Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 196 Eating Hot Pot

In the main hall of Yuewang Mansion in Tianjin City, there is a small opening for ventilation.

It's just that when the door was opened, cold air gushed out from the exhaust vent in an instant, and began to wash the entire room along the door.

Wang Zhenru walked in at this moment, but saw that Li Tai, Ma Zhou, Li Chunfeng, Lu Anshou, and even Wang Xuance had a seat.

There is a bronze tripod with charcoal fire on his table, and various ingredients are placed in the bronze tripod.

Only when a prince like Li Tai gives a banquet, can he have the opportunity to experience what is called Zhongming Dingshi.

"Shut it up, shut it up, sit there, sit there, I've already prepared it for you!"

Li Tai watched Wang Zhenru's arrival, pointed to the location, and said,

"Baihe, ask Ding Jie to bring up the prepared ingredients, and let Zhenru taste this beef bone hot pot!"

"Beef bones?" Wang Xuance was a little dazed when he heard this. After all, beef is delicious, but it's too illegal.

"Don't worry, it has been reported! It's not farming cattle but cattle herding," Li Tai said.

"It somehow fell while running, and its legs were limped.

In order to prevent it from continuing to live in pain, I can only eat it, right!Xuance! "

"Yeah!" Wang Xuance on the side picked up a large piece of beef, put it in his own bowl, and nodded repeatedly.
"I saw the cow walking very peacefully, so the meat is also very delicious. Come and eat it, if you don't eat it, it will be wasted."

"Give me one too!" What else could Wang Zhenru say, naturally he just had a bite or two first.

Wang Zhenru looked at all kinds of sliced ​​meat, meatballs made of fish, and local vegetables made using igloo technology, and sighed, "I didn't expect that in this winter, you can also eat green vegetables." .”

To be honest, growing vegetables in greenhouses in winter was not uncommon in the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that this thing has a cost problem, and in people's minds, the plants grown in this way are somewhat against the law of nature.

Even a senior official asked the common people to do coolies to grow off-season vegetables, and dedicated them to Li Shimin in order to flatter him. Unexpectedly, Li Shimin was particularly disgusted, and he dismissed the official position, saying that who would dare to do this.

Li Tai naturally knew that Li Shimin was against the abuse of common people as corvee in winter, not against eating green vegetables in winter.

After all, there are several gardens in the royal family that use hot spring water to grow green vegetables, and then supply the palace to enjoy green food in winter.

And Li Tai sorted out the off-season planting techniques of this era, and soon discovered that during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the technique of greenhouse vegetable planting had also been developed.

The ancients dug a cellar under the soil, and then burned firewood in the cellar, so that the temperature of the cellar was transmitted to the ground. People used this method to grow vegetables that are out of season. Even this technology is very mature, but the cost is a bit high.

However, it requires too much labor and is not suitable for popularization, so Li Tai uses new technologies according to local conditions.

After all, this is a project to dig a cellar and heat it up, neither of which can be completed in a short period of time.

What's more, this kind of thing can't cover a large area, so it can only be planted in such a small area. At most, I can enjoy it as a prince.

So what's the point of off-season planting that can't be popular among ordinary people? It's better to eat hot spring dishes obediently.

Therefore, Li Tai directly got into the greenhouse planting technology, after all, he had never seen growing vegetables, and he had never eaten green vegetables!
The first step is to direct people to build huge wooden frames one by one, and after it snows in winter, they will splash water on these wooden frames every hour.

When the ice and snow, especially the ice and snow on the roof, are finger-thick, remove the wood.

The most important thing is to remove the covering wood on the roof, and leave a few reinforced support structures, because in the future, when it snows, you will have to rely on these pillars as a support to sweep the snow, or directly pour water to melt the ice and snow up.

If you are lucky in this process, there will be no problems and the demolition will go smoothly, but if you are unlucky, there will be some cracks, so just continue to pour water and freeze, and such a light-transmitting roof is almost done.

The surrounding wooden frames can be stuffed with dried reeds, sorghum stalks, horse manure, and plant ash to cover the entire corner. In order to keep the vegetable field warm, a simple greenhouse that can basically be used for one winter is also made.

By the way, one thing to remember is that it's better to dig a cave to get in and out of, rather than directly build a door that can be opened, because the principle of this thing is to keep the igloo warm, so it's best not to open the door as much as possible.

To put it simply, the ice is stronger and can achieve the effect of airtightness, and the cold wind outside cannot blow in.

At the same time, ice is a poor conductor of heat, because heat cannot be transmitted through ice, which can play a role in heat insulation.

