Humane Yongchang

Chapter 150 Pan Kang
At noon, the sun is just right.

In the backyard of the Chen family compound, in Chen Shou's bedroom.

A simple old bricklayer with more than half of his hair and beard, leading his two sons, was coiling the heated kang according to Chen Sheng's request.

Chen Sheng stood aside with two arms in his arms, chatting with the bricklayer without a word.

"Liu Weng, is it troublesome to make this kind of blue brick?"

"No trouble, no trouble, as long as you have enough labor and firewood, you can burn 500 yuan of bricks in one day. How many bricks do you want, my lord? Give it to the little old man, and the little old man will keep it for you Zhang Luoqi!"

This old man was a well-known brick and mortar maker in Changning Square, and his craftsmanship was handed down from his ancestors.

"Four, 500 yuan?"

Chen Sheng glanced at the bricks inside and outside the house, frowning slightly.

According to the specifications of a double bed, he needs four, five hundred green bricks.

If he were to build the kind of Chase shop he planned that could sleep [-] people, wouldn't it cost seven to eighty-one thousand?
Moreover, it takes a lot of firewood to burn the blue bricks...

He silently crossed out the option "Masonry Heated Kang" in his mind.

After pondering for a while, he asked again: "Liu Weng, I remember that there is a kind of brick that does not need to be fired, but is made directly with a mold, and it can be used after drying."

The little old man nodded and said: "My lord is talking about rammed earth bricks, right? What do you want to build? The green bricks in the brick kiln are not enough for the little old man, so the little old man will go to other places to collect them for you, and keep them together for you." Hey! What is your identity? How can you use rammed earth bricks? Not to mention the slag of those things that don’t pull a lot of soil, they are not durable, and they will fall apart after 30 to [-] years. Ah, a big house made of green bricks, passed down for four or five generations, will not collapse!"

Chen Sheng smiled and thought for a few breaths in his heart, thinking about the plan to fight the cold on the heated kang, it seems that there is no need for secrecy, and it just so happens that you can ask this insider to advise him: "It's like this, I have to be reminded by a sage to predict the present. There will be heavy snow in nine out of ten after the winter season, and this year’s drought will make the county’s parents miserable, and after the severe cold, how many people will freeze to death.

"This thing is called a heated kang, and it's a bed that can keep you warm."

"Look, after the kang is built, the fire will be burned here, and the heat will follow the smoke and pass through the flue to make the whole kang warm. People are lying on it, and it is snowing heavily outside, and it is as warm as summer. "

"This end is on fire, this end can also cook hot soup and stew, and there is always a hot mouth..."

He gestured to the heated kang and explained to the little old man, "I want to build three or four thousand Datong heated kangs that can sleep hundreds of people in the twelve counties in the county before winter begins, and gather together the elders and villagers who are unable to keep out the cold. get through this winter."

"Don't worry about labor, there are still [-] to [-] poor people in the county who use work-for-work relief, and they are looking forward to the work of the county government."

"Worry is in material resources and time."

"It must be simple, not to spend too much material resources, and it is necessary to build these thousands of Datong paving kangs before the heavy snow comes."

"Look, what can you do..."

The little old man was stunned by what he said, and he was stunned for a while with the tile knife, without leaning the brick in his hand on the heated kang.

This is a dimensionality reduction impact from the pattern and vision!
After a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, and threw the trowel and bricks and bowed to Chen Sheng again and again: "Your Excellency is a saint..."

Chen Sheng hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said with a smile: "It's alright, let's be serious, you are an expert in brick and mortar, do you think this is possible?"

"We, we, no, don't know."

The little old man stammered and shook his head. With his narrow and barren cognition, he couldn't imagine how big it would be to build three or four thousand Chase shops that could sleep a hundred people in just over a month. of a project.

I just feel so confused and my scalp is numb!

"Don't panic, let's take it one by one."

Chen Sheng smiled and reassured the old man, "First of all, can a bed made of unfired rammed earth bricks sleep well? Can it withstand the fire?"

The little old man thought for a while, and replied with certainty: "It can stand it. When the little old man was young, he followed his father to the north to build the Great Wall. At that time, everyone used rammed earth bricks to build brick kilns, and those brick kilns burned continuously day and night. I haven't seen a collapse for several years, and when it was demolished, several big men couldn't move it, and as long as people lay on it and didn't stomp their feet hard, they wouldn't collapse."

Chen Sheng nodded.

In fact, he vaguely remembered that the heated kangs were originally earth kangs.

But in his previous life, he had only seen the heated kang when he traveled to the Northeast, and knew the principle of the heated kang.

As for how the Tukang was set up, how could he know!

"Second question, are rammed earth bricks easy to make? Are there any strict requirements for the clay used to make rammed earth bricks? I'm talking about mass production. Can it keep up with the construction of the heated kang?"

This time the little old man didn't hesitate any more, and replied without thinking: "It's easy to do well. An eight-year-old child can make seven or eight yuan a day. If you are young and strong, work harder a day, and two or three hundred yuan is not a problem." There are no special requirements for rammed earth, just find a place to dig three or four feet, and the soil underneath can be used to make rammed earth bricks.”

"very good!"

Chen Sheng smiled and clapped his hands: "Then there is only one last question... Is this job difficult? If I want you to bring [-] apprentices within ten days, can you bring them?"

The little old man lowered his head, unable to spit out a complete sentence.

Chen Sheng knew what he was thinking, and said softly: "They are all neighbors on the same street, as long as you are willing to teach this craft, I will not treat you badly no matter what... I can give you an official robe, as long as you are willing to do your duty honestly. Don't do the bad things that hurt the heavens and the truth, you can always give the clothes to Da Liu or Xiao Liu!"

He said with a smile.

"Wrap it on the little old man!"

The little old man abruptly puffed out his chest, the old face flushed red, and he patted his chest with a "bang bang" sound: "Not to mention a hundred, even two hundred little old men will definitely teach him hand-in-hand!"

Chen Sheng nodded and said, "I'll introduce someone to you. You always help him, and invite all the bricklayers in the county to do this together... It's not corvée, it's okay to pay wages and food."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhao Qing's voice coming from a distance from the ear room: "Dalang, Twelfth Uncle is here, waiting for you in the front hall."

Chen Sheng nodded to her, turned his head and said to the still excited little old man, "Then you are always busy. When you are done, you must try burning a fire to see if the chimney emits smoke."

The little old man nodded as if pecking at rice, "Don't worry, my lord, the little old man will definitely do the work for you!"

Chen Sheng nodded with a smile, turned around and walked out of the bedroom to the front yard.

　It used to be a two-in-one chapter of four thousand and a few hundred words. I thought I would write it slowly, so that the gentleman could read it in one breath. Then, these days, the gentleman has been talking about one change a day, and the situation is a little bit. Senseless……

　　When I think about it again, the chapters are always bigger, which seems to drag the plot a bit. I have to sit for four or five hours to write a chapter. My body and spirit are a bit unbearable. After a long time, I still have a bit of resistance to the code word subconsciously. ... In the future, it will be divided into two chapters, um, try to write a little more in both chapters.

　　
　
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