Chapter 1239 Cheng Sanlang, who is building construction in the south of Jing (
Chapter 1239 Cheng Sanlang, who is building a large-scale construction project in Jingnan (please subscribe and vote)
Everyone is an official from the Ministry of Industry, and they are all in the road construction industry. They all have at least ten years of experience as experienced drivers.
No matter what kind of roads or bridges they are, they have been repaired and built. He is considered an expert in road transportation construction in Datang.
He was very good at building roads, and since then he was assigned by the imperial court to accompany Cheng Sanlang and accompany him to the land of southern Shu to carry out construction.
No one was dissatisfied, after all, the influence of Cheng Sanlang, a top figure in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty.
Coupled with his status in His Majesty's heart, he has already completed an official career at a young age that many people cannot complete in their lifetime.
Moreover, anyone who works with him can get a share of the pie. Therefore, all officials from the Ministry of Industry also want to follow Cheng Sanlang in doing something big.
But the problem is that everyone can still understand Cheng Sanlang's inspection of roads after arriving in Luzhou.
But now people are building such a waterwheel here, saying that it will be used to crush lime, clay and gypsum.
This made everyone confused. They always felt that Cheng Sanlang took off his pants and farted.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was only the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang, and several important roads that used cooked soil. Other roads rarely used this method.
But now, what Cheng Changshi means is that he will build all the main official roads in Luzhou with a kind of mellow soil called cement.
A group of officials from the Ministry of Industry were very upset about this, but it was not that they didn't give suggestions. The problem was that Cheng Sanlang didn't listen at all.
In addition to staring and shouting, everyone could only let him make trouble.
On the other side, a kiln for burning hot earth was also being built, and one furnace of cooked earth only weighed less than a thousand kilograms. The result was good, and Cheng Changshi requested that at least ten kilns be built.
This kind of wasteful behavior regardless of cost makes people speechless, but they are only technical officials of the Ministry of Industry, not censors.
What is Cheng Changshi's love for? Even His Highness King Wu, the chief governor, doesn't care about it. How can he and others step out to take care of it?
I didn't see Fang Erlang squatting next to him. He seemed to be very curious about the waterwheel built by Cheng Sanlang and kept pointing at it.
Who dares to impeach? Who among the combination of His Highness King Wu, Cheng Sanlang and Fang Erlang can impeach?
A bunch of officials from the Ministry of Industry can at best complain and discuss in private. Do you want them to come out to accuse and impeach? Haha...
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While Cheng Chubi was busy here, Cheng Fa was slowly coming escorting an ox cart.
Seeing that the Third Young Master was here, he quickly came forward to greet him and proudly showed off his victory to Cheng Chubi.
"Third Young Master, I went to get a batch of tea seeds today."
Fang Jun also came over, touched the round tea seeds with a hard shell, and couldn't help but wonder.
"Why do these people collect these tea seeds? Is it possible that this stuff can be used for something else?"
Cheng Chubi laughed, patted Fang Jun on the shoulder and explained patiently.
"That's because these people like to use tea seeds to extract oil. Many people have the practice of collecting and preserving tea seeds in autumn."
"Fortunately, otherwise, my plan to grow tea would have been delayed."
"Okay Cheng Fa, you can send these tea seeds over there first, let the workers pick them carefully, and then start soaking the tea seeds."
After giving the instructions, he waited for Cheng Fa and others to leave. After thinking that nothing was going on, he muttered a few words to Brother Jun and asked him if he wanted to go over and see how the tea was grown.
Of course Fang Jun doesn't care. Anyway, he can go wherever he wants. For him, everything is novel.
It is much more pleasant to be able to jump out than to stay in Luzhou and watch De brother hook up with pretty girls every day.
"Okay, let's go over there and take a look. Everyone, the mountain road over there is rugged, so please wait here."
Cheng Chubi saw that Fang Jun had no objection, turned his head and gave instructions to the officials from the Ministry of Industry.
The leader, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry, saluted Cheng Chubi and said with a smile.
"Okay Cheng Changshi, I'll just wait here. Cheng Changshi and Fang Dianjun should also be careful."
Cheng Chubi smiled heartily and returned the gesture.
He once again galloped his horse across the reins and headed towards the horse in the distance. After traveling fast for about half an hour, Cheng Chubi finally arrived at his destination.
There was a lot of activity on the hillside there.
From the foot of the mountain to the top of the hillside, hundreds of people are excavating the hillside here.
And the shape of the excavation is somewhat similar to terraced fields in the mountainous area. On one side, the excavation is on a gentle slope.
The land had been sprinkled with fermented farmyard manure. Cheng Chubi hurried to the hillside and saw Cheng Da guarding the tea seeds that had been brewed.
The method of brewing tea seeds is not much different from brewing rice seeds.
Some farmers have already begun to sow seeds in double rows in the middle of the field, which is about two miles wide. The distance between rows is about half a step, and the distance between rows is about one foot.
There are three to four plump seeds buried inside each stalk.
Cheng Chubi chose this slope because it was very similar to the tea-producing areas he had seen in later generations.
When later generations are engaged in poverty alleviation, their favorite thing is to let those poor areas try every means to become self-reliant.
For example, planting tea is a good way to make a fortune, and there are many ways to produce tea, but many places use seed propagation methods.
It is the simplest, most convenient and quick, produces tea early and has high yield. It only needs to be sown in the ground around Qingming Festival in the first year.
Care carefully, apply fertilizer according to quality and quantity, and the seedlings will emerge in about a month. After about a month of seedling emergence, cultivate and weed, and topdress with seedling-stimulating fertilizer.
The seedlings can be thinned out in the spring of the following year, keeping the big ones and removing the small ones, leaving the strong ones and removing the weak ones, leaving the strong ones and removing the diseased ones, leaving two to three seedlings per stalk.
Tea picking can begin in the second year after sowing. That’s why Cheng Chubi was in such a hurry.
Just to rush to plant tea seeds in this huge mountain field before and after the Qingming Festival.
Hundreds of people are working together, and I believe it won’t be long before this large stretch of mountain will be covered with tea.
The tea leaves will be ready to be harvested around this time next year, but naturally we can’t count on it this year.
But it doesn't matter, there are also wild tea trees here, Cheng Chubi has sent people to buy them, and he has already made it clear what kind of tea he wants.
After getting it back, Cheng Chubi will personally teach the craftsmen who have been recruited to make tea.
After wandering around here, Cheng Chubi and Fang Jun went down the hillside again and came to the bottom.
Under this large mountain ridge, houses are being built just to make it habitable.
So we first built a dozen or so houses with large bamboos, and I'm afraid it will take a while for the other normal houses to be built.
In these ten or so rooms lived a steward sent by the old Cheng family, as well as servants from the old Cheng family, and workers recruited.
After these tea gardens are planted, a certain amount of manpower will be left here to not only guard the tea gardens, but also weed and fertilize.