The heat generated indoors cannot be transmitted to the outside through the ice cubes, and the igloo has no windows, which can reduce air convection.

Next, as long as you remember to burn snow and splash water outside the igloo every day when it snows, basically the greenhouse can last until early spring, when the earth warms up.

In addition, this kind of ice and snow greenhouse, which is more advanced, can invite top ice sculpture craftsmen to polish the ice and snow on the roof after removing the roof boards, so that the entire roof can have a certain degree of light-gathering effect and enhance the intensity of sunlight.

Of course, let Li Chunfeng help to record the light knowledge, light angle, spotlight and astigmatism and other data involved in it, so that it will be easier and more convenient to manufacture next year, and the ice mold for the roof can be made directly!
In short, it can only be used in a colder place like Youzhou. In some areas where the winter is too short and there is no sun in winter, don't count on this technology.

Li Tai took a bite of Chinese cabbage, and concluded, "Study the way of proving the Tao well, and you will not be afraid to travel all over the world!"

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Chunfeng agreed, "This way of proving the Tao can indeed explain all kinds of scenes!"

Wang Zhenru ate a mouthful of vegetables, another mouthful of beef, and then another mouthful of fish balls, and then drank a mouthful of special spirits. It was as if a fire had spread from his stomach to his throat. It was really delicious in the world.

"By the way, Zhenru! How are the corvee arrangements?" Li Tai asked Wang Zhenru.

Wang Zhenru quickly put down the wine and meat in his hands, and said seriously:
"Where the corvée decided to go back for the New Year, they have been arranged to send them to the designated counties by horse-drawn carriage.

And let them all change their food, clothes, bacon and dried salted fish. Normally, they should be able to live a good year. "

Li Tai nodded. It has to be said that Wang Zhenru's execution ability is still very good, which is quite appropriate.

Of course, with his current control over Youzhou and the various avenues in Youzhou, he can only do so much.

If I want to go further and send this famous corvee to their home, I can only say that unless their fate is good and their home is near the only way they must pass, they will basically have to go back on their own legs in the end.

After all, it would be great if the traffic in this era can go directly to states and counties.

"What about those who are willing to stay? How do you plan to arrange it?" Li Tai asked Wang Zhenru again.

"Some corvee who were homeless, or who planned to stay here forever, were all gathered and resettled in the Wuqing Village between Yongnu County and our Tianjin city, not far from our Tianjin city.

But in the end, there were not many people left, about 2000 people, and they will all be resettled in Wuqing Xiaozhai in the future! "

Wang Zhenru quickly answered Li Tai.

"Huh?" Li Tai looked at Wang Zhenru in surprise when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.

And Wang Zhenru explained, "This year, the road along the canal from Youzhou to the small town of Tianjin was built all the way from Youzhou to our side, and now it has been repaired to Yongnu.

What is left is only the section from Yongnu to our Tianjin. It is also convenient for them to start working in Wuqing, this is one of them! "

"Oh? There are other reasons?" Li Tai smiled when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.

"Secondly, it is convenient for these people to gather together for heating.

Otherwise, the price will be too high no matter whether it is transporting coal and grain to the designated place or giving them a small number of people to use! "

"Well, central heating can indeed further reduce costs!" Li Tai nodded and said,
"You did a good job on this matter, take a good rest during this time.

After this year has passed, if you want to rest again, I'm afraid you will have to wait until next year's Chinese New Year! "

"No, Your Majesty!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Wang Zhenru couldn't help screaming, holding a piece of beef to suppress his shock.

"It's not my problem!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "It's just that after the canal melts, King Bin is afraid that he will treat you like a cow and horse, and he will force you to use the Youzhou canal in the next year or so. Completely clear."

Ma Zhou just took out his wine glass and made a toast gesture to Wang Zhenru with a smile on his face.

What can Wang Zhenru do, he can only raise his wine glass and drink it down.

After drinking, Ma Zhou said slowly, "Your Majesty, this is wrong.

In almost half a year, you need to deal with the affairs of Youzhou.

After all, the Grand Canal needs to dredge the Yongji Canal as much as possible before the onset of winter, and arrange for Tianjin management.

If it's on the Huaihe River, if you're lucky and it doesn't freeze, you won't have to wait for next winter! "

Hearing Ma Zhou's words, Li Tai shook his head and said, "You, it's better to slow down, it's pointless to do this!"

"Please enlighten me, Your Majesty!" Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai in surprise and said in confusion.

"If Chu Suiliang's Jiangnan University wants to train students in accordance with the situation of the agricultural school, it will be difficult to cultivate a sufficient number of talents in a few years.

