Chapter 67: Sulfuric Acid Factory (I)

(Thank you Jing Hongzhi for the big reward from the cat onlookers!) )

Zilong Village, seven or eight miles southwest of Guiyang Prefecture, is said to be the place where Zhao Zilong, a famous military general during the Three Kingdoms period, led his troops to station. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The village is surrounded by mountain peaks, and on the edge is a lake, which is formed by a small stream that flows down from the mountain. Three miles north of Zilong Village is the Baoshan mining area, and there is only a mountain beam in the middle. Most of the mountain people in the village work as miners in the Baoshan mining area for a living, and their lives are hard, and they can occasionally go to the lake to catch some fish.

It was a quiet mountain village.

On this morning, a crowd of hundreds of ragged men entered the village in a disorderly manner, breaking the calm of the small mountain village.

Hao Xide, who was in the crowd, is now beginning to regret his choice!

Ever since he was captured by the long-haired thief army outside Ningyuan City along with other Chenzhou soldiers, he has repeatedly made the wrong choice.

First of all, the long-haired thief who captured Ningyuan City wanted to send troops to Chenzhou, Guiyang, and selected a guide, and a few of his fellow villagers who were captured together stood up and acted as a guide for the long-haired thief army.

Then there was the long-haired thief leader from Daozhou, who selected 400 people from their group of Chenzhou soldiers to join the long-haired thief army. Hao Xide was frightened in Ningyuan that night, and he didn't want to go to the battlefield again, so he deliberately pretended to be sick and was not selected. Otherwise, now he could celebrate his victory with the same joy as the long-haired thieves in Guiyang City.

Last night, their remaining group of more than 900 captives was once again faced with a choice. The hairy thief gives them two options. One is to go to the mining field outside Guiyang City to mine, eat all the long-haired thieves, dig for free for a year, and then give 2 dollars of silver per month, and the rest depends on the amount of mining mined, dig more and win more prizes. The other said that he was going to build a new factory, and he didn't know exactly what to do, and the treatment was worse, so he was given food, first for free for two years, and then he was given 1 yuan of silver per month, and the rest depended on the output of the factory.

Halcid is a little clever. He wondered, why did the long-haired thief pay more for mining, but went to build the Narauszi Factory, but the salary was half less, and he had to work for free for an extra year? There must be a reason! After pondering this, Hao Xide decided to choose to go to the workshop with poor treatment.

He didn't expect that he was really blinded! A few years later, when he became a generation of business masters, he recalled this incident and said with palpitations: "Fortunately, I didn't choose to mine with good treatment at the beginning, otherwise ,..... God,.... I really can't imagine what I would become?" ”

But now Hao Xide, looking at the small village in the ravine, the poor countryside, will not starve to death here, right? Hao Xide looked around, and couldn't help but worry.

"Hurry up! Hurry up and let me go, when will I be able to start work? A Captain of the Holy Soldier stood outside the crowd and shouted.

"Little brother, don't be so fierce! The Holy King can say that we holy soldiers, treat prisoners, as long as they are not authentic Manchu Qing demons, they are not allowed to beat and scold at will. A middle-aged man on a variegated horse came over and persuaded.

"It's the Lord in Danger!"

"Don't you know, the Holy King asked Lord Huang to come here and prepare for the construction of a new workshop!"

"I see!" Several holy soldiers whispered.

It turned out that the person who came was Huang Yiyun, the chief of the Holy Army.

"My subordinates have seen the chief life-saving lord! Thank you for your teachings, my subordinates remember! The Saint Soldier Commander bowed his head to Huang Yiyun, and then said to Hao Xide's group of captives: "Count you lucky, the Holy King and the Chief Rescue Lord are merciful, you should be even more grateful, and build the workshop they gave over as soon as possible!" ”

Finally, Ha Xide followed the crowd to a flat land by the lake, and everyone stopped.

He saw that the long-haired official named Huang Yiyun climbed to the halfway slope of the lake, looked around, ran down again, and said to everyone: "There is only one mountain beam away from the sulfur mine, it will not be flooded on high ground, and it is close to the water's edge, and it is very flat and secluded!" All meet the requirements of the Holy King, and this is it! ”

It turned out to be a feng shui set, a place to choose a workshop! Hao Xide thought to himself, followed the others, and put down the package on his body. Originally, he had nothing, but after choosing to build a new workshop, Longhair also sent him a package with a strange uniform in it, saying that it was clothes to wear when he worked in the future.

After a brief rest, Hao Xide followed everyone to the flat ground, only to find that a lot of horizontal and vertical white lines had been sprinkled with white lime in the open space, and a lot of marks had been made.

Then some of the men were urged to dig in the marked places, and Hachide belonged to the other group, and was directed to mine the rocks in the nearby hills. By the afternoon, Hawsid had understood, but it turned out to be building a house. The strength of the crowd is great, and by the evening, the stone foundations of dozens of houses have been laid.

Hao Xide was so tired that he thought he could have a good rest, but he didn't expect that after dinner, the long-haired official ordered someone to light a torch and actually fight at night. Clay was taken from the mountains, water and mud were brought from the lake, mixed with some weeds mixed into the mud, and it was necessary to build an earthen wall in the middle of the night. The wooden planks on both sides are clamped, and the semi-dry wet mud is poured into the middle, and dozens of people hold short logs to press the wet mud between the two wooden boards, and an earthen wall is built, only to be dried in the shade, and the wooden planks are removed, and it becomes a solid wall.

It wasn't until the end of the day that all the earthen walls were built, and the long-haired official announced the end of the work. Hao Xide, who was tired and half dead, ignored the long-haired soldiers who watched over them around the open space, followed everyone to find a clean place, and fell into a deep sleep as soon as he lay down.

The next day, in the center of the clearing, the people carried the stones according to the command of the long hair, and built a good foundation. Then, the long-haired officer commanded the people to cut down the big trees, and built several wooden frames on top of the great foundation. Among the long-haired soldiers, there were dozens of carpenters, who worked hard and were skillful. The carpenters clanged on the wooden shelves, and set up a dozen strange wooden boxes, round and square, all several people high. Hao Xide, who originally thought he was building a big house, didn't know what Long Hair was building.

On the third day, the six wooden boxes were gradually perfected, with a mezzanine in the middle, and a mezzanine within the mezzanine, which looked extremely complicated. Hao Xide simply stopped guessing, just obeyed Changmao's command like a fate, and if he wanted to be with the mud, he would carry the water.

And so it went for another two days.

On this day, Hao Xide was admiring the fruits of his labor. The roofs of the dozens of houses have been erected and thatched. Three suction trucks have been erected on the edge of the lake, which can lift water to a large tank on the shore and flow down the bamboo pipe to the open space. The dozen or so strange boxes in the middle of the clearing have completely changed their appearance, with several tall round earthen pots at each end, and several square boxes in the middle, all lined with wooden planks lined with earthen walls, and then sandwiched by wooden planks between earthen walls. Everything looks like it!

Suddenly, a neat team, waving flags, came to Zilong Village from the direction of Guiyang City.

I saw the long-haired official stand up slammed and said with a smile: "It can be regarded as looking forward to the Holy King!" ”

It turns out that the biggest official with long hair is here? Hao Xide couldn't help but stand up and looked towards the entrance of the village.