Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong rushed back to the villa after dark, and Chu Chaohui had just led the slaves to finish work.Wei Qing and Huo Sihua had already prepared dinner and boiled hot water in the kitchen.

That night, the slaves ate corn and rice, which was rarely available, and also drank green vegetable and tofu soup, which was a beautiful green and white soup with two small pieces of meat in it.The slaves were not tall, but they all ate a lot. The two bowls of corn rice and one bowl of soup were all eaten and licked clean.

Chu Chaohui worked like the slaves during the day, but there was no way out of lack of labor.They will work with the slaves, but they will not eat dinner with the slaves. Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming are not used to the corn and rice that the slaves eat. They still have [-] catties of rice in reserve. Children help consume it, and eat it with pasta, and it can always be mixed with rice until it matures.Chu and Zheng and their three children ate at the kitchen table, while the slaves received food at the kitchen door and ate in the yard.

The slaves always squatted in the yard to eat, and the soup bowls were placed on the concrete floor. If Chu and Zheng didn't allow them to sit on the ground, these slaves really wanted to use the concrete floor as a chair.In this time and space, there is no furniture of later generations. Many commoners use cattail mats as seats at home. The concrete floor in the courtyard of the villa is a big rock in the eyes of the slaves, and the big rock is cleaned by a few children. The slaves felt that the concrete floor could be used as a mat.

After dinner, these slaves were driven back to the worker’s room to sleep, but this time the slaves were not required to urinate and lock the door in the room, but placed wooden barrels outside the worker’s room, so they could defecate freely at night, of course, if If you want to escape like a burly slave, you only need to climb over the wall, and the surrounding forest is open to them unconditionally.

After staying for a day, the slaves knew that what they built was the house they would live in, and they worked very hard. Although the labor intensity of the day was high, it was within their tolerance. Well, I slept very warmly. The master’s family didn’t bring a whip for the supervisor during the day, and they worked together with them. Such a good master’s family can’t be found in the whole of Daqin. Now don’t say run away, just drive them away. The slaves felt that it was their punishment.

Chu Chaohui was in a good mood tonight. He took a bottle of Wuliangye from the wine cabinet of the villa, poured it into a pottery bowl and drank it with Zheng Yumin. The modern utensils in the villa were stored in the attic as much as possible. The two of them are now adapting to using this time and space as much as possible. utensils.

Chu Zhaohui and Zheng Yuming were sitting at one table drinking wine, and three children were sitting at the other table. These three children had finished their dinner and were learning to read by the pine torches stuck on the kitchen wall.

People in this time and space use this kind of greased torches for lighting at night. Only a few dignitaries such as kings and nobles can afford candles. Today's candles are not made of paraffin like in the 21st century. That kind of paraffin It is extracted from petroleum. There is no paraffin in this time and space, only white wax. Paraffin is the secretion of wax worms. People pick white wax from the feces of white wax worms in the wild to make candles.The history of people artificially cultivating white wax to make candles is recorded in the Tang Dynasty in the previous time and space.

Chu Chaohui asked Zheng Yuming about the situation in Nanbu: "How many craftsmen are there in Nanbu?"

Originally, the two should go together to meet the villagers in Nanbu, but Chu Chaohui had to stay in the valley to take care of the slaves, and the development of Nanbu was urgent, so Zheng and Chu had to split up.

"There is only one master carpenter, and the master carpenter has three apprentices, two of whom are his sons. In addition, there are two in the village who can do carpentry work, and three who can weave bamboo. These nine people are all organized into the carpenter group by me. There is only one blacksmith, connected with his three sons, and the blacksmith group has only four people. There are two pottery burners, and there are only nine people in total." Zheng Yuming has screened the villagers of Nanbu several times, as long as they can touch fur Let him pick it up.

"There are a little less blacksmiths. Take that slave blacksmith to Nanbu tomorrow." The slave blacksmith is a lame slave, that is, the big and strong father.Chu Chaohui left Da Zhuang in the valley, not afraid that the lame slave would have second thoughts outside.

