Married a scholar

Chapter 163

▍Cement.

This year, the rainwater in Shangyao Village is still relatively abundant, and the water in the reservoir is rarely used, so the crops in the fields of every household have harvested a lot.

Coupled with the more scientific planting method provided by Meng Yining, even in low-grade land, the grain is one to two hundred catties or more than in previous years.

What's more, there are potatoes and sweet potatoes with a yield of thousands of catties per mu. Since last year, farmers in the ten miles and eight townships near Shangyao Village have not worried much about starvation.

The harvest of winter wheat and potatoes in Shangyao Village was a little later than that in the six farms in the imperial city. After all, Meng Yining did not use wood-based crystal nuclei and nutrient solution to speed up the growth here.

Meng Yining traded a lot of seafood with Meng Chongjue, especially crayfish, pippi shrimp and crabs. Meng Yining specially asked someone to dig a pond to raise these three things.

The pond where crayfish, shrimps and crabs are raised is by the river, and it was dug from a two-acre medium-sized field.

Many people in the village have never seen a crayfish, and they all ran over to watch the fun after they quit their work in the fields.

"Brother Ning, what kind of crayfish can you eat? It looks so scary."

"That little pliers look pretty powerful."

"Is it delicious? Will the Food City sell it by then?"

The spectators chattered and asked Meng Yining on the other side. Although everyone knew that their identities were not what they used to be, but because they grew up watching them, and Meng Yining had a good relationship with the people in the village. They didn't put on any identities, so everyone still habitually called them Brother Ning and Boy Ze.

"I can eat it. When I grow up, I will sell it in the food city. You can eat it at that time, and you will like it." Meng Yining was also very happy, although since he got in touch with Meng Chongjue, he has not eaten crayfish less, But being able to raise it by yourself is different.

After the busy spring plowing was over, Meng Yining's plan began to be implemented step by step.

First of all, let the 12 people who bought it back then use the mining tools they made to dig saltpeter, and some of them in the village had to be allocated to build private schools.

The brick kiln also needs people, and the playground needs a lot of people for logging.

The young and old in Shangyao Village started to get busy again.

Meng Yining took Xia Wenze and four other young men to the Daqingshan Stone Forest, and watched them dig out some limestone. He was going to make cement out of it.

There are too many types of cement, so he just prepared to make two kinds of ordinary cement, at most, the strength of the two kinds of cement is different.

The main components of cement are limestone and clay. It would be better if there is volcanic ash, but he has not found such a thing as a volcano in the Northern Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, the cement he made is mainly a combination of limestone and clay.

There are also many steps for cement. For the time being, he will take the simplest two kinds. The first one is to mix it according to a certain ratio, then calcinate it in a vertical cellar, and finally decompose and grind it.

What he has to do now is to get the limestone and clay back first, and then he will mix the two types of cement according to the recipe. The digging has already begun at the Lijiao. As for the grinding, there is a stone roller, although it is a bit troublesome. But that's all for now.

After these are matured, he will study the automatic milling thing, anyway, it is just a matter of saving gold coins to buy solar power generation cards.

The four young men were a little scared walking behind, their eyes looked around from time to time, afraid that snakes, insects, rats, ants or large objects would accidentally come out of some bushes.

Meng Yining and Xia Wenze walked ahead and ignored them. Meng Yining was talking softly to him about first using cement to repair the cement factory and the village road, "I plan to build the cement factory in the area at the foot of Daqing Mountain. The place, isn’t there still a piece of land that hasn’t been reclaimed? Usually, people in the village go to dig wild vegetables and kill pigweeds, and we will buy the land and give everyone some compensation.”

Xia Wenze nodded, "It's possible. If you don't need compensation, when our factory is built, we can also arrange for them to work in it." Anyway, the cement factory and the food city are the same, and the important positions are all their own people. Those who are not important will be arranged for people in the village or other villages.

"It's fine, just arrange yourself in the cement matching place, and arrange other people to go in for everything else." The cement factory only needs to keep the cement matching place secret, and there is really no need for others.

As for the issue of secrecy, after he took the cement recipe to Emperor Mingyou, no one would have the guts to pry it casually.

"There is also the orchard." Xia Wenze said: "There were a lot of fruits last year, most of which were sold, and some were made into jam. Some fruits were wasted in the middle. This year you used them for the orchard Some nutrient solution, I am afraid that the fruit will grow more than last year, how many more will we dig out of the ice cellar for storage this year?"

With the saltpeter that can make ice, the fruit is not afraid of spoiling.

"It is to dig. I heard from Brother Yi that many people in the village planted fruit trees on the edge of their fields last year. In the future, there will only be more and more fruits of all kinds. If they are not transported to the north for sale, the fruits will be afraid." It's not easy to sell."

There are quite a few people who grow fruit trees in the south. At least Meng Yining and Xia Wenze know that there are many large-scale orchards along the road from Huangcheng to Shangyao Village, and this does not include the sporadic small orchards and various villages. Homegrown fruit trees.

