The next day, Li Yuanba brought his Xiannu to the street. According to the arrangement of the butler Li Fu, they came to the east of the city, looked at three courtyards, and finally booked a large mansion built by the city wall.

This place was originally a temple, but unfortunately, after years of war, there was no incense, so it was destroyed and was assigned to the Li Mansion.

Looking at the weeds all over the garden, Li Yuanba knew that this was the only way to go now. After all, the support provided by his family was limited.

As the third young master, I am underage, and I am not as good as Li Jiancheng, and my precocious second brother Li Shimin.

The reason why I was able to get this yard was for the sake of soap. My mother who really loved me was not easy to use the property at home to make me mess around.

What this workshop requires is confidentiality, safety and efficiency. There is nothing in this broken yard, but you have to spend a lot of money to clean it up.

Li Yuanba didn't have time to think about these things now, he said to Xiannu:

"You go and recruit people, first recruit 10 people, and eat and live here. Then take them to clean up the place."

He handed over the money bag that Liu Nier gave him yesterday to Xiannu, and then said:

"Go quickly, I'm waiting for you here."

As soon as Xiannu left, Liu Nier came over. She brought the maid but was wearing men's clothes, which was very enjoyable.

She was very satisfied with the location here, but she was extremely despised by the environment here and said:

"You are not going to bang me, how do you produce soap here? That thing needs to be sold to wealthy families, so it can't be dirty."

Li Yuanba knew that she would have this reaction and told her next plan:

"I plan to get some bricks, lay the floor, and then build four brick houses, a dormitory, a kitchen, a workshop and a warehouse."

"For brick houses, they are not only firm but also clean and moisture-proof after applying lime."

“The sanitation is also much better than muddy ground.”

Liu Nier looked at Li Yuanba in amazement and said:

"You said that bricks are laid on the floor? The palace dare not be so luxurious, right? The palace is laid on the main hall, main hall, bedroom and other places at most, and most of them are hard land."

"What?"

"You can just set up a kiln to burn a few tens of thousands of yuan. Why are you so poor?"

When Liu Nier saw that Li Sanlang didn't know anything, she explained to him the method of firing bricks at the end of the Sui Dynasty, which was extremely cumbersome.

First, you have to choose the good yellow mud, then you have to find someone to make the embryo, then fire it, and then water it and cool it down.

The whole set cannot be made without 1-2 months, so most people cannot afford the blue bricks because they are expensive and are mostly made by official buildings and rarely circulate on the market.

Li Yuanba felt embarrassed in front of the ancients, and he didn't know that he couldn't even sell a brick, and it was so cumbersome.

But the red brick should be easy, and he hurriedly said:

"Then the red bricks should be easy. Let's try it out after looking for a brick kiln. I remember a prescription that can be burned out in ten days and half a month, and the cost is also very low."

Liu Nier looked at him in surprise and asked incredible:

"Do you know that because of the construction of Jinyang Palace, several brick burners in Taiyuan were requisitioned to the construction site. The biggest headache now is that the firing time is too long, and I'm afraid it won't be able to get through the construction period. If you really have this prescription, you should send it to Shimin Erlang as soon as possible."

It turned out that Li Shimin was responsible for the burning of bricks in Jinyang Palace. Since it was urgently needed, the burning method of the red bricks should be useful.

When the slave brought people back, he asked him to start cleaning the yard with the workers. Li Yuanba followed Liu Nier to the brick kiln factory.

It just so happened that Li Shimin was in the kiln factory. He is now in charge of this, and he is also in a panic.

If you have no shortage of tolerance and no shortage of materials, you just lack time.

The traditional fired blue bricks are extremely cumbersome and require manual intervention during the firing process and continuous watering can make them form blue bricks.

Once you don't master it well, there will be miscellaneous colors.

When Li Shimin heard Li Yuanba say that there is a prescription to quickly produce red bricks, he asked in confusion:

"I wonder what the quality of the red bricks you made with Saburo's prescription?"

Li Yuanba recalled and said:

"It should be very hard, there is no need to be much worse in the blue bricks."

When a group of frowning masters around Li Shimin heard this, they all jumped up and said in a lingering manner:

"It's true? I've never heard of this kind of prescription!"

"Sanlang, tell me quickly, we are all anxious!"

"That's right, if we can't make up 200,000 bricks, we will be in a position to take advantage of it!"

Li Shimin told everyone not to hurry, and he said:

"Sanlang, tell me the prescription and give it to the masters. If there is no problem, then the mission of Jinyang Palace will be completed and I will cover your workshop with bricks."

"Oh, the recipe is simple, just like the soil material like blue bricks, but you need to use a sieve to sieve the soil material first to remove impurities.

Then add coal ash to the soil and mix evenly as much as possible.

Then water the material and let the bricks soak in the water for eight hours."

A brick burner asked:

"The other steps are understood. I don't know what Saburo said is a sieve? What is coal ash?"

Li Yuanba had no choice but to patiently draw a sieve on the ground, and then was despised by everyone. It turned out that it was the leaking dustpan they often used to filter stones.

Fly ash is even simpler. Black stones can be burned, but they are charcoal crushed.

Li Yuanba ran through ten thousand grass and mud horses in his heart. Alas, the ancients were really troublesome!

He continued:

"Then you fire as usual, light the fire once, heat the blower, and then stop after a day and one night, do not water it, and wait until it cools naturally and then you can get the bricks out."

Li Shimin thought to himself and asked:

"How much can the brick yield rate be? The blue bricks are only two or three."

"That must be much higher. The brick production rate depends on the effect of embryo making, but it is generally at least 80%."

80%!

If the quality is acceptable, then this time and brick yield rate will definitely be able to complete the task of Jinyang Palace.

Li Shimin was a little excited, grabbed Li Yuanba's shoulders with both hands and said excitedly:

"Sanlang! You have helped me a lot!"

Li Yuanba nodded and said:

"Second brother, just don't forget the bricks on my side. Hey, by the way, you burn the lime too, right?"

"Burn! But that one is easy to work with, but it's useless, so I didn't do much."

Li Yuanba felt relieved and said:

"Then please help me with some burning, and then when the red bricks are ready, I will be of great use."

Liu Nier asked strangely:

"Why do you, a wealthy man, want lime? You are not learning to spread lime in the world, right?"

"Of course not. Do my current martial arts require these moves? I also know a recipe that can quickly glue bricks together, and it can be stronger than rocks after a night."

"Brave!"

"If you don't believe it, let's go and see!"
Chapter completed!