Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Although this time and space seems to be in the Little Ice Age, in summer, the temperature in Dacheng is still as hot as ever, and the highest temperature during the day is around 36 degrees Celsius.Since July, Zheng Yuming has been busy like a top, getting up before dawn every day, and facing the report of the valley steward after getting up, because Zheng Yuming has to go to Nanbu after breakfast in the valley, and there is not much time in the valley during the day , the stewards can only find Zheng Yuming sooner or later.The other owner of the valley, Chu Chaohui, took the selected fifty healthy slaves to the west of the valley for training long before dawn.

"My lord, I'm going to spray vinegar on the paddy fields today, should the vinegar still be mixed with water in the same ratio as last time?"

Da Zhuang is now the farm manager of the valley, and he is in charge of more than 200 middle-aged laborers. His father returned to the valley from Nanbu two months ago and took the prisoner blacksmith to forge iron. The blacksmiths in the valley forge not farm tools or daily necessities. But weapons and arrows.

"Yes, we still add water according to the ratio of last month." Zheng Yuming replied to Da Zhuang while eating breakfast. Da Zhuang arranged the farming affairs very well. When Chu Chaohui was selecting soldiers, Da Zhuang was originally on the list of selection. It was Zheng Yuming who firmly opposed it. Not picked out.The 13 slaves selected by Chu Chaohui were all loyal and strong young men. Among the first batch of [-] slaves purchased by the valley, [-] were selected, and the second son who shared the same room with Da Zhuang was one of them.

The sour liquid that Da Zhuang mentioned was fermented by Zheng Yuming's distiller's grains purchased from the winery. Zheng Yuming did not make sour vinegar to eat, but used vinegar liquid to kill insects. There were no pesticides in this era, and only frogs and toads were used to kill insects in rice fields. , people have no other way, which is also an important reason for the low yield per mu of field grain.Acid is a very good pesticide, and it is environmentally friendly and has no pollution.

Da Zhuang reported some things to Zheng Yuming before leaving.After Da Zhuang left, Da Zhuang’s father came to ask for help. The iron ore in the valley was about to be sold out. If the goods were not purchased, the workshop would stop working. The fifty soldiers that Chu Chaohui had selected were not all equipped with weapons. Da Zhuang Dad has a heavy task on his shoulders.

Zheng Yuming put down his chopsticks, and took out a small book from his pocket. There were some trivial things recorded in the small book. He took care of too many things, and he would forget them if he didn't write them down. "Tomorrow there will be a wooden boat landing on the West River, and Da Zhuang will arrange for people to help you ship it."

There is now a road running across the valley from east to west, from the gap in the east to the Changhu Lake in the west. There is a temporary pier by the side of the long lake for the mooring of wooden boats. Familiar with this underwater terrain, if a strange ship owner rashly tries to anchor to the west bank of the valley, he will often run aground and cannot move.Chu Chaohui took the slaves to train near the pier, and would leave a few slaves to guard the pier at night.

After Dad Zhuang left, Fan Jin, a half-toned teacher in the valley, came to ask for advice with a book. When Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were free, they hand-copied some book knowledge for Fan Jin to learn by himself, because there is always this time and space in the hand-written When the simplified characters appeared, Fan Jin had no choice but to ask Zheng and Chu for advice when they were free.

Zheng Yuming took the manuscript to look at it, and he couldn't remember which traditional Chinese character should be used instead of the simplified character, but he had a comparison between the traditional and simplified characters, which was recorded in the parchment book he brought from the Ulsan Lord's Mansion.

"My lord, can Jin make a copy of this comparison book?" Fan Jin looked at Zheng Yuming's handwritten comparison with his head hooked, and immediately realized that he could solve this problem with the comparison.After more than two months of evening school training, Fan Jin can now master seven or eight hundred characters, and has learned mathematics at the level of the second grade of elementary school.

"Well, take it." Zheng Yuming handed the copy to Fan Jin. "Don't go to work in the fields in the afternoon. If you have time to learn something by yourself, just ask if you don't understand."

"Yes, my lord!" Fan Jin was full of joy. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui gave him the name "Teacher". All students who learn characters from Fan Jin must call Fan Jin "Teacher". This makes Fan Jin who has never enjoyed respect feel embarrassed. lost dignity.Fan Jin was charged with exile because his ventriloquism was too realistic. When learning how to roar from a tiger, he frightened a nobleman who was watching the performance and made him sick. After the nobleman fell ill, he contracted a cold and died. The nobleman’s family blamed Fan Jin. Originally, Fan Jin was going to be sentenced to death, but when his former companions ran around pleading for mercy, Fan Jin was lucky enough to be exempted from the death penalty and changed to exile in Dacheng.

"My lord! The number of students is increasing day by day, and we are too busy." Although Fan Jin has a sense of honor and wants to devote himself to Zheng and Chu, he can't teach all the students in the valley with one half-tone.

Now there are 200 to 100 people in the valley, more than 100 laborers in the Ministry of Agriculture, more than [-] craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, more than [-] apprentices, more than [-] women and old people, and more than [-] children. Among them, there are more than seventy in school.

"Let Sihua teach the first-year students." Zheng Yuming thought for a while, and the valley really couldn't find anyone who could be a teacher. In the entire valley, apart from him and Chu Chaohui, Fan Jin, witch doctor Jiang Hesan Wei Qing is Chu Chaohui's right-hand man, and he cannot do without Huo Sizhong in Nanbu. Only Huo Sihua can spare time.