Even if they don't have as many types of fruit as Meng Yining's orchard, the southern market, such as the market in the surrounding towns of Guqu County, will become saturated under such circumstances, and it is impossible to sell them at a good price.

The two of them arrived at the stone forest after talking about it. Limestone was just a little to the right of the stone forest. Meng Yining led the four of them to where Limestone was.

Clay has already been dug back, the only thing missing is limestone.

Meng Yining and the other two were on the sidelines to watch for safety, in case a tiger or something ran over and frightened the four of them.

The four young men were all of great strength, and each was in charge of a back basket, which was full in just over half an hour.

After getting the limestone home, Meng Yining started to mix the cement. He didn't need to use his brains, he just had to follow the recipe given by his brother.

He made two types of cement, one type is used by the general public, and its strength is definitely not bad, but it is worse than the second type.

The second is that he is going to let Emperor Mingyou use it to build the city wall.

After the two types of cement were made according to the recipe, Meng Yining calcined them with a simple machine bought from his brother, and finally ground them into powder, and then mixed them with water. The last step is to wait for the two types of cement to dry. specific firmness.

A lot of trees were cut down in the stone forest, and Meng Yining asked people to sort them out according to the types. Some were suitable for making furniture, some were suitable for building houses, and some he planned to keep as recreational facilities.

Some rides can be made of wood, while others require iron.

In the Northern Jin Dynasty, if too much iron was used, it was necessary to go to the Yamen to register and make a book, but because of the special identities of Meng Yining and the other two, this step was omitted.

However, Meng Yining and the two still made a booklet of the amount of iron used and what they did, and they would send it to Emperor Mingyou together with the saltpetre and cement recipes, which can be regarded as a report.

They don't want to be attacked because of such a trivial matter.

Meng Yining had asked his brother to find someone to draw all the amusement facilities that needed to be made, and there were detailed disassembly steps.Just follow the steps here and install it.

Meng Yining planned to find someone to build the iron rides in secret, while he waited for the woodwork apprentices in the village to make the wooden rides.

He is also going to hand over the installation to them. Of course, Emperor Mingyou has to get him two adults from the Ministry of Industry to come and watch.

They can test the final security, but they can't keep staring at the installation.

The weather was just right, and the cement dried quickly, but within two days, the two pieces of cement that had been prepared were already dry.

Meng Yining took a hammer and went to smash the cement with Xia Wenze to test its firmness. Meng Yining was looking forward to it. After all, the advent of cement can change many things in this world.

Xia Wenze is actually looking forward to it too. He has seen the cement at the end of the world and Meng Chongjue, and knows its benefits.

"I'm going to smash it." Meng Yining took out two pieces of cement with different proportions and put them in the yard, "I'll smash one, and you smash one?"

Xia Wenze nodded, "Okay, I'll try it too."

What Meng Yining smashed was a little less solid. He used pure strength, without the blessing of supernatural powers, three-point force, and smashed a mark on the cement.

You must know that even if he does not use supernatural powers to bless him, his long-term improvement has made him much stronger than ordinary people.

His three-component strength is basically equivalent to the strength of an ordinary adult man.

"It's quite strong." Meng Yining was quite satisfied, and then increased his strength. When the strength reached [-]%, the cement was finally smashed.

Meng Yining calculated, "It can bear about [-] catties of strength? Did I make it a little thick?"

He looked at it, and the cement was 12 centimeters thick, equal to the thickness of two bricks.

Xia Wenze picked up a piece of broken cement and looked at it, "It's not thick." Xia Wenze said: "Generally, no one is extravagant enough to use cement to build a house. If there is, they just wish the cement was stronger."

Meng Yining nodded, "That's right, cement is used with bricks and stones. This kind of thick cement is not cheap at all to build a house. If someone really wants to use it, as you said, I'm afraid they can't wait for the cement. A little stronger."

Afterwards, Xia Wenze smashed the strongest cement block, with a bearing capacity of about 12 kilograms and a thickness of [-] centimeters. "This is the most suitable for building a city wall."

Xia Wenze is most satisfied with the second cement recipe. This cement recipe is paired with bricks and stones specially used to build the city wall, and the city wall will only be stronger.

The firmness of the cement has been tested, and then a sample of the two kinds of cement is made.

The first type of cement, Meng Yining, is going to be used to build a cement factory, and the second type of cement, which is stronger, is used to build the walls of the amusement park.At that time, if someone from Emperor Mingyou's side comes to see the real thing, they can see these two places.

Everything is going well for Meng Yining and the two of them, but the village chief is in some trouble. I don't know where the Zhao family heard about the Xia family and the Meng family's students going to the Imperial City Imperial College to study. I'm talking about it with the village head for a while.

The author says:

Don’t be too serious about cement. I duniang, it said that there are too many heads, so I won’t write it so seriously. If you want to know more, you can go to Duniang to have a look.There is also the problem of the bearing capacity of cement. I read that someone on Du Niang said that the bearing capacity of 12 cm thick cement should be 400 catties per square meter. I don’t know if it’s true or not. That's fine.If you want to understand, it’s still the same sentence, go to Du Niang, I won’t explain it.

Good night~ Mejiu~