Chapter 49 Briquettes

Su You still didn't know his name, but he had already flown to the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty and would appear at the emperor's desk soon, where he was planning the next lives of dozens of orphan children.

Early the next morning, Su You bought dozens of cooking cakes and headed to the Tutu Temple.

The girls cooked the porridge, Su You opened the pottery kiln and collected all the small fish into the basket.

Smoked and grilled overnight, this small fish is almost transparent and tastes so fragrant.

Su You took out a can of stinky tofu and said, "Put this on pancakes and eat porridge with dried fish. It's definitely delicious."

The children all ate happily, and the leader was changed from Brother Zhang to Master Su. At least the food was as good as heaven and earth.

On the beach near the water's edge, wooden frames have been set up, and the ropes are connected to the wooden rafters.

After dinner, Su You asked the boys to come to the water's edge with wooden shovels, first dig out a layer of wet sand near the water's edge, and said to them: "Everyone, please pay attention, there is a layer of mud here. Below the mud layer,

There is a thin layer of black sand between it and the next layer of sand."

After speaking, he pushed aside the mud layer, and sure enough, a layer of black sand was exposed.

Su You shoveled up the black sand and put it into a wooden bucket, asked a boy to water it, and then gently stirred the wooden bucket: "Look, everyone, the sediment is light, you can gently stir it out, and the remaining black sand will be absorbed."

Pile it to the end of the dustpan, do this several times, and when it is washed until only black sand is left, you can collect it, do you understand?"

The third child asked: "Young master, what is this black sand?"

Su You said: "This black sand will be our food from now on. It is concentrated iron ore, and it is naturally selected and washed concentrated iron ore. The shopkeeper of Shijia Iron Shop in the city is my apprentice. This iron sand will be our food from now on."

Just sell it to him, not to the government."

Shanshao asked: "Is there any difference?"

Su You smiled and said: "The difference is big. Sell it to the government for thirty cents per catty, and sell it to Shijia Iron Shop for two hundred cents per catty."

Shuan Shuan was surprised and said: "Is there such a big difference? Isn't the government too dark?"

Su You shook his head: "The imperial court did not strictly control the quality of pig iron and did not determine the grade. There were too many loopholes. However, there are policies and countermeasures. If the imperial court wants to collect our iron sand, we have to take good iron.

The sand went to Shijia's blacksmith shop to exchange for the iron sand, and then gave the iron sand to the court, and it was just a one-time transfer, and nothing was lost."

"By the way, if we want to exchange the 200 fen per catty of iron sand for the Shijia Blacksmith's poor iron sand, how many kilos can we exchange for it?"

A group of children calculated for a while and shook their heads. Only the bad boy said: "It should be less than seven pounds."

Su You threw the wooden hammer away and said, "Brother Shuan, take half of the people and continue working. Zaoba can do arithmetic. Take a team of people to Chengli's grocery store to pull things. I will give you a list of the things later, and then

Come with a group of people and follow me to mix the coal powder."

The mud pool in front of the Tutu Temple had been settling all night. Su You scraped up the mud on the surface and put it into a large tank. He said to everyone: "Every morning from now on, everyone must collect the fine mud that has settled and put it away. There will be other things in the future."

Used."

Take out the rough yellow mud at the bottom and mix it with pulverized coal, basically one to one ratio. Then add some plant ash as a desulfurizer and stir evenly. Su You took yesterday's bamboo tube and put it on the ground. Let Xiao Qi fill it in and mix it up.

of cinders, then smashed them with pebbles a few times, covered them with the small pottery cakes baked yesterday, and inserted bamboo sticks into the holes. It was found that the coals were smashed too tightly and could not be inserted.

Xiao Qi asked: "Young master, what do you want to do? Tell us and we can come up with ideas together."

Su You said: "That's right, I want to use the cavity of the bamboo tube to make a coal pillar. There will be a small hole in the middle of the coal pillar going straight to the bottom, just in line with the holes on the small pottery plates I made yesterday."

Su Xiaomei said on the side: "I have a way. Brother Xiaoyou, just shorten the bamboo stick so that it is a little higher than the bamboo tube, but not higher than the height of the pottery plate!"

Su You cut the stick according to the method Su Xiaomei said, and started over. First, he put the slime into the bamboo tube, then inserted the stick according to the approximate position, then put a handful of slime on it, and then used the holes of the pottery plate to align each

Cover the hole of a bamboo stick with grass, use a wooden stick to knock down the plate and fit it into the bamboo tube, then remove the cover, take out the bamboo tube, carefully pull out the bamboo stick, and a black coal pillar will stand there.

