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

The people of Zhongshan have been very busy recently.

They told the owner that our Zhongshan King acquired a piece of land a few days ago, and then sprinkled black rice ash into it... What?You don't know what black rice ash is?Oops, it was the black smoke that soared into the sky a few days ago, remember?That's it.

You say so much, the vegetables in the field will not be burned to death.But it's good, maybe the little king will treat us better if he knows that farming is not easy.

They also want to spread the news to the Xi family, saying that we have built brick kilns and porcelain kilns in several places. This must be preparations for the Zhongshan Palace, and I don’t know where the king will choose the land at that time.

This one says it will be on the east side, where the lake and water scenery is particularly beautiful, and some people say it’s on the west side, where the terrain is high, wouldn’t it be beautiful to be condescending?

Indulging in the gossip of sharing the short story of King Zhongshan with each other, they cannot extricate themselves.

Not long after the matter about the straw came to an end, the thoughtful King Zhongshan contributed a new topic to them—the fire pit.

It is said that this technology was brought over from Chang'an City.

There is no need to do anything at home, as long as you cook normally, the whole house can be warmed up.King Zhongshan built this in his own courtyard, is it unreliable?Hey, the brother who helped lay the bricks is my son-in-law, how can it be fake?

And something so profound?

The people of Zhongshan Kingdom gossip for a long time, but most of them are watching the excitement.

The location of Zhongshan has a temperate continental climate. In winter, the Taihang Mountains in the northwest can help it block the northwest wind from the south. Because it is inland in summer and autumn, it is rarely disturbed by hurricanes.

Therefore, the winter in Zhongshan is not considered cold, and the cases of freezing to death in recent years are even rarer.

No matter how cold the weather is, the charcoal they buy here is not expensive. No matter how reluctant they are, there are still resources for the whole family to gather together to keep warm.

Most of the local people just listen to the so-called hot kang that the lord of the country is making a fuss about.

But interested people immediately seized on this information.

Xu Tao is a professional bricklayer. He has been in Zhongshan for more than two months.

He was originally from Yanmen County in Bingzhou, and he came to this place from his household registration mainly because he learned the news that the lord of Zhongshan Kingdom had become a vassal.

Since there is a lord of the country, it is inevitable to overhaul the palace, so Xu Tao believes that there must be big business here.

Today, His Majesty has ten sons, the ninth son of the emperor is His Royal Highness King Zhongshan who is 11 years old this year, and the tenth son of the emperor is only four years old this year.In other words, if nothing unexpected happened, the next opportunity to overhaul the palace would be at least eight or nine years away.

It can be said to be very witty.

However, what he never expected was that the king of Zhongshan did not seem to have any plans to build a palace. Since he arrived here for a long time, there has been no news that he will be sent to civilian service or recruit craftsmen.

If this guy hadn't opened a new brick kiln, Xu Tao would have been in despair.

However, while he was waiting here anxiously, he accidentally got the news of the existence of such a thing as a "hot kang".

Experts know what to do. Xu Tao is from the cold Yanmen. Compared with people here, he knows the meaning of the kang.

In the Northwest, there are many people who freeze to death in their sleep.If this heated kang is really useful, no matter how expensive the price is, it is still possible for a family or several families to put together a kang, at least to keep the elderly and children safe.

Xu Tao is a craftsman, a craftsman with a business mind, otherwise he would not have left his hometown to pursue such a fortune.But in the final analysis, he is also a northerner.

After thinking for a few days, he finally paid a visit.

After hearing about this person's intentions, Xia Anran was frightened by him. For a moment, he thought he had heard it wrong, but the appearance of this person prostrating and kowtowing reminded him that what he had just heard was indeed true.

Xia Anran took three or four seconds to react before smoothing out the line.

This craftsman came to him because he wanted to learn how to make a kang, and told him honestly that he wanted to take the technology home and teach it to his relatives and friends in his hometown, but he certainly couldn't afford the patent fee for the technology. Sell ​​yourself to him.

"Where is your hometown?"

Instead of being angry, Xia Anran asked with interest.

The craftsman honestly told the address of his hometown, and as soon as he said it, he could feel that the king fell into a long silence.

Xia Anran was thinking about this issue. Personally, he didn't mind imparting skills, let alone he had no intention of hiding it.

