Li An took a group of brothers to the big backyard, and the craftsmen in the backyard were piling up earthen stoves at the four corners of the wall. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Big brother, are you planning to cook here in the future? Even the earthen stove was built. ”

"Big brother, this kitchen is really big enough, and it's close to the backyard, so it's a lot more convenient to eat, but why should this stove be placed in four corners?"

Kunxiong Feiyu looked at the construction of the backyard and frowned.

Li An smiled: "The kitchen is in the front yard, this is not a kitchen, hehe!" ”

"Big brother, since this is not a kitchen, why are you building so many earthen stoves?"

"The backyard is the largest, the most suitable for growing vegetables, and the eldest brother asked them to build a stove, naturally to grow vegetables."

As soon as Li An finished saying this, not only Kunxiong and Feiyu, but even the craftsmen who were working were all confused, after all, it was difficult to connect planting vegetables with building stoves.

"General, on this cold day, vegetables don't sprout, and even if they can sprout, they will quickly freeze to death, and it will take at least two or three months to grow vegetables."

The craftsman kindly reminded.

Obviously, in the era of Datang, science and technology are still relatively backward, in the winter, the vegetables that ordinary people can eat, generally only radishes can be insured for a long time, like green leaf vegetables, must not be eaten, and the vegetable greenhouse of later generations can solve this problem very well, and what Li Ang has to do now is to build a vegetable greenhouse.

Although there is no plastic film in this era, Datang's silk technology is extremely advanced, and some silk is semi-transparent, which fully meets the needs of light transmission, and can also keep warm, and the performance may not be as good as the plastic film of later generations, but it is not much of a problem to make do with it.

As for the thermometer, I feel good, there is no need to be too accurate, Li Antu is able to eat fresh vegetables, and does not care about the yield, as long as the vegetables can grow in it, once it encounters particularly cold weather, you can light all the four stoves inside with firewood, so that the temperature in the greenhouse will rise, so as to meet the growing conditions of vegetables.

Li An didn't need to explain so much to the craftsmen, just let them build as soon as possible, after building the four stoves, he used the bamboo poles that had been prepared to build a shelf, and then spread the silk on it, in order to increase the air tightness, the silk was coated with a transparent gelatinous substance, and the gaps between the silk were also handled very well by the maids, and the joints were almost invisible, which made Li An very satisfied.

After the silk was spread over the top, a simple vegetable greenhouse was built, and in addition, in order to keep warm at night, enough rolls of grass were prepared on top of the silk, which were rolled up during the day and spread out at night to prevent heat loss.

After the vegetable greenhouse was completely built, the craftsmen continued to go to the back house to renovate the house, while Li An stayed in the newly built vegetable greenhouse to check for possible problems.

At this time, it was the afternoon, which was the hottest time of the day, Li An and the brothers stayed outside the vegetable greenhouse and turned around a few times, and found that there was no quality problem, so they opened the small door and walked in.

"Big brother, it's really warm inside, much warmer than outside."

"Big brother, is it because it's warmer in here, so you can grow vegetables?"

Li An nodded affirmatively: "That's right, it's so warm here, and there is sunshine, vegetables can naturally feed, the area here is at least a whole acre of land, a variety of vegetables, by the way, melons and fruits are also planted." ”

"Ah Lang, do you want to plant it now?"

Li An looked at Zhao Liu, nodded and said, "The seeds have been bought yesterday, go to the front yard and call a dozen people, start planting now, it is estimated that they will germinate in two or three days." ”

"Yes, Aaron."

Zhao Liu answered, and hurriedly ran to the front yard to call someone.

Although Kunlun Nu still can't understand Tang language, but along the way by Hu Shang beaten and scolded lessons, has become extremely obedient, Silla maids are professionally trained, therefore, do not need language communication to let them work, just like the animals in the circus in later generations, can not communicate with humans language, but very obedient, almost do whatever they are told to do.

Zhao Liu quickly led more than a dozen people into the vegetable greenhouse: "Ah Lang, everyone is here, and the seeds and farm tools are also brought." ”

When Zhao Liu left, Li An had already drawn a drawing according to local conditions, handed it to Zhao Liu, and said: "See clearly, this place is divided into more than a dozen small plots, each planting a kind of crop, arrange it!" Let them work immediately. ”

Zhao Liu's mind was still very flexible, and he understood what Li An meant after looking at the drawings, and immediately asked these servants to divide the land into more than a dozen small pieces, and then let each person be responsible for a piece and start working.

