[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

The three of Liu, Guan and Zhang were finally left in Yanzhou. Naturally, as Liu Bei, they could not meet the little emperor, and the positions in Cao Cao's territory were temporarily full.

For the little partner who came to join him, Cao Cao also openly and honestly discussed this issue with him.

Although His Majesty is in Changyi now, the imperial court has not yet come. The local governor does have the right to appoint subordinates before the imperial order arrives.

However, most of Yanzhou and Yuzhou under Cao Cao's rule have been stable recently, and it has been more than a year since he took over, and the situation has been brought under control.

The dishonest ones were basically replaced by him, and there was really no place to plug them in for a while.

So he and Liu Bei said frankly: You can wait for the soldiers who went to pick up the court officials to return, and the Han court will appoint officials.

Liu Bei naturally did not disagree.

So he stayed in Yanzhou and waited for the imperial court to reorganize. By the way, he could also observe Cao Cao's governance of the local situation in Yanzhou and learn from it.

Although Liu Bei abandoned his official position and left, theoretically speaking, he was already a grassroots citizen.But because of his status as Cao Cao's friend, naturally no one would really take him seriously.

He is now living in the Wenchen dormitory for single officials in Yanzhou, and the people who live here are basically reserve officials who are undergoing training.

The three brothers Liu Bei also learned a lot of new knowledge from the officials they trained.

When they arrived, the basic knowledge of the officials here had been trained, and the practical part of the ongoing part was close to completion.

Bear the brunt of the locust management.

This class is to deal with the inevitable locust plague after the beginning of the next year. The professors of this class are several old farmers.

Because Yanzhou's local language system is the northern language family, although the old farmer's words are relatively plain, his words can still be understood by all the officials who will be sent down next year.

During the locust plague this year, several locusts were caught and dried and soaked in wine for preservation. Now when the locust corpses are taken out, the corpses are still full and can be identified by teaching.

The old farmer also took locust eggs for everyone to identify, and informed the living habits of locusts.

Although the locust plague was unavoidable, because of the time when Yuzhou attacked the locust plague in the west, the number of people who actually entered Yanzhou Yuzhou and survived to lay eggs was far less than that of other prefectures.

And the hatching of locusts is definitely not all hatching in an instant, and it will change according to the climate and terrain of each place.

Therefore, in the coming year, the first task of these reserve officials after joining the ranks is to cull as much as possible of these little locusts before they become climate.

This year, Yanzhou and Yuzhou encouraged villagers not to slaughter their poultry as much as possible, and to keep all the chickens born, regardless of male or female.

Animals that hunt and kill locusts, including wild birds, rodents, and praying mantises, are all protected.

Just wait for the next year to rely on these to eat worms or adults.

In nature, one thing falls one thing, and locusts are extremely scary when they are in disasters, but in normal times, they are really the best bait.

Because the villagers believed in Governor Cao, everyone supervised each other, and tried to dissuade someone who was greedy for bird hunting, and looked at the bear children at home to prevent them from using slingshots to catch birds.

Almost all people in the state take care of the birds in their territories.

Even if they came to steal the grain, they just chased them away with a broom. As the ferocity of the farmers who protected the food plummeted, the little birds in the territory they forced to raise became fat balls.

As for some migratory birds passing through the border, the villagers are even more enthusiastic about keeping them.

They eat as much as they want, anyway, the ones in the field were not intended to be taken back, isn't it just some pasture, what a big deal.

It’s okay to bathe with well water, anyway, the water is for people, and it’s the same for birds.

Is this water enough?Forget it, I'll make a few more pots for you guys.

When these migratory birds are satisfied and fly south, the villagers are also very reluctant to part. They almost waved their handkerchiefs and said that they must come to us in the spring of next year.

Whether such prevention and treatment will be effective next year is still unknown, but the teaching mode under Cao Cao really opened the eyes of the three Liu Bei brothers.

Especially the list of forms based on Cao's papermaking technology and printing technology.

How to fill in a clean and tidy form is the easiest way to explain the situation to the superior, and how to understand the superior's instructions is also a small focus of the training.

