The reason why he was like this was not that the painting was good, but that the words written on the side of the painting made him dumbfounded: "The temperature is extremely high!" ”。

This temperature is extremely high, so how much higher is it? Hu Guang couldn't help but ask rhetorically in his heart. Looking up at the mason, peeking at himself with a slight trepidation, he relaxed his expression and began to look at the stove painting again.

At this time, people began to submit papers one after another. The chamberlain kept going back and forth, presenting the mason's paintings to the royal court.

Hu Guang flipped it a little, and it was all about the same, and the comments about the temperature were either extremely high, or the temperature was the highest, or the temperature was rare, and so on, all of them were adjectives!

What made him a little depressed was that these masons painted so well that they did not mark each part at all, as in the illustrative drawings of later generations. If it weren't for the fact that the stove wasn't very complicated, Hu Guang would probably have to lose even if he woke up his spirit.

But in this way, Hu Guang will consume a lot of time and energy if he wants to figure out the design patterns and intentions of each of these test papers, and then evaluate how high the temperature may be.

I don't know whether to be happy or frustrated, most of the furnace design drawings are similar, but it also saves Hu Guang a lot of time.

But even so, Hu Guang was busy until nearly evening, and finally went through all the design drawings, and then only left eight more distinctive design drawings, and the rest of the people gave them some rewards to go home.

Looking at the eight people who stayed, six of them were brightly dressed, it should be that the conditions at home were not very bad, and the other one was very poor, and the patches on the clothes were simply beaten and beaten.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen also changed. Most of the craftsmen with good craftsmanship are not bad, and even some of them are good in some aspects, such as those related to writing, and they are often the guests of scholars.

Hu Guang looked at the eight people below, and saw that they were all a little uneasy in their excitement, so he smiled and said: "The test papers you handed in, I think they have their own characteristics, or they are not up or down, and it is not easy to judge how high the actual temperature in the furnace can be." Therefore, I ask you to answer one more question, which is optional. In other words, you can choose to answer or not, and I will not blame you, just to distinguish between the eight of you and your level! ”

When these eight people heard this, they thought to themselves that this was the purpose of the emperor calling themselves, right?

Hu Guang didn't let them think about it for long, so he directly asked: "You write down your experience as a mason, and write down what you are best at, that is, your housekeeping skills." I can't write, someone on the side can do it for me. ”

Speaking of this, he emphasized: "I have said that this question is related to your meal, you can choose to answer it or not, I will not be reluctant, but I can't get my imperial pen to give words." ”

The eight masons were a little hesitant when they heard this, and no one immediately wrote their experiences. After all, this is indeed related to their unique ability, what if it is passed on to themselves, what will happen to their children and grandchildren?

If you write a little nonsense, when you go out to inquire, you will know if you have written what you are good at, lying and deceiving the king? This is a great sin!

Compared with the unique craft, the plaque of "mason master" given by the emperor seems to be less important, after all, you have to be able to eat and then think about the glory of your ancestors.

Thinking of this, a brightly dressed mason looked at the emperor above, and said with a little uneasiness: "Your Majesty, this meager ability of the grass people has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors, and without the consent of the ancestors, it is really impossible to pass it on, please forgive your Majesty!" ”

"Hehe, I said that this question is voluntary, since you don't want to divide the winner again, I won't force it." After Hu Guang finished smiling, he waved his hand and said, "Look at the reward." ”

This is the same as ordinary people's tea and sending guests, the mason heard this, quietly wiped his sweat, and thanked him again and again.

With him taking the lead, five more well-dressed masons gave up answering questions one after another, and finally there were only three masons left in the side hall.

Hu Guang looked at them and asked with a smile, "Did you voluntarily stay and answer the questions?" ”

The three of them looked at each other, and finally responded in unison: "Your Majesty, I am willing!" ”

Hu Guang waved his hand and motioned for them to answer the question. Among them, the brightly dressed man wrote it himself, and the other two needed someone else to do it for them, and they whispered it themselves.

This time, Hu Guang didn't wait long, and the three of them completed the submission one after another. However, he didn't look at the content of the test paper, but just looked at the three of them: "What I said before is actually an excuse, and the real purpose is to choose the best to burn a new thing for me. I probably know how to do it, but you need to grasp the details, if such things can be burned, it will be of great benefit to my Ming Dynasty, and it is a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood. And you, I will also be rewarded with official positions, in addition to receiving a partly dividend, how about it? ”

The three of them were surprised and delighted when they heard it, they didn't expect the emperor to be involved in the work of the mason, and he also came up with a new thing, which was really amazing! They can hear that the emperor is just looking for help, and he can also get an official position and a reward of money, which is really good!

"Ding, achievement +1, from Mason Tang Binghong!"

“……”

The achievement value is +3, but Hu Guang didn't care, and when he saw that they were all very happy, he reminded them: "This matter must be kept secret, and you can't talk about it to anyone!" ”

This is the way it should be, and the three craftsmen know it.

Seeing this, Hu Guang officially informed: "What I want to fire is a kind of binder similar to Sanhe soil, which can bind mud and gravel together, and I call it cement." This kind of thing is probably made of clay and limestone, and the ratio should be more clay, or you can add some other materials, which requires you to burn more experiments......"

As long as later generations have read historical travel novels, cement is probably the most common black technology. Hu Guang also probably remembered, but he didn't remember very clearly, only that the temperature in the furnace had to be high enough to be calcined. Therefore, in the first question, he came up with such a question to collect the ideas of famous craftsmen in the Beijing Division, but he would not let people outside guess what they were doing.

Before, Hu Guang's thoughts fell into a dead end, and he kept thinking about how to divide a scoop of water in the bucket of water in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and he didn't think about how to add more water to the bucket so that everyone had enough water in it to drink.

Cement is the easiest black technology to point out, although it will take a long time to make a profit, but Hu Guang has a plan, and several means are used together, which should be able to solve the current serious shortage of money.

In this way, Hu Guang didn't care about anything else in the next few days, and together with three masons, he was pondering and experimenting with firing cement.

The rumor spread outside, so that the civil and military officials who had experienced the Apocalypse Dynasty immediately reacted with the first reaction that it should be that the son revealed his true nature today - the life of a good mason, right?