Skynet Architect

There are no traces of blood on the floor tiles. After hundreds of years of wind and frost, there are traces of people kneeling on the ground next to them. This is enough to show how they were to the ancestors who used their lives to make Zhaojiagou prosperous. worship.

Looking at the traces on the ground quietly, it seems that people in Zhaojiagou have been paying attention to making city bricks for hundreds of years.

Back then, I believe it was the entire Zhaojiagou clan who devoted themselves to the firing and continued to innovate, resulting in this huge kiln.

Zhao Mubai went to get the secret record. After calming down, the head of village Zhao explained the firing process of the entire kiln factory to Si Fan.

This thing does not need to be kept secret, because everyone has already known it!Nowadays, there are too many modern technologies that can solve the difficulties that could not be solved at the beginning, and burn more beautiful wall tiles.

But the simplicity is gone.

Village Chief Zhao crouched and wandered through the kiln with Si Fan, pointing to the equipment in front.

"During the Hongwu period, it was the most stringent era in the history of dynasties for the burning of bricks. In order to build the city wall, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had strict requirements. It was a real sound and no hole." Zhao The village chief mentioned the request again.

There is a sound when knocking, but no hole is broken!

This is a very high requirement for city bricks.

It is also a requirement for sturdiness.

With this requirement, Si Fan visited the firing process of the city bricks.

This is completely different from Si Fan's mind.

Just making bricks requires seven or eight processes, although it is slightly simpler than firing porcelain.

However, the number of these seven or eight processes is already jaw-dropping when placed on top of the wall tiles.

We must know that the number of bricks used in the construction of Nanjing City was hundreds of millions of cubic meters!This is a huge investment that only the country can afford.

However, Huaxia spent so much effort and financial resources to build the city wall.

Most of the wall tiles on the ground are from Hongwu ten years.That era happened to be the period when the city wall was built.

The required wall tiles are also the most.

After village chief Zhao took Si Fan around for a circle, he finally came to the firing site.

"This is where our kiln mouth was fired. Unlike the scattered and funny brick kilns, our Zhaojiazhuang kiln mouth is the only one! But it is also the largest kiln mouth, and the production is the most sophisticated. During the Qing Dynasty, our Zhao family The wall bricks made by the people in the ditch used to be the first choice of the big high gates in the capital. Among them, our original white bricks were all scrambled by some high gates. At that time, the white bricks that wanted to order our Zhaojiazhuang were only those genuine Only the big people can order it.

Si Fan also nodded.The palace he saw actually had this kind of magical wall bricks. Other wall bricks have always become very fragile in hundreds of years of history, and many have been damaged.

The only kind of white porcelain city brick has experienced a hundred years of ups and downs without half a change!

Si Fan had heard of this famous wall tile before, and now he can finally see it.

"Here are the steps before firing!" He pointed to a pond in front of him and said.

Si Fan looked at this pond.It was muddy from top to bottom, and the bottom of the pond was barely visible, and no creatures could be seen inside.

"If you want to make city bricks, you must first use a sieve to remove impurities. The children of our Zhaojia Village have to learn to make wall bricks from this step since childhood." Village Chief Zhao explained.

Si Fan saw that the extremely smooth ground was very clean, and there was almost nothing left to be cleaned.

But there is a hill nearby.

It is estimated that that is the impurity that has been screened out.

Over time, from the mound of the year to the current hill.

Looking at this seven-eight-meter-high hill, you can know how many wall tiles have been burnt in these years.

"Only the clay that has been screened three times can be fired. The material is the foundation of the city brick!" After the introduction, the head of Village Zhao guided Si Fan to the side of the pond.

Right next to it is the cowshed. There are seven or eight fat-bodied buffaloes in the cowshed, humming and looking at the stranger Si Fan.

"This is the pond of our kiln factory. The clay that has been screened out must be soaked in the pond, so that the water buffalo will be trampled and matured in the pond. After so many times, only the most delicate part of the soil will be added to others. The material is made into blanks...waiting to be dried before being fired in the kiln." Village Chief Zhao introduced these series of processes.

But these are the most basic, and the most important things are not disclosed.These processes are done in every old brick kiln.

Now tell Si Fan that there is no problem, and that his technical secrets are some seemingly small or even imperceptible techniques.

It may be a pee that a child occasionally spills in the kiln!It may also be a handful of powder thrown into the brick kiln.

This is all the experience they have accumulated over the centuries.All success may be in these small means.

The masters of these skills were all taught by the master when he was about to pass away with his apprentice or his son.

It is also their capital for survival.

Si Fan didn't want to know so much, he didn't want to burn bricks!He also respects other secret recipes.

Just follow the procedure with a smile and watch.

The mouth of the kiln is huge, and it looks like a steamed bun from a distance.So it is called steamed bun kiln.There are three big chimneys above the kiln mouth.

After explaining, Si Fan can be considered to have a general understanding of this.

Of course... it's just a rough idea.The specific details are the specific operations of other professionals.

Shifan will never do things that laymen guide insiders.

Looking at the entrance of the kiln carefully, after walking around for about a circle, he saw a gray-white figure running from a distance. Si Fan could be sure that this was Zhao Mubai, because he ran and roared loudly.There is a thread-bound book in his hand.

"I found it! I really found it. I found the notes of the ancestor Zhao Deshan back then!" Zhao Mubai ran over excitedly.He took Si Fan's hand and didn't let go.

He is a white ash!With a musty smell, the smell makes people crazy.

Si Fan kept as far away as possible.

"What did you find? What did you find! You said it!" Si Fan said.

The opposite Zhao Mubai looked at his clothes, and suddenly said in embarrassment: "Sorry, I was excited just now! I found the recipe for carefully firing white porcelain city bricks from my ancestors. At that time, the city bricks were very strong and the best. The top city bricks, but even so, they still burn too little, and the inferior product rate is too high to give up."

"Now! I finally found the notes of the year and found the greatest regret of the year! The greatest dilemma of the year!"

"That's not enough temperature!"