This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 221

Can asbestos be mined into deposits?Of course it is possible. Asbestos is as light as cotton and has ductility. At the same time, it is resistant to acid, heat, and corrosion. It is naturally a material with excellent physical and chemical properties.

Moreover, the processing of asbestos is not complicated at all. The asbestos fibers are stripped off, tied into ropes, and woven into cloth. This is a fireproof cloth that can withstand high temperatures. Mix asbestos and concrete together, and the asbestos that is directly pressed into the mold is light and waterproof. tiles, or even directly filling large piles of asbestos into the gaps of high-temperature kilns can become excellent insulation materials.

There is basically no technical difficulty in the application of asbestos at this level. In a small workshop in a township in the 80s, two or three entrepreneurial migrant workers can learn it in a week.

But asbestos can indeed be used, but it will be a disaster for future generations when it is mined.

Wang Dong knew that he directly lied to the other party that this thing was useless, and the other party probably wouldn't believe it at this moment. After thinking about it, he decided to confess, "This thing is very poisonous."

Hearing that the old patriarch and all the villagers were startled, He Luo hurriedly asked, "Poisonous?"

Wang Dong nodded and said: "The powder produced after the stone is crushed will damage the lungs if it is breathed for a long time."

He Luo nodded when he heard the words, and translated it truthfully, but the old patriarch pondered for a long time after hearing this, and then asked, "How long will it take for this kind of gas to hurt the lungs, my lord?"

Wang Dong thought about the information he had learned about the hazards of asbestos, and replied: "If you have been in contact for a long time, the time from a healthy person to a pneumoconiosis patient is about ten years."

When he said this, He Luo and the others were taken aback for a while, and then several villagers discussed for a while, and after talking with He Luo, He Luo asked Wang Dongdao: "My lord, that is to say, even if it is a long-term Contact, if you inhale this gas, you still have more than ten years to die of illness?"

Wang Dong nodded.

He La asked again: "Then if you have been in contact for a while, you will stop in contact?"

"The impact of this thing on people is long-term. Even if it is only exposed for a short period of time, the damage caused is irreversible. Even if you don't die of illness for more than ten years, your lungs will always be damaged after 30 to [-] years."

"What does that matter?" He Luo replied directly with a strange expression on his face.

Wang Dong was taken aback for a moment, and saw that He Luo had already translated his words. The Qiang people present listened and discussed for a while, and then all looked at him with the same weird expression. The problems brought about by the lungs as a problem.

Only then did Wang Dong realize that the average life expectancy these days is not necessarily thirty. For people at this time, occupational diseases that can only be caused in more than ten years are equivalent to no more.

Think about the mining methods of other industries at this time. Compared with the mining of mercury ore, or the smelting of gold with mercury, etc., it is directly inhaling mercury vapor there. During the processing of various lead, tin and fur, long-term inhalation of lead Or the operation of directly touching strong acid and strong alkali with hands is commonplace at this time. In comparison, the harm of asbestos mines to the human body seems to be nothing at this time.

After some discussion, the Qiang people unified their opinions, and the patriarch said to Wang Dong, "I wonder if my lord would like to let us mine that rough stone mine together?"

Wang Dong thought about it, and realized that asbestos mines are really a thing.

Other commodities may not be sold these days, but fabrics spun from asbestos must have a very good market. This thing has a famous name in history—Huohuanbu, which was once a tribute to the Han Dynasty from the Western Regions. important tribute.

Is this thing difficult?
In the later [-]th century, the British colonists discovered asbestos when mining mineral deposits all over the world, and directly used the weaving technology to weave the asbestos, and then easily made Huohuan cloth, without any technical difficulty at all.

The reason why the technology has been unknown before is that people in places with weaving technology may not have seen asbestos, but in places with asbestos, people don’t know what to do with these stones when they see them, so Huo Huan Cloth has never been produced on a large scale in the Central Plains Dynasty.

As for the sales of Huanbu, Wang Dong thought that Shanzhou really saved him a lot of trouble, because historically Huanbu was an important tribute to the Western Regions, and Shanzhou is the border of the Central Plains Dynasty and the minority areas. They sold this thing from Shanzhou to the east, and told the dignitaries and aristocrats of the Tang Dynasty that it was a treasure of the Western Regions.

As he thought about it, Wang Dong suddenly felt his eyes light up.

That's a good idea.

As a curio, Huohuanbu can't sell many pieces in a year. If it sells too much, the price will drop and the profit will decrease. The treasures of the Western Regions were sold to the Tang Dynasty.

This place in Shanzhou has its own exotic imagination space, and everything sold here is very convincing, just like those strange small commodities sold in tourist attractions in later generations, things that are not very novel, but placed in tourist attractions Looking at the atmosphere, it is easy to make people think that it is a special small commodity. People who don’t know it buy it as a souvenir, but in fact, when asked about the place of origin, they all come from Yiwu, Zhejiang.

Wang Dong immediately thought of a large number of future primary industrial products that could be sold from Shanzhou to the east.Just as he was thinking, he suddenly found a group of Qiang people looking at him eagerly.

Wang Dong was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he had to finish the task in front of him first.

Wang Dong nodded quickly and said: "If you can really bear these injuries, this business can indeed be done."

Hearing this, the Qiang people were overjoyed. They were all Qiang people living around Shanzhou, and they had already integrated into the economic system of the Tang Dynasty. So at this time, they were thinking completely differently from those Qiang tribes in Tuyuhun. What I think about is how to make money and how to support my wife and children, but because of the identity of the Qiang people, there is a layer of barriers after all. It is not easy for this group of Qiang people to do industrial and commercial business outside the city of Shanzhou, and they can't make much money by doing some trade. , So they have long been afraid of poverty, want to learn crafts, and no Han artisans are willing to accept them as apprentices, now they are all very happy when they hear that this Tang official can teach them a way out.

The patriarch quickly said: "My lord is willing to give us a job. We only need to get some wages under your hands. It all depends on your support."

Wang Dong shook his head when he heard the words, he knew that he could earn more money by squeezing the Qiang people's labor force, but compared to Huo Huanbu's income, the wages of this labor force were nothing.Moreover, Huanbu's technological content is not high. If I want these Qiang people to keep it a secret, I must give them enough benefits to stabilize people's hearts.

Wang Dong said with a smile: "In the future, we will share the income from the mines, and I will be three and you will be seven."

He Luo's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he quickly translated it, and everyone was overjoyed.

Although it is exaggerated for Wang Dong to get three points of his income without doing anything, for these Qiang people, it is already a great surprise that Wang Dong is willing to share the shares with them.

(End of this chapter)