As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Qi Pengwu nodded and said: "Yes, you can buy or rent, and you won't be able to live for long anyway. Wherever you have a house, you are a craftsman household? A household provides a few taels of silver for subsidies and some tents. Do not believe they do not rent."

Hua Manlou scolded again: "So, local tyrants are the most annoying!"

Although the local tyrants of the Qi family brothers are quite embarrassing, they are telling the truth: how much money can a craftsman earn throughout the year?It's that Huamanlou has greatly increased the treatment of craftsmen, but who still thinks it's too much money or what?

There is no harm if there is no comparison. Originally, Huamanlou thought Zhao Ren was a burden, but now it seems that Zhao Ren is really pleasing to the eye: he has a few "long followers" that Huamanlou is used to, low-key and reserved. Seeing that he was about to leave Beijing at this time, the brat was as happy as Erha, and he was about to have fun everywhere.

……

When there are too many people, the speed of travel will be slow, and the group of people arrived at Xishan in the middle of the afternoon.

Hua Manlou felt quite tired and went to rest on his own, leaving the Qi family brothers to rent or buy a house. Anyway, it would be good not to oppress his subordinates, but when he entered the door, he felt that there were two more people behind him, so he couldn't help asking: "I said you two Did you go to the wrong place?"

Following him were Qi Wanrong's female soldiers, Xiao Nan and Xiao Bei. Hearing Hua ManLou's question, Xiao Nan immediately replied: "The servant girl was ordered by the Duke of the country to take care of my aunt when the two young masters and the eldest lady came to Xishan to disturb you." ... the son's daily life."

Xiao Bei nodded vigorously from the side: "Yeah!"

Hua Manlou glanced at Qin'er beside her, then looked at the two maids dressed as female soldiers and wondered, "I have someone to take care of me..."

Xiao Nan smiled slightly and said: "Young Master, there is only one person serving him, which obviously doesn't fit the status of Young Master, and Miss Qin'er is also working hard..."

Xiaobei nodded hard again: "Mmmm!"

As soon as these words came out, Qin'er became anxious: "I... I don't work hard, I can take good care of the young master! I can also warm the young master's bed!"

"Pfft...cough cough cough..." Hua Manlou was almost killed by Qin'er: Why does the little girl keep talking about everything?

Xiao Nan and Xiao Bei looked at each other when they heard the words, and they hid aside and whispered: "What should I do, warming the bed or something...isn't that good?"

"Uh-huh!"

"It seems that this little girl is my uncle's liaison girl. If you follow my uncle like this, she might be a concubine in the future, so it's not easy for us to run..."

"Uh-huh!"

"Don't patronize me, talk about something practical!"

"I... I don't know, why don't you ask Miss Xiaodong?"

"Tsk, why did you match me with such a waste!"

Xiao Nan cursed secretly, then turned around immediately: "Young Master, although the bed warmer is helpless, the other things..."

Hua Manlou interrupted her with black lines: "Don't mention the matter of warming the bed. We all have kangs here in Xishan, so we don't need to warm them. It's just...well, the room is too small so we let her sleep together... "

If you haven't changed your job to a warlock, what are you talking about copper smelting?Hua Manlou felt that he could not bear this injustice.

Xiao Nan nodded indifferently and said: "Then we can take over other things except warming the bed, and there will never be any mistakes."

Xiaobei: "Hmm! Don't warm the bed!"

Huamanlou has a black line all over his head: Warming the bed is hard to get over, right?

Seeing that Hua Manlou was still refusing, Xiao Nan said again: "This is the meaning of the Duke of the country, and it is also the meaning of the eldest lady. The eldest lady said that there are too few people to take care of the young master, and Miss Qin'er is too young to enter the house." Dong's hands are frostbitten, and some things must be beyond his control, so I will leave the rough work to the maidservant..."

Xiaobei: "Hmm!"

Hua Manlou looked at the two of them, then at Qin'er's little hand that was as cold as a carrot, and sighed, "Alright, thank you Miss for me."

Xiao Qin'er is only 12 years old. This stubborn little girl never lets others interfere in taking care of Hua Manlou's daily life. She didn't listen to Hua Manlou's words several times. Rest and rest, you can do something else, right?

Qin'er pouted, with an unhappy face: "I can do it well!"

Hua Manlou rubbed her hair to comfort her, and then said to Xiao Nan: "That's it, you can come here during the day, and you don't have to stay here at night."

Xiao Nan was overjoyed: I have penetrated into the enemy's interior, see if I don't send the young lady to your bed!

