The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

Chapter 66: Red mud stove and briquettes

  The location of the open-pit coal mine detected by the magic mirror happened to be on the dirt road to the city of Patras.

   Three days later.

   The location of the open-pit coal mine is full of voices.

   More than half of the savages slaves, a part of the overseers of the village of Nisai, and two-thirds of the guards were all recruited by William, digging three feet of ground, and digging a ravine into this dirt road.

   Because of the lack of tools, under the guidance of William’s magic mirror, this open-pit coal mine had to be dug into a staircase pattern.

   There is a platform-like staircase of several square meters every one meter. A coal mine with a depth of ten meters has ten stairs, and under the ten stairs is the coal mine.

   A large number of savage slaves are nesting there, mining coal mines with simple tools, putting them in baskets, and then transporting them layer by layer to the surface.

   There were savage slaves waiting there early, and they moved them to the wheelbarrow, and then creaked and pushed the wheelbarrow to the small village of Nisai.

  In a specially designated open space in the new Nisai village, there was a group of barbaric slaves who were waiting for a long time with wooden sticks in their hands.

   This group of barbaric slaves are mostly sturdy people, acting as stonebreakers.

   As soon as the coal was dumped, the gang of savage slaves shook off their arms, waved their big sticks, and went to work.

   As a reward, they can get an extra bowl of sweet porridge when they eat.

   The crushed coal powder was transported to the vicinity of the bricks, where clay was piled up.

   Mix according to the ratio of 80% coal powder to 20% clay, add an appropriate amount of water, and stir evenly to form a pile of black slime.

   This aspect of work is the responsibility of the villagers who make the bricks.

   These slime are the materials for making briquettes.

   Yes, the heating and boiling tools that William wanted to make were briquettes that were everywhere in the countryside when he was a child.

   Briquettes catch fire quickly, have high temperature, long burning time, easy to use, simple to make, smokeless and tasteless, and their utilization efficiency is higher than that of using coal alone. It is William who came up with a solution to the problem of heating by wild slaves and boiling water by villagers.

  It's not enough to have coal slime, and a mold for making briquettes is needed.

   The hand-made briquette mould used in the countryside of William’s previous life, but this mould requires iron pipes.

   William's current conditions cannot do this, or it is difficult to do this.

   So William simply simplified this set of molds.

   What was originally made of iron, replaced with wood.

   The iron pipe was punched out, and a piece of wood was directly hollowed out into a flat plate. Six small wooden pillars were left on the flat plate. Then, a square of the same size was made and hollowed out.

   When making briquettes, the planks and squares are combined together, then the coal slime is put on it, and after compaction, it is turned over, and the flat plate is drawn out to be a square briquettes.

  The ready-made briquettes cannot be used immediately. They need to be dried like bricks, which takes about two to three days.

   A honeycomb mold cannot meet the growing material and cultural needs of Nisai Village.

   The work of the original blacksmith was transferred to Charles the carpenter.

   Charles opened a carpenter's shop in the village, with a group of more dexterous carpenter apprentices, started the race against time for briquette mold work.

  The finished molds were immediately sent to the brick yard, and they were thrown into the fierce battle.

   Within a few days, dense black briquettes occupied half of the brick yard.

   It’s not enough to have briquettes, but a stove, a briquette stove is needed.

  Traditional briquettes stoves are generally cylindrical, because briquettes are all made into a round shape.

   However, William chose to make square briquettes for convenience.

   Therefore, the stove must be changed accordingly and changed to a square shape.

  It is not difficult to make a stove, as long as the raw materials are sufficient.

   And as much clay as possible!

   Of course, compared to bricks, this stove still requires a bit of technical content.

  Among the barbaric slaves, William also found a former pottery worker. Because of being bullied by the officials, his family had to become barbaric.

   There are also five or six scattered people, all of whom have experience in pottery.

   William simply transferred these more than a dozen people from the hard work of barbaric slaves and set up a pottery workshop, with one man named Borg as the manager, and their first task was to make a briquette stove.

   William promised them that if their performance is outstanding, then after the winter, they will be pardoned by William, from slaves to Dicas leaders, and get paid for their work.

   This group of pottery slaves naturally burst out with a passion of 120,000 points.

   Of course, only a dozen people work slowly.

   So William was among the barbarian slaves again, and drew out dozens of young barbarian slaves and sent them to pottery workshops as apprentices.

