Volume 2: The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 97 Arrangements
"Gou Boy, you'll go find Du Yanliang later. I have something to ask him!" Lu Chen planned to ask if there were any craftsmen in Zhuangzi who could build kiln entrances.
"Yes!" Liu Jing heard Lu Chen's words and hurriedly put down his bowls and chopsticks and walked out. With little effort, Du Yanliang walked in from outside the hospital. At this time, Du Yanliang still needed help. It was obvious that he was acting in that state yesterday.
Even though Du Yanliang is over sixty, he is still walking as fast as flying.
"Mr. Du, you fooled me yesterday!" Lu Chen put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile as he looked at Du Yanliang walking swiftly.
"This is a last resort! People who have no foresight must be worried about the immediate future. I just act with caution! After all, the Marquis also knows about our family's situation..." Du Yanliang blushed and rushed to Lu Chen with his hands in apology.
"Don't worry! I don't mean to blame you!" Lu Chen motioned for Du Yanliang to sit down and talk. At the same time, he motioned for Liu Jing to give Du Yanliang a cup of tea. Du Yanliang apologized and sat on the chair opposite Lu Chen. However,
Du Yanliang was stunned when he saw the tea in the cup. The fragrance was so fragrant that Du Yanliang almost salivated.
"Try my tea!" Lu Chen made a "please" gesture, and Du Yanliang couldn't wait to pick up the tea cup and take a sip.
The taste of tea is naturally bitter at first and then sweet. Du Yanliang can naturally taste the taste of tea. As for Liu Jing, it is like a cow chewing peonies.
"Good tea!" Du Yanliang reluctantly put down the tea cup. After all, the tea cup was not big, and the amount of tea in it could only be enough for four or five mouthfuls.
"When you leave later, pick up a bag of tea from me!" Lu Chen naturally saw Du Yanliang's reluctance and said with a smile.
"How can this happen! How can this happen!" When he heard that Lu Chen was going to give him a pack of this fragrant tea, Du Yanliang quickly waved his hands, "This kind of tea can only be drunk by nobles. I am lucky enough to be able to taste a cup of it.
Got it!"
"What does this mean?" Seeing Du Yanliang's frightened look, Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh, "From now on, the whole Tang Dynasty will be able to drink this stuff! It's just that the method of making tea bricks is different!"
"Then the little old man is here!" Du Yanliang said to Lu Chen, cupping his hands, "I wonder why the Marquis wants the little old man to come here?"
"Mr. Du, I want to ask you something, are there any craftsmen in this village who know how to build kiln entrances?" Lu Chen then got down to business with Du Yanliang.
"The Marquis wants to build a kiln entrance?" Du Yanliang was a little surprised. He didn't know why the Marquis in front of him suddenly thought of building a kiln entrance. "There are kiln entrance craftsmen, but I don't know what kind of kiln entrance the Marquis wants to build?"
"Well, there are quite a few kiln openings to be built, but let's build a brick kiln and a blast furnace first!" Lu Chen thought about it for a moment. To build a greenhouse, accessories such as bricks and tiles and iron pipes for supporting the frame would be indispensable. In addition,
You can also build a cement kiln.
Although Du Yanliang could only understand brick kilns and could not understand what Lu Chen was talking about as a blast furnace, since it was what the Marquis wanted to do, he could just carry it out honestly.
"Little old man, let's go gather some help right now!" Du Yanliang drank all the tea in the cup, got up and went to find someone.
Lu Chen went back to his room and drew the drawings of the blast furnace and cement kiln. As for the brick kiln, he believed that the craftsmen would be able to build it.
Soon Du Yanliang led several middle-aged men to Lu Chen's mansion.
"Master Hou, these are all craftsmen in Zhuangzi." Du Yanliang pointed to several strong middle-aged men behind him and said.
"Hmm! Can any of you understand this?" Lu Chen directly put the drawings of the blast furnace and the cement kiln on the table. Several craftsmen came over, and Liu Laosan naturally came over to take a look.
"Master Hou, I can understand. I did this job when I was in Niangziguan!" What Lu Chen didn't expect was that Liu Laosan could actually understand the blast furnace drawings. However, Lu Chen was not surprised. After all, he was the one who built the horse.
When making tools, Liu Laosan was also the first to be able to understand the drawings.
"Okay, just lead them to build these three kiln entrances. As for the location!" Lu Chen looked at it, "Just that hillside!" Lu Chen pointed to the hillside in the distance.
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"Yes!" Liu Laosan took the order and went directly to work with several craftsmen.
"By the way, Mr. Du, do you know where there is coal?" Lu Chen suddenly remembered the issue of fuel, and as the weather gets colder and colder, coal is also a good thing for heating. If Lu Chen didn't have a warm baby, it is estimated that this weather
He slept until midnight last night and had to wake up from the cold. It was useless to have a charcoal basin in the house.
"Master Hou, are you talking about coal?" Du Yanliang asked with a questioning tone.
"Yes! It's charcoal!" Lu Chen nodded.
"That thing can't be used! It's poisonous! After one family in Zhuangzi used it, the whole family was poisoned to death!" Du Yanliang stopped Lu Chen in fear. If Lu Chen used charcoal for heating, and something unexpected happened, everyone in Zhuangzi would be affected.
Give Lu Chen his life!
"I have a way to make charcoal non-toxic, just tell me where to find it!" Lu Chen couldn't help laughing when he looked at Du Yanliang's frightened and worried expression.
