From Chief to Ball

"As for me, I am a compassionate person, and I don't want to see these trees get sick. I told you to stop working today, and I asked you to go to the mountain by the lake to pick the pimples on the leaves of this tree. There are still some for dinner, and it depends on what you pick. No matter how many lumps there are, I will give you extra corn by the catty. Including leaf bumps, acorn skins, oak tree tumors, persimmon tumors, etc.

After finishing speaking, Chen Jian took out a gallnut gall that he had picked a few days ago. There were some warts growing on the place where the insects parasitized. Jin, I will give you three catties of corn. You just pick, and I will give you as much as you pick.”

A group of people looked at each other in blank dismay. They knew that bricks could build a house, but what was the use of this bug-bitten tree burl?Is this thing edible?Or is it that Jixia is really crazy, instead of pitying people, pitying the trees outside?

With all kinds of doubts about to leave, Chen Jian said again: "Don't blame me for not telling you, this thing can't be eaten, and you can't poop after eating it. I hardly tell lies. Ze, you should know, so don't let those people think that This is all the good stuff eaten."

Ze smiled awkwardly, but he believed in Chen Jian's words in his heart. He entrusted them one by one, took the wooden sign issued by Chen Jian, and for the first time left the island without fear and came to land without worrying about being caught back. be a slave.At least within ten miles around Onozawa they were no longer slaves.

Some of the people left behind Chen Jian asked them to go to the top of the mountain to collect ocher and crush it with stones.People like ocher all recognize it, and they are no strangers to the red paint that was commonly used in the clan era.

In the end, 300 people remained, led by Chen Jian, and led seven masons to dig a large pit on the west side of the headland bay, rammed it with clay, pasted red bricks, covered it with clay and rammed it again.

After tamping, a large amount of corn was distributed to boil them into soup, and all the boiled soup and corn were poured into the tamped pool, and several pits were dug around to light fires to ensure the water in the pool The corn soup was lukewarm.

It was the first time for many people to see so much food thrown into the pond for nothing, and they were very distressed. They persuaded them: "Jixia, you need to use jars to make wine, so where can you pour it into the pit? Besides, light the surrounding area. The fire, if it’s warm, won’t it turn sour soon? This means that there are fewer flies in autumn, and there will be maggots with long tails in three to five days in summer.”

Chen Jian bent down and took a handful of corn soup and said, "It's too early to get sour. Find a few people to watch over here. When it's cold at night, remember to light a fire to ensure that the corn soup in this pit is warm. The sooner it gets sour, the better."

"After those people brought back the ochre, let them crush it and keep it. Weigh the galls brought back by those people at night, and send someone to smash up the galls and soak them in water. Use the method of making bean curd to filter the bean curd residue, and filter the water out with sackcloth."

"I'll distribute it to you... Well, let's say [-] people are responsible for doing this. It must be done well."

The seven masons who were awarded the important task were overjoyed, and they thought that it was right for them to stay on Shanjiao Island. If they returned to Xiacheng to command 800 people, they would at least be directly under the control of the Sixth Division, and the entire Xiacheng But there are more than a dozen, and I am still two or three steps short of meritorious service.

With this thought of wanting to perform well, the seven masons hurriedly said: "For this matter, we don't need 800 people, as long as 200 people are enough."

"200 people is enough now, but it will not be enough in the future. You should take care of the 800 people first, and then choose one leader from 30 to [-] people. You have to recognize all the leaders you have elected within half a month. Since you know Words, counting, and the algorithm of withdrawing food and rice should not be difficult."

"These 800 people not only have to do these things these days, but also take advantage of these days to build some houses with bricks. I will tell you the height and width, including two large warehouses and a large workshop. As well as a room for 400 people to stay in, and a dining room for 200 people to eat. 400 people will live in a hut for ten people, as long as they can sleep. It may be difficult to complete these things within half a month, but I will not Don't care, others don't care. You also know that I will let Sihuo go back to Xia City and send some more people. If you do it well within a month, and these people don't complain, I will only serve as your assistants when those people come. .”

"I will calculate the required bricks, tools, corn, meat, fish, and salt for completion rewards, and the rest will be distributed by you. And these houses don't need to have roofs, as long as they have large frames."

After finishing speaking, Chen Jian stretched out a finger and said: "Half a month! It's only half a month. If you do it and you don't complain, you will have a higher merit than before. The opportunity is rare. Wait until the group of people from Xiacheng comes in a month. I'm afraid that someone can do something that you think is difficult, and then you will have to suffer slowly. It left a bad impression on me again, and I will not think of you first if there are any good things in the future. "

Several people agreed without hesitation, recalling the various planning methods and incentives they learned during their work in Xiacheng, thinking about how to allocate the 800 people to complete this task within half a month.

