Chapter 45 Burning Stones

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong went over the mountain and entered the villa, and Shen Yang asked Han Qian to take everyone to see the site of the lime kiln at this time.

The lime kiln is located in a creek below the Grange, where the terrain is low and the water flow is gentle, allowing boats to enter directly from Chishan Lake.

There were originally seven or eight houses living here, but they were all moved out in the past two days, and seven or eight houses were empty. There is also a three- or four-acre barn field, and the place is quite empty.

In addition to the lime kiln, a large area of land can be leveled outward, Han Qian walked around, and secretly felt that the villa could concentrate on building a large-scale craftsman here.

The Cantonment Military Mansion of the Dragon Bird Army was just south of the mountain villa, and it took a lot of tools to build houses and embankments on the north beach of Chishan Lake in the future.

Even if the Dragon Bird Army is really formed, it is unrealistic to expect the treasury to allocate the armor and combat equipment and even the generals' robes, and the main thing is to purchase or produce it on its own side of the cantonment military government.

Han Qian thought about building some workshops in the villa, which was still promising.

Han Qian didn't have the luxury of being able to get his hands on the Dragon Sparrow Army's military power now, but he had to find a way to suck some blood from the Dragon Sparrow Army, so that he wouldn't take such a big risk to donate the "Epidemic Water Sparse".

How did others know about Han Qian's little calculations?

Fan Xicheng hired several stone-burners from Jiangcheng County, all of them were dark and thin little old men, their faces were wrinkled like old bark, and when they saw Shen Yang and other adults coming, they were so nervous that they couldn't even speak, and it took a while to figure out how they built a kiln to burn lime.

Han Qian has been reading "Examination Records" and "Gu Ming Medicine Compilation" these days, which all mention the method of burning lime, but the description is very brief.

Han Qian read the book and thought that the people of the world would be concise and annoying, but after asking the five stone-burners invited by Fan Xicheng, he knew that the means of burning lime in the world were extremely primitive.

Use stones or yellow mud to build a stove, spread a layer of firewood and a layer of blue and white stone in the stove, add two to three layers of base, smoldering for a day and night, and then you can take it; Even more rudimentary, it is to dig a pit in the ground and pile firewood and stones.

According to the experience of these stone-burners, each person can burn about thirty or forty loads of lime a year to make ends meet.

Don't talk about Han Qian, Shen Yang frowned when he heard this.

According to the epidemic water sparse, in order to control the epidemic, so many infected and hungry people, the camp is more than ten miles wide, and a large number of lime must be used to kill the Gu poison in the ditches and feces, and there are no 30,000 or 40,000 quintals of lime every year, which is not the best use.

To use this traditional method of burning stones, it would take almost a thousand stone-burners to do it, but now that we can gather 30,000 or 40,000 hungry people, even if we can pick out thousands of strong laborers who can do heavy work, there is no need to do anything else?

"Build a big stove! Quarrying and other things are all full-time. Han Qian said.

At that time, the workshops of salt and iron industries were already quite large-scale.

Under the Left Colonel of the Junior Mansion, there were more than 2,000 iron craftsmen and slaves to make weapons; In the salt factory set up in Hailing, there are more than 20,000 salt households specializing in boiling salt.

These two can already be said to be primitive industrial systems, and lime in the world in addition to being used as medicine, only a very small number of luxury, will be used to paint the garden, the demand is very small, so there is no large-scale lime kiln, but not impossible.

Although Zhai Xinping, the person in the dream realm, did not have the memory of burning lime, Han Qian thought that the general direction would not be wrong.

Several stone-burners looked at each other, the stone-burning skills they knew were all passed down from generation to generation, where can they say that they can change it?

It's just that in front of Shen Yang, Guo Liang, Han Qian and others, several stone-burning kilns didn't dare to say a word, but just stood up and didn't know how to respond.

And even if they were willing to obey Han Qian, they didn't know how to build the so-called "big stove".

Seeing that Shen Yang also looked over, Han Qian took this matter under his head and said, "I've been recuperating here in the villa for the past few days, and I'll figure out a way to build a stove." ”

Han Qian didn't feel that it was a cheap business to start presiding over the construction of a large stone stove; Besides, if he doesn't take care of it, he can't calm his father's heart, and he doesn't know what kind of moth his father is going to make.

Han Qian said that he was still sick, and Shen Yang just smiled slightly.

Thirty or forty thousand hungry people infected with the epidemic are in a mess, and they have to sort out their clues, even if they can't officially leave Han Qian in the military government, Han Qian will stay in the villa at this time to "recuperate", and he will take on the matter of building a kiln, which is also a good thing for Shen Yang.

Although it was rumored in the imperial court that Han Daoxun's only son did not learn and did not know how to learn, he had been teaching in the Linjiang Marquis Mansion for the past three or four months, and the three princes Yang Yuanpu, Feng Yi, Li Chong, Kong Xirong and others were like falling clouds, only Han Qian sat in the study hall with clear eyes, which was obviously what he taught, and Han Qian could listen to it.

