Chapter 29 Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory (1)

There is a Zhangjiaping Village dozens of miles away from Wuzhai Fort, and there is a Zhangjiaping Mountain next to the village.

According to the information from Huang Laifu computer, Wuzhaibao has abundant resources such as limestone and clay, among which most of the limestone and clay are distributed in the Zhangjiaping area.

Limestone is a good thing. In addition to being directly processed into stone as building materials, it can also be burned into quicklime for disinfection and prevention of epidemics. For example, Huang Laifu's pigpen and sheep pen are needed to keep the sheep pen dry and prevent sheep from rotting their hooves and dying in large quantities.

Quicklime fills water and turns mature ash, and can also be applied to the roots of trees to kill insects. There is no pesticide in the Ming Dynasty at this time. Lime can also be used as insecticides in the fields. Before sowing in spring, sprinkle lime in the fields, release water and turn over the soil. The fields are soaked in lime water for one day. After two days, pests or eggs hiding in the soil for winter can be eliminated.

Huang Laifu was also accidentally searching for computers and only saw this in an agricultural knowledge. Before his farm had no insect killing before the spring plowing of the spring farm, next year, this insect must be killed first.

Clay has been the main raw material for making ceramics in the past thousands of years of history in China. However, for Huang Laifu, this limestone and clay are the main raw material for making cement.

Cement is an indispensable material for various buildings in later generations. To trace its history, it can be said that in 1796, the British Parker fired a brown cement with marlstone, called Roman cement or natural cement. By 1824, the British Asputin fired cement with limestone and clay. The hardened color was similar to the stone used in buildings in Portland on the island of England. It was named Portland cement and obtained a patent. In 1813, French civil technician Pica discovered that the cement made of lime and clay mixed with three to one has the best performance. Since then, cement has appeared in later generations in large quantities.

In the era when Huang Laifu lived, cement would never leave people's lives. Whether it was civil engineering, water conservancy, or national defense engineering construction, a large amount of cement was needed, and the demand in various places was very large.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Laifu organized craftsmen to vigorously mine limestone and clay in the Zhangjiaping area based on the distribution map of the Wuzhaibao deposit in the computer, and invested 1,000 taels of silver to set up a cement factory, thinking that he had to make cement. He hoped that after the cement was successfully produced in the future, like the farm, he would become another new source of wealth for him.

Of course, only he himself could understand the purpose and prospects of Huang Laifu's behavior at this time. In the past, he was basically within the scope of everyone's understanding of farms, but no one understood what "cement" was. At first, everyone thought that Mr. Huang was going to vigorously mine lime and make some clay for ceramics, but later people realized that it was not.

Everyone is used to the amazing moves of Mr. Huang every time. Anyway, the money is not paid by himself, so just look at it with your eyes wide open.

When Huang Laifu, Gu Yunniang, Qu Yuanrui, Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu were about to reach Zhangjiaping Mountain, they saw a large chimney squirting thick smoke from afar. At this time, the sun was scorching hot, and with some wind, the smoke and dust kept drifting with the wind.

Before everyone could express their feelings, a loud noise suddenly came from the other side of the mountain, which made the horses who were so scared that they neighed and uneasy.

Gu Yunniang was shocked and said, "Brother Laifu, what's wrong?"

Qu Yuanrui also had a look of surprise on his face. Although he knew that Huang Laifu was currently making something called "cement", it was the first time he came to this place. He couldn't help panic when he heard the abnormal noise.

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu looked calm, and they knew what was going on. Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Don't panic, Yun Niang, this is the miners on the other side of the mountain using gunpowder to explode the ore deposits and crush the ore for mining. Let's go over and see what's going on."

"Use gunpowder to explode the ore deposit?" Gu Yunniang was surprised and suspicious. However, she still controlled the horse and followed Huang Laifu to the other side.

As we walked along, we heard the sound of cannons rumbling, and the thick smoke rolled, and the dust produced by burning kilns and setting off firecrackers made the surrounding sky feel gray. When we looked closer, we saw that the mountains near Zhangjiaping seemed to be peeled off, exposed outside, and the grass and trees disappeared, and there were ponds everywhere, like scars on people's foreheads.

Environmental pollution, serious ecological environment damage! Huang Laifu lamented in his heart that if it were later generations, this would be the Sanwu small cement factory that must be closed. But at this time, of course, no one here dared to come to Huang Laifu's small cement factory.