The use of this form does not require lower-level officials to bother with language modification. This form is very simple elements: time, place, name, what to report, degree of urgency, and instructions from superiors.

And it needs to be filled out in duplicate, one for circulation and one for filing.

Liu Bei soon discovered that Cao Ying's training for the future new generation focused almost entirely on practical facts.

Especially the case analysis, it is too practical.

Liu Bei, who has been a parent officer for a long time, finds it difficult to answer some of the cases that have been handed out.

The biggest problem is the choice, which even an official who was a lecturer sighed and couldn't understand when he talked about this case.

For this lesson, they invited an old man, and what he told was his own personal experience.

It was a few years ago when he encountered the Yellow Turban Army when he was the county magistrate.

At that time, the governor of Yanzhou was not Cao Cao, and Yanzhou's military was still weak. When the Yellow Turbans attacked the city, his town soldiers and equipment were insufficient, so he had to defend to the death.

Seeing this, the generals of the Yellow Turban Army did not want to waste their strength in attacking the city. What they did was that the Yellow Turban Army coerced some people under the rule between the city walls to force him to open the gate.

Either he will open the door and save the people under his rule.

Either stick to the city gate and watch them being killed one by one.

There are no right choices, only wrong choices.

Whether the door is opened or not is a torment for parents and officials everywhere.

At that time, the Yellow Turban Army said well to him. They were just trying to make excuses and would not harm the people in the city.

But the official firmly refused.

Once the city where he was stationed was opened, the hinterland of Yanzhou was behind him. Of course, the Yellow Turban Army might keep their promise not to kill the people in his city, but what about the others?

Although he is a local official, every villager below is his responsibility, but he is also an official of Yanzhou, and it is also his responsibility to protect the people of Yanzhou.

Could he send innocent Yanzhou people to the butcher's knife in order to keep the people under his rule?

What he did at that time was that he refused the request of the Yellow Turban Army, and he asked them to say their names aloud every time the Yellow Turban Army killed a person.

At that time, he stood on the tower and said: I owe you in my next life, I failed to protect you, and I also gave up on you.

I will keep your name in mind, and I will pay back what I owe you in my next life.

That day, the Yellow Turban Army killed a total of 76 villagers. Every villager who died called out his name, and some cursed his inaction, but some expressed that they did not blame him.

The defenders behind him turned their heads and couldn't bear to look at it because the atmosphere was too tragic. The atmosphere of the whole city was extremely sad and indignant, but he saw it from the beginning to the end.

And engrave the appearance of those people before they died in their hearts.

Until the end, even the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army couldn't bear to watch this scene anymore. Seeing that the morale of the army was affected, the general had to give up entering the city, and the remaining hundreds of villagers were released. This Yellow Turban Army also made a detour here.

He defended this battle, but he no longer had the courage to go up to defend the city. He didn't have the courage to face such a choice again.

He chose to apply for sick leave, and later after Cao Cao settled in Yanzhou, he was invited out again, and now he is only a library manager.

The official showed them his robes.

On the inside of his robe, the names of these people were embroidered by his wife.

There are 76 villagers, and none of them is bad.

This official wears the names of these people on his body every day, as if waiting for the day when these people call him to atone for their sins.

These reservists all had different expressions, some expressed regret, some disapproved, and some were filled with righteous indignation.

But more people have pale complexions and reveal deep thoughts.

Seeing this, the officials told them that "it is far easier to be a wicked official who extorts money and gets beat up by everyone than to be a responsible official who is honest and responsible."

The gray-haired scribe looked calm.

"I will never forget that evening scene of blood in my whole life."

"The person who fell that day also became my nightmare."

"Some things, in this life, you will never be able to know whether the choices you made at that time were right or wrong."

"It's like the construction of the Dujiangyan (Dujiangyan) on the Minjiang River in the south, which cost a lot of manpower and was criticized by others, but it later benefited a piece of Bashu."

"There is also a mechanism that everyone praised when it was established, but in the end it ended up with nothing."

"I can only say... from the heart, that's fine, right and wrong, I'll leave it to future generations to judge."

On this day, when get out of class was over, Liu Bei followed the students and bowed to the library official to thank him.