"The blacksmith's level of iron smelting is not good, and the temperature of the iron furnace is too low." Zheng Yuming already has a general understanding of the craftsmanship of the craftsmen.

"We can build a blast furnace. We have blueprints." The blast furnace has to be built slowly, and there is no rush now.

"Is the paper ready to be made?"

"There are only bamboo forests in Nanshan around the valley. At noon, I took the slaves to chop some bamboo and soak it in the pond." There is no modern technology, and to use primitive technology to make paper, bamboo must be soaked in water for a hundred days.

The three children are learning strange letters that look like tadpoles. Every day, Zheng Yuming or Chu Chaohui will let them learn a few. These tadpoles have a noun called Chinese letters.Although the three children don't understand the use of adults asking them to learn this, as long as Zheng and Chu let them learn, they will study hard, especially after hearing that they can understand the strange language of the two adults. The language is the hometown language of the two adults, and the three children learn it more seriously, especially the mouse. Now Wei Qing is more and more sure that the two adults treat them differently.

Huo Sizhong helped Zheng Yuming run errands in Nanbu, and Wei Qing helped Chu Chaohui take care of slaves and cook in the valley.Nine-year-old Huo Sihua didn't eat rice either. He cleaned the house every day, washed rice and vegetables, and took care of the wood.The three children also played the role of adults, which surprised Zheng and Chu, who had no choice but to adopt them. They felt that while the three children were precocious, they also gradually developed feelings for the three children. The meaning of cultivating a child into a confidant is more clear.

Zheng Yuming was worried that Chu Chaohui would take care of the slaves alone in the valley, and would rush back to the valley no matter how late he was busy in Nanbu every day. If he came back after dark, Chu Chaohui would always bring one or two slaves to meet him at the gap. Although there is a path from the gap to the villa, there are virgin forests on both sides of the path. Zheng Yuming is worried that Chu Chaohui will be in danger in guarding the slaves alone. Chu Chaohui is also worried that Zheng Yuming will encounter wild animals when walking at night. In this time and space, the two seem to depend on each other for life, and neither of them wants the other to make mistakes.

After ten days of busy work, the nine carpenters in Nanbu Village successfully built the Jenny loom and the loom. The spring water on the mountain and the river flow very fast all year round, which is suitable for the spinning of jenny machines driven by water power.The women in the village were organized by Wu Da’s wife to become weavers and spinners. The textile factory was set up in a dozen newly built mud-walled thatched huts beside the river. Finally successfully weaved the first white cotton cloth.

When Zheng Yuming built the textile machine, Chu Chaohui and the slaves had already built the mud room. When the mud room was dry, the slaves would move into a new house. Every two slaves shared a house, and the largest room was the largest. In addition to being used as a cafeteria, it will also become a place for slaves to learn culture in the future. Zheng and Chu do not want slaves to become coolies who only know how to work. They need slaves to be educated and knowledgeable, otherwise they can only rely on two people to develop Civilization, the result is nothing but failure or exhaustion.

Chu Chaohui settled the dwellings of the slaves, and began to lead the slaves to cut down the surrounding trees. The felled trees were piled together, and a hay shed was built on top of them to let the wood dry in the shade. The dried wood would be of great use.

After the slaves were bought back in Dacheng, God was merciful for a few light rains. These light rains could barely wet the ground. This year's climate seems to be less rainy, and the fields are in danger of drought.There is not much rain in spring, but the temperature has already risen, and the willow trees have begun to sprout. This year's spring is finally here.

People who came to do business at Nanbu Wharf found that the village was different from previous years. The coolies of the village who were waiting to carry goods at the wharf disappeared, and they were replaced by some young people from the back slope. They would be driven away by the villagers of Nanbu, but now, the villagers of Nanbu turn a blind eye to these coolies from other places, and all of them are in a hurry, looking very busy.

