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Chapter 146 Revealing Your True Nature?
The reason why he did this was not to say how good the painting was, but the words written on the side of the painting made him dumbfounded: "The temperature is extremely high!".

The temperature is extremely high, so how high is it?Hu Guang couldn't help asking a question in his heart.He raised his head to see the mason peeking at him a little nervously, so he had no choice but to relax the expression on his face, and began to look at the stove painting again.

At this time, people began to hand in papers one after another.The servant kept walking back and forth, presenting all the mason's paintings to the imperial court.

Hu Guang flipped over a little bit, yes, they are all about the same. The comments about temperature, either saying that the temperature is extremely high, or that the temperature is the highest, or that the temperature is rare, are all adjectives!

What made him a little depressed was that these masons painted well, and they didn't mark each part at all like the explanatory pictures of later generations.If it weren't for the fact that the stove wasn't so complicated, even if Hu Guang regained his energy, he would probably be defeated.

But in this way, Hu Guang will consume a lot of time and energy if he wants to figure out each design pattern and intention on these test papers, and then evaluate how high the temperature may be.

I don't know whether to be happy or depressed. Most of the furnace design drawings are similar, which saves Hu Guang a lot of time.

But even so, Hu Guang was so busy until late in the evening that he finally went through all the design drawings, and then only kept eight more distinctive design drawings. home.

Looking at the eight people who stayed, six of them were well-dressed. It should be that the conditions of the family are not very bad, and the other person's life is very poor.

At the end of Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen also changed.Craftsmen with good craftsmanship are generally not bad, and some are even good in some aspects, such as those related to writing, and they are often guests of scholar-bureaucrats.

Hu Guang looked at the eight people below, and saw that they were a little uneasy in their excitement, so he smiled and said: "I think the test papers you handed in each have their own characteristics, or they are evenly divided. As for how high the actual temperature in the furnace can reach? , it’s not easy to judge. Therefore, I ask you to answer another question, which is optional. That is to say, you can choose to answer or not to answer, and I will not blame you. It is only used to distinguish the level of the eight of you. Whichever is lower!"

When the eight people heard this, they thought to themselves that this is why the emperor asked them to come, right?
Hu Guang didn't let them think for long, so he directly asked the question: "You write down your experience as a mason, and write down what you are best at, that is, housekeeping skills. If you don't know how to write, there are people around you who can Do it for me."

Speaking of this, he emphasized again: "I said before, this question is related to your eating problem, you can choose to answer or not answer, I will not force it, but I can't get the words from my imperial pen."

The eight masons were a little hesitant when they heard it, and none of them wrote down their experience immediately.After all, this is indeed related to their unique skills. If it gets out, what will they do, what will happen to their descendants?
If you write a little indiscriminately, you will know if you have written what you are good at when you go out to inquire about it. Lies to deceive the king?This is a great sin!
Compared with the unique craftsmanship, the plaque of "Master Mason" bestowed by the emperor seems not so important. After all, you have to be able to eat before thinking about the glory of your ancestors.

Thinking about it this way, a well-dressed mason looked at the emperor above, and said a little uneasy: "Your Majesty, this meager skill of the grassroots has been passed down from generation to generation. Without the consent of the ancestors, it is really impossible to spread it. Please forgive me. !"

"Hehe, I said before that this question is voluntary. Since you don't want to decide the winner, I won't force it." Hu Guang finished speaking with a smile, then waved his hand and said, "Look and see."

This is the same as ordinary people serving tea to see off guests, the mason quietly wiped his sweat, thanked him repeatedly and left.

With him taking the lead, another five well-dressed masons gave up and continued to answer questions one after another. In the end, there were only three masons left in the hall.

Hu Guang looked at them and asked with a smile, "Did you voluntarily stay to answer the questions?"

The three looked at each other, and finally responded in unison: "Your Majesty, I am willing!"

After hearing this, Hu Guang waved his hand and signaled them to answer the question.Among them, the well-dressed person wrote by himself, and the other two needed others to do it for them, and they dictated in a low voice.

This time, Hu Guang didn't wait long, and the three of them handed in the papers one after another.However, he didn't look at the content of the test paper, but just looked at the three of them and said, "What I said before was actually an excuse. The real purpose is to select the best and make a new thing for me. I probably know how to do it, but the details I need you to grasp it. If these things can be fired, it will be of great benefit to my Ming Dynasty. It is a major matter related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. And you, I will also reward you with official positions. In addition to receiving salaries, you can also get How about some dividends?"

The three of them were surprised and delighted when they heard it, they didn't expect the emperor to be involved in the work of masons, and even came up with a new thing, it's really amazing!They could tell that the emperor was just looking for someone to help, and he was rewarded with an official position and money, which is really great!

"Ding, achievement value +1, from mason Tang Binghong!"

"..."

The achievement is worth +3, but Hu Guang didn't care. Seeing that they were all very happy, he reminded them: "This matter must be kept secret, and you must not tell anyone about it!"

This is what it should mean, and all three craftsmen know it.

Seeing this, Hu Guang officially announced: "The thing I want to fire is a kind of adhesive similar to Sanhe clay, which can bind the sediment and gravel together. I call it cement. This kind of thing is probably made of It is fired from clay and limestone, the ratio should be more clay, or you can add some other materials, this requires you to do more firing experiments..."

As long as later generations have read historical travel novels, cement is probably the most common black technology that appears.Hu Guang also probably remembers it, but he doesn't remember it very clearly. He only knows that the temperature in the furnace must be high enough to be calcined.Therefore, in the first question, he came up with such a question to collect the ideas of famous craftsmen in the capital, but it would not let people outside guess what they were doing.

Before that, Hu Guang’s thoughts fell into a dead end. He kept thinking about how to divide the bucket of water in the Ming Dynasty and drink it. He never thought about how to add more water to the bucket so that there was enough water in it for everyone to drink. train of thought.

Cement is the easiest black technology to point out. Although it will take a long time to make a profit, Hu Guang has a plan. Using several methods together should solve the current serious shortage of money.

In this way, Hu Guang didn't care about other things in the next few days, and he and the three masons were thinking about and experimenting with firing cement.

When the wind spread outside, the civil and military officials who had experienced the apocalypse, the first reaction would be that today's son showed his true nature-what a mason's job, right?
(End of this chapter)