"Is this how they extracted the oil?" Zhu Ping saw the oil well.
The local people kept shaking. The well had two openings. One opening allowed a small wooden tube to go in, and the other opened a wooden barrel. The wooden barrels contained oil.
A big pit was dug next to it, the oil was put there, and then someone scooped it into wooden barrels.
Zhu Biao frowned: "Long, it should be two wells, right? How are they connected below?"
He knew the principle. It went down here and came out there. It was a circle, like a waterwheel with a tube. What was going on underneath?
"What your Highness saw was the mouth of the well. It was actually a straight well and an inclined well. The two wells had an intersection.
If it can meet, just use a rope to hang a heavy object below, and it will be entangled when it moves, and carefully lift it out.
It will be easier to handle after that, and once connected, you can continue grinding and make the bottom as smooth as possible.
Some brine wells in Sichuan use this method. Two inclined wells are drilled opposite each other and connected below, such as hanging a magnet on one side.
Then slowly grind it, and when the lower channel is grinded, it becomes a smooth situation where one well delivers the empty cylinder and the other produces brine.
Calculated in terms of water, if it exceeds ten meters, you cannot use a normal pressure well to press the water up, you can only lift the water, unless the pumping force exceeds one atmosphere. "
The leader drew a simple picture on the ground, and anyone who didn't know it would know it at a glance.
"Is that how it was done?" Zhu Xi also took a look and felt it was very simple.
"All the craftsmen in the team know it." The little girl shot at the side.
"Then do you know what to do if they get oil on their hands?" Zhu Xi changed the topic.
"Wash with soap locust, but we plan to leave some gasoline and soap for them. Using gasoline to wash the oil is the fastest, and then using soap to wash away the gasoline, otherwise there will be a smell."
The little girl looked like you couldn't help me, and walked to the side with her hands behind her back.
Some locals are extracting oil, while others are drilling hundreds of steps away, like brine wells in Sichuan.
A group of people work like a grinder. Below is an iron pipe. The head of the pipe is shaped like a circle of teeth, which is called a round-edged file.
It's similar to the Luoyang shovel, except it's not the semi-open one, and it has obvious teeth underneath for drilling.
If you don't want to drill, just lift it up and smash it downwards. This has the same effect as the Luoyang shovel and brings out the mud.
Generally, if there are rocks below, hit them, and if there are no rocks, turn them around.
"They want to dig another well?" Zhu Biao looked over there.
"To make money, they used to sell oil, and each person earned more than 100 yuan a day. We gave them more, because the oil is poisonous after being smelled for a long time.
You have to tell them this, they come on a rotation basis, and if the price is high, the cost of rotation and rest will be taken into account.
They can do other things during rotation and cannot stay at the wellhead from morning to night every day.
If your body is damaged, you will have nothing left. It is best to let the person in charge strictly manage it. It is difficult. "
Seeing the people in the county busy here, the mayor knew that they were afraid of poverty.
Whether you are healthy or not, whether you are sick or not, you can earn more than 100 yuan a day!
Zhu Biao shook his head: "We don't think it's easy to make them obedient unless they are under military supervision."
"It's actually simple. Let's look at their normal production based on the current price, and tell them that they'll pay 50 cents per day, no matter how much they do, but they have to provide us with a certain amount of oil.
Otherwise, they sell it to others and see if others buy it. As a result, they are not willing to work hard.
They will allocate themselves, each person can do as much as they want, and no one wants to do more.
Without a strong belief, it is impossible to eat from the big pot. Not all villages are Xiaqiu villages. "
The chief said, looking at Hanhan who was looking around warily. This is the belief of the village.
Zhu Wentian didn't care about other things. He was responsible for guarding and did not allow Zhu Biao and Zhu Ming to get close to the pit where the oil was placed. An open flame was thrown down...
Zhu Biao smiled: "Indeed, if it is fixed well, everyone will not want to work more. Let's install the oil! Then find someone to tell them."
He agreed that for the sake of the people's health, he would not give the money and collect a fixed amount of oil every month.
As for the wells drilled there, when oil is drilled, the number can be increased by a fixed amount.
The team left the gasoline for the people to see. It is indeed easy to wash off the stuck oil. After washing it with soap, there is not much smell anymore.
To put it simply, gasoline is easy to burn. People know it well. They are extracting oil during the day. Are there any open flames around them?
If there is oil and gas on and around the pit where the oil is put, the fire will explode. People understand this.
However, when they heard the amount required and the amount of money given every day, the people instantly became stunned. They thought they had found a way to make a fortune, but it turned out that they didn't want so much.
Soon the people became happy again. This time, the people in the team went to load the oil in wooden barrels one by one and paid according to the quantity.
The common people who participate can receive five to six coins per trip, which is a year's income locally.
Coupled with the free soap, the people felt that they had made a profit.
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"With so much oil in it, it's not easy for us to cross the desert."
When Zhu Ping hit the road again, he knew the situation ahead.
“When we get to Helin, we can improve the oil refining process and we can collect an additional kind of petrolatum.
It is the wax-like thing on the rotating wooden cylinder. After purification, it can be made into good things.
Let them collect it and tell them that applying it can prevent frostbite and treat chilblains and cracks.
But don't stick it with petroleum, it's poisonous. Let's buy it when they collect more. "
The headmaster mentioned new things, which will increase the output during refining.
"Okay! Find someone to talk to, and you can do the rest. We don't understand anyway." Zhu Ping did everything he could.
He knew he didn't need any technical skills to understand deeply, just a rough idea.
So after another six days, the team arrived at Yulin. Going further north, they would encounter the desert.
There are few people here, and they are all garrisoned. Before the war against Beiyuan, there was a desert to the north, so the people were not willing to live here.
The guard is Liu Chong, who belongs to the Suide Guard.
There are records: In the second year of Hongwu's reign in Shaanxi, Kong Xing fled to the north and set up a Suide Guard with tens of thousands of troops to guard it. Liu Chong, a thousand households in the Suide Guard, was assigned to the garrison to govern Yulin.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qin came over, and he had to come over too, but there were fewer troops here and they pushed out to the north.
The troops from the Northern Expedition in front were so capable that they occupied a lot of space, and the troops behind them moved forward in echelons.
This was not Zhu Xi's fiefdom, nor was the former Yanchang County, so he said nothing.
"Liu Qianhu, there are no people in the city?" Zhu Biao discovered the problem. There were troops all around. Where were the people?
"Go back to His Highness the Crown Prince and ask, there is nothing here. The people live in the surrounding prefectures and counties, and no one wants to come. We are waiting for a military camp.
We won the battle in the North, and everyone was very happy. Finally we no longer had to face the enemy directly. Who wants to die?
There is nothing in the local area. If you plant some fields, it depends on God’s face. Alas! "
Liu Chong told the truth one sentence after another, with a helpless expression.
"How is it possible? There is no land that cannot be used, Li Chang!" Zhu Biao did not believe in evil and turned to look at the magical Li Chang.
(End of chapter)