The villagers of Nanbu Village are very busy now. Under the guidance of Zheng Yuming, the villagers set up two water trucks by the river to drive water to the fields. The fields were replanted with soybeans.A small brick kiln was built next to a small earthen hill in the east of the village. Zheng Yuming didn't know how to build a brick kiln. In order to build a brick kiln well, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming took turns and went to Nanbu to guide the villagers for two days.

At the end of the month, Wu Mu came to Nanbu as scheduled. When he saw more than 50 bolts of linen and more than 40 bolts of cotton cloth handed over by Nanbu Textile Factory, his eyes gleamed. Although the hundred bolts of cloth were all white, the structure of cotton and linen was relatively weak. Tight, smooth and plump cloth, compared with Dacheng cloth is much rougher.

The wooden boats in this time and space are not very big, Wu Mu hired two wooden boats to load all the cloth, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui watched the wooden boat carrying the cloth go away, both of them were very worried.

There is a reason for Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's preoccupation. The last time they went to Dacheng to buy slaves, they left 370 gold for construction in Nanbu Yitong. Now there is not much left, and the food they bought can only last half The plan to go to the city to buy slaves at the beginning of the month cannot be carried out. It will take more than ten days for Wu Mu to come back after selling out the cloth. If Wu Mu stays out for a few more days, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui will run out of food. If the money is cut off, not only the rewards promised to the villagers cannot be fulfilled, but also all activities that require money to maintain their continuity will have to be stopped, and the prestige of the two will be questioned.

"Tomorrow I'll go to Dacheng." Zheng Yuming was going to visit the city lord of Dacheng. Firstly, he had to get closer to him, and secondly, he wanted to get some support from him. Of course, Zheng Yuming would not go there empty-handed.

"Take both Wei Qing and Sizhong." The two cannot leave the valley and Nanbu at the same time. This is their foundation and their development base. There must be someone guarding such an important place.

"Well, okay!" Zheng Yuming didn't shirk this time. The two children can't be bodyguards, but they can still do errands and deliver letters. If something happens to him in Dacheng, the two children can try to escape and report back to the valley.

Just when Zheng Yuming was about to leave for Dacheng to meet Ulsan Lord Gong Ziguang, Ulsan Lord's sacrificial person, Gong Ziguang's most trusted Wei Shen, was frowning and sighing to the sky.

A Ji girl in dark clothes covered her face and knelt down in front of Wei Shen. After listening to Ji girl's cry, Wei Shen remained expressionless, and waved his hand coldly to make Ji girl back down.

"Sheren, this female Ji is already the most beautiful woman in Dacheng." The waiter beside Wei Shen had a helpless expression on his face.

"Forget it, don't look for Meiji again." Wei Shenchang sighed.

"Your subordinate obeys!" The waiter bowed to accept the order, and heaved a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Have you woke up, Master?" Wei Shen turned to ask another waiter.

"Young master has woken up for a while and is having breakfast." After the waiter Wei Shen asked, he hesitated for a while, and reported the truth to Wei Shen: "When the subordinate came to see the servant, the young master was being summoned. Artist Xin."

"Find that artist again." Wei Shen frowned.

Wei Shen got up from his seat, and led a dumb waiter towards Ulsan Lord's residence.Wei Sheren never needs to be notified when entering or leaving Ulsan Lord's residence. The two soldiers guarding the gate of the residence compound did not speak when they saw Wei Sheren. They just hugged their weapons and saluted Wei Sheren, and then stood back in situ.

There are three entrances to the Ulsan Lord’s courtyard, and Gong Ziguang’s bedroom is the last entrance, and the study room next to the bedroom is usually used to meet close subordinates.Seeing Wei Sheren, the dumb slave guarding the second entrance quickly knelt down and gestured a few times. Wei Sheren was very familiar with the dumb language. The dumb slave told Wei Sheren that Young Master Guang was playing chess with artist Xin in the study.

