After drinking a banquet of wine until the middle of the moon, the three princes, Shen Yang and others and a group of guards left Yandangji by boat and returned to the Yongchun Palace Manor on the other side, and Yandangji was quiet.

Han Qian stood in front of the riverbank, and the sailboat was far away.

"When Gongzi was drinking with His Royal Highness, that Zheng Hui and Lord Zheng found an excuse to go to the steaming wine room again, obviously ignoring the identity of the county prince's palace counselor and participating in the military, and wanted to steal our family's steaming wine method," Zhao Ting'er muttered dissatisfiedly, "Looking at Zheng Hui's appearance, I thought it was a righteous gentleman." ”

Han Qian laughed.

Zheng Hui, as the core figure of the Zheng family, once commanded the Huangzhou state camp to garrison Xichuan with Huangzhou Bing Cao joining the army, and was talented in all aspects, and helped the three princes to defend Xichuan City with merit and affection, so he was appointed by Emperor Tianyou to serve as a counselor of the county palace to participate in the military, which is indeed an unusual person.

However, no matter what the character, there are its shortcomings, one is that Zheng Hui himself is good at drinking, and the other is that Zheng Jia is the largest brewer in Huangzhou, and he created a new style of steaming wine in the courtyard, how can he not arouse Zheng Hui's interest?

"Childe deliberately wants him to learn our steaming method?" Zhao Ting'er saw that Han Qian didn't care, and asked hesitantly.

"In Jinling City, there are only 167 liquor shops that have the right to sell liquor to large and small shops and private shops in the zoned area, and behind these dozen or so liquor shops are not public, and it is difficult for others to enter. In the past, we could still take advantage of the loopholes in the money shop and use burning knives and wine to offset the profits. And now, even if we have a method of steaming wine, who will we sell it to? Sold to these dozen or so stores with official posts, but the wine brewed by others has enough profits, why buy our wine? What's more, even now, there are not many people in Jinling City who want to be involved with the Junwang Mansion! Han Qian said.

"The Zheng family secretly learned our steaming method, which will help us sell wine?" Zhao Ting'er asked.

"It depends on how Your Majesty will further strengthen His Highness's power." Han Qian said.

"Childe is saying that His Majesty will vigorously promote the children of the Zheng family to enter Beijing?" Xi Ying interjected and asked.

Han Qian said: "That is inevitable, this is something that has been made clear since His Majesty appointed Zheng Hui to serve as a counselor of the county palace and participate in the military. In the past, the weight of me and the Marquis of Xinchang by His Royal Highness's side was too heavy, and this time I didn't have a big reward for my merits, but it really made room for other forces to enter His Highness's side. And at this point, it will continue without His Majesty's personal promotion - Zheng Hui is a smart person. ”

"I understand," Zhao Ting'er suddenly realized, "Gongzi thinks that after the Zheng family enters Beijing, the Zheng family will be able to get the official post of the Zheng family in Jinling, and when the time comes, the Zheng family will sell the new steamed wine in Jinling, and other wine shops will not be able to make new steamed wine, and the new steamed wine in our courtyard will be sold!" ”

"The Zheng family will probably be able to get the official certificate of wine before their children enter Beijing in a big way, or they are already preparing for it," Han Qian looked up at the sail shadow that gradually disappeared into the moonlight, and said, "If there are no realistic interests, how can the Zheng family be able to send their children into Beijing in a big way with only the position of advisor to the military of the county prince's mansion and the unpredictable future expectations?" Of course, this war has devastated the local forces in Jingxiang, and it is also an important factor for the Zheng family's children to enter Beijing in a big way. ”

Xi Ying couldn't help but shrug his nose, when others were still thinking that Han Qian was haunted by Emperor Tianyou's widowhood, who would have thought that this guy was already calculating that Emperor Tianyou might make a move next.

When the shadow of the sail was completely submerged in the night, Han Qian stood in front of the river bank and instructed Zhao Laoqi to say:

"Let all the prey given by Your Highness be divided among the night; Remember to leave a copy for Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Lin Haizheng. ”

This afternoon, Han Qian accompanied the three princes to hunt eight moose and two wild boars, in addition to eating part of the night banquet, there were more than 2,000 catties of meat, and the three princes rewarded them together.

Tian, Gao, and Lin are currently living in Lanting Lane with their families, and they did not live with Han Qian to Yandang Rock Grange, mainly because they were afraid that they would delay too much time on the road every day in and out of Jinling City - Han Qian could spend one or two hours a day riding in and out of Jinling City, while Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Lin Haizheng mainly stayed in the county king's mansion to take care of the specific affairs of Jinyun Tower for Han Qian, otherwise Han Qian would not be so idle.

Zheng Tong stayed in the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard to ensure that the workshop could continue to operate.

Han Qian asked Zhao Laoqi to send an additional copy of the prey given by His Royal Highness, in addition to the soldiers and slaves in the grange, to Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and Lin Haizheng.

Zhao Lao Qi responded: "Lao Qi is relieved, on such a hot day, the meat can't be kept for long, take the salt and soak it first, and send someone into the city tomorrow." ”

He counted the Han family's manpower in Jinling, counting the upper part, dependents, and slaves, plus the Xi boys, boat gang Wuwei and sailors who stayed in Jinling with Zhao Wuji, Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer and others, there were also 1780 people of all sizes who wanted to open their mouths to eat.

Han Qian was about to go back to the village with Zhao Laoqi and Zhao Ting'er's father and daughter first, when a dark shadow approached in the southern path.

The two Xi teenagers touched the side of the road, but after a while, they saw that it was Du Yijun and Du Yiming, two brothers who rode a donkey together and rushed back in the dark.

