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

When the Xiongnu caravan left, Li Guang didn't see him off. He stood quietly on the wall in his official uniform, watching those people leave with deep eyes.

"I really want to rush out~" a small soldier beside him muttered, "Rush out now, and keep one stab."

Li Guang smiled. Since he was stationed here, he got along with the soldiers happily, so these little soldiers were not too restrained in front of him, so naturally they dared to say anything.He patted the soldier on the head and said: "Don't worry, fight out sooner or later."

The soldier touched the melon on the head that didn't hurt, and showed a silly smile, but clenched the hand holding the halberd tightly. He said to Li Guang: "Junshou, these Huns are not good people. When I was guarding the city gate, I heard them say that they were going to rob other barbarians when they went out, and even the Huns would not let them go, and they wanted to rob them."

"Oh?" Li Guang frowned, "Can you understand the language of the Huns?"

"I don't understand," Brother Bing sighed, "The slave they brought told me that it was a Han, and they swept it away."

"Oh?"

Seeing Li Guang's interested expression, Xiao Bing hurriedly said: "I took the initiative to ask him for information. He, he should not be helping the Huns."

Li Guang waved his hand, indicating that it's okay, let him continue talking.

"That man was plundered to the Huns 13 years ago. He is from Pengyang." Xiaobing said, "He said he was the only one left alive in his family, so he wanted revenge. This time he was picked on purpose. It’s about looking for opportunities.”

Peng Yang... As soon as the name of this place came out, Li Guang knew what was going on with this person.

Thirteen years ago, during Emperor Wen's reign, the Hun's old Shang Shanyu had harassed the Han for a long time and started wars at multiple points, which made the Han army exhausted.When the border defenses of the Han Dynasty were loose, they took the opportunity to gather and attack the Han Dynasty on a large scale. The Han army was unprepared for their strong attack, and they were beaten all the way to the Ganquan Palace near Chang'an.

It is said that at that time, Emperor Wen could see the fire of Ganquan Palace from a distance standing on the city wall of Chang'an City. However, when Chang'an gathered a large army to fight back, the Xiongnu retreated like a tide, leaving only a messy frontier .

Later, although the Xiongnu Shanyu sent a letter of apology under the pressure of the big man and punished Zuo Xianwang, who claimed to have acted without authorization, it was still a shame that every big man kept firmly in his heart.

And Pengyang was where the Xiongnu army was stationed at that time. After they retreated, they looted a large number of people, and what was left to the Han army was almost an empty city, and it was also a dead city.

The time was right, but Li Guang had reservations about this person's identity.

Of course he hoped that every Han man would be a good man, a hero who would never turn to the enemy.But the appearance of this Han man was too coincidental, so he had to pay more attention.

Therefore, he didn't express his position, but just quietly listened to Xiaobing.

Xiao Bing didn't notice the change in the officer's heart, and he and the man only exchanged a few words while taking advantage of the fact that the Huns were not paying attention. After nodding, he only told the sheriff the information that the other party's words might be able to use.

"The man said that King Zuoxian and King Zuoguli are at odds. The left and right are also not harmonious." Xiao Bing scratched his head, trying to recall the information he got during the chat.

"What else did that person say?" Li Guang asked.

Xiao Bing shook his head regretfully, "No more, he didn't dare to say more because he was afraid of being discovered."

Li Guang nodded, and said again: "Did you ask that person's name?"

Xiao Bing shook his head again, "He refused to say, he said that he would live in the world, shameless to bear his name."

Li Guang was silent, and finally sighed, "Where is he shameless, the really shameless..." It should be us.The words that followed were swallowed by him,

Just when he was sighing in his heart, he suddenly heard the report from the soldiers, the people from Zhongshan Kingdom.

Zhongshan State asked them to borrow dryland farm tools before, so they will return them on this trip.

But when they borrowed a few items, they returned them in a large cart.Because of this, the yamen servants did not dare to make a decision and had to run to look for Li Guang.

