"Wait!"

When Ji Bai turned around to leave, he was stopped by Jian Chen. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"After telling the wooden Jane to the Red Fish, you go and inform the soldiers who stayed here to come and assemble here, and I will let them go out and find something."

As soon as Ji Bai heard that he was looking for something, he thought of Jian Chen's quirks, and said with a smile: "Looking for stones again?" We followed you along the river from Xiacheng to Sucheng, and you found stones all the way, and the boat was full. ”

"Yes, all kinds of strange stones, go tell them. After that, you won't use it, and I'll keep twenty more people...... As a reward for staying in Onozawa for so long. ”

Ji Bai suppressed the excitement in his heart, carefully held the wooden tablet and left quickly.

After a while, the soldiers who stayed behind had already gathered here, and Jian Chen picked out more than a dozen of the best people who had been trained on weekdays and asked them to go back first, and told the rest of the people about going to find stones, and also said all kinds of strange stones he wanted to find, and took out some stones that he had picked up on the boat before and distributed them, so that they could find them according to the map.

"What I want personally, it has nothing to do with public property. Find strange stones, and reward them all, if you can find the kind of stone I am talking about, and reward thirty slaves, five horses, and a hundred acres of land near the summer canal. Let's see which of you is lucky. You know how much property I have, and you will never fail to take it, and you don't need the consent of the shipper, this is mine, not public property, and you will give it if you find it. ”

The soldiers knew very well that it was difficult to get a reward that exceeded the rules from the goods, so they giggled one by one, remembering the several strange stones and some strange terrain that Chen Jian said, and took the various ores prepared by Chen Jian in their hands, and stored them in groups of three or five.

"Ji Xia, there is ochre on this mountain, I have seen a lot, we used to paint our faces, but I really haven't seen the kind of ochre you said. You say that there is ochre on the mountain, and iron below, is iron and ochre like emerald and copper? If we really find that kind of stone, we can smelt iron like copper? Besides, there are ochres on this mountain, why did you go to see it and leave? ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "There are too few ochres on the mountain, so it's useless. But you're pretty much guessing, if you can find the kind of ochre I'm talking about, we'll be able to make iron. Go look for it, and come back within fifteen days, whether you find it or not, we still have something important to do. ”

"You'd better look along the tributaries of the river, and spread out, and don't gather together. In addition to the kinds of stones I mentioned, you must also look carefully for the emerald stones and lead stones you have seen in the copper mountain. In addition, you should also write down the mountains, forests, rivers, and plants and trees you have never seen before, and reward them one by one as long as I think it is useful. ”

After thinking about it for a long time, there was nothing more to instruct, this group of people was in three or five together, with bows, arrows, copper spears on their bodies, and Taolei gunpowder on their backs, even if they encountered bears and tigers, they were not afraid.

Mines are not necessarily hidden under the mountains, the mines that I have seen in the previous life are all under the mountains, because the open-pit that is convenient for mining has been excavated by the ancestors, which is a survivor bias: only those who do not show their heads can live to the next generation, and those who show their heads are mined.

Malachite to find copper, ochre to find iron, this is a long time ago the most common prospecting method, "pipe" once said, there is ochre on the mountain, there must be iron below. This open-pit ore is called an outcrop mine, because the sedimentation of the ore will be exposed, it is very conspicuous, and it was called a seedling in ancient times.

If you can find it in the vicinity, if you can't find it, you can only pray that you can find it upstream and transport the selected ore here by water.

It's not that he doesn't understand that this will increase the cost, but now de jure he can only build a castle near Onozawa along the river, and he doesn't want to leak the workshop to the rest of the castle where he can attack at will.

The Meteorite Tribe uses a natural nickel-iron alloy, which cannot be replicated and cannot be mass-produced, although Chen Jian still hasn't figured out how those people reached such a high temperature, but he doesn't want to figure it out, the technology that can't be produced on a large scale is meaningless to him.

Once the iron ore is found, you can use the method of low-temperature forging charcoal reduction to make a simple sponge iron in the early stage, you can't make a sword, but it is very suitable as a farm tool, Xiacheng copper smelting has been a few years, the kiln closure and heating technology has been mastered, and the blower leather is more perfect than before.

