After having lunch at Bai Lingjun's place, Cao Shuang thought that it was time to go to Jian Jia's place today, so he walked slowly towards Jian Jia's courtyard under the warm spring sun.
Jian Jia smiled and took Cao Lin out to meet him. Cao Lin quickly walked over with his calves, holding Cao Shuang's thighs and calling him daddy.
Cao Shuang gently picked him up, rubbed Cao Lin's little face with his slightly bearded chin, and said with a smile: "Lin'er, have you listened to your mother's words and eaten well these days?" p>
Cao Lin sniffed and said in a milky voice: "Daddy, I listen to mother carefully."
When Cao Shuang carried Cao Lin into the room and sat down, Wenqin thoughtfully poured Cao Shuang a cup of freshly brewed hot tea.
Jian Jia also sat down next to Cao Shuang and said with a smile: "Lin'er, dad is very tired from working on the government every day. He went to accompany Aunt Bai and the others last night and got up early this morning to practice martial arts again. Please don't cling to you.
Dad, let him rest for a while."
After listening to his mother's words, Cao Lin responded with a sweet voice like a little adult: "I know, mother." He got up and got off Cao Shuang, then took the wet nurse to play outside the house.
Cao Shuang's face turned red. He understood that Jian Jia was slightly jealous. He said with a smile, "I'm not too tired. My husband can still handle these small things."
Cao Shuang took a sip of hot tea and cried out "ah" when it was hot. Cao Shuang pretended to be warm and angry and said: "Wenqin, do you want to burn me to death?"
Wenqin pouted and said, "If you don't stay at Madam Bai's place, why would you come to Madam Bai's place again?"
Cao Shuang was obviously very jealous when he saw Wen Qin's appearance.
Jian Jia smiled and said: "Wenqin, don't be rude to me. I've spoiled you before. Why don't you hurry up and show off for me!"
Wen Qin listened to his wife's words and quickly took the tea cup from Cao Shuang's hand, cooled it as usual, and handed it to Cao Shuang.
Cao Shuang asked with a smile: "Is Wenqin jealous of Lingyun? You can hang a bottle of soy sauce with your little mouth."
Wenqin said angrily: "That's not true. Wenqin is just a maid. How dare you be jealous? Fortunately, during those days when my wife was in Xuchang, she went to the temple in Xuchang every day to pray to the Buddha to bless you when you return victorious.
It's safe and sound, but what about you, sir? You haven't been back for a few days and you went to that vixen's place. Are you worthy of my wife?"
Jian Jia smiled and said: "Wenqin, what are you talking about? Didn't the master stay in our courtyard several times in the past few days? I think you, a little prodigal, are feeling itchy again. I will ask the master to take good care of you tonight.
After a while, you will be obedient."
Cao Shuang nodded in agreement, expressing his agreement with Jian Jia's view. Wen Qin's face turned red instantly when his wife said this.
Seeing that Wen Qin was embarrassed, Cao Shuang smiled and said, "Wen Qin, go to the front yard and call Chief Yang. I have something to discuss with him."
After a cup of tea, Yang Zong, the chief clerk, arrived. Cao Shuang asked his servants to arrange for him to sit down. Yang Zong raised his hands and said, "I wonder what your lord's orders are for recruiting subordinates?"
"Uncle Chu, what do you think this is?" Cao Shuang asked Wenqin to bring a bowl of large green salt, pointing to the coarse salt and said.
Yang Zong said without hesitation: "My lord, isn't this just green salt? Is there something mysterious about it?"
Cao Shuang smiled and said: "Uncle Chu, this is coarse salt. I wonder if we in the Wei Dynasty or even the other two countries have fine salt and refined salt?"
Yang Zong thought for a while and said: "My lord, as far as I know, there is no such thing. Does my lord have a method of making refined salt or fine salt?"
Cao Shuang said with a smile: "In my dream, an immortal taught me the secret method of making refined salt. The spring has been wonderful these days. Tomorrow Uncle Chu and I will go to the Hedong Salt Pond to try it and we will know whether this method is feasible."
Jian Jia said with some complaints and some joy: "Husband, you can go without worries. I have my concubine and Sister Bai to take care of me at home. It's just that I have less time to spend time with my husband."
Jianjia was happy that her husband finally no longer hung out with He Yan, a male-female person like in the past, and took Five Stone Powder, which made her husband "crooked" and ignored the government affairs, so Sima Yi was given a chance.
Multiply.
It is good to change one's mind now and focus on military and state affairs, but it means that I have less time to spend with my family, but that's fine. Without a country, there is no home.
Why did the consort come to the house several times in the past few days to find her husband? She was busy with military and state affairs, so she spent her free time.
"Uncle Chu, I have to trouble you to invite Yuanze, Shiying and Yanjing today. If you and I are not here tomorrow, Luoyang will have to rely on them for the time being."
Cao Shuang thought for a while and said, this time we can't go out in full force like last time, otherwise it will be very bad if the old nest is raided by others again.
Half an hour later, the dog-headed military advisor Yang Zong invited the three of them over.
Cao Shuang cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Yuan Ze, tomorrow the Marquis will go to the Salt Pond of Hedong with Master Yang for a few days. All the government affairs in Luoyang will be in your hands. I can rest assured that you are here with me."
Grand Sinong Huanfan accepted the order. After that, Cao Shuang temporarily handed over the military power in the city to Lu Zhi, while Ding Mi arranged to take charge of the school affairs office and supervise all officials in the city.
Seeing that it was getting late, Cao Shuang left four more people to have dinner at his house, and then let a few of them go back to his house.
During the night, Jian Jia was obedient to Cao Shuang and met some of Cao Shuang's excessive demands. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and even dragged Wen Qin into battle, and the three of them struggled all night long.
Early on the next morning, Chief Secretary Yang Zong led five hundred tigers and leopards to wait outside the city. Cao Shuang rode out of the city, met up with them, and then headed for the Salt Pond in the east of the river.
In the evening, Cao Shuang and his party rushed to the Hedong Salt Pond and saw that the salt workers in the salt fields were still busy, excavating and diverting water to dry the water into salt. People from the Salt School Captain's Office were supervising.
Cao Shuang ordered: "Come here and find some dry straw."
After burning a stick of incense, the people from Si Yan Xiaowei's Mansion found a few bundles of straw, lit them, and let them burn fully and turn into ashes.
Then ask the salt worker to put some salt water into a large pot, add plant ash and boil over high heat, let it stand and then filter.
By filtering out the impurities, you get refined salt. Although the refined salt obtained in this way is easy to agglomerate, it is better than coarse salt that contains impurities and bitter taste, and it is considered to be top quality.
The leader of the Salt Captain wiped some of it with his hand, tasted it, and exclaimed: "The general is really a god. This salt is not only as white as snow and contains no impurities, but it also has no bitter taste!" p>
Yang Zong, the chief clerk, also put some on it and gave it a try. The taste was indeed not as bitter as coarse salt.
Cao Shuang said boldly: "I want all the people in the Wei Dynasty to be able to eat this refined salt after the world is unified!"
Yang Zong, the chief clerk, said with a smile: "My lord's method of refining salt is really a good thing that benefits the country and the people, but I think this method should be kept secret at this time.
To prevent it from being stolen by Wu and Shu for refining refined salt and increasing military expenditure, I, the Great Wei Dynasty, can keep it for myself."
Cao Shuang nodded in agreement and said with a smile: "You will use this method to make salt in the future. If you do your job well, I will be rewarded heavily!"
That night, Cao Shuang and others rested at the Yantian official office, and continued to teach salt-making methods in the Yantian the next day.