I was a prince in ancient times

As the weather gradually turned cooler, the Prince Chen's Mansion became completely busy.

The busiest place is the sewing room in Chenwang Mansion. All the embroiderers have never stopped sewing. They want to make cotton clothes for tens of thousands of veterans before the winter in the northwest.

The style of the cotton clothes was designed by the prince. It is different from the ordinary cotton clothes in the Yong Dynasty. It is similar to a big cloak, but it is very similar to a big cloak.

It can be wrapped from head to toe, people are wrapped inside and warm, and the style is simple, and they can be taken off when sleeping at night and used as a quilt cover, which is warmer than a quilt cover.

And because the style is simple, the embroiderers don't have to work hard to make it. They only need to make the clothes, stuff them with cotton, and nail a few round wooden buttons.

But no matter how simple the work is, there are only a dozen or so embroiderers in the Chenwang Mansion, no matter how hardworking they are, they can only sew a few pieces of clothing every day.

Lu Chengjie had no choice but to gather other maids who could make clothes in Chenwang Mansion, and all of them came to the embroidery garden to help make cotton clothes whenever they were free.

Even so, it appears to be understaffed.

After all, the weather in the northwest is about to get cold, and there are still most of the cotton-padded clothes that have not been made here, and the road is far away.

"What are you worried about?" Xie Anlan stood on the porch looking at the busy embroidery garden, and asked Lu Chengjie, who bowed his head and frowned beside him.

"I'm worried that I can't finish sewing at the scheduled time." Lu Chengke didn't hide it, and directly expressed his worry.

Xie Anlan got off the porch and walked towards the embroidery garden. When a group of servants saw him, they hurriedly stood up to salute.

Xie Anlan waved her hand and let them go about their business.

I walked around the show garden and carefully observed their busy work.

After reading it, I found a corner to meditate.

"But something's wrong." Lu Chengke asked after catching up.

"It's a big problem." Xie Anlan said without thinking, "Look carefully at them, it seems that everyone is busy, but some are busy, and some are just busy."

Lu Chengjiao looked at Xie Anlan's words, and it was true that some of these maids were sitting in the garden, wishing to have ten hands and sew the clothes on them faster, while some were busy in the garden. What are you busy with?

Lu Chengjie frowned.

Xie Anlan didn't say anything, walked to the middle of the embroidery garden, and made the servants stop.

Pointing to a maid who was cutting the fabric, she said, "You bring the things to me."

The maid tremblingly moved the table cloth to Xie Anlan.

Xie Anlan pointed to a maid who was sewing again and said, "Go behind her."

The maid who was sewing did as she was told.

Immediately, Xie Anlan ordered a few more people one after another, so that all the maids lined up in a straight line.

Lu Chengjiao observed that Xie Anlan's arrangement happened to arrange a piece of clothing from beginning to end, and his eyes lit up.

"The rest of them will rank in this order." Xie Anlan cleared his throat after arranging a team.

These servant girls didn't dare to disobey him, so they all followed suit. After a while, there were several rows of people neatly sitting in the embroidery garden.

The rest of the people who were not arranged were all panic-stricken people who were isolated on the sidelines.

"Two people in one row are responsible for helping, and the rest can go back and do what they need to do." Xie Anlan glanced at these people and said softly.

The maids who were willing to stay and help each chose a team, and the rest looked at each other and went back to busy with their own affairs.

"Now, you can do your own thing. Start with the first person, and pass on after completing your own steps. The person who is too busy to help with that step will be on top. Make sure that the thread from beginning to end will not be broken."

Xie Anlan waited for some of the maids to leave, and stood at the front of the embroidery garden, saying loudly.

"Yes." After the maids responded in unison, they all lowered their heads and went to work on their own tasks.

It was obviously the same work as before, but the speed was more than twice as fast as before.

The people in front dare not let the people behind rest, and the people behind dare not let themselves pile up, for fear of being called lazy by the princes and concubines.

"That's okay, if it doesn't work, you can add a few more lines." Xie Anlan made the arrangements, and after observing that nothing went wrong during the meeting, she turned to look at Lu Chengjiao.

"It's doable." Lu Chengjiao looked at the increasing efficiency, and his face relaxed. He was so worried these two days that he almost wanted to sew with a needle and thread by himself.

"That's it." Xie Anlan smiled, and wanted to reach out to hook the fan pinned to his waist, but after a long time without hooking it, it suddenly occurred to him that the weather was getting colder, and he didn't need this thing anymore.

