Song Yang immediately asked the craftsmen to spread the method of distilling.
This simple distiller produces water very slowly, but it is easy to make.
One distiller can only be used by two people if it works for a day.
With 5,000 people in the camp, at least 2,500 stills are needed.
This way, there are fewer materials to make the still.
The various materials found in the entire camp can only be used to piece together 1,780 simple distillers.
After Wang Dabiao's 100 men came back carrying bamboos, they went outside without stopping to notify eight teams searching for supplies to search for pots and pans.
In the afternoon, the team returned with a lot of pots and pans and immediately got into the work of making distilled water.
For a moment, the entire camp was ablaze with the flames of the still pit.
"Your Majesty! This thing comes out of the water too slowly, so it can barely survive."
Fang Zhe's lips were dry and he only drank a bowl of water after returning.
Carrying things around in the ruins during the day has already consumed a lot of water.
The water bag on my body had been drunk long ago, and I thought I would replenish it when I came back.
As a result, Wang Dabiao led people to inform them to make pots and pans to make water...
"Just hold on for a while. Rivers and lakes are flowing, and groundwater is not static. It won't be long before our water source is restored."
Song Yang also had some dry mouth.
But he knew that this lack of water would not last long, as long as he persisted for a while.
"Tomorrow I will make a few simple filtering devices. Maybe within half a month, the water source problem will be solved."
After listening to Song Yang's words, both Fang Zhe and Yu Ming felt a little guilty.
"My subordinates are incompetent and have to trouble the prince with everything."
The two of them clasped their fists together and said.
"You have done a good job. If you hadn't sent back the two hundred and dozens of pots in time today, we would all be thirsty and smoking."
Song Yang patted the two of them on the shoulders and said with a smile.
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Early the next morning, Song Yang woke up thirsty.
As soon as I went out to look for water, I met Fang Zhe who was sitting there scratching his itch.
Mr. Fang woke up a long time ago, and was woken up by mosquitoes.
Fang Zhe said hello and brought a pot of cold water to Song Yang.
Fortunately, the people on duty last night distilled a lot of water.
Song Yang drank several swigs before the discomfort eased.
"The collection team won't go out today. They are making water at home."
When I go out to collect supplies, the amount of water consumed is simply staggering.
Now, except for the pots used for cooking, all other pots and pans in the camp are used to boil distilled water.
Of course, the cooking pot is not idle when not cooking...
Even so, there are only more than 2,300 simple distillers now.
Barely enough for everyone to hang on to.
Song Yang knew that this was not the solution, and he had to find some way to purify the water source.
While making distilled water in the morning, he had already asked people to gather wooden barrels for the purpose of settling well water.
This will make it faster to filter the water later.
Tried it myself.
Song Yang confirmed that there was just more turbidity in the well water.
The content of water-soluble salt-alkali substances is very low. As long as it is filtered through sedimentation, it can be boiled and drunk.
"Master Fang, prepare some cotton cloth or cotton clothes."
Song Yang ordered to go down.
Fang Zhe immediately went to find something.
There is actually no need for special instructions for clothes made of cotton.
The cotton output in the Daqian Dynasty was very high, and the clothes of the common people were basically made of cotton.
"Your Majesty, are these enough?"
"Uh. That's enough. There's no need for so much..."
Song Yang was speechless for a while, and Fang Zhe took his younger brother and brought over dozens of bundles of cotton cloth.
These are the materials they collected.
Cloth is a kind of hard currency in this era.
Song Yang pulled out a piece of cloth, roughly measured it, and made a cut with a dagger.
"Prick" tore off a strip of cloth about a foot long.
"Come! I'll teach you how to filter, and I'll go to the camp to promote it later.
First, pour the previously settled wooden barrel water into a clean wooden barrel.
The barrel is slightly elevated.
Then put an empty bucket next to it.
Twist the cloth strip and place one end in the bucket and the other end in the empty bucket.
Song Yang clapped his hands and smiled.
"Done, done!"
Looking at Song Yang's operation, Fang Zhe, Yu Ming, and Wang Dabiao were collectively stunned.
"Your Majesty... is this all over?"
"Yeah. Just wait." Song Yang smiled.
Wang Dabiao lay beside the empty bucket and looked left and right but couldn't see any water. He couldn't help but doubt his life.
He even went to smell the empty barrel.
"Oh!"
Wang Dabiao sneezed and scratched his head in embarrassment.
On the other side, Fang Zhe, as the most knowledgeable Chang Shi besides the prince, also lay beside the empty bucket and studied for a while.
The result is still unclear.
"Aren't you surprised?" Song Yang looked at Yu Ming.
"What the prince did must not be understood by ordinary people like us. I feel like I just have to wait!" Yu Ming said with a fist.
Song Yang gave him a thumbs up: "Well done!"
Ignoring Yu Ming, Song Yang squatted down and pointed at the cotton cloth near the end of the bucket, and said to Fang Zhe:
"Look here, the water is flowing into the empty bucket."
"Flowing to the empty barrel? Isn't this flowing upward?" Fang Zhe was stunned.
This section of the bucket does flow upward.
Or called upward penetration.
"Huh? It's true! The water in this section is upward!"
Wang Dabiao went over and looked carefully for a long time, and immediately shouted after discovering the problem.
"This... the water actually flows upward!"
"Yes! They say that when people go to higher places, water flows to lower places. Today, the prince can actually make the water flow upward!"
Song Yang looked at the three people making a fuss and smiled: "This is capillary phenomenon."
"And those stills, which use distillation methods."
"This is all science."
"Science..." The three of them didn't know why.
"Yes! Science. When we stabilize, I will teach you what science is."
It is also a common natural phenomenon for cloth strips to absorb water in water.
It's just that Fang Zhe is an official and Wang Dabiao is a top soldier, so they have never paid attention to this.
After a while, when the cotton strips are completely wet, water drops will begin to drip down slowly.
Although it is slow, it is indeed much clearer than the well water directly pumped up.
When Fang Zhe and Wang Dabiao were spinning around the capillary barrel.
Yu Ming on the side issued a soul torture:
"Um... I'm humble enough to interrupt. Why don't we just use cloth to filter the well water?"
Before Song Yang could speak, Wang Dabiao had already stood up and replied:
"Master Yu, I know this mark. The people tried it yesterday morning, and the filtered water was also very turbid, far worse than the prince's."
Song Yang looked at Yu Ming and said with a smile:
"You reminded me! After the well water has settled, filter it first. Then use this method. The water you get should be clearer and faster."
The textile technology of the Daqian Dynasty was really average, and the woven cotton cloth had larger pores.
This kind of cloth is not practical for filtering impurities in water. Stacking it two or three layers can only filter out large particles in the water.
But this method is also good as a pre-filtration process.
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.
One morning, half a bucket of water accumulated in the empty capillary bucket.
It is much slower than distillation. Fortunately, there is no need to light a fire, and wooden barrels can also be operated.
In this way, all the barrels in the camp are also used.
In the afternoon, the survivor camp had more than 600 capillary water filtration devices...
With these filtered water supplements.
The drinking water problem has finally been temporarily solved.