Li Guang stepped down the city wall quickly, and as soon as he rode his horse back to the mansion, he saw a large cart parked at the gate of the sheriff's mansion, with many unidentified objects buried in straw piled up on it, he couldn't help pointing at it. Big Che, "This, what is this?"

The small official of Zhongshan Kingdom replied respectfully: "Return to the prefect, these are new products that have been modified from the agricultural tools borrowed by Zhongshan Kingdom. It is a thank you gift from His Highness."

Thanks for what?

Li Guang's back felt fuzzy, his head hurt when he thought of the little king who was particularly capable of making troubles in the south, and his heart was even more tired when he thought about his son who stayed there and refused to come back.

On the one hand, he was a little apprehensive about the existence of the vassal king, but on the other hand, he felt that this was just a doll in his teens, and there was nothing to shy away from.

But as the saying goes, once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, he really doesn't want to get close to such troublesome creatures as vassal kings.

However, farm tools...

Ahem, for every county guard, the temptation of new farm tools is completely irresistible to them.

Easy-to-use farm tools mean saving labor, and saving labor is equivalent to spending more energy on city defense, so that you can fight back a few more rounds of Huns.

The villain in Li Guang's heart punched a hundred and eighty times in a few minutes, but he couldn't resist the temptation in the end, "The people of Guangdai County thanked King Zhongshan."

Li Guang clasped his fists at the little official, who responded with a smile, and then resigned and left.

Huh?So straightforward?

Li Guang rubbed his nose, and suddenly felt that he was judging the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and he was a little embarrassed.When he saw the farm tools unloaded by the soldiers, he was even more puzzled. He seemed to have seen these things before, but they seemed extremely strange.

How is this thing used?

The small official of Zhongshan Kingdom who was summoned again after walking not far away flashed his eyes and said enthusiastically, "Don't worry about the prefect. His Highness will send the farmer to use this thing in a few days. If the prefect finds it useful, welcome to Zhongshan at that time." country to buy."

Li Guang was speechless for a while, he glanced at the little official, and the little bit of guilt that had just arisen disappeared immediately.

There is also a threshing machine and fan car business between Daijun and Zhongshan.

Before the autumn harvest, the grain harvesting equipment sent by Zhongshan Kingdom was really useful, which greatly shortened the speed of Daijun’s grain collection. However, the small officials of Zhongshan Kingdom were very vigilant and did not let Daijun’s people get close to the machine, so they could not see the internal structure. Naturally, they couldn't make one by themselves, so in the end they could only pick and buy ten of them.

But later Li Guang learned that he wasn't the only one receiving the same treatment, even the little king's brothers jumped into the pit dug by the little king.For wealthy vassal kings, a few machines are naturally worthless, and they don't care about spending money on a convenient one.But he is different. As a county governor, the funds he can use are also very limited.

If possible, Li Guang would like to use all the money to store grain and store weapons. When buying machinery, he was so distressed that he rolled around for several nights and didn't sleep well.

During the autumn harvest, the names of these two kinds of agricultural tools were spread in the Northland. Li Guang only found out about it when he was chatting with other counties. If he had known earlier, he would not have bought it. He asked the neighbor next door to borrow it. Once you borrow it, you're done!

Isn't Zhongshan country falling into the eyes of money?But didn't they just take away a Laiyuan copper mine?Even if the mine is really not big, it should be enough for the little king to spend.How could it be like this?

After thinking for a long time, he attributed it to King Zhongshan's personal hobbies.

Well, no comment.

After the Zhongshan people left, Li Guang picked up a thing called a "nail rake" they sent and waved it. When Jun Cheng came to look for him, he saw that he was dancing this strange thing like a whistling wind. Zhongshan Chinese craftsmen did not cut corners in this regard. The wood is all solid wood, not to mention, it feels quite smooth.

Jun Cheng was stunned for a moment when he saw him like this, and came over hesitantly after he put down the things, "Prefect, is this a newly built weapon? It looks a bit..."

arms?

Li Guang was stunned for a moment, looked at the farm tools in his hand, and then at the other farm tools sent by Zhongshan Kingdom. Suddenly, an idea crossed his mind, and he quickly waved his hand, "Hurry up, find some raw pork, let's eat it." Give it a try."

