Ming Dynasty: Huddle in Beiping and be the magistrate of the county Chapter 125 Glass appearsLatest website: "It's just that the villain has a question."
Suddenly, Ding Shang asked.
"Any questions?" Zhu Di asked.
Ding Shang said slowly: "Your Highness, the iron furnace is seamless on all sides, so the smoke cannot come out and can only come out along the chimney.
In this way, some houses of villains and others have fire stoves, and the fire stoves are directly connected to the fire kang. So, is it not allowed to burn charcoal in the fire kang?"
"Huh?"
Zhu Di was stunned, "What is a fire kang?"
Zhu Di grew up in the south and had never seen a fire bed.
"Your Highness, you can tell by looking at the house next door!"
Guo An said.
"Let's go, we want to see a fire kang!" Zhu Di was also a little excited.
Immediately, after taking two steps, several people came to the room next door.
In the room, a large clod of earth appeared out of thin air, as high as a wheel and as wide as a person, but occupying half of the house.
At one end of the earthen kang, there are two stoves built by masonry.
"Your Highness, this is the fire kang."
Guo An pointed at it and said, "The fire pit has a chimney mouth, which will circle around the fire pit for several times, and then be discharged outside the house through the chimney on the wall again."
"Isn't this the Nuan Pavilion?" Zhu Di saw the fire kang for the first time. After looking at it curiously for a while, he said in surprise.
"Your Highness is so complimentary, the fire kang cannot be compared to the warm pavilion."
Guo An quickly waved his hand, "The fire bed is only a bed used by the people who live in cave dwellings in Shanxi and Shaanxi. Wei Chen just borrowed it."
Zhu Di asked again, "You mean they will sleep on this fire kang at night?"
"Your Highness is wise!"
Guo An nodded slightly, "As long as you burn it on the stove for a while, the entire kang will be warm. And if you burn it for half a day, even in the coldest month of winter, the entire kang will be boiling hot."
"It's so magical!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly, "In this case, our Yanshan Guard barracks also need to build cement houses."
"Your Highness, that will have to happen next year!" Guo An replied.
"Hmm!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly, then thought of something, and asked: "Since you have a fire kang, why do you still forge an iron furnace?"
Guo An continued: "Your Highness, Wei Chen just feels that the winter in Beiping Mansion is extremely cold, and Wei Chen's house needs some stoves.
In addition, Wei Chen is also planning to build a greenhouse on the farm and heat it with a stove in winter in order to grow fresh vegetables."
"Growing vegetables in winter?"
Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of disbelief.
"Just by looking at how fresh vegetables can be grown in a stove, you know that since the Qin and Han Dynasties, sages have always wanted to grow vegetables in the cold winter.
However, until now, people can only barely grow sprouts and leeks."
"Your Highness, that's why I asked the craftsmen of the Iron Smelting Institute to forge more transparent glass!" Guo An said.
Hearing this, Zhu Di subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he thought of Guo An's achievements since he started serving as the magistrate of Wanping County, a fire suddenly appeared in his heart, and he stared at Guo An closely.
"Guo Qing, can you really grow vegetables in winter?"
"Your Highness, as long as the transparent glass that Weichen needs can be calcined, Weichen will definitely be able to grow fresh vegetables."
Guo An looked confident.
At this moment, Ding Shang on the side also understood what was going on and looked at Guo An with excitement.
"Guo Changshi, you asked those craftsmen to circle a hundred acres of land and build two-foot-high cement low walls every three ridges, just to prepare for planting vegetables in winter?"
"Exactly!"
Guo An nodded slowly, "In the future, these will require a large number of iron stoves to be installed in the greenhouse. Once the weather gets cold, charcoal will be burned day and night to warm the greenhouse."
"So, wouldn't that require a lot of charcoal?"
Zhu Di suddenly asked.
"Your Highness is wise!"
Guo An nodded quickly, "Therefore, I would also like to ask Your Highness to dispatch and the general manager to buy a few more charcoal mountains in the next few days. It would definitely be best if we could buy all the charcoal mountains in the entire Xishan Mountain."
"Buy all the Tanshan in Xishan?"
Zhu Di subconsciously stared at his eyes. He felt a little worried about money again.
Guo An was good at making money for him, but he was even more ruthless when it came to spending money.
"Your Highness, you will definitely not lose money." Guo An said in a low voice.
"In this case, when we go back, we will order He Zhong to buy a mountain!" Zhu Di said.
"Your Highness is wise!"
……
Time flies.
Soon, another month passed.
More than 30 concrete houses have been built scattered throughout the farm.
However, these cement houses are scattered around the farm in twos and threes.
There are also more than 20 chicken pens, sheep pens, hog pens, and cattle pens built with cement.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing is that two-foot-high cement low walls have been built on the farm's hundreds of acres of farmland near the river.
Hundreds of extremely long low walls divide hundreds of acres of farmland into small pieces, like a chessboard.
At this moment, a group of laborers and craftsmen stood in front of the farm gate, looking at Zhu Liang at the gate with burning eyes.
Of course, most of them were staring at the boxes of copper coins beside Zhu Liang.
"The farm house has been completed. According to the order of King Yan, all laborers will be rewarded with two guan of money, and the craftsmen will be rewarded with three guan of money."
"Thank you, His Highness King Yan!"
"His Royal Highness King Yan is kind!"
"King Yan will definitely live a long life..."
A group of craftsmen quickly expressed their gratitude.
Zhu Liang shouted directly, "You are not allowed to be crowded. Line up one by one and come forward to receive the money."
Hearing this, a group of laborers and craftsmen quickly lined up and stepped forward to receive the money one by one.