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

Li Dalang immediately frowned, he hurriedly looked around, seeing that the people around him didn't notice this, he hurriedly stopped: "Xiao Lang, don't say these words, be careful of kidnappers!"

He scolded in his heart how the elders in the shop were so negligent, he gritted his teeth and entered the shop anyway.There are no elders in this store, only two beautiful boys are left, if they meet villains or rangers take them away, it will be a good thing.

Although he doesn't have enough time, he has to go back to the village in time for the sun, but it doesn't hurt to stay and take care of him for a while.

Although he entered the shop, Li Dalang found a seat against the wall and sat down, not daring to touch those exquisite cloths and objects for fear of damaging them.

Seeing him like this, the older boy no longer felt embarrassed, poured him a glass of water, and dragged two benches to sit in front of him.

The two little gentlemen, you and I, completely covered Li Dalang's life, which was so simple that it couldn't be written on a piece of paper.

This year, Li Dalang has married a wife as a motivation, so he naturally worked hard on his daily work.

From continuously carrying straws to picking lacquer fruits from trees, nothing was left behind.Li Dalang also seized the spare time to learn the kung fu of kang, and saved some money after a lot of work.

This spring, he helped others to work again, and he has opened up several acres of wasteland with farm tools.Just as he was about to plant rice, he happened to be looking for someone to try planting Shumai, so Li Dalang caught up.

There is a stream running through the east and west of the village where he lives, and the locals divert water to irrigate the fields. Naturally, no one is willing to let their fertile land not grow high-yield rice, but to grow unknowingly good-looking Shumai.The county magistrate had no choice but to issue an order to promote the cultivation of these two crops, saying that the seeds would be given away for free, not only for free, but also for borrowing farm tools and animal power.

Others were hesitating, but Li Dalang, who had just opened the wasteland and was worried about where to get grain seeds, immediately seized this opportunity that he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

"So that's the case, that's really the luck of the lord." The older Xiao Lang raised the corners of his lips, and his eyes flashed with curiosity, "Then what does the lord think of the conditions of these two kinds of grains? Bud?"

"It's done, it's done. This spring, the weather is good, there are many suns, and there is no spring damage. The seedlings scramble as soon as they germinate." Thinking of his own field, Li Dalang also smiled. The farmer has dark skin, and his smile is very honest. I don’t know how the autumn harvest will be, but it should not be bad.”

The little king, who brought his younger brother out to experience life, got the news, and his smile immediately became a little bit happier.He leaned forward slightly and asked, "I heard from my family that His Royal Highness ordered to build a cesspool this year? Has your village built it? Is it troublesome to use it?"

The farmer touched his head and said with a simple and honest smile: "It's done. The county inspected it. Our village dug deep and asked to add guardrails. Trouble... Our village is also fine. The village chief asked people to go to the house in turn. There are many men with hair, and it only takes one turn in two days, so it's not troublesome."

"Then is this fertilizer easy to use?" Seeing his elder brother's relaxed expression, Liu Zhi was really curious about this thing that his emperor brother has repeatedly mentioned since he entered Zhongshan Kingdom, "After spreading it, the fruit has become more some?"

His naive question made Li Dalang laugh: "The fertilizer is not ready yet, and it will take several months to dry before it can be used. But what Your Highness said is correct."

The two young boys were stunned for a moment, and saw the man Geng Zhizhi say with a little foolishness: "Since Your Highness has come, our life is getting better and better."

"So, we believe His Highness will not fool us."

Until the last time when he went out with a red paper umbrella, Li Dalang couldn't understand what happened.

He helped take care of the two young men, and told them some stories in the village. When he got excited, he pulled a few weeds from outside and made a grasshopper for the children to play with. They are all things to coax children .

Who would have thought that after the adult of that family came back, after hearing a few words from that Xiao Lang, he would give him this umbrella.

Said it was to celebrate his wedding.

Huh!How did they know that I was going to marry a wife! !

The shocked Li Dalang didn't have time to refuse, so he was told, "The red umbrella exorcises evil spirits, and a lady will have a smooth life after she gets married." "This is an oil-paper umbrella. I wish you a child soon." Gao Nei" I was so blocked that I couldn't say a word.

In the end, Li Dalang really had no choice but to take away his heart.

However, Xia Anran would never have imagined that the oil-paper umbrella that no one cares about opened up a market for this moment of kindness.

Li Dalang's daughter-in-law, Liu Xiaomei, is a first-class beautiful woman in ten miles and eight villages. It is the most beautiful woman in Japan to marry a woman who likes men, and she was married with a red umbrella.

