Legendary star: Signed to the Palace at the beginning

Chapter 63 Kaolin and Coal
Xiao Chuan bought war horses and weapons from Zhao Wang Mansion for the two brothers through Yu Wenyan. The Yujuluo brothers were overjoyed. In their spare time, they practiced martial arts with the guards of Zhao Wang Mansion, and everyone gradually became familiar with them.

On this day, when Xiao Chuan returned home, he saw his father Dugu Luo sulking.

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, what happened?"

Dugu Luo sighed and said, "Chuan'er, I went to see the fields and mountains that your uncles gave me these two days. They are not fertile fields! They are all barren land, and that mountain is also a gray stone mountain. Not even a tree not long."

Xiao Chuan said angrily: "Aye, don't be angry, I will go and see with you, if this is really the case, I must go to them to discuss it."

Dugu Luo was afraid that his son would suffer from troubles, so he comforted him, "It's not because I feel sorry for these properties, because I think we are brothers, so why don't you think about family affection?"

Xiao Chuan sneered and said, "Aye, how can a wealthy family have family affection?"

The next day, I rented a car, and my father and I went to see the fields first.

When he arrived at the place, Xiao Chuan could understand why his father was angry at a glance. The [-] mu of land was not even considered wasteland, and it was covered with white and delicate clay.

"Is this kaolin?"

Xiao Chuan suppressed the joy in his heart, bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and finally confirmed that it was kaolin.

Xiao Chuan is a child from the countryside. He has been running in the fields and mountains since he was a child. He naturally knows a lot of soil. He remembers that there is a ceramic factory near his hometown, which uses kaolin.

Kaolin, also known as dolomite, is named after Gaoling Village, JDZ, Jiangxi Province.Kaolin in a certain country is mainly distributed in six provinces including Guangdong, Shaanxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Jiangsu.

The mineral composition of kaolin is mainly composed of kaolinite, halloysite, hydromica, illite, montmorillonite, quartz, feldspar and other minerals.

Kaolin has a wide range of uses. It was mainly used in the manufacture of ceramics in ancient times. It was used in papermaking, refractory materials, coatings, rubber fillers, enamel glazes and white cement raw materials in later generations, and a small amount of plastics, paints, pigments, grinding wheels, pencils, daily cosmetics, Soap, pesticide, medicine, textile, petroleum, chemical industry, building materials, national defense and other industrial sectors.

Of course, due to over-development, there is no kaolin in many places now, so we have to use other soils instead, and the quality can be imagined.

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, we found a treasure, this is kaolin."

Duguluo said: "Chuan'er, what is the use of kaolin?"

Xiao Chuan said: "It can be used to make ceramics."

Duguluo said: "Chuan'er, is it true? You don't need to comfort me."

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, what XX said is true, you bought the surrounding several thousand acres of land, and we will make porcelain in the future."

Dugu Luo said: "Okay, I believe you, anyway, these lands cannot grow crops, and they are not worth much money."

Then the father and son went to see Stone Mountain again.

Along the way, Dugu Luo was still brooding over a stone that couldn't grow a tree.

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, the northwest is rich in many kinds of minerals. The more there is no grass growing, the more there are mines. Ten thousand steps back, even if there are no mines, you can still mine stones, which are just used to build the Qujiangchi river canal."

The stone mountain is not far from the field, and it will be there soon.

The mountain is not too high, and there are huge rocks on it, which are probably the remnants of the Qinling Mountains.

Xiao Chuan and his father started wandering around the rocky mountain, and suddenly found a well at the foot of the mountain, with a potter's wheel at the mouth of the well, and the rope on the potter's wheel had rotted away. It looked like an abandoned mine for many years.

"Ding, the system releases the task of signing in to the mine, do you want to sign in?"

"Sign in."

"Success in signing in to the mine will reward the skill of writing lyrics."

Dugu Luo said: "Chuan'er, I don't know if it's dangerous down here, but Aye should go down and have a look."

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, XX is young and flexible, let XX go down."

Dugu Luo couldn't hold back his son, so he had to give up.

Xiao Chuan pretended to go to the bathroom, found a place where there was no one, entered the space warehouse, found a flashlight, tied it to a helmet, and found a [-]-meter long rope and a lifting pulley.

"Aye, XX found a rope in the craftsman's house in front. After XX went down, Aye was on top to help XX watch the wind. XX shook the rope, and Aye shook the pulley to pull XX up."

Dugu Luo knew that his son often made some weird things recently, and he was used to it, so he said, "Chuan'er, don't worry, Aye has fetched water and knows how to handle this potter's wheel,"

Xiao Chuan tied one end of the rope to the potter's wheel, installed the pulley, and stood in a big basket, while Dugu Luo shook the handle of the potter's wheel on it, and slowly lowered the big basket into the well.

This is a vertical shaft, the mouth of which can have a radius of two meters. Under the light of the flashlight, Xiao Chuan saw thick bamboo poles connected together in front of him, which should be used for ventilation and exhaust.

The shaft goes four to fifty meters deep from the ground to the ground.

Xiao Chuan got out of the basket, looked around with a flashlight, and found that it was indeed a mine, and there were scattered coal dust on the ground.

A number of coal mining tunnels were excavated around the mine. There are places for placing oil lamps in the tunnels, as well as a complete drainage system, outlets for toxic fumes, and wooden supports to prevent collapse.

Xiao Chuan walked into an alleyway, walked more than 50 meters, and reached the end.

No more coal at the end, just rock.

It is estimated that the original mine owner excavated here and found that there was no coal, only stones, so he gave up this mine.

"The coal seam here won't be so shallow, right?"

Unwilling to give up, Xiao Chuan took out a stone drill from the space warehouse, put on goggles, covered his mouth and nose, and started working.

"Da da da!"

The stone drill machine dug through more than two meters thick, revealing dark brown.

"Sure enough, there is coal behind the stone."

Xiao Chuan was overjoyed, and he dug another two or three meters forward, and found coal.

"Hahaha, I've made a fortune. A certain man also owned a mine in the Northern Zhou Dynasty."

Xiao Chuan went to other tunnels to dig out rocks, and there was coal behind them.

"The Dugu family wanted to take advantage of someone, but unexpectedly gave away a certain fortune. I really want to see what expressions you children of aristocratic families will have after knowing the truth."

Xiao Chuan returned to the big basket, shook the rope, Dugu Luo hurriedly shook the pulley, and pulled his son up.

Dugu Luo said with concern: "Chuan'er, is there any danger down here?"

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, there is no danger down here. It is a coal mine. Look, this is coal mined by someone."

Dugu Luo said: "So it's coal, it's useless."

Xiao Chuan smiled and said, "Aye, charcoal is a good thing. Not only can it be used for heating, but it can also be used in industry."

Dugu Luo said: "I don't understand what you said, but I only know that coal has poisonous gas after burning, and it is easy to kill people."

Xiao Chuan said: "Aye, don't worry, a certain teacher taught a certain how to refine charcoal. After refining the charcoal, there is not much smoke."

Dugu Luo said: "Okay, you're old enough to decide for yourself, but Aye reminds you, don't do anything harmful."

Xiao Chuan said solemnly: "I would like to follow Aye's instruction."

The next day, Dugu Luo began to buy land near kaolin in a big way.

The surrounding landowners finally caught a fool and sold their land that could not grow crops. Soon Duguluo purchased [-] acres of land and became the laughing stock of the distinguished family.

(End of this chapter)