Manager Li only thought he was driven crazy, and tears couldn't stop flowing down. The two of them were called master and servant, but in fact they had been together for more than ten years and were already relatives. Otherwise, Manager Li would not have run for him so hard: "Young master, I will definitely take you back. We won't do business anymore, let's study!"

"Don't." Unexpectedly, Cui Yuzhe refused his kindness, looked at the faraway mountain leisurely, and said, "I just want to do my own work now, sweat and eat my own meals, live a down-to-earth life, and no longer think about the past."

Cui Yuzhe didn't know how to explain his current state. Anyway, he just felt very peaceful and peaceful now, and he didn't want any changes from the bottom of his heart.

No matter how the shopkeeper Li Da persuaded him, Cui Yuzhe insisted on his own ideas. In the end, he said he was annoyed. He gave shopkeeper Li Da two choices, either staying to accompany him to make night fragrance, or everyone would do their own things. The Cui family's business was managed by the shopkeeper Li Da, and in the future, he would still manage it. No matter what he did, it would be fine, just don't disturb yourself from picking up the manure.

Manager Li couldn't understand what he was thinking, so he could only look at him blankly, only with a bitter smile. Seeing the young master picking up the feces and leaving, Manager Li stuttered, suddenly he was stunned, raised his hand and touched his lips, and vomited out a moment.

How does this come into your mouth?!

After two separate words, Li Mu and others came to the cement yard at the foot of the mountain.

I saw that a one-meter-long wall around the cement yard had almost been fully raised. Judging from the progress of the project, it took less than three days to complete the project. I saw that at the base of the wall, I was preparing to come out, and it seemed that I was going to be inlaid on the wall.

"So exaggerated?" Li Mu was a little surprised. He called Yu Wengui, who was in charge of the project, and asked. Yu Wengui was serious and said, "There are core secrets of cement here, Marquis."

He said righteously: "Not everyone in the world is as honest and trustworthy as the Marquis. There are so many despicable people. You should not have the intention to harm others, and you should not be careful. How many eyes are staring at our cement factory every day? How can you not look tighter?"

"It's unnecessary, just learn it." Mr. Zhao said indifferently: "I'm afraid they will 'd rather than be a dog'. They will learn a half-baked man and make a tofu shit. Not only will they harm the people, but they will also ruin the reputation of cement."

That's it, but Li Mu also thought so in his heart. Good things are better if he owns them, and technical barriers must exist for a while. Not to mention the interests, if someone learns the formula of cement, his plan will be completely disrupted.

If you build a concrete fortress, you can't really blow it up with the black gunpowder you currently have. Although this is a bit far away, there is really no need to set obstacles for yourself in the future.

He thought for a moment, but after all, he said cautiously: "Then keep it confidential first."

The door of the heavy cement yard slowly opened, and rows of gray factory buildings appeared in front of him. Three tall chimneys stood up, forming a strong contrast with the surrounding beautiful mountains and rivers. Sun Fujia was stunned and pointed to the three chimneys and asked, "What is this for?"

"Chirch, for exhaust, can be used when making cement." Li Mu didn't explain too much, but was very excited. If there was any iconic image of the industrial revolution, trains and chimneys must be the two options with the most votes.

Think about the Industrial Revolution, which factory can leave the chimney?

This is a sign of bidding farewell to the farming era and opening up modern civilization!

Restraining the excitement in his heart, Li Mu wore a thick mask.

Yuwengui and others quickly followed suit. Sun Fujia had no mask and was at a loss. Yuwengui handed him a mask and he also put it in his mouth.

At the beginning of the construction of the cement yard, Li Mu set rules that anyone who comes into contact with cement must wear a mask. Although the workers felt that this was unnecessary and that they had worn a mask for a long time and were a little overwhelmed, Li Mu forced it and everyone had no choice but to obey the orders without understanding.

Who made this regulation tied to their wages? If you don’t bring it once, you will be deducted half a month’s wages. If you don’t bring it twice, you will be driven home directly. Lantian County can no longer find a better place than here. Unless you are a fool, no one will compete with this.

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The entire mountain is filled with limestone, and the so-called factory is actually just a wall built around the entire Yuanshan Mountain.