Wei Sheren left his personal mute slave at the second gate, and walked in alone at the last gate. The courtyard where Mr. Ulsan lived was afraid of being peeped from a high place. There were no tall trees around the courtyard, and no trees were planted in the courtyard. The yard of the house is filled with all kinds of flowers and plants, and now the temperature is gradually rising, and the yard is beginning to be full of spring colors.

"Xin, your chess skills have gradually improved, much better than before." From the study came the son Guang's crisp voice.

"It's Xin who learned a lot from the young master." Artist Xin replied very respectfully.

Wei Sheren heard the two talking in the courtyard, and hurriedly stepped up.

"Is it Wei Sheren?" The young master knew it was Wei Shen just by hearing the footsteps, because except for Wei Shen, anyone who came to his place had to be notified before they could come in, and the mute servants in the yard walked silently. The only one who made footsteps was Wei Shen.

"See you, my lord!" Wei Sheren entered the study and saluted Lord Ulsan who was sitting cross-legged on the couch.

"Wei Sheren don't need to be too polite, come and play a game with Guang." Young Master Guang seemed very happy to see Wei Shen.

"Xin has met Sheren!" The artist Xin who was accompanying Young Master Guang got up from the mat and bowed to Wei Sheren.

Wei Shen looked at Xin's woman-like face, frowned slightly, and waved his hand.

"Xin, go down." Young Master Guang knew that Wei Shen didn't like artists, so he asked Xin to step down first.

"My lord is already twenty-one this year, so we need to think more about the issue of heirs." Wei Sheren waited for Xin's footsteps to go away before persuading Young Master Guang in a low voice.

"Father Wei, just seeing those girls is disgusting!" There was no one else in the study, and Young Master Guang talked to Wei Shen without any scruples.

"Light! If you don't like women, you might as well put Xin in the account." Wei Shen probed.

"No, Father Wei, I just don't like to do dirty things." Young Master Guang showed disgust.

Wei Shen let out a long sigh. He has been waiting by his side since the birth of his young master Guang. He was very proud of watching the child he guarded slowly grow into a handsome and gentle man. But his young master Guang was good at everything and satisfied him with everything. The same quirk is that they are not close.

Gong Ziguang's infidelity is actually a kind of abstinence. He thinks that lust is a sin and a kind of filth.When Young Master Guang was young, Wei Shen was still a little happy, feeling that his son was different from other young masters in adultery, but when Young Master Guang became an adult, he still resisted the approach of women. Guang's eyes, even if Young Master Guang is only with them once, as long as these women can give birth to an heir.But Ren Weishen resorted to many tricks, and Young Master Guang didn't say anything to these women. Yesterday, the beautiful girl climbed into Young Master Guang's bed without clothes, but was still thrown out of the courtyard with the mattress by Young Master Guang's orders. Son Guang's bedroom bedding has been replaced with a new one.

The artist Xin caught the attention of Young Master Guang when he came to Dacheng to perform konghou two years ago. Young Master Guang admired Xin's delicate features very much.Wei Shen felt that a woman could not arouse Gongzi Guang's sexual desire, but a man could arouse Gongzi Guang's love. As long as Gongzi Guang still desires sex, then there is a way for Gongzi Guang to have an heir with a woman.But the facts bothered Wei Shen, his son Guang seemed to have no desire for sex.

Just when Wei Shen was distressed, a dumb slave came in and kowtowed on the ground, then babbled and gestured to Wei Shen, meaning that the guard in the front yard had something to come in to report.

"Let him in!" Wei Shen waved his hand.Young Master Guang is obviously not interested in the guard's notification. His attention has turned to the Go in front of him. The white piece held by the artist Xin has already lost, so Young Master Guang put himself on the white side and imagined how to crack the black chess piece. containment.

"I've seen you, son! I've seen you! Nanbu Governor Zheng Yuming asked to see him. He wants to present something to you." The guard entered the room and knelt on one leg.

