The courtyard was a bustling place. They were all children of aristocratic families, and each of them was accompanied by a few followers. The crowd was so crowded that there was chattering everywhere inside and outside the courtyard.
Li Shan was a little strange, why didn't he feel that before... Oh, they used to drag me to the drying field.
After finding Zhu Wu and asking a few questions, Li Shan suddenly realized that today Zhu Wu was delivering wine to the West Market and found that the wine shop had been closed by the county government. On his way back to report the news, he met Li Kai and Li Zhaode.
It happened that Chang'an ordered Li Qianyou not to go to the office today, and Li Zhaode still doesn't know who did it... He guessed it was Wang Renyou, because he only knew that Li Shan and Wang Renyou had a grudge.
Wang Renbiao and Li Kai were suspicious of Li Dewu at first, but then they felt that it was unlikely... It was not because Li Dewu was of noble character, but because he must have wanted to distance himself from Li Shan and did not want outsiders to associate him with Li Shan. .
"We'll have a banquet later. Today I'm going to show you the new dishes." Li Shan clapped his hands, "Let's go for a walk first."
"Brother Huairen!" Changsun Chong approached and asked in a low voice: "I just heard from Brother Xiaoqing... Do you want me to send someone to ask the Chang'an County Government?"
"No, Chang'an is the uncle of the Li family." Li Shan refused briefly. He had a vague guess in his heart that Yu Huchun had amassed too much wealth in just over a month and was coveted by others.
Someone who can command the Chang'an County Government will definitely not be an ordinary character, and he will definitely not be one of those jealous businessmen, but can only be from a powerful family.
The influence of the powerful families of this era is unimaginable by later generations, and has penetrated into almost every corner of the entire society...Business must be a very important part.
Nowadays, there is no such thing as scholars, farmers, industry and merchants.
What Li Shan was thinking about was whether a certain clan took action or someone from a certain clan took action...the two are different.
Moreover, Li Shan also discovered that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the so-called aristocratic families did not have an absolute ruler... In other words, the center of power that constituted the dominant family was not a certain person, nor was there a so-called patriarch, but a collective will.
The group went out for a walk. Except for Li Kai and Wang Renbiao, the others had never been to the village after it was built. They were all descendants of northern aristocratic families. Seeing the small bridge and flowing water, they all found it strange.
The aqueduct winds past the door of each house, with small bridges built with stone slabs. There is even a small waterfall with a drop of nearly ten meters due to the terrain.
Going all the way west to the west end of the village, Li Shan pointed to the pool under the hill and said, "Brother Xiaoqing, do you remember?"
Wang Renbiao smiled and said: "That same person said that day... there is a pond in the west of the village and a pond in the east of the village to control the amount of water to avoid waterlogging."
"Sun Lake, January Lake." The chubby Gao Xing pointed to the northwest side curiously, "What's over there?"
Everyone looked intently and saw villagers as big as ants carrying soil in the distance. A dozen big men scattered the black soil in the boxes, then raised their sledgehammers and pounded the ground laboriously.
There is a young man on the side who puts the beaten soil into molds and makes them into medium-sized mud bricks, which are stacked neatly.
Fang Yizhi blurted out, "Huairen, are you making mud bricks?"
"By the way, Mr. Ling, Brother Su has moved here and a new house is being built in the village." Wang Renbiao frowned and said, "Huairen, it will take several months for the mud bricks to be used. Is it too late?"
Li Shan laughed and said, "It's not mud bricks, it's bricks and stones."
"Well, I saw this in Lingnan..."
Li Shan reluctantly explained: "After drying in the shade, it is fired in a kiln. Although it cannot be compared with the best blue bricks, it is enough for building houses."
Gao Xingyi is also speechless. I know that you have learned a lot, but you even know how to make bricks...it's too complicated!
In previous lives, such earthen kilns were often seen in rural areas. Li Shan often worked part-time during the winter and summer vacations in high school. The production process is not difficult. Clay is mixed with a certain proportion of coal, and molds are used to make bricks. After drying in the shade, they are fired in the kiln.
It's just an ordinary red brick.
In this era, most houses were made of civil structures, and the output of blue bricks was small. They were only used in the royal family and Buddhist temples. The so-called mud bricks and river bricks cannot be compared with the ordinary red bricks of later generations in terms of sturdiness and durability.