"Okay." Fan Jin accepted with a bitter face. Although the helper was only nine years old, he was the best-studied of the three children who went to night school. If he is young, he can always share part of it for himself.Nowadays, except for a few young children, there is basically no idle food in the valley. Other women and old people are working. The work done by women is no less than labor force. There are not many old people, only six or seven. They can’t do it. Active heavy work, you can cook, clean and take care of children.

After Zheng Yuming watched Fan Jin leave, he was about to pick up his breakfast when he suddenly smelled a smell of medicine. He sighed helplessly, put down his job, and waited for the witch doctor Jiang Gui to report to him.

"My lord, a large amount of malaria medicine has been brewed. Is it too much?" Jiang Gui has five eleven or twelve-year-old teenagers as apprentices. These apprentices don't need to go to Fan Jin to learn, Jiang Gui will teach himself.

"It won't be too much, you just boil it." In the hot season in Dacheng area, the plague will be raging. Now that there is Artemisia annua, malaria in the valley can be prevented. Can be cured under medical treatment.

"Pills for combating insects have also been prepared, are they given to children?"

"Oh! Has the configuration been made?" Zheng Yuming was pleasantly surprised. People in this time and space have roundworms in their stomachs due to poor sanitation. These roundworms seriously affect people's health. "Have you tried it?"

"I've given it to the idiot, and there is no adverse reaction." The idiot is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Jiang Gui picked it up from the mountain to collect medicine.After Jiang Gui picked up the idiot, he asked the idiot to clean up at the pharmacy and double as a white mouse.

"Then let the people in the valley take the medicine in batches. In the future, white rats will be used in drug testing." Zheng Yuming heard that Jiang Gui used dumb gourds instead of white rats to test medicines, and his teeth were a little sore. This Jiang Gui is very obsessed with medicine. For a fool to test the medicine, Jiang Gui may ask to use slaves to test the medicine, but if there is no one, he will go into battle in person.Zheng Yuming sometimes wondered that Jiang Gui's exile might not have been wronged, and that this crazy doctor might have treated Dr. Qing's favorite concubine as a white mouse.

"Hmm! Alright!" Jiang Gui was very satisfied with his two masters, although he didn't think the rat experiment would be better than the human experiment.

Jiang Gui walked away, taking the strong smell of medicine with him.Zheng Yuming looked down at the breakfast, picked it up and poured it into his mouth.Just as he drank the last mouthful of porridge, the footsteps of Craftsman Gongsun sounded.

"My lord!" Carpenter Gongsun saluted Zheng Yuming when he entered the kitchen. He is the most standard craftsman in the valley. "The camping has already been built, is the next building a house for the craftsmen?"

Brick kilns were also built in the valley. Brick kilns produced bricks and tiles. The first ones were houses for soldiers. Of course, Zheng and Chu didn’t say that it was a barracks, they only said it was a camp. The camp was built in the west of the valley, near the pier of the valley very close.

"Well, build houses for craftsmen with family members first, and then build houses for others after the craftsmen's houses are completed. From now on, everyone in the valley will live in brick houses." Zheng Yuming wiped his mouth with a towel.

"Yes! Sir!" Carpenter Gongsun's voice was very loud. When he first entered the valley, he studied the villa for a long time, wanting to know what material the villa was built of. The craftsmen suddenly realized that these building materials are not unusual, they can make them themselves, especially after the glass workshop fired semi-finished glass, Gongsun craftsman no longer had any doubts.Gongsun Carpenter is a craftsman with a family and a master class. He is the second person who can get a new house of bricks and tiles. The first is Da Zhuang and his son.

Zheng Yuming was finally able to set off for Nanbu when the sun climbed high. Huo Sizhong had already led two horses out to wait. These two horses were the most docile among the four horses bestowed by Lord Ulsan. Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong Transportation from the valley to Nanbu and back.The other two fierce horses were used as mounts by Chu Chaohui and Wei Qing.

It only takes more than ten minutes to ride a horse from the villa to the gap. The gap has been dug wide. Horses can ride into the passage through the wooden door, and they can also exercise in the passage. The big camphor tree at the exit of the valley has been cut down, and the slope down the mountain has also been cut down. The construction is gentle, and you can easily go up and down the mountain by riding a horse. After running down the mountain for more than ten minutes, you can reach Nanbu.With transportation such as horses, it only takes more than 40 minutes to travel from the villa to Nanbu.

As soon as Zheng Yuming entered the village, he saw his sworn elder brother Wu Yu from afar, that is, Wu Da, welcoming him with a smile on his face.

"Second brother, a merchant from the Tang Dynasty came to Butou and wanted to buy jacquard cloth." After being proficient in weaving, the village women in Nanbu learned to jacquard. As for silk, it still caused merchants to snatch it.Half of the cloth produced in Nanbu is distributed by Wu Mu. Wu Mu originally wanted to monopolize the business, but unfortunately he was too busy to do so, so he had to watch other merchants compete with him for the supply of goods.Zheng Yuming generously distributed half of the cloth produced by Nanbu Textile Factory to Wu Mu for sale, but after the jacquard cloth came out, Zheng Yuming was only willing to allocate one-third of the share to Wu Mu, and the rest of the jacquard cloth was distributed to other merchants.Zheng Yuming did this because Wu Mu's sales channels are all in Chu and cannot be sold to other vassal states. Zheng and Chu hope that Nanbu's products can be sold to the whole of Daqin, that is to say, Nanbu will not only make money from Chu. The money is to earn the money of all the vassal states of Daqin.If all the goods in Nanbu are sold to Chu, the economy of Chu will collapse within a year.Now Wu Mu can earn [-] gold for Nanbu by selling goods to Chu State in a month.

In the final analysis, Nanbu is a blood-sucking insect. It wants to suck the flesh and blood of the Qin princes to strengthen itself.