust stuck to his clothes, and he looks like an ordinary craftsman, how can he have half the luxury and dignity of a prince?

And he was Abahaijinon, the future heir to the throne, and his wariness of Baars disappeared.

Urus dismounted, patted Bals' emaciated shoulder, and hugged him again.

"Do you want to come with me to the right wing and bring your two children back?"

Bars looked back at the brick kiln that was still smoking not far away, hesitated and said, "I still have something to do here, I'll go over when I'm done." ”

Qin Liu is a Han and a woman, she came out to lead the herdsmen to work, and no one may be willing to listen to her.

With him, the prince and the Bock champion, he can bounce those disobedient thorns.

Urus felt a lot more comfortable.

His younger brother didn't obey the woman's order, and he was still saved.

He didn't stay long, and immediately continued on his way with his soldiers.

Qin Liu also felt slightly guilty.

For the sake of his son, Bars refused to marry the daughter of the princess, and it can be seen that he has a lot of affection for the child.

Now he didn't follow Urus to the right wing to pick up his son, but for the sake of the ongoing building of a house here.

The cause of building a house is still herself, and she has to speed up and complete the big thing of building a house as soon as possible.

The brick kiln was cooling, and Qin Liu led people to invest in the production of cement.