But when he saw this kind of environmental pollution, Huang Laifu felt that hesitation in his heart. Is it appropriate to do this kind of industry? But soon he came back to his senses. Even the modern Western industrial revolution was at the cost of destroying ecological balance. After all, he came from later generations and knew some concepts of ecological protection. Then he would try to pay attention to it.

When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we saw a large group of people busy. They gathered around the newly exploded limestone ore, or held large shovels, and delivered ore to the wheelbarrow one by one. After the wheelbarrow was full, some people quickly pushed the cart to the lime kiln and cement factory.

These people are men and women, old and young, but without exception, they all become "grey people". Many are naked, with only a pair of calf shorts, all over the body, with gray all over, and only their teeth are still white. They are all doing it, but these people seem to be very happy. Many are yelling at some folk tunes while working. Huang Laifu listened to it, and there was a bit of a sense of faith in the sky.

Huang Laifu recognized that some of these people were villagers from Zhangjiaping nearby. In fact, a month and a half ago, this place located in Zhangjiaping, called "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory", when mining and firecrackers, some villagers close to these lime kilns and cement factories could not stand the dust and noise. They once recommended the respected old village chief in the village to come and react with the eldest son Huang Laifu, saying their difficulties, meaning that after the cement factory was built, the gunfire was fired all day long, which scared the pigs in my village no longer ate food and the chickens lay eggs.

After all, it means that the village has suffered heavy losses. Can Master Huang Laifu be that...what?

For Huang Laifu, who came from later generations, this situation seemed familiar and familiar. At the moment, he didn't say anything. Each household in the village paid for the "pig and chicken scare fee" of five taels of silver, and the twenty households in Zhangjiaping Village cost 100 taels of silver.

For Huang Laifu, the compensation fee is very cheap and it costs a little money. But five taels of silver per household is a huge sum of money for the villagers of Zhangjiaping Village. At present, everyone's complaints immediately dissipated, and everyone praised Mr. Huang's kindness.

Huang Laifu also allowed the villagers of Zhangjiaping Village to work at the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory". Like the miners, each strengthens laborer and eats one tael of silver per month. The old men and women who can do work are five cents per month, and the children who can work also have two cents per month. If they do well, there will be rewards, which makes the villagers of Zhangjiaping Village even more cheerful.

Although the work of the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" is very tiring and dirty, everyone is doing it happily, both miners and villagers. For them, it doesn't matter if they are tired or dirty. They are very satisfied with being able to bring a good life with their own hands. Moreover, in their eyes, this price is indeed worth their hard work.

Speaking of wages, the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" is indeed much higher than the various farms in Wuzhaibao, because the work here is really tiring, dirty, and dangerous. In fact, it is not considered that the Ming Dynasty or the mining areas in later generations, and the wages in the mining areas are higher than those in other factories. It is because of the well-known tiring, dirty, and dangerous.

All of this in front of you, Huang Laifu, Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu have been here several times, so there is no newness.

Gu Yunniang and Qu Yuanrui looked around, their faces full of excitement and curiosity. The situation in front of them was indeed greater than everything on the farm, and this was the shock of industry over agriculture.

However, both of them did not notice anything here, which might have adverse effects on the surrounding environment. In fact, when the Western Industrial Revolution began, the Westerners had the joy of "victory nature" and did not realize the importance of environmental protection. After hundreds of years of joy, people realized the importance of environmental protection.

Seeing Huang Laifu and others coming, Deng Zisheng, the manager of the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory", saw it and hurriedly came up from afar.

Deng Zisheng is a military craftsman's flag in Wuzhaibao, and is familiar with Liu Zongqi. Originally, Huang Laifu, the manager of the "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory", was interested in Liu Zongqi. Unfortunately, he was busy and unable to share his relationship, so he recommended Deng Zisheng.

Deng Zisheng suddenly became more important, so he was naturally trembling and did not dare to neglect.

The "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" has factory workers, miners and villagers in Zhangjiaping, with about 200 people, including five craftsmen, who were former miners in Kelanzhou and experts in firing lime.

More than a month ago, after Huang Laifu's "Dawuzhaibao Cement Factory" started construction, they were invited through several merchants. Each person had 2 taels of silver per month, plus a reward, and this price was enough to make them die.
Chapter completed!