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Following these teams selling livestock, Cheng Huailiang went directly to Kuoding County.

When I jumped off the carriage and took a look, I saw that it was no different from the places I saw on a daily basis.

He asked a random passerby: "Where is Yan Kai?"

The people of Kuoding County knew that he was a big shot when they saw that he was wearing bright clothes and angry horses, and that he was accompanied by so many guards.

He pointed in one direction and said, "Magistrate Xiaoyan is usually at the construction site over there during the day. You can just walk twenty or thirty miles along this road and you'll be there."

"Construction site?" Cheng Huailiang muttered, and looked at the cattle sent to Kuoding County with nostalgia.

Forget it, it’s still important to find someone first.

As long as you conquer the other party, you have the final say here.

He led the people to the construction site shouting.

Before I even got close, I saw a lot of smoke in the sky.

"Could it be that some construction site is on fire?" Cheng Huailiang secretly thought, and then shouted to the guards following him:

"Speed ​​up and put out the fire!"

It can be seen from this that although this kid is muddy, he still has a good heart.

A group of people sped up and rushed over, only to realize that it was just smoke coming out of some tall chimneys.

When Yan Kai saw Cheng Huailiang and a group of guards coming, he was very excited.

Before they came, he received a letter from Cheng Zhijie.

The letter said that he heard that Yan Kai often recruited craftsmen here, and he happened to have many at home, so he asked his second son to send them to Yan Kai.

The condition is that Yan Kai can help discipline his second son.

Yan Kai was a little confused at first. He and Cheng Zhijie had no friendship. The other party gave him craftsmen for free and asked him to discipline his son?

You can't hit these eight poles!

Speaking of the famous officials of the Tang Dynasty, he felt that Cheng Zhijie might not have the highest IQ, but he was definitely the shrewdest.

What's his purpose in doing this?

At this time, Cheng Huailiang took a look around the Yankai construction site and found that he had rarely seen these things here.

Now there is a cement factory and a brick factory on the construction site, mainly to take advantage of the good weather to burn more bricks.

At that time, other factories will also be built with these bricks.

What Cheng Hualiang saw just now was the smoke coming from the kiln.

"Who is the magistrate of Yankai County?" Cheng Huailiang asked loudly.

Yan Kai stood up with a smile: "I am, who is this young master?"

He pretended not to know Cheng Hualiang.

"I am..." Cheng Huailiang said: "I heard that Magistrate Yankai managed Kuoding County very well, so I wanted to come and make friends with Magistrate Yan."

He would not throw away Cheng Zhijie's name as soon as he came. He had already thought about it and made friends with Yan Kai first.

Then convince him, and finally gain a younger brother, and then throw out the name Cheng Zhijie to shock him.

It's probably like what's said in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Yan Kai was a little speechless. This kid really had never seen the world.

With so many armored guards, could he be an ordinary person?

But if the other person wants to act, you should act with him.

"It's so good. Could this brother do something for me?"

"That's what you say!" Cheng Huailiang said boldly, patting his chest.

"I see that you and your subordinates are strong. I am short of manpower. How about helping me with the work?"

"Don't worry, we'll have lunch for you then."

Cheng Huailiang was stunned, there is such a person?

When you first meet, you ask someone to do work for you?

In his impression, his father was already shameless.

Why does Yan Kai seem to be more shameless than his father?

At that time, I had just put down my big words. If I didn't do it, would it make him look down on me?

Cheng Huailiang could only bite the bullet and said: "Magistrate Yan, what do you want us to do?"

“Just make this brick embryo!”

Yan Kai pointed to the mud balls next to him and said: "These are the mud balls that have been dried until they are suitable. This brother will lead your people to put these mud balls into this mold and then carry them there."

Cheng Huailiang looked at the mud balls and then looked at the direction Yan Kai pointed later.

"what is that?"

"Hydraulic brick press!" Yan Kai said: "Look at the water truck pulling up the big iron plate above. When you fill the mold with mud, send it to the bottom."

"As soon as my men press the button, the big iron plate will fall down and compact you mud into the mold."

This was also modified and invented by the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty.

At first, when Yan Kai and the others were making brick embryos, each person could only take a small mold, stuff the mud into it, compact it by himself, and then scrape the top flat.

Then pour the brick embryo out of the mold.

Not to mention the effort, the efficiency is also low.

Later, they came up with a solution, which was a large mold with twenty-five grids on it.

After filling the mud balls inside, just send it to the brick press and clamp it, and the iron plate above will automatically compact and flatten when it falls.

The workers only fill the mud balls, then flip the mold and pour out the brick embryos and place them on the ground.

The efficiency is greatly improved.

Cheng Huailiang went over and looked at it for a while. The waterwheel was driven by the water flow, and the gears on the outside clicked and rotated.

Pull up the big iron plate, then brush it down and flatten the bricks.

It feels inexplicably...so good!

This is the first time Cheng Huailiang has seen repetitive things like gears, arranged together in a regular manner and operating in an orderly manner.

In modern terms, this is a kind of industrial beauty.

Many men find it difficult to resist this kind of thing, and Cheng Hualiang is obviously no exception.

"What's wrong?" Yan Kai asked.

"It's nothing." Cheng Huailiang came to his senses and shouted to the guards he brought with him: "Let's do it!"

Yan Kai smiled slightly and asked someone to give them uniform work clothes.

Cheng Huailiang took the shovel and went to shovel the mud.

"Young man, you are using the wrong force!"

An uncle next to him looked at it and said to him: "When you shovel, the shovel should not be too flat. It should go down diagonally like this, then step on it and apply force, and the mud will rise."

Cheng Huailiang followed what the uncle taught, and it was indeed much easier than shoveling like he did just now.

"Thank you, uncle!" Cheng Huailiang grinned, and then asked in a low voice: "Why do I see you all so active in your work?"

He usually goes to his family's farm or something to watch the people work, but he doesn't work so hard.

"There are work points!" The uncle wiped the sweat from his forehead with his forearm: "One work point every day. If you complete it well, there will be extra work points. The work points may be exchanged for a lot of good things!"

After saying that, he smiled sheepishly: "Well done here, I also plan to marry a wife!"

"Work points?" Cheng Huailiang thought for a while, and it seemed that Yan Kai just told him.

Well done, they take care of the food?

Have you been tricked?

Yan Kai looked at these free laborers and thought about the letter from Su Dingfang he had received a few days ago, saying that he had been recruited to Chang'an.

It seems that the war against the Turks in the third year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty will be advanced because of his butterfly.

War is coming.