In just a few days, Master Shen has adapted to life in the mountains and his current identity, and even calls himself "a teacher" in both mouths and in silence.
As for the relationship between Shen Fucong and Wang Yuan, there seems to have been some subtle changes.
Whether it is Wang Yuan's talent for reading, the earthworm pond in the forest, or the three-component soil over the dam, they only play an accumulation and catalytic role.
The real qualitative change is actually the sentence "Knowledge of worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is writing"!
Shen Fucong's main talent is not writing eight-legged essays or teaching children to read. He is a master who has worked for more than ten years. He can figure out the decisions of the court and control subordinate officials and subordinates. He does not understand the world. How can you achieve this if you are impersonal and sophisticated?
That couplet from "Dream of Red Mansions" speaks directly to Shen Fucong's heart and perfectly summarizes his life experience over the years.
The shock in Master Shen's heart can be imagined. He was so excited that he swore an oath to beg for office on the spot. He was convinced that Wang Yuan had wisdom. He no longer regarded Wang Yuan as an ordinary disciple, but as a struggling friend who could support each other. .
At the other end of the Green Gang Forest, a large open space was cut out artificially.
In the center of the open space, there is a large earthen kiln made of mud.
Shen Fucong came to the kiln, looked up for a moment, and said, "Brother Yuan, I'm afraid you can't build this lime kiln alone."
Wang Yuan laughed and did not explain.
Liu Yaozu rushed to answer: "Brother Wang deceived the owner of Fang Village, saying that the things burned in the kiln can build water canals, so that the whole village helped him build lime kilns. Everyone worked hard for two slack seasons, but the water canals were diverted. It hasn't been repaired yet, and the leader of Fang Village is so angry that he wants to burn down Brother Wang's house."
"Master Fang is not that easy to deceive, right?" Shen Fucong asked suspiciously.
Wang Yuan had a mean smile on his face: "Haha, I can't go into details about this, so let's not mention it for now."
In fact, the process is very simple. As a senior engineering dog, he found that Heishanling is full of limestone, and it is easy to find kaolin. What could Wang Yuan think of?
Of course it’s fired cement!
In a previous life, Wang Yuan's family ran a cement factory, but later it was shut down for environmental protection.
But after time travel, no matter how Wang Yuan tried his experiments, even if he set up the legendary artifact earthen blast furnace, he still could not reach the furnace temperature that could bake cement.
In desperation, we can only do the next best thing and get out the Sanhetu first.
Sanhe soil is the same as cement, the main raw material is limestone, but the temperature required for firing is several hundred degrees lower.
In order to convince the leader of Fang Village to build an earthen kiln, Wang Yuan spent a lot of effort. He lied that the stuff produced by this thing could be used to build aqueducts, and Fang Ayuan only half-believed it and summoned men.
Heishan Lingzhai is so poor. In addition to the barren land, the main reason is the lack of irrigation water.
The water source in the village is only a small stream, which is collected from mountain springs, which is not enough during the busy farming season. People need to go to a cave a few miles away to get water. There is an underground river in the cave, but the mountain is very steep and it is not suitable to build near the cave. Settled in a house.
The underground river is too deep, so you have to tie a long rope to the bucket, and it is very difficult to lift the water up.
Wang Yuan cooperated with Liu Carpenter and built a pulley block to make it easier for the villagers to fetch water. Because of this, Fang Ayuan believed Wang Yuan's lies and excitedly built a clay kiln to burn lime, planning to collect all the people in the village. The village's strength was used to build a diversion canal.
That's not the case at all!
The success rate of burning lime in the garbage kiln designed by Wang Yuan is too low. Even if the limestone is smashed and thrown in, more than half of the limestone will be burned out. It is also time-consuming and labor-intensive, and cannot meet the demand for building aqueducts.
The project plan failed, and the burned lime waste was used to build a three-way earthen dam to dry grain.
As for the diversion canal, the construction was too difficult, and Wang Yuan had no idea. He had never thought about building the diversion canal, but just used it as a cover to experiment with the idea of a lime kiln.
Obviously, the leader of Fang Village was fooled.
Master Shen slowly squatted down, picked up a pile of slaked lime that had already solidified, and asked, "Is this how chalk comes from?"
"Yes," Wang Yuan said with a smile, "there is a lot of lime here, all useless waste, enough for Mr. to finish writing the Four Books and Five Classics."
