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A few days have passed, and the tap water in the Qinghe Courtyard has been completely rectified, and the water hoses have been installed in place.

Under the joint cooperation of Gao He and Tang Ting, although the two do not know what kind of production process enamel is, after all, they are masters who deal with glass porcelain high-temperature coal furnaces, after two consecutive days of research, use Guanyin soil and glass slag and add some iron powder to burn into a molten mixed liquid substance in the crucible, and then put the red-hot steel faucet into it to soak it and then fish it out, and then gradually annealing and cooling, and finally the surface of the faucet will form a gray-brown translucent vitreous solidification layer, which is very smooth to the touch. It also has the dual feeling of glass and porcelain, but this curing layer is not very strong, and it will be damaged when touched by hard objects, but it is much better than completely bare steel, at least it is not easy to rust.

Zhang Cang has taken a group of craftsmen back to the Academy of Sciences to summarize the experience of tap water construction and installation, and is ready to compile a total of tap water installation manuals, and at the same time, according to Chen Xu's instructions, design a complete set of standard specifications for tap water pipes and various interfaces, and promote the standardized installation and operation of tap water installation in the future.

The tiles of the swimming pool were all pasted, and after a few days of drying, the water was filled in, and the clear blue water of the pool was set against the backdrop of the snow-white tiles, so that all the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and the Inner History Mansion who participated in the construction were amazed, and the eyeballs almost fell into the pool and could not be fished out.

No one could find any more words to describe the appearance of this swimming pool than to use a single American word.

The completion of the swimming pool also marks the completion of all the projects of the Qinghe Annex, and after the finishing work of cleaning up the messy things such as masonry, mud and sand, the entire annex appeared in front of Chen Xu with a new look.

The weather was hot, Chen Xu stood by the pool and looked at the clear and clear water, couldn't help but take off his coat three times and five times, and jumped into the pool with a puff in his big pants.

And a group of officials and craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry all watched with their eyes at the little marquis who was in various strange dog planing postures and kept swallowing saliva.

The swimming pool is as beautiful as the Asgard Yao Pond, and the weather is so hot, everyone can't wait to jump in and take a good dip.

"Haha, cool, everyone come down and have a swim!"

After Chen Xu swam back and forth twice, he found that a circle of people by the pool were eyeing him, all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred looked at him, so he waved to the shore, so a group of officials and craftsmen who had been waiting for a long time to stretch out their claws all took off their clothes and jumped into the pool in their crotch cloths.

"Lord Hou, Master Hou, someone from the palace has come to pass on the emperor's edict, so that you can go to the noon dynasty to discuss state affairs!" A steward in charge of communication in the Hou Mansion hurriedly came and stood by the pool to report loudly.

Chen Xu looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, it was already past noon, only half an hour before the afternoon court, and after soaking in the pool for half an hour, he also felt cool and comfortable enough, so he got up and got dressed, and a group of officials and supervisors could only reluctantly get up from the pool.

Back at the Qinghe Hou Mansion, Chen Xu instructed the housekeeper to arrange for the servants to go to the Qinghe Courtyard to clean and tidy up the courtyard rooms, and at the same time transport mats, bedding, mosquito nets, firewood, rice, oil, salt, firewood and grass and other necessary things for daily life, so as to prepare for moving in.

With tap water, with a swimming pool, although the house has just been newly repaired, it is a natural wood and stone structure, and the furniture is also made of dry wood, arranged to be hand-built by the best craftsmen in Xianyang, there is absolutely no formaldehyde, you can live in it at any time, Chen Xu naturally wants to live in it as soon as possible, so that the water is gentle and you don't have to take the two little girls Xing'er and Yu Ji to swim outside the city in the scorching heat every day, not to mention that in their own home, the water is gentle and a group of little maids can also swim in cool silk swimsuits, I don't have to worry about being seen by others anymore, and I can see a large group of wet little beauties, isn't it beautiful......

So Chen Xu drooled and went away.

At present, it is the end of May, more than ten days have passed since the great victory of recovering Henan and Hebei, and the summer grain harvest has begun across the country, so the recent discussion in the court is the summer grain harvesting situation, as a great agricultural civilization, from the emperor to the farmer, the most important thing is the food problem.

A large number of supervisors, grain officials and imperial historians of the Shaofu, the Ministry of Households, and the Supervision Province left Xianyang every day under the scorching sun and torrential rain to go to the counties of the world to supervise the harvest of summer grain, especially after the nest case appeared in Wancheng last year, this year the emperor specially asked the six departments of the three provinces and the Inner History Office to strengthen the supervision of officials in various places, so as to avoid collusion between officials and businessmen to steal and sell grain in the warehouse, and at the same time to urge the new grain tax to be put into the warehouse.

Chen Xu has not been to the court for almost half a month, and after entering the court hall, many officials expressed their most sincere welcome to this little marquis who has not seen the head and tail of the dragon, and at the same time they all looked at Chen Xu with the eyes of a monkey.

Chen Xu's face was light and light as usual, and he walked to his exclusive chair with a smile and arched his hands all the way to sit down, and soon after, with the messenger's communication, Qin Shi Huang walked out in the apse in court uniform, and sat down on the dragon chair with big sleeves.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!" The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all stood up and bowed respectfully.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated!"

