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Chapter 6 Kiln Factory Construction and Super Power Training
His father and grandfather were already at home. When they saw Wang Jiankun come back, they asked him to wash up and prepare for dinner, and then they would go to the site in the afternoon to give guidance and see if the work was done properly.

Wang Jiankun agreed, put the iron block in the room first, and then went to get a basin of water to wash his face and hands.

When he arrived at the dining table, he saw that the dishes had already been served. There was stir-fried bacon with green peppers for lunch today. Wang Jiankun was also hungry, so he went to the kitchen to help get out the dishes and chopsticks.

While eating and chatting at the table, the father first talked about the progress of the kiln factory, and then asked Wang Jiankun if there was any work that needed to be prepared in advance.

Wang Jiankun thought about it and realized that he could start preparing bricks and kiln firewood in advance, so he told his father what he was going to do and asked him to take charge of the arrangements.

The first thing was to prepare to build a shed for drying the bricks in the shade. First, we had to cut down some trees as thick as calves, about 2 meters tall, and then prepare thatch as the roof.

The second thing is to ask the village carpenter to make molds for bricks. The drawings have been drawn and will be given to my father later.

The third is to go up the mountain to chop firewood, the more the better, and you need hardwood that is durable and has strong fire power.

The fourth is to dig the yellow mud in advance and pass it through a sieve to facilitate the subsequent mixing of mud to make bricks.

My father nodded after listening, and my grandfather also said: "I will go and divide these tasks in the afternoon. Now that the farming season is over, everyone is willing to work."

After talking about the team's affairs, Wang Jiankun also told his mother and grandmother that he wanted to be an apprentice in a blacksmith shop.

After hearing this, the grandmother felt that being a blacksmith was too dangerous and too hard. Her grandson was a good student and it would not be a good idea for him to do such a thing.

The mother did not object. She always advocated cultivating children's independence and tried her best to let Wang Jiankun do things according to his own ideas. She would only point it out to him if she found that he was going in the wrong direction.

"Kunli, since you said you want to be an apprentice in a blacksmith shop, then tell me what you plan to do. You can't just learn how to forge iron, right?" said the mother.

"I just want to verify the physics and chemistry knowledge I have learned, and borrow the venue and tools there to make something," said Wang Jiankun.

When his mother heard him say this, she nodded, and the matter was settled with a 3 to 1 vote.

When the younger sister heard that her brother was going to Fengshan, she stared at him, meaning, can you still buy snacks?
Wang Jiankun knew what she was thinking, so he said, "Sister, I will give you some questions these days. You can correct them for me after you finish them. Then I will ask mom to guide you to focus on the things you don't understand in school. When you come back from Fengshan, I will give you more questions to check your learning progress. If you do well, you will get a reward."

My sister was very distressed when she heard that she had to do homework and study, but when she heard that there would be rewards if she studied well, she felt a little greedy and was very conflicted.

My mother also said, "Just do as your brother says. You have to start working hard. You will be in the fifth grade in the second half of the year, and you will be in junior high school next year."

After the meal, the family went to rest and get busy.

Wang Jiankun first went back to his room to take a nap, then took out his sister's textbook, projected it into his mind, and asked Chieko to make two test papers each in Chinese and mathematics based on the contents of the textbook.

One set is basic test questions. Similar ones can basically be found in textbooks. As long as you remember the knowledge points, you can answer them correctly. This is used to test my sister's basic skills.

One set is slightly more difficult. It requires you to remember the knowledge points and understand them before you can answer them. This set is used to test the depth of your understanding of the knowledge points.

Zhizi asked questions very quickly, but it took Wang Jiankun quite a while to copy the questions in his mind into his notebook.

After the test papers were handed out, I asked my mother to supervise my sister to finish the basic set within two hours in the afternoon, and told her to wait for me to come back to correct them.

Then Wang Jiankun walked towards the kiln factory to see the progress of the work.

When we arrived at the kiln factory, we found that the grass and shrubs on several roads had been cleared, and the soil was being dug to level the surface. Later, pebbles from the river would be laid on the surface to increase the load-bearing capacity.

The brick kiln has been dug half a meter deep, and the speed is quite fast. Of course, there is loose soil and gravel in the front, so it is easier to dig. The deeper you go, the harder it is. According to estimates, it will take about three days to complete the tunnel.

I told my father about the situation and we just did what we are doing now, because it really isn't complicated. We have been dealing with the land all our lives and we know how to do it in a way that is labor-saving and fast, and we don't need anyone to teach us.

Everyone was quite motivated because the team decided that they could exchange centimeters earned from work for bricks and tiles, or they could buy them with money. They would be given priority supply and could buy them at a 9% discount on the factory price. The specific factory price was difficult to calculate because the bricks had not yet been officially produced, but it would definitely be cheaper than buying them at the Fengshan Brick and Tile Factory because they could save a lot on shipping costs.

Wang Jiankun planned to go for a walk in the river, practice his ability to project objects and see how many elements he could mobilize after a few hours.

There are many pebbles, small bluestones and pebbles in the river, as well as some sand.

Every time Wang Jiankun projected to a place, he carefully observed the elements inside and marked any special elements he encountered. He walked along the river for a long distance, piecing together the projected images in his mind and classifying and marking the elements inside.

Wang Jiankun used his ability to mobilize those special elements, one by one, and for each he mobilized a piece as thin as a fingernail, and collected them as samples.

By doing this, we obtained five kinds of solids, which added up to about half a cubic centimeter.

Wang Jiankun thought, since he couldn't use his ability for the time being, he might as well study these solid elements first.

Wang Jiankun was seen placing five small solid pieces in his mind, showing different colors in the sun. From large to small, they were gray-blue, bright silver, purple, golden yellow, and silver-white.

