The Daily Life of a Rich Peasant's Boy in the Imperial Examination

Sun Shan stared at the huge pit with his eyes wide open, all he could see was money.

The people of Yuanlu County can ensure a good life by selling bird droppings.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that wealth is evenly distributed.

Sun Shan looked around and saw that there were mountains one after another, making it difficult to find a place to build a "guano factory".

He frowned and asked, "Everyone, the location here is very inconvenient. If we want to build a workshop, where should we choose?"

When building a factory, we must consider transportation, geology, environment and other aspects.

Of course it would be best to build it next to a guano pit, but here we are on a mountain.

If we want to build here, we have to bulldoze the land. It's a huge project and it depends entirely on manpower. I don't know how long it will take.

After hearing Sun Shan's question, everyone looked at the surrounding environment.

It was so hard for them to climb up here, it would be even more difficult to transport them out.

This is not the point. The point is that there are mountains everywhere here. It is very difficult to build a workshop on the top of the mountain or halfway up the mountain.

Everyone frowned along with Sun Shan.

At this time, Teacher Deng suggested: "Sir, when we came here, we passed a flat land not far from here."

After a pause, he added, "It's not far from Big Bird Village. If we set up the workshop there, we can open a new road from the Guano Pit to Big Bird Village."

Starting from Da Niao Village, walk for half an hour and you will come across a flat land.

It takes half an hour to walk from this piece of land to the bird droppings pit.

This piece of land is located between Big Bird Village and the bird droppings pit.

Sun Shan looked at Teacher Deng with admiration, as he thought exactly the same thing.

That place is flatter than the surrounding area and is the only place suitable for building a workshop.

Turning bird droppings into fertilizer requires not only raw materials but also a lot of other materials, such as quicklime, etc.

In order to transport the guano from the guano pit, materials need to be transported from outside, and a new, easy-to-travel road is needed for both round trips.

Sun Shan continued to ask, "What do you think?"

This trip included not only the main officials of the yamen, but also the main leaders of the six departments.

The reason they were brought here was not only to see the guano pit, but also to give advice.

Selecting a site for building a factory is a very big issue. Choosing a good location will facilitate future operations.

County Magistrate Wang looked around and was now on the top of the mountain.

If a workshop is built under a guano pit, it is convenient, but there is no space, and it is not convenient to transport other materials in or transport finished products out.

But it would take quite a while to transport the guano to the flat place that Teacher Deng mentioned.

First, pull the bird droppings in the pit to the top of the mountain, then transport them down from the top of the mountain, and then walk a distance to reach the flat ground.

The round trip transportation takes a very long time and requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Instead of offering any suggestions, County Magistrate Wang raised a number of questions: "Sir, if we build a workshop on the flat ground below, it will be a big problem to transport the guano away."

Not only County Magistrate Wang thought so, but others also thought about this problem.

Going up and down the mountain is so difficult. Even if we build the road now, it is still difficult.

The road is not built in a straight line, but is built around the mountain to make it easier for vehicles to transport.

Judging from this, it is likely that guano will not be produced before next year's spring plowing.

Emma, ​​this won’t work. The government has already issued a notice that bird droppings must be used before spring plowing.

Breaking one's promise is not illegal, but it will damage one's reputation.

Inspector Liang suggested, "Sir, why not build a workshop next to the guano pit? We can produce the guano and then ship the finished product out. The materials we need won't be much more than the guano, so we can save a lot of effort on transportation."

Everyone looked around the guano pit, wondering if there was any room for a workshop. It wasn't that there wasn't room, but the area was too small. If they really wanted to build a workshop, it would have to be a small one, not what they had in mind, and it wouldn't be worth the amount of guano in front of them.

How much guano fertilizer can such a small workshop produce?

When will their plans to get rich come true?

Sun Shan carefully inspected the terrain, then called over the workshop worker and asked, "What do you think about using a flying cable for transportation?"

Whether from the mountain to the foot of the mountain or from the foot of the mountain to the mountain, using pulley ropeways for transportation is the most convenient and fastest, saving not only time but also manpower.

However, due to the limitation of current materials, only simple transportation is possible at first. Eventually, it will be necessary to build roads around the mountains and rely on manpower to transport more goods.

The workshop was a department in the government office responsible for engineering construction.

Sun Shan would definitely look for him for this kind of construction project.

The worker was stunned for a moment, looked at the height difference between the mountains, and asked, "Sir, do you want to use the zipline to pull the guano up from the bottom of the mountain, and then use the zipline to pull the guano down the mountain?"

Sun Shan nodded and said, "Let's pull a few more zip lines from here. Some of the guano can be transported via the zip lines, and some can be transported via human-drawn carts. This way, the speed will be much faster."

Human resources are worthless, so it doesn't matter if you hire a few more people to do the work.

The two modes of transportation are used in parallel to ensure that enough fertilizer is produced before the spring plowing next year.

We'll talk about the rest later.

The worker looked around and his eyes lit up when he saw many big trees.

He said confidently, "Sir, there are many strong trees here. We can use them to tie the ropes to transport people."

Cableway transportation is used in many places. For example, we take cable cars to scenic spots, pulley ropeways set up in temporary buildings, or construction projects in the middle of the mountain, which are best transported by slideway.

Sun Shan said to the worker, "I'll leave this to you. Detect whether it's suitable. Build a few simple flying ropes to transport the guano out first."

Find two trees on the mountain and at the foot of the mountain that are strong and sturdy. Measure the distance between them, tie a steel wire rope or a thick and tough hemp rope, hang a pulley on top to transport things, and then hang it on the rope.

By pulling things back and forth with manpower, things are transported from the bottom of the mountain to the top, or from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

Sun Shan discussed this with the official for a while, and finally said, "Let's get this done as soon as possible. I'll arrange for someone to discuss this with you."

There were two people responsible for building the factory, one was Mr. Wang and the other was Sun Dingnan.

Sun Shan asked the two of them to discuss the matter with the construction official.

The worker glanced at Sun Shan secretly. He hadn't even thought of flying rope transportation, so how come Lord Sun thought of it?

From the discussion just now, it can be seen that Lord Sun is knowledgeable.

Everyone said that scholars understood the affairs of the world, but the official had studied and scoffed at this.

I think these things are not found in books. They are the result of words and deeds passed down from generation to generation and practiced by our ancestors.

There is no detailed description of zipline construction in the book.

But how come Lord Sun knows more than him?

Mr. Sun knows how to farm because he comes from a peasant family. It's not surprising at all.

Lord Sun is not a craftsman, but he actually understands engineering construction?

Emma, ​​this Lord Sun seems to know a lot of things!

No wonder he could become a Jinshi in two examinations at such a young age.

The worker couldn't help but stare at Sun Shan, feeling that he had become taller.