Xia Anran didn't know that the boss next door was using the farm tools full of love and peace he sent over as a weapon to test the lethality, and he was currently watching the chicken feather selection process.

Autumn and winter are the troughs for hens to lay eggs, so the poultry egg production factory in Lunu County eliminated a batch of pullets on the advice of local people.

Some of these pullets were bought back. Hens that are already laying eggs can continue to work in the spring, and the output is stable and healthy. Compared with buying chickens full of unknowns, it is still very cost-effective. .

Of course, many people choose to buy it to eat in winter.

Boil a chicken soup, add tofu, and then keep adding water and simmering, don't eat chicken, just eat tofu and side dishes.

When the chicken is stewed until the end, it comes down as soon as you sip it, and then it is served with steamed cakes, and the pickles that will be out of the tank at that time, it tastes warm and delicious in winter, it can't be more perfect.

However, the national consumption of whole chickens in Zhongshan is limited, and more chickens are slaughtered by slaughterhouses to supply the poultry market.Two consecutive years of bumper harvests plus additional income such as lacquer fruit and rice stalks have made the small coffers of Zhongshan people significantly fuller. After waiting and inquiring last year, many people have basically made an appointment for the kang this year.

According to the current rules, in addition to wages, the masters who come to Pankang have to give others a good meal. It is very good to buy a chicken. Chicken soup and tofu are fresh and delicious. The key is that it is cheap.

In addition to selling whole chickens, the market now also sells parts and components. For those who are reluctant to eat chicken, it is very cost-effective to buy chicken wings and chicken thighs, and it is also very cost-effective to buy some offal.

The chickens transported to the directly-operated store in the market after being slaughtered every morning can be robbed in one morning. These chickens are pre-plucked, which saves the time for the citizens to slaughter, and they are processed early in the morning, which is very fresh and cost-effective .

For urban residents, everyone is happy to save the effort of killing chickens. Cough, in fact, the most popular thing is that after the hair is plucked and the blood is removed, the weight of the chicken is much less?Doing the math, this is much more cost-effective than buying a chicken with feathers.

Of course, due to the current level of freshness preservation, in order to prevent the chicken from being sold and spoiled, the supply of these chickens is limited, and we have to grab them.

When the residents of Lunu County praised the chicken farm for its authenticity, what they didn't know was that the reason why the chickens were cleaned up was not for their convenience, but because chicken feathers were collected in the factory.

All the small fluff that the residents hate when they are slaughtered are all pulled out, dried in water, and then all put into a large "fan car". The same principle of wind power is used, and the fluff in the dried chicken feathers is the lightest. , It only needs a breeze to separate it from feathers, wing feathers and other large feathers. After the second round of screening, these chicken feathers are poured into the bedding covered with layers of gauze.

Skillful female workers use needles and threads to evenly divide it into several tofu cubes to fix the chicken feathers inside the quilt, and then a chicken feather quilt is completed.

Chicken down is not as warm as duck down, but it is already a cross-generational progress compared with ordinary warmth.

Large feathers will not be wasted. Collect them and tie them together, which is the childhood shadow of many children-feather dusters.While this thing hurts to hit, it does an excellent job of cleaning.

Especially for some more delicate objects, the engraving effect is outstanding, and they were looted as soon as they were launched.

Liu Xiaozhu also had a small chicken down vest, which made Xiaodouding sweat on the first day of trying it on.Seeing this, Xia Anran was taken aback, lamented that the child was full of firepower and quickly wiped off his sweat, then took off the vest, ready to wear it for him when it was colder.

Liu Zhi had nothing to do with it. After drinking the tea that his elder brother sent, he reported his experience of trying it on, "This one is very warm~"

Xia Anran wiped his black paws, and replied, "What else?"

The child stretched out his other hand, "It's easy to move~"

"Because this is only a small vest." Xia Anran smiled, "Are there any shortcomings?"