Wang Jiankun judged that the five elements should be silicon, aluminum, copper, gold and silver.

Silicon and aluminum are the most abundant in the earth's crust and are the main components of stone, sand and red soil. It is not surprising that copper, gold and silver can be found in this river beach.

Because according to geographical knowledge, Dexing has a large copper mine and associated silver production, so copper and silver should be distributed in this area. And according to the fact that there are many gold panning boats in Dagufu Village, there should be small gold mines in Wuyuan, otherwise there would not be so much gold accumulation downstream, which makes people willing to buy gold panning equipment to pan for gold.

Seeing these two small pieces of gold and silver, Wang Jiankun came up with the idea of ​​panning for gold first. Then he thought that after walking such a long river, he only collected such a small amount of gold and silver, which could not be sold for much money, and it was difficult to explain the source.

So Wang Jiankun put aside the idea of ​​collecting precious metals and put the five small samples into his pocket. He walked home along the river, recording the situation along the river. A river composed of countless small dots appeared in his mind.

Mark the special elements one by one and plan to continue collecting them tomorrow. Start by collecting 1 cubic centimeter of each. But you need to make a batch of glass containers first, because according to the physics and chemistry knowledge you have learned, some elements are liquid at room temperature, and some are poisonous, so you need to take protective measures.

After returning home, I corrected the test papers my sister had completed and found that her basic skills were just barely up to standard. However, if she does not strengthen her understanding, these knowledge points will be forgotten, which will create an increasingly greater obstacle to her learning new knowledge later, because new knowledge must be supported by the knowledge learned earlier. If the foundation is not laid, learning will become more and more painful, and she will eventually become a poor student.

It’s already quite late today, so let my sister do the slightly more difficult questions tomorrow morning.

But it was not time for dinner yet, and Wang Jiankun didn’t need his help in cooking, so he decided to review high school math.

After returning to the room, his consciousness entered his mind and he started to look through the freshman textbook. As a result, Wang Jiankun memorized and understood the high school math knowledge bit by bit. At the same time, Wang Jiankun also asked Chieko to constantly give him questions, from simple to complex, from single to mixed questions, Wang Jiankun answered them one by one. This learning efficiency was very terrifying. Wang Jiankun memorized and understood the high school math knowledge in two hours.

As the room gradually darkened, Wang Jiankun finished his studies.

After finding my sister at the door, I explained to her the questions she got wrong and told her to do another set of questions tomorrow morning.

For dinner, there was a plate of scrambled eggs with peppers. Recently, whenever I have physical work, I will cook a meat dish or eggs with oil.

Wang Jiankun did not study any more in the evening. He had been busy all day and had learned a lot. He felt a little tired, so he fell asleep early.

In the next two days, Wang Jiankun went to the kiln factory in the morning and afternoon to check the situation and corrected some deviations from the drawings.

The ground was dug to a depth of 2 meters on the third day, and the next step was to compact the ground and lay bricks to build the kiln wall.

The wood and thatch for the shed were also ready. My father had been to the kiln factory and knew how to build the shed, so there was no need for Wang Jiankun to check it.

The mud digging team has already dug dozens of cubic meters of mud and is drying it bit by bit. Once the shed is built, they will start making bricks.

The carpenter also made two brick molds and tile molds. Wang Jiankun checked the dimensions and found that they were the same as the drawings. He asked the carpenter to make more. Wooden molds are easy to break, and now is the slack season for farming, so he could call more people to make bricks and tiles.

In fact, the current production capacity bottleneck of this brick kiln lies in the two processes of making bricks and tiles and waiting for them to dry in the shade, so increasing production capacity requires more manpower.

The younger sister did not do well in the second set of test questions, so Wang Jiankun took time out every day to explain the textbook knowledge to her and give her some questions. He also told her the study methods and asked her mother to supervise her to do a set of exercises every day.

During these three days, Wang Jiankun projected one kilometer of the river upstream and downstream into his mind, made 1 small glass containers, and extracted 20 solid elements.

After practice, I can now directly project a 10-cubic-meter cube at a time, and the elements that can be extracted and mobilized in a day have reached 10 cubic centimeters.

Using this ability, Wang Jiankun extracted about 20 grams of gold and 50 grams of silver. Although it cannot be sold now, he should be able to find an opportunity to sell it when he arrives in the county.

At the same time, I discovered a function, which is measurement. When making a bullet butt, I first projected the sample brought back from Fengshan into my mind, and then projected a willow branch that was cut to a similar size into my mind for comparison. I could tell at a glance where it was thicker.

So it didn't take much effort to make thousands of bullet stocks, but it took time to glue the bullets and the wooden stocks together. Wang Jiankun hired a little helper, and that was his sister, at the cost of 5 cents of snacks.

After the bullets were made, Wang Jiankun prepared to go to Fengshan again.

At the dinner table in the evening, Wang Jiankun told his family about his plan to go to Fengshan again. He had three things to do this time.

The first thing is to deliver the bullets. After that, you can earn 5 yuan for living expenses. By the way, you can ask Cheng Hongbing how much the air gun he bought cost and see if you can make a few yourself and sell them to them.

The second thing is to bring back the plow that grandpa ordered last time.

The third option is to go to a blacksmith shop to discuss becoming an apprentice and see if they will accept you.

Grandpa agreed to go to Fengshan with Wang Jian early the next morning. It was the slack season during the farming season, and the team was busy with the construction of the kiln factory, which was under the charge of their respective persons in charge. It would not be a problem for him to accompany his grandson.

In the evening, Wang Jiankun reviewed his high school geography and history textbooks, which gave him a deeper understanding of this country and this planet.

(End of this chapter)