Chapter Forty-Seven: The Great Construction
Is the prince safe and sound? This result was within Zhang Zhen's expectations.
After all, this Zhu Cihong is not a strong prince, except for the identity of the prince, it can be said that he is unlucky and possessed, and it is strange that he can run away.
In the next two days, the government searched several times a day, of course, just to make a show, walk around the village and walk around.
Neither interrogation nor interrogation, is obviously just a show.
As soon as the three-day ritual of sacrificing to the lake was over, he only stayed in Nanyang for another night, and the next morning, the prince was asked by the ministers to go again on the grounds that the rebels were in rebellion.
After a brief packing, the team set off quickly, leaving only a few officials from the Ministry of Rites and nearly half of the Ministry of Labor.
As soon as the prince left, the soldiers and generals who were recruited from the surrounding areas also paid their military orders, and they returned to their respective places, and Nanyang Town resumed its hustle and bustle.
And outside Nanyang Town also began to be lively, in the southeast direction is Zhang Zhen, there are 300 acres of fields, and there are more than 10 acres of workshops, and there are five or six hundred people busy in the fields.
The northeast direction is not inferior, Liu Zunxian has a big stroke, thousands of craftsmen requisitioned from the capital and the surrounding state capitals have arrived one after another, and there are as many as 2,000 servants from Yanzhou Mansion, and the camp tent alone covers an area of dozens of acres.
Zhang Zhen's side is simple, the stone and wood used in the workshop are transported from the east mountain, not only cheap, but also ready-made.
Lord Liu of the Ministry of Industry is disgusting on this side, this is the dragon temple built by the emperor, even if it is trapped in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, the treasury has become increasingly empty, and the specifications cannot be low.
If it weren't for Lord Liu's insistence, his subordinates would be able to make a full white marble slab to pave the way, and in the end, Lord Liu insisted on finding stones nearby, as long as there was no variegated bluestone.
The green bricks and glazed tiles should also be different from those used by the people, and they should also be fired piece by piece.
The timber is better, and there is already wood on the canal that has been brought in from the south to repair the palace, and it is enough to make an IOU and borrow a few boats from the general as a supervisor.
The key is the two main beams of the front and back halls, which are all golden silk nanmu, and this thing must be cut in the south.
These two places are at the corner of Nanyang Town, and the two places are busy, and the Nanyang Wharf is also starting to get busy.
When the crown prince of the dynasty sacrificed to the lake on behalf of the emperor, the boat owners were afraid that the dragon god would overturn the boat, and they were even more afraid of the emperor.
Now that the sacrifice has finally been made, they are all in a hurry to earn silver or pay the emperor's errand, and they have left the dock one after another, Nanyang Lake is called a thousand sails at this time, and nearly two thousand boats of all sizes take advantage of the rare southeast wind in late autumn, and open their sails to rush north.
It is also that everyone is anxious, and they do not give in to each other, I heard that when it entered the canal from Nanyang Lake, it overturned four boats and drowned twelve or thirteen.
This matter was reported back to Nanyang, and the dragon temple was not built, and the timid women burned paper incense to the Yuwang temple to pray for the dragon god to calm his anger.
Because the prince sacrifices to the lake, cards are set up everywhere, it is troublesome to come and go, and the matter of fishing for pond mud has been delayed for three days, and now he can work again, and the men see who is desperate, and they have to turn over the ground, and they have to cultivate, and if it is later, the land will be barren when it snows.
As the saying goes, spring fights for a day, summer fights for a time, and this autumn rushes to Zhang Zhen's field, that is, to fight for a moment, or even fight for his life.
The lake water was already cold, and more than 80 big men took turns to go into the water, and they did not stop until they were dry, and they went into the water before dawn the next morning, and so on day after day.
And the workshop also quickly rose from the ground, and when the beams and tiles of the twenty or so houses were completed, there was not even a stone corner of the dragon temple on the other side.
Zhang Zhen's thousands of catties of wheat seeds were also distributed, and the wheat seeds in one acre of land were less than 20 catties.
Originally, he wanted to plant some kohlrabi and garlic, but the kohlrabi did not enter China at all, but garlic was there, and he only collected dozens of catties in total, and barely planted a few acres.
By the time the planting was completed, the north wind was already strong, and the wheat, which had sprouted in less than a week, took ten days to germinate.
Looking at the patches of greenery, the men who were digging the canal seemed to see hope, and they were full of spirit when they started working, and of course, they also said from time to time, 'Mine is better than yours!' ''My first sprout! 'Something, laugh a few words, and dig a ditch hard.
During this period, Xia Yingying found a pistol, 20 rounds of ammunition, more than 30 telescopes with small magnifications, and an astronomical telescope.
The astronomical telescope was okay, and the place where it was found looked like the bedroom of a boy from the owner's family.
The ordinary telescopes were actually found in the dormitories of two adjacent factories, or was it a men's dormitory and a women's dormitory, peeping at each other? It's less than a hundred meters away, and you're not afraid of being discovered? It's too blatant.
These two things were drawn by Zhang Zhen for Xia Yingying for her to find, and now that they are finally available, Zhang Zhen is also a lot more down-to-earth.
The pistol can defend yourself, this telescope, although Da Ming has it now, Zhang Zhen doesn't believe that they can compare with the multiples of the later generations, and the clarity is definitely not comparable, especially the astronomical telescope, which can magnify a hundred times, can view the scenery, so why not let you walk ten miles!
During this period, there was also a strange thing, that is, one day Zhang Zhen came out of the industrial park, looked up and saw a scene that he couldn't believe, there was haze in the sky, or it lasted for two days, that feeling, Zhang Zhen thought he had traveled back.
He only knows that the end of the Ming Dynasty is the period of the Xiaoice River, the winter is particularly cold, this late autumn and early winter haze, who believes it!
As the first snow fell, the town of Nanyang was instantly deserted, and there were few boats on the canal, and most of the boats went to the south to escape the winter.
Wave after wave of cold snaps blew, and it plummeted to more than ten degrees below zero within a few days of freezing, wearing ancient clothes, Zhang Zhen felt the wind everywhere, it was really cold enough, he found a thermometer and took it out, damn! -21 degrees Celsius!
My home is two hundred miles northwest, and I haven't experienced minus 20 degrees since I was a child and more than 20 years old, is this the Xiaoice River? It's not even 39 yet.
Fortunately, one of the seven garment factories in the industrial park is making thermal underwear, Zhang Zhen wore two layers, thought about it, and still didn't dare to give it to the tenants, just took Zhang Huanghe Xia Zhongyong, along the ice to the sleepy dragon beach, sent some to the Tan people, and explained that each person had two pieces, not publicized.
As the night got longer, Zhang Zhen had more time to stay in the industrial park, and he began to train workers.
Including Xia Yingying, everyone must learn, what mechanical drawing, processing technology, mechanical materials, anyway, the reference books that can be found in the machinery factory, he is the same simple professor.
From Chinese characters and numbers to various symbols, from simple drawings to identifying various materials, Zhang Zhen taught these nine students with all his might.
It doesn't matter if you can't learn it, Zhang Zhen also has a big killer, a simpler way than cramming education, that's right, that is, assembly line work.
There should be nothing more boring and mechanical in this world than the assembly line, repeating the same process thousands or even tens of thousands of times a day, just draw a scoop according to the gourd, no need to use your brain at all.
Fortunately, the nine girls are very smart, and they compete for favor, and they study hard one by one, and they won't shout 'Master, I don't understand!' There is no need for Zhang Zhen to bother at all, the girl who understands is indoctrinated for a while, it is difficult not to understand, except for Xia Yingying, no one has the opportunity to be taught.