How many girls' eyes are reddened by that delicate appearance with a touch of rosy glow on the road!

No matter in which era, the consumption power of women should not be underestimated.

The red oiled paper umbrella quickly opened up the situation, but it did not benefit the real waxed paper umbrella.Compared with the oiled paper umbrella, the waxed paper umbrella looks like an ordinary khaki, and the girls don't like it at all.

No way, the wax paper itself is waterproof and oil-proof, and of course it is also dye-resistant. So far, only a few sporadic ways to change the color of the wax paper have been found, and all of them are expensive.

In this way, wax paper umbrellas fall into a dilemma where those who are willing to spend money dislike the color, and those who don't dislike the color don't need it at all.

Fortunately, this problem was resolved after Gao Yang sent someone over there.

The person from Gaoyang County is their county magistrate, the second in command of the county is here to deliver the ducks ordered last year and to discuss the reed issue with him.

In the spring, their reed collection should come to an end, but the county magistrate of Gaoyang County tasted the sweetness of this trade, so he asked the county magistrate who can speak well and understand the local conditions to come to Zhongshan with various special products from Gaoyang. Let's see what other business we can do.

Of course, there was still the name of making Xia Anran feel at ease.The little king was told that although Gaoyang had entered the conservation state of new reed seedlings and would not have any new harvests, the reeds supplied to Zhongshan could last for a while.

The reeds collected before are still in the process of processing, so there is no need to worry about cutting off the source of goods in Zhongshan. The continuous supply should last until summer, and in autumn, when the reeds turn yellow, they can be harvested again. The window period is about a season.

In fact, last year they waited until winter was approaching to harvest, because the reeds had already dried naturally at that time, which could save them unnecessary operations and save manpower.

But if Zhongshan still needs broken reeds in the second half of this year, the people of Gaoyang are willing to spend more time to dry them manually.

The place called Baiyangdian in later generations is the pearl of North China in modern times, and it is also an important link in the ecological chain of North China. However, in the Western Han Dynasty, for the local people, there was a love-hate relationship with this string of lakes.

While lakes bring people abundant water resources and aquatic products, they also bring people the danger of extinction at any time.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese rain belt was still in the north.With the exception of the mother river, who occasionally abuses her children, almost all the people along the river have rich experience in flood fighting and disaster relief.

As for the people of Gaoyang County who live in the south of the Baiyangdian lake group where five rivers flow and meet, there is no need to mention the vicissitudes of their lives.

The paddy fields irrigated by Baiyangdian lake water may be submerged overnight by the soaring lake water in the summer when the harvest is about to usher in.But for the farmers, all they can do is to plow the land again after the tide recedes, and hurry up to plant the next season of vegetables to barely make up for some losses.

As far as the whole country is concerned, their life can already be considered affluent, relying on the lake, at least they will not starve to death.But only the locals know how depressing it is to feel empty and hopeless.

But there is no way, people have to live, and make up as much as they can, and the use of reeds comes from this.The local county magistrate knows their own situation. The purchase of reeds here in Zhongshan this year has indeed brought a lot of income to the local farmers. If they can, they don't want to lose this business.

For this reason, everyone in their county carefully kept it a secret. If there were women from other counties in the family, they would not dare to let others know about it. Occasionally, someone in the truck who delivered the goods asked about it, and they also said that Zhongshan came to buy duck eggs. .

reed?Hey, that's so obvious, isn't it to prevent the duck eggs from being broken, maybe there are still people who want to buy broken reeds and roll them at home.

Everyone can be the best actor for a living.

But if this matter can be hidden for a while, it will definitely not be hidden for a lifetime.

At that time, if someone reports to the prefect of Zhuojun, the prefect will definitely let them share part of the proceeds for the benefit of the whole county.Not to mention, the same county on the edge of the lake can also provide the same products, and they need this income more strictly in the lower reaches of the lake area than Gaoyang County in the south of the lake area.

For prefects, they will naturally tend to support counties that need help more.

Gaoyang County is nothing more than taking advantage of the location, they are closer to Zhongshan Kingdom, and the local county magistrate is also a subject of Zhongshan Kingdom, and he immediately agreed when asked.

So as soon as the spring began, the county magistrate was sent over immediately. They wanted to sign a supply agreement with Zhongshan before the news could be concealed, so that even the prefect of the county could not interfere.

Xia Anran hesitated for a long time for the county magistrate's careful flattery.

Frankly speaking, the use of reeds to make paper was his response to the lack of rice straw in Zhongshan due to his late order.But the feedback from the workshop is that the reed fiber is longer, and the paper made by mixing it with rice stalks is better than pure rice stalks.