Feeling in my heart, habit is really a terrible thing.

In the past, he carried burdensome things in his free hands, but now he is slowly getting used to it.

Xie Anlan didn't catch the fan, she lowered her hand naturally, and raised her foot to get out of the embroidery garden full of makeup.

"Wait..." Lu Chengjiao suddenly caught up, looked at him, and smiled, "Your Highness's method can also work in other places."

Xie Anlan nodded, "Yes."

"Then I'll go with His Highness." Lu Chengjie turned around and told Qiutang behind him to look at these maids, Xiu Niang, and then stood side by side with Xie Anlan.

"I'm going to Iron and Steel Workshop, do you want to follow me?" Xie Anlan asked curiously as the two walked towards the outside of Chenwang's mansion together.

"No, I'm going to the sugar factory. The sugar cane from Chu State is being delivered one after another. I have to go and have a look." Lu Chengjie took the cloak that Lu Chuyi handed over behind him, and neatly wrapped himself up.

"Are there enough people?" Xie Anlan tied the cloak tightly for him, touched his slightly warm hand, and asked.

"It's enough for the time being, and if it's not enough, we can recruit again. Now that the farming is slack, many people are willing to come out to work as helpers to earn some money." Walking to the gate of the Prince Chen's Mansion, Lu Chengjie breathed a sigh of relief into his hands.

As a large amount of sugarcane entered the imperial capital, the workload of the pond workshop increased day by day. It was originally a small pond workshop, but after being manipulated by Xie Anlan, it became the largest workshop in the imperial capital.

Sugarcane was transported from Chu State every day, and the sugarcane outside the imperial capital had piled up into mountains, and people came to watch the excitement every day.

Occasionally, the workers in Tangfang are overwhelmed, and some stewards come to hire people to carry sugar cane, and many powerful people rush to do it.

"Then pay attention to yourself, don't catch the wind and cold." Seeing that he handled it with ease, Xie Anlan no longer worried about him, only worried about his body.

This person's body was originally cold, and at night it was as if he was hugging an ice cube. Xie Anlan had to hug him every night to sleep peacefully.

"Strictly speaking." Lu Chengke said, wanting to pull the clothes in the collar of the cloak to show him.

Xie Anlan smiled and pressed his hand, fastened his loose cloak tightly again, and told Lu Chu, "When you get outside, keep an eye on your young master, and don't let his cloak loosen."

Lu Chuyi nodded vigorously.

Only then did Xie Anlan feel relieved to take the car to the Iron and Steel Workshop.

"Wait." Before the man got into the carriage, the corner of his clothes was pulled by Lu Chengjiao again.

"Is there anything else?" Xie Anlan raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

Lu Chengjie took out a small piece of candy from his waist, peeled off the oil paper outside, and fed it to Xie Anlan.

"What's the point of feeding me sugar?" Xie Anlan said so, but still lowered her head and swallowed it.

A faint sour taste mixed with saliva permeated the whole mouth, Xie Anlan couldn't help but startled.

"This taste..."

It was his favourite.

"It's made by Tangfang. I'll prepare some extra for you. You can put it on your body, and you can take it out to relieve boredom when you're tired." Lu Chengjie took out a handful of candy from his large sleeve robe as he spoke.

Xie Anlan held a handful of candy with Lu Chengjiao's faint body temperature, put it in her sleeve, smiled at him and got on the carriage.

Lu Chengjie stood at the door the whole time, watching Xie Anlan's carriage go away, and then said to Lu Chu behind him, "Let's go too."

The carriage staggered to the entrance of Liulifang. According to the old rules, one must first pass through Liulifang before making a detour to the Iron and Steel Workshop.

It was cold winter outside, but inside the Iron and Steel Works, it was like a scorching summer. Once you stepped in, a monstrous heat rushed straight to your face.

Xie Anlan took off his outer coat and threw it to Gao De behind him, only then did he slightly relieve the unbearable heat.

Asked Wu Jun who had been waiting by the side early, "What's the matter?"

"My lord, please come with the villain." Wu Jun respectfully brought Xie Anlan into a room full of steel.

Before entering, Xie Anlan smelled the mixed smell of steel and iron, covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief uncomfortably, and walked in with a bow under the curtain raised by Wu Jun.

This is a hollowed out mountain wall, filled with gleaming steel weapons, the number of which is no less than [-].

In addition to a wide range of weapons, there are also new types of armor.