Later, many years later, he revisited the Yanzhou Library and saw this official. At that time, he was getting old, but the light in his eyes became warmer. When he saw Liu Bei, he slowly bent down and walked down.

Liu Bei also returned the gift, and the two sat down together and chatted all afternoon.

The official told him that his health had been deteriorating over the years, and he could feel that his life was coming to an end.

But the heart is extremely peaceful.

Rather, he has lived much longer than he expected.

At that time, Liu Bei, who had been the governor of Jingzhou, had a sad look on his face. He also experienced many choices in the past years. It was proved afterwards that there were right and wrong choices.

It's just that every time he chooses, he follows the teaching of this unknown official - Congxin.

Therefore, although there are many mistakes, I have never regretted it.

This can also be said to be the great fortune of life.

What could be more satisfying than having regrets and having no regrets?

While Liu Beiman was wandering around Yanzhou, Xia Anran was busy organizing people to burn bamboo charcoal.

After his on-the-spot investigation, the bamboo resources in Yanzhou are indeed acceptable, but Yuzhou is the most abundant, so they chose the location of charcoal burning near a bamboo forest in Yuzhou.

The bamboo forest here is dense, because bamboo is indeed grown in the surrounding area, if the villagers need to get materials from the door, except for hunters and bamboo shoots, few people will cut down that piece of bamboo forest.

Bamboo is different from ordinary trees. Their root system develops horizontally and is extremely developed. For some hills with little farmland, what farmers are most afraid of is that there is a bamboo forest near the farmland.

Because these bamboos can reach their roots quickly even if they are far away.

This of course also has advantages.

The advantage is that the regeneration of bamboo has improved a lot.

Moreover, there will be no sense of guilt at all when cutting down the ecological balance.

Xia Anran asked people to mark the bamboos that needed to be felled. His felling this time was mainly for experiments, supplemented by sparse forests. They deliberately selected bamboos of different ages for experiments.

Most of the felled bamboos are selected from different areas to avoid excessive damage to the bamboo forest.

Although when he entered the woods, he felt that according to the density of the forest... it might not be something that could be done in a day or two if he wanted to hurt it.

At the same time, he also brought the discarded bamboo joints that the paper workshops did not want to use.

Because he is going to travel to Yuzhou, and because the teachers of the little boy are here, the little boy is being taken back to make up lessons these days——Cao Caoyu.It was still the bright boy who followed Xia Anran, but this time Pang Tong and Pang Degong also followed.

Pang Degong took advantage of Cao Jun's protection. Although the bandits in the two prefectures of Yanyu and Yuzhou have basically been wiped out, in winter, it is still inevitable that wild wolves and other ferocious beasts will attack the donkey cart.

It is much safer for them to travel in groups now.

To be honest, Xia Anran didn't want to come out in this weather if she could.

In winter, without Cao Chun's big pillow, which is especially useful in winter, he can't sleep at night at all!

When he was in Changyi, Cao Chun could not return home for a few days, and Xia Anran slept alone on the kang with a soft pillow. When he learned that there was no bamboo forest in Yanzhou, only Yuzhou had better quality bamboo forests. , Xia Anran was depressed for several days.

She almost sang to Cao Chun: I want to hold you in the palm of my hand, so I took you away devoutly.

You are my little one, my little stove, I can never love you too much.

... No, in fact he sang, and then he tried the feeling of being held in the palm of Cao Chun, which was so warm.

Facts have proved that people don't want to make waves, and there will always be someone who can be more wavering than you.

Cao Chun failed to follow this time, because Li Que and Guo Si arrived in Luoyang, and they refused to advance any further, and only handed over the court officials they were holding to Cao Jun who came to meet him.

Li Que and Guo Si are now in an embarrassing position. The little emperor issued an official edict to move the capital to Changyi, which can be described as a remote place. Although everyone said behind their backs that this was done by Cao Cao, the capital has changed since the edict was issued.

And the little emperor now has the support of Cao Jun, which means that Li Que and Guo Si can no longer shout at the little emperor like before, and the official positions they shoulder now have become embarrassing.

