Chapter 427

"Alas..."

Ye Xi touched the kaolinite clay with his finger belly, and suddenly sighed deeply.

Although he is now in a great hurry to pull up ten thousand stone houses now, he still has to complete the steps to be completed. The nine story platform starts from the tired soil, and can't build a house in one step. He can't make a fat man by eating.

Ye Xi found the people and began to give orders one by one and distribute the work orderly.

"Pingyao, you let chief Shi lead the way, and immediately lead a hunting team to mine large quantities of this clay block. Let's put aside the matter of mining Qingyan first."

"Chief nest, you lead another hunting party to the limestone."

"Chief Gongtao, you can help select 20 excellent craftsmen and come with me later."

Three people a Lin, in unison should say: "yes

The two hunting teams of thousands of people soon cleaned up and set off in a mighty way.

Twenty craftsmen of the pottery industry also quickly found out. Ye Xichong nodded their heads and led them to the cave in a hurry.

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although the materials are available, it is still not easy to make cement in this prehistoric and wild era.

The first problem is that all excavated limestone blocks and kaolinite clay blocks have to be ground into fine powder.

Ye Xi asked everyone what they would do if they were asked to grind stones into powder, and the answer was that they would smash them with big hard rocks first, and then crush them one by one.

Obviously, this method is cumbersome and time-consuming, and there will be small stones mixed together, which is not easy to pick out, and it will be very troublesome at the later stage.

So the ten stone masons led by the master craftsman made them according to the drawings.

It's much more efficient and labor-saving to grind powder with stone than to smash it with rock, that is, children with greater strength can help.

It's not enough to have stone milling powder. People are not machines, so they will inevitably leave hard pieces that have not been grinded. Therefore, ye Xi led the skillful woman to make several large sieves with thin vines soaked in oil. He told everyone to sift through the fine sieve carefully after grinding the stone powder to ensure that no small stones were mixed in it.

After the powder is milled and sieved.

Ye Xi mixed limestone powder, clay powder and iron ore powder in the proportion of eight tenths, two tenths and one percent respectively.

has to mention here that iron ore powder is the most difficult to find, but Ye Xi * s lucky. The main ingredient of the big meteorite that the tribe hides is iron, and the iron powder needed for making cement is very few.

After the three materials are mixed, the product is called cement raw material, which needs to be calcined.

To calcine, there must be a kiln. Moreover, burning cement is not firing ceramics. Ordinary kilns still don't work. So ye Xi racked his brains and the craftsmen who led the potteries spent two days churning out the original manual rotary kiln.

A few days later, when the rotary kiln was painstakingly made, and after the people calcined the raw cement, ye Xi suddenly slapped his head and said with regret that " Oh, I forgot to look for the plaster

Cement clinker should be finely ground with gypsum and mixed in proportion to be the real cement.

Without gypsum, he didn't know what the cement looked like.

People were shocked by Ye Xi's appearance.

Ye Xi has always been calm, mysterious and omnipotent in people's impression. Even when meteorite rain comes, he looks calm. Leng Bu Ding showed such a look of annoyance that people could not help but feel nervous and uneasy.

Even though they don't know what gypsum is

Seeing that he had caused a panic, ye Xi didn't dare to show his annoyance at once. He reluctantly held up a picture with a clear mind and forced a smile to placate the people.

But after returning to the cave, he was still very anxious.

After struggling for so many days, he saw that he could finish it with one foot at the door, but he was delayed here. How could he not be in a hurry

Although he did not show any more on his face, his body was very honest. After a night, two small bright blisters grew near his mouth, and he was dragged by the doctor with sharp eyes to treat him.

In fact, the reason why Ye Xi was so anxious was not only that the coming of winter was getting closer, but also because he was concerned about the people of Xia tribe. The Xia tribe was so weak that ye Xi couldn't rest assured. He thought that when the construction here was on the right track, he would immediately start to take over all the Xia tribe people.

But I'm still holding back

In fact, it is no wonder Ye Xi.

Because of the method of making cement, ye Xi had heard of it from the home decoration workers in his previous life. It's amazing that he can still remember so much after so many years. It's very normal to miss a plaster.

Fortunately, ye Xi was not in a hurry for long.

Things changed quickly.

On the next day, ye Xi suddenly remembered that he had heard some tribesmen say that there was a huge rock salt mine about 20 miles away from here.There are endless natural rock salt in that rock salt mine. It was discovered by a small tribe a hundred years ago. This small tribe developed the rock salt mine into ore-forming cave, and gradually developed on the basis of rock salt. Finally, it was renamed Youxian tribe.

Originally, relying on this huge wealth, Youxian tribe could develop smoothly. Unfortunately, more than ten years ago, they met with a powerful murderer.

He was very satisfied with the salt cave of Youxian tribe. He drove away the people of Youxian tribe and occupied the big mine cave.

Some of the Xians were unable to fight, but later they moved and there was no news.

Ye Xi has always kept this rock salt cave in mind ever since he heard about it from the tribe.

Because the hunting team had never found saline alkali land or natural salt producing areas such as salt lakes and springs when hunting outside, ye Xi planned to deal with the murderer and occupy the rock salt cave after settling the cement business.

But now he is in urgent need of gypsum. Suddenly he thinks that there is gypsum in the companion organism of rock salt!

Thinking of this, he could not sit still any longer. He immediately led all the five level soldiers of the alliance to fly to the rock salt mine cave on the three fierce birds, namely, the big buzzard, the sunny day and the heavy snow. Finally, he joined hands to kill the murderer.

This huge rock salt mine can be called magnificent.

People from the salt tribe exploit the rock salt mine from the bottom of the mountain like digging a cave. Once inside, the beautiful pink rock salt is inlaid on the wall and top of the cave like pink crystal. The whole cave is permeated with a magnificent crimson light under the sunlight.

At that time, chieftain Ganqi and Gongtao were totally shocked with their mouths open.

Ye Xi was also a little confused and murmured: "I'm sorry It's a big deal. "

This kind of natural rock salt is ten times more expensive than ordinary salt in the past life, and the rock salt with such good quality and transparent quality may be even more expensive. The most important thing is that there are so many rock salt here, even if the whole alliance can't eat it for several generations!

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