Villager of Daming

Chapter 685 Food Preparation Urgent Parts Manufacturing

After finishing the mutton soup at noon, Zhu Yuanzhang went back to find a cool place to rest. The medicinal wine he drank was white wine, and he would be thirsty afterwards.

So he took a boat and wandered around the artificially expanded natural lake in Xiaqiu Village, accompanied by Queen Ma and Sun Guifei. Sun Guifei could not go to eat together before.

"Xiaqiu Village will coax the children, and they all go to bed after eating, and they sleep soundly."

When Concubine Sun talked about her children, she never argued with Empress Ma, nor did she dare to argue, and they got along very harmoniously.

"That's tiring. People in Xiaqiu Village take their children to play, and some of them close their eyes while eating. This is a good idea!" Queen Ma knew the situation.

Some children are naughty while eating, but the maids and eunuchs dare not take care of them. The concubines in the palace do not know how to take care of children.

As a result, when we arrived at Xiaqiu Village, we didn’t need you to be naughty. We first took you to play hard, and by the time it was time to eat, the children were all exhausted.

Have you ever seen someone eating with their eyes closed and their mouth open?There are many here.

After eating, I went to sleep without any fuss.

Living in Xiaqiu Village, the little ones only wet the bed and don't wake up crying in the middle of the night, because the people in Xiaqiu Village will consume the baby's energy in advance.

If the baby wets the bed, someone will guard it. When the baby urinates, immediately move the basin next to it and change it while washing it with water and wiping it clean.

How tired is the baby during this process?I wake up when I wet the bed, then someone takes care of me, and I just close my eyes and fall asleep.

According to Xiaqiu Village, if your baby is not sleepy, don't put him to sleep. Playing with him can exercise his body and improve his intelligence.

The key is to talk a lot while playing. The little ones will listen to others and then try to imitate and learn.

When the baby is awake, playing with it will promote the baby's physical development. If someone is talking all the time, especially when the same word is repeated, the baby will follow suit.

Are children who talk, walk, and run earlier than other children necessarily smarter than others?That's not necessarily the case.

But if the nutrition is sufficient and the baby is educated in this way, his success rate will be higher than other babies.

Including height, exercise, nutrition, and sleep environment can affect the baby's subsequent height.

This is true for raising livestock, not to mention people.

Both men and women in the two families are about the same height. If one family provides the baby with adequate care, nutritional intake, and exercise arrangements, the baby will grow taller than the other.

Of course, if you exercise too much, it's over.

"Tomorrow we will go see the big Kongming Lantern. There will also be a watch there. Sister Sun, you can keep it."

Queen Ma also talked about watches. She had two watches before, one for Chongba and one for herself. Sister Sun didn't have any.

Queen Ma made a request to Xiaqiu Village, and Xiaqiu Village created another one.

"A watch is a good thing, but I wonder if it can be sold for [-] yuan?"

Concubine Sun glanced at the watch on Queen Ma's wrist and showed envy. Now there are only two in the world.

Empress Ma smiled faintly: "If the Yi people use it for themselves, they will not be willing to buy it. They are willing to use the money to build ships, buy goods, and transport Ming Dynasty goods in exchange for things back to continue to make money.

They have kings, tribal leaders, and leaders of whatever religions they believe in. If these people can't deal with it, how can the barbarians who came to do business go back to do business?
As long as they buy the watch and contribute it to the higher authorities, the higher authorities will reward them with more money.

One hundred thousand guan is one hundred million Wen, which sounds like a lot, but actually look at Nanjing, it is just the normal monthly income of one hundred thousand people.

How many people did the Ming Dynasty use to build the Central Capital?For their own enjoyment, they can exchange everything that hundreds of thousands of people work to produce. Concubine Sun nodded repeatedly: "From what the queen sister said, one hundred thousand guan is indeed not much. There are many people there, and there are more gold, silver, and copper mines than in the Ming Dynasty. The mines in the Ming Dynasty are not easy to mine." "

“They have more grain, harvesting three crops a year, as well as pepper and other medicinal materials.

The Ming Dynasty now needs to reserve more food. Even if the masters can look at natural disasters, when encountering floods in Sichuan, the land cannot be cultivated except taking away people and livestock.

Or if there is a drought for several consecutive years, the water level in the well drops to the point where there is no water to draw, and there is no grass roots or tree bark. "

Empress Ma expressed Zhu Yuanzhang's anxiety. If he wanted grain, he should first build a warehouse to store it. When the people collected the grain and bought new grain, the warehouse would release old grain that was more than three years old and sell it.

There are not many reserves now, or in other words, only Yingtian Mansion has some reserves. Otherwise, when famines occurred in Shandong, Henan and other places in history and people starved to death, it would have been impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang not to release grain.

Historical records record: In the fifth year, there was a great famine in Jinan, Dongchang, and Laizhou. The grass was full of bark and there was no food left.

It is guaranteed that many people starved to death, even last year, and this year according to historical data, but it did not happen. The people survived the drought, and the locusts could not get up.

This proves that Zhu Yuanzhang had just founded his country and lacked everything. He had used up everything in the war.

The current fiscal revenue and population are different from those in history, and the Ming Dynasty has avoided disasters again and again.

Even if the land in Sichuan was washed away, Zhu Yuanzhang still had food available and asked the people to quickly plant vegetables for harvest next spring.

"Next year Lianghu and Guangdong will grow grain, and the big machine in Xiaqiu Village is easy to use." Sun Guifei said something that made people happy.

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The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still on vacation, got up late.

When he didn't go to court, no one called him while he was sleeping soundly. To calm his nerves, he probably also gave some psychological suggestions, otherwise his biological clock would wake him up.

The most punctual ones are the palace maids and eunuchs. If someone is late in the third shift, he will be beaten to death, unless he is sick.

Children are also sleepy. Five hours of sleep a day is not enough. They have to catch up on their sleep in the afternoon, and babies will fall asleep at any time.

"What time is it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked Concubine Sun who got up first.

Concubine Sun raised her wrist to look at the new watch she just got today: "It's nine-twenty."

"Nine-twenty is... the first quarter of the year?" Zhu Yuanzhang did some calculations and came to a conclusion.

In fact, the hours and quarters are written on the dial, which is calculated according to 96 quarters in a day.

It's just that noon time coincides with Zi time. At night, the time is counted on the big circle, and during the day, the time on the small circle is read.

At present, fluorite is not used to make it. In the future, craftsmen will add fluorite to make it, which will shine under the sun during the day and shine at night. It will feel precious when you look at it.

When Zhu Yuanzhang got up, he first went to the toilet, took a shower, washed his hair, brushed his teeth...

After struggling for more than half an hour, at ten o'clock, he took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "Let's go out to find people in Xiaqiu Village with lunch."

When Zhu Yuanzhang found the chief, he was inspecting the clock factory. The craftsmen were using loupes to make parts, all by hand.

For the parts made by skilled watchmakers, other people make clocks. Each craftsman is only responsible for the parts he wants to make and does not understand the situation of others.

"I got up late in the morning. Let's go down and look at the big Kongming Lantern. What's for lunch?" Zhu Yuanzhang watched the craftsmen busy, went in and walked around for a while before coming out.

(End of this chapter)