It's been three days, and little Jiang Lan is still unconscious. Jiang Zhi was in a hurry, and spent a lot of money to find a famous doctor in Xicheng to see, and they all said that there was no big problem, but Jiang Zhi was still very flustered.

"It's not that my sister is ruthless, it's just that if our sisters want not to be bullied, we can only rely on ourselves. My sister also wants you to be heartless all the time, but no, no......"

"Although there are a lot of bad people in Da Zhou, you can always survive if you are careful, but the barbarians in the north want to eat people, they really eat people. When they finish eating the Liao people, will they let Da Zhou go? Sister took a closer look at the place where Youyun and Da Zhou met, the sergeants of Da Zhou were not even comparable to the soldiers of Liao, and my sister didn't know if Da Zhou's army was the same, but it was always good to be careful. ”

"You can blame your sister, or even hate your sister. But if we want to live, we have to be stronger, otherwise we will be swallowed by people......"

Jiang Zhi sat on the edge of Xiao Jiang Lan's bed and muttered, tears couldn't stop flowing, and then her voice gradually lowered. Sitting on the edge of the bed for three days, a big man can't hold it, let alone a girl like Jiang Zhi.

As soon as Jiang Zhi fell asleep, little Jiang Lan opened her eyes and pulled the small quilt to cover Jiang Zhi, "Jiang Lan doesn't blame my sister, Jiang Lan will be strong...... Jiang Lan and her sister want to be together forever......"

"Bang!" Li Xiang's door was slammed open, and Li Xiang, who just wanted to go down to the secret room, had to come to the outhouse, and Cheng Jianghai, who was knocking on the floor in the secret room, hurriedly slipped back to his room.

Liu Susu looked angry, "That Jiang Zhi nun is really excessive, she actually scolded such a small ...... like this" Su Su put her hand in the air and compared Xiao Jiang Lan's height up and down, "In short, it's too ruthless, how did she become this sister, Xiao Jiang Lan has been in a coma for three days!" ”

Liu Susu and Ma Rulan didn't see Xiao Jiang Lan come back that day, only Jiang Zhu, who looked like a thin bamboo pole, came to talk about "business", so they felt strange. After two days of night, the square-faced rough monk Jiang Shu came to pick up the first batch of roast meat, and Liu Susu used a few big bones to set out the news, and Su Su and Ma Rulan went over to see Jiang Lan in a hurry the next day.

Seeing Jiang Lan's pitiful appearance in the small quilt, Liu Susu was angry and accused Jiang Zhi, Jiang Zhi just stared at Liu Susu with a smile but not a smile. Liu Susu was stared at all over, retreated in defeat, and couldn't bear it anymore when she returned to Ma's house.

"That Jiang Zhi is really evil, obviously a little girl in her early tens, but that look ...... Without a trace of warmth, like the eyes of a dead man, it is too evil. Liu Susu said this, his tone trembled a little, took the teacup handed over by Li Xiang, and took a sip of strong tea to suppress the shock.

Ma Rulan was also unhappy after entering the door, she just took the teacup and drank tea, she also liked that cute little girl very much, how good it would be if she had a little daughter, Ma Rulan thought so many times in her heart. Seeing Li Xiang's strange look, Ma Rulan's heart moved, could it be that this second brother knew more?

"Second brother, do you know more news?" Ma Rulan asked, Liu Susu put down the teacup and looked at Li Xiang as well.

Li Xiang has more expectations for Pu Jing'an and those little monks who eat meat, and when it comes to his next big move, of course he has to inquire about the news and know a lot of amazing inside information. Seeing Liu Susu and Ma Rulan's expressions of knowing what they had to do, Li Xiang had no choice but to sigh and tell a story.

The little girl buried his parents and the pile of bones, and hid among the beggars...... Fight with other beggars, fight with bullies...... Then I met Master Yuanzhi, and the group ......"

After the story was finished, Liu Susu suddenly ran out, probably looking for a place to vomit. Ma Rulan endured strongly, but she also broke out in a cold sweat, and she wanted to confirm it. "Those piles of bones are Jiang Zhi's two younger brothers?"

