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Shi Qinjie stood in the newly built wood processing factory next to the Coconut Tree Creek Reservoir in the east of the city, carefully observing the factory operated by some technicians who rely on local support. In the factory, most of the technicians are local outsiders, and a small number are recruited from local Irish immigrants. As for ordinary workers, they are eight banner slaves or Malay slaves.

The wood processing factory is divided into two parts: the processing workshop and the drying workshop. Currently, only a temporary drying earth kiln is built in the drying workshop, which is about three meters high. It uses the smoke drying method that has been eliminated in the east coast. That is, the wood is stacked on one piece, and then burned on the bottom of the pile with a low fire, and the wood is dried by the heat of the combustion. This method not only has a slow drying speed and is not evenly drying, but also can easily cause fires and have a large environmental pollution.

At present, this "backward" technology has been eliminated in the local area, and replaced by a more advanced tunnel smoke drying method. That is, many rectangular brick flue are set up around the inner side of the drying kiln wall, and holes are covered with holes. During production, fuel is placed in the flue to burn, and then the wood is dried by burning smoke. It can be seen that this method of drying wood has no essential difference from the former. Its advantage is that the timber pile is completely separated from the open flame, and the wood is heated and dried by heating the wet air in the kiln as a medium, which greatly reduces the possibility of a fire.

However, when Xinhuaburg was on this project, new local technicians proposed to Shi Qinjie to use brick kiln waste heat to dry wood. They believed that the New Huaxia area lacked coal and the weather was humid and hot, so it was troublesome to collect dry firewood and grass fuel. In addition, traditional drying kilns require a large amount of feeding and furnace stewards, so it is not very suitable for the New Huaxia area where labor is lacking.

The production capacity of small earth kilns used outside Xinhuabao City is relatively limited. After several months of erosion in the rainy season, the kilns made of clay have been damaged. With various factors interweaving, Shi Qinjie is preparing to start construction of a large-scale brick-making wheel kiln at the end of the rainy season in April to solve the above problems once and for all.

This wheel kiln is similar to the early built wheel kilns in the local area. If it is produced normally, it will not be a problem to produce more than 15 million standard bricks per year (there are three wheel kilns in the local area, each with an annual output of 36 million standard bricks, and more than 2,000 workers, including slave workers). However, with such a large production capacity, the number of workers required is definitely not small. Pei Suoning, who was in charge of the construction of the brick kiln factory, told him bluntly that it may take about four or five hundred people. Because the skilled workers required to make bricks every day is a massive number, at this time, Shi Qinjie really missed the automatic brick making machines in the 21st century. It is said that the local area is already studying such machinery, but it is not urgent. It seems that Xinhuabao still needs a lot of manpower to make bricks by hand.

If the new wheel kiln is calculated according to the local data parameters, it can generate about 6,000-8,000 cubic meters of waste flue gas every hour, with a temperature of about 80-100 degrees. The ignition point of wood is 250-300c, which can be used to dry wood. According to estimates, such waste heat flow is more than enough to dry two kilns with a capacity of fifty or sixty cubic meters (meaning wood capacity). According to the average six days to dry a batch of wood, there is no problem in drying more than 5,000-6,000 cubic meters of wood every year. So much wood is enough to build several battleships, not to mention the main commercial ship manufacturing here in the future. Perhaps, the New China Colony can also export a certain amount of shipbuilding wood to China in the future.

Of course, the naval department is more picky. Those stubborn guys currently only accept wood dried with special means to make warship hulls, and refuse to use any drying kilns to quickly dry wood, because the quality of the dried wood is unreliable. Therefore, in the future, the wood exported to the domestic country can only build merchant ships and fishing boats for the two local shipyards. If it really doesn't work, it can also be used for local wood processing plants to make carriages, tools, furniture, butt stocks and other components.

