While the various professional groups of the Executive Committee were arguing over the priority of labor force, Xiao Zishan received another call from Ran Yao: Li prisoners were discovered during the prisoner interrogation process. [No pop-up novel website] i.bsp; "Really?" Xiao Zishan was surprised. In Hainan Island, the Li people have always been a very powerful force. Looking at the county annals of each county, "Li Qing" is everywhere. Occupying a separate page, since the Yuan Dynasty, there has been almost no year when the people did not riot, and the conflict between Han and Li was quite fierce. Preventing Lebanon has always been an important task of the local government. Because of the resistance of the Li people, Han immigrants have not been able to penetrate into the core area of Hainan Island. Travelers who want to expand in Hainan must be extremely cautious when it comes to the Li issue.
"What's going on?"
"According to them, they were recruited from the county to serve as crossbowmen. Thirty people came in total, and now we have caught eight." Ran Yao said on the phone, "Let me tell you something else. Do you remember that family member? ? Just got involved by accident——"
"Remember, isn't that woman a police officer? She was sent to you to interrogate prisoners."
"She is from the Li ethnic group, and her ancestral home is Hainan. Isn't it wonderful? I think we can take advantage of this relationship."
"I remember her talking about Trump? Many ethnic minorities today are very watery. Besides, she no longer lives there, so what else can she know?"
"No, she knows a lot about her own clan. Several Li prisoners are now in admiration for her," Ran Yao's laughter came from the PHS, "You see, talents sometimes appear inadvertently. "
Guo Yi has almost everyone identified: the vast majority of people are farmers - small landowners often participate in labor themselves. There are a few who are considered craftsmen, but are actually half-farmers and half-workers. They burn some pottery in their spare time. Or a plasterer who repairs or builds someone's house. The one with some skills was a rough carpenter, an old man. There is only one literate person, Zhang Xingjiao. He was called out alone, learned Mandarin from Xiong Buyou, and became the clerk of the entire labor team, responsible for keeping records and other matters.
Wu De selected the craftsmen individually to form a team. Except for the more than 20 wounded, the others were all divided into five labor teams, with the five earliest prisoners as captains. During the formation, he mixed up the Lingao natives, Fujian Shegeng people, and immigrants from all over the country based on the prisoner interrogation records. It was still the same set of mutual constraints-you can't unite anyway. Lin Xing and the others have now become captains. They have forgotten their status as half captives and half slaves. They all feel quite happy. Without waiting for Wu De's instructions, they all made whipping sticks for themselves. Get ready to supervise the poor new guy hard.
Strict hierarchical relationships, absolute power between superiors and subordinates, and the benefits obtained through power are extremely tempting in human groups. Wu De, who has worked in the military and judicial institutions for many years, understands this well. So he deliberately deepened these things. Each of the five captains got an ugly rattan helmet - this was an unsuccessful trial product of the Industrial Commission. It was originally intended to be burned as firewood, but Wu De put all these hats. When asked to come back, the status of the prisoners was distinguished by obvious signs such as hats and no hats.
Due to the urgent need of the project, all the labor teams were assigned to the construction team to produce building materials: bricks.
Modern construction has gradually shifted from bricks to the use of reinforced cement, but fired clay bricks are still the most widely used and economical material. Naturally, the engineering and construction team will not give up.
According to the reconnaissance team, they found a brick and tile field three kilometers away from Bairentan. This is a typical traditional brick and tile field. There are three earthen kilns. Although the workers have all run away, the things inside are still there: fired bricks and tiles, dried bricks and a lot of "cooked soil".
The process of making bricks and tiles is quite cumbersome. First, the raw soil must be mined out - that is, clay without organic matter. The raw soil must be dried and crushed. After adding water, the raw soil must be crushed repeatedly to make mature soil. Into bricks. Bricks cannot be fired directly into the kiln. If there is too much moisture, they will crack and deform directly in the kiln. Therefore, they have to be dried in the shade for ten days and a half. During the drying period, they cannot see the sun, strong winds, and coldness, so under normal circumstances in winter Bricks and tiles cannot be burned. Only after drying in the shade can the bricks be fired in the kiln.
If the time travelers are allowed to make bricks and bake bricks by themselves, it is difficult to imagine the problem of production efficiency. However, the time travelers have a combined brick making machine driven by a pot machine. The brick making efficiency only depends on how much bricks they can mine. Born in the soil.
Mei Wan felt that the production efficiency of Tuyuan kiln was too low, and the installation of the kiln required skilled master craftsmen, which could not be done by novices like them who read the instructions. Fortunately, a large number of ready-made bricks were available here, so construction of a 16-hole wheel kiln was started.
