Chapter 106 The briquettes came out Sanniang was unbelievable, and she didn't use cattle to plough the land: "Do you want to use people to plough the land?"
”In ancient times, not every peasant had a cow, so how did a family without a cow cultivate the land?
Actually, the answer is very simple.There is no cow, only people can be used as cows, and being a cow as a horse is not a simple adjective in ancient times, but a real cow as a horse.A man can plough the ground with a rope and pull a plow.It's just that the efficiency will definitely be slower and harder.However, when there are no cattle to use, this is the only way to do it.Sanniang thought about it, at this time, there were more than 3,000 Zhuang households recruited by Quan Xu from the disaster victims and displaced people.150,000 mu, that is, 50 acres of land per capita, can barely be planted."
Employing people?"
Quan Xu smiled and said, "Use a part!"
”In fact, he had long thought about using a tractor to plough the land, so when he seized the cattle and mules of Jiming Village, he gave them to the young people of the Daimyo Mansion very loudly.However, the question that Quan Xu is entangled with is whether it is a large tractor or a small tractor.Large tractors have the advantages of large tractors, high efficiency, and can be deep ploughing, just like the largest tractor in the world, BigBud16V-747, which is 8 meters long, 4 meters wide and 4.3 meters high.It uses a Detroit 16-cylinder giant engine with a minimum power of 760 hp and a maximum power of 900 hp.Fifteen acres of land can be cultivated per hour, or more than ninety-one acres of contract.The problem, however, was that only one supertractor was produced, and in 1970 it sold for $300,000, which is equivalent to $48 million in modern times at inflationary rates.Of course, a large tractor can plough up to seven or eight hundred acres a day, but the key is that such a large tractor is difficult to drive and has complex technology.If you are not careful, you will strike.No one under Quan Xu's hands will open it.Driving a tractor is naturally not too difficult for Quanxu, but the problem is that driving a tractor is not driving a car, it is very hard, and there are failures at work, and Quanxu will not rule it out.Dongfanghong LW4004 heavy-duty tractor is the first 400 horsepower continuously variable tractor independently developed in China, such a tractor is not cheap.Even if the Case Quadtrac 620 tractor can plough more than 800 acres of land a day, a tractor will cost 2.6 million yuan.150,000 acres of land, one will definitely not work.At least a dozen or twenty units are needed to meet the demand.In this rough estimate, Quanxu needs to invest as much as five or six million yuan, not to mention that the purchase price is as high as tens of millions, these tractors are all oil tigers, the key is that the movement is too big, you can see and hear it from miles away, and it is too easy to be discovered by others.Jeon Wook still wants to hold on, and he doesn't want to expose his secret too early.Large tractors are not good, and another option is to take a miniature rotary tiller, that is, a walk-behind, a small rotary tiller with eight or twelve horsepower, which does not need a driver, only one person needs to grasp the direction, or rather, even the direction does not need to be mastered, only a ditch is needed, and this rotary tiller can run directly to the front along the cultivated ditch.Although the efficiency is not as good as that of large tractors, the key is that you can easily cultivate 15 to 20 acres of land a day, even if you purchase 100 units, the total price is only 340,000 yuan, or even a fraction of buying a large tractor.The key is that this kind of small hand-held rotary tillage is very small, more than 100 units are started at the same time, and more than 1,500 acres of land can be cultivated in one day.If it's a thousand?
The cost of his investment is only three or four million yuan, and he can cultivate more than 15,000 mu of land every day, and he can complete the cultivation in just ten days.What makes Quan Xu most excited is that this small rotary tiller does not require driving skills, and any farmer can simply operate it as long as he can support the plow.Easy to learn and easy to use, it is simply tailor-made for Quanxu.Quan Xu lightly touched Sanniang's nose: "Okay, you don't have to worry about this, let's go, let's go back!"
