No matter what the future is, no matter what happens, we will never lose hope: hope is a virtue----------Hugo

In the next few days, Li Baoqiang used the same method to blast all the iron ore, lignite, limestone and other mineral deposits. It was much easier for the villagers to mine, but transportation has always been a bottleneck, so they still used backpacks to carry them out of the mountains little by little.

Li Baoqiang was speechless. We are now in a semi-primitive society. There is no electricity, no gasoline, and no diesel. Transportation is a bottleneck.

Li Baoqiang was very busy when Zhang Juncai came to him and said that the salt was completely gone. The brine pool was too bitter to cook. He wanted to see if Li Baoqiang could find a way to get some salt. Li Baoqiang checked the brine.

After thinking about it for a while, he used nitroglycerin to blast the rocks around the pool into pieces. He organized a few people to dig out the gravel and slowly dug out a well that was thirty meters deep.

The brine slowly accumulated, and the well could be filled in one day. Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to build a few simple stoves next to the well, put on a large pot, pulled in a pile of loose coal, and started boiling salt. The efficiency was still too low, and again

The villagers were asked to rest and consolidate several pieces of flat land, and the flat land was surrounded by a 30-centimetre-high cofferdam.

While boiling the salt, the brine is poured into the flat ground, and the brine is evaporated by the wind and the sun. This is the salt field. This is how Li Baoqiang's hometown dried salt on the seaside, so Li Baoqiang was quite thoughtful in his command. One of the salt fields was used as a reservoir.

The second piece of land is used as an evaporation pond, and the third piece of land is used as a crystallization pond. The height of the three pieces of land is gradually lowered to facilitate the flow of brine to the next piece of land.

Boiling salt is fast, but the output is small, and it wastes coal; salt production in salt fields is slow, but the output is high. Even so, forty or fifty kilograms of coarse salt can be produced every day. Coarse salt is edible, but because it contains impurities and calcium,

Magnesium and other impurities are harmful to the human body, so Li Baoqiang decided to refine the salt.

Li Baoqiang organized people to transport the coarse salt back to the school, found some clean cloth, made it into a filter, boiled the coarse salt with well water to dissolve it, filtered out the soil impurities, and collected the solution.

Find some baking soda, then find some quicklime, put the lime in water, and it will turn into slaked lime slurry after the reaction. Add baking soda to the lime slurry, stir to speed up the reaction, wait for it to react for a while, then let it stand for a while, and with the carbonation,

After calcium precipitation, the supernatant liquid is sodium hydroxide. The sodium hydroxide, which is soda ash, is collected and a part of the water is evaporated to form a relatively pure soda ash solution.

Then put the soda ash solution and the filtered crude brine together, stir, and heat them together. The solution gradually stratifies, and a part of the precipitate slowly appears at the bottom of the liquid. Continue filtering and collect the solution. It is basically a pure salt solution.

Originally, Li Baoqiang wanted to make some hydrochloric acid to continue purification. After thinking about it, he found that the current refined salt solution was basically relatively pure, so he gave up this idea.

Li Baoqiang heated the pure salt solution, and slowly white crystals precipitated on the surface of the liquid. Li Baoqiang tasted it, and found that there was no bitterness, and it was basically the same as the exquisite bagged salt originally sold on the market. At this point, Li Baoqiang had refined well salt.

salt.

During the process of refining table salt, Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai and several villagers to watch and teach him while doing it. After the refining was completed, several villagers basically mastered the method of making refined table salt, and Li Baoqiang breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, he was worthy of the Marine Corps instructor’s teachings.

Zhao Xiaoxiao, who has been with Li Baoqiang for the past few days, was surprised to see Li Baoqiang busy. She was surprised by Li Baoqiang's erudition and practical ability. Although Fatty He Qun and herself were college students, unfortunately they were limited to book knowledge, and they talked about principles fluently.

But when it came to actual practice, he was blinded. Zhao Xiaoxiao secretly thought that he still needed to learn some practical skills to survive better in the apocalypse.

Zhao Xiaoxiao took out her handkerchief and wiped the sweat from Li Baoqiang's forehead. Recently, she was even more attached to Li Baoqiang. Li Baoqiang enjoyed the little tenderness, "Don't be too obsessed with me, brother will get lost." Zhao Xiaoxiao pretended to fight, Li Baoqiang

Suddenly he became serious: "Xiaoxiao, I want to confess my past to you. In fact, I have the longest love history..."

Zhao Xiaoxiao suddenly became nervous when he heard this. Seeing Xiao Xiao's nervous look, Li Baoqiang almost laughed and then said quite narcissistically: "Actually, I have the longest love history throughout my life, and that is narcissism.

"Zhao Xiaoxin was relieved and saw that Li Baoqiang was teasing her, "Look for a beating. If you don't hit the fangjiewa for three days, this girl will implement family law today. I'll kick her!"

He started to kick Li Baoqiang's lower body. Li Baoqiang dodged deftly and said, "That's really cruel. Don't affect the sexual well-being of your lower body."

Since the breakthrough of the relationship between the two, Li Baoqiang suddenly became enlightened. He was talking all day long, constantly teasing Zhao Xiaoxiao and making the girl happy. Zhao Xiaoxiao cursed several times that it was the fat man who taught Li Baoqiang bad things. The fat man was speechless:

"I was really unjust. I was shot even while I was lying down."

In the next few days, Zhang Juncai also produced refined salt according to the procedures taught by Li Baoqiang. The daily output was about forty pounds. Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to find a special room. In addition to daily use, he kept hoarding it because he

He knew that at the end of this primitive society, these refined salts would bring him great benefits.

