Destiny Only Han

Chapter 21
South of Chen County.

On the vacant lot near the chasm, there used to be a horse market in Chen County, but now it is in the war-torn era, and horses are no longer allowed to be sold privately, and they are uniformly controlled by the government.

In other words, ordinary civilians are not allowed to buy and sell privately.

Therefore, this ban did not take effect at all for Liu Ying and his party who lived in the other courtyard of the county captain (commander of the county garrison).

However, here is the same as the horse market around Pengcheng. The basic trades are cattle and sheep. Occasionally, horses appear, and most of them are old, young, sick and disabled.

Among them, the war horses eliminated from the north of Qin State are the main ones.

Although these horses cannot be used on the battlefield, it is definitely a good choice to pull a cart, especially for transportation.

Compared with the timidity and sensitivity of ordinary horses, the selected war horses are much calmer.

At this moment, Ding Yi was holding a rein in his hand, leading a tall khaki horse, and was making a delivery with the owner of the horse.

Well, pay the bill.

He was sent by Lu Ze to buy horses to replace cattle for pulling carts.

Although the bullock cart is stable, its speed is really not flattering.

What's more, after the beginning of spring, the vegetation sprouted, and the abandoned farmland was full of fodder for feeding the horses.

In the distance, Ji Xin came striding forward with Liu Ying on his shoulders.

Seeing this, Ding Yi picked up a bag of fodder to meet him under the boss's sad eyes, and asked in a low voice:

"Why are you here so late? Was it delayed by something?"

Ji Xin put Liu Ying down, and briefly told him what he saw in the city before.

Liu Ying touched the yellow horse's knee, pulled out some hay, and fed the horse timidly.

"My lord, be careful. Horses are beasts. The more you are afraid of them, the more they will bully you!" Ding Yi said, staring at the yellow horse's ears and limbs.

Generally speaking, when a horse launches an attack, that is, when it kicks, it usually retracts its ears, then twists its body and lifts its legs.

After eating my grass, it will be my horse... Liu Ying continues to pick up the forage on the ground and feed the horse. Although he doesn't know what a good horse is, the yellow horse in front of him is fat and strong, with shiny hair. Full of power.

"How much did it cost?" Liu Ying asked subconsciously.

"Seventeen thousand yuan. Qin's half tael is settled in gold, and it only costs one gold." Ding Yi patted the yellow horse's neck proudly: "If it is sold to a place further south, it will cost at least two taels." More than ten thousand dollars!"

Liu Ying was slightly stunned, and made some calculations in her heart.

He remembered that when he was in Pei County, he heard from Lu Shizhi that an ordinary rough horse was worth more than 4000 yuan, that is to say, the price of this yellow horse was about equal to four ordinary weak horses.

Although it is worth the money, Lu Ze's idea is to buy some poor horses that pull carts.

In other words, I originally came to buy Wuling Hongguang, but ended up buying an 86...

Well, I hope Lu Ze doesn't get mad.

Liu Ying was carried on the horse by Ji Xin, holding the horse's mane with her hands, while Ding Yi held the reins and led the yellow horse in circles in the enclosure.

Liu Ying's recent goal is to learn how to sit on horseback without being knocked down.

Well, it’s analogous to learning a manual transmission car in later generations, that is, learning to control the clutch and not let the engine stall...

After going around the fence, he felt that learning to ride a horse was much easier than learning to drive a car. After all, a horse would walk on its own and would not turn off the engine at every turn.

He glanced at Ji Xin who was standing outside the arena with folded arms, and remembered the stone mill blueprints he had signed in earlier.

Liu Ying looked at Ji Xin and asked aloud, "Is there a stonemason in the city?"

Ji Xin was stunned for a moment, although he didn't know Liu Ying's intention of inquiring about the mason, he still nodded and walked towards the crowd in the distance.

Today, there is not only a horse market, but also a social day, which is similar to the rural fairs of later generations, so as the sun rises, a lot of shopkeepers and people who go to the market gather here.

On the horseback, Liu Ying took out the blueprint and looked at it openly.

After familiarizing himself with the yellow horse's stride, he was able to sit firmly on the horse's back without holding the rein with his hands.

As for drawings, in fact, there was already a rudimentary form of 'paper' during this period.

It's just that it doesn't use grass and trees as raw materials, but the remaining silk flocs entangled in the process of silkworm breeding and reeling.

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A Lifang on the west side of Chen County.

Ji Xin held Liu Ying in his arms, followed by Ding Yi and several Lu family servants, and walked in slowly.

The riot in the city finally ended with the dispatch of the county soldiers and chopped off a few heads, so when Liu Ying came out this time, she was ordered by Lu Zhi to bring a few more people with her.

Of course, the matter of sneaking out was recorded by Lu Zhi in his notebook, and when he found Lao Liu, let him beat him!
"Are you the mason, Pan Gong?" Liu Ying looked at a dark-skinned old man about five or sixty years old and asked.

The old man in black kudzu clothes nodded, and looked at Liu Ying who walked through the door with some fear, and the wealthy boy servant standing behind him.

"I have something I want to ask my husband to do!" Liu Ying stood on the ground and said solemnly.

As a former civil engineering dog, he respects himself and others, and his respect for these craftsmen comes from the heart.

"I can't be this, this... nobleman to address Mr...." The mason Pan Gong talked for a long time, but he really didn't know how to address Liu Ying.

"It doesn't matter, Master said, three people must have my teacher..." Liu Ying dragged out a word, and immediately took out the stone mill drawing from her sleeve and handed it over: "Can this be done?"

The material of the stone mill is very simple, but the most difficult thing is to engrave grooves with special textures on the grinding disc, so that when the grain moves along the grooves, it will be crushed into powder by the grinding disc.

And what Liu Ying wants to do is a small mill with a diameter of about one foot. It is too big to take away, and it is too time-consuming to make.

The mason Pan Gong was stunned for a moment, took the blueprint with his callused big hands, opened it, and immediately opened his eyes to the maximum.

"This, this..." As a mason, although he can't read and doesn't know what this thing does, he can still understand the graphics. The important thing is that the design concept exceeds his cognition.

"Can you do it?" Liu Ying confirmed again.

If you can do it, you can take it away with Pan Gong. If it takes too much time, forget it and talk about it later.

The reason he wanted to make this stone mill was mainly because he was greedy, and as time went by, this feeling of greed became more and more out of control.

Steamed buns, dumplings, flower rolls, wontons, scallion pancakes...

I can't do it anymore, I'm so hungry... Liu Ying swallowed her saliva and looked around.

"I can do it, I can do it!" Pan Gong nodded hurriedly: "The little old man has ready-made stone materials here, and with two apprentices, the work can be completed in a day at most!"

"It's just that the little old man has a request. I wonder if this nobleman can agree?"

(End of this chapter)