Do good deeds without leaving your name

Li Zhi and Wu Yan reached an agreement on the step-by-step process.

In a blink of an eye, the busy autumn harvest and farming have passed, and it is the end of October.

In October, Jinwang Mansion recruited craftsmen, and the news spread throughout Taiyuan County.

Wang Ren, governor of Bingzhou, heard the report from his subordinates, and always felt that as the son of the Tian family, it was not so simple for His Royal Highness Prince Jin to be mature and prudent, and this move must have a deep meaning.But the people around didn't care at all, thinking it was just a child's play.

Wang Ren couldn't help it, so he had to tell everyone around Jinwang's mansion to be vigilant and report any unusual things.

These spies were not placed there because Wang Ren had ulterior motives, but just in case.Even if he was a servant of the Wang family, he didn't dare to pat his chest and say that all of them were his own people-there would always be nails that were caught inside or outside or were placed in by others.When the water is clear, there will be no fish. This is true for officials and family managers.As long as the key positions are in the hands of his confidants, there will be no major problems.

So why did King Jin's Mansion offer generous conditions to find craftsmen?

Because there are officials, long history, and imperial guards that Li Zhi brought over, but there is a shortage of craftsmen.

In the short term, this group of craftsmen can help Wu Yan to think about briquettes—saving coal consumption and improving combustion efficiency; in the long run, instead of looking for craftsmen every time you have a good idea in the future, it is better to raise a group of yourself , After a long time of use, you can rest assured.

That's right, at the end of October, when it rains and cools down, Li Zhi and Wu Yan's livelihood plans are about to start with earth kang and honeycomb briquettes.

Because the main courtyards in the palace have underfloor heating, it can be as warm as spring in winter, but the common people outside don't have such good conditions.Wu Yan has been from the south of the Yangtze River for several lifetimes, but she once went to the north to spend the winter, and even went to a farmhouse to see the real kang. There are no such things in the northern cities, that is, some rural areas, or the conditions are not good and there is no heating. Either it is preserved as a feature to attract tourists, and there will be Kang.

At the beginning, Wu Yan slept on the kang for two or three days because of curiosity.

This thing is not difficult. Eunuch Hu explained to the first batch of [-] craftsmen who had “passed the political examination” that he recruited. The craftsmen didn’t understand what kind of objects the prince wanted to make—they just watched the eunuch secretly. up.

Eunuch!

Live!

Eunuch Hu saw a group of country people (all country people outside of Chang'an) staring at him with their ears open and their innocent eyes wide open. They were serious and respectful.But there is no way to communicate.

Really sad people.

It was Wu Yan who drew the pattern of the kang again, Li Zhi copied it again, and showed it to the craftsmen, so they understood.

I can't do it without copying. Wu Yan draws a three-dimensional picture, and it is estimated that the craftsman will spend a lot of time digesting it, so I asked Li Zhi to draw it in two dimensions.

Fortunately, Li Zhi was very intelligent. After a short explanation, he knew the benefits of [-]D drawings. He couldn't help but admire: "Ayan, people of your time were really smart. Such perspective method is really good for architecture."

Wu Yan shook his head: "It's not that the people of our time were smart, and it didn't happen overnight. It's the accumulation of thousands of years of history that gives us a lot of valuable knowledge and experience."

..............................

The craftsmen used the room in the second courtyard of King Jin's Mansion to practice their hands, and built earth kangs for them. Not to mention, it was really a good thing. On the day of the trial combustion, the servants who slept on the kang were sweating from the heat.

This is much safer and warmer than a charcoal burning basin.

So with a swipe of his pen, Li Zhi asked the craftsmen to make kangs for the Beiya guards in the first courtyard—the other half of the craftsmen went to Jinwang Shiyi to give Song Mu and Lin Hui who had devoted themselves to work. To improve living conditions, by the way, teach those farmers how to build a kang.

At first, the householders were a little hesitant. After all, they wanted to pull out the original bed boards and make these mud bricks, which looked like they were playing.

But seeing is believing, and when they saw with their own eyes how well a well-formed kang worked after being heated, the farmers began to be active.Anyway, adobe is not a precious thing in the countryside, everyone has it.Besides, it doesn't cost much to build a kang, no matter how poor a family is, it only takes a few days of hard work.

Therefore, the householders of Prince Jin's Mansion quickly learned to build this kang, which is not difficult in itself.

These days, it is either logging for heating, or for coal rich resources like Bingzhou, it is also burning coal for heating.

The spread of kang is like cooking.

It's a good thing, and it doesn't need to be widely publicized. Soon, the people around know that the prince's farmers are making a rare thing recently, throwing mud.

When people saw the way, they went home one after another to build the kang.

Kang is just an appetizer, and Wu Yan intends to use briquettes.

The benefits of honeycomb coal will not be repeated here, anyway, it is a good thing with high efficiency and energy saving.

Don't look at it as simply mixing in some yellow mud sawdust, etc., but the ratio is very important.The most appropriate ratio can save more coal, perhaps saving three to four out of ten coal, and for the poor, they can buy more food and clothing—of course there are also those who do not use coal for heating, yes logging.But logging requires energy, and when the weather is bad, there is no dry firewood.Therefore, the people in Bingzhou occupy a favorable location, and most of them burn coal.

