Chapter 403 Cement
Bricks and cement can be said to be two powerful tools for construction. If Da Zhou needs to carry out construction, it must be researched.
Under this premise, the firing of square bricks requires the establishment of a special brick-firing factory, which consumes a lot of manpower, material resources, and transportation capacity.
At this point in time, they were busy with other things in the Great Zhou, so where would they find extra labor to do this? But cement was different. While it could also be of great benefit to construction, cement was easier to study. The difficulty of the research mainly focused on individual components and specific proportions.
Although this requires a lot of time for trial and error, it does not require too many people. Just three people like this will be enough.
Zhou Xu had already arranged the specific research work in the winter.
The content arranged at that time was mainly based on the information provided to him by Wang Pengfei. He also gave an appropriate description of the thing called "cement" so that the researchers could have a relatively clear direction when conducting research.
However, it can be seen from the fact that they have not yet figured it out that it is not so easy to easily figure something out just by relying on the information provided by this kid, which is not sure whether it is reliable or not.
However, judging from the current situation, the general direction has definitely been found, and we still have to invest time and energy in trial and error.
It would take quite a while for the cement to dry, so Zhou Xu certainly couldn't stay here. After simply confirming the situation here and asking them to inform him when they had the results, he went about his own business.
For the following period of time, he was mainly busy inspecting the work of various departments.
During this period, I also took time to visit the neighboring Salt Lake Village to see the paper mill that Wang Dong was running.
When Zhou Xu arrived here, the paper mill had already been run in a decent manner under the management of Wang Dong.
No matter what it was like at the beginning, at least after Zhou Xu arrived here, he saw that the paper mill workers were quite skilled in their movements.
Anyway, the subsequent related work was handed over to Wang Dong, and he was too lazy to ask more questions about some things.
After leaving the paper mill and before leaving Salt Lake Village, he stopped by to inspect the mine and the two farms here.
The chicken farm and rabbit farm in Salt Lake Village took on a very arduous task when food was scarce in the previous winter.
The result was that after one winter, the number of broiler chickens and rabbits in the two factories dropped sharply.
As a result, the prices of related products such as chicken, rabbit meat and even eggs have increased.
It is natural that the price of something that has a market will rise once the supply exceeds the demand.
This wave of price adjustments was handled personally by Zhou Xu. After all, these places were actually his industries, and those factory managers were just working for him.
It is almost impossible to lower the price until the broiler chickens and rabbits in the two farms return to their original breeding scale.
This has also led to a decrease in the availability of relevant ingredients and dishes in the markets and canteens today.
Of course, this doesn't mean that they can't afford to eat meat.
In fact, they had fish to eat.
The fish resources in that lake are still quite abundant, accumulated over many years, and it is not something they can clear out in just one or two attempts.
Therefore, the price of fish has remained very stable.
If this had happened a year ago, they would have definitely enjoyed the meal and never gotten tired of eating fish every day.
But it has to be said that people do change.
In the past, there were at least two or even three meat dishes for you to choose from each time.
Although it is not impossible to choose now, chicken and rabbit meat are expensive. In their Great Zhou, the monthly salary of most people is not enough to allow them to expand too much.
There are even some people who have to rely on relief meals for a while when they have almost run out of money at the end of the month.
The village chiefs of each village have actually reported this issue to Zhou Xu.
Zhou Xu felt that it was no big deal. Let alone these primitive people, even he used to start eating dirt at the end of every month, or sometimes even in the middle of the month, before he traveled through time. Isn't this normal?
If this were to happen one by one, with a guaranteed 60 meals a month, and every meal being delicious, wouldn't the motivation of some members be worn away?
It is because life is not perfect that people will pursue a better life and work harder.
In this case, at a time when the prices of chicken and rabbit meat have obviously increased, you ask them to spend the money for two meals to eat one meal of chicken or rabbit meat? Many people still can't make this decision.
After briefly inspecting the conditions of the two farms, Zhou Xu set off to return to Black Moon Village.
The two villages are very close to each other, and generally speaking, it is very easy to travel back and forth on the same day.
He had just returned to Black Moon Village and handed his mount to the guards when he received news from the equipment department.
Cement research and development was successful! Zhou Xu was excited when he heard the news and ran towards the test site.
After arriving at the place, the three researchers who had been waiting there saluted Zhou Xu one after another. During this process, the excitement on their faces could not be concealed at all.
"Meet the leader!"
"No need to be polite, just let me see the cement."
While signaling the three people to skip the formalities, Zhou Xu walked quickly towards the place where the cement had been laid before.
At this moment, a flat concrete floor had appeared there. From a distance, it looked almost the same as the concrete floor in his memory.
Only after walking in can you notice some subtle differences.
Simply put, the cement they developed was not as fine as the one he had seen in his previous life. Its texture was relatively rougher, and there was obvious sand and gravel mixed in it.
But there is no way around it. You cannot use the technological standards of modern society to determine the primitive society.
Zhou Xu stretched out his hand and pressed hard on the concrete floor, but the concrete floor hardly moved at all. At this moment, the researcher next to him handed him a hammer with excitement.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows and took the hammer.
Then without saying a word, he hit the concrete floor with two bangs.
With these two hammer strikes, some debris was immediately smashed out of the surface of the cement floor.
However, Zhou Xu was not surprised by this. Even in modern times, a few hammer strikes on the concrete floor would produce some debris.
Zhou Xu reached out and wiped away the debris on the surface; the cement inside was still firmly solidified.
After confirmation, Zhou Xu's face immediately showed satisfaction.
"You did a great job this time. I'm very satisfied. I'll give you a reward of one thousand coins!"
"We should teach the cement formula to the Construction Engineering Department as soon as possible so that they can learn how to mix cement. We should let the relevant departments prepare the necessary materials and strive to prepare a batch of cement as quickly as possible for use in subsequent construction."
(End of this chapter)
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