"Governor of Nanbu?" Wei Shenmeng heard that the name of Governor of Nanbu was very unfamiliar, and then he heard the name of Zheng Yuming, and then he realized that it was the overseas person who offered medicine to treat the young master more than a month ago.

"Aren't there two governors? One came today?" Wei Shen had a deep impression on Chu Chaohui. Chu Chaohui gave him the feeling that he was a warrior. He wanted to recruit Chu Chaohui to his side.

"Is that the Bermuda man who offered the medicine? Invite him in!" Young Master Guang raised his head when he heard Zheng Yuming's name. Zheng and Chu claimed that their overseas hometown was in a place called Bermuda. Students, full of good feelings for the two overseas people.

"Governor Zheng Yuming of Nanbu sees you, son, and sheren!" Zheng Yuming entered the study and saluted the Lord of Ulsan, who was above him. While saluting, he rejoiced that this time-space kowtow and kneeling ceremony was only used when worshiping heaven and ancestors. Officials and ordinary people see The superiors only need to salute.

"The governor is not polite, please sit down!" Young Master Guang carefully looked at Zheng Yuming, and felt that Zheng Yuming's eyebrows were like ink paintings, his complexion was like jade, he was slender, and his temperament was gentle and elegant.

When Young Master Guang said please sit down, he actually meant to sit on his knees, because there are no chairs in this time and space, and to sit is to kneel and sit on the mat. Last time Young Master Guang summoned them in the bedroom, they were not seated in chairs, but two Small wooden stool.

"Governor Zheng! Are you satisfied with Nanbu?" Young Master Guang grew fonder of Zheng Yuming the more he looked at him. He only felt that a spotless person must look like Zheng Yuming.

"Nanbu is very good, the villagers are honest and hardworking, thank you for your reward, young master." Zheng Yuming stood up and thanked him again.

Zheng Yuming's respectful attitude made Wei Shen very useful, he touched Meixu and nodded to Zheng Yuming: "Governor Zheng, if you have any difficulties, you can talk to the Junfu."

"Everything in Nanbu is fine, there is no difficulty." Zheng Yuming said politely, but he was muttering in his heart, he is short of money and people, will you Wei Sheren help?

"What do Governor Zheng want to offer when he comes to the Emperor's Mansion?" Wei Shen guessed from the bottom of his heart that what Zheng Yuming offered was malaria medicine.

"It's a waterwheel!"

"Waterwheel?" Wei Shen frowned. What can this waterwheel be used for?

"Governor Zheng, I only know that there are ox carts, horse carts, and mule carts. I have never heard of water carts. Is this water cart also for carrying people?" Young Master Guang became interested.

"My lord, this waterwheel is not for carrying people and goods, it is for carrying water from the river to the fields!" Zheng Yuming took out a sheepskin from his sleeve and presented it to Young Master Guang.

"You mean that waterwheels can transport water from the river to the fields?" Wei Shen's eyes widened. Now that the fields are dry, everyone is worried about irrigation.

"Is this the waterwheel you mentioned?" Young Master Guang opened the parchment, looked at the picture of the waterwheel and asked.

"Yes, this subordinate even brought the real thing over here, and the real thing is in the front yard." Zheng Yuming brought a waterwheel as a gift when he came to see Mr. Ulsan this time.

"Father Wei, let's go and have a look!" Young Master Guang forgot his scruples as soon as he was happy, and called Wei Shen by his private name.

"Okay, let's go to the front yard and have a look." Wei Shen glanced at Zheng Yuming, and found that Zheng Yuming's expression was calm, and he didn't notice the change in the address that Young Master Guang said. He thought about it in his heart, and felt that Zheng Yuming was a foreigner, so he probably didn't understand The different meanings of Gong Ziguang's address, it's good if you don't understand, so that he won't find someone to silence him. After all, no matter how close he is with Gong Ziguang, Gong Ziguang can't call him father. Congratulations to Mr. Guang, now that enchantress is more and more favored in the palace, even the eldest son has to show courtesy to that enchantress, Young master Guang must not have any wrong hands for the enchantress to catch the eldest son before he ascends the throne.In fact, Zheng Yuming noticed the change in the title of Mr. Ulsan. He was not sensitive to the title of this time and space, and he didn't think it was inappropriate for the young master to call Wei Shen that way.

