Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 331 The Function of the Ice Cellar

"Amitabha, go prepare dinner for Master Fan, he is staying in our temple today!" Chan Master Farong came out and said.

"But the abbot won?" The little novice next to him couldn't help asking.

And Zen Master Farong only silently glanced at the little novice, and said, "Hurry up and get ready, call me when you're done!"

Chan Master Farong returned to the meditation room, full of anger in his heart:
"You dare to be a big dragon. If you want to let Fan Yuefeng know that monks are human beings, then you have a temper. You must let him die in an ugly way today!"

Fan Yuefeng stayed in Tianning Temple for three days, and played chess with Zen Master Farong back and forth for three days.

In the end, with only one game left to tie the final victory, Fan Yuefeng lost his interest and bid farewell to Zen Master Farong, who had been losing until his eyes turned black.

And Zen Master Farong really didn't believe that he was really that bad, because every time he was only one or two eyes away, he won, so Zen Master Farong really felt that he was very unwilling to lose!

In fact, Fan Yuefeng knew that his original Go ability was not so high, but he taught Go at an agricultural college, which gave him time to sort out his Go experience, so that he had his own system for how to play Go.

It's almost like the layout in the early stage is smooth and smooth, the fighting in the middle stage is indomitable, and the officials in the later stage are clumsy and indisputable.

Play according to your own system, although calculation is still your weakness, especially in the later stage when many officials were brought back, but at least as a whole, compared with those who do not have their own system and only play chess randomly according to the situation of the game, they are stronger. Too much.

Therefore, Zen Master Farong seemed to lose only one or two pieces to Fan Yuefeng in each game of chess, but in fact it was a natural difference.

Relying on his newly polished system, Fan Yuefeng may not be able to compete for the position of chess master, but Fan Yuefeng feels that it should be no problem for him to reach the top ten, and he will be able to find a disciple who is more suitable to inherit his mantle.

So Fan Yuefeng came to Tianning Temple to defeat Zen Master Farong who had been suppressing him all the time, and after making sure that he had a small test of the chess system he had realized, he went to Luoshui with more confidence.

When Fan Yuefeng arrived in Xingyang, he took out the documents of the agricultural school that he almost relied on for food and drink along the way, and also got a nice first-class room at Jinkou, which was the boundary of Xingyang, so that he could live in it for free.
Originally, Fan Yuefeng thought that there was nothing in this world that could surprise him.

But I didn't expect that when I had lunch today, the Jinkou order brought me cut carp.

Cut carp itself is nothing, it is the most common sashimi in the Tang Dynasty recipes, Fan Yuefeng likes this sashimi when he is in the south of the Yangtze River, so he ordered it for lunch.

But he didn't expect that the cut carp was served on ice.

Now that June is not over, these ice cubes are probably more precious than all the carps themselves.

I picked up a piece of fish carp, and ate it with chopped green onion sauce, and that really aura rushed straight to my Tianling Gai.

But I don't know if it's an illusion, I always feel that eating this fish in summer is really delicious.

"May I ask Jin Ling, why is my fish carp served on ice, is this too extravagant?"

Fan Yuefeng was a little restless. If he became a monk, he might have to say a few more sins.

When Jin Ling heard Fan Yuefeng's words, he shook his head and said:

"Master, you are worrying too much, you are the master representing Jiangnan Agricultural University to participate in the Luoyang game, how can we neglect you.

It's just that this fish carp is a standard item in a first-class room, so it's really not unusual, just eat it, master. "

"I don't believe it!" Fan Yuefeng shook his head when he heard Jin Ling's words, "This is ice, which is rare in summer. Even if you use saltpeter to get it, it is not something that different people can enjoy. At least I can't afford the pieces of saltpeter. ice."

"As expected of the master of my agricultural school, he knows the art of extracting ice with saltpeter, but to be honest, these crushed ice are not obtained with saltpeter, but stored in winter."

This order seriously explained to Fan Yuefeng,

"Since last year, the king of Wei ordered the establishment of large-scale ice storage at all the mouths of the Yellow River north, and organized the people to dig ice when the canals were frozen due to winter snow in winter. , used to cool off in summer!"