134. Welcome~come~

Although Xiaonan's calculations were good, she only stayed in Xishan for one day and found that Huamanlou was not an ordinary thing to conquer.

Because, after a night's rest, Huamanlou got busy, so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, so where did Xiao Nan go to play the side drum?

Speaking of which, although Hua Manlou's ultimate goal is to be a salted fish happily, but the current situation is not very good, doesn't he have to do something to ensure his own safety?

Therefore, the artisans of Xishanwei were summoned early in the morning.

The blacksmiths of Xishanwei originally carried out their own research and development, but the day before yesterday, the short guns had been finalized and sent out, the long guns were not busy casting, and the revolver was still far away, so Huamanlou mobilized more than half of the blacksmiths to produce them. A few things: sickle, hoe, shovel, the head of a wooden plow, and an iron stove and kettle.

Farming tools are actually quite simple. They are made by smelting molten iron in a furnace and pouring it into a mold. After it is produced, it can be used after a little polishing.

With the high-carbon steel smelted at high temperature, the agricultural tools produced in Xishan are not only more refined and wear-resistant, but also have an extremely high output, but the price is much lower than the market.After all, these things are mass-produced, unlike today's blacksmiths who beat and beat one or two for a day, and the price of coal is extremely low, which reduces the labor cost and material cost of Xishan farm tools by several times or even Dozens of times.

The iron furnace is more troublesome, but the problem is not too big.

Here we once again praise our ancestors. As far back as the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the Tian Dynasty already had welding technology, and it was the original invention of fusion welding, brazing and pressure welding. Let's act now and...

They expressed different degrees of contempt for Huamanlou's aesthetics.

Obviously, after the popularization of Huamanlou's previous life stove, merchants will naturally mass-produce this thing, so of course they won't make it too elaborate-it's not impossible to use it anyway.

Things that can be mass-produced are obviously difficult to catch the eyes of these craftsmen, and they think this stuff is pure nonsense.The craftsmen did not dare to fiddle with the casting of firecrackers, after all, they were dangerous.But the stove is nothing more than burning charcoal for heating. How could they not try to show their craftsmanship, recent insights and artistic talents?

Especially when I heard that Huamanlou is going to sell this thing to Xungui to make money, and when everyone gets a share, the artisans will be even more energetic: what a joke, just this thing drawn by Mr. Qian , how to put it in the main room?

The craftsmen all have the heart of an artist. They completely ignored Huamanlou's request for the so-called carving of auspicious animals with gold rims. Instead, they diverged their thinking, and finally finalized three stoves of different styles and sizes.

Basic version: This one is designed like a special alchemy furnace, supported by three legs, with ears on both sides, and the whole is gourd-shaped. The overall workmanship can be described as beautiful and elegant...

Exclusive version: The craftsmen made the shape of the tower. In the middle of the tower, they cleverly made the grid for the pot. After taking out the grid, put the fire cover on it, and the flue is connected to the chimney along the side. , the overall workmanship can be described as exquisite and ingenious...

Deluxe Edition:……

"Tell me, why is this deluxe version made of a tripod? This is a tripod, do you know the symbolic meaning of a tripod! Are you trying to kill me!" Hua Manlou went crazy.

Perhaps in the Shang and Zhou dynasties... and even the Warring States period, the tripod was used for cooking at most, and its function was equivalent to that of a pot.But since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the symbolic meaning of the tripod has become more and more obvious, and it is often used as a metaphor for the throne or the emperor's career. Otherwise, where did the idea of ​​aspiring to the Central Plains come from?

Hearing Hua ManLou's roar, the craftsmen also had plausible words: "Mr. Qian, if you don't dedicate this thing to His Majesty, it will be a harm to you! We have accepted His Majesty's great favor, and if we don't remember His Majesty Yes, you will be punished!"

Hua Manlou was stunned: "For... Your Majesty?"

It has to be said that Hua Manlou really didn't realize this.

In his opinion, this thing is nothing more than a stove, but in the eyes of the craftsmen, this thing is really a rare heating object.

As I said earlier, charcoal braziers are commonly used for indoor heating nowadays, and even in the palace, only the emperor uses warm pavilions.The charcoal brazier is actually not very effective in heating, and it is easy to cause carbon monoxide poisoning. It is also very serious to put ash in the house. After a while, the nose is full of black ash.

But what about the stove?

Not to mention the beautiful, magnificent or exquisite craftsmanship, the existence of the chimney can discharge the exhaust gas from the room, and the ash fall is not serious, and it can burn coal!It can keep warm without the danger of poisoning, and a fool uses expensive charcoal instead of coal!

