Chapter 1512： No fans in Europe?

Marin had wanted to take out the coal briquettes a long time ago, but considering the reaction of the ally Lamarck's family, Marin delayed the time to come out. After all, he exchanged large areas with coal mines in the Ruhr area from the Lamarck family. If the honeycomb technology is taken out just after the territory is changed, individuals can see that he is in the pit teammates.

And Germany is a sinister area that is used to grouping Europe. If it is found that the pit teammates will fight later, Marin will be helpless. Therefore, Marin lived for many years.

Originally, Marin planned to take out the coal briquettes a few months ago. But by coincidence, it just happened that the old Hoffman couple wanted Simon to marry Princess Anna of the Lamarck family. Then, Marin had to postpone the plan again. It wasn't until Simon got married on November 11 last year that Marin felt the time was ripe ...

Of course, it wasn't taken out immediately. It needs to be paved. For example, a few days ago, two commercial ships were returned from Panama, full of various commodities purchased from the Ming Dynasty. Along with those commodities brought together, in addition to a few Ewenki Hawk Falconers and Haidongqing Eagles, there was a letter sent back by Kong Tai ...

Of course, the letter was written in Chinese characters, and others could not understand it. Then, after reading the letter pretendingly, Marin happily announced that Kong Tai had learned a great technique from the Ming Empire!

What technology? Naturally beehive coal!

Then, Marin brought in potters, carpenters and blacksmiths to "develop" the honeycomb coal stove and the hand-made honeycomb coal press. Speaking of research and development, Marin actually directed the craftsmen to restore his memory.

The honeycomb stove is very easy to get. Let the potter squeeze out the shape and throw it in the stove to burn it, and then make a ceramic honeycomb stove. It is very simple.

The manual honeycomb coal press is a little more troublesome. Malinte asked the carpenter to make samples first, and then split them up, so that the casting blacksmith cast the parts by sand box casting. The reason for choosing sand box casting is to standardize. As long as the mold remains unchanged, the size of the parts of the hand-made honeycomb coal casting machine cast by the sand box is almost the same.

Marin tried it. This hand-made honeycomb coal press is almost the same as that used by later generations. In their last life, their family lived not far from the Grand Canal, and they could easily buy coal transported from Xuzhou. In order to save costs, many people bought a hand-made honeycomb coal press, which was foot-operated. The principle is very simple, first use yellow mud and water to stir the anthracite powder into dough form. Then, the manual honeycomb coal press with an open bottom is pressed down and compacted, and then pressed with a few pedals.

At this time, a hand-made honeycomb coal press with an open bottom is a complete piece of honeycomb coal. Then, people would use their feet to step on a stepping plate at the upper end of the honeycomb coal container. The stepping plate is connected to a circular plate at the upper end of the press. The circular plate has 12 holes on it, which are sleeved on 12 fixed iron rods drilled. However, the circular plate can move up and down. When a person steps down from the upper stepping plate, the uppermost inner circular plate of the press will press the honeycomb coal originally pressed into the press to finish pressing it out. Then, this moist honeycomb coal will be taken to dry and air-dried, and then transported and used.

Of course, Marin was in a hurry, without drying or blowing, and dried the honeycomb directly in the oven. And the way he ignited was very rough-he threw it directly on the charcoal pile on the burnt blacksmith's stove, and the outside of the honeycomb coal was burnt red after a while ...

Then it is specifically used. It should be pointed out that the 12 holes of the upper and lower three pieces of honeycomb coal must be aligned. Otherwise, the honeycomb coal above is not easy to ignite, and the honeycomb coal lit below is also easy to extinguish or burn poorly.

But whether it is to put the first red-hot honeycomb coal into the bottom of the furnace, or to add the next two honeycomb coals, and align the 12 holes, it is impossible to use the hand. In particular, the first red-burned honeycomb coal. Therefore, at this time, Marin needs another "artifact"-fire tongs ...

The tongs are shaped like scissors, but the front part is not a pair of blades, but a pair of slender iron bars. Because there is no cutting edge, the two iron bars at the front of the tongs can easily poke into two of the 12 holes of the honeycomb coal, and with a little force, you can clamp the honeycomb coal, lift it up into the furnace, or burn The finished honeycomb was clamped and replaced.

Moreover, because the iron bars can penetrate the holes of the honeycomb coal, when adding the two pieces of honeycomb coal above, people can also see whether the holes are aligned, as long as the front end of the tongs are extended to find the aligned holes, the alignment of the holes can be completed.

Therefore, to play with coal briquettes, you must be equipped with "artifacts" such as tongs, otherwise it will be more troublesome. For example, when using honeycomb coal in the Ming Dynasty, there is no tongs, and you can only poke down with an iron bar several times to complete the alignment of the honeycomb coal, which is very inconvenient.

After completing the ignition of the bottom honeycomb and the addition of the two pieces of honeycomb (or only one), the next step is to put a wok or kettle on the top of the stove.

To be honest, the firepower of the honeycomb stove seems to be not strong enough, especially when cooking. So, instead of thinking about cooking in a honeycomb coal stove, Marin put a large 5-liter tin jug and started boiling water ...

In the early stage, because only the bottom piece of honeycomb was ignited, the firepower was a little insufficient. Therefore, it is necessary to fan the air inlet at the bottom to speed up the burning of honeycomb coal.

Then, Marin discovered a wonderful situation-there is no fan in Europe ...

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Do n’t laugh, Marin did n’t brag, but Europe in this era really did n’t have fans ...

Historically, it was only in the 16th century that the Portuguese opened the Ming Dynasty route, only to find that there is a fan like this in the world (you can search for "European fan" in Wikipedia). Then, brought back to Europe. In England, it is said that the fan was only introduced at the end of the 17th century. Moreover, this is because of the influence of the Portuguese princess Catherine married Charles II. Because ~ www.novelhall.com ~ came to England with Queen Catherine at that time, not only fans, but also tea that has affected Britain for hundreds of years ...

Of course, fans are not important, because Europe is not hot. It was tea, which broke out directly in England and became a favorite of the people.

But in this time and space, the Portuguese have not established trade relations with the Ming Dynasty, only Marin and the Ming Dynasty have trade relations. Therefore, at this time in Europe, there are no fans anywhere else.

In Marin's hand, there was no banana fan used by later Chinese to give honeycomb coal early fan. In desperation, he had to take out a folding fan with exquisite workmanship, and fan his men towards the air inlet under the honeycomb stove.

Looking at the guard's carelessness, Marin said distressedly:

"Be careful, that is a very precious fan!"

Can it not be precious? There is Li Dongyang's inscription on the folding fan. Although Marin got a few inscription folding fans from Li Dongyang, this is also a treasure. Do you say that the folding fan of the first auxiliary inscription of the Daming Empire is expensive? If Marin had no fans in his hands, he would n’t do anything ...

"Well, it seems that it is necessary to introduce Daming's plantain fan. It seems that the plantain fan is made of sunflower, and it seems that we must inform Kong Tai to introduce a batch of sunflower seeds and plant them in Savannah in southeast North America ..."

In fact, Marin can also make paper fans. However, the cost of paper fans is too high for most people. The banana fan is low cost, light, and strong wind, is a good tool for fan ignition.

In the absence of a banana fan, Marin thought about it and decided to let the carpenters make a few thin square boards. Holding this kind of thin wood fan, there is also wind, that is, there is no banana fan that is light and windy, but it can barely be used ...

Under Marin's extremely worried and painful eyes, Marin's guards worked hard to fan the wind and finally burned the first pot of hot water in Europe using a honeycomb stove ...