The tree wants to be still but the wind doesn't stop.
In addition to the scouts from the Privy Council Office, there were also some people with suspicious behavior who gathered in Longhua Port in the afternoon.
Han Qian is not worried about this. No matter how bad it is, he can survive tonight. But the key is that the Menxia Province has not used the seal on the official memorial today. What the situation will be tomorrow is completely beyond Han Qian's ability to guess and control.
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Today is the day after the wedding of the third prince. Yang Yuanpu will bring his bride to the palace to meet the saint. Tomorrow, according to the plan, the third prince will take his bride to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors. Guo Rong should accompany him; however, if he is not able to do so today and tomorrow
After sending someone to sneak into the camp to find out the situation, Zhao Mingting will most likely ask Guo Rong, who is the supervisor of the Longque Army, to lead people directly into Taowu Ji the day after tomorrow.
When the time comes, no matter how arrogant Han Qian and others are, they will not be able to openly stop Guo Rong from leading people into the camp.
However, at this time, Han Qian also developed the calmness to do his best and obey fate. After making some back-up preparations to delay as much as possible, he would not be restless.
Li Zhigao left all the people around him at the camp. It was not safe for him to return to the city at night. If he didn't want to go to Longhua Port to meet Chai Jian, he would have to stay at the camp for the night.
Shen Yang, who has always been diligent, was naturally aware of the tense situation, so he stayed in the city today and did not come to Taowu.
After nightfall, in order to avoid people's attention and to facilitate Yao Xishui's involvement in the matter, Li Zhigao called Cao, the engineer of the camp, and joined the army to Zhou Yuan to the villa to discuss the construction of the city fortress.
Zhou Yuan had great opinions on Han Qian.
He joined the army as a Gongcao, and the construction of the city walls, roads, ditches, and houses should all be under his supervision, assisting Chief Shi Shenyang. In particular, the casting of soldiers, armor, and weapons was under his direct control, but
After sorting out the early chaos, Zhou Yuan wanted to formally recruit skilled craftsmen and prepare to build a craftsman's camp later in the year. At this time, he discovered that dozens of people with the best craftsmanship had long been hired by Han Qian to work in the villa craftsman's workshop.
When it came to building embankments, digging trenches, stacking fields, isolating the source of epidemics, etc., Shen Yang also paid more attention to consulting Han Qian's opinions, calling Zhou Yuan, the construction official, somewhat unqualified, so he was left there.
Zhou Yuan was full of opinions, but could not break up with Han Qian, so he secretly encouraged Zhang Qian, and Guo Liang also recruited people to go to the lime kiln to prevent Qiuhushan Villa from monopolizing the supply of lime to the camp.
Han Qian wanted to take over all the construction of the fortifications, and Zhou Yuan naturally strongly opposed it. The final result of the discussion was that the Villa's Craftsman's Workshop provided the city bricks needed to build the fortifications and outposts; and Zhou Yuan was the engineer.
He joined the army and shouldered the responsibility of building the camp military mansion. He had to take over the construction work no matter what, otherwise he would really become a decoration in the Longque Army.
In fact, Han Qian mainly wanted to take over the brick-making business.
Jinling has a history of burning charcoal thousands of years ago - charcoal is also the reason for the rapid development of the industrial system thousands of years later. It must have cheap fuel coal that can be mined and supplied in large quantities - even charcoal is mined for firewood in Baohua Mountain.
Burning records.
It's just that high-quality coal seams directly exposed to the surface near Jinling City are extremely rare. Even if they exist, they have been mined out over hundreds or even thousands of years of history; and those shallow coal seams only require digging wells for ten years.
Coal seams that can be mined within a few meters are also a huge and difficult project for today's world.
There is a mountain depression about seven or eight miles deep in the back mountain of Qiuhu Mountain. There are traces of coal mining by ancient people hundreds of years ago. However, the easy-to-mine coal on the surface has long been mined. Coupled with hundreds of years of weathering of the rock formations,
Landslides and siltation, etc. After preliminary survey, it is necessary to dig a vertical shaft seven to eight feet deep in the Jiangfang area to mine the coal seams buried deep underground.