He doesn't have such a thick skin for taking a technology invented by others as original and applying for a patent.

But the point is that this craftsman's hometown is too sensitive.

Yanmen County was an important military base of the dynasty.

Xia Anran is very happy to make life better for the soldiers in the north, but he himself is a vassal king, even if he is his own son today, he is only 11 years old.But this has nothing to do with age, as long as you have the word vassal king, you should not easily contact warlords.

Otherwise, the sentence "what is your intention" will be smashed down.

He rubbed his fingers, and his eyes shifted to the craftsman who was kneeling down.What's more, even he felt that this matter was too coincidental. Why did this man from Yanmen County come to Zhongshan Kingdom, and he, the new Zhongshan King, happened to have a way to curry favor with Beidi...

He didn't even need to ask the subordinate officials next to him to know their answers.

The little prince was a little distressed, he waved off the craftsman for the time being, and then went to visit the prime minister Zhidu himself.Zhidu patiently listened to the little prince's explanation and thought about it, he immediately stood up and respectfully asked the little prince to take him to see what a kang is.

"I'm ashamed to say," said Zhi Du while walking, "Your Majesty built something for the people with all my heart, but I have never been able to meet with you. This is my dereliction of duty."

Xia Anran's leading steps paused, inexplicably feeling that his prime minister meant something, his eyes drifted to an angle silently, and then turned back very honestly.

The reason why Zhidu is in a busy situation now is entirely because - the country has just been merged, but Xia Anran, who is in charge of the family, has left a lot of things to the poor prime minister, and went to waste by himself.

The little prince shook his head in his heart, reminding himself not to think too much, after all, Zhidu has always been a low-emotional intelligence rough guy who can't be a human being, implying that something doesn't exist...

What's more, the prime minister is used to do things.

He handed over the power of the country to the prime minister, which saves time, effort, and worry for both parties. As the prime minister, Zhi doesn't have to bother to think about his every move, and he doesn't need to be extra defensive. Such a harmonious working environment.

If his remarks were heard by Zhidu, Zhidu would definitely hum and say: The duty of a minister is to assist the king, not to take over the power!

Then, in order to prove this, the king of Zhongshan Kingdom will immediately fall into dire straits.

Xia Anran didn't say anything, so he escaped unharmed.

In fact, the place Xia Anran used to make the kang was not his own house, but a newly built building complex. This is the tentative address of his future school.

Of course, the building is still a model house at present.

In order to ensure that the students have a relatively good learning environment, he not only made kangs in the dormitory area, but also laid a flue under the ground of the school. The design of this flue is somewhat similar to the design of the main halls of the Forbidden City. It's not that complicated, after all, he doesn't have such a high demand for smoke prevention.

Because it is the first laying, the craftsmen are more cautious, and only two rooms have been built so far.

These two are model rooms. The craftsmen have adopted different laying methods and want to see which one is better after using it for a period of time.

Just because it is used for experiments, no one lives here, but there are several pots in it, all of which are used by Xia Anran to grow bean sprouts.

He sprouted bean sprouts not all because he wanted to eat them, these beans were all soaked at the same time, except for the temperature conditions, everything else was the same.

Placed under the same working environment, it can be said that the germination speed of these beans can determine the temperature of the current location.There is no way, there is no thermometer, so this is the only way to do it.

There are not many places in Zhongshan where soybeans are grown. This is mainly because the growth cycle of soybeans is basically the same as that of rice. Soybeans and winter wheat can be planted together, but not rice.

However, the harvest and selling price of rice are much higher than that of wheat, so driven by economic benefits, rice will be chosen in places where rice can be grown in the Western Han Dynasty.

The locals only use a small part of the miscellaneous fields to grow soybeans, and it is only for adjusting the taste, not for profit, so the price of buying them is quite expensive.After all, the plant called Shu is now a scarce product here.

If it weren't for the fact that the germination temperature of soybeans is lower than that of rice, Xia Xiaomiao, who is searching and searching at this price, would like to use rice instead of soybeans for germination experiments.

A temperature above ten degrees can basically guarantee the germination of soybeans, which is why bean sprouts can dominate the early winter vegetable market.

Not sure how much the flue and kang could warm the room, he could only use soybeans, but there is no doubt that the higher the temperature, the faster the germination rate.

