Chapter 66 The semen female partner chooses to farm (16)
After an in-depth exchange last night, Yan Kejin discovered that her princess actually had a lot of interesting content hidden in her head.
The premise is not to annoy her.
"After I've been busy for a while, I'll walk around with you. Don't you want to go to the south? How about Yong County as your first stop?"
Yong County is Nanning, Xu Yin knows this.
She turned to look at him: "Aren't you busy?"
Isn't the hematite mine being mined in full swing? Doesn't such an important matter require him not to keep an eye on it personally?
"So after this busy period, the princess will wait for me, right?" Yan Kejin put a piece of wine-stewed fish into her bowl and met her eyes with a smile.
Xu Yin lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly: "Actually, I'm quite busy during this period, at least I won't be free until the spring plowing is over."
"Then we'll leave in early April."
As a result, we were unable to make it in early April.
While digging for iron ore, associated limestone deposits were discovered.
When Yan Kejin came back from the mine that day and had dinner with her, he couldn't help but sigh: "It would be great if it were all ocher. It would be a waste of a small hill."
Unfortunately, the amount of food that night was half less than usual.
When Xu Yin heard about the green and white stone that was easily broken, she thought: Could it be limestone?
Limestone is one of the associated minerals of iron ore.
So the next day, she followed the prince's carriage to the mine, and was happy when she recognized it as limestone.
This is good stuff!
Limestone can be made into cement, and the calcined lime becomes slaked lime after slaking.
Hydrated lime has a wide range of uses. The most common ones are building materials. It can also be used as a fungicide. Applying hydrated lime slurry on tree trunks can prevent insects.
She spent 500 points without hesitation and exchanged a cement prescription with the system.
To make cement, in addition to limestone, raw materials such as clay, quartz sand and iron ore powder are also used.
Clay is relatively easy to find.
However, the quality of the clay varied. Xu Yin mobilized his guards to dig clay at the river bank and at the foot of the hillside, and unexpectedly discovered a mountain made of kaolin.
Kaolin is white clay, which is the most widely used clay and has the best quality after being fired into porcelain.
The famous JDZ porcelain is made of kaolin.
Limestone is available, kaolin is found, and iron ore powder is readily available, so why not make cement?
It doesn't matter if you lack quartz sand. The sea is right in front of you. If it's a big deal, just use the gravel after surfing. It's available everywhere. It's also composed of silica, so it can be used.
The raw materials are readily available, so I put the shipbuilding aside for now, and Xu Yin worked hard with cement in the tidied back garden.
I didn't get the proportions right the first time, and the cement I made was not hard enough, and it collapsed when a heavy object was pressed on it.
The second hardening was too much and it cracked.
The third time I summarized the experience of the first two times and finally succeeded!
Xu Yin poured a certain cobblestone path in the back garden into a cement road.
When the cement hardened successfully the next day, she happily touched her palm and said, "Please come, Your Majesty!"
Yan Kejin often stays at the mine recently.
After the first batch of iron was smelted, it was forged and processed by the blacksmith who signed the death contract.
Some of them were beaten into sheets of iron to make farm tools, and some of them were hammered and hammered to forge a batch of weapons. The iron was cut like clay, and they were considered superior.
He is staying at home today, and Xu Yin can't wait to share the good news about cement with him.
As soon as Yan Kejin arrived, she was led to the concrete road by her princess, her expression full of embarrassment:
"What? I said limestone is useful, right? You still think it takes up the iron ore's nest. Use it to build roads. Can you believe that the carriage will not bump over when running?"
Building roads is the first step, and she also wants to use it to develop Nanman's real estate industry.
With kaolin, building a kiln and firing bricks and tiles is no longer a dream.
These new workshops need to recruit people. People can make money if they work. With the money they earn, they can buy bricks and tiles. By then, every household will live in brick and tile houses, which are much stronger than wooden structures, bamboo structures or adobe houses.
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There are many earthquakes in the southwest area.
Although people in this era thought that the earth dragon turning over was a punishment from heaven, and superstitiously believed that God was punishing them and there was no way to escape. But in the final analysis, it is a natural phenomenon. If you can resist it, why not work hard?
The further Xu Yin thought, the more ambitious and ambitious she became.
Yan Kejin really didn't expect that a shovel could cut off countless pieces of limestone, and the cement made into it would be so strong and hard.
The princess said that in addition to limestone, the materials used are clay, gravel, iron ore powder, and slag that can be found everywhere in Nanman. The cost is so low that it is negligible, and road construction is indeed feasible.
"Then start from Fucheng and build the roads leading to the counties with cement. When all Nanman counties are connected to cement roads, we will then build a wide road that can run horse-drawn carriages on the mountain road connecting the Central Plains. The official road cannot be built here.
, let’s fix it ourselves!”
Yan Kejin was so happy that the dinner was placed on the concrete path in the back garden, and lanterns were lit when it got dark.
He also asked the butler to bring him the jar of plum blossom wine brewed by Chuxue, saying that he wanted to celebrate with the princess.
Although Xu Yin was speechless, she still smiled and agreed.
In the dim twilight, the couple sipped wine and tasted delicacies, looking forward to a bright future where concrete roads would lead to every corner of Nanman.
Xu Yin doesn't drink much, but she can get completely drunk after a glass of red wine, let alone plum blossom wine, which has a higher alcohol content than red wine.
Before the table was set down, the stamina of the wine came back. She cupped her cheeks and pouted her moist red lips, asking Yan Kejin when he would take her on a tour around Nanman.
"I want to explore every county in the Southern Barbarians. If you don't take me there, then I will go by myself."
"Go! Once the king has arranged the matters at hand, he will accompany the princess!"
"I want to go to the beach, collect shells, eat seafood, and walk barefoot on the beach..."
"……good."
Although I don’t understand what’s so fun about walking barefoot on the beach.
"I also want to take a boat out to sea and catch a lot of seafood..."
"good."
"I still want to..."
"These will all come true. Now, it's time to think about this king."
He picked up his beloved wife and strode back to the room.
Fortunately, after the house was completely renovated, a common bedroom was set up for the couple, so wouldn't that be useful.
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After King Jinnan settled the affairs at hand and wanted to take the princess on a trip, Xu Yin said that he had to wait a little longer.
There are no official roads in the southern barbarians. The roads in each county were built by the government through corvee collection. The main counties and counties do have roads. They are smoother when there are more people walking on them. However, most of the roads are narrow paths.
The kind where the carriage cannot run.
Since there is cement now, Xu Yin is not in a hurry to go out. She can wait until the cement road from Fucheng to Yong County is opened before going.
Before the Dragon Boat Festival, she wanted to make a compass.
There is indeed magnetite under the hematite, and the reserves are not large, but it is more than enough to make a batch of compasses.
With the magnet, Xu Yin couldn't help but think of the entire solar motor.
Nanman's water system is developed, and with electric motors, hydroelectric power can be easily achieved.
When electricity comes on, mining machines and road rollers will make industrial production more convenient, as well as spinning machines and looms that will improve people's livelihood. Weaving machines will no longer be just a dream.
Thinking about it, she became happy and felt a little drifting!