Su You stood up and laughed: "My little sister is so smart! The briquettes were successful!"

This is the 2.0 version. Next, continue to upgrade. First put a clay plate with eyes on the bottom, insert the bamboo sticks and put it on the bamboo tube, then fill it with coal slime, then make it into briquettes according to Su Xiaomei's method, and then take away the upper part

, turn the bamboo tube over, and then remove the clay plate, bamboo tube, and bamboo sticks. The honeycomb briquettes obtained in this way have clear and regular holes.

After the production process was finalized, Su You handed over the method to Xiao Qi and asked him to lead someone to make honeycomb briquettes.

I have one more thing to do.

Many of the small bamboos that were baked next to the stove yesterday were ready for use. Su You collected some and cut them into bamboo strips. Then he cut off half-inch-long sections from both ends of the knots, making one side longer and the other shorter, and then trimmed them carefully.

The tip of the bamboo stick should be scraped and smoothed. Dig out the bamboo flesh on the long side of the knot, making it thinner and thinner. While digging, try to bend the small bamboo stick until you can just bend the bamboo stick until the two tips meet.

Just reach out and it will bounce back straight.

Gou Sheng looked at the knife in Su You's hand and was very envious: "Young Master, how about I do it?"

Su You was very generous and handed the knife to him: "Okay, be careful not to cut your hands."

Six groups of people, including Su You's fifty-four people, excluding a few girls, all of them were put to work.

Zaowa led a group to pull things into the city, Gou Sheng made bamboo sticks, Xiaoqi led a group to make briquettes, Shanshuo and Laosan led two groups to scouring iron sand, the remaining group chopped bamboo, and the other group carried mud.

Su You told them that if there was a termite nest or something, it must be good mud, so just lift it up.

There were a few girls left, and Su You didn't let them idle. He sorted out a long hemp rope, and then tied it with thin hemp rope at regular intervals.

Su You taught them how to tie eight characters on the rope and tie it to the hemp rope so that it would become tighter and tighter without loosening.

After the arrangement was completed, Su You went to a red-mouthed taro field near the city to dig out the red-mouthed taro and put it on the fire to roast.

By the time the red-mouthed yams were roasted, Zaowa's team had already rolled over.

There was an adult in the middle, who turned out to be the butcher's shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper of the butcher shop was stunned when he saw Su You: "My young master Su, why did you come here to suffer this crime? Your story has spread around the city. After my wife heard about it, she asked me to choose one.

The deputy came over and said, young master, you can take care of things, so let’s get some for the children."

"I don't dare to say anything else from now on. Every seven days, I send a pair of pig offal. God Amitabha, this is really an evil act..."

Su You was secretly amused when he heard this. Do you, the butcher, still believe in Buddhism?

He smiled and said: "Thank you very much, uncle. Friends, what should you say to uncle?"

While the children were working, they raised their heads and said thank you to the shopkeeper.

On the contrary, the shopkeeper turned red with embarrassment and said: "What the hell, you look like you're not worth the money. I don't need to thank you. I don't need to thank you. I have something to do and I have to leave first..."

Su You said: "Uncle, wait a minute, I have something to tell you. How is the sales of your chicken blood soup?"

The shopkeeper smiled happily: "Thanks to the young master, the sales are good! There are also people who are sick in the family and come here to buy them. They say that the little daughter-in-law of the Cheng family is greasy after being sick. After eating pig blood soup, not only does it not hurt her, her illness is fine.

Already?"

Su You said: "This thing cannot cure diseases, but it is a good thing to nourish after illness. Since it sells well, let me tell you one more thing."

After saying that, the bamboo branch drew the shape of a pig on the ground: "Look, this is a big pig. Bind the four hooves and bring it down. Take a sharp knife from here, below the side of the neck, and prick the blood veins. You can collect the pig blood in a big basin.

, use the method I taught you, cut it into squares after solidification, add cold water and heat over low heat, and tighten it into blood bricks, it is another business. This is much larger than the amount of chicken blood."

The shopkeeper said: "Really? Then the relationship is better!"

Su You smiled and said: "There is another benefit. After draining the blood, the quality of the pork will be improved. It will be more delicious without the fishy mutton, and the color of the meat will be better. The meat products in your shop will probably be more popular."

The shopkeeper was so happy that he bowed deeply to Su You: "Thank you very much, young master. My little shop has received so much favor from you."
Chapter completed!