But at the same time, reeds are fresh and hard after all, and the previous pretreatment also took a certain amount of time and processes. Considering that he does not plan to carry out large-scale commercial production, using reeds is not as convenient as directly using rice stalks.

The most important thing is - if he signs a purchase agreement with Gaoyang County, what will happen to the purchase of rice stalks that he promised the people of Zhongshan last year?If it is not a commercial production, Zhongshan country does not need such a huge paper consumption.

While hesitating, he saw a small head protruding from the door. It turned out that Liu Xiaozhu woke up from a nap and didn't see his brother, so he found it by himself.

Xia Anran hurriedly beckoned him in.

Liu Zhi moved his short legs and came over to bow to him, then blinked his big eyes at the man sitting in front of him after Xia Anran pulled him to sit down.

"This is the magistrate of Gaoyang County," Xia Anran introduced him.

After the two met, Liu Zhi leaned next to Xia Anran, put on a gesture of whispering, and said in a volume that anyone could hear: "Brother, isn't Gaoyang County the county seat of Zhuojun County? How come? Are you looking for brother? Could it be that it is going to be included in the Zhongshan Kingdom?"

"No." Xia Anran patted his younger brother's little butt to make them sit down, and while he was a little surprised that his younger brother knew this, he whispered back, "They want to sell me reeds."

"Brother, why do you want reeds?" Liu Zhi shook his head, and the two uncombed croissants dangled in the air twice, "There is no reed in Zhongshan? Or is the reed in Gaoyang particularly good?"

"Brother, you don't need to ask them to buy it. My Fengguo also has a reed trumpet? I can give it to my brother."

Xia Anran stretched out her hand to hold the dangling little braid, rewrapped the little horns on her younger brother, then poked the tip of Xiaodouding's nose and said, "Your fief is near the sea, it's far away from here, and the price of reeds is cheap." , but if it is transported from Jiaodong to Zhongshan, the toll will be very expensive.”

"You want to be a good king in the future, so you can't do something so motivating."

"Okay~" The kid nodded, looking cute and cute.

Being interrupted by such an interruption, Xia Anran remembered something: "I remember that I ordered a batch of ducklings from Gao Yang before..."

"Return to Your Highness, yes, the ducklings were brought together this time." The county magistrate has always been quiet, even if the little king suddenly changed the subject now, he dare not have any objections, he can only obey The topic replied cautiously, "The healthiest ones are selected, and they are taken care of by special personnel. After they are kept, they are still alive and kicking."

From this official, Xia Anran saw the humbleness of the low-level civil servants in this country. This kind of appearance of being cautious in order to generate income for the subordinates, for fear of offending the financial master, made him feel guilty that he was the evil father of Party A. feel.He coughed in embarrassment, and then the unscrupulous father of Party A stood up and took his brother's hand to go out to inspect the goods.

Xia Anran specified that what she wanted was the white-browed duck.In order to ensure the health of the ducklings, even the mother ducks were brought over from Gaoyang. These ducks were locked in a grass cage made of reeds and were quacking, looking very lively.

Liu Zhi has a childish mind, and immediately ran to look at the little duck, but what Xia Anran looked at was a thing lying flat on the ground next to it.

In order to please potential patrons, there is a precedent of sending some gifts in exchange for a large order of aquatic products last time. This time, the county magistrate brought a lot of special products, just want to see if the little king still wants to Things to buy from them.

Among them... a turtle that was caught just after waking up from hibernation.

This turtle is about the size of a football.Even though he was imprisoned and tied tightly with a rope, his eyes still looked fierce.

Soft-shelled turtle is an aggressive, cruel, and gluttonous amphibian reptile.There is an allegorical saying among the people that "the old turtle bites and will not let him go".

But in Xia Anran's eyes, this is just the raw material for a rock candy soft-shelled turtle.It's still a wild turtle!How delicious is that!

He swallowed slightly.Then I was so frustrated that there was no rock sugar, only syrup.There is no soy sauce either...it can't be braised, so it can only be steamed.

Xia Anran's eyes reluctantly moved away from the big turtle, probably because of this stimulation, when he saw the green duck eggs, he suddenly had a burst of inspiration, and asked, "Have you tried salt and water?" Has the duck egg wrapped in yellow mud been marinated?"

After getting a negative answer, Xia Anran smiled and said: "Let's try it. The season is just right now. After pickling, it will be ready to eat in January. If it is delicious, I don't mind buying some."

The county magistrate's head was full of question marks, but he didn't dare to ask more. He chewed this sentence over and over again in his heart, making sure he memorized every word, and respectfully said yes.