"Recently, there should be coal in Sanqiao Town!" Du Yanliang thought for a while and said.
"Okay, Mr. Du, find some reliable people to get some cars back!" Lu Chen nodded.
Du Yanliang took the order and went to arrange the people.
"Gou Boy, find a few people later, bring soil loosening tools, and go to the back garden!" Lu Chen, who was having breakfast, ordered Liu Jing.
"Sir, do you want to farm?" When I heard that Lu Chen said that he wanted someone to go to the back garden with loose soil tools, I immediately thought that Lu Chen wanted to farm in winter, right? He immediately looked at Lu Chen with a surprised look on his face.
"Yes, I feel that the back garden is a bit empty, so I decided to plant something!" Lu Chen nodded, squatted down on his rice bowl and took a sip of hot soup.
"But it's freezing cold, how do we turn over the soil?" Although most farmers will turn over the soil before winter and spring, but it's only been a month since winter, and the land is so frozen at this time.
Damn it, Lu Chen actually wants to dig up the ground at this time?
"Let's find a way!" Lu Chen glared at Liu Jing, "Hurry up and find someone!"
"Hey!" Seeing that his persuasion was fruitless, Liu Jing also knew that it was rumored that he was determined to farm today, so he could only obey Lu Chen's order and go out to find someone.
With little effort, Liu Jing led five or six strong Beiwei soldiers to the back garden. He saw Lu Chen measuring something on the ground, holding a strange round and flat thing in his hand.
, nailed one end to the ground, and then followed Lu Chen's footsteps and walked away, a continuous white thin ribbon would spit out from this "weird thing". If you look carefully, there are scales on the thin ribbon, but the one on it is
The symbols that looked like ghostly drawings were so strange that even Liu Jing and the group of back-wei soldiers couldn't understand them.
"Master Marquis!" Liu Jing and the unknown soldier rushed towards Lu Chen and bowed to salute.
"Coming!" Lu Chen patted the dirt on his hands and stood up, "Don't step on the line I drew!" At this moment, Lu Chen saw Liu Jing coming over, and Lu Chen quickly stopped Liu Jing.
"Oh! Oh!" As soon as he heard Lu Chen calling him, Liu Jing quickly lowered his head and looked at his feet, only to find that Lu Chen had drawn a deep path on the ground.
"Master Marquis, are you going to measure the land?" After studying with Su Dingfang, Liu Jing had obviously learned a lot. When he saw the deep path on the ground, Liu Jing said with speculation.
"Yes, I want to build a fire house!" Lu Chen said with a smile.
"Fire house? Is it a house on fire?" Liu Jing asked curiously.
"How could it be a house on fire!" Lu Chen gave Liu Jing a headache. "Why would I want a house on fire!" Lu Chen rolled his eyes at Liu Jing. Liu Jing covered his head and smiled stupidly at Lu Chen.
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"Gou Boy, do you believe that I can grow vegetables in winter?" Lu Chen looked at Liu Jing and said proudly.
"Believe it!" Liu Jing answered simply. Although the emergence of vegetables in winter is a fantasy for Liu Jing, since it is something that the Marquis wants to do, the Marquis will definitely do it.
"Your answer is very straightforward!" Lu Chen looked at Liu Jing's unwavering trusting eyes and couldn't help but smile, "You guys don't be idle, I'm now teaching Liu Jing how to draw lines.
You guys are responsible for building the fire house!"
In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, houses similar to "greenhouses" had appeared, and vegetables could be grown in winter. According to "Hanshu·Xunli Biography", there were greenhouse vegetables in the capital of the Han Dynasty: "Taiguan Garden"
Grow winter onions, leeks, vegetables, and rutabaga, and cover the roofs of the house, burning the fire day and night, until the weather is warm." But not long after, greenhouse green vegetables were impeached by a minister called Zhao Xinchen and stopped planting. Zhao Xinchen
Nobuomi believed that vegetables grown in winter were "untimely things that are harmful to people and should not be used as offerings." This kind of greenhouse was stopped.
Later, in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", Sima Guang described the greenhouse planting method in the Han Dynasty: "The earthen chamber stores fire, which makes the earthen chamber steam and nourish it, forcing it to mature." During the Northern Wei Dynasty, "greenhouses" were moved from the ground to
Underground, people began to use the method of burning fires in cellars to raise temperatures to grow off-season vegetables. In the Tang Dynasty, "hot spring water" became a new "magic weapon" for greenhouse heating - people used hot spring water to create suitable temperatures to grow various off-season vegetables and fruits.
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It can be seen that many of the things that modern people play with have already been played by ancient people. However, due to limitations of materials and productivity, they are not so popular. The dishes of Tangquan Palace in the Tang Dynasty could only satisfy the emperor's craving every now and then.
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Liu Jing and several back Wei soldiers responded together, and Lu Chen began to teach Liu Jing step by step. To say that Liu Jing was indeed smart, Liu Jing could remember the Arabic numerals and scales on the tape measure. Lu Chen knew about
Liu Jing nodded satisfied with his learning ability.
After teaching for a while, he saw that Liu Jing had almost mastered the use of a tape measure, so he took out the blueprint directly from his pocket. To be honest, without the blueprint, Lu Chen would have been blind if he wanted to build a greenhouse.
To be honest, it would be great if Lu Chen could circle the area of the greenhouse today. After all, brick and tile kilns, iron-making blast furnaces and cement kilns are all under construction.