Kunlun Nu probably never used iron farm tools, at the beginning stood in the ground without moving, however, they were still very smart, seeing that the Tang people were digging the ground with iron farm tools, they also learned to dig up the ground, although the action was not standardized enough, but it was also qualified.

"Big brother, these Kunlun slaves are really better than monkeys! Haven't taught it yet? It's going to work. ”

"Big brother, these Kunlun slaves were bought for thirty pieces of gold, how many vegetables do you have to grow to recover the cost?"

Ang Lee smiled: "Recovering costs? Big brother has never thought so, these Kunlun slaves are from the African continent, I bought them, in addition to letting them work, but also let them learn the Tang language, which will be of great use in the future. ”

"The African continent, big brother, where is the African continent."

"In the southwest direction of Datang, it is tens of thousands of miles away."

"Oh, it turns out that Kunlun Nu is thousands of miles away southwest of Tubo! It looks like it's a long way off. ”

Li An said with a smile: "There are several kinds of Kunlun slaves, they come from different places, like the kind of Kunlun slaves that are not too black are in the south of Datang, the nearest is only a few thousand miles away from the southern border of Datang, and the farthest is this kind of Kunlun slave that looks extremely black, on the African continent, tens of thousands of miles away from Datang. ”

"Big brother, I heard that there are very few Kunlun slaves, so the price is relatively expensive, is that so?"

Li An shook his head and said: "Of course, Kunlun slaves are not as large as the population of the Tang Dynasty, but it is by no means as few as Hu Shang said, these Hu merchants said so on purpose, so that they can better raise the price and let the Tang nobles pay for it?" ”

"Hmph, these Hu businessmen are really treacherous, they dare to come to my Datang to cheat money."

"Big brother, you just said that these Kunlun slaves are of great use, what are they of great use, can you say it now?"

Li An waved his hand and said: "The time is not yet ripe, and I can't say yet, after a few years, you will naturally know." ”

The reason for deliberately selling off Guan Zi is that Ang Lee doesn't want to say his plan too early, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

The land in the big backyard is still relatively soft, and it only took more than half an hour for more than a dozen servants to dig up all the acres of land in the greenhouse.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Liu asked the Tang servants he had found to scatter seeds, and asked one of them to take three Kunlun slaves to the front yard to fetch water, while the Silla maid returned to the front yard to cook.

Kunlun Nu is very smart, as long as they demonstrate carefully, they will learn it immediately, and they are still relatively satisfied with Li An's mansion, compared to the endless beating and scolding along the way, it is really comfortable to stay in Li An's mansion, in addition to work, they have not been beaten and scolded once, and every meal is full until they are full, and they are also taught to speak and write, which makes them feel very relieved, and no longer have the slightest idea of escaping.

With buckets of well water poured into the land, the work in the greenhouse is completed, and there is no need to water again before the seedlings emerge, only the temperature in the greenhouse can be deliberately used.

Ang Lee spent almost the whole day in the vegetable greenhouse, and only then did he step into the backyard to guide the craftsmen in their work.

The architecture of the back house is the best in the whole village, and all the facilities are very complete, but in the eyes of Ang Lee, a later generation, there are still many things that need to be improved.

It's better that the place is too dirty, and it must be changed to a flush toilet, although there is no such thing in this era, but Ang Lee only needs to draw a drawing, and the craftsman can make it, which is not a difficult task.

In addition, the bathing facilities of Datang are too simple, just a large wooden basin, the surrounding air is cold, and it is not comfortable to take a bath in winter.

Although Ang Lee's body is very strong and will not get sick due to the temperature difference between the bathtub and the outside world, it will still be uncomfortable after all.

After the renovation, it was different, Li Ang asked the craftsman to build a bathroom, the wall of the bathroom is three feet thick, the top is relatively short, but it is also relatively thick, so that the heat can be well gathered, so that the heat of the whole room is not easy to dissipate, and the effect of heat preservation is achieved.