However, for a workshop with an annual output of 120,000 tons of lime and an annual consumption of six million pounds of firewood, mining shallow coal seems difficult, but it is also something that must be done.
Traditional brick making requires four thousand kilograms of firewood for every one thousand bricks burned. The consumption of firewood is even more terrible. This is also the key to why most houses in the world are reluctant to use green bricks and small tiles. Han Qian will burn
The brick project was contracted in order to further dilute the cost of mining shallow-seam coal and achieve more concrete scale benefits.
If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.
Han Qian initially helped his father write "Epidemic Water Drainage" and thought that it was quite thorough. However, when it was actually implemented, he still found a lot of problems. One of them was that in order to isolate the source of the epidemic, he proposed to strictly prohibit the hungry people infected with the epidemic from drinking raw water.
I thought it would be simple at first.
Not to mention blood-sucking eggs, a large number of microorganisms, parasites and even germs breed in ditches and rivers. Boiling water before drinking it is probably the most effective way to prevent infectious diseases and miasma in the world. But the problem is, don't say
Living in a poverty-stricken home with a sallow complexion and an emaciated face, the common people today insist on drinking hot water and have to burn thousands of kilograms more firewood every year. This is also a very heavy burden.
Taowuji lacked land and farmland, and there was simply not enough wheat straw and other firewood to burn. Fortunately, the labor force was relatively abundant, and he could organize people to go into the mountains to cut firewood. In just half a year, Han Qian watched helplessly as he was far away from the camp military mansion.
A large area of the nearby mountain is bald.
Han Qian integrated the memories of the person in the dream, Zhai Xinping, but found that not all memories were correct. Many times, errors occurred due to limitations in personal understanding. For example, in Zhai Xinping's memory, he felt that there should be trees in the mountains and fields in this world.
Lush, but in fact the forest coverage outside Jinling City is very low.
Han Qian later analyzed by himself that this was actually the time when Jinling had been the military, political, cultural and even economic center of Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road for six to seven hundred years, and the city's population had never been less than 100,000. It had been a long-term source of fuel.
The felling and construction of pavilions and houses have almost cleared the nearby hills and mountains.
After Han Daoxun purchased the Qiuhu Mountain Villa, he strictly prohibited the tenant farmers from entering the mountains to cut firewood and hunt. This was not because he sympathized with the tenant farmers, but because he couldn't bear to see a few hills with lush trees being cut down to bare trees.
Of course, the 3,000 to 4,000 acres of trees in the mountains behind Bieyuan Villa have been almost cleared in the past six months. If Han Qian no longer organizes manpower to mine charcoal, bake bricks, and burn lime, the cost will become higher and higher.
The main reason for mining coal is that the initial investment cost is too high.
The soil is soft and the underground water layer is shallow. Heavy rains wash away the earth from time to time in summer and autumn. When digging a shaft of nearly 20 meters, solid wood has to be used to support the shaft walls. When digging into coal seams, wooden frames must be used to support them wherever they are dug.
Where to.
However, wood such as pine, elm, locust, and cypress clings to the wet | soft mud wall and is extremely easy to rot.
Carbonization treatment can prevent corrosion to a certain extent, but the supporting force of the wood after carbonization will be seriously weakened; the cost of soaking the wood with cooked tung oil is high.
In short, it will definitely cost a lot to deal with these problems, but Han Qian believes that as long as the scale is established, charcoal will be much cheaper than charcoal.
In fact, if the historical trajectory does not change, it will be a general trend for coal to replace charcoal in the next one or two hundred years. Even in this era, Xu, Chu and other places with more surface coal seam resources used coal to make iron on a large scale.
It's just that the iron produced in these places is brittle and difficult to make good weapons. People still don't know why.
After discussing the matter, Li Zhigao and Zhou Yuan wanted to stay overnight in the military office below.