"I see." Fan Yuefeng nodded thoughtfully when he heard Jin Ling's words.

But Fan Yuefeng asked again, "But the conscripting of the common people for corvee labor in winter, isn't this a suspicion of laboring the people and wasting money?"

"Master, you came from the Jiangnan University, so you don't know the situation in the north!"

Jin Ling said, "How many ice cubes we send here in winter, they are all recorded.

Until the ice cave is full, how much is sent in will be recorded for you.

At the same time, you will also be given an ice ticket that can take away the ice cubes next year, which is about three deposits and one withdrawal, and the rest will be used as deposit fees.

From May to September, you can come to the icehouse to pick up ice at any time.

With the help of ice tickets, the common people can take them by themselves. If they don’t want to take them by themselves, they can also go to some big restaurants and sell the ice tickets to them directly to make a profit. It also allows the common people to find a living even in winter. "

"So that's how it is..." Hearing this, Fan Yuefeng understood a little bit, but said in doubt,
"If the common people can profit from it, can I wait for Jinkou to sell ice in summer to earn money and food?"

"How should I say it?" Jin Ling pondered, "Wei Wang doesn't seem to mind me selling ice cubes.

Because the king of Wei ordered that the stored ice must ensure that the seafood and meat in Youzhou from Jinkou to Luoyang will not rot during at least May to September.

But each port of excess ice can be disposed of by itself, at least King Wei didn't bother. "

After Fan Yuefeng heard this, he was also amazed.

I can't help but feel incredible that King Wei, who has always had extraordinary means of making money, allowed the local corvee to sell ice cubes in the ice storage.

After all, selling ice in summer is worth a lot.

But Li Tai understands that if something like an ice cave is established, there will definitely be Shuoshu after a long time.

Not to mention that the people from the Agricultural Institute are clean, just kidding, if the people he brings out say that they are willing to work hard, Li Tai will believe it, but if he says that they are as clean as water...

Save yourself, don't look at what kind of goods you are, and what qualifications do you have to ask others to be clean.

To put it simply, Li Tai has two red lines. One is that the cargo ships from Youzhou to Luoyang must not have rotten seafood. As long as there are more similar incidents in a certain area, the medical staff's intelligence system will naturally start to pass it up. information.

The second is that in this world, there may be people who really want to let the people work in the winter, but they don’t exchange the bills for the people in the summer. At that time, you will know if there is any abnormality in the exchange of other bills.

Because ice tickets can be exchanged for food stamps, but Li Tai did not artificially set the ratio of exchange, and adjust naturally according to the market, but as long as there is a problem with the number of exchange tickets in a certain place, the scope can be locked more or less .

And another advantage of the ice cave is that this thing is not like food or cloth, it will burn if it is set on fire.

As long as the higher-ups pursue it, they will be able to find out the matter after all.

Of course, if moths really appear, Li Tai will make a statement first because they are all from agricultural colleges, and they will never implicate the nine clans.

To put it simply, Li Tai has already set aside enough profit margins for each Jinkou ice store.

But if they are still not satisfied, then wait until they have free hands and change a group of people.

Of course, although Li Tai originally planned to replace grassroots officials with students from the agricultural college, if the students from the agricultural college also had problems, he would naturally have to find other people who could replace them.

Now Li Tai is more optimistic about those veterans under Wei Xu who have actually killed people.

Because these people seem to be down and out, but they have fought in the flames of the battlefield, and they have also been nurtured in the fireworks in the city. If they say how capable each of them is, Li Tai won't believe it anyway.

But let them become a pillar-like force at the grassroots level, and they can play a very good role in linking the past and the future. At least in terms of executing orders, they are better than students from agricultural colleges.

It's just that, if possible, Li Tai doesn't want to start this group of people.

After all, this is tantamount to attacking the agricultural college that he established by himself. Even if the agricultural college will gradually rot, or become a school boss or something, Li Tai only hopes that it will not appear while he is alive.

As for his death, it doesn't matter to him.

However, Li Tai didn't charge extra for ice cubes. The most important reason was to revitalize the shipping waterways in the north, and even further strengthen the influence of seafood and fish on inland cities.

