Feng Yi and Kong Xirong climbed over the mountain and entered the villa. Only then did Shen Yang ask Han Qian to take them to see the location of the lime kiln.
The lime kiln was chosen to be located in a creek bay below the farm. The terrain here is low and the water flow is gentle. Boats can sail directly in from Chishan Lake.
There used to be seven or eight families living here, but they have all been moved out in the past two days. Seven or eight houses have become empty. Fan Xicheng did his part and occupied these mud houses directly. There is also a house with an area of three or four acres. The grain drying field is as big as a field, and the place is quite empty.
In addition to the lime kiln, a large area of land can be leveled out. Han Qian walked around and felt that the villa could build a larger-scale craftsman's workshop here.
The Longque Army's military headquarters is located to the south of the villa. Later, building houses and building embankments and farming on Chishan Lake North Beach will require a lot of tools.
Even if the Dragon Bird Army is to be truly established, it is unrealistic to expect the national treasury to provide the armor, weapons, and uniforms for soldiers and generals. The main thing is to purchase or produce them on their own.
Han Qian just thought about building some crafts workshops in the villa, which was a promising project.
Han Qian doesn't expect to get involved in the military power of the Dragon Bird Army now, but he must find a way to suck some blood from the Dragon Bird Army so that he can take such a big risk and donate "Epidemic Water Treatment" in vain.
How could others know what Han Qian was thinking?
Several stone-burners that Fan Xicheng hired from Jiangcheng County were all dark and lean old men, with faces as wrinkled as old tree bark. When they saw Shen Yang and other adults coming over, they were so nervous that they couldn't even speak for a while. Only then did I find out how they built kilns to burn lime.
Han Qian has been reading "Kao Gong Ji" and "Gu Ming Yao Bian" these days, and they all mention the method of burning lime, but the description is very brief.
When Han Qian read the book, he thought that people in the world had such a stinky habit of being concise and concise. However, after asking the five stone-burners invited by Fan Xicheng, he realized that the methods used to burn lime in the world were extremely primitive.
Use stones or yellow mud to build the stove, spread a layer of firewood and a layer of blue and white stone in the stove, add two to three layers, and smolder for a day and night, and then it can be used; the more simple method is to dig a hole in the ground. Pile firewood and burn rocks in the pit.
According to the experience of these stone-burning masons, each of them can quarry stone, cut firewood and other tasks, and can burn about thirty or forty loads of lime a year to make a living.
Not to mention Han Qian, Shen Yang frowned after hearing this.
According to the epidemic prevention and control department, in order to control the epidemic, so many hungry people infected with the epidemic, covering a radius of ten miles, must use a large amount of lime to kill poisonous poisons in ditches and toilets. There are not 30,000 to 40,000 tons of lime every year. , is not useful.
To use this traditional stone-burning method, almost a thousand stone-burners are needed. But now that 30,000 to 40,000 hungry people are gathered together, even if thousands of strong laborers can be selected to do heavy work, there is no need for other things. Finished?
"Building a big stove, quarrying stones, cutting firewood and other tasks are all done by dedicated people," Han Qian said.
At that time, workshops in the salt and iron industries were already quite large-scale.
Under the left school office of Shaofu, there were more than 2,000 iron craftsmen and slaves to make weapons; and in the salt field set up in Hailing, there were more than 20,000 salt households specializing in boiling salt.
These two items can be said to be the primitive industrial systems. In addition to being used as medicine, lime was only used by a very few expensive people to paint courtyards. The demand was very small, so there was no large-scale lime production. The kiln appears, but it does not mean that it cannot appear.
Although the person in the dream, Zhai Xinping, had no memory of burning lime, Han Qian thought that the general direction was correct.
The stone-burning craftsmen looked at each other in confusion. The stone-burning skills they knew were passed down from generation to generation. How can they be changed at will?
However, in front of Shen Yang, Guo Liang, Han Qian and others, several stone-burning kilns did not dare to say no. They just stood there calmly, not knowing how to respond.
And even if they are willing to obey Han Qian, they don't know how to build the so-called "big stove".
Seeing that Shen Yang was looking over, Han Qian took on the matter and said, "I'm recuperating here in the villa these days. I'll figure out how to build the stove."
Han Qian didn't feel at all that it was a despicable job to take charge of building a large stone-burning stove; besides, if he didn't take over the task, he wouldn't be able to appease his father's heart, and he didn't know what trouble his father was going to cause.
Han Qian said that he was still suffering from illness, and Shen Yang just smiled slightly.
There are 30,000 to 40,000 hungry and infected people in a mess. It is necessary to sort out the clues. There are so many threads. Even if Han Qian cannot be officially left to serve in the military government, Han Qian will stay in the villa to "recuperate" at this time, and will build It is also a good thing for Shen Yang to take over the kiln matter.
Although the court rumored that Han Daoxun's only son was uneducated, he had been teaching at the Linjiang Marquis Mansion for the past three or four months. The third prince, Yang Yuanpu, Feng Yi, Li Chong, Kong Xirong and others were all in a crowd, and only Han Qian sat there. His eyes were clear in the study hall, and it was obvious that Han Qian could listen to what he was teaching.