Ma Teng and Han Sui in the west watched covetously, and Cao Cao in the east watched indifferently. Li Que and Guo Si's army fought in Chang'an again due to internal strife, and their numbers were reduced. The defenders face each other.

Don't have the guts to push through.

Cao Cao is very talkative, he warmly invited Li Que and Guo Si to enter Yanzhou, but which of them would dare to enter?

They offended the little emperor to death before, now that the little emperor has a backer, are they going to use their lives to figure out the little emperor's measure?

Even if the little emperor's belly is big enough, according to their understanding of Cao Cao, as an outright opportunist, would Cao Cao let go of this opportunity to suppress Qingzhou soldiers in an open and honest manner?

If there is no military power, how can Li Que gain a foothold in this war-torn world?

Due to various reasons, these two people only politely said that they were the generals stationed in Chang'an by the little emperor, and that their trip was only to escort the ministers, and they did not dare to stay for long, and they strongly demanded to return to Chang'an City.

Did Cao Cao let them go?Yes, he did let them go.

Because for Cao Cao, these two people are not his confidants' serious troubles at this time.

It is located in the east of Yuzhou in Yanzhou, Xuzhou governed by Tao Qian.

He had received the exact news that Yuan Shu had arrived in Xuzhou with the Chuan Guo Yuxi.

It's really not that he went to investigate specially, but that Yuan Shu didn't seem to have the consciousness to hide his whereabouts. His behavior was extremely high-profile, and he almost shouted "I'm right here!"

Tao Qian, governor of Xuzhou, was originally a member of Yuan Shu, and it was only natural for Yuan Shu to seek refuge after defeat.

Bordering on Yanzhou, Xuzhou occupies a vast area with rich soil and abundant water resources. It is also a plain area and produces a lot of grain. It has always been a major food supply area for the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At the same time, it is rich in fishery, convenient in river and sea transportation and trade, and is a well-known fertile land.

This can be seen from the fact that Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, would rather stay in Xuzhou than defect to his son who was the governor of Yanzhou.

This place, before Cao Cao, also had a heart.

But firstly, his teacher came out of nowhere, and secondly, there happened to be a precursor to the destruction of Dong at that time. When he came back, Cao Cao already had Yuzhou.

He knew very well that the reason why he had not become a thorn in the eyes of others before occupying the two state capitals was mainly because neither Yanzhou nor Yuzhou occupied a very large area.

The combined area of ​​the two states in his hands is about the same as Xuzhou.

But also because of this, if Cao Mengde takes down Xuzhou again, he will become a thorn in the side of the other princes, and the princes who did not notice his new force will immediately regard him as an object that can be annexed.

So Cao Cao buried this ambition in his heart, but now, the situation is different.

Changyi welcomes His Majesty, the whole world is the king's land, the appointment of Xuzhou's governor should be developed by the imperial court.

If the little emperor really finds an excuse to dismiss Tao Qian, then Tao Qian, who is burdened by a loyal minister and good general, can only obey orders obediently. As for whether he will leave, it is another matter.

In the past, Cao Cao would not have wanted to take Xuzhou wholeheartedly, especially when the situation of the locust plague was unknown. For him, taking one more Xuzhou would only become a burden for him, and it was not worth fighting for.

However, Yuan Shu has become the measure of this change, and has also become a huge bargaining chip that overwhelms the balance. In Cao Cao's view, Yuan Shu is nothing more than a stupid person. He is simply the biggest shit-stirring stick in the world. .

This person is greedy but wants power.What's more hateful is that he is greedy, lustful and extravagant by nature, which can be described as extremely extravagant and lustful.

The life of the people under his rule is often miserable.

Moreover, the soldiers under his rule have no discipline at all.

Yuan Shu even allowed the soldiers to plunder the people to boost morale.

In Cao Cao's eyes, this behavior was extremely stupid, and he did suffer. In the battle with Liu Biao in Jingzhou, he encountered betrayal from the people behind him. He was rescued by a ranger and a dead soldier who was the fourth generation and third son.

It's a pity that he didn't seem to have learned the lesson at all. He heard that Yuan Shu had just arrived in Xuzhou and asked Tao Qian to surrender his military power.