Xie Anlan weighed each of them in his hand, he didn't know weapons, so he looked at each of them just for show.

The last one came to the newly built armor, measured it for a moment, and said to Gothe behind him, "Go and try it."

Gothe picked up an iron knife and slashed at the armor, making it a little stronger, sparks appeared on the armor, and the cut part of the armor was slightly dented, but the armor did not show any damage.

Xie Anlan stepped forward to take a look and was extremely satisfied, "Not bad."

Then he said again, "Try with a steel knife."

Gao De had no choice but to pick up another steel knife and slashed at the armor a few times. This time the armor and the steel knife made an extremely unpleasant collision sound, and there were more sparks than before.

The armor was cut into several gaps by the steel knife, and the steel knife was not much better, with several gaps appearing on the blade.

Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows, "It's okay."

Wu Jun felt sorry for the chopped steel knife and armor, but looked at Gao De's stern face, and finally said nothing.

"How many armors are there?" Xie Anlan really couldn't stand the mixed smell of steel and iron, which smelled like blood. After the inspection, she hurriedly came out of the room covering her mouth and nose.

"So far, a total of [-] pairs have been made." Wu Jun looked a little apprehensive.

It's not that they don't want to make more, it's because the prince is too urgent. In the past year, they have to make all kinds of weapons and armor.

There are only so many people in their steel workshop, and if they are cut in half, there is only this output.

After Xie Anlan listened, she nodded with a calm expression, and instructed, "Before November [-]th, hide these armors and those weapons in the cotton-padded clothes made by the princess, and transport them to the northwest."

"My lord, the cotton clothes are light, but the weapons are heavy. It is extremely difficult to transport them to the northwest without anyone noticing." Wu Jun guessed that this matter would probably be done in secret as soon as he heard Xie Anlan's arrangement.

"That's your business." Xie Anlan raised his hand and directly interrupted what he was going to say next, "This secret change of weapons is the idea of ​​the emperor, you don't want to disobey the order, do you?"

When Wu Jun heard the word Huangxiong, there were big beads of sweat on his forehead, so he had to grit his teeth and admit it.

"Yes, we must find a way to make the border soldiers change their weapons without anyone noticing."

"Yeah." Xie Anlan believed that they could handle the matter well, and Xie Cangming would help to block it later.

When Xie Anlan was about to go to the iron mine, Xie Anlan made an agreement with Xie Cangming that he could give him a batch of weapons for free.

This time, Lu Chengjie wants to wear cotton clothes with the veterans, and the recruits can't lag behind, right? Yongchao's cotton has to be supplied to Xueguo, and there won't be too much cotton to make a cotton jacket for every soldier. The cotton clothes should be tighter for the old ones first. Come, the young people will change each of them for a new weapon.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to send the things together also saves trouble.

It is not convenient for Xie Cangming to come to the iron and steel workshop. Most of them are helped by Xie Anlan. Wu Jun seems to be Xie Anlan's person, but actually Xie Cangming's person.

"We're done with the weapons. What about the things I want? When can I start work?" This time, after changing the weapons for the soldiers in the Northwest, it was his turn to make things.

"My lord's things are simple. After I've been busy for a while, I can start with all my strength." Wu Jun's face relaxed when he heard this, and he immediately replied.

Xie Anlan nodded, he was not in a hurry, he patrolled around the iron and steel workshop, and returned the same way after he had nothing to worry about.

Before stepping into the carriage, Xie Anlan touched the candy hidden in his sleeve and glanced at Gao De.

Gao De's cold lips were slightly pursed, he nodded to Xie Anlan, and left without saying a word, leading the carriage.

Xie Anlan got into the carriage, looked at Gothe leading the carriage in front of him with a muffled voice, smiled, peeled a candy and threw it into his mouth to taste it carefully.

There is still a short distance from Liulifang to the imperial capital. Xie Anlan leaned on the carriage and took a light nap.

When he woke up again, Gao De really drove the carriage to Lu Chengjia's sugar workshop.

"Where is the person?" Xie Anlan searched around the sugar workshop but couldn't find anyone, and immediately looked at Gao De.

"Princess should have gone to deal with the residue of sugar cane." Gothe said in a muffled voice.

Xie Anlan narrowed her eyes slightly, "What happened to the residue?"

"Just now when my subordinate led the horse over, I heard a woman gossiping on the street saying that Wangfei's sugar shop is good everywhere, but there are too many residues, which block the nearby sewers, so that the silt in the city cannot be drained on rainy days. Go out and flood many people's houses."