The wheel kiln is a "foreign kiln". Of course, it is very backward compared to the more advanced modern brick kilns such as the tunnel kiln, but it is definitely an advanced thing in this time and space.
It is a continuous production kiln that can load blanks, produce bricks, and clean at the same time. The kiln is composed of many interconnected chambers, like a circular tunnel, surrounded by many kiln doors, and all flues are connected to the main flue in the center of the kiln. Fuel is added from the feeding hole on the top of the kiln. The rotary kiln is divided into four working zones: drying, preheating, calcination and cooling. In a 16-chamber kiln, the first chamber is producing bricks, the sixteenth chamber is already cleaning, and the fifteenth chamber is loading bricks at the same time. Then the second chamber is deliberately producing bricks, the first chamber is cleaning, and the sixteenth chamber can Loaded. Once ignited, it can produce continuously for 24 hours without interruption, and its work efficiency and heat energy utilization are beyond the reach of traditional kilns. An ordinary wheel kiln can produce more than 50 million bricks and tiles a year.
In order not to waste time, while installing the machinery and building the wheel kiln, Mei Wan decided to burn out all the bricks that had been dried in the shade first. However, loading the bricks in the earthen kiln was a technical job, and neither the time traveler nor the laborer could do it. Never done it. The news was passed back to the Executive Committee. Luo Duo from the Intelligence and Information Team once again used his two-legged dictionary function and quickly found an electronic version of the booklet "Bricks and Tiles Made by Local Methods" published in 1958 from the computer hard drive. In less than an hour, the printed book was delivered to the kiln by fire. The workers were surprised to see this "pirate craftsman" using a book to instruct them on how to install the kiln - this was something only a master could do. Just learned the secret!
There is a large amount of thatched grass near the brick kiln. Mei Wan asked some workers who had worked in the brick kiln in the past to find out that it was specially grown as fuel. Only this kind of "soft firewood" can burn well in the earthen kiln. Hard firewood is too powerful. It's not easy to control the fire. These fuels were naturally used unceremoniously by the traveling crowd.
While bricks were being fired in the earthen kiln, Mei Wan directed the labor team to continuously mow grass and dig soil. Straw bales and mounds of soil were piled high. Some prisoners felt that the pirates probably wanted to work them to death - there was so much soil that they couldn't use it up without eating or sleeping.
When the adjustment of the pot camel machine was completed, black smoke suddenly appeared, and the flywheel rotated to drive the combined brick making machine to operate. The prisoners only saw piles of cooked soil being poured into the large steel opening, and many iron parts There was a dizzying ups and downs, and then I saw the flat adobe being neatly cut into whole slabs of bricks, as if a spell had been cast! Even the most skilled brick maker cannot make it so fast! Everyone was dumbfounded - the pirates knew everything! Moreover, the speed at which they built things was simply beyond what mortals could achieve. Some people simply knelt down in fear and kowtowed in front of the roaring machines.
"Why are you kowtowing? Go and transport materials!" Mei Wan yelled at Lin Xing who was stunned.
"I know! Chang." I don't know who taught him this title because he was full and had nothing to do. Now he calls him "Chief" when he meets everyone.
"Work! Work!" He waved his stick vigorously, "Go and move the soil. Hurry up. Those who move slowly will be thrown into the iron mouth!"
This kind of intimidation was much more effective than his stick. Every prisoner had a superstitious fear of the machine, and they all worked very hard, for fear that if they worked too slowly, they would be thrown into the mouth of the machine—— I'm afraid that this kind of thing requires the use of living people as sacrifices, right?
The produced bricks were pulled to the stockpile by trolleys, and the original drying sheds were vacated, just for stacking these newly made bricks. All bricks were made according to the past standard of eight to five bricks.
Obviously, the productivity of the machine was far beyond that of this era. Before nightfall, the cooked soil that the Lingao brick-burning craftsmen had prepared to use for several months had been exhausted, and the machine had to stop temporarily.
To build a wheel kiln, Mei Wan's other task was to make cement. For him, cement is just a matter of making a phone call and asking someone to deliver it. Even the cement used after D-Day was brought from the original time and space. Now it's completely out of the question to make him from scratch. Mei Wan knew that there was such a thing as earth and cement in the world, but he didn't know how to make it and what kind of performance it would have.
In modern society, the cement industry has become a highly specialized and mechanized large-scale production, which involves many special large-scale special equipment, such as crushers, rotary kilns, ball mills, etc. Replicating such large-scale equipment is too luxurious for time-travelers. Even if they buy ready-made equipment and install it, such huge equipment is beyond their ability.