The loud noises of continuous mountain explosions and the rising fireworks of refined salt boiling finally brought vitality to Hope Village, and at the same time attracted victims. Disaster victims from five or six nearby towns continued to arrive. Li Baoqiang and the people in charge of Hope Village

, busy is exhausted.

Li Baoqiang immediately organized the young and middle-aged men and women among the victims, led by the fat man, to go up the mountain to cut branches and bring them back to build shacks. The school could no longer accommodate so many people. The shacks were built according to the practice when the Xinjiang Construction Corps stationed in Xinjiang.

Li Baoqiang chose a hillside outside the campus. The hillside sloped at more than 30 degrees, which could be used as the back of the shack. He first dug a pit about one and a half meters deep in the ground, leveled the bottom of the pit, and then leveled the section of the earth wall and the branches on both sides.

The two were tied up opposite each other, and a crossbar was placed across the intersection at the top. Thin branches and wild grass were spread on the ground, and the shack was basically formed. Although it was simple, it basically had no problem in keeping out the wind and snow.

The victims were finally settled.

According to the final statistics, there were more than 200 victims, including 132 young and middle-aged men and women, and more than 70 elderly and children. Because many of them were related to Hope Village, they quickly integrated into Hope Village.

.But the changes in Hope Village shocked them even more.

I hope the villagers look better than them and can eat meat occasionally. There is also a five-meter-high city wall, suspension bridge, moat, and urn city at the front of the valley, which is unheard of. There is a huge barrier lake on the stream outside the village.

, the lake is full of water. Black smoke is rising from salt wells, salt ponds, salt cooking stoves, and a cement kiln is being built. Everything seems tense, orderly, and full of vitality. The hearts of the newly arrived victims suddenly calmed down, and they felt the hope and security of survival.

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Due to the increase in manpower, Li Baoqiang expanded the armed force. The armed force now consists of three main squads, two reserve squads, and one female squadron. Each team has eleven members, including a squad leader and a deputy captain.

There are sixty-nine people in total including the fat man, the thin man and the captain Li Baoqiang. The armed team has been released from production and is training hard every day under the leadership of Li Baoqiang and the deputy captains.

The construction of Hope Village is gradually on the right track, and the increase in manpower has gradually given Li Baoqiang the idea of ​​​​further construction. Because every time he sees the terrible city wall, Li Baoqiang is always worried, can it withstand the attack of rats? Can it withstand the attack of outsiders?

An invasion? Li Baoqiang finally decided to produce cement.

Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to go to the villagers to find villagers who knew about cement production. Fortunately, four or five villagers had worked in cement factories before the end and knew some basic processes and methods of cement production. Li Baoqiang convened

These villagers began to study cement production methods under current conditions.

The cement production process is very complicated. Cement production is mainly divided into three stages: raw meal preparation, clinker calcination, and cement grinding. Among them, the main raw materials for making cement are limestone, clay, iron powder, fluorite, and gypsum.

.These raw materials can all be found, and there are also a lot of coal reserves to be mined.

The most critical thing now is to build a kiln for calcining cement and a machine for grinding cement. Based on the current situation and the conditions at hand, everyone finally started to make cement. Without electricity, they can only waste physical energy. Zhang Juncai found a few stonemasons to make cement.

He built three large millstones, and then used the last few bags of cement to build a calcining kiln by the barrier lake.

Zhang Juncai's organizational skills are indeed very strong. After arranging the material collection team, he organized all available people in the village to smash limestone, clay, iron powder, fluorite, and gypsum into walnut-sized pieces and grind them in a millstone.

Mix into powder.

Because the temperature of the calcining kiln could not reach the temperature where chemical reactions would occur, everyone discussed for a long time and ground the lignite blocks into powder, which blended well with the previously ground raw materials, so that when the raw materials were calcined, the pulverized coal could be fully burned.

The temperature of the calcining kiln can also meet the requirements.

Li Baoqiang and others stayed up for several days and nights, and finally the cement from the first kiln was calcined. At this time, the cement was still lumpy. Zhang Juncai used the three grinding discs to grind it in cycles, and finally produced fine cement powder. Li Baoqiang

Finally a stone fell to the ground.

Li Baoqiang organized people to continue to heighten and strengthen the city wall. Finally, the height of the city wall reached seven meters. In this mountain valley, it looked like a castle. Although the weather was still cold, the thick cement on the city wall and the urn city solidified quickly.

, the smooth cement surface was solid. Li Baoqiang thought that even if a cannonball fell on it, it would just make a crater, or even a white spot, which should be able to withstand the attack of rats that can drill holes. Li Baoqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

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Under the leadership of the village committee, the villagers saw the changes in the small village day by day, especially the gradually taller and stronger city walls. They felt full of security in their hearts. At the same time, they were full of respect for Li Baoqiang, who worked hard in vain and in vain. It was he who made it possible.

The villagers have a comfortable home.

While leading the team to train, Fatty often came to watch Li Baoqiang's busy work. He jokingly called Li Baoqiang the "King of Industry in the End of the World". Explosives, refined salt, cement, and soda ash were all produced one by one. There was nothing else he couldn't make.

The fat man flattered Li Baoqiang in front of Zhao Xiaoxiao: "He is arrogant, but kind-hearted. He is low-key, but he is admired by thousands of people. He can use the fire given to mankind by God and use it superbly, burning out fires that can be called fire."

He is an artistic super dish. Is he the incarnation of a god? Or a messenger from hell? No one knows, but it is certain that everyone gives him a title - God of Food!"
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