"Hmm..." Liu Zhi thought for a while, wrinkled his little nose, "Smelly."

Xia Anran laughed, rubbed his younger brother's face, and then fell into deep thought.Indeed, since the chicken feathers are picked up after the chickens are slaughtered and fluffed, it is inevitable that they will encounter some dirt. In addition, the chicken oil is difficult to clean, and the clothes with chicken feathers do have some smell.

But let him pluck chicken feathers dryly... This is too cruel and consumes a lot of manpower, so it is really unnecessary.

So the key is to focus on cleaning.

"How do you clean the chicken feathers now?" Xia Anran asked the craftsman in charge of collecting the feathers, and the other party looked bewildered.

"..." Xia Anran was a little speechless, "...No, don't you wash it?"

The craftsman said cautiously: "Your Highness, the chicken feather itself was pulled out in hot water..." The implication is that because it was pulled out in hot water, it has been washed itself!

How can this be the same!

The little king endured it, but he couldn't hold it back. He took a deep breath and immediately ordered: "Bring the oil board! There are also lime and plant ash!"

Facing his younger brother's pure gaze, Xia Anran put on the bib silently, "Brother, brother, I'm going to do a trick for you!"

Liu Zhi was very supportive when he heard the words, and he also called his little friends to sit in a row and watch together.Unexpectedly, there was an accident during the collection of raw materials. Now a large amount of lime in Zhongshan country has been transported to the south, where lime is needed to make three-component clay, so the craftsmen are very embarrassed to say that the lime has to wait first. Go south to get it.

Xia Anran was a little surprised, "Lu Nu didn't stay at all?"

"Returning to Your Highness, Zhongshan does not produce lime, and these are bought from other places... So when transporting, even the bags were transported there directly." The little official said that this was to save shipping costs, "The subordinates have sent more fast horses, It takes about half a day to arrive."

Xia Anran waved her hand and said, "It's okay, let them slow down, I'm just doing an experiment, and I don't need to use it in large quantities right now."

Looking at his younger brother's disappointed eyes, and seeing that he had summoned his friends, the little king's heart softened. He tilted his head and thought for a while, and said to the craftsman: "Please...get some chicken shells. Give me some chicken shells. An iron stove."

He patted his younger brother's head, "It's okay, there is nothing irreplaceable in this world, brother will change a spell for you."

Chicken shells are easy to collect in Lunu County. There are plenty of ready-made chicken shells in the kitchen of the military camp. These shells were originally to be ground and mixed into the feed to increase calcium, but now they are all recruited by the little king.

The main component of the chicken shell is calcium carbonate, and its component is lime powder after high-temperature calcination.

While burning, the plants ashed the water, and finally he poured the lime powder into the aqueous solution and continued stirring.The children looked at it for a long time, and saw that it was cold water, but after the lime powder was poured in, water bubbles bulged up, and finally water vapor even appeared. They all found it very interesting.

Xia Anran was also doing this for the first time, and he didn't know how much lime powder to put in, so he simply asked someone to use up all of it.The craftsmen controlled the amount of lime powder and added it slowly, and when it was all poured out, the little bean dings probed to see.

"Ah, the eggshell powder is gone!"

"Brother, is this the same as salt?" "Your Highness, what's next? Is it over?" The children were chattering and watching, while Xia Anran was watching from the sidelines.

This should be a complete response, right?He also did it for the first time.

He stopped a few little beans who were curious and wanted to touch them, and slapped their little butts one by one as a warning, and then he asked someone to carefully take out some liquid that had been filtered with plant ash and mixed it little by little into the space on the pot. In the oil heated by water, then direct the little beans to stir.

This work is mechanical and boring, but the little bean dices liked it very much, and they all raised their hands to ask to take over the job, especially after the oil gradually layered and changed from the original clear appearance to a viscous liquid.

While Xiaodouding was playing, some craftsmen were recording the experimental process step by step. These people knew that the liquid after lime was dissolved in water was corrosive, so they would not reach out to touch it.However, in the face of the little king's instructions, they were still very useful, and even a younger craftsman saw that the little king looked at the children humming and stirring and asked in a good mood: "Your Highness, what are you doing?" ? Is it delicious?"

