Qu Laisan suddenly became interested. He might not be willing to give up tea smuggling, but it is always good to have more money. He laughed:

"I knew that the great talent of the military officer Mao must have great tricks. I don't know how to arrange these fired bricks?"

Mao Geng replied calmly:

"This is not difficult. The first step is to try burning the tiles. After my brothers in the village make the tiles, they can burn the tiles in large quantities. However, the next step of making the tiles requires a hydraulic mechanism, so that there is no need to be too strong. The things you need to burn the tiles are nothing more than loess and charcoal. Two carpenters make the tiles molds. That's that simple."

Of course, Mao Geng is not yet at the point of building an automatic brick making machine, but it might be a bit mysterious to fool people.

When Qu Lai Sanyi heard the word "carboniferous", his eyes suddenly emitted light and asked immediately:

"Carbonite? It's a coincidence that I, Qujiadong, just dug a charcoal kiln in a place. But I don't know what it is. The carbohydrate dug is worse than other carbohydrate. I wonder how to use this carbohydrate to fire bricks?"

Is it such a coincidence? Why didn’t you hear Xiang Yixuan say that? Mao Geng replied immediately:

"When firing tiles, there is no need to pay attention to whether the carbide is good or not. The carbide is worse than the carbide. As long as the carbide can be burned, you can't add more carbide!"

Speaking of this charcoal kiln, that is, coal mine, it is thanks to the rumors of gold and silver mines rumored everywhere some time ago. As one of the local forces, Qujiadong will certainly not be out of the search for the legendary gold and silver mines. Qu Laisan naturally arranged manpower to search for the pitiful gray shiny stones and the unburned black charcoal. By chance, a coal mine was found near Lianxi. Qujiadong was powerful and bought and robbed.

The coal mine was collected by Qujiadong. However, the coal quality here is not very good, and it is one level worse than the coal produced in other coal mines, so it cannot be sold at a price. The carbide is excavated everywhere, and too much is dug, so it cannot be sold at this price. The carbide excavated by Qu Laisan received by the coal mine was even less popular, making this coal mine a little like a waste in the eyes of the owner of the cave. Xiang Yixuan probably felt that there was nothing worth boasting about the carbide, so he did not inform Mao Geng.

But the carbide here is not good, it is more than enough to burn tiles.

Mao Geng learned that the coal mine was on the tributary of Zishui. He was overjoyed and had a sudden idea in his mind, thinking about how to go to the coal mine by firing bricks, see the opportunity, find a reason to try to get there, and then have a chance to get out. However, this matter cannot be urgent, and you have to take it step by step.

Lord Qu Dong learned that as long as it was carbon, he could use it to burn bricks, and he was very happy. The leader of the Scarface Pan was even more happy. He dug out the coal mine. After snatching the coal mine, he also made great contributions to Scarface. A few days ago, it was very disheartening to sell the carbonite. Now suddenly this carbonaceous mine can be used in great use, so how can people not be happy!

Qu Laisan immediately asked Mao Geng how much manpower it would take to burn bricks. In Qu Laisan's impression, burning blue bricks is not easy. Mao Geng said that he would have to spend tens of thousands of bricks a day. Qu Dong Lord thought, wouldn't all the 600-year-old green men need to burn bricks!

Mao Geng had already calculated it clearly, and now he told that only 200 young and strong men could produce more than 50,000 bricks a day. According to Mao Geng's idea, more than 200 barbarian soldiers here are said to train soldiers every day, and they only need two hours to practice. Then use these strong and strong barbarian soldiers. Making bricks is a very reliable physical training. If you do the work of making bricks every day, at least your arm strength will be high.

After calculation, a person can produce 100,000 bricks a day, even if one hundred people make bricks, one hundred people do other work and transport bricks, they can produce 50,000 bricks.

Qu Laisan did not hesitate at the moment and immediately made a decision, asking the Scarfaced leader to arrange personnel, and ordered the Shouhou Xiang Yixuan to follow Mao Geng at any time and cooperate at any time. Speaking of which, Lord Qu Dong had great expectations for burning a brick that was originally thought to be a waste.

Mao Geng guessed that according to the size of the red bricks in later generations, he asked the five carpenters found by the leader of Pan to cut down fifty brick molds in one go. The next day, he began to arrange hand-made bricks.

