Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

It is a misunderstanding that iron pots only appeared during the Song Dynasty.

To be precise, it was during the Song Dynasty that coal began to be used on a large scale to replace firewood for ironmaking, which made the technology of reducing the cost of iron smelting mature, and iron pots gradually became popular among the people.And the rich family, holding craftsmen, workshops, and mines, really wanted to make an iron pot in the Eastern Han Dynasty, wouldn't it be possible?The technical level at the end of the Warring States period was enough to support the production of the simplest iron pot.As for the control of ironware in the Han Dynasty, isn't it ironware that the guards are holding in their hands?

The golden light of the setting sun sprinkled on the courtyard and the boiling oil in the iron pan in the courtyard.Uncle Mi wrapped the locusts in salt and flour, and shook them coolly, and all the white worms on the plate were shaken into the oil pan, making a "squeaky" sound.The fragrance is overflowing.

"Why does it have to be cooked in an iron kettle? It's too wasteful." Uncle Ding squatted down the corridor with the twins, drooling.

Asheng has a better say on this topic: "Because copper is not as resistant to high temperature as iron, and copper is easily poisoned if taken too much, but iron is not."

Uncle Ding: "...how can I not understand..."

Cao Cao raised his little hand: "I know, I know, if you swallow gold, you will be poisoned and die, but if you swallow iron, you will not." The "gold" mentioned in the Han Dynasty sometimes refers to copper.

Uncle Ding gave one of the two children a pat on the head: "Learn all the wrong things." He pointed at Cao Cao and said, "Bold and naughty."

Ah Sheng refused to accept it. Is there a more upright girl in this world than her?

But after all, Uncle Ding was willing to eat fried locusts with them, so she had a high degree of affection for him. "If the second uncle is willing to stay for a few more days, I'll call them the pickled locusts." She said in a low voice, "It has a different flavor."

Uncle Ding swallowed his saliva: "It can't be done, I have to leave tomorrow. Why don't you give me the iron kettle and soybean oil, and I'll make it on the way."

Cao Cao quit: "The Ding family can't make an iron cauldron? They want to rob us?"

Uncle Ding laughed out loud, smiling and sad: "The two nephews are both clever and clever, but it's a pity that my younger sister can't see it."

In the early morning of the next day, Ding's coffin was carried onto a large specially-made bullock cart, and surrounded by maidservants and servants in plain white, they drove slowly out of the eastern suburb courtyard.Ding Yi wears a horse and equips a sword, drives a black horse, and guards beside the ox cart.Along with Ding Yi, there are thirty servants, all dressed in military attire.

Cao Kun, as the representative of the Cao family in Peiguo, delivered a funeral speech on the official road.Then Cao Song, Cao Cao, and Cao Sheng father and son will take the lead in crying and saying goodbye to Ding's coffin.

Ding's Women's Medical Hall was built next to the official road, next to the official office in the eastern suburbs market.At this time, under the leadership of Ding Zhen, the women's doctor Wen Po in the hall was all dressed in plain clothes, and went to the funeral on the side of the road.

For more than a month, they opened their doors every day to give lectures on raising babies, and delivered more than 30 newborns from impoverished families in the suburbs of Luoyang at the same time.Therefore, there are still many family members of pregnant women and newborns, and even ordinary people who have heard of the reputation of the women's clinic, kneel down to Ding's coffin from a distance of [-] meters.

Immediately behind the women's hospital is the nursery hall.

The original intention of Yuyingtang is to adopt children whose mothers died of dystocia.However, it is difficult to implement it in practice: only the mother died, and the father and grandparents were often able to raise the children, which did not qualify as orphans.As long as the family is not starving to death, who would give away their own flesh and blood?

On the contrary, those families who are too poor to support their children desperately hope to send their children here in order to relieve the pressure.But these people have often reached a sensible age, and their family members are still alive. Forcibly cutting them off from their families is not in line with humanity or A Sheng's expectations.After several incidents of children stealing things from their parents, Ah Sheng stopped openly accepting people, and sent some bad habits home one after another.

There are two main sources of real orphans who can be left stably at present.

One is the beggar who almost starved to death on the street.

The second is the abandoned baby by Luoshui.

