Chapter 73, Yang Yanzhao Plants Vegetables in Winter
This time Zhou Yunjing brought Chai Xichun, Geng Jinhua, and Ma Saiying to Tianjing New City. Old Mrs. She did not arrange their positions because Old Mrs. She was worried that Yang Peng was afraid of the Yang family's power in Tianjing New City. My sister does not have a big official position, the others are all big officials, especially Yang Paifeng, who has now become a noble lady. She gave birth to a son, who has not yet mentioned his name. Zhang Xiang is smiling all day long, and Mrs. She It was also when Yang Paifeng was pregnant that he took Yang Paifeng into his home.
When Zhou Yunjing and others left, Yang Peng specifically told Zhou Yunjing to ask Yang Yanzhao to grow vegetables in winter and transport a large amount of glass. Yang Peng took the trouble to teach Zhou Yunjing until Zhou Yunjing learned it. Now Yang Yanzhao's family is not short of money, because cakes are sold every year Let Yang Yanzhao earn more than 100,000 taels of silver, and now he has to plant vegetables in winter. Ma Saiying couldn't tell how happy she was. When Zhou Yunjing left, Yang Peng gave the women of the Yang family a dressing mirror, and everyone at home also had one. This made Yang A group of daughters-in-law at home were extremely happy.
Yang Yanzhao laughed out loud, "Why do I see that you don't want to follow me to the north, but to the northwest?" Feng Lin's purpose was seen through by Yang Yanzhao, and he did not hide it and readily admitted it. "Young Master, my subordinates I really want to go to Fuzhou." Yang Yanzhao tapped his forehead with his index finger and whispered: "Fuzhou is the territory of the Zhe family. The Zhe family has 30,000 elite soldiers in Fuzhou. Our family has only one partial division in Fuzhou with less than three people. Thousands of people are still old, weak, sick and disabled, what can you do if you go there?"
An idea flashed in Yang Yanzhao's mind, "You want to go..." Halfway through, Feng Lin and Ma Mian were already nodding in agreement.
Yang Yanzhao also understood what the two of them were thinking. Yang Yanzhao smacked his lips and asked in a nonchalant manner, "You two fools, wouldn't it be good to stay with me? You have to go out and suffer." Feng Lin's face He squeezed out a wry smile and said, "Since you, young master, have a cold guy beside you, our brothers have basically been doing nothing. If this continues, our brothers will probably get rusty."
Yang Yanzhao was stunned for a moment, then smiled. After hearing Feng Lin's words, he also understood what Feng Lin and Ma Mian were thinking. Feng Lin was right, since he had an extra fallen leaf next to him, basically everyone Some of the things were left to Luo Ye and Huo Ying. Those left to Feng Lin and Ma Mian were all trivial matters. Basically, Feng Lin and Ma Mian spent their days doing nothing.
Feng Lin and Ma Mian were ambitious, so Yang Yanzhao couldn't stop him. After thinking for a while, Yang Yanzhao asked them to help him back to the study. Yang Yanzhao wrote a letter and gave it to Feng Lin. "Take this." When the letter arrives in Fuzhou, someone will take care of you." Feng Lin got the letter, looked at each other with Ma, and the two of them knelt on the ground.
"Thank you, Master." Yang Yanzhao waved his hand, "Don't be ridiculous. I will say hello to our people later, and you can go on the road with him." Feng Lin kicked the letter into his arms and met Ma Mian. After saluting Yang Yanzhao together, they left the study without looking back.
Yang Yanzhao sat slumped on the simple sofa in the study room and cursed. "You are a heartless person who wants to suffer while you are enjoying good things. You are a bastard." Yang Yanzhao didn't know many people here. Feng Linhe Horse faces count as two. But these two guys didn't want to stay with him, and instead chose to go to the northwest. This made Yang Yanzhao very annoyed. "You bitch..."
Yang Yanzhao cursed again. Chai Xichun's head stuck out from the outside and stared at Yang Yanzhao with his big eyes. "Lang Jun, did you curse?" As he spoke, Chai Xichun's face was filled with joy and his hands were clasped behind his back, looking pretty.
Entered the study room.
Yang Yanzhao glanced at Chai Xichun, and most of the anger in his heart disappeared. With Chai Xichun, a beautiful girl, it was enough. Feng Lin and Ma Mian, two fools, let them go. Yang Yanzhao straightened his waist, sat upright, and calmly
Said: "I'm not scolding anyone, I'm scolding wolf heart and dog lungs..."