Today, Shen Yang looked at Han Daoxun's "Epidemic Water Sparseness" again, and he would never have thought that Han Qian, who had such a profound family knowledge, would be a wasted talent.

Guo Liang and Zhang Qian glanced at Han Qian in surprise.

Han Qian was also afraid that Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others would be impatient, so he immediately called these five stone-burners to build the stone-burning stove on the side of the workshop according to the old method, and also called Guo Nuer's team of soldiers to help and study, and when they were ready to burn the first stove of lime, he came over to see how to rebuild the big stove.

Next, everyone did not return to the villa, but Shen Yang discussed with Li Zheng Zhang Qian, and borrowed his family's mansion located in the south of the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard to temporarily serve as the garrison of the military mansion in the cantonment.

If he could, Shen Yang could also recommend Zhang Qian to work in the cantonment military mansion.

Zhang Qian is a small Lizheng, even the young master of the Han family, Han Qian, does not dare to offend, how can he dare to offend Shen Yang, who is the prince's master?

Besides, the entire Taowuji has been turned into a cantonment military government, and the Taowuji will no longer exist, and the field tax and conscription in the coming year will become a bad account.

If he doesn't dismiss Li Zheng immediately, once someone obstructs him and counts this bad debt on his head, even if Zhang Qian goes bankrupt, it will be difficult to eliminate the disaster.

Even though Zhang Qian was worried that the epidemic would not be under control, Shen Yang recruited him into the cantonment military government at this time and served as a worker, which was one of his few ways out.

Shen Yang looked shriveled and thin, but his energy was strong, and he requisitioned Zhang Qian's mansion to serve as a military office, and invited everyone to have a hasty meal at night, and then gathered to discuss the reconstruction of the tunzhai.

The Dragon Bird Army is full of 12,500 soldiers, correspondingly, the cantonment military government is also full of 12,500 soldiers, the army is a battalion with 500 soldiers, and the cantonment military government is a village with 500 soldiers, and 25 cantonment villages need to be placed.

The military department controlled by the crown prince drove out the aborigines of Taowuji so as not to be used by the three princes.

For this side, the biggest advantage is that more than a dozen natural villages and hundreds of simple houses are vacant, which can be taken out so that so many infected and hungry people can have a shelter from the wind and rain, so that they will not be frozen to death in the cold night.

On the basis of these natural villages, the tunzhai can be expanded step by step.

Corresponding to the battalion captain (command), each tunzhai should have a village owner, also known as the tun camp captain, and there are five to ten tun chiefs under it to take charge of the tuntian training and other things.

How to arrange the vacancies of these cantonment captains, don't say that Han Qian has no way to interfere, even Shen Yang has no way to put his beak.

The captain and the commander of the cantonment camp are the basis for mastering the Dragon Bird Army in the future, Li Pu has read "Epidemic Water Sparse", and knows that the gathering of more than 10,000 infected and hungry people is still worth looking forward to, he has dedicated the 100 soldiers belonging to the Xinchang Marquis Mansion to the third prince Yang Yuanpu, and sent them to work; And the families of these soldiers will also move in and merge into the cantonment military mansion in the future, becoming the real soldiers of the Dragon Bird Army.

Twenty-five cantonment captains and a considerable number of cantonment commanders were naturally to be selected from these 100 people; And the two stewards of the Hou Mansion sent by Xinchang Hou Li Pu will also be engaged by Shen Yang's side, in charge of warehousing, degree support and other matters - the money and grain needed in the early stage have to be transferred from the Xinchang Marquis Mansion, and the storage and support of the cantonment military mansion and other matters, Xinchang Hou Li Pu obviously does not want to fall into Shen Yang's control.

The revival of the Dragon Bird Army led by the Xinchang Marquis Mansion to build the team of the three princes Linjiang Marquis is a matter that Emperor Tianyou semi-publicly approves, Shen Yang is more concerned about doing things well, as long as the Xinchang Marquis Mansion is willing to do its best to cooperate at this time, he doesn't care who will do it.

Han Qian didn't have many soldiers in his hands who could give it away, and he had no intention of getting involved in the low-level military positions of tun commander, capital head, and team leader.

And the Xinchang Marquis Mansion nominally dedicated more than 100 soldiers to Yang Yuanpu, the Marquis of Linjiang, but it is really difficult to say how much loyalty these soldiers have to the three princes.

Of course, these family soldiers, along with their families, were forcibly merged into the cantonment camp military government by Xinchang Marquis Li Pu, and mixed with 30,000 or 40,000 infected and hungry people.

Of course, at this time, the biggest resentment belongs to Feng Yi and Kong Xirong.

In addition to having one more identity, they did not get the slightest benefit in this matter, but at this time, they had to risk contracting the epidemic and stayed in the military government office to listen to Shen Yang and Guo Liang, Zhang Qian and others discuss the matter of the tunzhai, and they yawned and could not retire in advance.

By the time the matter was discussed, it was already full of stars and moons.

It takes more than half an hour to return to the city by horse, and the city gates are closed after nightfall, even if Feng Yi and Kong Xirong want to enter the city, it will be very troublesome, and they will spend the night on Han Qian's side that night.