Only by living in peace can one enjoy the work, Qin Song firmly believes in this. A refuge that is warm and safe enough will make people feel nostalgic and belonging, and will also make the serfs fight to protect their homes.

Mobilizing forces to engage in infrastructure is the foundation of the foundation.

Ordinary sintered bricks have cheap raw materials and simple firing process. Even though Qin Song does not know what the structure and principle of the high-end brick kiln, firing ordinary bricks is nothing more than curing the dried clay bricks through high temperatures and increasing strength.

Therefore, Qin Song's plan is relatively simple - use the stone at hand to build the first brick kiln in advance, use the coal mines in the Black Stone Mountains as fuel, make a large amount of brick molds, concentrate all the strength in hand, first fire the first batch of bricks, and then use this batch of bricks as material to build a larger brick kiln.

No matter how simple the bricks are, they are much more solid and practical than wood. In special times, there is no need to deliberately pursue how high-end and durable the bricks burned are, what is required is a short-term high yield.

In order to provide a high enough temperature for the brick kiln, the steam engine can also be used. Just design a simple blowing equipment and drive it with a belt to achieve the high temperature required for sintering.

With bricks, it must be used with cement. Therefore, the cement calcining plant will be carried out simultaneously with the brick factory.

Once the first large-scale brick factory and cement factory are built, the brick burning procedures become proficient, the brick output is stable, and the cement output is stable, and the entire Black Stone Collar will obtain a steady stream of construction materials, whether it is building housing, factories, fortifications, or military fortifications, they will be fully guaranteed.

This idea requires the assistance of multiple parties. Every force of the Black Stone Corps will be fully utilized.

The location of the brick factory is chosen by the Nice River, a place rich in clay. The farmers in the black stone collar are responsible for the first procedure, crushing, screening, mixing, and mixing, and taking out the bricks with brick molds to dry, collecting limestone to crush, and mixing with clay to make cement slurry.

Qin Song's soldiers were responsible for the most important brick sintering and cement calcining procedures. As for Sir Weimar's power, they were mining open-pit coal mines in the Blackstone Mountains to provide sufficient fuel.

Not only did Leah need to build a large number of residences, Sir Weimar was eager to change the status quo, so the two sides hit it off and expressed their complete obedience to the arrangement.

Time waited for no one, and from the dawn of the next day, all the forces took action. Sir Weimar ordered the 74 serfs and 60 entourages under his command, a total of 134 people. Under the leadership of Linda, he found an open-pit coal mine in the Blackstone Mountains and made every effort to carry out early mining.

Leah, Elena, Carrick and Eric organized all the farmers and farmers, as well as newly purchased serfs, adults and children, to mine and mix clay.

As for Qin Song, he led the trained soldiers of No. 80 to carry stones, split the steam engine and transported it from the canyon to the designated location of the brick factory.

Six days later, the first brick kiln designed by Qin Song himself was built. It was in a vertical structure, shaped like a large bell buckled on the ground. It was about three meters in diameter and four and a half meters high. There was an air duct on the upper side, and a combustion chamber and chimney were set up below. The outer layer of the furnace in the middle was made of stone and clay, and the high-temperature-resistant lining was made of two parts of wood ash mixed with one part of clay.

During these six days, Alice used the iron ingots provided by Leah to work day and night to create twenty standard five-frame brick mold frames, a brand new steam No. 2 machine, and a blower No. 1 that looks like a big horn with blades.

I have to say that Alice is really talented in mechanical design. With Qin Song's brief guidance, this girl had a divergent mind and used the knowledge and principles of circles to hand-made two sets of bearings with steel balls, lubricated with animal grease, perfectly solving the transmission problem of blowers and steam wheels.

At the end of the first week of the Moon of Leaf (11), the first batch of dried bricks were escorted to the brick kiln under the personal escort of Lea's.

The first sintered bricks will be started soon.

Leah, Alice, Linda, Elena, Luna, Carrick, Eric, as well as Sir Weimar and Kayce as witnesses, came to the Burning Brick Site with curiosity and excitement.