Tao Jian naturally refused, and the two sides engaged in a stealthy fight.

Cao Cao, who was far away in Yanzhou, didn't know who lost and who won in their robbing, but as far as he saw the result, Yuan Shu had the upper hand. This should also be related to Tao Qian's failure to take it seriously and not being cruel enough.

As far as Tao Qian was concerned, Yuan Shu was kind to him, so Tao Qian backed down this time. The result of his backing down was that Xuzhou could not recover after the catastrophe, and the people of Xuzhou were harassed by Yuan Jun.

Just because Xuzhou is rich and prosperous, and Yuan Shu has become king, in his opinion, everything in Xuzhou is within his reach.

The nature of the people is also his.

Not long after he arrived in Xuzhou, he took in three beauties, all of whom his subordinates robbed from other people's houses.In addition to women, Yuan Shu also robbed money.

His elder brother, Yuan Shao, liked to hold banquets when he organized the Alliance of Banning Dongs, and his younger brother did the same. Not long after he arrived in Xuzhou, he held banquets one after another.

It won't be long before this goes on, and Xuzhou will be hollowed out by Yuan Shu. After Xuzhou is hollowed out, the fattened Yuan Jiajun will naturally move his target to Yanzhou, which is now very conspicuous. What's more, for Yuan Shu, since he wants to As the emperor, the existence of the little emperor Liu Xie has naturally become a thorn in his side.

According to Cao Cao's understanding of him, most of what Yuan Shu thinks is that others don't agree with his orthodox status now, it's all because he won the wrong position. If this is the case, if the little emperor passes the throne to him, wouldn't he be justified?

In this era when everything is orthodox, his idea is indeed correct, but Cao Cao will not let him succeed. The Han Dynasty he wants to defend is not the Han Dynasty where Yuan Gonglu is the emperor.

This winter, Cao Ying was very busy, and the influx of a large number of Han officials brought a certain burden to Cao Ying.

This burden is not material, but spiritual.

As I said before, Changyi is a relatively poor city, and it has never been the fiefdom of princes and kings, and naturally there is no palace.

It turned out that the little emperor lived in the best house in Yanzhou, and there was nothing wrong with that, but now, all the ministers expressed that His Majesty was really wronged to live in this place without a palace!

Even Dong Zhuo built the Chang'an Palace for His Majesty back then!

So the first thing these Hanchens did when they first arrived at Cao Ying was to hold their wronged little emperor and cry.

Liu Xie looked at these tearful ministers calmly, without any intention of being moved in his heart.

In his opinion, the so-called loyal ministers of the big man who were able to come here alive have all betrayed him. He looked coldly at these people who had just arrived here, had just had a full meal and changed into clean clothes, and then began to yell. Wai accused Cao Mengde of being contemptuous of him, and used extremely clumsy ways to sow discord in front of him.

The little emperor just wanted to sneer, he looked at the crown, his face was covered by beads, and he was sitting on the jade steps, the ministers couldn't see his expression clearly.

They just blindly performed themselves. While watching their unsightly performances, the little emperor thought in his heart, why not go to Yuzhou to see the bamboo forest with Master Xia. He heard from Master Xia that there is an animal in the bamboo forest that is extremely fat, tender and delicious. , its name is bamboo rat, and it tastes delicious when braised in soy sauce and clear stew.

Now because of them loyal ministers, he was left here instead, Master Xia had to take Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong to go there, which is really enviable.

In fact, there is a saying, even if these courtiers of the Han Dynasty do not come to Changyi, Cao Cao will not let you go, Your Majesty!

It wasn't until the little emperor heard that these ministers were going to force Cao Cao to build a palace that he stopped him.

His reason is very simple, Changyi is very poor, this year's tax revenue has not yet reached the capital, and the Han government headed by the little emperor does not actually have any income.

To put it bluntly, they relied on Cao Mengde's own output for food, clothing, housing and transportation at this time, although some ministers retorted that the funds used by Cao Mengde were the tax property of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, not his private property.

