Villager of Daming

Chapter 261
"Quick, cook, I'm going to sleep well after dinner, and sleep until tomorrow morning."

When the people of Xiaqiu Village returned to the village, someone shouted that it was obvious that living in a tent outside was not as comfortable as at home.

The children participate in the cooking together, do it quickly, there are many people, and those who come to help have to eat before leaving.

The people sent by the palace were happy together, they were finally able to go back, and they were very busy in the village.

Livestock, poultry, greenhouse vegetables, beekeeping, picking duck and goose eggs, milking, watching the stove...

The only advantage is that you can drink milk and eat eggs as you like, not to mention the vegetables in the greenhouse, and you can use rice, noodles, oil and seasonings as needed.

Even so, they still want to go back, get used to a certain life, suddenly change, and don't adapt.

So after lunch, the palace staff boarded the boat with a lot of things, and the villagers cleaned up the things in the village again, took a bath, and went home to sleep.

Zhu Wentian ran to the mountain temple, added some lamp oil, adjusted the wick, pulled up the quilt and fell asleep soundly.

Zhu Biao in the palace couldn't fall asleep before dark, and he took the princess to deliver meals to Kunning Palace at night.

Zhu Yuanzhang got the news in advance and didn't go to other places to eat or sleep.

"Father, the first batch of blast furnace iron smelting came out. The required labor and materials, under the same circumstances, the output is five times that of other best smelting methods.

The craftsmen are adjusting and want to increase production, mainly because of refractory bricks. At the same time, the blast furnaces built without refractory bricks produce scrap iron with too many impurities.

The main reason is that if it is too hot, the furnace will not be able to bear it, so it has to lower the temperature.

In addition, charcoal can’t be used to burn, the temperature can’t go up, and the iron ore is best to be beneficiated manually in the early stage, if it is beneficiated…”

Zhu Biao came here to report on the blast furnace. The cost of manpower and materials was the same, and the cost of tapping iron was five times.

As for converter steelmaking, there is no need to try it. Xiaqiu Village has built a small one outside Donghuamen, just go and have a look.

"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang licked the newly inlaid teeth with his tongue: "The ore there is easy to mine, and with the addition of blast furnace smelting, the firearms of the Ming army will increase by half."

"It's just that once the converter is enlarged, the air intake will not work, and the converter in Xiaqiu Village will produce waste such as scrap iron." Zhu Biao was worried again when talking about this matter.

He feels that once the converter is used in large quantities, there will be a lot of scrap iron that cannot be processed and will be wasted.

"Biao'er, write a letter and send it to Xiaqiu Village tomorrow morning." Empress Ma didn't think about troublesome things at all, and handed it over to the expert in Xiaqiu Village to see how the other party would deal with it.

"Yes, I asked Xiaqiu Village. Did someone tell you that the new teeth of the ministers are uncomfortable?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked about the teeth.

"My son has never heard of it. They will never come to tell him about his teeth." Zhu Biao shook his head. He is the prince, not the imperial physician.

"Let's ask tomorrow." Zhu Yuanzhang found out that he really had to ask himself about this matter. Some officials were embarrassed to say that it was still uncomfortable. Could it be that he suffered from having his teeth inserted?

……

At dawn, the villagers of Xiaqiu Village woke up one after another, full of energy, and it was past the usual time for breakfast.

Last night, some people ran to feed the livestock. It was time to work in the spring, and they had to eat well.

Now such a person has not yet woken up, and as soon as he relaxes, he enters the stage of physical recovery.

"Thanks to the fact that I cooked a lot of food at noon yesterday. After reheating it, I eat two meals a day. In Nanjing, it is not as good as at home."

The head of the restaurant is in good condition, directing people to heat up the rice, and some dishes can be put together to heat up, a hodgepodge, and the taste is not bad!
Usually, leftovers from the dinner table are treated in this way, and they are reluctant to throw them away.

Some of the other villagers continued to feed the livestock, and some released the chickens, ducks and geese to find food for themselves outside, and then fed them when they returned.

Just after eating the leftovers, a boat came from the east.

"Zhu Lichang, are you eating? We came out early." Zhu Taiyi smiled all over his face.

"It's all left over from yesterday's noon. You sit down first, and I'll cook two dishes for you alone."

The head of the village felt embarrassed, the villagers were lazy today.

"No, I'm too hungry, that's all. Here, a letter from His Royal Highness the Prince."

Zhu Taiyi delivered the letter, but there was no lacquer seal on it, which made people feel at ease.

After the meal, the head of the village found Hanhan in the sacrificial hall: "The prince said that there is not enough oxygen in converter steelmaking, and there is a lot of scrap iron."

Zhu Wentian took the letter and scanned it: "The converter is used in the village to tap steel quickly, which requires high oxygen, and we don't have any oxygen-making equipment, so we keep blowing it hard.

At present, there is a large amount of steelmaking in Daming, and converters cannot be used. I draw a set of blueprints, use open hearth furnaces, and throw scrap steel and iron into steelmaking.

The best stove is actually an electric stove, don't think about it for now, electricity... is not available at the moment. "

Zhu Wentian knew where the problem was, so he tried to remedy it, and the open hearth furnace was actually not bad.

"Sure enough, I have to move there. Today is a technical problem, who knows what will be tomorrow? The more you get, the more you give."

The head of the village found that the days of peace and stability were fading away, so he said very philosophical words.

"There shouldn't be too many things... right?" Zhu Wentian was not very sure.

"You go to sleep first, and then talk when you wake up." The chief went out with his hands behind his back.

Zhu Wentian really went to bed, and was sleepy after eating. The drawings of the key open hearth furnace were complete sets, and it took several days to draw them.

……

On the first day of February in the fifth year of Hongwu, the big relocation of Xiaqiu Village began.

The imperial court mobilized [-] boats near Xiaqiu Village on the Huangchi River, and every boat was loaded and left.

For the livestock and poultry to be taken away, all the materials stored in Xiaqiu Village were loaded into the ship, and the bamboo fungus and white fungus were placed in layers.

Copper coins, cloth, silver, silver, and bedding at the bottom of the box must also be taken away.

The coffin was left behind, and the village elders prepared it in advance. It was all good wood. Once passed away, it had to be sent back for burial.

There are also bacon, sausages, general beehives, post-fabricated glass, glass mirrors, telescopes, some silage...

Zhu Taiyi and four people helped. If Xiaqiu Village didn't move, it wouldn't be obvious how big the family was.

They found that the sixty boats were not enough to carry them, and this was not all the family belongings. The wine brewed by Xiaqiu Village was still in cellars and had not been moved.

"Master Zhu! Your village is too rich." Zhu Taiyi said to the head of the village.

"Where is the money? The ruined house is worth tens of thousands. The paint over there is no problem? Don't smoke people."

The head of the village is very proud, oops!Our village is really unusual, and we need to hire a lot of people this year.

"Six days ago, all the house was cleaned up, including the belongings inside, and they were grilled with charcoal. The wood of the furniture is all old and good wood, without deformation.

In order to let our village move there quickly, His Majesty paid a lot of money and used 1 craftsmen to work.

The layout of the houses outside the Chaoyang Gate is no different from that of this side. Inside, you feel like the current village.

It's just that the river next to it is a little smaller, and it can't fit a big water truck, so a small water truck was built for it.

There are also silage ponds and dining halls for eating, and the two-story sacrificial hall with three entrances has cornices. "

Zhu Taiyi introduced the situation in Nanjing, and finally emphasized that the sacrificial hall has flying eaves, which is beyond the system.

(End of this chapter)