As for the corn soup in the pool, no one had thought about what it was used for.

Chapter 79 Su Xia Limited Sovereignty System ([-])

Of the [-] wooden slips, only the first one was copied, with a total of [-] characters, and it took seven or eight people half a day to finish copying.

These are some common characters, and they are also mastered by the first group of people in Xiacheng who learned characters from Chen Jian Hongyu.

Those who can read are not necessarily good teachers, and they didn’t have such a systematic textbook when they were studying before. Chen Jian called all the people in Yucheng who could read all the characters in the first chapter together, and each of them distributed a wooden slip, and taught them again. them again.

They can read all the words, but they have not heard of the lesson plans annotated by Chen Jian. After systematically explaining the first text, Chen Jian told them the purpose of this first text.

"How long do you think it will take for people who have never read the first article to learn it? And to achieve the result I mentioned?"

These people were all from being illiterate to being able to read. Chen Jian was worried that the [-]-day time he set was a bit rushed, but the feedback he got was very confident.

"If everyone has this kind of wooden slips, and everyone can study from morning to night like the children in Xiacheng every day, three days will be enough. If you only study for a while a day, you still have to work on weekdays, and not everyone has wooden slips If so, 20 days is enough."

After asking several people in a row, they all gave such answers. Chen Jian put away the wooden slips and let everyone leave first.

These eight basic wooden slips only take three days for those who have learned characters. Chen Jian decided to teach them by himself, and then divide the things learned in these three days into half a year to teach those who have no foundation, and then use the half-year Time to write to teach them something else for the next half year.

To be able to recognize [-] characters, be able to read characters with the correct pronunciation, and be able to add and subtract, it will take about two years of full-time study as an enlightenment education.In the future, we must ensure that the population of the city reaches the enlightened level, and those who fail to do so will be fined.

After reaching the Kaimeng level, the best ones will be selected, and the public property will fund them to complete their further studies. Those who are not outstanding can personally pay Bei Mimi to continue their studies. Within ten years, he will train a group of people who can calculate multiplication and division, land area, simple trigonometric functions, and pen calculations. Cube, and use trigonometric functions and area to let a group of people have the philosophical concept of unity of number and shape. Professional teachers have established special higher schools in the city-in this era, it is considered a high-level talent who can calculate trigonometric functions.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the first ten years are done well and a reasonable echelon education is completed, Xiacheng Yucheng can guarantee to teach the officials he urgently needs every year, refine Xiacheng's official economic system, and rely on scissors and poor technology to exploit other cities , can at least complete the integration of officials and officials in Yucheng, Xiacheng, and at the same time perfect a new talent selection method that is incompatible with the theory of blood.

This is also the biggest reason why he has not chosen violent conquest despite his superiority in force and technology: he lacks enough management officials and cadres. Yap's complete independence.

It is not difficult to conquer by force, what is difficult is the construction after the conquest and the rapid growth of civilization.He wants to delay time and use the hidden scissors to exploit the rest of the cities so that they won't offend them, because they can't detect it; take advantage of Xiacheng's emerging advantages of directly transitioning from clans to cities and the political structure without big family power to cultivate the bottom Chinese.If you drag it into your own hands, there are at least 1000 high-level talents who can command a hundred people with weapons, and manage a party if thrown into a small town; [-] people can become soldiers with weapons, and can be village chiefs who can teach people how to read, count, and plant kilns. Enlightenment talents.

It can be defended if it is captured, and it can be stabilized if it can be assimilated, instead of a nominal unity with only a few hundred miles of capital.

From the expansion of Xiacheng's basic population to the initial scale of the talent training system, from the expansion of the power of Xiacheng's major families, to the demise of the older generation of city leaders and the succession of the new generation of city leaders who were influenced by him, ten years have passed. A time that cannot be bypassed.

With this kind of thinking in mind, after completing the simple textbook "Kaimeng Numbers and Shapes", Chen Jian thought about all kinds of problems he might encounter, and wrote "Xiacheng Ten-year Development Plan" with a dim oil lamp. Out of cause, effect and purpose, it is not esoteric and explains various issues that need to be considered in future city management around the ten-year node as much as possible.

After the renovation is completed next year, officials from all the six divisions directly under Xiacheng will be mobilized to study and serve as the first batch of textbooks for the city's advanced schools in the future. First state the facts, and then ask questions, analyze them, and solve them. The four-paragraph form is clear and does not rhyme.

