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Chapter 42 Cement

"Master, I thought about it... I thought it would be more appropriate to set a piece of land for you..." Old Ford surrendered after all.

No, it is okay to not agree. The cost of repurchasing flowers and plants from other parts of the empire is far more than the gold coins spent on purchasing food.

"Ah? No? I really don't need to transform it into a vegetable garden?" Bruno said with regret.

"It's really not necessary! The villain believes... your crop seeds will definitely... produce a thousand pounds per mu..." Old Ford said with tears.

At this point, he could only expect that these three new crops would be as magical as Bruno said.

"Okay..." Seeing that Old Ford cooperated so actively, Bruno had to obey his orders happily.

Seeing that Bruno finally felt relieved, Old Ford breathed a sigh of relief and left slowly.

While walking, he felt that Bruno behind him was still complaining: "If it were not changed to an air vegetable garden, how could it reflect my great character of loving the people as much as my son..."

Old Ford staggered and almost tripped himself.

Alas... my head hurts.

...

With the completion of the Sky Garden and the arrival of the novice gift package, the production of cement has been put on the agenda by Bruno.

After the construction of the sky garden was completed, the production team originally composed of serfs suddenly lost work.

It’s okay for the civilians and a small number of serfs who were later transferred from Idar City. After all, spring plowing is coming, and they were just taking advantage of their leisure time in winter to build wonders for their lords. They originally had rented farmland, but they just made a bite of food to eat.

However, the first group of serfs recruited became nothing to do for a moment.

They were originally transferred because the cape salt farm was reduced. Now that the sky garden has been built, Idal did not start new projects in a short period of time, these serfs naturally got idle.

Hundreds of serfs spent on food, drink, defecation and sensation every day, so Bruno naturally had to find some work for them as soon as possible.

During the Peace Year, a large project is actually beneficial even if it does not have the multiple bonuses and rewards provided by the system.

Because large-scale projects will inevitably cost a lot of money and recruit a lot of people, many people who were originally left to do will find new jobs to support themselves and even their families.

This is like the labor-for-relief that was common in the previous life, which not only solved employment, but also eliminated some of the instability factors in society.

At the same time, due to the relatively closed geographical location of Idar and the economic model of the more primitive aristocratic manor in this world, large-scale projects greatly promoted the circulation of copper plates and gold coins in Idar territory.

With more money in the hands of the people, they can obtain better living materials, let themselves eat and wear warmly, and enjoy better living conditions.

As the Earl of Idal, Bruno is also the largest noble (black) merchant in the Idal tribe.

Almost everything the people need can make Bruno more or less money.

Perhaps the black bakery on the street was not owned by Bruno, but the grains needed to make black bread were purchased from Bruno. Even if these grains were not purchased from Bruno, the land where these grains were grown belonged to Bruno.

Therefore, although the copper plates first entered the pockets of the civilians.

However, after going through different links, they will eventually return to Bruno's pocket.

Although it seems that the starting point and the end point are the same, after experiencing such circulation, the people can live better.

Bruno couldn't talk about this truth to Old Ford, who just wanted to save money for frugality, because even if Old Ford understood, officials of all sizes of Idal might not understand it.

Therefore, Bruno can only hope that the people of Idal will gradually learn to think in such subtle changes and re-understand the role of money.

Since the construction of the sky garden was completed and the new wonder could not be built immediately, Bruno naturally turned his attention to another place.

It's time for Idar's road to be well repaired!

As early as the long winter day, Bruno had wanted to do this, but he had been suffering from insufficient gold coins to support him and had to continue to delay.

But now, the Sky Garden, which has always occupied the largest expenditure of Idal, no longer needs nearly a thousand gold coins per month, which allows Bruno to finally put the rebuilding of the road on the agenda.

The arrival of cement production methods undoubtedly provided him with greater convenience, so Bruno planned to build a wave of cement roads in one step!

The method of making cement is actually not difficult, especially when there is guidance for a wonder construction system.

The only thing Bruno needs to worry about is the temperature of firing cement.

According to what is said on parchment, when burning paper cement, the temperature must be controlled at around 1,400 degrees, which is undoubtedly the biggest problem in the past.

However, this is a world with magic!

Anel's magic circle research provides possibilities for solving this problem.

Don't forget, Anel also knows fireball skills!

With experience in drawing suspended magic circles, Anel can be said to be easy to design new magic circles.

Although it will be different in some details, it is consistent in the general drawing ideas.

Sure enough, within a few days, Anel handed Bruno a satisfactory answer sheet.

After countless modifications, the first version of the heating array can successfully maintain the temperature during firing to around 1,400 degrees. This is the result of Anel's superimposing seven combustion arrays and three self-designed temperature control devices.

However, it is not enough to just burn the array. Bruno specially built three blast furnaces with newly burned red bricks to ensure sufficient cement production.

The production process of cement can generally be simply divided into two mills and one burner.

First, mix limestone, iron powder, sand and gravel and other materials in a certain proportion, and then grind them into powder.

Then the mixed powders are sent to a blast furnace and calcined at high temperature through heating arrays to produce cement clinker.

Finally, add a certain amount of slag or fly ash and a certain proportion of gypsum, mix and grind, and the cement is finished.

When cement is stirred with water and becomes a slurry, it can harden in air or harden in water, and can firmly glue sand, stone and other materials together.

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