[Qing wear + Red Mansions] Guide to the Prince's Pampering Wife

Due to the plague, the imperial court has attached great importance to the environmental sanitation of the capital recently. It seems that this matter has been handed over to the prince. Yinzuo can often read relevant news in the newspapers.

He thought about the environment in the capital city. In fact, he didn't go to many places. Naturally, the bustling commercial streets were cleaned up, and no one raised livestock in the shelter and nursery hall, so the worst environment in his impression was the dirt road, the weather It is full of dust when it is dry, and it is muddy when it is splashed or rained, making it difficult to walk.

If you want to say it's easy to go, it has to be Qingshi Road!It's just that although the bluestone is not expensive, it is not a small project to pave a road. This consumes more manpower and material resources than the bluestone itself!

Xu Zuo remembered one thing - cement!

Cement is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions in the history of construction, and it has been widely used in later generations.It is very safe and convenient to build houses and pave roads, and it can also be used in large-scale projects such as bridges, even in sewage sewers and water conservancy projects.

Yinzuo remembered that cement was fired, and the raw materials were very simple, but there were only two or three kinds of stones and clay, so he described it and asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to study it, and at the same time asked people to go to the kiln for firing lime and ceramics. Look for the ashes from the burnt to experiment.

Deqing knew that Yinzuo had a lot of knowledge and ideas early on, but he didn't take it seriously—how can there be such ash, it looks like ash, but after adding water, mixing it thoroughly and drying it, it becomes a solid stone?Can it also be used as paste to lay bricks and build a house?

Is this still grey?

Unexpectedly, the servants went around in various kilns and found this kind of ash!It turned out that a master had long discovered that the burnt ash was easy to agglomerate when touched with water, but he didn't take it seriously, and now someone came to look for it, so he gave all the details.

The palace man immediately filled a bag and gave it back to Yinzuo. Yinzuo tried it himself, and it was really cement!It's just that the effect is not good enough. Yinzuo wanted to ask people to continue the research, but after thinking about it, he decided to throw the pot away, so he ran to Kangxi, described the magical effect of cement to Kangxi vividly, and then let him go.

As for whether Kangxi will care?

If it's useless to say that, it means that Kangxi is not interested in cement, or there is no condition for using cement on a large scale, then even if Yin Zuo asked someone to develop it, Kangxi would still not know how to use it, so he let it be .

Fortunately, Kangxi still cared. He really asked the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to develop cement. The spirit of the craftsman of a great country is not covered, and soon developed cement with better performance and lower cost.So there were two more cement kilns in the suburbs of Beijing.

The first batch of cement was used to pave the streets of the capital. In the past, sand was usually used to pave the streets. The better ones were paved with stones, which could reduce the dust, but it was rough to walk on, and the carriage was bumpy when walking on it.It's not that I don't know that the bluestone slabs are good, but it's still the same sentence. The bluestone slabs are too heavy and too heavy, and it takes too much manpower and material resources to cover the ground. Except for a few main streets in the capital, it is generally not so grandiose.

Now there is cement, but it is different. It was originally ash, packed in a bag, and it is much more convenient and easier to transport than bluestone slabs. When it arrives at the destination, add water and mix it, and then spread it on the ground. After drying, it will be a solid ground. The bluestone slab is still flat, and there are no gaps. It is a big piece, and it looks beautiful!It feels good to walk on it, there is no sand and dust, the carriage is no longer bumpy, and it will not step on the mud when it rains, and the livestock will pull manure on it. The owner is embarrassed to pollute such a beautiful street, so he has to clean it up. one time.

Oh, there is another reason for cleaning up the excrement, that is, the imperial court has now set up many excrement collection stations, and the people can get money according to the amount when they send human and animal excrement.

In the past, there was also a person in the capital who specialized in collecting feces, called Ye Xianglang, but the people not only couldn't get money, they had to give money to others, so naturally they were not interested in dealing with it.But it's different now, all the things that can be exchanged for money are good things, how can they be willing to waste feces, naturally they have to collect them for money!

The imperial court is not at a disadvantage. In the eyes of the people in the capital, these are wastes, but in the eyes of the peasants they are treasures. Farming and fertile fields are indispensable!Their own is not enough, so they have to buy it from Ye Xianglang, but now it's just replaced by the imperial court, and the selling price is even cheaper than before!

With this handover, the imperial court can still earn a little difference, which just happens to support the officials at the excrement collection station, and it can be considered self-sufficient.

In short, the capital city is very different from the past. It is more than a little bit cleaner. Now that there is cement, the living experience of the people has increased linearly.

The fourth elder brother made a special trip back to Beijing when he heard about the cement. He insisted on getting Kangxi to give priority to supplying cement to the river affairs.