There is actually no need to make bricks. Children aged 11 or 2 can make billets manually. They just need to grab a ball of mud in the pile of kneaded yellow mud, knead it into a ball, then lift the yellow mud mud, and throw it hard into the brick wood mold. With the effect of impact, they form a shape in the wooden mold. Scrape off the excess mud higher than the edge of the wooden mold, and then pour out the brick blank. A complete brick blank is made, which takes only ten seconds. But the brick blank for making blue bricks is different. The blue brick brick blank is three times larger, and it is necessary to strengthen labor to get rid of the job of blue brick brick blank.

In comparison, blue bricks are certainly higher than red bricks, but making bricks in blue bricks is not easy, making them more difficult to burn, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost of firing is high.

Scarface is also very enthusiastic, so he specially selected fifty strong barbarian soldiers to make bricks. With such a simple task, these barbarian soldiers fell wildly and made 20,000 bricks in one breath.

Then Mao Geng discovered that he had to help these bandits solve further problems, just because he had to scrape off the remaining mud higher than the edge of the wooden mold, the tool used was a bamboo bow, and the string of the bamboo bow was used to scrape off the remaining mud. Although this string was made of beef tendon, it was far from iron wire after all. In the future, it was necessary to surround the bunker brick kiln, and straw ropes and other things could not be used at all. He had to use iron wire that could withstand burning to tie the bunker kiln tightly with the iron wire to prevent it from falling.

Well, we have to teach these bandits to draw iron wire. Mao Geng felt hesitant when he thought of the use of iron wire. In this era, the technology of drawing iron wire is a high-tech that is ahead of the times, and it is a technology with great military value. With iron wire, the freak of wire can be made. For the defensive side, this is definitely a defensive weapon. If the bandits Qujiadong use the wire mesh to perfection, wouldn’t it make the officers and soldiers helpless in the face of Qujiadong’s defense!

But the firing of bricks is already on the strings and has to be fired. Mao Geng had to take a chance. Perhaps these bandits would not discover such an evil weapon as a barbed wire mesh, except for learning to make strings of iron wire, which is a kiln.

Fortunately, after making the bricks, they have to wait for the bricks to dry before they can be officially fired. The drying process will take at least four days. During these days, Mao Geng asked Xiang Yixuan to find the most skilled blacksmith among the bandits and then pull the wire himself. There may not be anything else in the bandits, but the blacksmith must have it. To rebel, they can only make weapons secretly. Anyway, the Song Dynasty government will never send weapons to Qu Jiadong.

The blacksmiths from Qujiadong gathered together, and there were actually eight. Mao Geng chose one by one, and finally chose three, one named Qu Quan, the other two were brothers, the older brother was Qu Deyi and the younger brother was Qu Deer. In terms of ironworking skills, these three were not as good as Huang Wangcai, but they had to give in.

There is not much mystery when pulling iron wire. First, use cooked iron to make a thin stick with a sharp end, and then repeatedly pull it on the basis of the thin stick, and finally pull it into a thin wire of the right size. Mao Geng has no experience in this thing, but it is easy to understand the principle. After some experiments, the longest iron wire can be pulled out at the longest. Mao Geng is already satisfied at this point. It is enough to connect one piece of wire one by one, and there is no need to grow any longer. Mao Geng never planned to train these bandits to become masters of continuous wire drawing. Of course, continuous wire drawing is not that simple.

Sometimes, the defense line loosens bit by bit. For example, first teach the bandits to burn bricks, then teach them to draw wires, and then they are afraid that they can teach them more powerfully, and then, they may become military advisors of the bandits. Mao Geng couldn't help but feel frightened when he thought of this section.

The people in Qujiadong saw Mao Geng's methods, and after a while, they developed the habit of finding Mao Geng in everything. When encountering difficulties, the first thing these bandits thought of was to find a new military advisor Mao. The bricks had to be dried, and how to block the rain and found Mao Geng again. Mao Geng had to teach the women of the Yao family to make thatch. This thatch was best used to block the rain for bricks. However, there was no plastic film in this era, but it was not difficult to weave thatch with bamboo. There were many thatchs in the mountains, so how much weaving thatch would be weaved as much as weaving. So men made bricks and women made thatch and weaving thatch, and they were very busy for a while.