That's right, the core of the iron furnace is not actually the furnace, but the chimney.Although this thing is simple, if you don't spend a lot of money to improve the smelting process, you can't make a chimney with your bare hands, right?Of course, you said it would be fine to build it with bricks, but that thing...you can't build a flue in the center of the main room, right?

In short, although the iron stove is common, but in the absence of central heating, this thing is the most advanced heating method nowadays. It is clean and tidy with low energy consumption-the emperor's warm pavilion in the palace uses geothermal heating, but that thing consumes a lot of energy. High, and the temperature is not easy to control...

In this way, if you say not to send the iron stove to the emperor, when the time comes, the courtiers will generally use the stove, but the emperor will catch a cold from time to time, or return to the palace and shiver with cold, then...

Hua Manlou immediately made a decision: "Make it, it must be made, first make this deluxe version and send it to the palace!"

Originally, Huamanlou wanted to send the first batch of production to bigwigs like the Qi family and the Zhang family, so that the market in the honorable circle would be fully expanded, but now it seems that it is not even necessary. Give it away, or just give away one or two. If the emperor advertises, it doesn't matter if there is a market for this thing?

The twelfth lunar month is coming, and according to the nature of the Little Ice Age, the heating will last until at least March and April, so it will not be a problem to sell him a few thousand stoves in a few months, right?

Seeing that there was no problem in production, Huamanlou called together some young people from craftsmen's families. Use them now.

"Since you don't want to be craftsmen, and you can't get into your studies, then I will arrange a way for you." Looking at these young people who are older than herself, Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Do you know what a shopping guide is? Let me start as a shopping guide first. After getting familiar with the business process, our Xishanwei business will gradually spread across Dazhao. By then, all of you will be regional managers under Xishanwei... Don't care what a manager is, after becoming a manager You will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, I promise!"

The status of merchants is low, but the "manager" holding the Xishanwei brand is not a merchant, but... a merchant from Xishan, or the emperor's pro-military... pro-merchant, no matter what it is, no one exploits and no one dares to bully no?

Let's make some fools first, and when the money is in hand, they will have nothing to say.

Therefore, Huamanlou didn't feel guilty about cheating these young people at all, but said very happily: "Be a shopping guide, first learn a word from me, come, say together: Welcome~come~"

Dozens of young people: "Welcome to come~"

135. Zhao Ren's Anger

While Huamanlou was busy, the people who came to Xishan this time were also busy with their own work.

For example, Qi Wanrong, as Xiaodong said, she is still not enlightened, after she settled down, she cheerfully led the female soldiers into the Xishan Guard, and took the identity of Zhongxian Xiaowei as a lieutenant who was an honest man from thousands of households. The power was taken away, and he led a hundred young soldiers to jump up and down all day long, practicing firecrackers and throwing Pudu, having a great time.

The Qi family brothers clearly said that they wanted to communicate with Xishanwei, but in fact they just circled around Zhao Ren. They either rented or bought half of the living compound of the artisan household, and then set up another one nearby. Ka set up secret sentries again, and brought in three companies of young soldiers—yes, the organizational system of Xishanwei was based on the three-three system in Huamanlou's previous life, and a hundred households basically consisted of one company.Qi Pengwu pretended to teach these young people how to defend the camp, but in fact, he arrested these young men to protect Zhao Ren's safety...

Hua Manlou, who was busy with work, didn't bother to take care of these things. Anyway, this group of teenagers also needed to be trained. It would be good if they could learn something else.

So in this situation, Zhao Ren was completely left alone. This guy was really like a... runaway wild dog, playing wildly in Xishan all day long.

As for the principle of gewu?

Hey, Hua Manlou is so busy that he doesn't have time to teach himself, so what's the point, let's have fun and talk!

Just talking about playing, but not all playing, because Zhao Ren, who was born in the deep palace, was extremely curious about the belongings of ordinary people's homes and the objects placed in the yard, even a stone grinding stone He can play for a long time - in the palace, who do you think would dare to let Zhao Ren do this?

There are also carpentry planes, saws, chisels, carving knives, even the ink fountain used to draw straight lines. Zhao Ren can play with it for a while, and the craftsmen in the craftsman's courtyard have seen it before in the Shenji Camp. This naughty boy who is curious about everything knows that he is a guest of Huamanlou, so he answers all his weird questions, and warmly invites him to make a small bench by himself, although it is crooked. Eight twists, I guess it can't compare with Einstein's craftsmanship, but Zhao Ren is very satisfied, but the faces of the followers who follow him look a little miserable...

Besides, Zhao Ren didn't have brothers, so he could play with the nephews of Xungui's family, but after all, there was a difference between monarchs and ministers, and the prince was also a monarch, who would dare to let go and play with him?