There is no need for Gao De to continue talking, Xie Anlan also knows that Lu Chengjia must have gone to deal with this matter.

After inquiring about the location of Lu Chengke from the nearby neighbors, Xie Anlan and Gao De went straight there.

Pulling away the crowd, I saw Lu Chengjiao leading a group of people to pass through the sewer.

"What's the matter?" Xie Anlan approached and asked.

"It's still working." Lu Chengjie frowned. He and the workers didn't realize the problem when there was not enough sugarcane before, so they piled up the sugarcane residue in one part of the water room. A lot of debris was in the sewers, which caused a blockage of the sewers in one street.

"We'll get someone to count the losses later, and we should pay back the flooded families' money, and we'll pay you a penny." Xie Anlan looked at the servant who was still cleaning the sewer, and said.

"I've asked the first day of junior high school to take stock." Lu Chengke nodded, as long as money can solve the problem, it's easy to handle.

"The bagasse in the water room should also be cleaned out, so it won't be flushed down the sewer when it rains." Xie An thought for a while and said again.

"I can save it, I've already sent someone to deal with it." Lu Chengjie said again.

Xie Anlan was relieved to see that he had made arrangements.

After seeing the sewer that was being dredged, he suddenly asked, "How do you usually deal with those bagasses?"

"Dry it in the sun and burn it as firewood." Lu Chengke replied without paying attention.

"Is it just for firewood?" Xie Anlan let out a sigh of relief and asked again

Seeing Xie Anlan ask twice, Lu Chengjie finally sensed something was wrong, raised his head, his eyes shone slightly, "Could it be that these residues have other magical uses."

Xie Anlan looked at Shanglu Chengjiao without saying a word, but nodded slightly.

Lu Chengjie squeezed his fingertips together and said anxiously, "I'll let them leave the bagasse."

Since the sugar cane bagasse in the water room had accumulated too much, it would not be dry for a while, so Lu Chengjia had sent someone to find a carriage, and was going to transport the residue out of the city and bury it.

"I'm with you." Xie Anlan quickly followed Lu Chengjie's pace.

The two went to the water room behind the sugar mill together, and there were indeed quite a few carriages gathered here, and some servants and workers were shoveling the residue in the water room.

Seeing that half of the transport had already been carried out, Lu Chengjie raised his hand to stop him and said, "Stop, no need to shovel."

A group of servants and workers looked at him in bewilderment, "Princess..."

"I have other arrangements for these residues, you guys rest first, and you will pay the wages later." Being watched by them, Lu Chengjie was not timid, and made arrangements in a leisurely manner.

"No, let them shovel it, and it will be troublesome if you stay here and block the sewer." Xie Anlan followed behind Lu Chengjie, shaking his head.

"My lord..." Seeing that the princess and the lord had different opinions, the workers and servants hesitated and didn't know who to listen to.

"Where are you going to shovel it out?" Lu Chengke asked in a low voice without refuting Xie Anlan.

The imperial capital is now overcrowded, and they no longer have a house to accommodate these residues, and as more and more residues are left in the sugar mill, the house that is too small will definitely not be able to accommodate them.

"Transport it back to Prince Chen's Mansion first. I remember that there are still a few empty houses in the backyard. Let's pile them up inside." Xie Anlan quickly replied.

Lu Chengjie frowned, "Those houses..."

Those houses were used to accommodate Xie Anlan's wives and concubines, and now Lu Chengke and Xie Anlan live under the same roof every day.

Xie Anlan didn't have a concubine's room, so naturally she couldn't use it.

"Okay." Thinking of the usefulness of those courtyards, Lu Chengge nodded in agreement without saying a word, and said to the servant who was shoveling the debris, "You guys go ahead and pull it back to the Chenwang Mansion later, but don't pull it outside the city."

From the sugar workshop to the Prince Chen's Mansion, it was almost across the entire imperial capital, and a group of people carried sugar cane residues to the Prince Chen's Mansion in a mighty manner.

It caused a lot of criticism.

"My lord, what are you doing now? Could it be that this sugarcane residue has a magical effect?" Someone was sitting in the mutton soup shop, looking at the carts of sugarcane residue passing by in front of them, and couldn't help but wonder.

"Besides making fire, what else can it be used for?" The owner of the mutton soup shop added fire to the stove while answering the guest's words, "Maybe the Prince Chen's Mansion just wants to take it back and use it as firewood, and there is still some firewood money left over." .”