"It's not for food." Xia Anran mourned for her own image, and couldn't help the farmer standing there, "Washing chicken feathers for you."

He said in the terrified eyes of the craftsmen: "Of course you can also wash clothes, and washing your hands is no problem, just wash your face."

Over there, Liu Zhi suddenly turned his face away and shouted to the little king: "Brother! When will this be considered ready! It smells a bit stinky!"

When he walked over and smelled it, he laughed, yes, it was this smell, the smell of stinky soap that only existed briefly in his childhood. "It's almost done, just pour it out and let it cool down, and then we'll make the next one."

The children's movements froze, and they all raised their sour hands to express that the homework assigned by the teacher today has not been completed, and we must be good children who study hard.

However, the little king has seen through all this.

He squinted his eyes and looked at the beans for a while, then asked someone to bring some syrup, then took water to shake the soap liquid left in the pot, then poured in a little syrup, adjusted it, and took it from the local A reed tube is dipped in water, and when it is blown gently, a colorful bubble floats out. The bubble floats lightly in the air, and the sun shines on it, showing a halo. When the wind blows, it will roll along with it. It broke open with a "snap".

The little bean dings were stunned.

Is this so fun? !

The little king blew several bubbles in a row, and used the half-blown bubble to stick to the one flying in the air, and then the two bubbles flew in the air hand in hand.

Xia Anran smiled at them with the reed pipe in his hand, "I haven't finished my homework? Huh?"

"Brother!" Liu Zhi rushed forward and hugged his brother's thigh without hesitation, his small face was full of flattery, it was really embarrassing for this beautiful face to show such a horrible expression that everyone who looked at it would find it horrible .

"Hey, I want to play with brother!" Liu She's small face skillfully rubbed against the little king.

Xia Anran: "Hehe."

"Your Highness!" Wei Qing, who was the youngest, immediately followed His Highness's footsteps and hugged His Highness's other leg, his big watery eyes eagerly looked at the pipe in Xia Anran's hand, "Qing also wants to play!"

Xia Anran looked at the two leg pendants, one on the left and one on the right, with question marks all over her head.This, who taught them this shameless operation?

When he was dragged by the two children, he suddenly felt something flash past the corner of his eye.Xia Anran looked over intently, and was shocked to see that Zhang Qian was holding the soapy water he prepared, and was about to sneak away under the cover of Han Yan.

Hey, I actually made a sound of playing east and west.

Xia Anran was angry and funny at the moment, and when he lowered his head, the two children showed him flattering smiles. Needless to say, he knew that it was these two people who instigated him, and he didn't know how they colluded under his nose.

Looking at the faces of the two little dolls, Xia Anran couldn't be more angry, one of them twisted his cheeks, "Go and get the pot back." It's too late to throw the pot away, and they still rush to take the pot, aren't they stupid?

Liu Zhi squinted his eyes and smiled cheerfully. He put his small head on his brother's waist, which was a little coquettish, and then he dragged Wei Qing to chase Zhang Qian.

"Your Highness!" Just as the little king was feeling helpless, he saw the craftsman approaching with a smile, "Let the servant come, wait until the servant is strong."

Xia Anran nodded, and after explaining the tricks he knew, he asked the craftsmen to start large-scale production, while he himself went to study the freshly baked soap.

That's right, a liquid, not a bar of soap.Although theoretically speaking, the soap needs to be left for a while to agglomerate, but this kind of soap bar made of potassium is naturally soft, especially when the potassium hydroxide is still an aqueous solution due to the environment.

Xia Anran poked it with a stirring stick, and felt that the texture... Well, it's a bit like chocolate mousse, it looks hard on the outside, but it's runny inside.

This kind of water soap is a bit like the water soap that was softened by water before. It seems that strong alkali is still necessary to make soap, but it is not bad for cleaning.

