While the various professional groups of the Executive Committee were arguing over the priority of labor force, Xiao Zishan received another call from Ran Yao: Li prisoners were discovered during the prisoner interrogation process.
"Really?" Xiao Zishan was surprised. In Hainan Island, the Li people have always been a very powerful force. Looking through the county annals of each county, "Li Qing" has to occupy a separate page. Since the Yuan Dynasty, almost all
There is no year when the Li people do not launch riots, and the conflict between Han and Li is quite fierce. Preventing Lebanon has always been an important task of the local government. Because of the resistance of the Li people, the Han immigrants have not been able to penetrate deep into the core area of Hainan Island.
The development and growth of Hainan must be extremely cautious when it comes to the Li issue.
"What's going on?"
"According to them, they were recruited from the county to serve as crossbowmen. A total of thirty came, and now we have caught eight." Ran Yao said on the phone, "Let me tell you something else. Do you remember that family member?
?I just got involved by accident——"
"Remember, isn't that woman a police officer? She was sent to you to interrogate prisoners."
"She is from the Li ethnic group, and her ancestral home is Hainan. Isn't that wonderful? I think we can take advantage of this relationship."
"I remember her talking about Trump? Many ethnic minorities today are very watery. Besides, she no longer lives there, so what else can she know?"
"No, she knows a lot about her own clan. Several Li prisoners are now in admiration for her," Ran Yao's laughter came from the PHS, "You see, talents sometimes appear inadvertently.
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Guo Yi has already identified almost everyone here: the vast majority of people are farmers - small landowners often participate in labor themselves. There are a few who are considered craftsmen, but are actually half-farmers and half-workers. They burn some pottery during their spare time.
Or a plasterer who repairs and builds houses for others. The one who has some skills is a rough carpenter, an old man. There is only one literate person, Zhang Xingjiao. He was called out alone, learned Mandarin from Xiong Buyou, and became the leader of the entire labor team.
Clerk, responsible for things like keeping records.
Wu De selected the craftsmen individually to form a team. Except for the more than 20 wounded, the others were divided into five labor teams, with the five earliest prisoners as captains. During the formation, he based on the prisoner interrogation records,
Gao aborigines, Fujian Shegeng people, and immigrants from all over the country have all disrupted and mixed up, and they are still doing the same thing of mutual restraint - you can't unite anyway. Lin Xing and the others have now become captains, forgetting that they are half captives and half slaves
Everyone felt quite happy about their status. Without waiting for Wu De's instructions, they made whipping sticks for themselves. They were ready to supervise the poor newcomers hard.
Strict hierarchical relationships, absolute power between superiors and subordinates, and the benefits obtained through power are extremely tempting in human groups. Wu De, who has worked in the military and judicial agencies for many years, knows this well. So he deliberately
In order to deepen these things, each of the five captains was issued an ugly rattan helmet - this was an unsuccessful trial product of the Industrial Committee. It was originally intended to be burned as firewood, but Wu De took all these hats.
Come back and use obvious markers such as hats and no hats to distinguish the status of the prisoners.
Due to the urgent need of the project, the entire labor team was assigned to the construction team to produce building materials: bricks.
Modern construction has gradually shifted from bricks and tiles to the use of reinforced cement, but fired clay bricks are still the most widely used and economical material. Naturally, the engineering construction team will not give up.
According to the information from the reconnaissance team, they found a brick and tile field three kilometers away from Bairentan. This is a typical traditional brick and tile field. There are three earthen round kilns. Although the workers have all ran away, the things inside are all gone.
Still there: fired bricks, dried bricks and a lot of "cooked earth".
The process of making bricks and tiles is quite cumbersome. First, the raw soil must be mined out - that is, clay without organic matter. The raw soil must be dried, crushed, added with water, and then repeatedly crushed to make mature soil, and then made into bricks.
The bricks cannot be fired directly into the kiln. If there is too much moisture, the bricks will crack and deform directly in the kiln, so they have to be dried in the shade for ten days and a half. During the drying period, the sun, strong winds, and cold are not allowed, so the routine
Under normal circumstances, bricks and tiles cannot be fired in winter. Only after drying in the shade can the bricks be fired in the kiln.
If the time travelers are allowed to make bricks and bake bricks by themselves, it is difficult to imagine the problem of production efficiency. However, the time travelers have a combined brick making machine driven by a pot machine. The brick making efficiency only depends on how much bricks they can mine.
Born in the soil.
Mei Wan felt that the production efficiency of the Tuyuan kiln was too low, and the installation of the kiln required skilled masters, which could not be done by novices like them who read the instructions. Fortunately, there were a large number of ready-made bricks available, so they started to build a kiln.