In addition, there are small slaves who are used as extra heads in the slave market. They are too young to be a labor force, so they often cannot be sold, and most of them will die of illness and hunger in the end.Ah Sheng's instruction to Ding Zhen is that anyone who can save a life should save a life.Although these little slaves had signed the deeds, they were also placed in the nursery hall to be raised with the orphans of the free people.

Children cannot understand the importance of personal rights of freedom. Instead, most of them are orphans of free people who hope to be able to repay their slaves when they grow up.Such is the social atmosphere.In fact, in this era when there was no imperial examination, the low-level free people had no way to rise, and they had to bear the risk of natural and man-made disasters. They were really inferior to the servants of rich and noble families.This is not only the convenience of the times, but also the sorrow of the times.

Ah Sheng hadn't had time to formally start teaching literacy and arithmetic among the orphans, and she was going to wait for the limelight of Ding's funeral to pass before doing it quietly.

Today, the teachings in the nursery hall are the same as the servants in other houses, the rules and regulations: washing hands before and after meals, queuing up for eating and sleeping, calmness when disasters strike, and politeness in dealing with others, etc.In many cases, the cultivation of living habits and three views is more important than the input of knowledge.

The only required literacy is the word "Ding".

There are two strokes in total, and everyone knows it after tracing it four or five times.The orphans in the entire Foundling Hall have only one writing brush, which can be dipped in water to write on the smooth slate.Writing dries instantly, and re-use is almost zero cost.In addition, there are sand tables and branches. It is also very convenient to use branches to practice calligraphy on the sand.

On the day of the funeral, when the sky was getting dark in the early morning, a steward brought a large piece of primary-colored linen from another courtyard, as well as ink pills and an inkstone.The sackcloth was spread beside the main road, and the orphans, from oldest to youngest, went up one by one to write the crooked "D" on the sackcloth.Babies who can't hold a pen are held by adults, with ink on their palms, and they draw horizontally and vertically.

Since the founding of Ding's Yuyingtang, there have been no beggars on the street, so it is also somewhat famous in the eastern suburbs market.Such motivating teachers and mobilizing crowds, some smart people immediately guessed: Cao Ding's funeral is going to be held today.Sure enough, when the hour of Chen arrived, they saw a mighty white-clothed team coming out of the other courtyard in the eastern suburbs.

Representatives of orphans—two ten-year-old boys, presented in front of the coffin with a sackcloth covered with the word "Ding".Cao Cao Cao Sheng came out under the surprised eyes of relatives in his hometown, accepted the linen cloth, and covered Ding's coffin.Then, Cao Song announced to the onlookers that all the copper coins buried with Ding would be exchanged for the farmland in the eastern suburbs, which would be used to support the Yuying Hall and the Women's Medical Hall.Tian Qi was authenticated by officials in full view and nailed to the wall of the main hall of the women's hospital.

Until many years later, Ding's funeral is still talked about by Luoyang people.However, due to the limitations of the times, very few people imitated it.

For one thing, burying a person without a penny would seem foolish and bold to the dignitaries of the Eastern Han Dynasty who believed in ghosts after death.Although the voice of the Cao family being unfilial was small, it never disappeared.

Secondly, the Cao family rescued all untouchables.Needless to say, women's medical halls deliver births and deliver medicines for free, but they spend money to buy fame, and it is still a reputation among the untouchables, which is of no use in the court.The adoption of beggars and abandoned babies in the Yuyingtang is probably to train servants and servants for the two young masters, and many people can think of this.But these days, it doesn’t cost much to buy a well-trained strong laborer. When a disaster happens, people are cheaper than food, so why start from a baby?The premature mortality rate of young children is frighteningly high. Isn’t it a waste of investment if you accidentally die?Moreover, Confucian society pays attention to loyalty, and the subordinates generally have high loyalty, which is really not bad for that kind of loyalty.

How could they have imagined that Ah Sheng was aiming at education.

In the following ten years, some benevolent families in Luoyang also set up Yuyingtang women's medical clinics, but because they could not see any benefits except burning money, they gradually fell into disuse.Only Ding's Women's Medical Hall and Ding's Yuyingtang have survived, and they have gained a great reputation among the lower-level people in the capital.Later, they became imperial enterprises, which have been continuously rebuilt and renovated for thousands of years, and have always been the most famous welfare institutions in Luoyang.