Burning bricks was not an easy job in ancient times, because the fire power could not be reached, and the air-cooled design of the kiln mouth was not reasonable, so the bricks fired in ancient times were all green bricks. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of green brick is more durable than the red bricks of later generations, and it can still maintain its original appearance after thousands of years of wind and frost, which is a crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients. Unfortunately, it is time-consuming and laborious to fire, and the cost is somewhat high, and the ancients would rather dig stones than burn bricks when building houses.

The so-called Qin bricks and Han tiles, burned bricks have appeared in the Qin Dynasty, but they are limited to complex craftsmanship and difficult to promote, at least in the Tang Dynasty, they cannot be used in a large area.

Now Han Yue proposed to burn bricks, and everyone in the tent was a little surprised.

Yu Chi Baolin was stunned, and subconsciously said: "It is feasible to burn bricks, but this move is too time-consuming and laborious, and there are too few craftsmen who understand this technique." As far as the last general knows, all the kiln industries in my Datang are in the hands of the Li family of Zhao County, and most of the craftsmen who know how to burn also follow his family to eat. Some ......"

He looked forward to Ai Ai for a long time, and he was embarrassed to continue.

"We don't have to beg him!" Han Yue waved his hand suddenly and said with a smile: "It's just burning bricks, this process is better than anyone else." Besides, what I want to burn is not the troublesome thing like green bricks, we want to burn red bricks, the process is simple and the cost is low, and it is the most suitable for building houses. ”

"Red bricks? What's that? Yu Chi Baolin was slightly stunned, and everyone in the tent also looked at each other.

Han Yue said: "Red bricks should also be fired at the kiln, but they are simple to fire, and the requirements for clay are not high, and they are not as harmful as green bricks to learn to make blanks, and any ordinary person can master it in a few days." ”

Tian Doudou suddenly tugged at his sleeve, and said with some concern: "Xianggong, you need firewood for the kiln." There are grasslands as far as the eye can see, and there are no woods in the surrounding two hundred miles, where can we cut firewood and burn kilns? ”

The little girl has been diligent and thrifty since she was a child, and she may not have much knowledge, but her opinions are directed to the center. Firewood is used for firing the kiln, and if this problem is not solved, everything is empty talk.

Everyone frowned and pondered.

"Do you want to go to Kannai to buy charcoal?" Yu Chi Baolin scratched his head, then shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "That will cost a lot." ”

Han Yue smiled faintly, his eyes slowly swept over everyone, and found that everyone was thinking hard, and he didn't sell it, and said directly: "There is no need to worry about firewood, Ben Hou has already made a bamboo in his chest." ”

His eyes were blazing, he opened the curtain of the tent door and pointed outward, and said leisurely: "Fifty miles southwest of here, there is a black stone valley, which the local people call Tianhuo Valley. Because of the black smoke rising from this valley every summer, and occasionally emitting burning fires, the people thought that it was a divine fire from heaven, but in fact the thing burning in the valley was coal. ”

Han Yue was right, the location they are in now belonged to Guanwai in the Tang Dynasty, but in the later generations, it was the northern part of Shanxi. What is the most in Shanxi? Naturally, it's coal, and a lot of it is open-pit high-quality coal.

Ancient people didn't know much about coal, and most of them didn't know that it was the best fuel, except for the local people who accidentally discovered its combustion properties.

With coal, and it is open-pit coal, it is possible to burn bricks and cement in a kiln.

Han Yue is full of hope for the future!

Sitting on an open-pit coal mine and commanding 100,000 people, if you can't make a little famous, it will really be a good life.

Everything has been done, but the east wind is owed! Now, just wait for the snow to stop......

……

The snow fell heavily for two more days, and by the early morning of the third day, it finally began to weaken and lighten.

Countless ordinary people began to get out of their tents, those who had shovels used shovels, those who did not use wooden sticks, 100,000 people of all ages started to do their hands, and seven or eight-year-old children also went into battle, and everyone began to clear the snow in full swing.

If you want to build a home, you have to clean up the ground. In the past two days, the people have heard that Hou Ye has made a great wish to build a huge mutual market town here, and all the houses will be funded by Hou Ye, and everyone only needs to follow the work.

What a good Hou Ye this is.

Although the weather was very cold and the north wind was biting and freezing, not a single person retreated.

After the snow on the ground was four feet long, the Xuan Ang man had to reach the root of his thigh as soon as he stepped into it, and no matter how strong a man was, he would tremble with his spirit.