Shi Qinjie just thought about this suggestion after a little thought and then agreed. There was no way, Xinhuaxia is not like the local Ping'an coal mines that are continuously supplied by the coal. For example, burning bricks can only allow slaves to collect firewood and dry them and then burn them. The only coal transported from the local area is also used by lime kilns and cement kilns to burn lime and cement. It can be said that if you want to develop any high-energy-consuming industry in Xinhuaxia, you will not get Shi Qinjie's permission unless necessary. Therefore, the technicians proposed to use waste heat discharged from the brick kiln factory to dry wood. It was really his appetite. It was nothing more, mainly because it saved a lot of fuel.

Although it is inconvenient to construction during the rainy season, the wood processing factory still uses some rare sunny weather in the rainy season to build many wooden awnings on the already flat land. Under the rainy awning, many Eight Banners slaves are building factories. Recently, because the repair of the city walls takes up a large amount of bricks, the wood processing factory has very few quotas, which is about less than 2,000 yuan a day, so the progress has been unfast. For this reason, the head of the factory took advantage of Shi Qinjie's visit to inspect and began to sigh bitterly, complaining about the insufficient building materials, and it is difficult for him to complete the task on time, etc.

Shi Qinjie knew very well about the complaints from the factory manager. If they failed to complete the task, they would be assessed by themselves. At this time, complaining to him was considered as giving a vaccination in advance. Shi Qinjie also laughed at the matter and exposed it. After all, it is really no wonder that this matter is.

However, when it comes to the lack of red bricks, it is indeed a major issue restricting the development of Xinhua Castle today. According to the output of the existing small earth kiln (annual output of 3.5 million yuan), this brick is really not enough. Not to mention anything else, this city wall repair is a super big consuming bricks. Shi Qinjie calculated that if the city wall being built is not mixed with a large amount of stones and is all built with existing large city wall special bricks (four times the size of standard bricks), each meter of the city wall would consume about 2,600 bricks. This consumption is amazing. You should know that the local bricks produced each year are nearly 110 million, but they are still not enough to use. So, the walls of several newly built settlements in the past two years have either not been completed or built small castles of only a few hundred meters. However, it is still a case of a large amount of stones and wood being mixed.

Therefore, instead of building bricks from the local area (each transports 200,000 standard bricks), the construction of Xinhua Fort is better based on its own efforts to burn bricks locally. The construction of River Fort in South Africa was a good example. Mo Ming and Liu Ang used the bricks transported from the local area to set up several small earth kilns, and then drove a large number of indigenous people to quarre off. At this beginning, it was just a very small castle. Later, after the building materials were surplus, it was expanded several times before it became what it is today.

"It's such a headache." Shi Qinjie was also a little anxious. Who made the automatic brick making machine yet? If the slaves here were asked to make bricks by hand, even if they were allowed to work 14 hours a day, then one person could make one or two hundred bricks a day, not to mention that the clumsy slaves at the beginning were probably not able to achieve such high labor efficiency. Moreover, the capacity of the current small earth kiln is also limited, and it can burn more than 30,000 bricks at a time, which takes three days to burn them once. The annual output is only 30,000 yuan a year, and it is not enough to fill the gaps.

"It seems that the last wheel kiln is going to be done quickly." Shi Qinjie thought to himself, "Well, the construction will start as soon as the rainy season ends. All the bricks burned in the next period must be stored, and a batch of refractory bricks transported this time must be kept. The initial plan to produce 15 million standard bricks per year seems to be a little conservative. It is best to be in line with the local ones, with an annual output of 30 to 40 million yuan, so that I will have a bottom line. Next, I will repair the city walls, houses, docks, water conservancy irrigation facilities, turrets and even factories. I will not use a large amount of building materials. I am so worried that I am so worried that I don't know how the local bullies in European countries build strongholds every time they arrive in a colony. Did they build thatched huts and wooden houses first like those natives, and then deal with them for a year or two? Or would they drive the local slaves to open mountains and quarry to build houses?"

