"I'm here to pay my respects to Mr. Zhongcheng." With his scalp numbing for a while, Chen Ke saluted with clasped fists.
"You don't have to be polite, Bachelor Chen," Tang Jie put away his smile, pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Please sit down."
"Thank you very much." Chen Ke sat down and asked, "I received a summons from Zhongcheng in Enzhou the day before yesterday, and I hurried back. I wonder why Zhongcheng summoned me?"
"What are you doing in Enzhou?"
"Xiaoguan's classmate and friend Jia Zhengfu fell into the water before the Yellow River burst its banks." Chen Ke said sadly: "Xiaoguan tried to search and rescue him."
"Have you found it?" Tang Jie asked with concern.
"The whereabouts are still unknown." Chen Ke shook his head.
"Alas, Jia Jiancheng is a conscientious minister who does his job with sincerity." Tang Jie sighed and said, "I hope he will be lucky in his misfortune, otherwise God has no eyes to see."
Chen Ke looked at Tang Jie in surprise, wondering why this man had changed his gender. Didn't he know that saying this before the trial started would undermine his own reputation? Or was he trying to catch him off guard?
"Why, you don't feel comfortable with me talking like this?" Tang Jie said with a faint smile, "How about I change my tone?"
"No, no, that's fine." Chen Ke said quickly.
"Hahaha..." Tang Jie twisted his beard and laughed: "They say you, Chen Zhongfang, are a tough guy, but it turns out you are afraid of your head!" He said with a smile: "Let me ask you, is there any problem with the cement?!"
"I hope Zhongcheng knows that it has been five years since the cement was created." Chen Ke secretly shouted "Here we come" and said with great energy: "After tens of thousands of repeated tests, we have arrived at this. A complete set of preparation and use methods under different conditions. It has been widely tried in Dongchuan City and Hongshui River Project, and the effect is very satisfactory. For four years, Dongchuan City Guard Su Songsu has never stopped working on the Hongshui River Project. Follow-up inspection did not reveal any breakage, damage, or even collapse."
"After all, the Red Water River is still small and cannot compare with the ferocity of the Yellow Water." Tang Jie said.
"If Zhong Cheng had seen the Hongshui River with his own eyes, he would never say this." Chen Ke shook his head and said: "The Hongshui River has a huge drop, and it is located in the rainy area in the south. The water flow is extremely ferocious all year round. It is far better than the Yellow River." He said: "Nowadays, cement has been widely used in building canals and embankments in the south. Feedback from all parties says that it is a hundred times stronger than traditional mortar. What's more, the Ministry of Works has also conducted in-depth inspections and decided to use it only after confirming it. "
"And this time the Ergu River project also uses the already mature concrete technology. This technology is to mix cement with sand and gravel, and add steel bars or bamboo bars. It is not said to be impregnable." Chen Ke continued: "Fan Chunren used This technology rebuilt Dashun City and easily withstood the attack of 100,000 Xixia troops. Afterwards, he praised it highly in the victory report and called it 'Golden Soup'. Zhongcheng should also know about it, right?"
"If I didn't know," Tang Jie nodded, "you wouldn't have sat down and answered."
"..." Chen Ke finally experienced Tang Jie's cruelty. After all, he was also a high-ranking fifth-rank official, so sitting back and answering actually became a favor.
"Then why did the problem happen at Ergu River?" Tang Jie asked in a deep voice.
"I checked the construction records of the Capital Water Supervision Bureau. The river section where the embankment burst was built at the end of winter and the beginning of the twelfth lunar month." Chen Ke replied: "In the north, winter construction is taboo. Cement is prepared under conditions where dripping water turns into ice. Or concrete, because the water freezes before the cement is formed, the strength of the cement is insufficient. In severe cases, it will be crispy, with a layer of skin on the surface and loose fragments inside, and the strength is not even as strong as mortar."
"Since I knew the consequences would be serious, why didn't you stop it earlier?" Tang Jie's face darkened immediately, and he said coldly: "Should we wait and see the good show?!"
"It's heartbreaking for Zhongcheng to say this!" Chen Ke yelled: "First, construction is suspended during the winter solstice. This has been a river engineering practice for many years. Second, Wanlong Commercial Bank, which provided cement for the Ergu River project, once built construction in winter.
After traveling through Dashun City, I figured out a complete set of methods for handling, maintaining, and testing in severe cold weather."
"How to deal with it?"
"One is to build a greenhouse and stir the reaction indoors. The other is to stir with hot water and heat the sand and gravel when it is cold." At this time, Chen Ke no longer cared about business secrets and answered truthfully: "
Third, before pouring, the base layer should be free of ice and ice and snow. Sand and stones with ice and snow should not be used in the mixture, and the mixing time should be extended. Fourth, strict procedures, rapid construction, covering and insulation should be used.
The winter maintenance time should be no less than one month. If any unqualified prefabricated parts are found during the maintenance period, the entire batch will be destroyed."
"Did you strictly abide by it?" Tang Jie took a breath and said to himself, Mom, you are so professional, you can't understand a word.
"I have no way of knowing this." Chen Ke shook his head and said, "But when I donated the cement, I wrote down all the matters in the memorial, including antifreeze in winter. Zhongcheng can ask the Yintai Department to prepare the "Enter"
I have brought a copy of "The Cement Letters" for review."
"As far as I know, the Erguhe cement contracting rights of Bandung Commercial Bank were replaced by a newly established 'Jishengxiang Cement Factory' in October," Tang Jie said slowly: "How much do you know about Jishengxiang?"