This time, Wu Yan and Li Zhi didn't intend to take out the briquettes for nothing.

However, if there were too close contacts with local aristocratic families and officials on the surface, it was hard to guarantee that no one would notice it and put it under Majesty Li Er to file a complaint.

Just as the so-called king's heart is unpredictable, Wu Yan feels that it is better not to rely on the historical knowledge he knew before. In case Li Zhi is not as sweet and lovable as in history, the relationship between Li Shimin and him is not deep enough. If you can trust your youngest son in everything, then it's a risk.

So back home diplomacy is less conspicuous.

Wu Yan posted the post with the right excuse: the early plum blossoms in the palace were all in bloom, and it was to hold a banquet to appreciate plum blossoms.

That's right, this is the life of the noble ladies of the Tang Dynasty. Banquets in different seasons form a network of interpersonal relationships.

This time, the former first lady of Bingzhou, Zheng Shi (the current first lady is Wu Yan deservedly) came with her second daughter, and the second daughter never secretly looked at Wu Yan again.

After exchanging pleasantries, Wu Yan invited everyone to eat hot pot, that is, hot pot.

It is not briquettes but briquettes with holes to keep the hot pot warm.

At first, Zheng and the others thought the Prince Jin Mansion was really funny. Could it be that if the coal is rounded and flattened to make it look better, will it be different from the coal in the past?The reason for doing this is to show that the royal family also pays attention to fine living in front of the aristocratic family?

It has to be said that Zheng and the others didn't think of the idea at all.

When the hot pot started to boil, everyone moved their chopsticks one after another.

There are thinly sliced ​​mutton, venison shank that has been soaked in honey sauce for seasoning, shrimp and fish meatballs that have been mashed and kneaded, as well as radishes, white song, and some things that are rare in winter. to the vegetables.

Vegetables are naturally produced by Wu Yan. The out-of-season vegetables grown in the greenhouse look like vegetables, but in fact, the price is not cheaper than meat at all.

The attention of all the women's relatives was on the green vegetables. After a cursory look, few people paid attention to the briquettes.

Wu Yan thought to himself, Li Zhi was asked to write a letter to tell His Majesty Li Er how to grow greenhouse vegetables, and now the trend of eating vegetables has become popular in Chang'an City, right?But everyone pays attention to vegetables but not to briquettes, so what should we do?

After eating a meal, Mrs. Zheng didn't notice anything, but Mrs. Wang, the wife of the Hu family who ranked third in Bingzhou, discovered this mystery.

As far as the Hu Wang family is concerned, it can also be regarded as a typical example of the concubine's counterattack in the Internet.

She is the daughter of a concubine from a side branch of the Wang family, and when married to the legitimate son of a side branch of the Hu family, it is considered a good match.But within two or three years, the eldest son of Hu's family passed away due to illness, and I don't know what the wife of the elder at the time thought about it. Wang's husband was adopted.When the former head of the Hu family passed away, the Wang family also became the head of the Hu family.

What's even more rare is that Hu Wei has a very close relationship with Wang, and he respects her both inside and out.

The Wang family who can be respected by her husband naturally has two talents. The most prominent point is that she has a vicious vision and is very accurate in seeing things.

Hu Wei once said to his wife with a smile: "A Huan is a man, it's really amazing." Ah Huan is Wang's nickname, which shows that the relationship between their husband and wife is really very good.

Therefore, although outsiders don't know how powerful the Wang family of the Hu family is, some people know about her natal Wang family—such as the Zheng family.

So when they went out, Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Wang came together. It turned out that Mrs. Zheng had always been a face to Mrs. Wang.

Today, Mrs. Zheng still had no choice but to say: "You see, the princess came to us to admire the flowers today, is it just for the flowers?"

Although Wang's surname is Wang, she married into the Hu family after all. Even if she thinks about it today, she doesn't want to tell the Wang family first.She was going home to discuss with her husband Hu Wei before making a decision, so she laughed and said, "Perhaps you want to make more friends with local families? After all, it would be inconvenient for His Royal Highness King Jin to make too many moves in the front."

Most people know this truth, so there is no need for Mrs. Wang to express it.

So for a moment, Mrs. Zheng was not sure whether this sister-in-law who was a concubine from a side branch really thought so, or she thought about it and was unwilling to say anything, so she said goodbye to her lightly.

That night, Wang Ren asked his wife what was worth paying attention to when she went to the Jin Palace today. Mrs. Zheng thought for a long time and said that the princess took out a lot of vegetables that should not appear in winter to entertain the female relatives.

But the Hu family is another story.

Hu Wei drank tea and said, "Oh, Ah also said that today the princess not only has a lot of vegetables, but also strange-looking coal?"

"Yes, I calculated that the coal with small holes in the column shape should burn much longer than a coal of the same size." Mrs. Wang was careful and shrewd.

When she said that, Hu Wei completely believed it.