   William also made this promise to them. Outstanding and outstanding achievements will receive his special awards after the winter.

   Under such encouragement, five days later, William finally saw the first briquette stove he saw in Nisai Village.

   In the earthen house, William, Old John, Charles, Eddie, and Old Grett, Jacques Porter, and Drake John all gathered around the red clay stove.

   A pottery pot was placed on the red clay stove, and water was placed in the pottery pot. At this time, the water was bubbling.

   Three square briquettes were placed in the red mud stove. The orange-red flames hovered between the holes. A heat spread in all directions, and the chill in the late autumn was immediately dissipated.

   There is no smoke, no smell, and most importantly, convenience.

   There is a handle on each side of the stove, which can be moved at will.

   can be placed close to the body without worrying about being swallowed by flames.

   Old John looked at this red clay stove, and he liked it more and more.

  It is getting colder and colder, and old John is old after all, not as good as the young man.

   lives in a thatched earthen house that leaks, and the autumn breeze that blows every night makes him feel cold in his hands and feet, and his body is stiff.

   There is no fireplace in the thatched house. Although it can burn a fire, after falling asleep, I dare not ignite it in any way. I am afraid that a spark will ignite the dry thatch, and it will be a nightmare.

   Originally, Old John thought he could only continue to suffer, but the appearance of the red clay stove allowed him to see the good times in the future.

  While warming up in the cold night, you can drink a sip of hot water or cook hot soup overnight.

   Is there anything happier to enjoy?

   He couldn't help but reached out his hand and touched the outer wall of the stove.

   hot!

  Old John pulled his hand back abruptly, but his face was full of smiles.

   He looked at William and asked happily, "My Lord Baron, how long can this thing burn?"

   "How long to burn?" William thought for a moment, "About the time for two candles to burn. A piece of briquettes-by the way, this thing is called briquettes!"

   Hearing William's answer, not only Old John, but Old Grete and Charles had their eyes glowing.

William looked around at them, then smiled and said his plan, "At present, the pottery workshop has made fifteen red clay furnaces, and thirty-eight red clay furnaces are being burned in the kiln. Among them. The briquettes have been made into more than two thousand, and they are all placed in the brick yard to dry and can be used at any time."

   "In the near future, there will be more and more red clay stoves and briquettes, enough to meet the needs of everyone in our small village in Nisai."

   "So, I plan to do this."

   "Each barbarian slave's shack can get a red mud stove and three pieces of briquettes per day. Of course, for the red mud stove, they only have the right to use it, not the ownership. If it is destroyed, it will be punished heavily!" William said.

   A shack usually houses 10 barbarian slaves, and about a hundred red clay stoves are enough to meet the minimum needs.

  Old John, they all nodded.

   William then continued, "In addition, I will sell the red clay stove in a grocery store, and the price is one franc silver coin."

You can buy a mobile fireplace with a silver franc. The price is not expensive but too cheap~www.wuxiahere.com~Old John opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he was preempted by William, "Of course, briquettes are not free. Yes, three Poole coins and one briquette."

   One briquette can only support the burning time of two candles. Compared with dry wood, the price is relatively expensive.

   Because dry firewood is close to the large forest, it is rich in resources and almost free.

   But the burning of briquettes is smokeless, tasteless, and convenient and easy to move. This price is not unacceptable.

   It takes about three to four briquettes a day. That is to say, you need to spend 10 to 12 Poole coins, which is about three francs silver coins a month.

   Exchange three silver francs for one month's Shu Nuan, I believe many villagers will make a choice.

   Old Gretel thought silently.

   Other people naturally have no opinion.

"In addition, I will issue a lord's administrative order. In the future, in Dicas, all drinking water must be boiled. Otherwise, once discovered, I will be punished with 1 Aiju silver coin. If you find it repeatedly , The penalty is doubled!"

  William looked at Jacques Potter and Drake John, the representatives of the guards of the village of Nisai.

   This was originally the responsibility of the city management or the police, but there is no way. The small village of Nisai is now a waste of time, as long as the military guards do this work.

However, the guards have been undergoing high-intensity training in the face of the possible Lizardman disaster, and there is no time to manage these trivial things. This order, which is a deterrent, has a greater effect. The actual implementation may be form!

   But it doesn't matter, what William wants to show is a question of attitude.

   Jacques Potter and Drake John both nodded solemnly.

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