Water was poured to cool it.
Smoke rose from the gray-brown bricks. A serf wearing gloves took a few pieces and handed them to Liszt, Gort, and Markus.
"Test the hardness."
Clang clang!
With two strikes of the hammer, the bricks were smashed.
"The hardness is average, the degree of firing is not enough, try another furnace." Liszt said calmly. This furnace of bricks obviously did not reach the quality of his experiment.
The new furnace took ten minutes to burn, and it took a full half an hour to finish.
After the water was poured to cool, the gray-brown bricks had reached the standard hardness, which was not much worse than granite.
Jomaya felt the hardness and weight of the bricks on the stretcher and could not help but praise again, "Sir, with bricks of the same shape, it will be very convenient to build any building. Compared to those fragile pottery, the bricks are exactly as hard as stone. "
"It's good that it's easy to use. Then the rest of the brick factory kiln will be handed over to you to design. When the construction of the brick factory is completed, you will immediately start building the lighthouse. "
If Jomaya had not been brought in advance, he would have produced qualified bricks at this time and completed the task. Jomaya would have entered his vision. However, the smoke task has changed. Jomaya arrived early and was preparing to build the lighthouse, which shortened the time of the task.
Liszt turned around and asked Markus, "Teacher Markus, has the location of the lighthouse been chosen?"
"I have done a field survey with Captain Kosto and determined that it should be built one mile west of Black Horse Port. The terrain there is very high, the angle of view is very good, and it can be seen clearly from the ship. Moreover, the surrounding rocky beach does not hinder walking, and it is very convenient to transport building materials. "
"Then build the lighthouse in this location. Consultant Gort, you continue to be responsible for the construction of the brick factory."
"As you wish, sir."
After handing over the task of construction supervision to Gort, Liszt took Markus, Russell, and Griffin, rode on his mount, Lightning, and began another task on this trip to Black Horse Island – to find wild tea trees.
There were not many trees on the island.
Most of them were rubber trees.
Therefore, there were very few trees that could not be identified. In just one day, Liszt found the reward of the smoke mission before that, three wild tea trees. These three wild tea trees were right next to each other, growing on the northern slope of the Ice Grass Hill. They could be seen at a glance.
It belonged to the shrub type of tea tree. It wasn't very tall, only about two meters tall.
The branches were numerous and messy, unlike the neatly planted tea trees. It was now March, and the tender leaves of the wild tea tree had just sprouted not long ago. It was slightly different from the tender shoots of the tea tree in Liszt's memory. The edges were not too obvious, and the buds were not obvious.
It couldn't compare to the domesticated tea tree.
When picking tea, especially spring tea, one could pick a single bud, a single leaf, or a single bud with two leaves.
A single sprout was a bud that had just sprouted and had yet to form a tender leaf. One sprout and one leaf meant that one bud had grown into a tender leaf. One sprout and two leaves meant that two buds had grown into tender leaves.
Some people liked to drink single sprouts. Normally, only thirty to forty thousand sprouts could produce one catty of single sprouts. The single sprouts were not fully developed, so they didn't taste fresh enough and would be a little bitter. Not to mention, they weren't resistant to soaking. But people liked the fragrance and mellow taste of the single sprouts, as well as the noble atmosphere.
One leaf and two leaves were more common. They were well-developed, had sufficient amino acids and vitamins, and had sufficient fragrance. It was just that when brewed, it didn't have the pleasing feeling of "standing up like a needle" like the single sprouts. The thick tea flavor also lacked a hint of elegance.
High-grade Longjing tea, for example, was made by gathering single sprouts and frying them.
Liszt didn't understand the above. Before he transmigrated, he was just an ordinary working-class person who drank more beverages than tea. His understanding of tea leaves was obtained from the ubiquitous advertisements on video websites. Things like big leaf tea and small leaf tea, how many processes there were, and how old experts personally supervised the production.
"If I'm not wrong, these three trees should be called tea trees." Liszt stood in front of the wild tea trees and said lightly.
Markus asked curiously, "Black tea tree? Sir, the black tea tree doesn't look like this. Its leaves are slightly red and round, and they can even bear fruit. "
"This is … a green tea tree." Liszt said, "I've read in a magic book that the green tea tree is very different from the black tea tree. Its buds can be picked, fried, and brewed directly into tea for drinking, which is very good for the body."
"Green tea tree?"
Markus chewed on the name of the tree and said nothing more. He knew that he was not as knowledgeable as Liszt – the young lord was well-read and knew a lot of things. The rubber tree was the best example. If it wasn't for the wisdom of the lord, they would have missed the extremely important rubber.
Without any delay, Liszt directly ordered a group of female serfs to collect the buds of three green tea trees.
Whether it was a single bud, a single bud with one leaf, a single bud with two leaves, or a single bud with three or four leaves.
Let's collect it first.
Of course, according to junior high school biology knowledge, he knew that tea should be collected from the top of the tea tree. Because plants have an apical advantage, the top bud grows first and inhibits the growth of the side buds. After picking the top bud, the side buds of the tea tree will grow without affecting the growth of the tea tree.
Today, there are nearly 1,500 serfs working on Black Horse Island.
There are also a lot of female serfs. Griffin called twenty and brought a few ladders to pick the top buds of the green tea tree. Looking at the serfs at work, Liszt suddenly thought of a legend of tea picking – lip tea.
It was said that there was a kind of tea that was picked by virgins with their own mouths, and the tea stained with virgin saliva was particularly fragrant. After frying, it was put into the arms of virgins. Finally, the new tea that came out of the oven was fragrant, fragrant, and had the unique body fragrance of virgins. It was called lip tea.
Legends were not credible, at least Liszt did not believe it.
If the virgin who picked the tea looked like sister Xiao Feng, he believed that no one would be willing to drink that kind of lip tea.
In two hours, the serfs had picked most of the top buds. There was not much in total, about two pounds. With two pounds of tender leaves and shoots, Liszt was ready to return to Flower Town by boat – Gort and Markus were in charge of the work on Black Horse Island, so there would be no problems.
Just before leaving, Gort looked at him eagerly, "Sir, Freya has been pregnant for nine months and will give birth at any time, but I can't be with her."
"Don't worry, when the lighthouse construction is completed, you can come back … Consultant Gort, Flower Town is important, but the construction of Black Horse Island's port town is equally important. You need to maintain it for a while. After all, Teacher Markus lacks experience."
At this point, Gort could only cheer up, "Sir, please rest assured that Gort will carefully plan the development of the port town!"
Liszt comforted Gort.
The Flowers set sail, braving the wind and waves in the blue sky and blue sea.
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