As for why he insisted on writing this article with a dim oil lamp, it’s not because he wants this style, oil that has not been waxed will always have black smoke and no style, but because he is really busy during the day .

Since the officials of Xia City may be told many details that the ruling class must master in the future, they must pay attention to the issue of confidentiality. Therefore, when Chen Jian sent people out to find the stone, Chen Jian left Ji Bai and twenty people behind. As one's own personal guard, or the foundation of Xiacheng's Gendarmerie Internal Guard.

The name of the best guard unit he can think of is "Black Clothes". In "Warring States Policy", when talking about Queen Mother Zhao, Chu Long once said that he hoped that his youngest son would make up for the number of black clothes.

He thought about naming these 20 people "Black Clothes", but then he discovered that there was no basis for calling them Black Clothes, because there was no dye in Xiacheng at this time, so there was the corn soup that he wanted to make sour before.

The most common dye in this era is indigo, and Chen Jian has already found it, but Xia Cheng has just put on clothes for a few years, and the clothes have not yet developed aesthetic needs outside the shelter, so there are too many things to do. Postponed.

In addition, the dye that is easy to find is black. "White sand is black with it in Nirvana" refers to a kind of black dye from the Zhou Dynasty.

Because the mineralogical nomenclature in the previous life was not formal, Nirvana itself is alum, that is, potassium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate, but Chen Jian guessed that Baisha in Nirvana is another kind of alum, or the companion of alum: sulfite iron crystals.

It is not black, but when nirvana meets tannic acid, it will turn black, and even white sand can be dyed.

Tannic acid is a substance that was used by the ancients very early in the previous life to tan the fur. Chen Jian also fought against it when Xiacheng people still ate acorns. It is the source of the astringency of wine and eating acorns The culprit of bloating.

Tannic acid was Xiacheng's enemy a few years ago, but now the clansmen who no longer eat acorns want to invite this former enemy back.

Persimmons, acorns, and oak bark contain a lot of tannic acid, and the galls of gallnut trees are even richer. Gall tree tumors are tannic acid wraps that grow after being attacked by aphids and the like. In fact, galls It is the real Galla, and the tree is named after it.

Tannic acid is soluble in water, can be dissolved in water after crushing, and dried to make very impure dye tannic acid.Tannic acid will turn black when it encounters iron, and many apples cut with iron knives will turn black. In addition to the oxidation of tannins, the iron knife is also an important factor.

The common ocher is an iron oxide, ferric oxide.Ferric oxide will react with acid. There is no industry of three acids and two bases, so we can only consider the best available lactic acid and acetic acid.

The acetic acid fermentation time is too long, Xiacheng vinegar is also a popular condiment, and the cost is too high, so the lactic acid after the warm rice soup is the best choice.People in Xiacheng like to eat glutinous flour for pasta, so even after leaving Xiacheng, the ship still carried yeast, the so-called noodle primer, which is perfect for making rice soup sour.

Ocher is ferric iron, which is not suitable for reacting with tannic acid, so it needs to be reduced with charcoal powder in a kiln to produce a part of iron powder. Although it cannot be used to make tools, it is suitable for reacting with lactic acid.

Unless iron reacts with strong oxidizing acids such as sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid to form ferric iron, the rest is normally ferrous iron, and it is easy to identify: ferrous iron is green, which is also the reason why glass in the previous 80s was green.The color of ferric iron is difficult to tell under normal circumstances, unless it is detected by phenol and thiocyanate, but it will turn into lavender when it is hydrolyzed under acidic conditions, and the stronger the acidity, the more obvious this lavender.

Chen Jian thinks that the naked eye can distinguish between lavender and light green, so he can observe the color of the rice soup to judge whether it is useful.

The reduced ochre turns black, put it into the sour rice soup, and cover the pool with a layer of straw curtains, just like raising nitrifying bacteria. The masons are familiar with it, and the scientific explanation is that ferrous ions will turn into ferric iron when they encounter ultraviolet rays. .

While lactic acid reacts slowly with iron powder, a small amount of iron powder that does not participate in the reaction will be oxidized to ferrous iron by the residual ferric iron, and the ferric iron will also be reduced to ferrous iron by the iron powder, becoming soluble in ferrous lactate in water.

After being bored for six or seven days, Chen Jian nervously opened the straw curtain, only to see a pool of green water, as if spring had come instead of autumn overnight.

The people of the tribe stared at the green water that wasted a lot of corn, not knowing what to do with it. When Chen Jian saw the green water, he jumped up excitedly, asked someone to scoop out a bowl, and excitedly called all the Xiacheng people on the island Onlookers.