After all, I led the people in Youzhou to go fishing, but in the end, the people could only watch the fish rot after catching the fish, or rely on the salt in Youzhou to turn the fish into dried salted fish, which greatly increased the value of the fish. reduce.

But now that there are ice blocks, it is naturally best for the fish caught in the Bohai Sea to be kept alive.

Even dead fish can be preserved in ice cubes and then transported directly to canal cities to increase the sales of marine products in the mainland.

Therefore, in Li Tai's view, the most important thing is to make some money by selling ice, revitalize the entire Grand Canal in the north, and even revitalize his own fishing plan, so that sea fish and marine products can enter the inland market.

Still the same sentence, the Chinese nation is a nation that relies on the land to survive. If the marine economic system cannot form a close connection with the land economic system, it is meaningless to play by yourself and catch fish in the north.

Because as long as the dynasty changes, the marine economic system loses the importance that the upper class attaches to the ocean, and does not form enough economic ties with the lower class, so it will naturally be abandoned by China with the advent of the dynasty change.

On the way from Xingyang to Luoyang, Fan Yuefeng gradually realized that more and more people were going to Luoyang.

Not only the chess players I thought of, but actually besides the chess players who had confidence in themselves, more businessmen around Luoyang wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to sell as much as possible of their goods.

So the more you go to Luoyang, the more you can feel the turbulent flow of people, but so many turbulent people are popular walking on the official road, but they don't feel any crowded feeling.

Looking down, I saw that the land under my feet had been widened and leveled long ago. It was made of an unknown material. When I stepped on it, it still looked quite solid.

Cement, more precisely, earth cement has been made out by Li Tai.

Compared with the standard cement that needs to be mainly developed with calcium silicate, it is naturally much worse, but if it is only used for paving roads, earth cement is enough.

Of course, Li Tai has been conquering things like cement, but the reality is that Li Tai doesn't even know that the main material of cement is calcium silicide!

Although Moke is directly asked to research a building material that is comparable to triadic clay and can be mass-produced...

Well, it would be weird if it could be researched.

This research project has been stuck since its inception. If Li Tai hadn't seen grinding shells as one of the materials for refining cement when he was a child, he might have no direction.

But even so, how to produce cement is not an easy task.

Until he went to clean up the waste water and slag from the ironworks, with the principle that Taoism was the number one producer in the feudal era, Pan Shizheng still surprised him.

Because all sects participated, the Wai Dan faction, which has gradually faded out of history, proposed whether to practice these things into elixirs.

It's not for anyone to eat, it's just to practice first to see what it is.

Then everyone worked together to dry the sewage, mixed it with lime and gypsum powder, and tried to use the alchemy model to remove the chaff and save the essence. As a result, alchemy was not practiced, but soil cement was produced.

Then, Li Tai also opened a soil cement refining plant directly near the steelmaking plant, and used the sewage and waste residue to refine soil cement.

After all, I have only two requirements for cement, one is to be able to play a role in bonding, and the other is to ensure that the land does not grow weeds.

And this kind of soil cement is naturally much worse than the cement I have seen in my previous life, but at least in this era, the bonding speed is much faster than the compound soil.

As for the absence of weeds, since the road was built with these materials, let alone no weeds, even mosquitoes have stopped coming here.

Li Tai also gave Pan Shizheng a new order to study carefully what made the earthy cement come into being.

Li Tai had been thinking about how he should deal with the waste and waste water produced by the steel factory.

But now, as Pan Shizheng unexpectedly produced soil cement, some of the sewage waste is the material of soil cement.

Now I need to get rid of my headaches, where do I get so much waste water to produce soil cement.

Therefore, Pan Shizheng should continue to bring his Maoshan Zong liver to help him find out what the other element other than calcium needed for cement is, and its real raw material.

I believe in Pan Shizheng's strength.

Li Tai has soil cement, even if the output is not much, at least he can repair the main roads around Luoyang.

And now Fan Yuefeng entered the Luoyang Academy by stepping on the road made of earthen cement.

Then look at the brilliant brilliance of a city that is brightly lit until late at night.

(End of this chapter)