Then the little king, who was delighted at the thought of having salted duck eggs in the future and being able to cook a series of dishes with salted egg yolks, took him to see something, which was wax paper produced in Zhongshan.

He showed the magistrate the waterproof ability of an umbrella made of wax paper.The county magistrate was confused, but felt a little bit but couldn't be sure what His Highness meant.Seeing this, Xia Anran said bluntly: "I want to entrust you to wrap the [oil paper] produced in my Zhongshan country on the reed curtain you made."

The county magistrate was stunned. Although he is not a craftsman in this line of work, he is a native of Gaoyang. He also helped out when he was a child. He knows how to weave curtains, but he needs to cover them with "paper"... This, this How to do it?with paste?

After obtaining permission, the county magistrate touched the paper, only to feel that the paper was slippery to the touch, similar to silk cloth, but there was an obvious feeling that something was covered on it, and this slippery but sticky feeling was really It's kind of weird.

He frowned and thought about it. On the one hand, he didn't want to let go of this opportunity, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the craftsmen in his county would not achieve the effect that His Highness wanted, and offend the nobleman for nothing.

But if it succeeds, Gaoyang County will be able to climb up to Zhongshan Country!

Between ups and downs, he gritted his teeth and decided to fight: "May I ask Your Highness, how big a curtain do you want to make? What is it going to be used for? Is it going to be hung or used as a support?"

Huh?Can you still do support? ,

Seeing that he was interested, the county magistrate told the little king about the common uses of their curtains.

The one hanging on the edge of the pavilion is the most basic, blocking the light and the view, and generally not so useful except in hot or cold weather.The most common thing is to prop it up at an angle just to block the direct sunlight, but it needs to be pulled with ropes, which is not very good-looking, so a craftsman made a bracket, and used several wedges to control the angle, and the curtain was erected on the above.

This thing can move according to the sun, which is equivalent to an extended product of the gazebo. It is widely praised because it does not block the view of the scenery.

How could it be like this? ! !

Xia Anran immediately said that she wanted this kind, and the price was negotiable.

He actually planned to use this kind of wax paper to make a canopy. The weather is too restrictive for many things in this era. Not to mention, it is like not being able to move goods every rainy day, which is a waste of time.

This kind of process delay caused by the weather is simply unbearable for modern people.

But there is no way, there is no ginger in the Western Han Dynasty, and it is impossible to cook a ginger soup to drive away the cold.

The medicine is too expensive, but it is fine in summer and autumn, and wearing a coir raincoat can basically keep out the water and keep out the cold. Xia Anran really can't bear to let people work under the rain in winter.

However, the recent spring rains have been continuous, and it has not stopped at once. It took half a month to move all the porcelain that Liu Xing wanted intermittently.

But Xia Anran, a black-hearted capitalist, was very anxious.

In addition, the wax paper umbrellas were not selling well, so he thought about using the wax paper to make a canopy.The wax paper has good rainproof ability and light transmittance. When the time comes, just paste the small piece at the border between the warehouse and the truck, so you don’t have to worry about the goods and workers being exposed to the rain during the transportation!

However, if you use paper directly, it is too fragile, and I am afraid that it can be folded by a gust of wind.It is also possible to encounter birds passing through and so on.He felt that if it could be covered on the curtain, it would be better to have a support.

Zhongshan Country is located inland, and there is not much wind and rain, so the requirements for the shed are naturally not too high.

He also observed the reed curtain for a period of time before, and even destroyed it with his hands. He felt that the hardness of the reed curtain was enough, and the key was that it was cheap.

After all, wax paper is still paper in essence. No matter how thick and firm it is, it can last for three months if it is exposed to rain and sun for a long time. It seems that the reed curtain can last longer than wax paper.

Fortunately, these two things are cheap, and it doesn't rain every day to support them, so the cost should not be very high.

After understanding Xia Anran's plan and getting the approximate drawings and dimensions, Gaoyang's county magistrate returned to his county with the batch of stencils that had been rushed out.

The artisans of Gaoyang attached great importance to this order.

What they fancy is not only Xia Anran's order itself, but also the paper that can prevent the rain, and this design called "Canopy".

Xia Anran, who got the real thing, after researching for a long time, had an idea, and found a few merchants in Lunu County. After some discussion, the only "pedestrian street" that can be visited even in rainy days in Dahan Kingdom appeared just like that.

Guests can travel by horse-drawn carriage and get off at the "parking lot" in front of the pedestrian street. After that, even if it is raining, they don't have to worry about it. This kind of pleasant feeling of shopping with the sound of rain is absolutely incomprehensible to modern people.