Chai Xichun blinked, not understanding the meaning of Yang Yanzhao's words. However, this did not prevent her from giving Lang Jun a surprise. "Lang Jun, close your eyes." Yang Yanzhao was stunned, and his mind turned around, and he understood.
What did Chai Xichun want to do? He slowly closed his eyes.
Chai Xichun took out a basket made of bamboo strips from behind, which was filled with fruits and vegetables. Chai Xichun placed the basket in front of Yang Yanzhao and said with a smile: "Lang Jun, you can open your eyes now." Yang Yanzhao opened his eyes.
I pretended to be shocked when I saw the fruits and vegetables in the basket. "Big cucumbers with thorns on top...Kunlun purple melons...mustard greens...big peaches..." Is the greenhouse a success?
"Hmm~" Chai Xichun nodded excitedly, "I never thought that the greenhouses recorded in ancient books are really useful. They can actually grow green vegetables and fruits in winter." The success of the greenhouses was what Yang Yanzhao expected.
After all, what he provided to Chai Xichun was mature greenhouse technology. With mature technical support, Chai Xichun did not need to explore much. He only needed to prepare the corresponding materials and follow the steps.
However, Yang Yanzhao still praised Chai Xichun, "This is all your credit. If it weren't for your unremitting efforts in experimenting, the greenhouse may not be successful." Chai Xichun smiled shyly, "I don't dare to take credit, it's all
I rely on my husband's guidance." "You and I, husband and wife, don't pursue each other." Yang Yanzhao hesitated for a moment and asked: "Chai Xichun, how many greenhouses have you made? If there are more, pick some every day and give them to me.
Father-in-law, mother-in-law, Uncle Huyan, Master Shen, and Mr. Zhao, please send some over."
Chai Xichun smiled sweetly, "Don't worry, sir, I have planted two hundred hectares and it will be enough for them to eat throughout the winter." "Two hundred hectares?!" "Is there a problem?" Chai Xichun tilted his head and blinked his big eyes.
, looked at Yang Yansi with a look of astonishment. Yang Yanzhao shook his head and smiled: "Isn't it a bit too much..." Chai Xichun calculated on his fingers and gave a very pertinent answer. "It's not too much, except for the gift.
What is left after going out can barely supply one-tenth of the restaurants in Bianjing City."
Yang Yanzhao raised his eyebrows, "Are you planning to run the greenhouse as a business?" Chai Xichun blinked, "Isn't it?" Yang Yanzhao shook his head slightly and did not continue. He originally asked Chai Xichun to build the greenhouse just because he wanted to enjoy the winter.
After eating a bite of green vegetables, I didn't expect Chai Xichun to treat this as a business and plant so much land.
I have to admit that Chai Xichun is quite talented in business. After cultivating green vegetables in the greenhouse, she has already contacted many restaurants and negotiated cooperative relationships with them. In just three days, in the greenhouse,
The vegetables have been put on the dining tables of one-tenth of the restaurants in Bianjing City. After the Eighth Prince received the filial green vegetables from his goddaughter and son-in-law, he sent his craftsmen to learn the greenhouse technology the next day.
But he was violently kicked out by Chai Xichun. After receiving Yang Yanzhao's filial piety, Shen Lun wrote a letter. He first expressed his acceptance of Yang Yanzhao's filial piety, and then persuaded Yang Yanzhao to concentrate on state affairs and not to give up all his thoughts. In pursuit of pleasure, Zhao Pu behaved very rudely after receiving the green vegetables.
He directly sent two maids over to guard outside the greenhouse, picking the best ones on time every day and sending them back to him. The Yang family's greenhouse instantly became popular in Bianjing City. Inside the Imperial Palace.
Zhao Heng ate the melons and fruits produced in the greenhouse and selected some that did not suit his taste. "Wang Daban, these Kunlun purple melons are good. Send someone to select some and deliver them to all the Qing family members according to the practice of previous years. Wang Jien looked a little embarrassed, "Guan family, how much do you want to send?" Zhao Heng was stunned, then waved his hand and said: "Follow the usual practice in previous years." Wang Jien hesitated for a moment.