But here in Xishan there are mostly half-grown children. Although these poor children are taught by poor scholars hired by Huamanlou, they can't be locked in the school all the time, can they?Therefore, every time this group of children left school, Zhao Ren would mix in and become the king of children within a long time.

Not only that, Zhao Ren put on a coarse cloth bunt, and after removing the jade and other things on his body, he suddenly felt that something called a shackle was removed from his body. He couldn't help but be overjoyed that the children rolled and turned and no one came to complain tearfully.

On this day, Zhao Ren made an appointment with a few children to go skating in a nearby small river at noon. He was not in the mood to eat, and after a quick bite of food, he went out and headed all the way to those children's homes.

In less than two days, Zhao Ren was already familiar with walking the streets, and people's homes didn't pay much attention to handing out name cards, so when he walked outside the house of a child named Liu Erhu, he pushed him away without thinking. The door came in: "Two tigers! Two tigers? Haven't finished eating, let's go!"

Liu Erhu in the room was having a meal, upon hearing this, he quickly said, "That's good!"

Zhao Ren entered the room cheerfully, and when he was about to taunt a few words such as 'a lazy donkey grinds a lot of shit and piss', he saw the food on the table and couldn't help being stunned: "Is this what you eat?"

Liu Erhu replied naturally: "Yellow rice porridge, you haven't even seen this?"

Zhao Ren blinked: "Yellow rice porridge... looks like this?"

In Liu Erhu's bowl was a bowl of porridge with clear soup and little water.The only difference from Zhao Ren's perception is that even if it is yellow rice porridge, it should be crystal clear and fragrant, not like Liu Erhu's, which has a strange yellow color, and there is even bran mixed in it. Inside, it also smells weird.

Liu Erhu sneered and said, "You're stupid, what would yellow rice porridge look like if it didn't look like this?"

As he spoke, he slid the porridge into his mouth. Zhao Ren heard that he ate deliciously, so he asked, "Is it delicious?"

Liu Erhu was taken aback for a moment, then couldn't help laughing: "Why don't you try it? Beg for whatever you ask for, and pretend you haven't seen it, really!"

He handed the bowl in his hand to Zhao Ren, Zhao Ren lowered his head, took a sip cautiously, and immediately turned bitter: "Bah! Bah! You lazy bastard, you don't know how to clean up the porridge. Where's the sand!"

Liu Erhu groaned and snatched the bowl away. He glared at Zhao Ren and said, "What do you know? The sand can be spit out, even if you eat it, it's fine. But this yellow rice can't be washed. After washing, it's worth a pound of rice. How much can we have left?"

Zhao Ren stared blankly at Liu Erhu: "But...but there is bran in it..."

Liu Erhu poured the porridge into his mouth loudly, and said vaguely: "You can also eat bran, but I don't know how many people can't eat it! If you are full, let's play?"

Zhao Ren stomped his feet: "No...you come here, Huamanlou will give you this?"

Liu Erhu was taken aback again, and when he realized who Hua Manlou was, he looked at Zhao Ren with a strange expression: "What are you talking about? I have a drink... Hey, where are you going?"

Zhao Ren didn't listen to his explanation at all, he wanted to ask Hua Manlou to understand.

In the past two days, people can be heard everywhere in the living area praising Huamanlou for bringing them a good life. Zhao Ren thought that the good life is that no one cares about him, he can play like crazy, and he can study physics, but these people... …

What they eat is such a thing, is this also called a good day?

Therefore, when Huamanlou was training a shopping guide, Zhao Ren rushed into the room and said, "Huamanlou, you are so bold!"

Looking at the annoyed Zhao Ren, Hua Manlou said in astonishment, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Ren stared at Hua Manlou, and shouted, "Corruption and dereliction of duty, what should you do?"

Hua Manlou looked at Zhao Ren inexplicably, and then at the shopping guides under the stands: "What corruption and dereliction of duty?"

Zhao Ren said angrily: "Don't think I don't know, I'm the one who paid for your Xishan... Your Majesty paid for it! Your Majesty spent a lot of money, and you let these people eat that kind of thing? Is that thing for people to eat? In vain I thought you were a good official, but it turned out...the result..."

Hua Manlou looked at the furious Zhao Ren, and it took him a while to realize what he said: "So you mean... because I was corrupt, everyone eats poorly?"

Zhao Ren stared at Hua Manlou: "Isn't it?"

Hua Manlou rolled his eyes: "You're the only one who still knows things? Find out what's going on first, and then tell me about it!"

136. Zhao Ren's Shock