After drinking until the moon was high, the third prince, Shen Yang and others, as well as a group of guards, left Yandangji by boat and returned to Yongchun Palace Manor on the other side. Only then did Yandangji become quiet.
Han Qian stood in front of the river bank, and the sailboat was now moving away.
"When the young master was drinking with His Highness, Mr. Zheng Hui and Zheng made excuses to go to the wine-making room again. It was obvious that he ignored the advice of the prince's government and joined the military and wanted to secretly learn our family's wine-making method," Zhao Ting'er said He muttered dissatisfiedly, "Looking at Zheng Hui's appearance, I thought he was some kind of gentleman."
Han Qian laughed.
As a core figure of the Zheng family, Zheng Hui once commanded the Huangzhou camp and garrisoned in Xichuan as a Huangzhou soldier. He was talented in all aspects and helped the three princes to defend the city of Xichuan for his merits and loyalty, so he was appointed by Emperor Tianyou to serve as the county prince's palace. It is indeed an unusual person to propose joining the military.
However, no matter who he is, he has his shortcomings. Firstly, Zheng Hui is fond of drinking. Secondly, the Zheng family is the largest brewer in Huangzhou. He created a new method of steaming wine in the farmyard. How could he not draw attention to Zheng Hui? Hui's interest?
"Young master, are you trying to teach him how to steam wine on purpose?" Zhao Ting'er asked hesitantly when he saw that Han Qian was not paying attention.
"In Jinling City, there are only 16 or 17 main wine shops, which have the right to sell wine to large and small shops and private households in the designated area. However, behind these more than a dozen main wine shops, others want to enter. It is extremely difficult. In the past, we could still take advantage of the money shop and use Shaodaozi wine as interest. But now, even if we have the method of steaming wine, who will we sell the wine to? We will sell it to these dozens of companies with official certificates. The official store, but the wine brewed by others already has enough profits, why should they buy our wine? What's more, even now, there are not many people in Jinling City who want to get involved with the Duke's Palace. !" Han Qian said.
"The Zheng family secretly learned our wine steaming method, will it help us sell wine?" Zhao Ting'er asked.
"It depends on how His Majesty will further strengthen His Majesty's power," Han Qian said.
"Young Master, are you saying that Your Majesty will vigorously promote the children of the Zheng family to enter the capital?" Xi Yin interjected and asked.
Han Qian said: "That is inevitable. This has been clear since His Majesty appointed Zheng Hui to serve as a counselor in the Prince's Palace and to join the military. In the past, Marquis Xinchang and I were too important around His Majesty, and we will not be able to merit this time. The big reward actually makes room for other forces to join His Highness. But at this point, His Majesty does not need to personally push it to continue - Zheng Hui is a smart man."
"I understand," Zhao Ting'er suddenly realized, "Young master thinks that after the Zheng family's children come to Beijing, Zheng family will definitely be able to get the official title of Guojiu in Jinling. By then, Zheng will be selling new steamed wine in Jinling, and other Guojiu shops will not be able to make it. New steamed wine, the new steamed wine in our farm can be sold!"
"The Zheng family will probably be able to get the official invitation to discuss wine before their children come to Beijing in large numbers, or they may have already been preparing for it," Han Qian raised his head and looked at the sail shadow disappearing in the moonlight and said, "What if? Realistic interests, only the proposal to join the military position in the county prince's palace and the unpredictable future expectations, how can the Zheng family be so determined to send their children to the capital in large numbers? Of course, this war has greatly affected the local power in Jingxiang. Destruction is also an important factor in the Zheng family's descendants entering the capital in large numbers."
Xi Rong couldn't help but shrugged her nose. When others still thought that Han Qian was resentful for Emperor Tianyou's lack of kindness, who would have thought that this guy was already calculating what Emperor Tianyou might do next.
When the sail shadow was completely submerged in the night, Han Qian stood in front of the river bank and ordered Mr. Zhao:
"Let's divide the prey given by His Highness at night; just remember to leave a portion for Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Lin Haizheng."
This afternoon, Han Qian accompanied the third prince to hunt eight elk and two wild boars. In addition to eating part of the night banquet, there were also more than two thousand kilograms of meat. The third prince rewarded them all.
Tian, Gao and Lin are currently living in Lanting Lane with their families. They have not followed Han Qian to live in Yandangji Farm. The main reason is that they are afraid of spending too much time on the road in and out of Jinling City every day - Han Qian every day
It can take an hour or two to ride in and out of Jinling City, while Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Lin Haizheng mainly stay in the prince's palace to take care of the specific affairs of Jinyun Tower for Han Qian, otherwise Han Qian would not be able to be so free.
Zheng Tong stayed in Qiuhushan Villa to ensure the continued operation of the craftsmanship workshop.
Han Qian asked Mr. Zhao to send an extra portion of the prey given by His Highness to Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and Lin Haizheng, in addition to the soldiers and slaves in the farm.
Zhao Lao Guan responded: "Old Guan, don't worry, the meat won't last long in such a hot day. Let's pickle it with salt first and send someone to the city tomorrow."
In his mind, he calculated the manpower of the Han family in Jinling, including Bu Qu, family members and slaves, plus the young Xi family who stayed in Jinling with Zhao Wuji, Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer and others, the ship's gang guards and sailors, large and small.
One hundred, seventy and eighty people have to open their mouths to eat.
Han Qian was about to return to the manor with Mr. Zhao, Zhao Ting'er and his daughter, when a black shadow approached from the path to the south.
Two young men from the Xi family walked over from the side of the road, and after a while they saw it was Du Yijun. The two brothers Du Yiming came back riding a donkey in the dark.
