Bai Hui laughed heartily: "The matter is done, you are allowed to enter the third jue, and all those involved in this matter will be on the list, and all of them will be admitted to the first juke." Go ahead. ”

The inksmith gave an excited salute: "Thank you, Zuo Shuchang." ”

"Come, prepare five thousand bricks for me, and go quickly."

It didn't take long for Bai Qi in the barracks to hear about Bai Hui's strange orders, and he didn't comment a word.

The two brothers Bai Qi and Bai Hui came here, both of them were the chief of the left, and the order of King Qin did not say who was the lord and who was the deputy. This Dingyang County is very confused, and I really don't know who to listen to first if there is an order.

But it seems that the two brothers' orders will not be repeated at all.

Bai Hui handed over the talisman to Bai Qi, and Bai Qi would not ask about anything outside the barracks.

Bai Qi's orders are all related to military operations, Bai Hui's orders are strange, although I don't understand it, but the people here must hurry up to do it, and the military orders are like a mountain.

From morning to night, Bai Qi was reorganizing the army, training, and studying the combat characteristics of the new cavalry.

The daily task of Xiqihe, who came with him, was to tuntian, teach the local people to use the agricultural tools brought by the Chu State, and then open up the wasteland to increase the area of the fields.

Only Bai Hui, in the eyes of everyone, seems to be idle and panicked every day, looking for all kinds of weird things to pass the time.

Five thousand bricks cost a lot of money, but Bai Hui only used less than a hundred after taking them, just using bricks to seal the cave of a family, and then arranged for someone to open a big hole on the top of the cave.

Dingyang County Ling Zuo Ping couldn't stand it anymore and found Bai Qi.

"The head of the left, another head of the white left, wandered all day, and also mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources, and the county officials had many objections. Xia Guan didn't know what to do. ”

As he was reporting, Bai Hui's personal soldiers entered the barracks.

"Commander Zuo, my general wants to recruit two hundred reliable soldiers to carry out a secret mission."

Bai Qi didn't ask a word, picked up the pen and gave a military order, and transferred 200 soldiers from Yixian. Bai Hui is also the commander of the left, and he also has the right to transfer troops, but Bai Hui has never used it and handed over 100% of the military power to Bai Qi.

Dingyang County Ling Zuoping saw Bai Qi's reaction, and he didn't say anything more, so he sighed and left.

Bai Hui continued to play a very happy game.

There are still eight months to go to war, Bai Hui said to the outside world that he was playing, and he was very relaxed, in fact, Bai Hui was making all kinds of preparations in order to make himself not go into battle and cut people.

Bai Hui arranged for 200 soldiers, 150 of whom were responsible for pulling the coal back and then smashing some of it.

The other fifty people were blockaded in the area designated by Bai Hui, and no one was allowed to get closer.

On the third day after Bai Hui blockaded an area, he forcibly recruited twenty potters. On the seventh day, five more painters were forcibly recruited. Immediately after that, fifty strong men were recruited, and a hundred skillful young men between the ages of twelve and fourteen.

The officials in Dingyang County were resentful, but they had to obey Bai Hui's orders, but at the same time they also reported to the top.

It didn't take long for Bai Hui to add another order, fifteen more caves.

After listening to this order, when the county commander Zuo Ping was about to go crazy, Bai Hui's personal soldiers arrived again.

"The head of my family, the left chief, has asked the county order to go."

Zuo Ping didn't even have time to change his clothes, so he was forcibly pulled into the carriage.

Outside Bai Hui's cave, Bai Qi and Xi Qihe were also invited, as well as several trustworthy generals from Xianyang City.

Everyone entered the courtyard, and Bai Hui was sitting on the ground playing with mud.

But I saw someone shaking a disc next to him, and the disc used a belt to make the disc in front of Bai Hui rotate rapidly, and a piece of mud in Bai Hui's hand slowly took shape, turning into a mud bottle at a speed visible to the naked eye, and just when it was closed, Bai Hui's hand trembled, and the whole bottle was destroyed.

"It's a pity that I haven't made a bottle for so many days."

Bai Qi's eyes swept over the entire courtyard, but he saw hundreds of pottery on the shelves there, and there were patterns painted on them.

After Bai Hui washed his hands in the clear water: "Brother, come and see this thing." ”

What Bai Hui showed Bai Qi was a honeycomb coal stove made of pure pottery, and there was still a place for the chimney next to it, which was spliced with a pottery pipe.

On the stove is a clay pot with water boiling in it.

"What's the use?"

"What's the use? Ha! Bai Hui sneered twice: "If I make the winter of the entire military camp as warm as spring, and the cost is very small, brother, is it useless for you." ”

"Yes!" Bai Qi recognized Bai Hui's words.

"And." Bai Hui snapped his fingers twice, and a potter hurriedly ran to the cave to test the temperature and shouted, "Zuo Shuchang, you can open the furnace." ”

"Okay, open!" Bai Hui also wanted to see what he had brought to this era.

In the past, charcoal was used for pottery burning, which was expensive and had low temperatures.

With coal, the temperature can be as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius in the entire cave, and the pottery made in this way will be better. So when the furnace was opened, Bai Hui called Bai Qi.

Bai Hui didn't know how to make pottery, so he forcibly recruited twenty potters.

I can't draw, so I forcibly recruited five painters.

Auxiliary manpower and apprentices are needed, so Bai Hui forcibly recruited many young men and teenagers.

At this time, the furnace is turned on.

One by one, the pottery was brought out, not too exquisite, but not bad.

The patterns on the whitewashed paintings are made with lead or other ore raw materials, and some colors appear, mostly green and brown.

A few of the white pottery pieces are amazing.

In the end, a few items that Bai Hui was purely planning to try, so that Bai Qi couldn't help but come closer.

This is a plate made of clay mixed with ground quartz, this plate is colorful, and in a few places there is a faint translucent color.

"This thing, a treasure, a very rare plate." Bai Qi actually said a complete sentence outside the barracks, and Bai Hui smiled on his face.

Bai Hui pointed to the potter who made this plate: "You have made meritorious service, sum up your experience, and bring me another more beautiful furnace." ”

The craftsman stepped forward: "Zuo Shuchang, the little craftsman has an idea, there are excellent glass craftsmen in the city, it is better to recruit a few people to come over." The craftsman believes that the temperature in this furnace is extremely high, or try to make hard pottery, which is made of some clay mixed with some stone powder, and if you want to be beautiful, you need the help of a glass craftsman to color the stone powder before firing. ”

"That's a good suggestion, give it a try. If you do well, you will be rewarded. The work is very good, and the objects you have made will surely be sent to the king, and think about what will happen if the king is satisfied. Will it be rewarded? ”

The craftsmen looked excited, and Qi Shili: "The craftsmen and others must go all out." ”

Bai Hui's tone became serious: "Remember, this is our Great Qin's craft, and it can't be passed on to outsiders." ”