The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 184 The Champion

Liang Xin proposed to give the cultivator a resounding name: Champion General.

Zhao Ji: "Champion Hou doesn't sound good?"

Liang Xin: "We in the Song Dynasty do not have the setting of a champion."

Zhao Ji: "I am the emperor."

Liang Xin: "Now that the Song Dynasty has it, we will immediately arrange for someone to write a memorial at the court meeting. You are responsible for approving it."

Zhao Ji: "Champion Hou, I like this name."

Liang Xin: "I like it too."

Liang Xin didn't finish. He preferred the latter part, the place where the champion's war horse stepped. Unfortunately, it does not belong to the Song Dynasty now. When Zhongshidao got this title, he either didn't dare to accept it, or he thought about it. How majestic the champion is, can he be more majestic?

Zhao Ji's expression became very happy.

He has reasons to be happy.

Because of Liang Xin, he felt that he was not as afraid of the Liao Kingdom as before.

In the evening, Liang Xin returned home.

Chen Guan was waiting for him.

Seeing Liang Xin, Chen Guan bowed very much, and then uttered three words: "Thief, good thief."

Liang Xin was confused.

Thieves are thieves, and there are good thieves.

Chen Guan said again: "I will be rewarded heavily in the northwest, so I say goodbye."

"Wait, wait a minute." Liang Xin called Chen Guan: "Just in time, I have something to do. Either you can do it, or you can find someone to do it, so you won't bother others."

Chen Guan looked at Liang Xin and didn't answer, but he didn't leave either.

Liang Xin was used to Chen Guan's behavior and didn't mind at all. She continued: "I just talked with the officials. King Cao can no longer grant titles casually. Zhong Shidao is the first to make a contribution in this battle. The officials want to change the title system. I don’t quite understand this matter. I’m sure it’s okay to become a master. Is it appropriate to become a champion and become a champion?”

Chen Guan didn't answer, he was thinking.

Liang Xin added: "Can there be a formal memorial to the great dynasty meeting?"

Chen Guan still didn't speak. After being silent for a cup of tea, Chen Guan said: "The imperial meeting in seven days. Farewell."

"I'll take you."

"Need not."

"I'll give it away."

Chen Guan didn't say anything and walked straight out. Liang Xin still sent Chen Guan to the door. Chen Guan saluted Liang Xin before getting on the donkey, then got on the donkey and left.

poor.

There was no money to buy a horse, let alone a carriage.

Liang Xin stood at the door of her home, feeling very emotional.

Before traveling back in time, he heard that Bao Zheng was an upright official. Later, after reading the joke, he discovered that Bao Zheng was a rich thief and his salary was ridiculously high.

After coming to the Song Dynasty, he calculated the income of officials in the Song Dynasty.

Su Shi was actually not poor. He was a rich man, but the expenses in brothels were too high.

And he was often demoted.

Fan Chunren's family was very poor. As an important official in the dynasty, his salary and income were definitely not lower than Bao Zheng's, but he was still poor.

For this matter, Liang Xin also sent people to investigate.

Starting from Fan Chunren's father, he was very rich but frugal.

In addition to being frugal, he often supports scholars.Before Fan Chunren's father died, he bought more than 1000 acres of land, and all the income was used to build Fan's charity village. Many of the incomes of Fan Chunren, Fan Chunli and other brothers were also used for this.

Besides, this Chen Guan is a smelly and tough person.

Liang Xin arranged for him to be sent to the official position.

After he found out, he directly came to Liang Xin's house and scolded her. After scolding her, he refused to accept the official position with the extra white-collar salary.

On the contrary, Chen Guan's first wife was ill, so Cao Tan arranged for fresh vegetables and some meat to be delivered.Chen Guan accepted it. Although he did not come to thank him, he asked Fan Chunli to thank him on his behalf.

Quite an interesting person.

Liang Xin couldn't help but smile as she thought about it.Is Liang Xin greedy?

