On days when snowflakes are flying, some people will always die, either from freezing or from starvation.
And on a day not too far away, it is a festive day like the Chinese New Year.
Unfortunately, some people can no longer have such joy.
All they left behind was a cup of loess and a name that was gradually forgotten.
Work hard to live until you can no longer survive.
It's a travesty and a stark reality.
It turns out that giving does not equal gaining.
But now, there is such an opportunity, as long as you go to work, you can get food.
When hearing such a thing, those who were in desperate situation saw the dawn of life. In such a cold winter, there was still warmth.
They couldn't believe it at first, but the other party was a village chief, and he patted his chest and made a guarantee.
If a village chief dares to say this, he is convincing.
Although I don’t know what kind of work I can do in the winter, I am willing to do any kind of work as long as I have food.
With Sun Yaozu's intervention, the recruitment went smoothly.
People come to the village adjacent to Nanshan Village every day.
Since it was explained in advance, what is needed is someone who can do the job.
The people who came were all young and strong.
In terms of population ratio, there are more women than men, and this is the same in every village.
In Da Qin, there are only a few men, and countless men die on the battlefield every year.
Nanshan Village suddenly gained hundreds of laborers, and there will be more and more laborers in the days to come.
When these people arrived at Nanshan Village, they were confused.
What I saw was a ruins, and there were only thirty-four people there.
What happened in Nanshan Village? How could it become like this?
What Nanshan Village will look like is not what I should care about.
What I have to worry about is whether I can really eat if I work here.
Soon, the aroma of cooking rice porridge spread.
Sun Yaozu stood up at the moment and said: "From now on, we are all a family. We feel the same hardships you are going through. We happen to have some surplus food. We are all poor people and we should support each other. But there is no free time in the world.
For lunch, this first meal is free. If you want to have food to eat next, you have to work. Line up one by one and everyone will have a share."
Immediately someone brought pots of rice porridge.
Feeling the temperature of the rice porridge and smelling the fragrance of the rice porridge, everyone couldn't calm down.
Many of them were so hungry that they wanted to pounce on the pots of rice porridge.
A group of hungry people can do anything when food appears in front of them.
Sun Yaozu had already predicted it and would not let anything happen that shouldn't happen.
As tall and strong as a cow, the cow has the strength to stand in front of the rice porridge, and everyone will be honest.
Order is necessary at all times, and force is the most effective means to maintain order.
With the cow's powerful deterrent, according to what Sun Yaozu said, everyone lined up one by one, and everyone got a bowl of rice porridge, no one had more, no one had less.
As soon as a bowl of rice porridge enters the stomach, some people cry.
These are the people. As long as they don't go hungry, they are content.
In their mind, they have to work to have something to eat.
I never thought that I would be able to eat a bowl of rice porridge before I even started working.
For them, this is the most touching thing.
The doubts in their hearts also disappeared.
No matter what happened in Nanshan Village, how could it become like this?
But as long as I can have something to eat, I just need to do a good job.
The scene turned and Pei Yun was discussing something with a person.
This is an old man, a bit short, with muscles all over his body like rocks.
This person is Yu Haozhong.
He took the lead in the construction of the coal mine before.
Now that the coal mine has been stabilized, Pei Yun called him over and asked him to be responsible for the subsequent construction.
After some discussion.
Pei Yun: "Can it be done?"
Yu Haozhong: "I've said it so carefully. If I still can't do it, how can I show my face to others? Please don't worry, sir, I'll take care of this blast furnace."
Yes.
What Pei Yun and Yu Haozhong discussed was the construction of a blast furnace.
It is not difficult to build an earthen blast furnace, but its role is huge.
When talking about earthen blast furnaces, we have to talk about earthen steelmaking.
The advantages of combining earthen blast furnaces with earthen steelmaking methods are: low investment, simplicity, and easy to master...
An ordinary clay blast furnace only requires the same human body.
Specifically divided into the following parts:
Cylinder, abdomen, waist, chest, throat.
In order to protect it from erosion and erosion by gas and slag, it is necessary to always retain a layer of dead layer with a height of 300 to 400 mm.
The cylinder part is equipped with a taphole, a slag outlet, and an air inlet.
The furnace charge flows from top to bottom and the gas flows from bottom to top, creating good conditions for a series of reactions.
There is also work that needs to be prepared.
First there must be coke, that is, coke.
It is the product of coal mines being heated to a certain extent in isolation from air.
Coke can generate higher temperatures than coal, is more resistant to burning, and is more suitable for smelting.
Next comes pig iron.
Pig iron is made by crushing iron ore, adding limestone, etc. and coke powder, burning it to burn out lumps of iron, and continuing to smelt it into molten iron at high temperature.
During the process, dolomite must be added to separate the molten iron and iron slag.
After the molten iron cools, it becomes pig iron.
Using earthen blast furnaces for earthen steelmaking can obtain high-quality weapon casting materials.
The specific operations are as follows:
Put the iron, limestone, and coke into the furnace at once, and after igniting it, use a blower to send air in from the tuyere at the bottom.
Coke will accelerate combustion, and the blower must continue to work to ensure that the combustion is in place.
The process is this process and it is not difficult.
Pei Yunhui wants to build a blast furnace, but he doesn't really want to build weapons.
This is to prevent it from happening.
Another one, Gong Zihong sent a lot of iron ore. After making the knife, the remaining materials were his own.
After Hao Zhi died, he left behind many weapons, including the hundreds of people he brought with him.
The blacksmith house was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.
So we simply built a blast furnace.
In this way, iron ore and weapons can be smelted in a blast furnace, which is trouble-free and effective, and can greatly improve the efficiency of blacksmithing.
However, Pei Yun didn't want outsiders to know about the blast furnace.
The location chosen is also far away from the village.
Pei Yun never thought about popularizing earthen blast furnaces.
It would also be troublesome if outsiders knew that we could make iron and steel on a large scale.
As mentioned just now, the earthen blast furnace is a precautionary measure.
When to use it and how to use it depends on the situation.
It is not difficult to build an earthen blast furnace. Yu Haozhong can complete it by himself, but for the hundreds of people who are recruited, there are other arrangements.
All these hundred or so people have to do is build kilns.
Only after you have a kiln can you have bricks and cement.
The required relevant materials are also ready.
The previous expedition into the mountains was for this purpose.
Things on the mountain are still left to the villagers of Nanshan Village. For the time being, there is no idea of letting the workers come to work on the mountain.