The space of the large wooden barrel is too small, and the whole person is curled up in it, which is really uncomfortable, and instead there is a bath, and the bath is surrounded by a platform that is large enough for people to lie down, so that after soaking, you can rest comfortably on the stone platform, which is much more comfortable than sitting in the wooden barrel.

In addition, it would be more comfortable if there were a few beautiful ladies wearing belly pockets standing next to them and rubbing their legs or something.

Flush toilets and bathrooms are the standard configuration of ordinary families in later generations, and they are also the benefits that should be due to being a traverser, so many traversers have just entered the ancient times and used them, Li An naturally cannot be too backward, this standard must be reached, otherwise, I will be too sorry for myself.

Of course, in addition to the flush toilet and bathroom, the standard configuration of the main house has some tables and chairs, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, the upper class society actually knelt when they got together, and the kneeling posture must be very uncomfortable, you can kneel when you go out as a guest, but in your own home, if you keep kneeling like this, you are too sorry for yourself,

Ang Lee asked the craftsman to build many tables and chairs to replace the original cases and futons, of course, Ang Lee wanted practicality, and vetoed the craftsman's request to carve patterns on the tables and chairs, which made the craftsman misunderstand that Ang Lee was trying to save money, and of course, Ang Lee didn't bother to explain.

The renovation of the main house will take at least three days to complete, including the kitchen, of course.

The renovation of the kitchen is relatively simple, that is, the surface of the dirty earthen stove, pasted with a layer of smooth stone bricks, so that the kitchen is more hygienic, in addition, the place where the firewood is stacked and the stove should be separated, leaving a small door on it, and every time you light a fire, you can hold a bunch of it.

This ensures hygiene and reduces the likelihood of fires.

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In the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty once again summoned An Lushan, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, after the last time he summoned An Lushan alone, Li Longji felt that this courtier was very interesting, that is, quite cute, as simple and cute as a child, and very loyal.

This time, Li Longji wanted An Lushan to meet the crown prince and several important ministers in the court, so that they could get acquainted with each other, so as to facilitate tacit cooperation in the future.

Li Longji sat on the dragon chair, and in the main hall stood several princes such as the crown prince Li Heng and King Qing, as well as Li Linfu and other important ministers of the court.

An Lushan walked into the Zichen Hall with a big belly, first with a squint, and after approaching Li Longji, he immediately became extremely respectful, and trotted to the bottom of the steps, and suddenly knelt down and said: "Pinglu Jiedu makes An Lushan see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live." ”

After saluting, his head was kept on the floor, his buttocks were pouted high, and he waited motionlessly for Li Longji's response.

An Lushan's abnormal scene surprised Li Heng and other princes and Li Linfu and other ministers of the DPRK and China, after all, An Lushan's movements were too indecent, and his head on the floor was pious, but what did it mean to pout his butt so high? Do you owe a beating?

"Anhu'er, didn't I say it last time? See that I don't need to grab the ground with my head, and, ass...... Well, you don't need to pout so high. ”

Li Longji held back a smile and opened his mouth to criticize.

The princes behind Li Heng and the ministers behind Li Linfu all hid their faces and laughed, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud, and their faces were flushed one by one.

An Lushan didn't seem to care about everyone's secret ridicule, raised his head, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty forgives me, when Weichen was in Yingzhou, he thought about being able to go to the capital to see His Majesty every day, and now that he has seen His Majesty, he is so excited, and I don't know why it's like this, hehehe!" ”

After speaking, he had an excited look on his face, as if the second secondary fan of later generations had finally seen the big star in his mind.

"Hahaha!"

The princes and ministers finally couldn't help it, and they all laughed out loud, meeting people who had never seen the world, but even ordinary people, they would not be excited to see the emperor like this, An Lushan's performance was too exaggerated, not at all like the performance of a feudal official.

The people of the Tang Dynasty generally despise the Hu people, and for this reason, most of the princes and ministers feel that An Lushan is a Hu general who has never seen the world, and he has no self-cultivation at all, but Li Linfu and Gao Lishi's faces are a little strange, and they seem to feel that under An Lushan's silly appearance, there seems to be something hidden that no one knows. (To be continued.) )