The husband is the future chief [infrastructure]

Jiang Ziyan explained his reason for coming, "That's right. I rented a yard in Qingping Town, and now it's just vacant. I plan to open a paper-making workshop there. Would you like to come with me? How many people are there in the small yard?" There should be no problem for you to stay here. I will find a cook to cook for you when the time comes, what do you think?"

Jiang Ziyan originally thought that Qingping Town was a bit far from here, and by then it would be a long journey, so Zhang Qiu and the others had to think about it.

As a result, everyone said on the spot after hearing what he said: "No problem, no problem. When are we going? Today? Today is fine too. Although the departure time is a bit late now, it's okay to walk at night. We have experience and are not afraid." !"

Everyone was talking about it, and their faces were beaming. They didn't expect to tell them to go to work a few days ago, and they came to pick them up today.

The expected things are becoming reality step by step, can you not be happy in your heart?

Zhang Qiu is also full of joy. If you want him to say that there is nothing good in this county, he might as well go to Qingping Town to work with his second brother, with food, accommodation and wages. There is only a kind-hearted person like the second brother in the world. Ken accepted them as such.

Seeing that everyone was impatient to follow Jiang Ziyan back, Zhang Qiu said, "Okay! Let's pack up our things today and go back to Qingping Town with my second brother!"

As soon as the head of the family spoke, the other people didn't eat a few bites of food, so they hurried to pack their things, all of them were full of expectations for their new life.

Zhang Qiu patted Jiang Ziyan's shoulder heavily with one hand: "Hahaha, second brother, I said you are the noble person I'm destined for! Look, I just lost my job today, and you brought this good news today!"

Zhang Qiu's hands are strong, and his strikes are not light or heavy. Jiang Ziyan is embarrassed to say that his shoulder hurts a little from his slap, so he quietly moved back a little, and said, "It's mainly because of a coincidence. But today's weather is really good." It's a bit late, why don't you clean up this afternoon, you rented the house here, right? It's just time to return the house, I'll rent you some carriages for you later, and you can start tomorrow morning."

Zhang Qiu nodded, "That's true, but we don't have much stuff, so it's easy to clean up. It will take some time to rent a car after returning the yard in the afternoon."

He Xiao said next to him: "You don't need to worry about renting a carriage for us, we still have some money in hand, and we also have other ways to go to the town. When the gentleman is waiting for us in the town tomorrow become."

Jiang Ziyan thought for a while, some of them had limited legs and feet, so they must have to take a car.But since they have other ways, he doesn't care about it anymore.

After deciding on the meeting place tomorrow, it was getting late, so he took Qingshan back.

On the way back, Jiang Ziyan asked: "Qingshan, are there many people growing hemp in our area?"

Qingshan answered all questions, "A lot, I don't know, this hemp material is basically grown by every household, and part of it can be sold for money. The linen and linen clothes sold in those shops are made of these, but they are purchased. The price is very cheap. The other part is used to twist the rope, the clothesline in the house, and the well rope for fetching water are all made of hemp.”

"What is the price usually given by those who buy hemp?"

"A penny a catty."

"So low?"

"Yeah, there are too many people who grow this kind of thing, so the price is very cheap, so many of them can't be sold!"

The freshly cut hemp stalks are thin and light, and it is true that a catty of hemp does not cost a penny.

Jiang Ziyan pondered for a while. The cost of purchasing hemp materials should be very low, but the profit after making them into paper is high.

He thought for a while and said: "Qingshan, you go back in the next two days and help me to go to a few villages and tell me that I want to buy a lot of hemp materials, and I will charge one penny per catty for the time being." Knowing whether you can successfully make paper, you don't dare to invest too much.

Qing Shan replied with a spirited face: "Good sir!"

After the matter of raw materials and manpower is settled, he still has one more problem.After the hemp skin is soaked, there is a process that requires the use of lime. He has inquired about it. It is sold in bricklayer shops, and it is mainly used for bonding house tiles.

But generally only rich people will use it for tile bonding. One is because the amount of lime used is a lot at a time. Although its price is one penny per catty, this kind of thing must be purchased in large quantities when used on the roof. , It costs a lot of money, and ordinary people can't afford it.

The second is that the bonding of lime mixed with tile slag has a limited number of years, and the roof tiles will have to be refurbished every ten years, which is another expense and troublesome.

Jiang Ziyan needs to use a large amount of lime to boil the hemp material, and if the lime is purchased, it must not be a small amount.

The technology of papermaking is not yet developed, but this is only one of the reasons why paper is expensive. Another reason is that the lime sold in the market is very expensive.

The papermaking method that Jiang Ziyan is going to use is much more advanced than their papermaking technology, which can save a lot of trouble.But he also needs to use lime, which is not a small fortune.

Thinking of this, he entered the room and opened the encyclopedia, carefully checked the records about making quicklime, and found the steps of how to make quicklime without any surprise.

First he needed a material whose main component was calcium carbonate.As far as he knows, there is a rock called limestone, the main component of which is calcium carbonate, which can be decomposed into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide under high-temperature calcination, and calcium oxide is the main component of quicklime.

So if there is limestone, it will be easy to handle.As for calcination, the high temperature needs about [-] degrees to decompose calcium oxide to get quicklime. There is a small kiln for calcination of tiles here. He can find someone to build a small and simple lime kiln.

He was lost in thought, the carriage staggered away for an hour before it arrived, Jiang Ziyan was a little bored, the road here was too bumpy, it was uncomfortable to sit in the carriage, his body was about to fall apart under his weight.

He opened the side curtain and looked out, just in time to notice that there was a mountain in the west. The mountain was so long that it didn't fit in with the surrounding mountains. Instead of lush trees, it was a bit bare.

"Qingshan, what kind of mountain is that somewhat bare mountain?"

Qingshan glanced to the west, "Oh, that, we call it Stone Mountain. It's just behind our back mountain. We used to go to that mountain to play when we were young. The stones on that mountain are strangely long and oddly shaped. , some look like monkeys, and some look like crouching dragons."

"Then have you ever seen a milky-white stone there?"

"Milk white?" Qingshan recalled it carefully, but he hadn't been to that mountain for several years, so he couldn't remember clearly.

"Lang Jun, I can't remember clearly, but I can go back and ask people in the same village for you."

"Okay, sorry to bother you."

But Jiang Ziyan couldn't put all his hopes on that rocky mountain. He had to prepare both ways. If there was no limestone on the mountain, he had to consider buying limestone.Only in this way, the cost will be high, and the profit will become very meager.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that he had gone to the market to buy salt stones to refine fine salt. That piece was for selling stones. Could there be the limestone he wanted?