"Luna, is this the machine you say can use to boil water to operate it yourself?" Kaiss looked at the strange metal machine in front of the brick kiln. He heard this magical machine from Luna's description many times, but he could not imagine how it worked.

"Yes, Kayce." Luna smiled sweetly on her face: "You will witness it with your own eyes in a moment. This is the wisdom creation of His Excellency the Wisdom."

"Where is the Lord Wise?" Kaiss looked around for the figure of the legendary son of the stars, and couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

"Your Excellency Wise, you are making the final arrangement." Luna pulled his sleeve and pointed her finger at the temporary wooden shed not far away.

In the wooden shed, Qin Song wrote and painted with a quill pen. Ralph, Hu'en and Mailin stood quietly aside and listened to his detailed instructions. Both of them were shorter and more suitable for drilling into the furnace and placing bricks. The tall Hu'en was responsible for adding coal to the furnace.

"Did you remember everything?" Qin Song raised his head gently, and the light in his eyes jumped, sweeping over the faces of the three of them one by one.

"Remember, Commander!"

"Very good, it depends on your performance. If anything goes wrong, you will be dismissed and demoted to infantry!" Qin Song's voice was cold.

"clear!"

In the eyes of everyone, Qin Song, wearing a gorgeous robe, lifted up the door curtain, with elegant demeanor and walked out with great strides.

The people at the scene, Weima, Eric and Kaiss, all saw him once, and their expressions seemed a little nervous, especially when they met the eyes that were jumping with light, and the descriptions of the witches naturally had a sense of majesty.

Qin Song swept over everyone's face lightly and nodded slightly: "Ralph, Mailin, let's start."

"yes."

Ralph and Melin responded in one after another. Ralph took the lead in climbing in from the small arch of the furnace, while Melin handed him bricks outside. Following Qin Song's instructions, he kept a certain gap and neatly formed brick stacks.

Qin Song secretly estimated that this simple brick kiln could fill about 300 bricks at a time. According to the estimate of 128 bricks per square meter of two and four walls, it would be almost two square meters, and the output was indeed limited.

However, the current measurement tools are not accurate, so the length, aspect and height of the designed bricks are slightly larger than that of the standard bricks.

But it doesn’t matter. This brick kiln is just a preliminary verification, so that everyone can understand and master the principles and procedures of burning bricks. First, burn enough bricks to redesign and build a larger and more reasonable brick kiln.

After the bricks were loaded, Ralph drilled out of the furnace door and sealed the furnace door with Ralph with clay and stone. Hun on the other side filled the furnace with firewood early. After the sealing, he began to ignite the fire and added selected fine coals in turn.

"Alice, you can start the steam engine." After the coal blocks in the furnace were ignited, under Qin Song's command, the furnace of the steam engine was ignited. As the gas transmission valve opened, the heavy wheel slowly turned, and the exhaust valve was spraying out with a slight steam.

The tough cowhide belt drives the blower placed in the air inlet and begins to make a whimpering sound, rotating, and the blowing air flow prompts the flames in the furnace to rise up suddenly.

Everyone held their breath and calmed down, looking at the magical machine and the round brick kiln, responding to the procedural steps one by one in a row, with a wonderful sense of industrial coordination.

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people. Qin Song will not tie himself to a brick factory, but will be handed over to Liya and Weima for management, and he only needs to provide some guidance in the general direction in a timely manner.

It takes about a day to burn. The clay particles will melt during burning, and then go through the red heat state, the yellow heat state and the white heat state, so that the bricks will become extremely hard.

Qin Song remembers watching a program to restore the collapse of the Great Wall, which restored the entire process of building the Great Wall and firing the Great Wall bricks in the Qin Dynasty. A brick kiln appeared in the program, similar to a tunnel dug under the ground, using bricks to build a huge stove, a large number of Great Wall bricks were placed on the top of the furnace and closed with clay. Using the pumping force of the flue, the high temperature of 1,000 degrees can be reached by using firewood alone, and the sturdy and durable Great Wall bricks can be made.
Chapter completed!