Seeing Han Qian standing by the pond so late, Du Yijun called out excitedly:
"Sir, we have found the method of making a brine-drawing tube! In Jinyun Tower, I found the collection of Zhilan written by Chen Zhou, the governor of Yuzhou in the former dynasty. There is also a drawing of the brine-drawing tube in it, and we have drawn it."
Han Qian motioned to the left and right to hold torches and shine them over.
Han Qian and his craftsmen discussed the method of collecting water a few days ago. Du Yijun also studied poetry and calligraphy since he was a child. When he was a child, he heard his father say that salt wells were dug in Sichuan and Chongqing and other places, and a bamboo tube could be used to draw water hundreds of meters deep into the ground.
Salt brine, but he couldn't remember the specific method of making this bamboo tube at this time.
After all, the collection of books that Han Qian moved into Yandangji was limited.
Although he had no way to go into the Hongwen Hall to search for information at this time, there were tens of thousands of books in the Jinyun Tower that were given to the county and prince's palaces by Emperor Tianyou.
Han Qian took brothers Du Yijun and Du Yiming to Jinyun Tower and asked them to search the books for any records about this kind of brine tube. He also asked them to copy all the books they saw related to Gongzao.
Come down.
Unexpectedly, the Du brothers would find out how to make a brine tube today. At the same time, they were too obsessed with it and missed the time to leave the city. They turned back to find Gao Shao to help them out of the city. It was already late at night when they rode donkeys back to the farm.
Han Qian took the stack of papers copied by the Du brothers today. The diagram of how to make a brine tube was directly on the first page.
Looking at the swaying torch, Han Qian couldn't help but slap his forehead and shouted: "I'm such a fool! Feng Lu must be using this method to inhale and inflate, I didn't even think about it.
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Seeing Han Qian's surprise and laughter, Zhao Ting'er also came to Han Qian's side to look at the diagram copied by the Du brothers.
The schematic diagram was too simple. Xi Rong didn’t understand the logic for a while and asked:
"How to extract brine from the ground using this method?"
Zhao Ting'er had been with Han Qian for a long time and received Han Qian's most serious teachings. Seeing that Xi Rong didn't understand after looking at it for a long time, she proudly pointed to the Dharma-making diagram and explained:
"You see, the cowhide attached to the inside of the opening of the bamboo tube is the key. A heavy object is hung under the tube, and the empty tube is immersed in the underground brine. The brine pours in from the opening, flushing the cowhide inward, and then fills the bamboo tube. And when it is filled
When the bamboo tube is filled with brine, the bamboo tube is lifted up, and the brine presses the cowhide against the opening from the inside, thereby sealing the opening and the brine will not leak out - to put it bluntly, the cowhide attached to the inside is a one-way valve."
Zhao Ting'er was wearing a tulle half-arm skirt, with a light body fragrance that smelled very good. She deliberately showed off to Xi Rong, and her arms unconsciously touched Han Qian's, but it was very cool.
If her father, Mr. Zhao, were not present, Han Qian would have wanted to take Zhao Ting'er's arm into his hands and feel the coolness. At this moment, he just praised her and said: "It's so smart. Let's go to the refinement room and take apart an arm."
Take a look at Fenglu, there must be a similar valve on the inside of Fenglu's air intake pipe, do you believe it?"
As Han Qian spoke, he dragged Zhao Ting'er and walked back together, eager to dismantle a wind tree on the spot to test his guess.
"That's right. Why do you need to be so excited to dismantle a wind basket and check it out on the spot? How much effort does it take to make a wind basket? I'll find a master who knows how to make wind baskets and ask him tomorrow. Isn't that right?"
Lindu felt that Han Qian was making too much fuss today. She didn't know that a small Fengqian could make him so excited, so she glanced sideways and said.
Xi Rong didn't know the valve structure of the brine tube and the air purifier. What pierced Han Qian's heart was the window paper of the lever bellows and the fire oil tank!
The wind logs are quite easy to damage, and a casting room is to be built here. Although Han Qian and Zuo Si have officially settled the matter, no one dares to say anything about bringing back a few more wind logs for backup?
I ran to the forging room and took apart a spare air blower - this was also a blower used for smelting and other matters since the Han Dynasty - and saw that there was indeed a valve mechanism similar to the brine drum on the inside of the intake pipe.
At this time, Chen Jitang also came over to talk about the progress of the construction of the enclosed house. Han Qian called him, the Du family brothers and the Han family's craftsman in charge of the forging room to his side, and said: "Look at the structure of the wind plow and the brine tube. According to this
Reason, it should be possible to use wood to build a pull-out blower box and water collector. I wonder if any of you can figure it out in the past two days?"
Chen Jitang, Du Yijun, Du Yiming and many Han family craftsmen stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to think about how to create the blower box and water collector that Han Qian expected.
It has been nearly ten years since Chen Jitang was demoted from the son of an official to an official slave, and he has long since learned to combine his profound family knowledge with practical problems to solve problems, but the time Han Qian gave them was too short.
Compared with Chen Jitang, Zhao Qi loved to dance with guns and sticks since he was a child.
The twelve households of official slaves belonging to Yandangji Farm were actually the tribesmen of Chen Jitang and Zhao Qi who were demoted to slave status after the defeat of Yuezhou.
The Du brothers were even more dumbfounded. Although they had accepted the cruel fact of being slaves, three or four months ago they were still the sons of officials who enjoyed reciting poems and composing poems all day long. Although they had been with Han Qian for nearly two months, they were still
Although they have gained some knowledge and changed some thinking habits, they are far from being able to compare with Chen Jitang in terms of practical knowledge. How can they have the confidence to figure out a new blower box and water extractor in two days?
Han Qian posed the problem to Chen Jitang, Du Yijun, Du Yiming and others, then took Zhao Ting'er and went back to the inner courtyard to rest.
