Chapter 223 Shortage of manpower

  The corners of Li Yi's mouth twitched. This elder brother, who knew how to prevent the collapse and how to prevent the poisonous gas from hurting people, just waited until the excavation was confirmed before speaking out. Those Di people who died before were really wronged.

  Feng Tubie stated that he was not responsible for this matter.

  If so many people hadn't died, he wouldn't have thought of these measures!

  He is not a coal boss.

   Besides, so many people died, he felt very distressed.

   With such a shortage of labor, can you not feel distressed?

   But still the same sentence, civil engineering, how can there be immortals?

  The technology of future generations is so advanced, isn’t there still a mining accident every year?

  Thinking of this, Feng Yong turned his head and said to Li Yi: "Wenxuan, is there any news from Erlang? This manpower is not enough!"

  More than 500 Di people were captured, the brick kiln collapsed and killed dozens, and the coal digging collapsed, and another hundred died. Now there are less than 400 people left, which is indeed not enough.

   "Brother, last time I only said that General Ma was going to go out, but he didn't mention where he was going. So far, there is still no news. Little brother, it doesn't take many people to dig this coal. How can it not be enough?"

   "It's right not to mention where you're going. The march needs to be kept secret, and if you don't keep it secret, you will lose."

  Feng Yong nodded and continued to explain to Li Yi, "It doesn't take many people to dig the coal, but to dig it up, wash it, burn it, and stir it, it takes a lot of hands."

"wash?"

  Li Yi was a little puzzled, "Wash the charcoal? How to wash it? Can't the charcoal be burned directly? Why do you need to wash it?"

   "Of course the charcoal can be burned directly, but it is not easy to burn. If you mix it with water first, you can separate the useless impurities in it, and you will get better charcoal. This kind of charcoal will be easy to use when it is fired."

   Coal washing, the sunset industry of later generations, the main operation method of Xiaohei Coal Mine, you can know the process of how to do it at a glance.

   All you need is strength, and you can do the rest without thinking, just like playing with mud.

  The impurities washed out are mostly coal gangue. This thing is used in later generations to burn bricks and fill roads. It is very common and can be regarded as waste utilization.

   But it also has a very important use, which is to make clinker-free cement.

  In the illegal small black coal mines in later generations, many houses in the mines were built by burning bricks and making cement by themselves.

  Coal gangue can be used to make bricks, and the quality is better than that of clay.

   Burnt coal gangue is ground into powder and mixed with lime and gypsum in a certain proportion to obtain a stuff called clinker-free cement.

  It can be called cement, but its strength is very low. It can only be used to lay bricks and make adhesives, and cannot be used as concrete for high-rise buildings.

  The so-called bean curd project, in addition to using bamboo bars instead of steel bars in the project, it is also possible that this kind of cement was used.

  No way, it’s cheap!

  Which small black coal mine has not produced this kind of cement?

   Otherwise, why is he called the black-hearted boss of the black coal mine?

  This kind of cement, in the eyes of later generations, is scum, and should not exist in the world.

  Coal gangue, in terms of making cement, should replace clay more and make qualified products of various labels.

  But Feng Tubie said, **** it, I don’t know how to burn cement. Finally, I have a cement that doesn’t need to be calcined—let’s call it cement—why not?

  Anyway, I don't use it to build high-rise buildings, build a small bungalow or something, isn't it too much?

  Nanxiang County also has the largest gypsum mine in Asia, two large mines of first-grade limestone, plus this coal mine, if you don’t use it to make cement, it will be a thunderbolt?

  In this era, it is good to have cement, what more label do you want?

  So, the four hundred or so people on hand are not enough to fill the bottomless pit?

  As for the washed coal, in addition to burning fire for myself, I sent it to Hanzhong Metallurgy to smelt iron. Anyway, I am also the second in command of Hanzhong Metallurgy.

   At that time, the iron production of Hanzhong Metallurgy will soar, and I don’t know if the old demon Zhuge will show the kindness of his elders again and ask Adou to let Hanzhong Metallurgy out?

   But that's something the queen and A Dou have to worry about, and it has nothing to do with me.

   "My lord, spare me, my lord, help me!"

  Ri Mai Muxi, with disheveled hair and tears streaming down his face, knelt in front of Zhao Guang and kowtowed repeatedly.

  Zhao Guangda sat on the head of the tent, with Wang Xun sitting next to him.

  The two came to Yang'an Pass with their trilogy, nominally to see if there was any suitable place to herd cattle and sheep or farm, but in fact they came to be human traffickers.

   And the kind of human traffickers who are wanted by adults, children, and strong women.

  After all, they were sent by Wei Cheng of Hanzhong Diannong School, so General Ma naturally had to cooperate, so let the two of them lead the part alone and form a part of the army.

   "My lord, please let our people go!"

  Day McMurcy's forehead was already bleeding, but he still didn't dare to stop for a moment.

Zhao Guang propped one hand on his knees, pointed at Wang Xun with the other, stretched his feet to the side of Ri Maimouxi's head, and said with a sneer, "Rimaimusi, you can see clearly, the one next to me is mine. brother."

  Ri Maimoxi paused for a moment, looked up at Wang Xun, his eyes were a little horrified, his lips twitched a few times, but he couldn't speak, but continued to kowtow violently, "My lord, please forgive me, my lord!"

Zhao Guang smiled, sat up straight, and said lightly: "A few months ago, my brother, my lord, ran all over the mountains just to beg you to help my brother herd herds, but how did you treat him back then? This uncle’s? How did you say it?”

   "My lord, many people in the Winter Clan died this year, and the rest can't eat anymore. Please, let us graze around here and let us exchange some food."

  Ri Maimuxi didn't dare to answer Zhao Guang's question, but muttered to himself, the blood on his forehead flowed down his face, then dripped to the ground, splashing dust.

Zhao Guang gave a "bah", "At the beginning my elder brother kindly asked you to help, but you not only refused to accept it, but also treated my uncle like that. What are you talking about? You said that there are not many Han people in Hanzhong, and you still have to bring the clansmen with you. Go to Hanzhong and kill all the Han people?"

   "Don't dare, my lord, I dare not, my villain!"

  Ri Memushi was trembling all over, tears streaming down his face.

   "You also said that a senior official in Hanzhong was killed by you Qiang people in the past, and you plan to do the same in the future, right?"

  Zhao Guang sneered, "Come on, I'm an official anyway, sitting in front of you,"

   As he said, with a "dang", he threw a horizontal knife in front of Ri Mai Muxi, "Take this knife and stab it directly, let me see the courage of you Qiang people."

   "Don't dare, my lord, I dare not, my villain!"

  Day McMurcy repeated this sentence in tears, and the blood had already begun to seep into the soil.

  Beside Zhao Guang stood an old man, his eyes half-opened and half-closed, occasionally showing his nakedness. This is the old man of Zhao Mansion who just came from Jincheng a few days ago.

  Wang Xun looked at the leader of the tribe in front of him, and felt a burst of pleasure in his heart.

  Your Excellency was wronged a few months ago, and he almost knelt down to beg for help. Among them, this person was ridiculed in various ways.

  As a son, I wished I could just kill him to relieve my hatred.

   Unexpectedly, only a few months later, he would have to kneel in front of him, like a dolphin dog waiting to be slaughtered.

  It felt much more comfortable than killing him on the spot.

  Thinking about my elder brother again, although I haven’t seen him kill anyone with his own hands, but how long has he been in Hanzhong, how many people died because of his elder brother?

   And there will be more in the future, because the elder brother has already sent a letter, asking them to find a way as soon as possible and get some people to go there.

  (end of this chapter)