"Your Majesty, I think it's better not to give it away this year." Zhao Heng glared, this was a rare opportunity to show kindness, how could he miss it. Looking at Wang Jien's hesitant expression, Zhao Heng frowned and asked He said, "Is there something wrong with the greenhouse?" Wang Jien smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Guan, you are busy with government affairs all day long, and you may not know about some trivial matters. This winter, there is no shortage of green vegetables in every house." Zhao Heng Shocked, "What's going on?"
Wang Jien reported back: "This winter, Yang Yanzhao made something called a greenhouse. This thing can produce fruits and vegetables in winter, which is similar to the greenhouse in the palace. According to the old slave's observation, this thing seems to consume We don't have much money, so the Yang family has planted two hundred hectares of fruits and vegetables. Now in Bianjing City, as long as they spend a little more money, ordinary people can have a bite of green vegetables in this winter. "Zhao Heng stood up and paced in front of the Long Case.
After a long while, he said: "Pass an oral instruction to Yang Yanzhao and ask him to present this skill." Wang Jien lowered his head and responded in a low voice. "Promise!"...
In the other courtyard of the Yang Mansion, Yang Yanzhao was in a daze as he listened to the eunuch who was delivering the instructions in the palace. He pretended not to know and said, "Chai Xichun, when did our family have the skills to grow fruits and vegetables in winter?" Chai Xichun sat with him. Beside Yang Yanzhao, he chuckled and said: "You are busy with military affairs on weekdays and don't care about trivial matters at home, so you don't know. That girl Chai Xichun, when autumn comes, built something called a greenhouse, which can grow crops in winter. Fruits and vegetables.”
Yang Yanzhao was stunned, shook his head and smiled, "No wonder there are always a few green vegetables on the dinner table recently. I thought they were given by His Majesty..." After laughing, Yang Yanzhao hesitated, "Since this girl Chai Xichun made this thing If it came out, then could this skill belong to the Eighth Prince? Your Majesty asked me to present this thing, I'm afraid it would be inappropriate!" Chai Xichun said with a smile: "I have asked about it, this thing is from Da Lang in a book. Those found in ancient books cannot be considered the skills of the Eighth Prince."
Yang Yanzhao nodded, "That's very good." Yang Yanzhao returned to the study, repaired a letter, and called a soldier to deliver it to Yang Dezheng. The soldier mounted a fast horse and rushed to the guild hall to deliver the letter. It was delivered to Yang Dezheng. When Yang Dezheng read the letter, Shitou stood aside. After reading the letter, Shitou slapped the table. "This is simply a robbery!" Yang Dezheng smiled, "A robbery, this is the emperor's prerogative. "
Putting down the letter in his hand, Yang Dezheng smiled at Shi Shi and said: "Tomorrow, you can sort out the skills of the greenhouse and send someone to another courtyard to give it to my father." Shi Shi was unwilling to accept it, "Lang Jun, we really
Do you want to donate this thing?" Yang Dezheng said nonchalantly: "It's just a greenhouse, it's not like falling out with the royal family." But they don't have glass and it's useless. If they want to buy glass, they have to go to my brother Peng to buy it. Okay.
We don’t have to pay for glass. If we do, I don’t know how much it will cost. Haha. We just won’t give in.”
"Eating a pit makes one wise." Yang Yanzhao of the Yang family felt relieved after seeing Yang Dezheng's letter. Yang Yanzhao held Chai Xichun's hand and said with a smile: "The skills in the greenhouse have been robbed, so you have to keep your wine-making skills under control."
"Compared with greenhouses, wine-making is the real profitable business." Chai Xichun gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "I will definitely guard the art of wine-making. If the emperor dares to steal the art of wine-making again, I will follow.
He fought tooth and nail."
Yang Yanzhao quickly covered Chai Xichun's mouth and whispered in her ear. "Don't say this nonsense, just keep it in your heart." After comforting Chai Xichun, Chai Xichun went to clean up the skills in the greenhouse.
.Yang Yanzhao sat alone in the study, with a slight smile on his lips.
"Zhao Heng, Zhao Heng! Are my things really that easy to swallow?" Early the next morning, Chai Xichun personally sent the greenhouse skills to the Eighth Prince. Yang Dezheng saw fallen leaves in the study. Yang Dezheng was sitting on a simple sofa.
On the top, Luo Ye stood in front of him with a bow.
Yang Dezheng held the tea and asked in a nonchalant manner: "How did the spies in the house conduct their investigation?" Luo Ye said coldly with a straight face: "My subordinates have confirmed that there are sixty-three of them so far."
