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After nightfall, a large candle was lit to illuminate the lobby of the official residence as bright as day, and Han Qian asked Zhao Laoqi to summon the two slaves and maids over.

These are two men with thin faces, both about twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing shabby kudzu clothes, and the left and right cheeks are tattooed with the black letters of "official slave", which are very eye-catching, to show that they are also a special existence among official slaves and maids.

After all, ordinary officials, slaves and maids are generally only tattooed on the arms or necks when they are punished, which will not be very eye-catching.

Under the guidance of Zhao Laoqi, the two walked into the lobby and walked in with a lame look in their eyes.

Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying were bored and accompanied Han Qian to read under the lamp, looking up at the two men curiously.

The two thin men glanced at the room, then cautiously knelt down in front of the hall, lowered their heads and stared at the green bricks in front of them, not knowing why the new master had specially summoned them to the big house.

Han Qian put down the booklet in his hand, stared at the two thin men for a while, and waved his hand to ask Zhao Laoqi to wait outside the house first, and then asked the two of them out loud:

"It has been some years since the Yue King Dong Chang was destroyed, and the Dong family was determined to behead all men over the age of fourteen, how old were the two of you at that time?"

"The two of us are Zhao Shuqi, the governor of Yuezhou, and Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang, the concubines of Chen Changli, the commander of Jihai County, and Yuezhou was merged into Dachu, although both of us are sixteen years old, but Your Majesty has been lenient, and our lives have to be saved, and we are sentenced to be official slaves and maids, please be aware of them." The thin man with a shallow scar on his face knelt forward a little and said.

"You are Zhao Qi, who had the reputation of a prodigy in eastern Zhejiang when he was a child?" Han Qian stared at the man and asked.

"It's all far away, Zhao Qi doesn't remember it, he only knows that today's Zhao Qi is an adult's slave." The thin man said.

Han Qian smiled and asked again: "Then the person behind you is Chen Jitang, the son of Chen Changli, who built the Siming Mountain Weir and irrigated thousands of hectares of fertile land when Mingzhou Gongcao joined the army?" Chen Changli once wrote "The Book of Yan", I don't know if Chen Gongzi has ever learned from his family? ”

"I, I, I was an official slave when I was young, and I was an official slave, and what family education was, I had long forgotten it and had to get it all clean." Chen Jitang's body was weaker, he opened his mouth and stammered, he was not good at speaking, knelt behind Zhao Qi, and stammered in reply to Han Qian's words.

"Really?" Han Qian glanced at Chen Jitang suspiciously, and said, "This grange is located at the intersection of rivers, and the mud is as thin as millet porridge, which is good for growing reeds and grass, and it is difficult to grow crops. I originally thought that I would be able to grow some barnyard rice here and harvest fifty or sixty stone rice grain every year, but I didn't expect that two or three hundred acres of fine paddy fields could be cultivated. I went around in the afternoon, and saw that the ditches in the village were staggered, and the silt was staggered, and the river embankment was inserted near the water side with bamboo and willow branches, which was used to drain the water, and there were two small river canals that entered the river or entered the river with stone sluices locking each other, so as to facilitate drainage during the flood season, and the water of the river could be kept out of the village during the flood season. The sluice wall is embedded in the river embankment, and an arch is built, which narrows the estuary a lot, which can speed up the flow of water and scour the siltation. I originally thought that people with such thoughts should be the true biography of Chen Gong's "Book of Weirs", but it seems that I thought too much. ”

Chen Jitang and Zhao Qi lay on the ground and did not dare to answer.

Han Qian picked up the booklet on the table again, and said to the thin man with scars on his face: "I see that after Chen Jitang was demoted to an official slave, he married your sister Zhao E. But I have seen the actual record of the battles in Runzhou earlier, and I vaguely remember that when your father Zhao Shuqi died in the battle in Runzhou, it seems that your sister Zhao E was also in Runzhou at that time, and she also encountered misfortune in the rebellion......"

Hearing Han Qian say this, the scar-faced man Zhao Qi's hands and feet couldn't help but tremble, and he lay on the ground and said with a crying voice: "That must be the adult's mistake, or the record at that time was wrong, Jitang's wife is indeed the slave's younger sister Zhao E, please also ask the adult to be clear." ”

"What is clearly observed, or what Zhao E and Dong Yue'er, in my opinion, are inconsequential. The Dong family has already been a passing moment, if no one deliberately mentions it, no one will think of the existence of the Dong family, and the so-called national hatred and family hatred will not make any waves. You two did not redeem yourself for this, and you are a kind and righteous person, and I cannot exchange you for such a bounty. However, since you are all slaves and maids in my Han family's house in the future, I naturally want to understand your situation clearly, you all have words engraved on your faces, and don't think about running away overnight because of fear, just continue to stay in Zhuangzi and do things with peace of mind, don't be half-hearted, and I won't treat you badly. I also learned that you twelve families of officials and slaves are living a very poor life, you and Chen Jitang have three sons who died before and after, and now they finally have children again, you have to take care of them, don't you say? ”

"My lord's insight, slaves and maids serve my lords, and I will never dare to be half-hearted." Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang kowtowed and said.

"Zhao Laoqi, you come in," Han Qian raised his voice and called Zhao Laoqi in, and instructed him to say, "If there is anything in the Zhuangzi in the future, you will tell Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang to help you do it." Tomorrow, you will let each family go to the big house first, and each of them will take 300 catties of rice and flour and 10 catties of salt and oil. If there is an epidemic in every family, it must be treated in time and without delay. ”

The summer grain of the Grange was not sent to the palace, but there were only less than 100 stone of japonica rice in the official residence, and nearly half of the reward would be given at once.