The first kiln brick was successfully fired as expected, which made a group of bandits filled with the joy of success. They had never seen such bricks in the kiln. In Mao Geng's opinion, the bricks were burned a little harder this time, and the fire temperature was too high, which cost coal. However, Lord Qu Dong already thought the bricks were so good. Lord Qu Dong tried the feel and took a cow and slapped it off. The cow was indeed ruined. Lord Qu Dong was very happy and confirmed that the "invincible bricks" was not worthy.

The bricks are ready, but this is not over yet. Next, we have to teach the bandits how to build walls and solid walls. Mao Geng taught these bandits how to build hollow walls. At this point, Mao Geng believed that there were still shortcomings. It was rare to say that people used red bricks to build houses. Later generations had to build a model house for selling houses. Mao Geng suggested that the Lord Qu Dong might as well build a model house in each place, and use a mimeographer to print some leaflets and send them to wealthy families. The advertising effect must be immediate.

During the time in the bandit nest in Qujiadong, Mao Geng lost his freedom and completely cut off news from the outside world, but every day was very fulfilling, and his mind was full of bricks, tiles, buildings, etc.

In order to build a model house, Mao Geng taught his three blacksmiths to make horse nails, and then taught carpenters to use horse nails to build beams and houses.

Mao Geng thought to himself that he only had so much knowledge about building materials and architecture, and he almost devoted himself to these bandits. Alas!

It would be a strange thing that Mao Geng stayed in the bandit's nest. This bandit's nest was full of barbarian soldiers and bandits, and his family was also bandit's family. No one would send any information for him. Fortunately, except that he could not leave the bandit's nest, there was no restriction. Lord Qu Dong was getting better and better towards him. For the sake of the money of bricks, Mao Geng even had whatever he wanted. After Mao Geng was worried about bricks, construction and other matters, he still couldn't rest. So he picked up the design of the pendulum clock again. Mao Geng claimed that this was something that needed to be used for divination. In the bandit's nest, he understood some mechanisms slightly, and he had no doubt about Mao Geng's statement. Others believed that Mao Geng really wanted to make some kind of magical artifact.

On this day, Mao Geng was carving a plaster mold for escapement wheel. Xiang Yixuan suddenly ran over and asked Mao Geng to go to the hall of the main hall to discuss matters.

Today, in addition to Qu Lai San and Pan Wen Gu, there are Qu Yaolong, the right-rank leader who runs outside most of the time. The three of them and Xiang Yixuan are not happy today.

Qu Yaolong was about forty years old, with a rosy complexion and said:

"Military Mao, this is the case. Although this brick is good, there is one disadvantage, that is, it is a taboo. We also know that these red bricks can only be used in royal palaces, temples and imperial ancestral halls. Although there is no explicit prohibition on using this brick in the folk, it is a taboo for wealthy families. Therefore, the Yao people have bought a lot of bricks so far. However, there are not many houses built by Yao people after all, and most Han people dare not use this brick. This matter needs to be found."

Mao Geng was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He once read a report in later generations that it had been a thousand years since the construction of houses in southern Fujian. Is this a mistake?

Among the five people present, the other four turned their attention to Mao Geng. Now that red bricks are burned, they are piled up like mountains, but there are only a limited number of people sold, so how can we not worry about it? As a military advisor, Mao Geng has seen Mao Geng's endless ways to emerge, and of course he has to count on Mao Geng this time.

Mao Geng pondered for a moment, and felt that the matter had come to this point, good people would do it to the end and send the Buddha to the West. So just come up with a package of plans for them:

"This matter requires a few steps. First, Yao people are willing to buy this brick to build a house, so you might as well give Yao people a special offer, such as 70% off, and 20% off bricks are only sold for Yao people for one 50% off. Yao people use bricks to build a house with bricks. The government will not care about it. As long as it is said that Yao people have always used this brick to build a house, the government will not be able to get along with Yao people for this small matter. For Han people, they will also pay 10% off, and there is always a price for one 81 yuan per piece. This is one of them."

Mao Geng has been talking almost exactly in Qujiadong these days, even when facing the bandit leader, he speaks very calmly. Mao Geng joked that he is really a military master.