Li Xiang nodded, Ma Rulan gasped violently a few times, and put the teacup away tremblingly. Liu Susu came back and sat down, her eyes full of horror.

Li Xiang sighed, "These little girls have seen too much suffering, and the people in Mingyuezhuang are also small compared to them, so they won't trust anyone." Bianjing is not so beautiful on the surface, Jiang Zhi deliberately broke Jiang Lan's beautiful world, with deep intentions. Strange woman, there is a strange woman in Bianjing. ”

Ma Rulan sighed and decided to care more about Xiao Jiang Lan in the future, Liu Susu sat there and moved, she couldn't believe it. Li Xiang was also incredulous when he first knew most of the truth, but soon realized that he just didn't want to believe it, and Jiang Zhi's callous self-indulgence could only be attributed to her cruel experience.

At this time, Jiang Shu sent someone to carry a message, saying that little Jiang Lan had woken up, and Ma Rulan and Liu Susu, who had a lot of maternal hair, breathed a sigh of relief and began to prepare gifts. I have to say that a woman is always another creature, and she can enter another state immediately, and Li Xiang has only one word in his heart.

Li Xiang had already sent a secret letter to Mingyuezhuang, and he didn't know how the charcoal stove and charcoal balls were doing, and he didn't know if he could send hundreds of them to Bianjing before the winter solstice......

"It worked!" Lei Cheng, Zhen Laoshi and Tang Guohao opened the closed door and saw the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs jumping in the house, and their excitement was overflowing. Xiong Chengwen and Zhang Zhanjun came to check on behalf of Gongzhong, and they also breathed a sigh of relief, the task sent by the owner of the urgent letter was finally completed ahead of schedule, as long as the first batch of furnaces were sent to Bianjing before the winter solstice.

Li Xiang drew a shoddy sketch of the briquette stove of his memories together with the iron cylinder and briquettes, and sent it back to Mingyuezhuang with detailed instructions, asking for a time limit to come up with a production method. It was the first time that Li Mengkong and the others received Li Xiang's red urgent letter, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they started working immediately.

Lei Cheng is responsible for building the iron furnace, the difficulty is that the seal does not leak, but there is a thick soil wall around the furnace core to isolate the carbon gas and delay the combustion, so it is not difficult. Zhen honestly took over the research work of the furnace core, and the difficulty was how to maintain a hard and undeformed annular shape. Tang Guohao volunteered to take over the construction of the iron cylinder after building the iron armor, and he wanted to bring his family into the ranks of the "wealthy" in Mingyuezhuang in one fell swoop.

Lei Cheng was the first to complete the manufacturing, and also improved the door sealing design that Li Xiang recalled, Lei Cheng's improved sealing door is obviously more durable, and it is more convenient to adjust the air intake.

Zhen Laoshi burned the first batch of furnace cores, and there was no brittle problem in the test of more than ten days, but it will take a long time to be sure.

Tang Guohao and several craftsmen who had completed their Mongolian education came up with a primitive ironwood machine tool for rolling iron sheets, and six people worked together to quickly roll the hot iron sheets smashed by the water hammer into iron sheets. It is slightly quenched, cooled and painted, and it is alive.

The first briquette stove in Da Zhou was soon born, and the blacksmith Lei and others put the furnace into a closed room, and put some animals in the house to test the charcoal. For three consecutive days, the door of the house will open only when entering the house to change the charcoal balls, and now the test is over, and the chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and other things are all safe and sound.

Tang Guohao was shocked by the efficiency of Mingyuezhuang's work, if the briquette stove was handed over to him alone, it was not that he couldn't do it, but the time spent was likely to be counted in years. However, in the core workshop of Mingyuezhuang, when encountering problems, they began to brainstorm, and each sample was recorded in detail.

Carpenter and Blacksmith Lei have become accustomed to it, and since Xiaofuzi promoted the literacy of craftsmen and implemented new working methods, Mingyuezhuang's work efficiency has begun to improve significantly. Arithmetic and preliminary knowledge of objects, control variable method and experimental analysis method, chart analysis method, hypothesis-experiment-verification-improvement-hypothesis thinking, have all made the craftsmen of Mingyuezhuang unique.

