Li Xiao is still at ease with the Fifth Master. He has been in the Liaoyang market for so many years, and it is not in vain. If you want to be the boss, you can't just be ruthless. Leave a boat to the Fifth Master, and the rest

After a long squeeze, we returned to Phi Island.

Life on the island was as usual, but there seemed to be some undercurrents surging under the ordinary. Li Xiao arranged for the more than 500 new arrivals to live at the foot of the mountain, and transferred the musketeers to live with them.

Now that it's May, Li Xiao thinks it's time to build a house. After all, this is an island, and it's not a problem to always live in a wooden house or a thatched house. Not to mention the humidity, it's damn sour in winter. Last winter, inside

, many people suffered frostbite on their hands and feet. Xiaoyu’s two little hands were swollen like two pig’s trotters. This year, Li Xiao didn’t want everyone to suffer this fate.

Wang Laosan, the leader of the masons, said that he needed glutinous rice water and clay to build a house so that it would be strong. As a result, he was scolded by Li Xiao! I was building a house, not a turret.

Also, where can I get the glutinous rice water for you? Do you know how precious food is these days? Is it easy for me to feed these two thousand mouths?

However, bricks and cement are still needed to build a house. Fortunately, these things are not difficult to find. They are also easy to obtain. Ao Canghai went to Shandong and brought several ships back. Now there is a big ship with three thousand materials, which is different.

Just unloading the ship took three days.

If you want to build a house, you must first build a kiln. Li Xiao discovered a natural cave on the island, which is a very good natural kiln.

Limestone, clay, iron powder, fluorite, and gypsum were put inside and the fire burned fiercely for three days. When the kiln was opened, it cooled for a long time before anyone dared to enter. The burned things were crushed and watered, and it took less than one night.

Done.

It's just that the labeling issue is difficult to grasp, and it took several kilns to figure it out.

Cement was difficult to deal with, but bricks were easy to deal with. Wang Laosan, the leader of the bricklayers, knew how to bake bricks, lead his men to haul the bricks and then fire the kiln. Within a few days, a lot of bricks were fired.

After the bricks and cement matter is solved, we can build a house. Zhao Tiezhu's skill of pulling steel wires has still not progressed. The steel wires pulled out are thicker than his thumb. But this thing is just right as steel bars. There are no reinforced concrete buildings these days. Pidaogai

This house is the first in the Ming Dynasty. Even the emperor may not be able to live in it.

I have to say that the craftsmen of this era are still very smart. Only a few people are stupid. Wang Laosan is very smart. After Li Xiao was told twice, he could understand the drawings and even argued with Li Xiao.

"Master, it's okay to make your door bigger. But you can't make the windows so big. Almost half of the wall is made up of windows, and air leaks in the winter. Besides, it's useless to paper up such a big window." Wang Laosan said.

As an experienced person, he gave Li Xiao earnest advice.

"You can build it as I ask you to. Look, this is a two-story building. Don't look the other way. Dig a cellar for me. This layer is the foundation, and you have to clear the drainage ditch."

Leave it for me. Yes, just leave it on the cliff side." Li Xiao was so angry that he kicked Wang Laosan. You know nothing, I am a standard tube building. Later generations will live in the most people with the smallest area.

People are famous in the world.

The drainage ditch that Li Xiao flows out of is enough for a large living person to walk in. This needs to be explained to the builders, otherwise it will be bad if it is used as a cellar.

Drainage ditches have been dug all the way to the cliff. In the future, domestic sewage on the island will flow directly along the cliff into the sea.

Being slapped by the boss, Wang Laosan had no choice but to sigh and proceed with the construction according to the drawings, looking very aggrieved.

Now that the house issues have been arranged, all that remains is the matter of glass. I have long thought about burning glass, but now that the house is built and there are windows left, how can it be done without glass?

The process of burning glass is actually not complicated. Quartz sand, soda ash, calcite, and limestone are not difficult to obtain. It is just that the firing temperature is a bit difficult. For this, Ao Canghai had to make another trip to Shandong and hauled two large ships.

When the coal came back, Li Xiao spread out the two large loads of coal and burned it into coke, so that there would be enough kiln temperature to turn the stones into valuable glass.

If in later generations, this process would be very simple. Either use oil or electricity, but Li Xiao had no choice. He could only rely on constantly adding coke to raise the kiln temperature to more than 1,200 degrees. Because only at this temperature,

Only then can glass be made.

It took more than a month of research and more than a dozen failures before the glass was finally made. After the glass was fired, Zhao Tiezhu's assistant was responsible for driving the glass into pieces in the mold. After solidification, it became a piece of glass.

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But to be precise, this thing should be called a glass brick. There is no way, Zhao Tiezhu's craftsmanship is like this. The finger-thick glass pieces are stacked neatly, and Li Xiao can only lift one piece with two hands and look at the sun. The light transmittance is a bit

It's bad, probably because of the impurity of the material, but it's much better than paper windows.

Seeing the glass being burned out, Wang Laosan's jaw almost dropped to the ground. He had never seen windows made of colored glaze in his life. How much money did it cost! In his most extravagant imagination, he never dared to think of using colored glaze.

Make windows.

Carrying the heavy glass brick, Li Xiao thought this thing would work. After all, this is an island, and the house is on the top of a mountain where the wind is very strong. Being thicker can withstand stronger typhoons, and there is no need to worry about hurting people if the glass breaks during the typhoon.

Inatomi Yu kept his hands leisurely and watched Li Xiao working, whether it was cement or glass. He was concentrating on it. Now his grandson has returned to him. Although he cannot leave the island, the old guy is also happy and comfortable. It seems that there is no

Thoughts on returning to Japan.

However, despite all the calculations, Li Xiao still made a mistake. When he was installing the glass, he discovered that the size of the window was wrong. However, Wang Laosan quickly solved the problem with cement. Two months was enough for him to use cement to perfection.

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Fortunately, Wang Laosan solved this problem, because now Li Xiao really can't find diamonds to cut glass. He can only put red-hot glass into the mold, and then support glass bricks of the same size.

After working hard for three months, the three tube towers were finally repaired. The tube towers had just been built and the glass had just been installed. Before the company had time to install them, the sky became gloomy.

Everything that could be moved was moved into the tube building, and everyone hid inside like quails. A blue lightning flashed in the sky, like a fork of wine thrust into the sea.

The huge energy immediately caused the water vapor to evaporate, and the sky and the earth seemed to suddenly become dark. At this time, the sea surface was like hell, with turbulent waves. Purple thunder and lightning kept hitting the sea surface, and white smoke rose up.

The rain was pouring down in torrents.

The power of heaven and earth was brought into full play in an instant!

Through the glass, everyone saw that the wooden and thatched houses they lived in were suddenly torn apart by the strong wind and turned into a pile of unrelated fragments flying all over the sky.

No one dares to imagine what would happen if they stayed inside at this time. No wonder the bosses have been desperately urging everyone to build buildings in the past few months.

"Brother! Won't our house be blown away by the wind?" Xiaoyu snuggled into Li Xiao's arms, watching the strong wind raging outside and burrowing her head into Li Xiao's arms with some worry.

"Don't worry, it won't happen. The house built by brother is very strong!" Li Xiao patted Xiaoyu's back and comforted her softly.

Li Hao hugged Li Hu and wanted to seek comfort. But Li Hu kicked him away!

"Grant to Desna! Grant to Desna!"

"Xiaoyu! It's better not to let Xiaobai play with the children of Inatomi Yunao's family in the future. It's easy to learn bad things."
Chapter completed!