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"I've never heard of it before." Chen Ke shook his head and said: "But I won't tell Zhong Cheng, but the Wanlong Trading Company was opened by a fellow countryman of mine, and he had begged me for this matter. But because of the Qingling County Prince's
Because of this, there was nothing I could do. I could only send several "Please suspend the construction of Ergu River" and "Please stop using cement in winter" at the end of October and the beginning of winter, but it did not have any effect. "
Tang Jie subconsciously looked at the case. The several memorials mentioned by Chen Ke had been transferred by him from the Yintai Department. He had to admit that this person was meticulous in his actions.
It has to be clean.
After asking Chen Ke a few more questions, Tang Jie asked him to go back.
Looking at the time, it was almost time to meet with Mr. Fu, so Tang Jie ordered someone to prepare a car and enter the palace. When he was transferring to a carriage at Xuandemen, he met Bao Zheng coming out of the palace.
When the two were censors, they were staunch comrades of Jiao Buli Meng and Meng Buli Jiao. They always fought side by side in major battles. Tang Jie, the censor Zhongcheng, took over from Bao Zheng's class, so their relationship was naturally extraordinary.
When Lao Bao saw Tang Jie, he smiled and said, "I heard that you interrogated Chen Zhongfang today?"
"You are so ignorant," Tang Jie rolled his eyes and said, "Do you want to interfere in Wutai's case?"
"Wutai handles cases impartially, so I will naturally not interfere." Lao Bao's health has been deteriorating in recent years, and he often falls ill and has menstruation. This is also the reason why his presence in the court has declined sharply in the past two years. But today he came to the Yamen despite being ill.
It seemed that he was specifically here to block Tang Jie: "But if you think he is helpless and easy to bully, and want to put the blame on him, don't blame me for getting mad!"
"You old man, the more you live, the more confused you become," Tang Jie covered his ears and said, "Is he your illegitimate son or something? The dirt is buried up to your neck, be careful to ruin your reputation for the rest of your life!"
"If he were my son, it would be worthwhile for me to die immediately." Bao Zheng laughed and said: "I can't understand how some people are so shameless. I have to let the world know that good officials who serve the country wholeheartedly have someone to protect them.
It’s on.”
"Hmph..." Tang Jie sneered and scolded Xiao Huangmen who was carrying the sedan: "Why don't you stay away from this old guy and let me catch wind in the doorway of the building?"
Xiaohuangmen is so depressing, but who dares to offend this old man? Quickly pick up the sedan and run away.
Tang Jie only heard Bao Zheng shouting from behind: "Remember, be fair, otherwise I will go to your house to wait for death! Let your son mourn for me!"
Tang Jie was so angry that he rolled his eyes until he reached the Political Hall before he regained his composure.
Seeing Master Zhongcheng coming, the clerk from Zhongshu Province hurriedly welcomed him into the living room to serve tea. Tang Jie asked the rich husband angrily, but the clerk said that the emperor had not returned. So he drank tea and waited.
After a while, Ouyang Xiu heard him coming and invited him to his room for tea.
"It's the same as eating here." Tang Jie refused the clerk without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, Ouyang Xiu came over to invite him. The two were Jinshi scholars who had been admitted to Tiansheng for eight years. They had always had the same temperament and had been friends for decades. It was hard not to give him this face, so Tang Jie had no choice but to join him in the political affairs office.
The signed room.
Ouyang Xiu closed the door and turned around to see Tang Jie saying with a stinky face: "You old man, don't you know what melon fields and plum trees are?"
"I don't care about that much anymore." Ouyang Xiu rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Besides, who can say anything about our friendship when we slept together in flowers and willows?"
Tang Jie suddenly blushed and said: "I was dragged there once by you, as for the rest of my life?"
"What makes you, an old guy, really boring? You have nothing else to talk about." Ouyang Xiu said as he carefully picked up a piece of tea cake from the tea box and said, "Can you drink the Xiao Long Tuan that the government rewards you outside?"
Tang Jie was not into wine and sex, but he only loved tea. His eyes lit up, and he immediately said warily: "You don't want to ask for love, do you?"
"Why use it?" Ouyang Xiu broke off a piece as big as a fingernail.
"More, don't be so stingy." Tang Jie urged Ouyang Xiu to be more generous while recounting the scene at Xuande's door.
Ouyang Xiu laughed and said, "Since Lao Bao said it, and I can say it even more, our relationship is much closer. We are..."
"Stop it, stop it, if you mention that again, I won't drink your tea." Tang Jie said angrily.
"Don't tell me." Ouyang Xiu poured off the ointment on the Xiaolong Tuan tea, wrapped it in a piece of clean paper and hammered it into pieces, then poured it into the Zhou-shaped silver tea and ground it carefully with the single wheel. Once it was crushed,
Jade dust is flying, and the fragrance of tea is overflowing, refreshing the heart and mind.
Dragon and Phoenix Tuan Tea is the world-famous Beiyuan Tribute Tea. The big dragon group weighs one catty and one cake, and has been regarded as top-grade by the dignitaries. This small dragon group, which weighs ten cakes per catty, is the top-grade among the top-grade tea.
The birth was only ten pounds, so Tang Jie coveted it so much.
After grinding the tea powder, Ouyang Xiu raised his head and said, "This student of mine is my lifeblood. I point him to carry forward my Confucianism. You must not ruin his reputation."
