Lu Dynasty

Chapter 68
Huang Ming arrived without waiting too long.Huang Ming and we haven't seen each other for more than a year. Seeing me and Abu, I'm so excited.The current Huang Ming is not as thin and ugly as he was on the grassland.In Luoyang, although he was very busy, he ate well, slept well, and being pampered, he gained weight and his skin became fair.

When I saw Huang Ming coming, I hurriedly pulled Abu to salute, after all, he was our uncle!No matter what, I have to give Er Niang some face.Zhang Fei and the others saw that Abu and I stood up to salute, and hurriedly saluted as well.But when Huang Ming saw these burly men behind me, he knew they were brave men.After all, Huang Ming grew up in grasslands where the weak are preyed upon by the strong, and he can tell at a glance whether he is a warrior or not.Those who don't have eyes or think they are brave like those on the grassland have already been killed by someone.

Uncle Huang Ming pulled me and Abu and said, "If you don't get drunk today, you won't go home! Let's go to Jimin Restaurant. There are a few inns behind the restaurant, and you can stay here." Then he said to Guan Yu and the others: "Who are you? Friends of Baxian and Fengxian, when you come to Jimin’s store, you will treat yourself as your own home!” After speaking, without waiting for Guan Yu and the others to be polite, they dragged us to the private room of Jimin’s restaurant.Serve the food and wine, and start to greet us.

Zhang Fei looked at the decoration of Jimin Restaurant and said with emotion: "My dear, this is much bigger than my family property in Zhuo County!"

Abu curled his lips and said disdainfully to Zhang Fei: "You just kill pigs and sell meat, what else do you think, now you know how powerful you are. Big brother has a little idea, and there is such a scale. I didn't know at the beginning Who would say: A certain family has a lot of money, and I would like to donate it to my elder brother to recruit soldiers and horses! Just your little family money is enough to buy hair!" Zhang Fei rubbed his head in embarrassment.

Uncle Huang Ming excitedly took my hand and said: "Baxian, what do you want uncle to say? If you hadn't had the foresight, uncle would not be able to gain a foothold in the big man in his life. When he came to Luoyang, the reputation of those ten servants It's really too ugly. I found Cai Yong from the very beginning, thinking in my heart to build a good relationship with these famous Qingliu and aristocratic families. But you insisted on asking me to bribe the ten servants. At that time, I still blamed you in my heart. Said that you have never been to Luoyang, you don't know the situation at all, and you are still very dissatisfied with your bribery of the ten permanent servants. But those aristocratic families in Luoyang are too bullying, they took my money, got my benefits, and didn't give it to me I was doing things, even making trouble secretly, but it turned out that Shi Changshi helped me! Otherwise, I would not be able to gain a foothold in Luoyang." Uncle Huang Ming said to me with lingering fear.In fact, I knew it was better to find those dead eunuchs than the general.As long as the ten permanent servants are not too outrageous, they will take money to do things and have absolute credibility. This may be the same as their master Lingdi. If Han Lingdi did not become emperor, he must be a good businessman. Sell ​​Jiangshan.And those aristocratic families, what they say is one thing, and what they do is another thing.I'm too lazy to make false claims with them.

I smiled and asked, "Uncle, are the things I want ready?"

Huang Ming said: "That's natural. I dare not pay attention to what Baxian wants? Otherwise, your grandpa will come from the grassland. When it comes to what you want, I admire uncle very much. The cement you mentioned , I have already burned it out. After mixing sand and stone, it is really hard. It is really a good material for building cities and houses, but sand and stone are difficult to get. It is not suitable for large-scale city building. And I have built one in the mountains outside Chang'an. Ubud, the outer wall is all cement. There are a thousand people, even a hundred thousand troops can’t take it down. Ubud can accommodate 5 people, and the center of Ubud is a large Ming granary, which contains 500 million stones of grain and grass I hid the others separately in the granary in the mountains, next to Wubao, but no one knew about them. They were built underground.”

In fact, cement is very easy to fire. When building houses in some remote rural areas in China, if the house is next to a small coal kiln, many people will fire some cement by themselves, and few people buy it.China has been a self-sufficient country since ancient times.Many seemingly complicated things are easy in rural areas.Just like brewing wine, in the city, if you want to drink, you have to buy it.But in rural areas, in some poorer places, almost every household can make wine.When it's a festival, brew some wine at home and drink it for the festival.Although it's local wine, it's made from homemade grains. It's absolutely delicious.
My hometown is an old and poor place. My father and I went back several times to worship ancestors and enter the genealogy.When I got there, I didn't learn anything, but I did learn how to brew wine and burn cement.Because ancestor worship is to build graves, the cement in my hometown is fired in small cement kilns, and some people pay for it.I was the one who helped my father look after the cement-burning craftsmen. My father was afraid that they would cut corners and make my ancestral graves not strong. After all, in my hometown, other people’s graves are all earth graves, and cement graves are rare.

As for wine making, it is even simpler. The Han Dynasty already had a wine making process, and it only needs to be distilled to produce high-quality wine.Don't be too high now, just distill a wine with a high degree of [-] to [-] degrees, which only needs to be distilled two or three times.Think about it later when you need alcohol.After all, troubled times are coming, and food is very important. Before there is a way to increase food production, I can't make high-quality wine on a large scale.And I also asked Huang Ming to send someone to Jiaozhou to inquire about the three-season rice. I remember that there were records of the discovery of the three-season rice in the Han Dynasty, but the emperor's vision was limited and he did not believe and pay attention to it.After all, I studied law in modern times, not agriculture or science.I can only offer a few suggestions and perspectives, and it would be difficult for me to do it myself.

I said to Huang Ming: "Uncle, I have arranged a group of people for you. You divide the Wubao you built outside Chang'an into four areas, and the residents of one area are for the families of craftsmen who will move to Wubao later. One area is used as a place for craftsmen to research and build weapons. Another area is used as a spy training base. You should be the big boss first. The last area is used as a weapon research area. The group of people who will go to your side immediately is from the village of Xu Chu. The people in Xu Chu’s village are all powerful people. You choose the strong ones to form the core Zhuang Ding Let Xu Ding lead them, and they will be treated as my personal guards in the future. Others who are not selected will reclaim some land outside the city, do experiments on grain production, and study how to increase grain production. You can also learn from the women in Xujia Village Choose some people from here to brew high-quality wine!" After finishing speaking, I took out a recipe for brewing wine and some blueprints of brewing equipment, handed them to Huang Ming, and said, "Uncle, let me know when these things are ready as soon as possible, and I will teach you how to prepare them." Use. At that time, you can make a lot of money with these things, but remember, you must do a good job of keeping secrets!"

Uncle Huang Ming nodded, took the prescription and blueprint I gave him and immediately ordered to find a craftsman to make it.

(End of this chapter)