Mr. Shen stared at the slaked lime in a trance for a long time. He suddenly became inspired by poetry and recited Yu Qian's "Ode of Lime": "Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if it were nothing. I am not afraid of my bones being shattered. I want to leave my innocence in the world! This is such a feeling. "Things like this make me think about Duke Su Min, who stood up to turn the tide from falling, but ended up like that in the end."
Curious baby Liu Yaozu quickly asked: "Who are you talking about, sir?"
Although Wang Yuan didn't know about Duke Yu Sumin, he had learned "Ode of Lime" and could guess that it was Yu Qian's posthumous title.
It is said to be su when the government is strong, to make a decisive decision, it is called su, to make the law clear, it is said to be su, to take down the righteousness is called su; when the country is in trouble, it is called min, when there is disaster, it is called min, to assist the country when it is in trouble, it is said to be min, when one is in danger, it is said to be min. ——To be honest, the posthumous title given to Yu Qian by Emperor Hongzhi is already very appropriate.
Later, Emperor Wanli changed Yu Qian's posthumous title to Zhongsu, changed the word "loyalty" to the word "loyalty", and removed the word "min", which has a profound meaning.
Master Shen told the two disciples about Yu Qian's deeds and warned: "You must remember that you must not be too upright. Being upright is easy to break and will attract people's jealousy. You will inevitably be plotted by Xiao Xiao, and you will be jealous of your superiors."
Liu Yaozu was very smart. He nodded and said, "My father also said that as a person, you should not push yourself to the top. When you should be soft, you should be soft."
Master Shen asked Wang Yuan again: "Brother Yuan, what do you think?"
Wang Yuan sneered disdainfully and said with great pride: "How can you accomplish great things if you just accept weakness?"
Shen Fucong was speechless. Suddenly, he seemed to see another Yu Qian. Thinking about his disciple's boxing and kicking skills, a strange picture emerged in his mind - Wang Yuan stood in the court hall and threw away the wat board. , rolled up his sleeves and beat Yan Guan violently, until Yan Guan screamed in pain: "Wang Er, I surrender, please spare my life!" The emperor hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "Wang Er, give me some face, don't put people on the spot. Beat to death."
Liu Yaozu looked at Shen Fucong: "Sir, why are you stunned?"
"Ah? Nothing, nothing." Master Shen came back to his senses and shook his head to dispel those ridiculous fantasies.
Wang Yuan asked: "Sir, what's the matter with coming to see me in the woods?"
Master Shen said: "If you want to take the imperial examination, you must obtain household registration. No matter what method you use, you must spend money to obtain household registration. I saw that you can mix Sanhe soil, so I wondered if I could make money from this."
"There is absolutely no possibility of making money," Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "In the beginning, I also wanted to make money with Sanhe soil, so I tricked the owner of Fang Village to build a lime kiln for me. But the cost of burning lime is too high. If I transport it to the foot of the mountain for sale , ordinary people simply can’t afford it.”
"Why not sell it to the chieftain?" Master Shen asked.
Wang Yuan smiled bitterly: "The chieftain is just a bunch of bandits, completely unreasonable. If the chieftain knows the benefits of Sanhe soil, he will definitely not be willing to pay for it. Wouldn't it be easier to directly classify the villagers as craftsmen? For the chieftain, There is a more trouble-free way, which is to mobilize troops to level Chuanqing Village, capture all the villagers as slaves, and make Sanhe soil specifically for him."
Master Shen was momentarily speechless and speechless.
In the prefecture and county where he was a master, no matter how corrupt the officials were, they still had to follow basic rules. But this kind of rules was ineffective for chieftains. Even if they killed everyone in Qingzhai for no reason, no one would hold them accountable. The scoundrels are not human beings to the imperial court, at least not in the legal sense!
"We won't mention the ways to make money with Sanhetu," Shen Fucong said about another matter. "The first priority is to go down the mountain to buy books, and by the way, buy some pens, inks, paper and inkstones. If you don't practice calligraphy seriously, how can you use it in the imperial examination?" Blackboard and chalk? There are only ink scrolls in the imperial examination, but no ink scrolls. Should the emperor hold a blackboard and give you the number one spot?"
Wang Yuan laughed happily: "Sir, what you said seems quite interesting."