He paused. "Sixty-three, that's quite a lot...continue to investigate and be sure to dig out all the spies in the house."
Luo Ye bowed, "No." Luo Ye hesitated for a moment and said, "Although my subordinates have verified the identity of the spies, they are all staying in the Yang Mansion's courtyard. With your father here, I don't dare to take people rashly.
."
Yang Dezheng put down his tea cup and put his hands behind his back, "I came to you today just for this matter." Yang Dezheng paced: "The more than 60 people in the house are probably not only some remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty, but also various government officials.
And the spies from the Imperial City Department. We must muddy the waters before we can arrest people."
There was finally an expression on Luo Ye's cold face. "Young master, do you have a way?" Yang Dezheng chuckled, "Not only does it exist, but it is also a way to kill two birds with one stone. Once this method is completed, it will not only take the opportunity to eliminate the spies in the house, but also kill two birds with one stone."
I can recover some interest from the royal family." "Humph, it's hard to get the greenhouse..."
After he was busy recruiting new recruits, Zhang Xiang had some free time. On this day, he sat in the house with Yang Paifeng and played with his son Shitou. Shitou was already ten months old and could already crawl around on the bed. The child liked to laugh very much.
, he giggled as soon as Zhang Xiang hugged him and touched him. Yang Paifeng scratched the soles of his feet, which made his son laugh and keep tapping his soles. The childish look of the baby made Zhang Xiang laugh.
Like it very much.
Yang Paifeng looked at Zhang Xiang and said, "Husband, it's time to give your son a good name!" Zhang Xiang looked at his son who was giggling on the bed and said, "This child likes to laugh so much, let's call him Huan, Zhang."
joyous."
Yang Paifeng thought for a while and said, "Why does it look like a girl's name?" Zhang Xiang said, "How does it look like a girl? There used to be a self-made emperor named Huan." Yang Paifeng nodded and said, "
Then call him Zhang Huan!" Zhang Xiang picked up his son with a smile and said loudly to him: "Zhang Huan, do you like this name?"
For some reason, as soon as Zhang Xiang approached Shi Shi to talk, Shi Shi frowned and began to cry. When Yang Paifeng saw his son crying, he felt particularly distressed. He quickly snatched his son from Zhang Xiang's hand and kept shaking him in his arms.
Said: "Shitou is good! If you don't cry, don't cry! Mother loves Shitou!" Zhang Xiang asked sarcastically: "Why is he crying? Don't like this name?"
Yang Paifeng came up to Zhang Xiang's face, smelled it, and said: "The smell in your mouth is so strong, you didn't rinse your mouth!" Zhang Xiang smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't rinse my mouth, I brushed my teeth morning and night." A person from the Song Dynasty.
In order to prevent tooth decay, it is also necessary to clean teeth. Poor people rinse their mouths with water after eating and use their fingers to remove food residues from their mouths. Rich people will buy toothbrushes made of horsetails to brush their teeth. Where does Zhang Xiang know how to make a toothbrush? He thought of Yang Peng
He should be able to do it. Zhang Xiang wants to brush his teeth with a toothbrush morning and night, but there is no toothpaste these days, and brushing with water cannot clean his teeth. After a long time, his mouth still smells.
The smell hit Shi Shi and made him feel bad, so Shi Shi started to cry. Zhang Xiang looked at Shi Shi who kept crying, and secretly hoped that the city lord would schedule the invention of toothpaste. "You look at Shi Shi, I'll go and put it on the agenda."
The bad breath goes away!" Zhang Xiang went to Yang Peng and told Yang Peng about his bad breath.
Yang Peng didn't waste time and left the official hall directly and walked to the soap workshop. Li Yousheng saw Yang Peng coming and said, "City Lord, are you here to check?" Yang Peng nodded and looked around the soap workshop and found nothing wrong.
Then he said to Li Yousheng: "Make a room for me! I want to make something new!"
Li Yousheng said: "Are we going to make something new again?" "Don't worry about it. Get a few cans and a stove in the vacated room, and get some quicklime, salt and soybean oil." Li Yousheng agreed and went to vacate the factory.
Li Zhi rode out of the city with several servants, found a reed field outside the city, cut the reeds and burned them into ashes in an iron pot. Then he took the ashes back to the soap workshop.
The room in the soap workshop has been vacated, and the tools and materials are in place. Yang Peng began to tinker with toothpaste. First, he extracted potassium carbonate from plant ash. Potassium carbonate is soluble in water. Li Zhi heated the plant ash in the water and stirred it.