Soon, Gaoyang County received a notice to increase the order volume.The somewhat saturated reed curtain market took advantage of the wind of wax paper to start again, and because of the additional processes and the fact that this kind of product is now the only one in Gaoyang in the country, the income is also very high.

For this reason, the magistrate of Gaoyang County was delighted to give half of the newly marinated duck eggs that month to Xia Anran.

Xia Anran, who had just solved the problem of moving the goods, and fell into the distress of being about to run out of raw materials for lacquer seeds, was unexpectedly comforted by piles of duck eggs.

He was so happy that he put these duck eggs in a cool place, and was going to let them marinate for a while before eating.

Eggs laid by purely wild Baiyangdian teal ducks... must be very delicious!

There are many varieties of ducks in Gaoyang County, and the local people did not deliberately breed them before. In addition, wild ducks can fly, and they will breed with other waterfowl.

It's like the small white-browed duck that Xia Anran asked for by name mixed with a few ducklings with strange coats, and the duck eggs sent by the previous batch of Gaoyang people contained a few fluffy eggs, which he casually stuffed into the local duck's arms In the nest, the ducks hatched are also varied.

Liu Zhi likes these little ducks very much, and goes to see them every day.Fortunately, the one holding the eggs is a duck, this kind of waterfowl is really the most docile in this genus, otherwise Xia Anran will start to worry about whether the little piglet will be ordered to exterminate the ducks in the whole country after he becomes the emperor.

But it is rewarding for Liu Zhi to go to see the ducks every day.

One day, Xia Anran was shocked to see Liu Zhi being chased back by some ducklings.

Liu Zhi was excited and frightened by being chased by the duckling, and his two short legs almost ran out of whirlwind legs.The little ducks were also chirping non-stop in the back, and the smaller short legs slapped and ran fast on the wooden floor, and a big duck followed behind.

Xia Anran knew what happened just by seeing this scene. He grabbed the screaming younger brother and then saw three fluffy little yellow ducks also rushed over, chirping and chirping. It's really the same as Liu Che.

They all called "Duck" to run away.

They wandered around Xia Anran for a while, and then decided to follow in the footsteps of "Ma Ma", so a particularly brave duckling jumped onto Xia Anran's knee with its short legs.

The real numbness of the little duck was trying to quack and quack to keep the child away from humans, but it was useless, and the other two cubs followed suit.

Ya Mama was almost desperate.

The author has something to say:

Xia Miao: My brother is such a creature...

Brother Liu: Tsk tsk tsk

Brother Liu: Tsk tsk tsk

Brother Liu Qi: Tsk tsk tsk

Father Liu: Tsk tsk tsk

Xia Miao:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? !

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The ducklings are so cute running on the floor, flapping.

Ducks are relatively the most docile in the duck family. Others...you know who and who.

Baiyangdian has 3 rivers now, and 5 in the Western Han Dynasty... What kind of hell-level difficulty is this.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Gaoyang was further east than it is now, in the southwest of Baiyangdian.

The county magistrate of a place must be appointed by the upper pole, but the rest of the officials must be locals.The wages of low-level officials in the Han Dynasty were actually very low, and they were the type who could not survive without corruption (so if you don’t use the locals, you will be more greedy)

There are many uses for reeds, but the problem we are encountering now is that all the paper mills have been relocated in order to improve the ecology. As a result, the reeds in many places + shipping costs are not cost-effective. problem.

By the way, has anyone bought a reed series from KOKUYO?It is the kind of natural yellow paper, the cover paper is the kind of thick cardboard, and the color inside is the color of reeds.

Reeds are actually quite troublesome. They are the type that should be cut off as much as possible on the water surface and regrown. If left on the water surface, it will lead to eutrophication of the water quality and degrade the reed field. It seems that last winter or the winter before last I still According to the news, the reed marshes in Baiyangdian have encountered a major problem, because the reeds are degrading every year because they cannot be consumed.

It is indeed a big problem to plant reeds for environmental management, but now it is also impossible to dispose of reeds for environmental management.

But reeds were still very useful in ancient times.

For example, reed flowers can also be used to make reed shoes, which keep warm and are very useful in times when there is no cotton.It is said that many Chinese reeds are exported to Japan, and many Japanese-style blackout curtains with gaps are made of reeds. Of course, Japan also encountered the problem that reeds cannot be disposed of.

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For Xia Miao, it is more convenient for him to use straw for papermaking, otherwise he would have to use alkali to soften it, which would cost more.

Xia Miao, who has used reed paper and can no longer return to the era of straw paper, is very distressed today. If she buys reed, it will hit the local straw market.

The little king is not so easy to do quack quack