Today, when Shen Yang read "Epidemic Shu Shu" written by Han Daoxun, he would never think that Han Qian, with such a profound family knowledge, would be a useless talent.
Guo Liang and Zhang Qian looked at Han Qian in surprise.
Han Qian was also afraid of the impatience of Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others, so he immediately called the five stone-burning masons to build the stone-burning stove in the workshop as usual, and also called over Guo Nuer's team of soldiers. Help, learn, and wait until they are ready to burn the first furnace of lime, and then he will come over to discuss how to rebuild the large furnace.
Next, everyone did not return to the villa. Shen Yang instead discussed with Li Zheng and Zhang Qian to borrow his family's house in the south of Qiuhu Mountain Villa to temporarily serve as the residence of the military camp.
If possible, Shen Yang can also recommend Zhang Qian to work in the Tunying Military Mansion.
Zhang Qian is so upright that he doesn't even dare to offend Han Qian, the young master of the Han family. How can he dare to offend Shen Yang, who is the prince's master?
Furthermore, if the entire Taowu Ji was turned into a military garrison, Taowu Ji would no longer exist, and the land tax and corvee in the coming year would become a bad debt.
If he does not immediately remove himself from the post of Li Zheng, if someone interferes and the bad debt is blamed on him, Zhang Qian will be ruined even if he loses his entire family.
Even though Zhang Qian was worried that the epidemic would not be under control, Shen Yang recruited him to serve in the camp military mansion, which was one of his few options.
Shen Yang looked shriveled and thin, but he was full of energy. He occupied Zhang Qian's house and used it as a military office. He invited everyone there for a hasty meal at night, and then convened to discuss the reconstruction of the village.
The Longque Army has a full strength of 12,500 soldiers. Correspondingly, the Tunying Military Mansion has a full strength of 12,500 soldiers. The army has a battalion of 500 soldiers, and the Tunying Military Mansion has 500 soldiers. Each household is a village, and twenty-five villages need to be built.
The military department controlled by the prince's family drove out the aborigines in Taowuji to prevent them from being used by the third prince.
The biggest advantage for this place is that dozens of natural villages and hundreds of simple and simple houses have been vacant, so that so many hungry people infected with the epidemic can have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so that they will not be trapped in the cold night. Frozen to death.
Villages can be expanded step by step based on these natural villages.
Corresponding to the camp captain (commander), each camp must have a camp leader, also known as the camp captain, and under him there are five to ten camp captains to take charge of the field training and other matters.
How to arrange the vacancies of these camp captains? Let alone Han Qian, there is no way to intervene. Even Shen Yang has no way to comment.
The camp captains and camp commanders are the basis for mastering the Longque Army in the future. Li Pu has read "Epidemic Water Dredging" and knows that the gathering of more than 10,000 epidemic-stricken and hungry people is worth looking forward to. He has already assigned a hundred people belonging to the Xinchang Hou Mansion to The family soldiers were dedicated to the third prince, Yang Yuanpu, and sent here to serve; and the families of these family soldiers would later move here and be incorporated into the camp military mansion, becoming the real military households of the Longque Army.
Twenty-five camp captains and a considerable number of camp captains will naturally be selected from these one hundred people; and the two house stewards sent by Xinchang Marquis Li Pu will also serve as staff beside Shen Yang and be in charge of warehousing. The money and food needed in the early stage had to be transferred from the Xinchanghou Mansion, and the storage of the camp military mansion, etc., Xinchang Hou Lipu obviously did not want to fall into Shen Yang's control.
The revival of the Longque Army led by the Xinchanghou Mansion to build the team of the Third Prince Linjianghou is something that Emperor Tianyou has semi-publicly approved of. Shen Yang is more concerned about getting things done, as long as the Xinchanghou Mansion is willing to do its best at this time If you have the ability to cooperate, you don’t care who does it.
Han Qian didn't have many soldiers to donate, and he had no intention of getting involved in low-level military positions such as village commander, captain, and team leader.
The Xinchang Hou Mansion nominally dedicated more than a hundred soldiers to Linjiang Marquis Yang Yuanpu, but it is difficult to say how loyal these soldiers are to the third prince.
Of course, these family soldiers and their children were forcibly incorporated into the camp military mansion by Xinchang Marquis Li Pu, and were mixed together with 30,000 to 40,000 epidemic-stricken and hungry people. Even if they hold the position, they still have some resentment in their hearts, right?
Of course, those with the greatest grievances at this time belong to Feng Yi and Kong Xirong.
Apart from having an additional identity, they did not get any benefit from this matter. At this time, they had to risk the disease and stay in the military office to listen to Shen Yang, Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others discussing the settlement. When I heard about the incident in the village, I couldn’t stop yawning and couldn’t leave early.
By the time the matter was discussed, the sky was already full of stars and moon.
It would take more than half an hour to return to the city by horse, and the city gates were closed after nightfall. Even if Feng Yi and Kong Xirong wanted to enter the city, it would be very troublesome, so they stayed at Han Qian's place that night.