After seeing the drying workshop, Shi Qinjie walked to the processing workshop next door. There was no good news here. Some carpenters from the local area, with a group of newly recruited apprentices in the local area, were processing logs. After the logs were harvested from the log camp in the upper mountain, they removed the branches and leaves on the spot. The remaining logs were then pulled by the slaves along the river to the processing workshop, and then placed neatly under the awning on the side, waiting for the carpenters in the workshop to moisturize, anti-corrode and insecticide treatment.

Along the banks of the reservoir river, several simple wooden hydraulic saw machines, hydraulic woodworking lathes and other things have been installed in the workshop, which are all tools that carpenters need to process wood in the future. Unfortunately, the most advanced steam saw machines and steam woodworking lathes are still absolutely prohibited from flowing into any overseas colonies at this stage, and it is not easy for anyone to say hello. Therefore, these carpenters who came from the local area can only continue to use the "backward" equipment they had used for many years to process wood.

After seeing the wood processing factory, Shi Qinjie gave a little advice, and then walked towards the city office surrounded by guards with an umbrella. After seeing the drying workshop, Shi Qinjie walked to the processing workshop next door. There was no good news here. Some carpenters from the local area, with a group of newly recruited apprentices in the local area, were processing logs. After the logs were harvested from the log camp in the upper mountain, they took branches and leaves to peel them on the spot. The remaining logs were then pulled by the slaves along the river to the processing workshop, and then neatly stacked under the awning on the side, waiting for the carpenters in the workshop to moisturize, anti-corrode and insecticide treatment.

Along the banks of the reservoir river, several simple wooden hydraulic saw machines, hydraulic woodworking lathes and other things have been installed in the workshop. These are the tools that carpenters need to process wood in the future. Unfortunately, the most advanced steam saw machines and steam woodworking lathes are still absolutely prohibited from flowing into any overseas colonies at this stage, and it is not easy for anyone to say hello. After seeing the wood processing factory, Shi Qinjie gave a little advice, and then walked towards the city office with an umbrella surrounded by guards.

After seeing the drying workshop, Shi Qinjie walked to the processing workshop next door. There was no good news here. Some carpenters from the local area, with a group of newly recruited apprentices in the local area, were processing logs. After the logs were harvested from the log camp in the upper mountain, they removed the branches and leaves on the spot. The remaining logs were then pulled by the slaves along the river to the processing workshop, and then placed neatly under the awning on the side, waiting for the carpenters in the workshop to moisturize, anti-corrode and insecticide treatment.

Along the banks of the reservoir river, several simple wooden hydraulic saw machines, hydraulic woodworking lathes and other things have been installed in the workshop, which are all tools that carpenters need to process wood in the future. Unfortunately, the most advanced steam saw machines and steam woodworking lathes are still absolutely prohibited from flowing into any overseas colonies at this stage, and it is not easy for anyone to say hello. Therefore, these carpenters who came from the local area can only continue to use the "backward" equipment they had used for many years to process wood.

After seeing the wood processing factory, Shi Qinjie gave a little advice, and then walked towards the city office surrounded by guards with an umbrella. After seeing the drying workshop, Shi Qinjie walked to the processing workshop next door. There was no good news here. Some carpenters from the local area, with a group of newly recruited apprentices in the local area, were processing logs. After the logs were harvested from the log camp in the upper mountain, they took branches and leaves to peel them on the spot. The remaining logs were then pulled by the slaves along the river to the processing workshop, and then neatly stacked under the awning on the side, waiting for the carpenters in the workshop to moisturize, anti-corrode and insecticide treatment.

Along the banks of the reservoir river, several simple wooden hydraulic saw machines, hydraulic woodworking lathes and other things have been installed in the workshop, which are all tools that carpenters need to process wood in the future. Unfortunately, the most advanced steam saw machines and steam woodworking lathes are still absolutely prohibited from flowing into any overseas colonies at this stage, and it is not easy for anyone to say hello. Therefore, these carpenters who came from the local area can only continue to use the "backward" equipment they had used for many years to process wood.
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