Han Yi and Yan Fei looked at each other and smiled, but they were both unhappy.

Han Yi is because the other party has found a good reason, and he can't continue to be relentless.

And Yan Fei was obviously a little more worried. He still hasn't figured out how Han Yi found out that he secretly expanded his army.

Without knowing exactly what method Han Yi used, Yan Fei had to be careful about what he did next, otherwise he might be caught off guard.

After the banquet was over, Chu Fei came out from behind and asked strangely, "Why did you let him go?"

Yan Fei's excuse does sound like that.

But if you think about it carefully, you can find the flaw: that place is a war zone, maybe it will start fighting at any time, not to mention the army is stationed there, how could the refugees still stay there?

These people are very clever, and when there is a slight disturbance, they disappear in a flash.

What's more, they had already cleared the surrounding mountains and forests in order to test explosives.

Han Yi had many ways to force Yan Fei to tell the truth just now, but he actually showed mercy. Could it be that the sun came out from the west?

Han Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "He must have staff around him. Since he dares to expand the army, he must rely on something. Even if he admits to the expansion of the army, what can we do if he only says that he is very happy?"

Chu Fei said: "Report to the court, the king is not a soft-hearted person. He is especially fond of military power, and he will definitely be severely punished."

"That was before." Han Yi said: "Now the king should not easily touch the clan, especially his brothers."

Chu Fei raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

Han Yi was a little melancholy: "Why not, I got the news yesterday that the king just chopped off a younger brother because of resentment, and he has cut off almost ten brothers since he took the throne for more than a year, and if he cut off, there will be trouble. "

Chu Fei was silent.

Yan Zijian's murder did not mean only his brothers, but his whole family and even his in-laws.

His younger brothers may also be implicated in his wife's family.

But my brothers have many children who are married.

That's a lot of hacking.

As for the courtiers, how many of them are not related to the royal family?

This is also a means for the king to win over the ministers.

It is said that Yan Zijian is ready to let Yan Qiao marry Jiang Buwei's daughter.

So people are panicking at the top right now, for fear that their home will be cold if they don't pay attention.

Han Yi reckoned that if Yan Zijian was cut down again, the ministers would not panic, but were planning to change the throne.

Presumably his brothers will be very happy, specifically refer to Zhu Di in real history.

However, there should be no more royal families who dare to do things now, so Yan Zijian started to adopt a soft policy, and Yan Fei's ability to come with illness is a signal of his change.

So as long as Yan Fei doesn't rebel, nothing major will happen.

Han Yi didn't want to sue for a long time, and made himself an enemy, but the other party was still safe and sound.

If he really wants to mess with Yan Fei, he must have evidence that can beat him to death.

What's more, he hasn't figured out the purpose of Yan Fei's army expansion.

After Chu Fei understood this, he couldn't help sighing and said, "It's a pity."

What he thought was that if something happened to Yan Fei, maybe Han Yi would be able to justifiably take over the military affairs of Furong County.

That seems unlikely now.

Han Yi was quite happy: "What a pity, I am too happy for him to give me political achievements."

Now the performance of local officials depends on the number of crimes, population growth, taxation and construction.

Originally there was a Hibiscus Canal, and Han Yi's political achievements could already rank first this year, not to mention the extra population now.

When Han Yi thought about these two things, it was probably enough for him to be transferred back to Xianyang after working for a year.

He really would rather go to retreat and forge irons than work at the grassroots level. Those trivial matters make his head hurt.

Han Yi happily sent Moqiu to take someone to check the number of people with Yan Fei, while he and Chu Fei were looking at the map and thinking about how to arrange these people.

After Mo Qiu came back, the number of people reported was about 500. It seems that the number is not many, but if you really calculate it, it is a bit difficult to arrange so many people at once.

Even so, Chu Fei was still a little dissatisfied: "Isn't the number not enough? According to the number reported by the main report of five hundred people, there must be at least one thousand people."

Han Yi waved his hand and said: "These people are enough. What's more, even if we think it's not enough, can we still go to the barracks to nod? It's almost enough, not to mention that it is already very difficult to resettle these people. Although there is land for them, But they missed the spring plowing and summer planting, and this year they will miss it directly, and I am afraid life will be difficult."

Thinking about it this way, Chu Fei was really worried: "That's true, so what should I do?"

According to the normal procedure, the county government should give them a subsistence ration, or directly treat these people as military service, let them work, and then make a living, and then release them back to farm in the next spring.

Now, some people can be dispatched to maintain the Furong Canal, but so many people are not needed.

Han Yi turned to look at Moqiu and said, "Is the ice cellar already built?"

Mo Qiu was stunned for a moment: "Yes, it's almost done. The Juzi wanted to return to his life before, but when you went to supervise the Furong Canal, the Juzi said that it was more important, so he waited, and then..."

Han Yi rubbed his chin and said: "My mansion was burned and needs to be rebuilt. Send people to recruit workers among those refugees. But you don't need to take care of them too much. You can recruit as many people as you need, and the rest are also useful. Oh, let someone ask how many of those people can fish."

Mo Qiu hurriedly recorded on the sidelines. After Han Yi assigned the two tasks, he said, "Since the ice cellar has been built, we should try it."