Xia Anran asked someone to make a pile of soap liquid. In the next few days, he experimented with the effect of using this to wash chicken feathers and then dry them in the sun. There was a huge difference between before and after washing. Alkali has a good decomposition effect on oil.

After sewing the quilt with washed chicken feathers, the little bean dings said that the quality was acceptable. Although the taste was still there, it was much better than before.

Xia Anran waved her hand, indicating that the bird feathers would have to be handled in this way in the future and must be washed clean.

The little king proudly hung a big "craftsman" character on the wall of the factory, "To make Zhongshan's products into a brand, we must strive for excellence in all aspects."

"Although I won't say that the products produced in Zhongshan are the best, but we will do it with this goal in mind. We will keep the phrase "Products produced in Zhongshan must be high-quality products" in the hearts of every Han Chinese. "

The young craftsmen applauded one after another, and after appeasing the group of craftsmen who were asked to increase several processes without raising wages, the little king rushed to the slaughterhouse without stopping.

Here, he couldn't help scratching his chin after calculating the amount of lard a pig could provide.

This oil is not enough at all.

At this time, he finally began to worry about the low fat content of the little black pigs, and the lard board is a very hot sale item nowadays.Although Zhongshan has introduced lacquer oil as edible oil, it still cannot replace lard.

Stir-fried vegetable dishes with meat oil and fried meat dishes with vegetable oil are the habits of Zhongshan people today.But even if everyone's economic strength has improved significantly this year, raw materials are still the main ingredients.

Since there is no Zhongshan country... He glanced around, and then went back to ponder the map for a while, and then focused his eyes on the neighbor to the west of Zhongshan country, Daiguo.

The capital of the Dai Kingdom is located in modern Taiyuan, and the current ruler is Liu Deng, the cousin of the Liu family.Xia Anran recalled the cousin in Liu Sheng's memory, and the only impression he got was that this cousin was relatively quiet and had no sense of presence, and Daiguo itself was also a middle-to-lower fiefdom. Although there were iron and coal, but The geographical environment and climate are unfriendly, and the planting area is small.Therefore, Dai Wang belongs to the unspeakable type among the major princes and kings.

He asked the next few assistant ministers about their impressions of the king, and everyone said that the king had a good temper and supported the work of Yanmen County, so he was worth making friends with.

In fact, many of the lacquer fruits purchased by Zhongshan State were transported from Dai State. The terrain of Dai State is changeable, which is very suitable for the growth of lacquer trees.Judging from the performance of the local businessmen, the life of Dai Guo should be very impressive, and Dai Wang is not mean.

So, the little king wrote a letter and sent it to Daiguo.As a meeting gift, he sent someone to bring the freshly baked Zhongshan National Specialty - Soap.

Although the soap liquid in the small porcelain bottle is said to be "liquid", it is actually shaped like gelatin. Xia Anran also equipped with a small porcelain spoon, which can be mixed with water to create bubbles.According to the personal experience of Xiaodouding, the effect of washing hair is very good.

But Xia Anran resolutely stopped them from using it to wash their face and body. The soap they just made is too alkaline, even if it is liquid, and it is absolutely not allowed to wash their face if it has not been left for a few months. Mix in the world?

But it doesn't matter if you send it to your relatives. In order to hurry, they used the cooked method, and when they were transported to Daiguo, they could use it directly.

However, Liu Zhi was plausible about this. He said that his elder brother clearly said that as long as he has talent, it doesn't matter if he doesn't need to look at his face.

For this reason, Xiao Douding, who dared to fight back, was pressured by his elder brother's tyranny to pinch his face.

Although the straight-line distance from Zhongshan State to Dai State is very close, there is actually a Taihang Mountain between them.The messenger departed from Laiyuan and detoured from the north of Wutai Mountain to Taiyuan. Although the journey was a bit more arduous, it could save a lot of time.Even so, it was already half a month before he arrived in Taiyuan, which was separated by a mountain.

At this time, the snow had already started to fall in the north, and the King Dai was a little curious when he heard that he was a little cousin visiting. After Zhan Xin read the reason for his visit, he suddenly showed a strange expression.