Han Qian waved his hand and asked Zhao Laoqi to lead Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang to retreat to rest, and he read for a while before washing and sleeping.

At noon the next day, the fleet of the Xuzhou Boat Gang slowly sailed from the south and docked in the pond northeast of Yandangji, where Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, Xi Chang and others borrowed the boat board to land and saw Han Qian who was waiting in front of the pond embankment.

The fleet unloaded some of the goods transported from Xuzhou into the large warehouse of the Taowu Jijun Mansion, but it did not come empty, but transported all the belongings that Han Qian could move out of the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard.

In addition to a large number of books, bookcases, furniture and other items, as well as four ships of briquettes and green bricks that were not much money at this time, there were also a number of pottery urns and retorts fixed with wooden frames.

The shape of these pottery urns and retorts is quite strange, and Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang, who were ordered to take strong slaves to help unload the goods, saw these urns and other things, and they were very strange in their hearts, and they couldn't think of what these did.

In addition to these items that were moved out of the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard, there were also six families living in the courtyard and nearly 30 family members and their dependents who also withdrew, and at this time they all moved into the Yandang Jizhuang Courtyard.

Since the Han family will have to make a clear distinction between public and private affairs with Zuo Si in the future, these people are the Han family's family soldiers, except for those who have a formal official status like Lin Haizheng, otherwise even if they want to work for Zuo Si, they will all serve by Han Qian's side, and they can no longer be mixed with Zuo Si's ordinary engineers and scouts.

These six family soldiers are all a little old, and they are more or less disabled in the first half of their lives, and they are not capable of going to the battlefield again, but Han Daoxun can't bear to abandon them, and together with Fan Xicheng and Zhao Kuo, they still take them with them to support.

Han Qian did not arrange them into the military room or the chazi room before, but followed Fan Xicheng and Lin Haizheng to take charge of the affairs of the workshop.

After Lin Haizheng was transferred by Han Qian, they still stayed in the workshop to listen to the call of the leading engineer Zheng Tong, for more than two years, although they may not have become Zheng Tong or Ji Fu, Ji Xiyao This level of master craftsmen, but they and more than a dozen children of soldiers who stayed in the workshop to study for two years, are also familiar with the firing of lime and green bricks, the mining of coal, etc., and they are better than ordinary craftsmen.

At present, Han Qian also plans to use them as full-time craftsmen of the Han family.

The others continued to unload the items brought from the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard, especially the two boatloads of lime and nearly 100,000 small green bricks, which had to be brought ashore, and it would take some time.

Han Qian called Zhao Qi, Chen Jitang, Zhao Laoqi and others to his side, and said: "I think that between Zhuangyuan and Yandangji, we will build a walled house, and when the scale of the Xuzhou boat gang will be further expanded, maybe there will be three or five hundred people stranded in Jinling, and you must also guard against the attack of Jiang bandits from Qiupukou, you plan to build a walled house, you must consider all these factors!" ”

Zhao Laoqi wanted to talk to the Han family craftsmen who had withdrawn from Qiuhu Mountain about this matter, but Han Qian pointed out that he wanted him to discuss it with Zhao Qi and Chen Jitang.

Although the panic in Chen Jitang and Zhao Qi did not completely dissipate, they also knew that they needed to reflect their value in front of Han Qian.

Chen Jitang weighed the small green bricks that were a slap long, and stammered: "This, these two boats are small and small green bricks look a lot, but they can only build a courtyard of ten or fourteen or fifteen rooms......

"Oh?" Han Qian glanced at Chen Jitang, he still took a pen and paper to calculate for a while last night, before he calculated that the batch of small green bricks he took from the workshop this time, including the courtyard wall, can build a courtyard with eight main seats and eight upside downs, but he didn't expect Chen Jitang to follow him on the boat, estimate the volume of the cabin with the naked eye, and then weigh one or two small green bricks, and the result of the mental calculation was actually the same as the eight or nine calculated by him with paper and pen.

When Chen Jitang's father, Chen Changli, served in Mingzhou, he presided over the construction of Siming Mountain Weir, which may not be very famous in the world, but this water conservancy project built with the technology of the world can still irrigate tens of thousands of acres of fields after a thousand years, and is known as one of the four ancient water conservancy projects and is famous all over the world.

It's a pity that such a character was directly killed when Emperor Tianyou annexed Yuezhou.

From this point of view, when Chen Jitang was demoted to an official slave, although he was not very old, he should have received the true inheritance of his father.

Four days ago, when Han Qian got the title deed and the deed of twelve slaves and maids, when he saw Chen Jitang's name, he had some expectations in his heart, but he didn't expect to really pick up a treasure.

"I, I, or miscalculated, I miscalculated, and I talked about it...... "Seeing Han Qian's eyes blazing when he looked at him, and he didn't know what he was thinking, Chen Jitang stammered and retreated.

"You are not mistaken, you will preside over this matter," Han Qian said to Zhao Laoqi, "What manpower and materials Chen Jitang needs, you will cooperate with him, and the land will be optimistic in the past two days, so he will start construction." In addition, in the future, according to the money and food allocated to the two families according to the family soldiers, no one else will deceive each other. ”

Zhao Laoqi didn't know what Chen Jitang and Zhao Qi were capable of, so he could get the young master to look at him differently, and muttered: "Everyone is from a bitter background, what is there to bully each other." ”