After a small uproar after the chair collided, all the officials sat down, and Qin Shi Huang also picked up a few folds on the imperial case and began to deal with it.

"Do you Aiqing have anything important to report?" Qin Shi Huang raised his eyes and swept the entire hall.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a play!" An official of the household department stood up.

"Accurate!"

"Your Majesty, yesterday the minister received a letter from the supervisor, Qi County and Dong County were hit by a heavy rainstorm ten days ago, causing floods, extensive destruction of farmland, millions of acres of wheat and millet were almost no grains, more than 100,000 farmers were affected, houses along the river were washed away, people and livestock were swept away by the river, according to the statistics of the two counties, the population lost thousands of people, and tens of thousands of livestock were swept away by the flood......

Some people shook their heads and sighed, and some people were expressionless.

Nowadays, the management of Great Qin is no longer the original princes of the Qin State who lived in the bitter cold land in the west, but dozens of counties in the seven countries of the world, so all kinds of droughts, floods and insect disasters emerge in endlessly, although Qin Shi Huang arranges a large number of craftsmen and convicts to repair and build a variety of irrigation and drainage ditches and various water conservancy facilities every year, but in front of nature, any majestic and slight is so small and powerless, looking at the pouring rain, looking at the sweeping flood, anyone can only watch the ripe crops being swept away by the flood, Houses were washed down and livestock were drowned, but there was no other way but to cry and cry to the sky.

Even in the next 2,000 years, storms, natural disasters and man-made disasters are still inevitable, and in the summer, there are cities everywhere looking at the sea.

"Your Majesty, the two counties have suffered from floods, and millions of stones have been lost in summer grain, so I ask Your Majesty to decide how to deal with the summer grain tax and whether to postpone the harvest of autumn grain......

Qin Shi Huang's face became extremely cold, and there was an incomparable silence in the court.

It is reasonable that disasters occur every year, but a flood with such a large area and such heavy casualties has never occurred in Daqin.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say!" Chen Xu, who had been sitting quietly and never made a sound, stood up.

"Aiqing, please speak!" Qin Shi Huang nodded slightly.

Chen Xu saluted to Qin Shi Huang, and then swept his eyes over the hall and said, "The two counties have suffered a catastrophic flood, and the current matter of taxes and grains is not the main thing, but we should appease the victims as soon as possible, arrange craftsmen to guide the victims to rebuild their homes, arrange doctors to prevent and control epidemics, and ensure that they can live under the catastrophe, both sides of the river have always been the main cultivation areas of my Great Qin, densely populated, and some people will have everything, if a large number of victims starve to death and die of disease, there will be no taxes and grain to collect next year even if the wind and rain are smooth, not to mention such a catastrophe, Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to send an edict to the two counties, so that the counties in the disaster area can open official warehouses to distribute grain to the disaster victims, and at the same time collect clothing, tools, grain and livestock from all over the country and send them to the disaster area to help the disaster victims tide over the difficulties......"

Before Chen Xu finished speaking, there was an uproar in the court.

"Marquis of Qinghe, the official warehouse is tax grain, which is used to support the rations and stipulations of conscripts, craftsmen, soldiers and officials, how can it be used to help the victims, this matter has never been done since ancient times!" Tobe ordered Gao Teng to stand up and said.

"What Lord Gao said is good, the grain of the official warehouse should not be lightly allowed, but such a serious disaster, I am afraid that the tax grain in the summer and autumn will not be collected, Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the grain tax in the summer and autumn in the disaster areas of the two counties be exempted, and at the same time, it was passed on to the local officials to distribute tools to guide the victims to build houses......," an official stood up and said.

"Yes, more than 100,000 households affected by the disaster, just to support the summer grain harvest next year, it will take a whole year's rations, even if each household subsidizes ten stone of grain, it needs at least one million stones, accounting for almost half of the reserves of the granaries of the two counties.

Many officials in the court stood up one after another to refute Chen Xu's proposal, mainly in this era when food is king, food is everything, everyone knows the importance of food, and even if Daqin harvests tens of millions of stone of grain every year, it still feels stretched and unable to support it, and there is a food shortage in many places.

So only when the grain is in hand will the local officials feel safe, and once the granary is empty, everyone will feel empty and insecure.

Chen Xu didn't pay attention to these officials who jumped up and shouted, but said to the emperor with a serious expression: "Your Majesty, the king regards the people as the sky, and the people take food as the sky. All the people in the world are His Majesty's people, His Majesty is the lord of the world, but also the lord of all the people, if the people can not support the king, it is the shame of the people, but if the king can not let the people feel happy without worrying about food and clothing, it is the shame of the king, the courtiers are favored by the king to enjoy glory and wealth, if they can not solve problems for the king, then it is the shame of the courtiers, the tax grain is taken from the people, should be used for the people, today the initial decision, but the people of Qilu are not stable, if the disaster victims cry and cry to fend for themselves, how can Your Majesty collect the hearts of the people of the world, If Your Majesty does not help them, they will have only one way to go except to die of sickness and starvation......"

"Where?" Qin Shi Huang was slightly moved.

"Rebellion!" Chen Xu spit out two words with a calm face.

"Wow" The court was in an uproar in an instant.

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