Although he didn't make it clear, the meaning is very obvious. That is to say, in his opinion, it is very normal for Cao Cao to use the output of Yanzhou and Yuzhou to raise the young emperor. He should take out his private property to serve His Majesty.

The little emperor was almost amused by this statement. As a big man, if he really had to rely on his servants' private money to support him, what would his face be?

Liu Xie waved his small hand and stretched his sleeves, indicating that this topic is over, and he will not support Cao Mengde to overhaul the palace at this time.Seeing that his ministers still objected, the little emperor directly pointed out that the drought has just passed and the people are still recuperating. The locust plague is not a season, but will last for two years. How to defend against future disasters?

His words were very practical, and the Han courtiers who had just eaten a few meals suddenly fell silent after being frightened and hungry.

Compared with the little emperor, the lives of the Han officials are not as good, but it is far less easy than him. Although the little emperor Liu Xie was maliciously teased by Li Que and Guo Si, in the final analysis, he is the emperor after all, and the two are no longer bold. Dare to humiliate so far, but these humerus ministers are different.

They were originally the thorns in the eyes of Li Que and Guo Si, and after the little emperor fled, he vented his anger on them. The two thieves thought that the little emperor could not escape with his own ability, and the only possibility was that these seemingly surrendered to him There is a traitor among the courtiers.

Although they are afraid to find Cao Cao's little emperor, these two thieves want to leave a way for themselves. They dare not go too far, but starve a few meals, or feed some pigs and horses, and mix some pickled food in it. Things, they can still do it.

The little emperor was not extreme, many of the courtiers who were able to reach Changyi alive betrayed him.

Even if they have never betrayed, their willpower is not firm enough, but although he is helpless, there is no one to use. He is still young and has never been in charge. All the courtiers around him were once his elder brother's courtiers, or Dong Zhuo Two people, Guo Si and Guo Si, were promoted.

He was dissatisfied with the imperial court, but he had no ability to change it. As long as two years passed, the little emperor thought in his heart that as long as he grew up a little, he would adopt the method of selecting officials in Yanzhou to select good officials from all over the country. talent.

When the time comes to replace all these people, the little emperor has a good idea, but it is too difficult to implement, but he still doesn't know that this behavior is unreliable, so let him have a good dream for a while.

Xia Anran, who was far away in Yuzhou, didn't know that a large group of troublemakers had arrived in Changyi. He was guarding outside the kiln. The first batch of bamboo charcoal that entered in front had cooled down, and the craftsmen were starting the furnace.

Now it seems that Yuzhou has rich sources of bamboo resources, convenient transportation, and the simplicity of firing bamboo charcoal is no different from that of ordinary charcoal. The next key lies in the carbonization rate.

Charcoal burns longer than firewood, and there is very little smoke, so since such a good thing, why is it not popularized among the people, but has become a luxury instead?

In addition to the firing process of carbon, another most important factor is that there will be a certain loss rate between wood and carbon. Basically, if the firing of this furnace of charcoal is relatively successful, it can be obtained. Bamboo charcoal is only about 40% of the weight of the bamboo put in, even 30% is normal. If there is an accidental air leakage during the firing process, a large amount of oxygen will enter...

The bamboo in the stove is completely burned, so after the stove is turned on, there will be only ashes on the ground.

The current charcoal-burning industry in the Han Dynasty is basically private, and the entry threshold is very low. As long as you can build a cave dwelling, it is basically feasible, but because of the low entry level, the success rate is also low.

Now is the era when word of mouth is passed on from master to apprentice. Don't underestimate the work of burning charcoal. No matter how you say it, a master charcoal craftsman can support a family. Naturally, there are many people who come to apprentice.

And when he was accepting apprentices, he would hide the most important things, not only the manufacture of the charcoal kiln, but also the skill of sealing the kiln in a suitable space, and the skill of judging the condition of the kiln according to the condition of the smoke.

These apprentices don't know anything about it, and they will only be taught this knowledge by the master after he has been a master for three to five years.

It is already very good that the charcoal-burning technology that relies on word of mouth can not regress, and naturally there will be no progress.