After Yinzuo learned about it, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Brother Si's vision is ahead of his time!

After more than a month, Kangxi really sent several batches of cement to the river, and good news came from there. Cement is really useful for building dams, flood control and flood discharge, and it is much better than the stones and sand used in the past. Kangxi I am also very happy to know that the river has been treated for so many years, and now there is more hope!

The happier part was yet to come. In mid-June, Sifujin suddenly retched and found out that she was nearly two months pregnant.

Soon afterwards, Da Fujin also found out that she was more than a month pregnant.

With two happy events in a row, the palace was very lively.Da Fujin's body has always been taken care of by Yinzuo, and Sifujin is his own sister-in-law. Now that the fourth elder brother is away, Yinzuo must take care of him more. In addition, Sanfujin is also pregnant, so he has to be busy again.

When I returned to the palace that day, I saw Daiyu leaning against the window looking at the lotus flowers transplanted in the big vat in the courtyard.Yinzuo smiled and said, "With the windows wide open, don't you think it's not cool in the room?"

When he entered the room, he saw that there was still more than half of the ice basin in the corner ice basin, and the room was not too hot, so he stopped nagging.Zhu Ying brought iced sour plum soup, and Yinzuo drank one, only then noticed that Daiyu didn't reply to him, and turned her head to look, hey, she's still in a trance!

Yinzuo waved a hand in front of her eyes: "What are you thinking about?"

Only then did Daiyu come back to her senses, and said listlessly, "I didn't think about anything."

"Do you think I'm stupid?" Yinzuo stared at her face and said, "You just have to write on your face, the left cheek is 'unhappy', and the right cheek is 'unhappy'."

Daiyu: "..."

Yinzuo tugged at her sleeve and shook it: "Say it, say it! I'll analyze and analyze what's on your mind, otherwise, Erniang will say that I messed with you later, and you have to talk about me for several days!"

Thinking of that scene, he couldn't help shivering.Nowadays, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is good, but it is a little troublesome for the son and husband.

Daiyu couldn't help smiling, and then frowned again. How could Yinzuo bear this, and she urged Daiyu repeatedly to tell the truth: "Our wedding time is about the same as that of the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law. Now the fourth sister-in-law has I got pregnant, and my third sister-in-law also had a baby. I heard that the eldest sister-in-law and the crown prince concubine got pregnant shortly after their wedding, but I didn't make any movement at all."

She covered her lower abdomen with her slender hands: "It's not good for me to keep my body small, but now I look like an ordinary person, maybe I don't know if it hurts."

How can a woman not look forward to having a child of her own?What's more, Yin Zuogui is the prince, how can he succeed without any heirs under his knees, if she can't bear children, Yin Zuo is afraid that he will have to take a concubine no matter what.

Thinking of that scene, Daiyu felt very bored, and her tears couldn't help but flow down.

Yinzuo: "...!"

Yinzuo didn't expect Daiyu to be so sad, so he quickly comforted him: "Don't cry, this matter has nothing to do with you."

Daiyu sobbed in a low voice: "I know that children depend on fate, but fourth brother spends so little time in Beijing, fourth sister-in-law is pregnant, and I..."

"I really don't blame you!" Yinzuo held Daiyu in his arms and whispered in her ear, "It's because I took the medicine."

Daiyu: "...?"

Daiyu raised her head from Yinzuo's arms, her tear-stained eyes were red like a little rabbit.Yin Zuo resisted the urge to kiss her, and explained in detail: "We are not very old, our bodies have not yet developed well, and both of us are weak from the womb, I am really worried, if you want a child early, you will be I couldn't bear the burden of pregnancy and childbirth, and I was afraid that the child would be unhealthy. I thought it would be a few years before the birth was too late, so I took contraceptive pills. It was my fault. I forgot to tell you that it made you so sad. It's not your problem, it's mine."

Daiyu blinked hesitantly: "Really?"

Yin Zuo nodded: "Really!"

Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

It's good to be able to conceive, but it doesn't matter if it's later.

Yin Zuo saw that she was no longer worried, and joked viciously: "We have not had children for several years, are you afraid that Han Ama and Er Niang will be unhappy?"

Daiyu snorted and said, "You'll take care of it anyway, so I have nothing to worry about."

Yinzuo chuckled, hugged Daiyu and said, "My Fujin is really smart!"

Daiyu couldn't help smiling, although Yinzuo said that she was worried that the child would be born unhealthy, but she knew in her heart that it was probably because she was afraid that her body would not be able to bear it.He didn't hesitate to use contraceptive drugs for her, and he was not in a hurry to have a child. If he was so sincere, what did she have to worry about?

Daiyu leaned in Yinzuo's arms, feeling extremely at ease.