When Ting He and Fu An saw their master being dragged out like this, they quickly went back to the house, picked up their cloaks, chased them out, and put clothes on them.
Zhao Erlang diligently pulled them to the gate, pointed to the other two dustpans and said: "Sister, brother-in-law, these are your firecrackers, burn them quickly. Auntie said, burn firecrackers during the New Year, that year's
All bad luck will be gone, and next year will be prosperous and prosperous!"
Zhao Erlang also used his limited brain to think for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said happily: "Sister, I am already an envoy and a high official in the border areas. If I get promoted, won't I be able to be granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister?"
,Hurry up."
Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but laugh. After taking a look at Fu Tinghan, the two of them stepped forward together, picked up a handful of bamboo joints and threw them into the brazier. They immediately stepped back. After taking two steps, the bamboo joints in the brazier crackled.
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When Zhao Erlang heard the sound, he jumped up excitedly and shouted: "Woo-woo-my sister and brother-in-law's firecrackers are so loud, they will have a great New Year!"
Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but say to him, "You are really becoming more and more eloquent."
Zhao Erlang just had fun.
"Okay, you can burn the rest for us."
Zhao Erlang was so happy that he immediately ran forward, picked up a handful of bamboo sections and threw them into the brazier. When the crackling sound was heard, he jumped up and down excitedly.
Zhao Hanzhang looked at it with a smile on his face, turned his head and said to Tinghe: "You should go and burn some too."
Tinghe happily curtsied and said, "Yes!"
Fu Tinghan nodded to the bright-eyed Fu An, and the two of them rushed up to burn firecrackers with Zhao Erlang.
After being lively for half an hour, the sound of firecrackers in the city gradually disappeared, and only the occasional pop was heard.
Zhao Erlang and others also burned all the firecrackers. He finally felt sleepy and followed Zhao Hanzhang back honestly.
Seeing that he kept yawning but still thinking about tomorrow's firecrackers, Zhao Hanzhang smiled and said: "You can sleep peacefully. I asked Qiu Wu to keep all the firecrackers for you. You can take them to the alley tomorrow."
Burn it with the children."
Zhao Erlang felt more at ease and said: "I want to compete with them to see who can burn the loudest firecrackers and explode the most."
"Okay, go to bed."
Zhao Erlang yawned and went back to the house to rest.
Zhao Hanzhang stood in the yard and waited for him to go away. Then he asked Tinghe and Fu An to step back and return to the main yard side by side with Fu Tinghan. He said by the way, "Let's start adjusting the gunpowder tomorrow."
Fu Tinghan nodded, "I have asked Qiu Wu to find the materials."
He stopped, turned around and said, "I thought you wouldn't agree."
Zhao Hanzhang: "Didn't you also change your mind?"
Fu Tinghan was silent for a while and then said: "It's too difficult for them to quarry... people will die if we work so hard. If we slow down the speed of building houses, people will die. I don't know whether they are dying of quarrying hammer after hammer."
There are more people, or there may be more casualties after the advent of gunpowder."
He said: "These are human lives. I can't use them for experiments. I can only make decisions after collecting the data. I can only go with the flow. I think that the emergence of gunpowder at this time will make their work more convenient and make less sacrifices."
A little, should be considered good, right?"
Zhao Hanzhang nodded, then looked solemn, "I asked Qiu Wu to assist you. From now on, this matter will only be left to Qiu Wu. The formula of gunpowder must be kept strictly confidential!"
Fu Tinghan nodded, he knew that this thing was more valuable than anything before.
The two returned to the main courtyard. The coldness on Zhao Hanzhang's face dissipated and he smiled again, "Have a good rest tonight. See you tomorrow."
Fu Tinghan Elevator, "See you tomorrow."
Watching Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan walk away side by side, Wang Zhen and Xie Shi also turned around and returned to the guest house.
Wang Zhen sighed: "I originally thought I could drink until dawn tonight, but I didn't expect your Majesty to come back so early."
Once Zhao Hanzhang left, they could no longer stay together and could only disperse slowly.
Xie Shi was thinking about another question, "The envoy will be filial this year. Will he marry Prince Fu?"
Wang Zhen frowned when he heard this, "It won't be so soon, right? Can the envoy still be the envoy after getting married? What if I get pregnant?"
Xie Shi also had this worry. Now the entire Yuzhou relies on Zhao Hanzhang for its existence. It is she who speaks out. Although there are fights, no one dares to offend her openly.
But once you get married or even have children, the situation becomes complicated.
"Master Fu and the envoy live together in the main courtyard."
Wang Nian: "But they are separated. Although they come in and go out together, I don't think the relationship between the two of them has reached that level yet."
"I don't think so. When the two of them stand together, they always form a world of their own, and others can't get in at all."
Wang Nian frowned and thought for a while before shaking his head, "That's all, it's useless for us to think about this kind of thing too much. It's better to do the things in front of us with our heart."
Thanks are due.
Zhao Hanzhang has never thought about getting married. This year is the third year of Yongjia, and she will have a filial piety in June this year.
But she forgot about it for the time being. She still had a lot of things to do. The most important things after the spring started were spring plowing in various places and recruiting talents.
The plan for the year lies in spring. Last year, the spring in northern Yuzhou was ruined by Gou Xi and Donghai Wang, and the summer and autumn were ruined by them and Liu Yuan, so that the entire Yuzhou is now a disaster area.
Everything this year must make up for last year's famine, otherwise Yuzhou will get worse and worse.
So on the first day of the first lunar month, the people all over the city were still resting and reminiscing about the New Year celebrated last night. Zhao Hanzhang had already talked with the officials who came to pay New Year's greetings about this year's major events of encouraging classes, farming, and recruiting talents.
Especially when it comes to advocating teaching on mulberry farming, she emphatically told Yin Sheng, "Let the magistrates of each county go to the countryside in person to encourage teaching on mulberry farming, take in all the refugees, divide the land for farming, prepare the necessary seeds, and help them with as many farm tools and livestock as possible.
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He added: "Let the people from the Agriculture Department go to the countryside to give guidance and let them farm more rationally."
When Zhao Hanzhang said this, he turned to Fan Ying and asked, "I remember that the Runan Sinong Institute produced a lot of results. Two new methods of retting have been developed, right?"
Fan Ying recalled it and nodded: "Yes, the method of retting has been introduced, and some spacings have also been changed. It is said that a wider spacing will help the plants grow, and the yield per mu will be higher."
Zhao Hanzhang nodded slightly and asked: "How is the popularity of new farm tools going?"
"Currently, it is only used more in Runan County, and almost not in other counties."
Zhao Hanzhang frowned slightly and looked at Yin Sheng, "I remember that as soon as the new farm tools were made, I sent the drawings to the counties so that you could prepare for this."
Yin Sheng sweated on his forehead and explained: "Yes, but it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. We have no iron and little iron, so we really can't do it."
Zhao Hanzhang snorted lightly, wouldn't he find a way to have it?
However, she was too lazy to ask questions now, and said directly to Fan Ying: "Send a message to Chen County and Runan County. This year, part of the iron produced in Runan County will be allocated to make farm tools and sent to various counties."
Zhao Hanzhang's face was condensed, "Tell all counties and counties that if these irons don't appear in the hands of ordinary people in the form of farm tools, I will use their heads to plow the fields."
A chill ran down everyone's spine, and Fan Ying responded loudly, "Yes!"