On the built-up kang, there are several wooden plates densely packed, and the yellow and fat soybeans on the top have sprouted.If you observe carefully, the bean sprouts near the window are all slightly green, which is the proof that the bean sprouts have started photosynthesis.

As soon as Zhidu entered, he felt a little dry and hot.

Because it is heated by fire and smoke, the air is inevitably a little dry. This is the case when the bean sprouts are cultivated and water is released. If only the heated kang is used, the situation will be even more serious.

On the way here, the craftsman in charge had already explained the key points to him, so after Zhidu took off his windproof cloak, he didn't care to study the situation of the bean sprouts here.

The man's gaze was like a falcon, and he only took a cursory glance to remember the scene in his heart.The temperature near the flue and the stove is obviously higher. The bean sprouts here are [-]% higher than those near the side. The performance in the middle section is similar, and the end location...

He raised his eyebrows, bent down suspiciously to study, and then he reached out to explore the gap between the wooden boxes.Seeing his movements, a craftsman immediately came to explain: "My prime minister, the kang here is short, and the heat from the stove turns back at the end, so the end of the kang here is as hot as the head."

"Oh?" Zhi Du raised his eyebrows, "Then if the kang mat grows, is it possible to cause the tail end to be cold?"

As soon as he said this, the craftsman showed a mysterious smile: "Indeed, but His Highness taught us a good way to avoid this problem..."

Following the craftsman's explanation, Zhi Du's face showed a complex look.He looked at the little prince with the adoring eyes of the craftsman, and was sincerely curious about why this little prince knew so much.

However, what he saw was that the little prince was cutting the bean sprouts with a pair of scissors, with obvious joy on his face. He put the cut bean sprouts into a basket, and immediately became flexible. The attendant took the almost full basket and brought up an empty one.

The action is very skillful.

Zhidu: There seems to be something wrong...

The author has something to say:

Xia Miao: There is nothing wrong with it!

Basically all plants can be eaten when they germinate, but soybean sprouts are indeed one of the best sprouts among all varieties.

The author once soaked soybeans and didn't have time to make soy milk, and because it was autumn and winter, he didn't care, changed the water and continued to soak, and then, it... sprouted

I:? ? ? ? ?

Then I ate spicy bean sprouts!

Frankly speaking, the bean sprouts sent by myself are no different from the ones bought outside. Now that the food monitoring is quite strict, there is no need to send them by yourself.

Of course, if you don't worry, you can buy the bagged one in the supermarket.

In fact, I personally like to eat mung bean sprouts, because they are more delicious, and they are delicious when fried.I like to stir-fry soybean sprouts with fried tofu. The bean flavor is very strong, and the fried tofu (to be cut) will absorb the soup, so it goes well with rice!

Bean sprouts reach their peak VC more than 10 days after germination, so don’t wait, eating at this time is the last nutritional DER. At that time, Zheng He used bean sprouts to supplement VC during his voyages.But the VC of soybean itself is not very much.

At the same time, the protein utilization rate of bean sprouts is higher than that of soybeans. Anyway, I don’t know why. The ancient people ate bean sprouts as a lettuce.Also mistakenly eat the right it!

By the way, a baby told me yesterday that dandelion can also be used to make glue... The author is already looking it up!

But it seems that only the Russian dandelion can be made, and the author is still looking for information.

PS: Frankly speaking, there are more pictures of native dandelions and Russian dandelions. I can’t tell the difference (sluggish face).

It's okay, you can put the rubber and so on, I still have a lot of technology points, so I don't need to chase this.

A lot of age and let me study chemical engineering... Hey, I feel the fear of being dominated by high school chemistry!

In fact, I didn’t talk much yesterday, mainly because the list was long.

Strawberries need the sun, they will not grow well in rainy days, and they will not be sweet.

It can be planted outside in rainy days, but you'd better raise it slightly higher, otherwise it will be easily flooded.

Seriously... Strawberries are growing outside... I don't think you will be able to eat them ==

Small animals have a keen sense of smell!

The store where I buy catnip seedlings is called: Mr. Cat’s Gardening Store

To be honest, I first paid attention to this store because he was one of the few people who sold live catnip several years ago.

Cough, I hope you don't do such things as growing catnip in public green spaces.

It's going to happen, really.