”Leaving the silver vault, in the courtyard at this time, many craftsmen began to lay green bricks.With the cooperation agreement between Yuan Shiqing and Kaizhou Coal Mine, especially the brick kiln also replaced firewood with coal, the production speed of the kiln factory gradually entered a better situation, with an average of more than one million pieces per day.These green bricks, unlike the bricks on which houses were built, take a length of forty-one centimeters long, twenty centimeters wide, and ten centimeters thick.There was no hurry to build the castle for the time being, so Du Liang took the initiative to ask to pave the courtyard of the whole family with green bricks.Quan Xu thought that in the future, when building a castle, bricks could be taken out again, and they would not be used badly, so the entire Quan Xu compound began to lay a large number of green bricks.Start in the main house and slowly extend outward.The coal in Kaizhou is cheaper than Quanxu imagined.Because Quanxu is a large coal user, and Kaizhou's small coal mine, in order to get this big customer, it is desperate to reduce the price.The coal sold in the city of the Daimyofu is a pound and a penny.When they sent it to the kiln, a boat was more than 100 stones, which was equivalent to more than nine tons, and according to a pound and a penny, it would cost more than 18 taels of silver.However, in order to compete for business, the coal mine owner took the initiative to reduce the price himself, five silver coins.And the cost paid by Quanxu is only equivalent to more than 200 yuan.If it weren't for the sluggish coal market, dumping coal could also make a lot of money.With the pouring of coal, Quan Xu naturally thought of the briquettes and briquette stoves of later generations.Quan Xu called Niu Tie Sturdy and handed over the mold graphics of the briquettes to Niu Tie Sturdy.Although Quan Xu's calligraphy is not daring to see people, the key is that his drawing skills are quite good, otherwise, he would not be able to become a publicity planner, and this job requires art skills.Niu Jieshi was illiterate, but looking at Quan Xu's pictures, he quickly understood what Quan Xu meant.This thing is not complicated, it only took one night for Niu to build a briquette mold.This briquette mold is almost exactly the same as that of later generations, especially the sleeve, originally Quan Xu thought that it would be very difficult for ancient blacksmiths, after all, it was very difficult for craftsmen to build a barrel.Prepare a steel core of a cylinder about 30 centimeters long and about 7 millimeters in diameter to make cold bones, first burn the wrought iron to make the pipe until it is red-hot, and then the craftsman takes out the blank that has been burned to a certain temperature, knocks the hot wrought iron outside the steel core with a hammer, and rolls it into an iron pipe.And in the process of cladding iron, the steel core is constantly extracted and cooled with water to prevent the steel core and wrought iron from being welded together.The thickness of the rolled iron pipe should also be about one centimeter.In this way, the gun tube is strong and can withstand more than a dozen consecutive launches.Because the long guns of more than three feet are welded in sections, so the guns that are not well welded are easy to be fried and bored, and the craftsmen regard whether the seamless guns are welded as the key to the success or failure of the guns.In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the craftsmen of the Ming army took advantage of the Japanese invasion and caused many accidents.As a result.Niu Jieshi found that the steel that Quan Xu got was not iron at all, it was all steel, and he used a small crucible to melt the steel into molten steel and cast it directly.The inner wall burrs and flashes are then polished, so that the piston section runs freely."
Boss, do you think it's appropriate?""
Yes, very suitable!"
Quan Xu looked at Niu Jie and said, "Do you have coal here?"
”"Yes!"
The cow hurriedly took out the lump of coal and took out a large pot.Quan Xu said: "I want charcoal powder, not coke!"
”The cow is sturdy and let people bring it over in a large pot of pulverized coal."
Fall to the ground!"
Quan Xu pointed to the cow and said: "Add three or four shovels of soil, mix evenly, pour in and stir!"
”Niu Jiezhuang did it seriously according to Quan Xu's guidance.Adding soil to briquettes is actually for shaping, after all, pure coal cannot be shaped, not to mention, pure coal burns faster, which is also for energy saving.Soon, a pile of slime was mixed.Quanxu took the briquette mold, pressed the mold on the slime, with the extrusion of the slime, supported the piston rod, Quanxu gently lifted the briquette mold, and gently stepped on the mold with his foot, and a briquette appeared on the ground."
Do it this way!"
The cow was a little unskilled at first, but slowly began to become proficient.Quan Xu continued: "How much does this briquette mold cost?"
”"This ......"
Niu said firmly: "It costs four catties and seven taels of steel, how can it cost one tael of silver!"
”"It's okay, keep building, the more the merrier!"
Quan Xu said: "The cost is one tael, let's sell two taels of silver is not too expensive!"
”"It's not expensive, it's not expensive!"
Niu Jiejian turned to look at the blacksmiths in the blacksmith workshop and said, "Did you hear everything?"
Now it's time to work!
”The blacksmith's workshop is the only one of Quanxu's industries that has no output.The carpenter's workshop is very busy making furniture, booths and bookcases every day, and Guo Fugui is also expanding his staff step by step.At this time, there were already more than two hundred and fifty craftsmen in the artisan workshop, although most of the furniture was either used by the farmers themselves, or placed in the academy and other parts.However, in the renovation process of the women's workshop, he purchased furniture worth more than 6,000 taels, which was the first revenue of the carpenter's workshop, which made Guo Fugui proud for several days, and every time he saw the cow sturdy, his nostrils were always facing the sky.This made Niu Tie very depressed, but fortunately, the blacksmith's workshop could also be profitable.Originally, Quan Xu planned to buy the briquette furnace from later generations, but as a result, after Du Liang saw the style of the furnace basket, he patted his chest and promised that he could do it.In just four days, Du Liang took out the finished product of the furnace and even made the shell.In these four days, Niu Jiejian and other craftsmen hit more than 20,000 briquettes in the open space outside the Quanxu compound, which were densely packed into a very spectacular situation.As the shell of the furnace is made of pottery, it is naturally heavier than the briquette furnace made of thin iron sheet, but the briquette furnace does not move around, and the impact is not great.Quan Xu put a dried briquette on the wood fire until the briquette was half burned red, then clamped it with a coal clip, put it in the hearth, and then put in two more briquettes.