In the mountains, there is a limestone mine.

The workers crushed the limestone and transported it to the foot of the mountain. There was a crushing workshop at the foot of the mountain to carry out the next step of crushing. Since the progress of the industrial revolution has not yet arrived, Li Mu cannot do a machine for crushing stones now, and the crushing process is still mainly artificial.

Workers took the big hammer and smashed the limestone into small pieces the size of fists. Then they used a sieve to sieve them, leaving the lime powder, and send the remaining lime pieces to the milling workshop next door. After this, the stones became powdery. Limestone was not a very hard stone, and the process was relatively not that difficult.

The milling workshop is a large long factory with hundreds of stone mills. The workers are naked and sweating profusely, crushing the lime blocks into powder.

There is a sieve with a screen surface under the grinding disc. Only lime powder that can pass through the sieve can be used together. If it fails, it must continue to grind. This is also the most time-consuming and laborious link in the entire production process, but it is also a key step and the requirements cannot be relaxed.

When delivering materials, there are also special quality inspectors to check to prevent people from fooling around.

The entire grinding workshop is grinding limestone, and no other raw materials are seen. Li Mu introduced to Sun Fujia: "At this point, all the processes are still part of limestone, and the other two main ingredients, gypsum and kaolin, are processed elsewhere. They are used to prevent leakage. All the raw materials are processed and will be transported to a special proportioning factory. I also specially arranged for people to prepare some irrelevant powders, and the personnel are also mixed, making it difficult to understand the reality and reality. This will do our best to reduce the possibility of leakage.

"Cunning." Sun Fujia said in his heart, but said, "It should be, it should be more cautious."

In fact, Li Mu is not too worried about leaking the secret.

After all, firing cement is a very scientific thing. It is useless to know the formula. The key to its production is temperature and the correct ratio of raw materials.

If these two things are not done well, the cement produced will be of poor quality and may even cause the building to collapse on its own.

It has only been two hundred years since the birth of cement that humans have found the so-called best ratio and the most suitable temperature of cement. Both are indispensable and are difficult to do.

It’s okay to say that the former is done, after all, all the links are done by people. If a certain family really wants to know the raw materials, carefully investigate and buy them, they will definitely know.

But there is no way to temperature, and there is no thermometer in this era.

For this problem, Li Mu thought about it for several nights, and finally found a local solution for him.

Fire.

The flame that was glowing at the beginning was five hundred degrees, the crimson red was six hundred degrees, the red was seven hundred degrees, and the cherry red was eight hundred degrees, and the cherry color was one thousand degrees...

When the fire color is white and hot, people dare not look directly at it, it reaches 1,400 degrees!

In the end, except for Li Mu himself, only Li Mu and the few employees in charge of this matter know, but they don’t know why, but they know that this is right, which makes it difficult for others to steal secrets.

Moreover, the fire color must be kept white and hot, that is, 1,400 degrees. It is completely insufficient to rely on coal and coke alone, and firewood is completely ineffective.

Fortunately, there is coal here. After crushing the coal, it can increase the temperature. But even so, it is still a little bit worse. The easiest way is to buy catalyst from the system store, but the cost is too high. It is better to use corn mortar.

Li Mu spent most of his time trying to raise the furnace temperature in addition to dealing with the remaining problems.

He almost searched through the drawings in the system and finally found a solution. He first built a high kiln that automatically sucked air, and several bellows kept pulling, allowing the fuel to burn again, and finally reached the furnace temperature.

The refractory bricks for building this furnace are made of kaolin. It is very convenient to get the moon near the water.

Bricks burned from ordinary clay elsewhere cannot withstand the temperature in the high kiln...

...

After visiting the cement farm, Li Mu's hair was already white and the others were not going well. Only then did Sun Fujia understand why Li Mu insisted on wearing a mask. If he didn't wear a mask, he would have to fly into his mouth.

Sun Fujia was still not satisfied and wanted to stay for a while, but Li Mu was about to get off work. He set the rules for himself to work for no more than four hours a day.

Sun Fujia had no choice but to come out with Li Mu.

When I went back, Li Mu took a look at the dormitory of these employees.

And it has changed a lot.