Yao Xishui wanted to avoid being seen and couldn't stay overnight in the military office directly. She just disguised herself as a man and sent Li Zhigao and Zhou Yuan out of the villa with Han Qian.
At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the mountains far and near are layered in clear detail before our eyes.
Of course, no matter how bright the stars and the moon are on a clear night, the visibility is limited. With a monocular, you can only see the faint silhouette of a person three to four hundred feet away. More peripheral situations must be communicated through other means to know.
Li Zhigao grew up in the military and was diligent in reading. Over the years, he had accompanied his fathers in the north and south. He was one of the core generals of Li Yu's family and had extremely broad knowledge. Han Qian and his talkative and charming person from all over the world got along well with each other.
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After sending Li Zhigao and Zhou Yuan to the military office, Han Qian was about to return to the villa with Yao Xishui. Two fast horses galloped up, but it was the spies sent by Chai Jian from Longhua Port who knelt down and reported:
"Guo Rong left the city late at night and was heading to Taowu Market with Zhao Mingting."
"They move so fast!" Han Qian thought that Guo Rong would accompany the third prince and his bride to the palace today and tomorrow, and would not arrive at Taowu with Zhao Mingting until the morning of tomorrow at the earliest. He did not expect to wait until the palace.
As soon as the incident came to an end, Zhao Mingting took Guo Rong out of the city and rushed to Taowu Market regardless of the darkness.
Zhao Mingting was really fast. He must have noticed that his father's official appointment in Xuzhou was extremely important, and he was eager to find out the truth here.
"Let's go together to meet them!" Li Zhigao said with a serious expression.
Although Guo Rong was from Anning Palace, he was also the military supervisor designated by Emperor Tianyou. His status in the Longque Army was second only to the third prince Yang Yuanpu, and slightly higher than Chang Shi Shenyang.
At this time, even if the third prince Yang Yuanpu was present, there was no reason to prevent the military supervisor from entering the camp.
Yao Xishui and Zhao Ting'er returned to the villa first. When Han Qian was about to meet Li Zhigao, Zhou Yuan rushed to Xiyuan Gate to intercept Guo Rong and Zhao Mingting. He saw Guo Liang and Zhang Qian walking over drunkenly.
"Li Yuhou, Zhou Canjun, where are you going?"
Guo Liang didn't even know that Li Zhigao came to the camp today and was quite surprised to see him with Han Qian and Zhou Yuan.
"It is said that Guo Rong, the Supervisor of the Army, is coming here accompanied by Zhao Mingting, the governor of the Privy Council's Staff Division. Zhou Yuan, Han Qian, I, and I went over to greet them," Li Zhigao said in a gloomy voice, "Guo Yuhou, Master Zhang,
If there is nothing else, you can go back to the house and rest early."
"Ah..." Guo Liang was shocked when he heard that Guo Rong and Zhao Mingting from the Fang Division rushed to the camp overnight.
At a glance, it seems that you haven't shown your face in the camp military mansion yet. Why did you come here overnight today?
He then thought again that Guo Rong was going to the camp as the supervisor of the army. Perhaps it could be said that Zhang Qian's position was low and he did not need to participate in the reception. However, as one of the five chief captains of the Longque Army and one of the five major camp captains, he should not be with him.
Li Zhigao went to greet him together. Why did Li Zhigao have no scruples and ask him to avoid it?
Zhang Qian tugged at Guo Liang's sleeve.
Guo Liang was also a smart man. After being reminded by Zhang Qian, he thought about it and figured out that there might be some trouble between the third prince and An Ning Palace. Li Zhigao was afraid that he and Zhang Qian would reveal something, or maybe Guo Rong and Zhao Mingting were in trouble because of something.
When they came to investigate, Li Zhigao simply asked them to avoid it.
Of course, as a Marquis of Du Yu, Guo Liang had to avoid Li Zhigao even if he told him to do so. His face became a little embarrassed, and his face remained gloomy for a while before he left with Zhang Qian.