16-hole wheel kiln.
The wheel kiln is a "foreign kiln". Of course, it is very backward compared to the more advanced modern brick kilns such as the tunnel kiln, but it is definitely an advanced thing in this time and space.
It is a continuous production kiln that can load blanks, produce bricks, and clean at the same time. The kiln is composed of many interconnected chambers, like an annular tunnel, with many kiln doors around it, and all flues are connected to the main hall in the center of the kiln.
The flue is connected. The fuel is added from the feeding hole on the top of the kiln. The rotary kiln is divided into four working zones: drying, preheating, calcination and cooling. In a 16-chamber kiln, the first chamber is producing bricks.
The sixteenth room is already being cleaned, and the fifteenth room is loading bricks at the same time. Then the second room will deliberately produce bricks, the first room is being cleaned, and the sixteenth room can be loaded with bricks. Once the fire is ignited, the bricks can be loaded without interruption.
Four hours of continuous production is unmatched by traditional kilns in terms of work efficiency and heat energy utilization. An ordinary wheel kiln can produce more than 50 million bricks and tiles a year.
In order not to waste time, while installing the machinery and building the wheel kiln, Mei Wan decided to burn out all the bricks that had been dried in the shade first. However, loading the bricks in the earthen kiln was a technical job, and no one could do it, whether it was a time traveler or a laborer.
Never done it. The news was passed back to the Executive Committee. Luo Duo from the Intelligence and Information Group once again used his two-legged dictionary function and quickly found a 1958 booklet "Bricks Made by Local Methods" from the computer hard drive.
The electronic version of the book was sent to the kiln in less than an hour. The workers were surprised to see this "pirate craftsman" using a book to instruct them on how to install the kiln - this
But it’s a secret that only the master knows!
There is a large amount of thatched grass near the brick kiln. Mei Wan asked some workers who had worked part-time in the brick kiln in the past and found out that it was specially grown as fuel. Only this kind of "soft firewood" can be used to burn well in the earthen kiln. Hard firewood is too powerful.
It was not easy to control the fire. Naturally, these fuels were used unceremoniously by the time traveling people.
While bricks were being fired in the kiln, Mei Wan commanded the labor team, constantly cutting grass, digging soil, and piling straw bales and mounds of soil high and high. Some prisoners felt that the pirates probably wanted to work them to death.
It's so much soil that it can't be used up without eating or sleeping.
When the adjustment of the pot camel machine was completed, black smoke suddenly appeared, and the flywheel rotated to drive the combined brick making machine to run. The prisoners only saw piles of cooked soil being poured into the large steel opening, and many iron parts
There was a dizzying ups and downs, and then I saw that the flat adobe was neatly cut into whole slabs of bricks as if cast by a spell! Even the most skilled brick-making masters cannot do it so fast!
Everyone was dumbfounded - the pirates knew everything! Moreover, the speed at which they built things was beyond what ordinary people could achieve. Some people were so frightened that they knelt down in front of the roaring machines and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Why are you kowtowing? Go and transport materials quickly!" Mei Wan yelled at Lin Xing who was in a daze.
"I got it! Chief." I don't know who taught him this title because he had nothing to do but had enough to eat. Now he calls everyone "chief" when he sees them.
"Work! Work!" He waved his stick vigorously, "Go and move the soil. Hurry up. Those who move slowly will be thrown into the iron mouth!"
This kind of intimidation was much more effective than his stick. Every prisoner had a superstitious fear of the machine, and they all worked very hard, for fear that if they worked too slowly, they would be thrown into the mouth of the machine——
I'm afraid that this kind of thing requires a living person as a sacrifice, right?
The produced bricks were pulled to the stockyard by trolleys, and the original drying sheds were vacated, just for stacking these newly made bricks. All bricks were made according to the past standard of eight to five bricks.
Obviously, the production speed of the machine was far beyond that of this era. Before nightfall, the cooked soil that the Lingao brick-burning craftsmen had prepared to use for several months had been exhausted, and the machine had to stop temporarily.
To build a wheel kiln, Mei Wan's other task is to make cement. For him, cement is just a matter of making a phone call and asking someone to deliver it. Even the cement used after D-Day is from the original time and space.
He had brought it. Now he had no idea how to make it from scratch. Mei Wan knew that there was such a thing as soil and cement in the world, but he didn't know how to make it and what kind of performance it would have.
In modern society, the cement industry has become a highly specialized and mechanized large-scale production, which involves many special large-scale special equipment, such as crushers, rotary kilns, ball mills, etc. Replicating such large-scale equipment is difficult for time travellers.
It's too luxurious. Even if they buy ready-made equipment and install it, such huge equipment is beyond their ability to handle.