Seeing Han Qian still standing by the pond so late, Du Yijun called out excitedly:

"My lord, we've found a way to make the blister! I flipped to the Zhilan Collection written by Chen Zhou, the former assassin of Yuzhou, in Jinyun Tower, and there was a drawing of the brine cylinder in it, and we drew it. ”

Han Qian motioned to take a torch from the left and right to shine it.

A few days ago, Han Qian discussed the method of drawing water with his craftsmen, Du Yijun was also full of poetry and books since he was a child, he heard his father say that Sichuan and Chongqing and other places dug salt wells, can use a kind of bamboo tube to go deep into the ground to draw salt brine, but he can't remember the specific construction method of this bamboo tube at this time.

Han Qian's collection of books that he moved into Yandangji was limited after all.

Although he didn't have the means to go into the Hongwen Pavilion to rummage through the materials at this time, there were tens of thousands of books in the Jinyun Building that Emperor Tianyou had given to the Junwang Mansion.

Han Qian took Du Yijun and Du Yiming to Jinyun Tower, and asked them to rummage through the books to see if there was any record of this kind of brine cylinder, and at the same time asked them to copy all the books they saw related to workmanship.

Unexpectedly, the Du family brothers found the method of making the brine cylinder today, and at the same time, they were too indulged in it, and missed the time to go out of the city, so they temporarily turned back to Gao Shao to help them get out of the city, and it was already late at night when they rode back to the grange on a donkey.

Han Qian took over a stack of paper copies that the Du family brothers had copied today, and the drawing of the method of making the halogen cylinder was directly on the first page.

Shining on the torch flickering and looking at the past, Han Qian couldn't help but pat his head and shouted, "I'm such a fool!" Feng Qi must also use this method to inhale and puff up, I didn't even think about it! ”

Seeing that Han Qian was shocked, Xi Ying and Zhao Ting'er also came to Han Qian's side to look at the schematic diagram copied by the Du family brothers.

The schematic diagram was too sketchy, and Xi Ying didn't understand what the reason was for a while, and asked:

"How does this method draw brine from the ground?"

Zhao Ting'er has been by Han Qian's side for a long time, and he has also been taught by Han Qian most seriously, seeing that Xi Ying didn't understand it for a long time, he proudly pointed to the Fa Diagram and explained:

"You can see that the cowhide attached to the inside of the opening of the bamboo tube is the key. Heavy objects are lifted under the cylinder, and the empty cylinder is immersed in the underground brine, and the brine pours in from the opening, and the cowhide is washed away, and the bamboo tube is poured in. When the brine is filled and the bamboo tube is lifted, the brine will hold the cowhide tightly against the opening from the inside, so as to seal the opening, and the brine will not leak out - to put it bluntly, the cowhide attached to the inside is a one-way valve. ”

Zhao Ting'er was wearing a tulle half-arm skirt, with a faint body fragrance on her body, which smelled very good, and she deliberately flaunted Xi Ying, and her arm unconsciously stuck to Han Qian's arm, but it was very cool.

If it weren't for the presence of her father, Zhao Laoqi, Han Qian would have wanted to take Zhao Ting'er's arm in his hand and feel the coolness carefully, but at this time he just praised her and said, "It's so smart." Let's go to the refining room and take a look at a wind trap, there must be a similar trap on the inside of the wind duct, believe it or not? ”

As Han Qian spoke, he dragged Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying back together, eager to dismantle a wind hoister on the spot to verify his guess.

"That's it, why do you need to be so excited to open a wind hoister on the spot to check it? How much work does it take to build a wind tree, Ming'er will find a master who can make a wind tree and ask, isn't it? Xi Ying felt that Han Qian was a little too fuss today, and he didn't know that a small wind tree could make him excited like this, so he glanced sideways and said.

Xi Ying didn't know the flap structure of the brine cylinder and the air scoop, and what Han Qian stabbed in his heart was the window paper of the trolley bellows and the fierce fire oil tank!

The wind lobe is quite easy to destroy, and there is a casting room to be built here, although Han Qian nominally cleared the account with Zuo Si, but if he wants to take a few more wind caws back for backup, no one dares to say anything?

I ran to the forging room and dismantled a spare air blower - this is also a blower used for smelting and other things from the Han Dynasty - and saw that there was indeed a flap mechanism similar to the one on the inside of the air intake pipe.

At this time, Chen Jitang also came over to talk about the progress of the construction of the walled house, and Han Qian called him, the Du family brothers and the craftsman in charge of the forging room of the Han family to his side, and said: "You look at the structure of the wind and the brine tube, according to this principle, you should be able to use wood to build a pull-out blower and water drawer, I don't know which of you can think about it in the past two days?" ”

Chen Jitang, Du Yijun, Du Yiming, and many Han family craftsmen all stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to think about it in order to build the blower box and water drawer that Han Qian expected.

Chen Jitang has been demoted from the son of an official eunuch to an official slave for nearly ten years, and he has long learned to combine what he has learned from his profound family with reality to solve problems, but the time that Han Qian gave them is too short.

Compared with Chen Jitang, Zhao Qi loves to dance and play with guns since he was a child.

The twelve official slaves and maids to which Yandang Rock Grange belonged were actually Chen Jitang and Zhao Qi who were relegated to slavery after the defeat of Yuezhou.

The Du brothers were even more dumbfounded, although they had accepted the cruel fact of being slaves, but three or four months ago they were still the children of the eunuchs who chanted poems all day long, although they had been by Han Qian's side for nearly two months, they could be regarded as having gained some knowledge and changed some thinking habits, but in terms of learning from the world, they were far from being able to compare with Chen Jitang, and where did they have the confidence to figure out a new type of bellows and water drawers in two days?

Han Qian threw the problem to Chen Jitang, Du Yijun, and Du Yiming, and took Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying back to the courtyard to rest.

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