Suddenly, a horse came stepping on the snow, and the knight kept shouting, shouting: "Lord Hou wants to build a kiln for burning bricks, and now it is widely recruited craftsmen, and anyone with burning experience can sign up, and those who have no burning experience are willing to learn." This job is well paid, and once selected, a minimum of five contribution points per day ......"

The knight shouted all the way and ran all the way, and many of the people who were shoveling snow were stunned, and their faces invariably showed eagerness.

"Five contribution points, a lot!"

This contribution point is Han Yue's original thing, with his own reputation and family wealth as a guarantee, where the people in the construction of the mutual market have contribution, will be given points according to the size of the contribution. This point is hard currency, harder than Datang's copper coins, and one point can be exchanged for at least five big coins.

With such a high exchange rate, no one is willing to exchange for it, and whoever gets the contribution points will be treated as a treasure.

Why?

Because points can not only be exchanged for money, but also its most important function for treasures. For example, the immortal medicine that Hou Ye made was placed in a crystal like a treasure bottle, no matter what kind of injury or illness, as long as a bottle goes down, you will be returned to a lively person immediately the next day. The exchange price of the immortal medicine is as high as 100 points per bottle, but no one feels expensive, but thinks that the price is a bit low.

In addition to the elixir, there are also all kinds of strange treasures. For example, a few days ago, Lao Sun Tou won fifty points according to his merits because he saved a child who went out to play in the snow. The old grandson has no other hobbies, he likes to drink a sip of wine, but he only took out two points to exchange for a jar of good wine from the Hou Ye's treasury, and the wine is fragrant as soon as it is opened, and it is simply a fine wine drunk by the gods in the sky.

There is also Li Erzi, because he hunted a yellow sheep on a snowy day and handed it in, this act belongs to making up for the lack of food for the migratory army, and according to the provisions of the meritorious contribution table, he can get two points. Li Er was stunned and exchanged two points for a divine crossbow from the Hou Ye's treasury, this crossbow is really powerful, as long as the winch is put on in advance, you can shoot thirty zhang away without using your own force. Li Erzi doesn't participate in shoveling snow now, and goes to the north every day to hunt yellow sheep, and the harvest is so rich that people are very greedy.

Contributing points has become the most desired thing in the hearts of the people, and now everyone works hard and rarely asks for copper money, what can copper money do? It may be useful to get it in Kannai, but it is not popular here.

No matter how good the copper money is, can you exchange the treasure from the Hou Ye's treasury?

……

Niuniu's mother suddenly pushed her man and said in a low voice: "Boss, haven't you worked in the Li family kiln for a few years before?" Now Hou Ye wants to recruit someone to be a potter, if you want to go, you can not only repay Hou Ye for saving Niu Niu, but also earn a lot of contribution points. Don't shovel this snow, hurry up and sign up, I just saw your brother running away, he understands better than you think......"

Niuniu's father is the honest man Liu Laosan, he threw down the wooden stick in his hand and grinned: "I also have this idea." In the past, I was a famous master craftsman at the mouth of the Li family kiln, and every time the green bricks came out of the kiln, I had to check it personally. ”

"Then don't go yet!" Niuniu's mother's eyes lit up, and she pushed the man forward, and said as she walked: "The old lady doesn't ask you to be the foreman, as long as you can be selected." How good is it to earn five points a day? Niuniu has long wanted Hou Ye's original Jingyang Hou fairy tale collection, or the kind with color pictures, you earn points and hurry up to change it. ”

"Okay!" Liu Laosan agreed, stepping on the snow one foot deep and one foot shallow and walking desperately, he was also worried that he would not be able to report if he was late.

Liu Laosan is just a microcosm of the migratory army.

There are so many 100,000 people, since ancient times, the folk have hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and the cavalry just ran back and forth in the camp and shouted a few times, and there were two or three hundred potters who came out, and by the way, thousands of young people who were interested in burning kilns signed up to study.

This number made Han Yue stunned, an army of nearly 1,500 kilns is enough to build 20 brick kilns, could it be that there will be one more industry selling red bricks in the future?

His eyes flickered slightly, standing in the snow and looking south, he suddenly felt that this was really a good way to make money.

Since ancient times, green bricks are too expensive, only the imperial court to build a city or a wealthy family to build a house can afford to use, if his cheap red bricks are promoted, will it be able to rewrite a little ancient architectural history?

The construction industry is the most profitable industry!