Fan brothers, Chen Guan, Chen Cisheng, Li Gefei and so on.

These people knew very well that Liang Xin did not need to be greedy at all. The vegetables grown in Caojiazhuangzi and Huangzhuang were shipped to Bianjing City every day, and the money was collected faster than the money was minted.

Like lettuce, wealthy families have arranged for people to stand guard at the city gate every day, waiting to grab the vegetables.

Spinach, cress, carrots, etc.

It can be said that the fresh vegetables transported to Bianjing from outside the city cannot be transported to the market at all, and they are sold out as soon as they enter the city gate.If the major restaurants hadn't sent people to guard the vegetable carts they ordered early, they wouldn't have been able to deliver it to the restaurant.

This winter, fresh vegetables are more fragrant than oiran.

Liang Mansion, dinner time.

Today's dinner is four dishes and one soup.

Braised lotus root with pork ribs, roasted lotus root slices with meat slices, boiled lotus root slices, and steamed lotus root with glutinous rice.

Liang Xin's eyes turned into nine holes when she looked at the dishes.

"What do you mean?"

Cao Tan said: "Lotus root is cheap."

Liang Xin: "How much money does our family need?"

Cao Tan: "It's not about money. Don't let your servants feel that you are superior to others. Once the servants are arrogant and arrogant, the family will come to an end."

Liang Xin: "You are in charge, and what you say makes sense."

Cao Tan served Liang Xin a bowl of pork ribs and soybean stewed with lotus roots: "Speaking of lotus roots, when I was a child, I always thought that lotus roots were best dug when it snowed, but now I understand."

"What?"

Cao Tan: "If you dig it on a snowy day, the price of lotus root will be three times more expensive."

Liang Xin had always believed that lotus roots should be dug in winter, but now that Cao Tan said this, it made sense.

Cao Tan added: "The Cao family also has a greenhouse, but it can't see light like the current greenhouse. It only has leek and Buddha flowers."

Liang Xin was very curious: "I have heard of Saffron flowers many times, but I have never seen them."

Cao Tan: "Soybean sprouts."

"Ah! Yeah." Liang Xin really didn't expect that it would be like this.

Liang Xin saw the Cao family's greenhouse once. It was a semi-cellar style. It used cow urine and sulfur to ferment the dung to generate heat. When it was very cold, it heated the water in the dung.

For someone like me, it is definitely the first time to directly use a stove and ceramic tubes to increase heat, and to have transparent glass windows to increase sunlight.

Zhao Bijun, who was sitting at the bottom, said at this time: "Some farmers inserted many cut toon branches on the greenhouse floor. If nothing happens, they will sprout around the New Year. I think a plate of toon can be sold for at least [-] yuan."

"It's expensive."

Liang Xin is not complaining about [-] articles.

Before he traveled through time, he felt that toons were extremely expensive.

After dinner, Liang Xin said to Liang Zhong: "Bring one of the iron buckets sent by the weapons inspector."

"Yes."

Liang Zhong went quickly.

The Ordnance Supervision has eleven large workshops and more than 40 small workshops. At its peak, the number of people was more than 4, and the number of people is currently recovering towards its peak.

There is a large workshop in Guangzhou, which is one of Liang Xin’s key ironworks renovation projects.

There are a large number of yellow peaches in Guangzhou and Shinyangjun. After harvesting this season, most of them were bought by Liang Xin and then arranged for canning.

The tin plating process has been around since the Warring States Period.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was thin iron sheet technology.

The Song Dynasty Ordnance Supervisor had the cold forging process and could mass-produce steel, so Liang Xin planned to try to produce tin cans.First, we used ceramic jars to try out the craftsmanship. Most of the items were in jars, and only a few were in tin cans.

A similar process for canning is mentioned in Qimin Yaoshu, but it uses salt to soak the pears.

The new canning process uses sugar water, then steams it over high heat, and then seals it.

(End of this chapter)