Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 38 Drunk words come true, smokeless stove
Yangzhou government office, guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

After chatting for a while, both parties actually felt that they had met so late.

"Did Mr. Wei Guogong visit the Mingji clothing store in the city before?" Yang Xian had previously noticed the package with the Mingji logo in the hands of the personal guard behind Xu Da.

Xu Da smiled and said: "That's right, I also bought a few woolen coats by the way. Mr. Yang is really a genius. He was able to use that batch of wool to make such excellent cold-proof clothing."

"If Duke Wei likes it, I can give him a few pieces."

"Don't mention this matter." Xu Da stretched out his hand to interrupt Yang Xian's words and said with a smile. "As a high-ranking prince, I can't possibly be as enlightened as a candy ball seller."

"By the way, when that boy Chen Heng returned to Peiping, he said that Mr. Yang could make a fire and cook without smoke. I came here specifically to ask for advice on this matter."

If Yang Xian can really do this, the help to the army will be immeasurable.

As the saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel.

In the wild, those shriveled, cold dry foods are nothing compared to a steaming bowl of rice and broth.

Xu Da looked at Yang Xian, his eyes full of hope.

Yang Xian nodded and said with a smile: "It is true, but General Chen thought I was talking drunkenly at the time. Now that Wei Guo is asking openly, I won't hide anything. I can indeed do it in the wild." Make a fire and cook without smoke.”

Xu Da was overjoyed when he got a satisfactory answer.

"That guy Chen Heng is just an ignorant bastard. I will go back and teach him a lesson for Mr. Yang."

Having said this, Xu Da looked at Yang Xian longingly.

Seeing this, Yang Xian knew what Xu Da meant, so he smiled and said, "It's still early, so I'll show it to Duke Wei personally."

"You can't ask for it." Xu Da laughed.

Courtyard, open space.

After calling someone to find the corresponding tools.

Yang Xian began to demonstrate how to make a smokeless fire. The first thing he did was to dig a hole.

When he learned that the thing Yang Xian was digging in front of him was actually a stove, Xu Da expressed his incomprehension. Aren't the stoves that normal people understand are built with several shelves on the ground and then built with bricks, tiles and mud? ?

He had never seen a stove built underground.

Looking at Xu Da, he seemed to understand a little bit what was going on with the smokeless stove that Yang Xian was talking about.

If you cook underground, there will be no smoke.

But a new problem has arisen.

This stove is all in the soil, so can we still make a fire?
Smokeless stove, also called light-proof and smoke-diffusing stove in modern military, is the simplest and most practical cooking stove for field operations.

"Wei Guogong, don't be stunned, let's help together. I have to dig alone, I'm afraid I have to dig until dark." Yang Xian casually picked up a shovel next to him and threw it towards Xu Da.

Xu Da stretched out his hand to take it, smiled, and didn't mind at all. The Duke followed Yang Xian in digging a hole like a man with mud legs.

Apart from those old brothers, the only person who dared to talk to the first hero of the founding of the country like this was Yang Xian.

Xu Da hadn't felt this kind of feeling for a long time, and he didn't mind being asked to do rough work at all.When he conquered the world, many of Zhu Yuanzhang's brothers could do it, but now that they have become nobles, they can still do it consistently. I'm afraid there are only a few people who can do this.

Xu Da noticed that Yang Xian did not dig holes randomly.

Under Yang Xian's command, they first dug a square pit that could accommodate a person sitting down, and then dug a smaller pit two palms' length away from the pit, about the size of an iron pot.

Yang Xian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Now is the key point."

I saw that he penetrated the two pits from the bottom, and then piled all the excavated soil around the first square pit to protect it from the wind.Next, Yang Xian dug three shallow ditches extending back above the entrance of the second small hole to serve as flues.

While digging, Yang Xian explained to Xu Da beside him: "This flue should be higher than the furnace mouth, about half a foot, so that the smoke can be released easily."

After completing this step, Yang Xian placed the iron pot at the entrance of the small hole, filled the sides with soil, and finally covered the top of the flue with branches and wheat straw, and then covered it with soil.

The smokeless tunnel is thus completed.

Xu Da observed carefully and noticed that Yang Xian's guideline for shading the flue was that the closer it was to the edge of the pot, the denser it would be, and the farther away it would be, the sparser it would be.

"Okay, the smokeless stove is done!" Yang Xian clapped his hands and said.

Is this the smokeless stove that Yang Xian said? Xu Da looked at the pit in front of him, still murmuring in his heart.

In his opinion, even being able to successfully light a fire was considered a miracle.

Yang Xian saw Xu Da's expression in his eyes and did not explain.

Facts speak louder than a thousand words.

Yang Xian put straw, cotton wool and other fire starters from the bottom of Pit No. [-] into Pit No. [-], then opened the fire cover, blew on it, and lit the fire.

Then add firewood in order from small to large, from thin to thick.

The flames were burning.

When Yang Xian lit the fire, Xu Da's expression slowly changed from the initial worry to the current shock.

It is different from ordinary stove burning.

Xu Da noticed that the process of making a fire in this smokeless stove did not require anyone to blow with a blowtorch. It burned quietly, and the flames grew from small to large, and in an instant it became the raging fire it is now.

Of course this is not the most important.

What shocked Xu Da the most was that, just as Yang Xian said, the smokeless stove actually produced no smoke.

Even though the fire was so big, there was no smoke at all around it.

This is really amazing.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, who can believe that fire can burn in the soil without producing smoke.

"Master Yang, how on earth was this done?!" Xu Da asked.

Yang Xian pointed at the flues he dug and said, "Smokeless stoves also have a name, which is called light-proof and smoke-diffusing stoves."

"There will naturally be smoke when lighting a fire, and the function of these flues is to expand the area where the smoke spreads, and to spread the smoke as much as possible by covering the flues with wheat straw and firewood. The key is to prevent the formation of smoke and Smoke plume to increase concealment.”

“After doing all this, this is the result you see now.”

It's a very simple principle, but Xu Da on the side was stunned for a while.

This is not to say that Xu Da is not smart and cannot understand such a simple truth at once.

You must know that in modern times, this is essential knowledge for any soldier.

Yang Xian, who has a modern mindset, puts himself in Xu Da's perspective. So much knowledge that does not belong to his cognitive scope suddenly floods into his mind, and he will feel uncomfortable for a while.

"Wei Guogong, now you just need to know how to make a smokeless stove. You can predict it before you know it, and then you can slowly understand why." Yang Xian said.

Xu Da nodded heavily, deeply convinced.

(End of this chapter)