Mao Geng was sure that the Song Dynasty government would definitely give in on ethnic issues. The four bandit leaders below the Lord Qu Dong agreed with this and nodded unanimously. In this section of firing bricks, the cost of firing was pitifully low. Loess and charcoal did not cost money, but it only consumed some manpower. Even if the price was sold for a penny, it would be safe to make a profit and no loss. It would be impossible to reduce the price point.

"Secondly, although this brick is red, it is not difficult to turn it into gray. After building the wall, paint a layer of cement on the wall, it will be gray."

When building a model house, Mao Geng designed cement floors. Mao Geng originally thought that when these bandits went to the Su family to buy cement, the Su family might get clues about him. However, these bandits seemed to be used to smuggling and had great anti-reconnaissance ability. They actually successfully bought cement back without any suspicion from the Su family.

All four of them saw the wonder of cement. When they heard this, they lit up their eyes and thought that this method was good. If they applied a layer of cement slurry to the exterior wall, the wall turned gray, which seemed to be the same as the color of the blue brick wall, so they would never be taboo again.

Everyone present smiled, scar face raised his thumbs up, and Qu Yaolong smiled:

"I am worthy of being a military advisor, this is a very good idea."

Mao Geng thought a little deeper than them, and then said:

"Third, maybe some people have to make blue bricks, so we might as well burn some blue bricks. It is not difficult to build a kiln with slab bricks. The size of blue bricks is also based on the slab bricks. In this way, it doesn't take that long to burn. As for the price, just count two or six in one piece."

Seeing that everyone nodded, Mao Geng felt very respected, so he put forward his final plan:

"There is another problem. In fact, the Lord of the Cave can not only sell bricks, but the Lord of the Cave can actually let his capable people lead more than 10 or 20 people to go to the prosperous towns and take on the work of building a house. They only need to pay the money, and the people in our Qujiadong will help him build the house according to their requirements. In this way, the bricks can be sold and you can earn wages. When you meet a wealthy family, you can afford a large price and you can earn more. What do you think? "

Mao Geng asked the Lord of the Cave to be the largest contractor, and his subordinates became small contractors. After becoming the contractor, they would make money and make mercy, and they would probably not be worried about rebelling. Mao Geng thought so. Besides, Qujiadong is a semi-militarized institution, and the organization of construction teams is unique, but it has natural competitiveness.

Qu Yaolong has gone to many places here, and he also knows the market conditions in various places. After hearing this, he thought about it and said:

"It is a good idea to take care of building a house. Now, building a brick and tile house, buying a brick and tile house should be done by yourself. Even the narrowest barracks cost at least eight cents of money. If you add wages, you will have to pay at least eleven or two cents of money. If you take care of it, you will earn the least amount of money except bricks and tiles. But is this method of military advisors working?"

"Yes, who would trust us and let us take over the house?"

Mao Geng was confident and said with ease:

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, but it is not difficult. As long as you go to a place, you will build two model houses there, one with red walls and the other with gray walls. Build the model house a little more beautiful. Isn't there two hundred chunks here? I will use it to build a model house first. Remember to build a few beautiful houses in Changsha, all of which require concrete floors. Then just send the flyers, and someone will come to us to build a house."

Building a model house and selling houses is the fishing set. This is the crystallization of human wisdom. It would be a pity not to use it! People in the Song Dynasty saw beautiful model houses, but it would be strange if they wanted to build a house! As long as they were patient, someone would definitely take the bait, and it would be easy to deal with it when they started. As long as there was one, there were two, and they were not afraid that no more people would take the bait. However, they said that the group of people who beat the rabbits that Fuguo Tie had just given to Mao Geng were also robbed. Later, Mao Geng took out a military normal school and returned the 200 stags of natural things to the original owner. But now Mao Geng felt that the 200 stags were left in his hands and would not be used as baits for contracting labor.

Mao Gengxin said that our military advisor has done his best to be kind and righteous. There is only so much knowledge about construction and real estate in his mind. He has almost taught them all to these bandits. Qujiadong can always find a few decent contractors! Go to this military advisor for a short training session, and then go to work as a contractor all over the world.

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Chapter completed!