There was no waterwheel on the parchment in the front yard, just a pile of logs.Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing were waiting by the side.

"Where is the waterwheel?" Young Master Guang looked around.

"My lord, the waterwheel is assembled from these parts on the ground." When Zheng Yuming made the waterwheel in Nancun, he specified the size. A carpenter specializes in the manufacture of several parts, and all the parts are manufactured and then assembled, so that the work efficiency of the carpenter is greatly improved.

"Assembly?" Young Master Guang looked at the parts of the waterwheel on the ground curiously, he couldn't understand the meaning of the modern term that Zheng Yuming said.

"After assembling these parts, the waterwheel will come out." Zheng Yuming had to explain in the language of this time and space as much as possible.

"This thing can pump water from the river?" Young Master Guang looked down at the wooden parts. Not all of these parts were made of wood, some parts were made of iron.

"My lord, if you don't believe me, you can ask Yuming to go to the river and set up the waterwheel." Zheng Yuming is very sure about his product.

"Then go outside the city and find a place to assemble the waterwheel."

Young Master Guang was impatient to watch the waterwheels, Wei Shen didn't want to dampen Young Master Guang's interest, and secondly, he wanted to see the power of the waterwheels himself. If, as Zheng Yuming said, with the waterwheels, Dacheng would not be afraid of drought.

Wei Shen ordered more than 50 guards, more than a dozen waiters and dumb slaves, and a group of more than [-] people drove out of the city in a mighty carriage. Watching the excitement behind the carriage, the guards were used to seeing the curiosity of the people in Dacheng, and they did not drive them away. They only stopped loudly when the people got too close to the carriage.

When they arrived outside the city, they selected a river site. Zheng Yuming asked Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing to instruct the waiters to assemble water trucks by the river. Huo Sizhong was very good at assembling water trucks. In less than an hour, a water truck with a height of four to five meters was erected. up.

The current of this river is gentle, and the wind direction is not right, so it cannot be driven by water or wind automatically. Huo Sizhong instructed the waiter to use a rickshaw to water.

The author has something to say: Huo Sihua's age was originally set to be six years old, but now it has been revised to nine years old.

The secretion of white wax worms - white wax is the main raw material for wax making in ancient times.my country has a long history of using wax, with a history of more than 3000 years.Jin Tao Hongjing's "Bielu of Famous Doctors" has records of the utilization of white wax.Tang Li Jifu's "Yuanhe County Chronicles" contained white wax in the tributes of Binzhou, Junzhou, Liangzhou, and Tanglin Prefecture, which shows that there was artificial breeding of white wax worms in the Tang Dynasty.However, the earliest record in the literature is Zhou Mi's "Guixin Miscellaneous Knowledge" in the late Southern Song Dynasty, which contains: "In the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there was no white wax in the past. For more than ten years, a Taoist brought it from the Huaihe River for sale. It looks like a small Gorgon fruit, and the price is It is measured in liters. The method is to use a pot shackle (the word shackle is not specified), the leaves are like dogwood leaves, next to the raw water, it can be cut and live, and it will grow into a big tree in three years. Before each ear seed, use yellow cloth as a small tree, and store insects ten times. More than one, hung in the trees. By May, hundreds of insects will emerge from each seed, leaving white feces between the branches. This is white wax, and it will no longer be seen. It will be peeled and taken in mid-August. Boil soup and fry it, and it will become wax (the method is the same as frying yellow wax). There are leftovers among the branches, which are very thin at first, and gradually grow larger in the coming spring. Collect their sons and spread them as the previous method. You may hear the thin-leaved holly It can also be used. Its benefits are very high, comparable to the benefits of silkworm breeding. The price of white wax is several times higher than that of yellow wax."