Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 128 [Round dining table, armchairs, desks]

"Little girl, it's time to eat."

Lu Bu came to Lu Lingqi's room and found that Lu Lingqi was concentrating on her abacus and doing arithmetic problems.

现在吕铃绮已经能做基本的加减乘除的复合运算，就是一道题中同时拥有加减乘除，比如：12x(456-249)+126/3=?
In addition, Lu Bu also gave Lu Lingqi a few simple problems.That's why I went to Lu Lingqi until now that I haven't finished all my homework.

Lu Bu felt that the appropriate amount of questions should be given every day in the future, so as not to delay the comprehensive development of her daughter's morality, intelligence, body, beauty and labor.

"There is one last homework, it will be finished soon, and I will check it with my father later." Lu Lingqi still buried her head in her abacus, while calculating on the bamboo slips with a pen.In her opinion, using an abacus is much more convenient than calculating on bamboo slips.

Lu Bu observed carefully, Lu Lingqi counted dozens of volumes of bamboo slips used up, and they were all thrown aside, like discarded drafts.

Since Lu Lingqi insisted on finishing the last question, Lu Bu did not interrupt forcibly, so as not to dampen his daughter's enthusiasm. He picked up the questions that Lu Lingqi had done, and the questions were also written on the bamboo slips. There were also dozens of volumes, but only one bamboo slip. You can also write a dozen arithmetic problems.

After checking whether the answers were correct, after reading more than a dozen volumes of questions, Lu Bu was still slightly surprised, because he was not wrong in one question.

Lu Bu continued to check, and not long after, the butler Luo Kun came suddenly. He didn't come to urge Lu Bu to eat dinner.

"General, some of the tables and chairs you asked the craftsmen to make have already been made, and they have just been delivered to the house." Butler Luo Kun reported.

Luo Kun has seen some rough dining tables used in common people's homes, which are square and relatively tall, and the family sits around to eat.This table and way of eating is not popular in the upper class, it is too rough and out of manners.

However, it was the first time for Luo Kun to see the dining table that Lv Bu ordered craftsmen to make, as well as the thing called a "chair", and the things they made were pretty good-looking.

Hearing what Luo Kun said, Lu Bu remembered that he asked a carpenter to make some simple dining tables, chairs and a set of desks for Lu Lingqi.

"Lingqi, you continue to do your homework. Father will give you a gift later." Lu Bu patted Lu Lingqi's head and said kindly.

"Gift! What gift?"

Hearing the word "gift", Lu Lingqi was immediately pleasantly surprised, looking at Lu Bu with a pair of smart eyes, and asked urgently.

"Let's keep it a secret for the time being. Father will pick it up for you right away. And you, just finish your last homework here." Lu Bu smiled and didn't specify what gift it was. He wanted to surprise his daughter.

"Father, get it quickly, I'm going to finish this question soon." Lu Lingqi pushed Lu Bu, telling him to go get the gift quickly.

"Okay, let's go."

In this regard, Lu Bu could only helplessly smile, and then left the room.

The sky outside has completely darkened, and the Great General's Mansion has been brightly lit.The carpenter in charge of making the tables and chairs has brought the tables and chairs to the main hall.

"Meet the General!"

Seeing Lu Bu coming, the six carpenters paid homage to see him.

The leader of the carpenters was a man in his 30s with a mustache. His name was [Gong Shuming], and he was one of the craftsmen recruited by Lu Bu's men when they were in Luoyang.

Lu Bu recruited or captured a lot of craftsmen in Luoyang at the beginning, thinking about it now, how smart this is.

These craftsmen provided a lot of help in making ordnance weapons, agricultural tools, and construction.

Lu Bu didn't know whether this Gongshu inscription had anything to do with Lu Ban, but he was impressed by this person's accomplishments in craftsmanship alone.

Moreover, Lu Bu is considering incorporating Gongshuming into the [Agricultural Department] as the Agricultural Manufacturing Order.

Gong Shuming, like most of the carpenters recruited by Lu Bu, hoped to live a better life in troubled times.But later, he came to Jiaozhou from Luoyang inexplicably, and it took him a long time to react.

Although far away from the Central Plains, left the family.But working under Lu Bu, the salary is good, and more importantly, he feels that he is living a very fulfilling life now.He thought in his heart that after he made some achievements, he could bring his family here.

Compared with the Central Plains, although Jiaozhou is remote and wild, it is safer.

After arriving in Jiaozhou, carpenters such as Gong Shuming were mainly responsible for making ordnance, and then they were busy making farm tools.Now, Lu Bu asked them to make something new, which made Gong Shuming and other carpenters feel novel.

According to Lu Bu's instructions and simple drawings, they made a set of desks and a dining table in a few days.

After the completion, they all feel pretty good-looking, but they don't know what these things are used for.

Lu Bu walked into the main hall, and he nodded habitually in front of the greeting ceremony of the six people.Then, Twilight landed on the table and chairs.

These two sets of tables and chairs were made of mahogany. Originally, Lu Bu wanted to use rosewood, but it was hard to find, at least much more difficult than mahogany.

There is sandalwood in Jiaozhou, but not many people used it and knew it in this era. At that time, mahogany, as a relatively noble wood, was used by nobles.

After careful inspection, the finished products of the two sets of tables and chairs were somewhat different from what Lu Bu had imagined, because of the difference in design style.

But Lu Bu was still very satisfied. The tables and chairs were polished in place, the edges and corners were all handled, and the surface was polished smooth. The manual ones were no worse than the mechanical ones.

The surfaces of the tables and chairs are painted with golden lacquer, which has no peculiar smell, and the lacquering technique is also vivid.

The dining table is round and four-legged, with eight armchairs.Each chair has a cushion, and it has not yet been decided to change it into a fur chair, so we have to use soft cushions to make do with it.

The dining table is generally relatively simple, and the chairs are also simple, and the single room is atmospheric.It's just a desk made for Lu Lingqi, which is a bit complicated.

This desk is about sixty inches high. The lower part is empty in the middle, which is convenient for feet. There are five drawers of different sizes on the left and right sides, two on the left and one on the right.

The desk is about [-] inches long and [-] inches wide.There is a simple two-pronged cabinet behind the desk, which is used to place pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and some utensils.

At the same time, Lu Bu thought about leaving two places for potted plants, flowers and the like.

"Very good, you have done a good job, and this general is also very satisfied."

Lu Bu turned around, looked up at Gong Shuming and the others, and said.

Hearing this, Gong Shuming and others breathed a sigh of relief.Although they have confidence in their skills, the most important thing is to get the approval of the general Lu Bu.

Then, in order to reward Gongshuming and others, Lu Bu offered money and rewards.He also promoted Gongshuming to be the Nongzaoling of the Central Manufacturing Department of the [Agricultural Department], and it was also the Zuo Nongzaoling, with a salary of [-] shi.

Let Gong Shuming be directly in charge of the manufacture, installation and trial of [Windmill], [Ship Wedge], [Ship Mill] and [Water Mill].

Then, Celebrity Lu Bu directly moved the desk to Lu Lingqi's room.

Fortunately, Lu Lingqi liked this gift very much, and hurriedly moved the pen, ink, letter, and abacus to the desk, and then sat on the chair by herself, feeling quite novel.

"Thank you dad, daughter loves this gift!"

Lu Lingqi smiled cutely.

"As long as you like it. It's time to have dinner now, you must be hungry." Lu Bu smiled slightly.

Lu Lingqi touched her shriveled belly, and nodded pitifully.It doesn't matter if I don't mention it, I really feel hungry suddenly.

(End of this chapter)