Chapter 6 Poor Mountain
"Young Master, the honeycomb coal you mentioned has been made out. Boss Wei has dried it according to your requirements. What should I do?" Zhou Si came to the craftsman camp to report to Zhou Shixiong. Zhou Shixiong was smiling at the axle that was being cut out from the first lathe. When the axle came out, will the bearing be far away?
"Tieyong, did the furnace be made?" Zhou Shixiong and others forgot about this. After Zhou Si reminded him, they remembered who the honeycomb coal was. Tieyong had long since thrown this matter out of the sky. If the disciples hadn't done their job seriously, the trial of the honeycomb coal would have been delayed for a few more days.
"The coal burning furnace must be equipped with a chimney, and the coal soot is discharged from the chimney. These coal soot is toxic. When there are small amounts, there is no big problem. If there are too many, it will kill people." Zhou Shixiong asked someone to take the coal stove and chimney to the inner house to show how to install and use it on the spot. The outer shell of the coal stove is formed with cast iron at one time, and the inner wall is filled with arc bricks to avoid heat leakage. Put the coal balls and use bamboo pieces to cause fire. The honeycomb coal was soon ignited, and Zhou Shixiong put the copper teapot on to complete the demonstration.
"This kind of stove can be made into single-tube and three-tube. If you need a big fire, use a three-tube furnace, which is more powerful than burning firewood." Zhou Shixiong drew a brief picture of the three-tube furnace. The single-tube furnace has been made, and the three-tube furnace is only a little larger. You can do it with a blacksmith, but it has no technical content.
"Sir, this honeycomb coal stove is good, but no one is buying it in Guangxi." Liu Wang was the first to pull out of the joy of seeing novel things and immediately discovered the problem, a very serious problem.
"Yes, there are mountains everywhere here. You don't have to worry about firewood for cooking as long as you go up the mountain and go around. And if you don't spend a lot of money, who would spend money to buy a coal stove?" Zhou Si followed and understood, and it seemed that he was a qualified butler.
"If this stove and coal balls were sold in the north, could they be sold?" Zhou Shixiong had been burning coal stoves since he was a child. He remembered that spending money to buy coal balls was natural. He forgot that many things in the Ming Dynasty were different from those in modern times. Now people have misunderstandings pointed out, so he had to rack his brains to find a solution.
"It will definitely be easy to sell in the north. People in the big city buy firewood. If they ask them to chop firewood, they will have no room to cut. If it is changed to a coal stove, they will have to spend money on them." Li Fusheng said confidently.
After everyone concluded, the coal stove could only find sales in big cities, and the north needed more than the south. Boss Wei always felt that the matter discussed by several big people was a bit off topic. It took a long time to figure out what the problem was. "Sir, if you go to a big city to sell coal stoves and honeycomb coal, what should you do if you clean the coal powder in the coal washing yard?"
Zhou Shixiong was stunned. Coal stoves and honeycomb coal were indeed the same financial way. The problem was that it was impossible to transport coal powder from Guangxi to other provinces. What should I do if I did these coal powders at home? "Well, you should also use coal to burn charcoal. Add coal powder to red soil to make coal cakes and burn them. You can save a lot of coal." After holding it in for a long time, Zhou Shixiong finally helped these coal powders find their uses. Thank you for Cao Zhi's seven-step poem to provide him with inspiration, otherwise I would never think of how to deal with these coal powders.
"Also, you open five small pools under the coal washing pool to let the water from the coal washing pool be discharged through the small pool, and try to minimize the discharge of sewage into the Baiyun River." Several similar sedimentation tanks have been built near the steel furnace and coking oven. Zhou Shixiong does not want the pollution to expand infinitely. It's not that he is so environmentally friendly, but he just feels that such a clear river water has been turned into a stinky ditch by himself, and he feels too guilty, and he can't bear it.
Guqinzhai is located on Tuowan Mountain at the intersection of the southwest of Daqing Mountain and Lang San. Zhou Shixiong rode in the pavilion on the back of an elephant, eating fruits while enjoying the mountains and waters during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
On the fifth day of the eighth month of the first year of Chongzhen, Zhou Shixiong finally settled various matters in Zhoujiazhuang. He brought two concubines, Zhu Ying, Shang Yueqing, Li Zhen and a few, under the escort of a hundred Jinyiwei guards led by Zhou Er, and came to Guqiongzhai to meet with the vanguard.
"Chenghui, your village is very good, but there are fewer people." Huang Chenghui, as a landlord, certainly came to accompany him. If Zhou Shixiong was serious, Huang Chengen would have to follow him, the imperial envoy, to run around.
"Sir, the family of the lower officials is very simple. As long as the adults do not feel neglected, they will be very happy." Huang Chenghui also served as the eighth-rank official position of the Xiangzhou Xuanwei envoy, and is qualified to use the title of lower officials.
"Huangdushi, Huang Xuan comforted me in that direction, why didn't I see the camp repairers?" Zhu Ying reminded Zhou Shixiong in his ear that if the other party gave him a rank, you should call him by his official title, otherwise it would be impolite. Zhou Shixiong thought, isn't this a rule that modern people never call leaders? We are familiar with this.
"I don't know anything. Xuan Wei sent the land given to him by the adults to be a part of the way from Guqiongzhai. You can only see it after two hills." Huang Chenghui patiently explained to Zhou Shixiong. In addition to infinitely exaggerating the beautiful valley and abundant water and grass, he also expressed his regret that he was also very interested in the valley. If the adults were not lucky enough to take the lead, he would have sent someone to cultivate it.