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Changsun Chong smiled and said: "I must be making bricks...Brother Huairen only knows a little bit about it."
The people around burst into laughter. Everyone present was acquaintances, and they all knew that this was Li Shan's mantra.
Fang Yizhi sighed quietly: "I must visit Lingnan in this life!"
The laughter that had just subsided resounded again, and Li Kai couldn't help but nod: "The land of Lingnan is vast and profound. It took Huairen more than ten years to become famous in Guanzhong... It is indeed worth traveling."
Li Shan laughed and cursed a few words, then led everyone around from the south of the village into the village, pointed to the large land on the south side, and said: "Brother Su proposed to dig a river channel from west to east to connect the Sun Pool and Moon Pool."
"Although the distance is not very far... it is quite time-consuming." Li Kai made some calculations and said, "Spring plowing is about to begin, so I'm afraid there are not enough manpower, right?"
Li Shan nodded, "It's time-consuming and labor-intensive, and you have to pay for hiring manpower, but it's not a loss."
Li Shan had already considered the layout of the entire Zhujiagou and its future development. As the number of people increased, he kept revising the blueprint in his mind. Now it has almost taken shape.
Back at Li's house, two Eight Immortals tables have been set up in the main hall, and a huge copper hot pot is placed on each table... Well, it's the kind of old-fashioned hot pot with a charcoal fire in the middle and a circle around the outside for the dishes.
These two hot pots are quite valuable...after all, they are made of copper, which is equivalent to using RMB as firewood!
There were also a variety of dishes on the table, which Li Shan had specially prepared. The beef and mutton were frozen outside the house last night, and Zhu Ba and the others used daggers to cut them off layer by layer.
"Come on, come on, let me show you." Li Shan picked up a plate of mutton slices and poured it in. As soon as the mutton changed color, he picked it up, dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth.
Gao Xingyi was the first to use his chopsticks and tried to eat a few pieces of mutton. His eyes lit up, "It's fresh and delicious. When it comes to delicacies in the world, Brother Huairen is really the best!"
Everyone moved their chopsticks, and at first they only ate beef and mutton, but then fish balls, egg dumplings, and quail eggs were all being snatched up, and the tofu skin that could be scooped up as soon as it was put into the pot was also very popular.
Throw in the fresh mushrooms and the soup will become more delicious as it cooks. The tender frozen tofu with the delicious soup will make people salivate.
It's just that the sauce is not complete... Li Shan only got onions, garlic, ginger, vinegar, and specially made mushroom sauce. If he was in Jiangnan, he could try to make some seafood soy sauce.
After their stomachs were full from eating, everyone slowed down and talked while drinking.
Wang Renbiao counted with his fingers, "Huairen, Mr. Ling, Brother Su and other nearly three hundred people who moved from Shandong with you, plus the refugees who settled last year...all need to build new houses. I'm afraid there will be some
Embarrassed.”
"And we still have to dig rivers." Fang Yizhi shook his head and said, "Moreover, the cost of firing bricks and stones is too much. Even if the jade pot spring is profitable, it will be difficult to make up for it."
Li Shan smiled and did not explain anything. In this era, it was actually a loss to make green bricks, so only the royal family and Buddhist temples would use them... The key reason lies in the materials used for firing kilns.
Nowadays, when burning kilns, hardwood is first used to burn charcoal, commonly known as white charcoal. White charcoal has high density and high calorific value, but in later generations, coal was used... Li Shan did not want to be a coal boss, but at this time, there was not much coal in the shallow layer. There are few and it is not difficult to collect.
Using coal has good effects and low cost... Calculating it this way, the cost is actually not huge.
"And now Yuhuchun..." Gao Xingyi glanced at Li Zhaode.
"Father is just going to Jingyang for business and will be back tomorrow." Li Zhaode patted his chest, "I will not let the wine shop close its doors."
Li Shan smiled and vaguely mentioned that there was no clear direction in this matter, whether he could continue to operate... the key was the person behind it, but Chang'an Order Li Qianyou should be able to find out.
To be honest, the popularity of Yuhuchun was beyond Li Shan's expectation... There was no other way. It was almost Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and even Li Yuanji, and the family of four became advertising channel dealers.
However, for Li Shan, Yuhuchun is not indispensable to him.