And how does Xia Anran prepare?When he first started burning charcoal, he had already recorded all the data, including how to make the kiln, when to close the kiln, and the secret of observing the flue, and when to open the kiln. Make a book and put it in the library for reference.

He had negotiated carefully with Xun Yu before, and Xun Yu directly rejected the plan to classify charcoal burning as a state-owned enterprise. Xun Yu told him very simply that as long as anything becomes a monopoly, especially an official monopoly, then he will Can't promote.

Xia Anran's purpose is only to reduce the cost of heating with charcoal fire, and his purpose is to make carbon affordable for the people in Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

Among them, the way he can think of is to promote bamboo charcoal and use more reliable charcoal burning methods to reduce loss.

Especially the use of bamboo to burn bamboo charcoal.

As a native wood in Yuzhou, bamboo is not included in the heating range of the common people. The reason is very simple. Bamboo will explode when exposed to fire, and the common people think it is very noisy.

So although people in Yuzhou have a lot of bamboo to burn, they don't choose to use these things in the surrounding plants.

But the situation is different when it is fired into bamboo charcoal. The advantages of bamboo into bamboo charcoal are much higher than other charcoal.

If the method of burning bamboo charcoal can really be popularized, it will allow areas with many bamboo forests to turn bamboo forests into bamboo charcoal, which will also reduce the consumption of cutting down other trees when making charcoal.

There are many benefits!

But in the end, Xia Anran accepted Xun Yu's suggestion. He no longer planned to establish a nationalized charcoal-burning enterprise, but planned to popularize the knowledge of charcoal-burning so that the public could have more choices.

Because the amount of bamboo is large, and the relative retention rate of firing will be higher than that of charcoal, and the original product is cheaper, carbon craftsmen will naturally choose this raw material more.

Over time, the price of carbon will naturally fall.

Even if it cannot be reduced this year so that the public can use carbon, it will always be turned into an ordinary daily necessities over the years.

Xia Anran's charcoal-burning knowledge all came from the charcoal-burning master in Yongchun County, Yongchun Prefecture, who was the first person to burn fire dung.

This master was one of the best charcoal craftsmen in Yongchun County. In addition to being responsible for burning fire dung at the beginning, his main job was to burn charcoal.

The World of Red Mansions is located between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In that era that already had firearms, the level of science and technology is naturally not the same as that of the big Han. The most important thing is that the raw materials they use are different, and the bricks they burn are also different.

In the world of Red Mansions, refractory bricks can basically withstand a high temperature of nearly 1500 degrees, while in Dahan, the refractory bricks can only withstand more than 1000 degrees. The temperature of 500 degrees has become a natural moat, blocking Dahan's smelting industry development, and many further industrial developments.

Unfortunately, Xia Anran does not know how to refine refractory bricks.

This knowledge is really his blind spot. There is no master in the Forbidden City who can tell how to refine refractory bricks?

This is when the book is used.

Just as he was thinking this way, the furnace door was opened by a craftsman, and the temperature inside the furnace had not yet dropped to a very low level. After the oxygen entered, tiny sparks could be seen in it soon.

The charcoal-burning master reached in with a skillful latte bar, pulled out the bamboo charcoal scattered on the ground, and then the apprentice next to him picked up a bucket of water and poured it down, and then quickly covered it with sand.

Xia Anran could clearly see that it was just an iron bar that had just been inserted for a while, and there were traces of burning red at the pointed end, which obviously showed that the temperature in the furnace had reached about [-] degrees.

He stretched out his hand to pick up a piece of bamboo charcoal that had been cooled, and tapped it lightly with his fingernail. The sound of the bamboo charcoal was like the sound of metal hitting. This sound showed that this batch of bamboo charcoal was burnt very well.

The success was within his expectations. Basically, as long as the oxygen content is well controlled, it is not easy to fail in charcoal burning.

To his surprise, this part of the bamboo joint, this part of the bamboo joint, was used as the raw material for starting the fire, but this part also remained, and it was not burned to ashes, but turned into carbon.

After experiments, because the bamboo joint itself is stronger than the bamboo body, this part is more resistant to fire.

Under the same mass, its burning time is one-fifth longer than that of bamboo.