Take a jar of water and let the potassium carbonate fully dissolve in the water. Then filter the turbid plant ash soup through linen cloth while it is hot. Evaporate most of the filtered water until crystals precipitate, and you will get a high-concentration solution.
Potassium carbonate solution.
Then Yang Peng dissolved quicklime in water to obtain calcium hydroxide solution. Pour the calcium hydroxide solution into the potassium carbonate solution, and the two reacted to obtain potassium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is insoluble in water, so the reacted liquid
It becomes turbid. At this time, let the solution stand for a while, wait for the calcium carbonate to precipitate, and scoop out the potassium hydroxide solution at the top of the solution. Once you have the potassium hydroxide solution, you can perform a saponification reaction with the oil. Yang Peng will oxidize the hydroxide
Put potassium and soybean oil together in a jar and heat them, stirring constantly, you will see a layer of paste-like objects on the mixed solution gradually precipitating and floating on the solution. Li Zhi added salt to the solution to salt out, and the layer of paste-like objects
The object soon became larger and thicker, forming a thick layer.
Unlike solid soap made from sodium carbonate, toothpaste made from potassium carbonate is in the form of a paste. That layer contains a lot of impurities, is black, and looks very ugly. But that’s what Yang Peng can do now.
Toothpaste. Yang Peng took out this layer of paste-like substance and mixed it with the calcium carbonate he just obtained. The black layer of paste-like substance was mixed with white calcium carbonate and turned gray, which looked better.
Calcium carbonate acts as a friction agent in toothpaste, which can improve the decontamination effect of toothpaste. Yang Peng put the toothpaste he made into a wooden box and brought it back to the official hall. Yang Peng found his toothbrush in the wing and dipped it in
A little toothpaste in a wooden box, use this toothpaste to start brushing your teeth.
As he brushed, Yang Peng really brushed out a lot of foam in his mouth, brushing his teeth clean. Yang Peng took a glass mirror and looked at it, and saw that his mouth was full of toothpaste foam, and he felt as if he had returned to the past.
Before the time travel, I got up early every day to brush my teeth and catch up.
As he invented more and more daily necessities, life became more and more like before. Yang Peng smiled, brushed a few more times, washed away the foam with water, and then went back to the main room and called Yang Tong out. "
Madam, let me show you something amazing." Yang Peng asked someone to give it to Zhang Xiang to try.
Zhang Xiang was in the main room. Shi Shi was tired from crying and had fallen asleep in the cradle. Yang Paifeng was embroidering with a handkerchief and was bored. When she heard Zhang Xiang's call, she immediately ran out and followed Zhang Xiang.
Arriving at the side room where the toothbrushes are kept, "You put a little bit of this 'toothpaste' on your toothbrush, wet your teeth with water, and then try brushing your teeth!"
Yang Paifeng was stunned and said: "What is this gray thing? It's so ugly!" Zhang Xiang smiled and said: "You will know after you brush it, you can brush your teeth clean." Yang Paifeng
He dubiously dipped in some toothpaste, then drank a sip of well water to wet his teeth, and brushed his teeth with toothpaste in front of the mirror. After brushing for a dozen times, Yang Paifeng produced a mouthful of foam. Yang Paifeng looked in the mirror.
Seeing his own mouth, he panicked and said, "Why am I foaming at the mouth?"
"It's not foaming at the mouth, it's toothpaste foam, just like soap foam, it removes stains!" Yang Paifeng nodded and continued brushing. After brushing his teeth up and down,
Yang Paifeng rinsed away the foam with water according to Zhang Xiang's instructions, and then brushed his teeth again with clean water. After brushing his teeth, Yang Paifeng bit his teeth and said happily: "My husband's toothpaste worked! My teeth were washed clean."
net!"
After thinking about it, Yang Paifeng tilted his head and said: "The toothpaste from the City Lord is so powerful, can it be mass-produced and sold for money?" Zhang Xiang shook his head and said: "I heard from the City Lord that plant ash is a good fertilizer, but the quantity is limited, and I can't get enough.
We don’t have enough raw materials to produce this in large quantities. This toothpaste can only be used at home to clean our own teeth! It can be supplied to the people of Tianjing New City at most!” Yang Paifeng jumped a little and said, “That’s okay.
Great! Clean your teeth and you won’t have bad breath!”
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.