Sometimes it is good to slow down a little bit and make the work in the north more detailed! "

Li Tai calmly said to Ma Zhou, "If you are free, you can send someone to inquire about the number of students in the Jiangnan branch school!"

"Oh?" Ma Zhou was a little dazed when he heard Li Tai's words, because he saw that the agricultural college in Gaoling could supply almost 2000 talents every year.

Although these 2000 people were divided up by various people, perhaps less than 500 people were actually implemented in the "Water Transport Plan".

But Youzhou branch school and Jiangnan branch school, the two together have 500 people, it is not too much.

In fact, it is very difficult for Jiangnan Branch to train 200 people to be small officials.

Because if the students they recruited were rich, then their goal must be to become an official, who would be interested in agricultural officials or Jinkou’s Tianjin officials.

If you don’t have money, you have to subsidize it yourself. Imagine that Li Chunfeng’s cooperation with the navy only trained more than 200 students a year.

Even if Chu Suiliang is a big family in Yuhang, if he wants to open this school well, he still needs money.

Anyway, Li Tai didn't know how much Chu Suiliang was willing to spend, but it was impossible to be unrestrained.

To be honest, think about why Du Ruhui came to Youzhou in the middle of the winter, and even promised to build roads first and canals later.

To a certain extent, Du Ruhui also hoped to give Jiangnan Academy more time to cultivate more talents.

Still the same sentence, even if Li Tai proposed the "Water Transport Plan", it is impossible for the entire canal to be filled with people from agricultural colleges. Then the canal will be completely controlled by Li Tai.

Now because Li Tai was named the King of Yan and the governor of Youzhou, the Youzhou branch school must be inextricably linked with Li Tai.

Under such circumstances, it is natural that Jiangnan University needs to work harder to train talents as soon as possible.

This is also one of the reasons why Du Ruhui is not in a hurry. After all, this matter really needs to be pulled by Jiangnan Branch!
"However, if Du Xiang asks you for my help, try to find a way to block it for me.

Next year I also have my own plan. After the canal is built, I will start to implement my plan.

After all, after half a year of preparation, I feel that the implementation can begin! "Li Tai said to Ma Zhou carefully.

"Your Majesty, what's your plan for next year?" Ma Zhou couldn't help being curious when he heard Li Tai's words.

Li Taidao: "There are two main things, one is to promote wheat planting.

After all, corn is still the main food in Youzhou. This year, the students from the agricultural school are asked to plant a wave in Youzhou to see the harvest. If possible, they will promote this as the staple food! "

"Indeed, to be honest, if we grow wheat, we can spend several more months in corvee, especially in summer and autumn, when it won't be as cold as winter." Ma Zhou also nodded in agreement, "This is indeed a big deal!"

"As for the other thing, it is necessary to build a road in every county and county in Youzhou that is enough for eight horse-drawn carriages to travel together. Naturally, it will take a lot of hard work for Zhenru!" Li Tai glanced at Zhenrudao.

"Your Majesty, do you have plans for me next year?"

Li Chunfeng heard that Li Tai had arranged plans for next year one by one, but he seemed to have nothing to do with himself, so he became a little anxious.

"You, of course, hurry up and study the process from coarse salt to refined salt, and then come to my side to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Otherwise, if something happens, there is no one around me who can really discuss it! "

Li Chunfeng first looked at Bai He, who was sitting next to Li Tai with a small plate, sipping beef, and then at Wei Xu and Lu Anshou, who were enthusiastically fighting for wine.

Obviously, compared to Li Tai's extravagant think tanks in Chang'an, after coming to Youzhou, Li Tai really lacked a mastermind.

As for Ma Zhou, after Li Tai pushed him to the front and became a real Tang official, Ma Zhou could become Li Tai's important support, but Ma Zhou couldn't always come to the Palace of Yan to discuss matters.

And Ma Zhou took the initiative to salute Li Chunfeng solemnly, "Brother Chunfeng, King Yan wants to ask you to take care of him!"

"It shouldn't be like this, we are all fellow travelers, just support each other!" Li Chunfeng answered solemnly, holding up his wine glass.

"Cai!" Li Tai raised the cup of honey water in his hand and said, "Everyone will not return today if they are not drunk!"

In the end, apart from Bai He and Li Tai, Ma Zhou, Li Chunfeng, Wang Zhenru, Wang Xuance, and Lu Anshou and Wei Xu all got drunk one after another. In the end, Li Tai ordered Bai He to send them all to the room to have a good rest, and wait until tomorrow when they wake up. Besides.

(End of this chapter)