Dahan Pirate Air Force

That evening, Zhang Bai, Zhuge Qiao and others gathered again in the Garden of Flowers.

Zhang Bai took advantage of the situation and asked about the situation of the big snow pond, because he found out from Zheng Mazi that he was completely powerless about this matter. After all, if you want to own a snow mountain, you don't just have to pay money. There is really nothing he can do as a local ruffian.

Zhuge Qiao and the others thought he wanted to go sightseeing, so they didn't care. They said that the snow-capped mountains were much further away from Chengdu than Qingcheng Mountain, so it would be better to go to Qingcheng Mountain for fun.

Zhang Bai said a few perfunctory words and said no more.

During the dinner, Zhuge Qiao and others talked a lot about the southern warlords and the local clans in Yizhou. They all shook their heads, thinking that it was difficult to associate with them.

The feast lasted until late into the night.

The next day, as the sun rose, Zhang Bai started to get busy again.

The renovation of my house is in progress and will take another five or six days.Cleaning and organizing at the bank haven't started yet.

The big house over Longdi Pond has been handed over to Brother Ma and Zheng Mazi. The two of them worked together to recruit all the manpower and construction will start soon.It was said that the small building to be built would take two months to complete. Zhang Bai thought it was too slow and asked them to add more money and people to complete the project within a month.

Then, Zhang Bai told Zheng Mazi to find someone to buy coal, charcoal, lime, iron ore waste, clay, sand and other things as soon as possible, and asked him to buy more of these things and transport them all to his house.

Zheng Mazi didn't understand what he meant. He didn't know what to do with these, especially the iron ore waste. It was hard to find, useless, and completely useless.But since it was Zhang Bai who wanted it, he had no objection.

He was already dead-set and ready to follow Zhang Bai. He had already found an opera troupe. He was already familiar with the actors. When he thought of having a fixed place to sing in the future, he would not have to suffer the hardships of wind and rain, and he could still be stable. The receptionists and opera singers are all happy because they have income.

Zheng Mazi's mother was also very happy. She felt very happy when she thought that her son finally had a serious job and could no longer cause trouble.

For the first time in his life, Zheng Mazi was looked at in a different light.The feeling of being a human being with your head raised is simply addictive, so he is particularly attentive to whatever Zhang Bai orders him to do now.

Coal, lime, clay, and sand were all easy to handle, and Zheng Mazi quickly completed them as Zhang Bai asked. Only the iron ore waste residue was particularly difficult to find, and he only got a sack.

Zhang Bai thought it was almost enough, and asked Zheng Mazi to continue. He took the bag of slag and a similar amount of lime and clay to the Tattoo Chongsheng Pagoda Forest.

He separated the two shikigami and asked Xiao Hei to accompany Lingling and Senghui at home. He took Xiao Bai to the big shop where he was going to open a bank.

The big shop hadn't had time to clean up at this time, and everything was gray. Zhang Bai entered the back of the inner room.There was a narrow backyard enclosed by a tall back wall. It was empty, with almost nothing except some sweeping tools.

He jumped up on the wall and looked outside. Outside was a small ditch. There was no one on a muddy path beside the ditch. "It's okay, this is it."

He had stored a lot of hydrogen in his fingers beforehand. Then he went back to the backyard and called out Xiaobai and asked him to take a big breath.After being fed, Zhang Bai took out the treasures he had obtained in his house a few days ago.

Tongding!

He placed the large cauldron in the center of the backyard, dug a large pit under the cauldron, piled the collected coal in the pit, and stuffed a small piece of building wood into it.

Then the lime, slag, clay, etc. were poured into Tongding.

"Xiao Bai, light the fire."

Xiaobai hummed obediently.

The flames were blazing under the cauldron. Zhang Bai closed the lid of the cauldron and asked Xiao Bai to continue to add fire to the cauldron.He was working on the fire control technique on the side, making the flames concentrate their energy toward the center of the furnace.

Xiao Bai somewhat understood that this was alchemy, and felt a little unexpected and a little excited. It turned out that his ability to breathe fire could be used to make alchemy!

After adding fire several times, it was already burning very strongly. If Zhang Bai hadn't used his magic, the nearby houses and walls might have caught fire.But Zhang Bai was still worried that the fire was not big enough. As long as the flame was slightly smaller, he asked Xiao Bai to spray fire and add more.

Less than half an hour later, Zhang Bai felt that it was almost done, so he asked Xiaobai to put down the fire. Xiaobai pouted his mouth and inhaled, and the fire was immediately extinguished, and the surrounding heat decreased sharply.

"What a genius in alchemy!" Zhang Bai patted Xiao Bai on the head, and Xiao Bai looked flattered.

But when he opened the lid of the cauldron and saw that there was no elixir inside, the large pot was filled with gray dust.Xiao Bai was a little disappointed and looked at Zhang Bai timidly, fearing that he would be unhappy.Unexpectedly, Zhang Bai burst out laughing and shouted, "Okay, okay!"

"Go outside and get some water." Zhang Bai pointed to a wooden bucket in the corner of the courtyard. "Open the back door and there will be a ditch. Water from rivers and wells is fine. Just don't have too many debris in the water."

He found a cleaning shovel from the yard, scooped up a large shovel of ashes from the cauldron, poured it on the open space, and added sand to the ashes to form an ash pile.When Xiaobai brought water, he added water to it, turning the pile of ashes into a sticky and gray mass, and then he kept stirring it with a shovel.

While stirring, he said to Xiaobai: "You have to watch carefully how I make it, and you can't make any mistakes. From now on, I will rely on you to teach others how to make this thing."

"What is this?" Xiaobai asked strangely.

"These ashes are called cement. The stuff you just poured into the cauldron will turn into cement if it is calcined at a very high temperature. You have to do it. Ordinary fuel cannot reach the required temperature at all."

"Cement? That's weird. Mud made of water? What is it used for?"

"It's used to make bricks and build city walls."

"Can this soft thing build a city wall?" Xiaobai looked unconvinced.

"Yes, as long as the weather is good, if this thing is dried in the sun, it will become very hard, like a stone. Let's make a piece now and try it!"

Xiaobai felt it was novel, and after thinking about it, he suddenly said: "How about I dry it with fire?"

"That won't work. You can't use strong fire. This will make the cement solidify unevenly. It will be hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and it will not be strong."

"Oh!" Xiaobai looked very interested.

As the two of them talked, Zhang Bai built the lump of cement into a rectangular shape.

"That's enough. Let's take a look tomorrow! But the tools are a little awkward for my hands. I need to get a cement knife."

Xiao Bai seemed to like doing this very much. At his strong request, Zhang Bai agreed to make a cement brick by himself. This time he also added stones and a piece of bamboo to the cement.

He told Xiaobai that cement with bamboo and stones is called reinforced concrete.

The two of them were talking and laughing together, and it was getting late.Seeing the moonlight getting darker, Zhang Bai felt it was time to take action.

I made an appointment with Zhuge Liang tonight and there are a lot of things to talk about.

When the second watch came, Zhang Bai took Xiaobai into the dream world of the magic city, and then sent out pigs to explore the way like the previous time, and then sent transparent consciousness to secretly follow and sneak into the prime minister's house.

This time he realized that the bamboo forest of the Prime Minister's Mansion was all over the outer courtyard and surrounded the inner courtyard, just like a city wall.