The guest who was drinking the soup smiled, "I don't think so, the prince is not someone who is short of money, how could he spend so much trouble for a few firewood money."

The wages given to the servants outside can be worth as much firewood as the Chen Wang Mansion.

"Then this residue can be turned into treasure." The owner of the mutton soup shop squatted in front of the stove, his eyes widened.

"Maybe." The guest drank the last sip of mutton soup at the bottom of the bowl, his whole body was warm, and he pondered, "It's not that the big guy doesn't know that there is nothing in the hands of the prince that is not precious."

Everyone nodded in unison, the prince is someone who can turn even dirt into gold, maybe this bagasse can also be turned into gold.

"Bah, what gold." One of the people in the crowd listened to the people's discussion and spit on the ground, "Perhaps Xie Anlan is too poor to afford firewood."

"Your Highness, why do you see it?" Little Six and Xie Huarong heard Xie Huarong's disdainful voice behind him, and couldn't help but wonder.

He felt that what those people said was quite reasonable.

"His prodigal concubine bought so much sugar cane, but the state of Chu sent several large ships to the imperial capital. I asked those merchants, and what they sent now was just a drop in the ocean. Think about how much sugar cane it would cost. He Chen No matter how rich the palace is, it can be more than the treasury."

Xie Huarong backed away from the crowd as he spoke, no longer paying attention to the row of carriages.

"When Concubine Chen sells the candy, she will have money." Little Six followed behind Xie Huarong, saying vaguely.

"There is so much sugar cane, where will it be sold out in a short while? He was just dazzled by the temporary orders of the merchants. After the merchants have bought almost all the sugar cane, I will see who he will sell his sugar to." Xie Huarong once He also went through the business secretly, knowing that doing business is not an easy task, and it is easy to lose all his money. Even if he worked hard and worked hard, he would not be as good as he earned in a small win in a gambling shop after a month. .

Lu Chengji built such a big stall as soon as he came up, so it's no wonder if he messed up.

"Really?" Little Six felt that with King Chen around, he probably wouldn't be able to mess with it.

"Yes," Xie Huarong said with great certainty, "Just wait until the Prince Chen's Mansion is crying poor."

Xiao Liuzi had different opinions on what his county king said, but he still didn't say those disappointing words after seeing his county king's complacent look.

Sugar cane bagasse was piled into the Prince Chen's Mansion. In order to prevent the residue from becoming moldy, Xie Anlan had to call people to collect it and soak it in the backyard of the Palace all day, trying to put the residue to where it should be used as soon as possible.

"Master, my lord wants water and distilled water. Will you make a sugarcane perfume?"

Recently, Chaolu has made a new food called chicken feet with pickled peppers. Everyone in Chenwang’s mansion can’t put it down. The young master sat and watched the smoke in the backyard of Prince Chen's Mansion.

Sitting outside the courtyard, Lu Chengjia looked up at the burning fireworks from the backyard, and calmly flipped through a page of the account book, "I don't think it looks like it."

"The young master thinks that the prince will make something new this time." Lu Chu wrapped the gnawed chicken bones in oiled paper. Neither the prince nor the young master likes to throw dirty things around. be careful.

"No guessing," Lu Chengjiao raised his eyelids, and ruthlessly refused, "Anyway, the prince has made it, and he will definitely tell me as soon as possible."

"Master, why don't you try to find out which aspect the prince is this time." Lu Chuyi fell in front of Lu Chengjiao, and pushed the bowl with a few chicken feet left in his arms towards Lu Chengjiao.

Lu Chengjie raised his eyebrows and looked at him suspiciously.

Lu Chuyi said awkwardly, "There is a gamble outside to bet on what the prince made this time, and I... bet 100 taels."

Lu Chengjie looked at him amusedly and angrily, "Is it because I usually pay you too little, or the Chenwang Mansion can't afford you, and you, the famous Lu Steward of the Chenwang Mansion, need to rely on betting money?" Come make money."

"Master..." Lu Chu was weak and waited silently for punishment.

Lu Chengjie patted him on the head with the account book, "Where did you bet?"

"Eat." Lu Chuyi didn't dare to hide it.

Lu Chengjiao thought about it for a while, and took out a 1000 tael bank note from his pocket, "Help me use it."

The author has something to say: Ah, I forgot to ask everyone if you like Modern Fanwai, and I only remembered after writing a few times, ah, I am a goldfish head.

--感谢在2020-08-1523:56:06~2020-08-1623:56:03期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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