The original broken wooden house was completely demolished and rebuilt into a brand new brick house. It was painted with white gray on the outside, black tiles were hung on the walls, cement in the yard was overflowing with the wellhead, so that dust could fall into it.

Sun Fujia did not return to Chang'an today, and Li Mu asked him to live back to the city, but he insisted on staying in the cement factory for a day. The shopkeeper Li did not tell the story of his young master, so he naturally wanted to stay. Li Mu did not force it. Anyway, the secret recipe was in his head, and no one could do anything to him if he didn't say it.

Wei Yingluo has been following Li Mu forever, and of course she knew how dirty the cement yard was. When Li Mu went to the factory today, she wisely did not follow her. She came over to clean up her residence and boiled water to wait for Li Mu to come back.

Seeing that he had indeed entered the yard in a dirt, Wei Yingluo made fun of him while washing his hair and taking a shower.

After Li Mu cleaned it up again, it was already dark.

Li Mu sent a table of food to him, just to treat Sun Fujia to dinner.

He originally planned to ask Manager Li Da what he had talked with Cui Yuzhe, but he thought that it had affected his appetite too much, so he wisely didn't speak up.

I thought to myself that this guy would definitely beg me anyway, and I'll just talk about it later.

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At night, the quarry finally became quiet. It is not advisable to quarry at night. The stones are too big and difficult to avoid and easily hit people.

From here to the grinding workshop at the foot of the mountain, they still had to work late at night, and the construction site was waiting for urgent use, so they had to work overtime. Some transported stones and some smashed stones.

Overtime pay is paid for overtime, so the workers are very happy. The workers alone cannot handle it. There are also nearby villagers who can earn some extra money as long as they have cars and livestock at home.

Lao Song and his son waited until this time before it was their turn to drive the ox cart forward.

At this time, there were managers from the quarry and asked them to show their red-headed signs.

That was what they received from the manager at the foot of the mountain when they came, and there was a unique number on it.

The manager took a torch, wrote down the number, then poked it on the top, handed it back to Lao Song, and sent him two meal tickets. This one can get steamed buns.

The manager shouted: "Six baskets!"

The civil servant carried the stones in the basket to the father-in-law's car, and then stopped after loading six baskets.

The old cow grunted, it was okay, I could resist it.

"Go away quickly, don't get in the way." The manager waved his hand and told them to leave quickly.

The two of them were careful to drive the cattle. It was difficult to walk at night, and they were afraid that the cattle would sprain their ankle. Now for their family, people could be injured, but the cattle would not work, otherwise the whole family would have no food to eat.

There was not much distance from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, but because it was dark, I walked for half an hour. Outside the workshop, the two of them unloaded the truck together, and they could also earn the wages.

If you run like this in one night, you can travel three to four times, and each wage is 150 cents. After all, the two of you can count it and be able to work as a laborer in Chang'an.

In Lantian County, this is definitely a high income.

When the rooster crows, this shift is over. I work three shifts every day, so I can’t be tired. The wages are higher at night, so many people like to come at night.

Moreover, in this evening, I can have a meal here. Just because of the meal tickets I gave last night, the factory has a large canteen. With two meal tickets, the father and son received a large bowl of brown rice, a pickled green fish, and a bowl of clear soup with egg flowers floating on it.

Lao Song's son moved the stone all night and was already hungry. He only took a half-salted fish and ripped a bowl and a half rice, and burped it all the time.

"It's so delicious!" The old man was so happy that he was bubbling. "Just rushing this salted fish, I have to pull stones every day."

"Look at your promising prospects, I think it's no different from a salted fish." Old Song smiled and glanced at him. However, this marquis is really rich and can pickle the fish so salty. Does his salt cost money?

Although Datang Salt Industry has started to make salt, the price is still very expensive. The salt used here was made by Li Mu himself. It took only one afternoon to get 300 kilograms. That's really not a big deal.

He was willing to give salt. Only with salt can the workers have the strength to work.

After dinner, the two of them drove out the ox cart, stopped on the roadside to order the cattle, lay on the cart board and sniffed for a while. After raising their energy, they got up and put on the ox cart and went home to do the work at home, and came back tonight, and repeated this.
Chapter completed!