Li Mengkong was very excited after receiving the news, and Li Xiang had another secret letter to him, so he knew that the charcoal stove and the charcoal ball were the key to the owner's breakthrough. Of course, in the evening, Li Mengkong convened Xiong Chengwen, Zhang Zhanjun, Zhao Bo, Liu Sheng and other high-level officials, as well as Tang Guohao, Radar and other masters to hold a meeting.

Because Uncle Zhao mastered the private affairs of the Zhuangzi, he had to participate in important discussions, but Uncle Zhao kept in mind the admonition of the owner of the village and never spoke. Tang Guohao participated in such a core meeting for the first time, and he looked left and right to see how others did it, so as not to lose etiquette.

Li Mengkong first highly praised Zhen Laoshi, who was born as a mason, and praised him for his spirit of Mingyuezhuang who fought on the front line despite his age. He also called in a few young craftsmen who had made meritorious contributions, saying that they had lived up to the high expectations of the owner, and then drove away a few children who were crying profusely. Finally, he emphasized the importance of the charcoal stove and charcoal ball to Mingyuezhuang, Xiong Chengwen and Zhang Zhanjun and others understood Li Xiang's plan and put the owner of the village on the throne in their hearts.

After a little while, Li Mengkong was also a little thirsty, and after drinking a few sips of honey tea, he continued: "So the charcoal stove is not an object that our Zhuangzi used to make a fortune, but a way to break the situation that the owner racked his brains. ”

"The plan is like this, the owner of the village will first find a way to make a big move in Bianjing, so that the gentry and the common people will know that there is such a thing. If it goes well, the forbidden army in Bianjing, the family members of the Xiang army in Nanyang, and the Mingyue Honjo will take out the accumulated charcoal stoves and sell them at the same time, and the method of making charcoal balls and charcoal stoves will soon be revealed to some people. ”

"Where the charcoal stove and charcoal balls are sold, our Mingyue Village's clothes, hats, shoes and socks, cold-proof clothing, ironware and paper will follow up, especially ironware. The more people who cooperate with Mingyuezhuang, the smoother our shipment will be. ”

The owner of the village planned to build a large workshop funded by the Gongzhong, and specially hired displaced people to make charcoal stoves and charcoal balls, so that the people in the village would not only care about profits and ignore the overall situation. Zhuangzi's self-produced charcoal stove can only be sold to Guanzhong, Ganliang, Hedong and Shandong, and Sichuan Road can also be sold. ”

"Whether it is the Xiang army, the gentry, the homeless, or the strong, in short, our Mingyuezhuang will regularly send the improved charcoal furnace design and charcoal ball formula to the door, as long as they agree to sell our other goods. On the surface, we are suffering a big loss, but secretly, the production of our Zhuangzi will be sold for most of the Zhou Dynasty, and the profit will not be ten times, and it can be better hidden. ”

In the end, Li Mengkong said: "That's all for it, let's disperse if we have nothing to do." ”

After the discussion, Li Mengkong stood up, suddenly stumbled, and his brain was buzzing. After half a pillar of incense, Li Mengkong, who had stabilized, smiled bitterly in his heart, it seemed that he was really old.

After Mingyuezhuang recruited An, the affairs of the public middle school became more and more complicated, and Li Mengkong was powerless. Xiong Chengwen and Zhang Zhanjun and other young people took away a lot of pressure after they came to power, but Li Mengkong still couldn't resist it, mainly because he lacked the ability to control the overall situation.

After Li Xiang learned of the situation, he asked Li Mengkong to speed up the recruitment of Zhang Wanli. Zhang Wanli has been a staff member for a long time, and when he was at his most prosperous, he assisted the chief officer in handling the civil affairs of a state, and the chief officers evaluated him surprisingly unanimously, "quite a means". Zhang Wanli also suffered in the end in terms of means, offended too many people, and had to defect to Zhang Tianlei, the nephew of the clan who had been recruited and promoted to the commander of the Xunyang Xiang Army.

"Old man Zhang, we will be able to work together soon, hehehe......" The cold wind blew, and Li Mengkong, who was smiling nonstop, shivered, and ran back to his house to sleep.