Villager of Daming

Chapter 1146 The Ungentle Secretary on the Fire Kang

The sun rose again. Gaizhou County officials watched others having breakfast, and they drank sour plum soup.

Yesterday they were so stuffed that they couldn't sleep. They took a walk and took big hawthorn pills, and the doctor massaged their lower intestines.

The newly eaten food is digested in the stomach bit by bit into the intestines, but if the intestines are empty, the digestion speed will be faster.

They pressed it and pricked it with needles. They went to the latrine several times and it felt better. They should have been made to vomit, but they couldn't bear it.

Others are steamed buns stuffed with millet porridge, tea eggs, pork, scallions and leeks.

In fact, everyone ate enough yesterday, including the people in Xiaqiu Village, because they were relaxed and could respond to Tianfu after finishing the matters here.

There is no need to hurry, as long as you wander around the local area slowly and see the actual situation, other problems will be minor problems.

Today, when we look at the auxiliary industries of infrastructure construction, we first go to the brick factory. There is local clay, not to mention coal, for burning red bricks.

The people who worked in the brick factory were the same as those who worked in the mines. They wore masks to protect themselves from dust. Everyone stopped far away, and the dust blew on them.

These bricks are not used to build the city wall because they are not qualified. Green bricks are used to build the city wall. Each green brick is very large. On it is the place where the brick was fired and the record of the supervisor. It is the inscription that was burned when the brick was fired. Part of the bulge.

The current red brick factories cannot produce such green bricks, and the requirements are high. The red bricks are mainly used to make fire beds and build chimneys for the people.

But men sleep with men, they dislike each other, and they have to cooperate so that the quilt can protect the two of them.

There is a room next to it that needs to be opened. Someone is working for a while, then puts down his tools and goes in. After a while, he comes out again, wipes his mouth and wipes his sweat.

It is troublesome for two people to share one quilt, as they have to grab each other's back and wrap up their own side.

There is an empty space between the two people's necks, and the cold wind flows in from there.

What the people urgently need most is not food. There is enough food to eat, but everyone is afraid that winter will come.

If a brick breaks without any movement, follow the words above to check. This is not a dynasty that just finds various excuses and then guarantees peace. If there is a problem with the bricks building the city wall, it will die.

"Your Highnesses, that is a place dedicated to drinking water. It is different from the place where coal is mined. The coal miners bring their own gourds to fill the water. The brick factory is not big, so they built huts in several locations. There is mung bean water in it. salt."

Liu Sheng took the initiative to introduce that the coal mine belonged to the Ming Dynasty and the brick factory was also official.

There is no need to look at the specific brick kilns, they are all built according to the rules, just look at the volume of shipments and the number of bricks that are dried there.

There is no automatic machinery and equipment, and workers are making blanks all at once.

People are on the kang, and a basin of water is placed on the ground. The next morning, the basin of water will freeze. It may not be completely frozen, but at least there will be a layer of ice on it.

In fact, even if there is a heated kang here, it is not very warm to sleep at night. The surface of the kang is indeed hot, but this heat cannot heat the entire room.

It's okay if there's a man and a woman. The worst thing is to hold each other. The best position is for the woman to give her back to the man, so that the woman won't be cold and the man's back will be frozen.

When a person is lying on a heated kang, if his head is exposed, his nose will be frozen, and his nose will be runny due to the cold. The tip of his nose will be red, and his back will be burned and burned.

No matter what the environment is, there are people living here, and life is different from life. Being able to freeze to death in the house every year is life, and sleeping warm every year is also life.

Usually, the head is covered with a quilt, which is directly covered and pressed uncomfortably. Turn sideways, shrink your feet, and try to ball yourself up into a ball, otherwise your feet will get cold.

This is the case in Northeast China where there is a heated kang. I get scared in the winter. The stove goes out and I feel warm under the quilt. As soon as I get out of the quilt...

Even so, having a heated kang is what many people yearn for, especially one made of bricks, which is strong.

If you make a plate out of mud, a big hole will appear if you are not careful, and you are also afraid that rainwater will come in through the chimney when it rains. "We need more wheelbarrows. Is the wood here any good?"

Zhu Xi saw someone carrying bricks on his way, using a wooden frame with bricks stacked on top. He could stack thirty or forty bricks at a time.

This brick weighed five kilograms, and was the standard red brick for Zhu Wentian at that time.

Forty yuan a load, weighing 200 kilograms, can be replaced with a wheelbarrow. It can hold twice as many bricks and is easier to push than carrying forty yuan.

"Wood? There are trees, wood... there is, there really is, rolling logs, big ones, that log is good, it has a small wall, you can throw it back and forth on it."

Liu Sheng was thinking about wood, and suddenly remembered that there were war weapons here in the Yuan Dynasty, including rolling logs.

The chief thought for a while, took out a brochure from his pocket, compared it and said, "There is a red pine forest. It seems that it is suitable to cut it down if it is old."

Zhu Wentian knew what there was here, pine trees, pine trees that had grown for many years. Because they had large pine nuts, they grew normally without human intervention and took decades to produce pine nuts.

This kind of wood is so good that for a while it was used to make sleepers for train tracks and was cut down in large quantities.

It wasn’t until wood became valuable that cement was used.

Everyone knows about red pines, and Liu Sheng is the most familiar with them. He sees them every day. Now when he glances around, he can see tall red pines.

Therefore, everyone's thoughts were not on the red pine that Li Chang was talking about, but on the book in his hand.

"We're finally here. It looks like something big is going to happen here."

The fifth child, Zhu Xi, smiled and narrowed his eyes. He was willing to read this kind of booklet.

Whenever the head of Xiaqiu Village takes out the brochure, it proves that the head has not remembered it and there are too many contents.

The same goes for Xu Da. He wanted to read that brochure. When he was in Nanjing, Yingtian Prefecture, the director had the most beautiful way of taking out the brochure. His Majesty's eyes lit up every time.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin." The chief could actually memorize it by himself, but he felt tired, so he simply wrote down what Hanhan said yesterday and let others read it in a booklet.

This place has plains washed by rivers. The plains are most suitable for growing rice. Places farther away from the water source can grow vegetables.

What to do if there is no water source? Draw water from other places, and then build ditches from high to low, and cooperate with other mountain spring water to form a ditch network that eventually flows into the Hunhe River.

The ditches that transport water are generally two to three to four meters wide and three to one meter deep. Depending on the specific situation, the farther upstream, the wider and deeper they become.

In fact, the water is usually only halfway there, and the water level is not high. The reason why we dig like this is because we are afraid that heavy rain will wash down the upper reaches, and the people on both sides of the ditch will be soaked directly.

A brick house will leave traces after being soaked, while a mud house will leave nothing behind after being soaked. If people don't come out quickly, their lives will be left behind.

Making use of the hilly terrain and the impact of rivers on small plains to lay out ditches requires a hot air balloon to take off and someone to measure the level.

Zhu Xi took the booklet and read it, fascinated, nodding from time to time, telling the other three brothers to hurry up and read it!

"Are there any wild vegetables now? Remember it rained yesterday."

Zhu Xi looked at it and suddenly said this.

Three younger brothers: "..."

Head: "There are mushrooms. Do you want to go into the mountains to pick them up?"

(End of this chapter)