This is the real way to turn waste into treasure. Xia Anran has a hunch that the carbon in the bamboo joints is likely to become cheap and easy-to-use charcoal, which is welcomed by the general public.

He returned to Yanzhou with the first batch of fired bamboo charcoal, and by the way, a few bamboo rats dug out from nowhere by the local people during the bamboo cutting process.

This is what he was going to bring back to the little boy to eat. At that time, when he told the little boy who was going back to do his homework about the deliciousness of the bamboo rat, the little boy looked very regretful.

It happened that he really caught the bamboo rat, so Xia Anran was going to take it back and give it to the family members to taste.

Cough, by the way, go and shame Cao Chun.

He still remembers the embarrassment of this man killing two bamboo rats with one arrow.

But before he could surprise others, Cao Cao gave him a surprise first.

As soon as Director Xia entered the office, he found that there was an extra person inside.

Seeing Xia Anran coming in, the man stood up and bowed in a calm manner. "But Master Xia? I am Jia Xu from Liangzhou, and I am the Minister of the Han Dynasty. I am here to ask for advice."

"I would also like to ask Master Xia to do me a favor."

Jia Xu's arrival caught Xia Anran by surprise.

Although he didn't show it, he was as smart as Jia Xu, so he naturally discovered the young man's dislike for him.

Although Jia Xu was a little puzzled, he didn't think too much about it.

In his opinion, he identified Xia Anran's repulsion as the natural repulsion of Cao Ying's officials to the intervention of the big Han bureaucrats.For this point, Jia Xu said that he can understand it completely and doesn't care about it.

He sat beside Xia Anran and explained why he came here today. In fact, he came by coincidence.

Xia Anran, this morning, I just arrived in Changyi, and came to the workshop before I could go home. The purpose is to hand over the first batch of smelted bamboo charcoal to the craftsmen in the workshop to judge its quality.

If the quality is good, Cao Ying will also purchase bamboo charcoal as fuel in the future, and even if its quality is perfect, it may be tributed to the little emperor for use.

Members of the royal family in a feudal society are the most useful brand spokespersons. As long as they have used things, the prices will basically increase by ten or a hundred times.

Even out of chasing the trend, the public will buy it and try it.

The author has something to say: the stupid author has repeated a paragraph! !

In order to delete that line, I released the following plot first.

cry by myself

Today's author is still working hard to catch up with the plot! !

With so many FLAGs set up, I can always avoid a few!

The author is paralyzed!I have nothing to say today, baby

By the way, someone has already found out, the stupid author posted the unmodified version yesterday... (Foreshadowing) Obviously, I will modify the previous one after it has passed the review.

This foreshadowing has already been known to you, so it can’t be used anymore, let’s eat it (Indifference.jpg)

Tonight, it may be pushed up because of changing the previous one, so there is no need to find an updated one.

9K has been updated today! !The author is already a skin of Bian Tada, and the author has been squeezed dry! !It needs to be soaked in the feeding to restore its roundness!

(Crazy Hint.jpg)

PS: Maybe it's because it's almost spring, I always feel that Xia Miao has started to wander for no reason. =w=

PPS: Hehehe, let's see who still talks longer than the main text.

Bamboo mostly grows in the southern hilly areas, and the distribution in the north is less, so the northerners will not choose bamboo when making charcoal (after all, there are less + bamboo shoots)

But bamboo... as long as the roots are there, it can grow wildly, as long as it doesn't bloom, it's not a big problem.

What I want to say is that in ancient times, people did not use bamboo charcoal, but because the carbon formation rate of bamboo charcoal was lower than that of charcoal.

It is also filled with a kiln, and the bamboo charcoal is one-fifth less than charcoal when opened, so there are not many people who use it to burn charcoal.

However, because Cao Jianzhi needs to use bamboo, there is a lot of waste, and there are bamboo forests, and Xia Miao mainly estimates that the place where he is located is the Yellow River Basin, and ordinary trees should not be cut down as much as possible, so he chooses bamboo charcoal.Bamboo is a plant whose top is cut off and the roots below are still alive and can continue to protect the water and soil.

So if there is a bamboo forest near the farmland... (that's really hated)