Moqiu said with a bitter face: "Before the giant also wanted to try it first, to see if there was something inappropriate before going to rest, but...there was no way to find ice, I'm afraid..."

Han Yi smiled and said, "Go to Curry to get some saltpeter and follow me."

Mo Qiu was very curious, not knowing what he wanted the saltpeter for.

Han Yi brought a large amount of saltpeter to the ice cellar.

At this time, the giant of the Mohist School is still leading people to repair the ice cellar, but their current repairs are all based on imagination, asking a question, and then answering it in a debating way, and then start when they find a good way.

This is also a matter of no choice, after all, without ice, there is no way to test the drainage system, ventilation system and heat preservation capacity of this ice cellar.

After Han Yi brought people, only Mo Qiu, Mo Ning and the giants of the Mo family followed in, and even Duan could only guard outside.

The giant of the Mo family asked curiously: "I heard that Mr. Lang has a way to make ice?"

Han Yi nodded. He reached out and touched the water that was pumped up from the ground. When he found it was very cool, he said, "Xiao Xiong, come on, pour some water and mix it with the nitrate until it is saturated."

Mo Yun took a bucket and started to work. After staying with Han Yi for a long time, he also understood what the word "saturation" meant.

After finishing it, Han Yi raised his chin and said, "Put that small bucket with water in the big bucket."

Mo Yun did as he did, and Han Yi didn't speak anymore, but felt the temperature of the water in the small bucket with his hands from time to time.

I have to say that it is quite inconvenient to not have a thermometer in this era, the human body is not so sensitive after all.

Han Yi could only ask Mo Yun to change the nitric acid solution in the outer barrel after he felt that it was almost the same and the temperature stopped dropping.

It doesn't work if you don't change it, just one dial can't directly turn the water in the small bucket into ice, so you can only use multi-stage cooling.

The giants of the Mo family and Mo Qiu just watched the water in the small bucket slowly turn into a mixture of ice and water, and finally turned into ice, and they were stunned.

The giant of the Mo family touched the ice in the small bucket, and said with a surprised face: "Saltpeter has such uses."

Han Yi smiled slightly and said: "This is difficult to say and simple to say. It is not difficult to get saltpeter ice, but this method is a bit complicated, and in this hot and humid place, the storage of ice is difficult to solve, so in the end it is It depends on how the ice cellar is."

The giant of the Mo family said confidently: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will bring people to guard here, and if any problems are found, I can deal with them in time."

Han Yi nodded and said, "So I'm relieved, oh, this method is actually not difficult, and it doesn't matter if people know it, but now I still need you to keep it secret for the time being."

The Mohist giant swore directly to the sky, saying that he would never speak out.

For him, Han Yi is quite at ease. He agrees with the Mohist ideals and is willing to work hard. He can basically be called a gentleman.

It's just that he still has reservations about the rest of the Mo family. After all, even a giant can't guarantee that under the temptation of interests, all his clansmen can guarantee not to be tempted.

After testing the feasibility of making ice with saltpeter, Han Yi directly sent Mo Yun and his slaves to station here to make ice.

At the beginning, because of the temperature problem of the ice cellar, the ice making is fast and the melting is also fast. After the ice gradually increases, the melting will become relatively slow, but only a little slower, and the melting will still happen, so the ice making Things are going on almost every day.

Thanks to the fact that saltpeter can be recycled, otherwise buying saltpeter would be a big expense.

After the ice cellar was officially opened, Han Yi first asked people to go to the fishing village to buy a large amount of seafood, and then brought them to the ice cellar to sort them, even sorting out the size, and then put them in the built wooden boxes to freeze.

However, the freezing was fast, but the fishing speed of the fishermen was really not good. Fortunately, with the supplement of thousands of people, at least a few hundred people who could cast nets and fish were found.

Han Yi's purchase price was not too low. He calculated that at least these people would be able to pay taxes in a year, and still have a little surplus, as long as they could not starve to death.

This amount was also calculated carefully by him. After all, the amount given was too high. He worried that many people would go fishing instead of farming.

It is still dangerous to go fishing in the sea these days, and maybe you will never return.

When these seafood piled up one-third of the ice cellar, the resettlement of the refugees was similar. Han Yi directly wrote a memorial, reporting the Furong Canal and the resettlement of the refugees to the imperial court, and by the way, he also got [-] cars Seafood is shipped to Xianyang.

Zuo Shu walked faster than the convoy, so that when the convoy entered Xianyang with a fairly fresh smell of the sea, the people onlookers directly blocked the road, and finally the Xianyang Order had to send people to clear the road to protect these people. The convoy was able to enter the palace smoothly.

Not to mention that the common people were curious, even Yan Zijian was curious. When he heard that the convoy had entered the palace, he was ready to take a look. But unexpectedly, many ministers were not even off work, and they were not in a hurry to go back to eat. To follow to see.

So a group of people followed to the ice cellar in the palace, and were fortunate enough to visit all kinds of fish and unknown creatures frozen in the ice that had never been seen before.

Just when everyone was wondering how the ice could not melt during the long journey from Furong County to Xianyang, Yan Zijian was holding a book written by Han Yi in a daze. On the cover of the book was written: Guide to Seafood Consumption.

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