Taking advantage of Mi Zhu's condolences to everyone and the gap between the cold and the warmth, Liu Chan called Lei Xu and asked about the things he told that day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What the son ordered has already been done, and Lei will take you to see it in person." Lei Xu laughed.

Liu Chan hurriedly restrained him and said, "You go to accompany Lord Mi, and arrange for Fan Jian, the chief bookkeeper, to accompany me." ”

Hearing this, Fan Jian hurriedly trotted over, bowed respectfully, and said with a smile: "I am the master of Fan Jian, and I respectfully ask my son to command." ”

"Changyuan, don't be polite!" Liu Chan smiled.

"Changyuan, you take Gongzi to the ice cellar to have a look." Lei Xu said.

"No, Childe, please." Fan Jian led the way in front.

Fan Jian took Liu Chan, Xiang Chong, Fu Tong, Xi Zhen, Yan Yu and more than a dozen county government officials, holding a bunch of ropes and wooden sticks, into a hut in the back garden of the county government.

Fan Jian took a dozen or so torches, lit them with a fire breaker, opened the back door, and walked straight to the basement.

It was pitch black inside, surrounded by a cool breeze, and the whole body was transparent and comfortable.

"It's so cool!" Having just entered the cool basement from outside the hot house, Liu Chan couldn't help but sigh.

As the depth increased, it became colder and colder, and finally reached the door of the basement more than ten meters deep at the end.

After entering the house, the cold air enveloped everyone, and the cold was overwhelming, it was so cold that some people began to sneeze.

Liu Chan was also shivering with cold, Fan Jian hurriedly put on a cotton robe for him, and the others also put on the clothes they had prepared in advance.

The walls around the basement are all made of green bricks, about three meters high, about 20 meters long and wide, and are divided into seven or eight rooms by blue brick walls.

Fan Jian opened one of the rooms, and everyone walked in, only to see that the iron fence made of steel inside was filled with blocks of brick-like ice blocks forty centimeters thick and four feet square, which was very spectacular.

The ceiling, walls, and floor of the room are covered with icicles, ice flowers, and ice slag, and the ice and snow everywhere make people feel like they have fallen into an ice cave.

"It's really two heavens of ice and fire!" Liu Chan sighed at the little chubby hand that was red from the cold, and exclaimed.

He asked Fan Jiandao, "Changyuan, how are these ice cubes made?" ”

"In the winter, let the people carry water down from above, fill the iron cabinets with water as big as ice cubes, and overnight, they freeze into brick-like ice cubes, separated by cloth, like bricks, and put them in iron fences. Or cut the ice cubes on top into pieces and lift them down. Fan Jianyu said.

"I see!" Liu Chan exclaimed, secretly admiring in his heart that the ancients were really too smart.

Looking at these crystal clear ice cubes that exude a faint cold air, Liu Chan's eyes lit up, as if he was looking at a pile of white silver.

At this time, he already had the idea of making money with ice, and he wanted to turn ice into money, and he could sell ice cubes, popsicles, and iced drinks in the summer, and barbecue in the winter, and make a fortune.

"Hahaha!" Liu Chan seemed to see the golden characters flying in the sky, and he couldn't help laughing.

Seeing Liu Chan's black eyes rolling around and laughing without warning, Fan Jian and his subordinates looked at each other, surprised and inexplicable.

Only Xiang Pet has long been accustomed to them, and it is not strange to see them.

"It's fine. I just want to build an ice cave like this in my mansion, so that I can lie on the ice bed and eat popsicles in the future, which is cool in the hot summer! I laughed out loud just thinking about it. ”

Liu Chan looked at Xiang Pet and said with a sly smile: "You have memorized it for me, and when you go back, you will dig an underground ice room for me like this." Let everyone enjoy. ”

Liu Chan's words were like looking at Mei to quench her thirst, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva to a few people, revealing a look of great admiration.

"Everything you want is in there!" Fan Jian pointed to a large pool made of blue bricks, five meters long, three meters wide, and two meters high.

Everyone walked up the steps, and Fan Jian instructed his subordinates to open the wooden lid of the pool.

"Childe, this is the horse meat and horse brisket you want." Fan Jian said with a smile.

Liu Chan raised his eyes and saw that the pool was full of slaughtered, unloaded pieces of horse meat and internal organs, the flesh was bright red and delicate under the action of ice, and there was a trace of cold air.

"Yes, well done." Liu Chan looked at Fan Jian appreciatively and said with satisfaction.

"Childe, after our army defeated the Cao army, we will organize the entire city to clean up the battlefield according to your orders. Collect loot, including swords, guns, halberds, weapons, shields, flags, armor equipment, saddles, horses, and more. The corpses were cleaned up, the armor was taken off, and the injuries were registered, especially the scars on the body, and if they were injured by the iron tools of the common people, they were registered one by one according to the names on the iron tools. The more than 1,000 dead horses were all carried back to the square in front of the county yamen, and all the butchers in Dangyang were hired to slaughter. ”

"Frozen the meat of ten horses. One township rewarded ten horses for local dinners, and ten townships gave 100 horses. Two hundred and fifty horses were sent to the Qinglong Battalion and the Thunder Dragon Battalion respectively to reward the three armies. And twenty horses of meat and all the horses were put into the water and distributed to the widows, the elderly, the children, and the beggars. The county government organized the squires, village officials, and elders to celebrate the victory, and ten horses were used. The rest of the rest of the horse meat was cut into thin slices, salted, and turned into jerky after several days of exposure, which was enough to weigh 2,000 catties. "Fan Jian is worthy of being the master book, his memory is amazing, he never forgets, and he is the truth.

"Carry them all to the kitchen!" Liu Chan waved his hand, and when he finished speaking, he walked straight out of the underground ice room with Xiang Pet.

On the way, Liu Chan asked Fan Jian curiously: "On dog days, how do you take the ice and keep the food fresh in the house on the ground?" ”

According to the knowledge of later generations, Liu Chan has a little understanding of this, and the refrigeration utensils used by the ancients daily are called "Jian". Jian, is really a kind of large basin, the early is pottery, after the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the popular bronze Jian, also called. The ice can be seen as a primitive freezer, in which a vessel filled with drinks or food is placed around, surrounded by ice cubes, and the lid is closed, and a "cold drink" can be made in a short time.

There is a record of "Bingjian" in "Zhou Li". The so-called "ice kan" is a container used to hold ice in the summer and put food in it. In summary, "Bingjian" should be the earliest "refrigerator" used by human beings.

"Wu Yue Spring and Autumn" also recorded: "Gou Jianzhi travels, rests and lodging in the ice kitchen." The "ice kitchen" mentioned here is the place where the emperor prepares food and drink in summer, so it is also called the "cold palace", which has the functions of modern refrigerator and air conditioner.

"You can see it from above." When he went up to the county office, Fan Jian took Liu Chan to Lei Xu's house, pointed to a metal object in the lobby, and said with a smile: "It's this Panlong Iron Fangjian, put the ice in the Bingjian, and you can freeze things." In winter, it can also be used to warm wine. ”

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