Zhou Shixiong became more annoyed the more he listened. He casually said something perfunctory and asked Huang Chenghui not to follow him. He just sent a leader to lead the way. Then, without waiting for Huang Chenghui to make a sound, the elephant let go of his four legs and ran. The elephant ran on the flat ground for an hour and could run twenty kilometers, and it was very stable. Several girls were so scared by the elephant's actions that they screamed. After a while, they found that there was no bump as they imagined. Then they found Zhou Shixiong who was snickering on the side. The girls who felt embarrassed attacked Zhou Shixiong without hesitation, which gave the benefits of this pervert.
Zhou Shixiong laughed with the girls while monitoring the physical condition of the elephant. This is not what he, a half-barrel doctor, wants to do, but the chip's requirement. According to the procedures, individuals who have undergone any genetic adjustment have the responsibility of observation and recording. Although the individual referred to in the original meaning is the experimental subject, Zhou Shixiong cannot perform genetic adjustments, and the chip has not found the reason. Without the input of higher authority instructions, all creatures that have been genetically adjusted by Zhou Shixiong are considered individuals.
After a period of supervision, the chip provided Zhou Shixiong with two solutions. One was to allow individuals to develop freely, and the chip only recorded relevant data. The other solution was that Zhou Shixiong interfered with the behavior of the experimental subject as needed. The chip was responsible for analyzing the changes between various data and helping Zhou Shixiong write training manuals as needed.
As an excellent little citizen, Zhou Shixiong certainly has both choices. Zhou Shixiong, a woman in the human experiment, does not intervene too much and allows them to develop freely. Men conduct various learning and training, with the purpose of making them stronger individuals.
The animals were divided into two batches. One hundred elephants transporting goods improved their strength and endurance during the cargo process, while the new little elephants aimed at increasing their movement speed. Only the five elephants who followed Zhou Shixiong at the beginning were considered as experimental subjects for free development and stayed in Zhoujia Village to live leisurely.
The elephant that Zhou Shixiong is riding now is the earliest one among the baby elephants. He is only one year old. But his height and weight are taller and stronger than when his parents were two or three years old. This is the biggest change brought about by genetic adjustment. If a zoologist was asked to discover this elephant, he would never believe that it was a minor Asian elephant, and it would be easier for him to accept it as an African elephant.
The elephant ran on the flat ridge for half an hour, and a road that was obviously newly built appeared in front of him. Looking along the road, Zhou Shixiong found the person he was looking for. Zhou Hou commanded a group of slaves to build the ground. It seemed that the road was almost completed. Although the elephant did not have a earth-shaking sound when it was running, the weight of nearly two tons was not fake, and it was much louder than the sound of a horse running.
When Zhou Hou saw the elephant, he immediately called the slaves to kneel down, and then ran to the elephant to say goodbye to Zhou Shixiong, "Young Master, you are here."
"Where is Li Fusheng?" Zhou Shixiong looked around and didn't see the temporary camp. He asked strangely.
"Young Master, you can see the temporary camp by turning around the hill. General Manager Li is in the camp."
"Okay, you can continue working, come over and ask him to go to the camp to find me." Zhou Shixiong did not wait for the guards running forward, and a sound of elephant made the elephant continue to move forward.
It is not a secret that Zhou Shixiong can use animal language to communicate with elephants, but every time he sees Zhou Shixiong using animal language to communicate with elephants, the slaves are stunned for a long time as if they saw miracles, and then communicate with each other when the last time they saw the head of the family use animal language, how the elephant reacted at that time, etc., and they were enthusiastic like a group of fans.
Zhou Hou would not drive people to work at this time. Only when the slaves' enthusiasm subsided a little, he would walk over with the whip in his hand and shout loudly to start work. There is a routine in Zhoujiazhuang that as long as the disciples of the head of the family are not nearby, they would generally not torture the slaves who made mistakes, but only reduce their food, or ask him to take on cleaning and hygiene work, etc.
Turning around the hill, a huge temporary camp appeared in front of you. Zhou Shixiong looked at the temporary camp located in the middle of the valley, and then saw two mountain streams flowing along both sides of the valley to the bottom of the mountain, and frowned deeply.
"My husband, this place is so beautiful." You Min wants to stay in Zhoujiazhuang. This time, he came to recognize the road. On the other hand, Zhou Shixiong wanted to take her out to relax and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together. So You Min was very happy. When she saw the beautiful scenery, of course she had to share it with her husband. Unexpectedly, when she turned around, she saw Zhou Shixiong frowned, subconsciously stretched out her hand to smooth his eyebrows.
"My husband, can you tell me if you have any worries?" You Min's words attracted the attention of all the girls. Everyone turned around and looked at Zhou Shixiong, not knowing what he was worried about.
"My wife, these two mountain streams are usually so abundant. Once the rainy season comes, it will definitely cause mountain torrents. If the camp is built in the middle of the valley, it will be hit by floods. But the valley is only so big, and other places are not suitable for building camps. I was wondering what it means to give me such a place!" Zhou Shixiong did not evolve into Zhu Geliang. It was impossible to guess what Huang Chengen thought about him. The reason why he was dissatisfied with Huang Chengen was because this valley was not suitable for the residents of the village. Huang Chengen gave him this area, what was he going to do!
Chapter completed!