There are neither copper mines nor formed iron ore on the headland island, only some ochre, which is not too much, but even these ochres Chen Jian is not ready to waste.

After sending the soldiers out, he found Tsunzawa and the others, and asked them to call all the people who were making bricks together.

"Work is suspended today."

"Stoppage?"

"Yes."

"That'...... Is there still corn after the stoppage? We don't want to stop working, we want to do it. ”

"That's not going to work either. You are not slaves, but you are selling your strength to me. I don't want your strength anymore, so why should I give you corn? It's a consensual thing, and you don't want to do it yet. ”

Ze smiled bitterly, but knew that although Jian Chen said this, it was absolutely impossible to really let them rest in vain, and sure enough, Jian Chen said again: "It's early autumn now, have you ever seen some lumps growing on the leaves of some books?" ”

He nodded and said, "I've seen it, and I've seen a lot." Those trees must be sick. ”

"I, as for me, am a man of compassion for all creatures, and I cannot see these trees sick. To stop you today is to go to the mountains by the lake to pluck the lumps from the leaves. Dinner is still available, depending on how many lumps you pick, and you will be given extra corn by the pound. Including pimples of leaves, acorn bark, oak tumors, persimmon tumors, etc., all these are required. ”

After finishing speaking, Chen Jian took out a gall of gallic seeds picked a few days ago, and some worm tumors grew in the place parasitized by the insects, pointed to this plant and said, "This is the best, there are some on the mountain." If you can pick one pound, I will give you three pounds of corn. You just have to pick, and I will give you as much as you want. ”

The group looked at each other, they knew that bricks could build houses, but what was the use of this insect bitten tree? Can this thing be eaten? Or is Ji Xia really crazy, not to pity people, but to pity the trees outside?

With all kinds of doubts about leaving, Jian Chen said again: "Don't blame me for not telling you, this thing can't be eaten, and you can't pull out after eating it." I hardly tell lies, Ze you should know, so don't let those people think it's a good thing. ”

Ze smiled awkwardly, but he believed in Chen Jian's words very much, and asked them one by one, took the wooden cards issued by Chen Jian, and for the first time left the island without fear and came to the land without worrying about being captured and taken back as a slave. At least for ten miles around Onozawa, they were no longer slaves.

Some of the people who remained, Chen Jian, asked them to go to the top of the mountain to collect ochre and crush it with stones. These people know ochre, and they are no strangers to red paint that has been commonly used since the time of the clan.

In the end, 300 people were left, led by Chen Jian, and led seven masons to dig a large pit on the west side of the headland, tamped it with clay, pasted red bricks, and covered it with clay to re-tamp it.

After tamping, a large amount of corn is distributed and boiled into the soup, and the cooked soup and corn are poured into the tread pool, and several pits are dug around it to light a fire to ensure that the corn soup in the pool is warm.

For the first time, many people saw so much grain thrown into the pool in vain, and they were very distressed, and persuaded them: "Ji Xia, if you want to make wine, you have to use a jar, where can you pour it into the pit?" Besides, if you light all around these four places, and when they are warm, won't they soon be sour? This means that there are fewer flies in autumn, and if there are maggots with long tails in three or five days in summer. ”

Chen Jian bent down and took a handful of corn soup and said: "It's still early to be sour, find a few people here to watch, remember to make a fire when it's cold at night, and ensure that the corn soup in this pit is warm, the faster the sour, the better." ”

"After those people brought back the ochre, let them crush it and put it away, and at night weigh the galls brought back by those people, and set out some people to smash all the galls, soak them in water, and filter out the water with a linen cloth in the same way as tofu and tofu residue."

"I'll give it to you...... Well, eight hundred people, just do it. Be sure to do it well. ”

The seven masons who were awarded the important task were overjoyed, and said in their hearts that they were right to stay on the headland island, and that if they returned to Xia Cheng to command eight hundred meritorious officials, they would at least have to be directly under the control of the Sixth Division, and there were only a dozen in the entire Xia City, and they were still two or three steps away from their merits.

With this idea of wanting to behave well, the seven masons hurriedly said: "Where can I use eight hundred people for this little thing, only two hundred people are enough." ”

"Two hundred men are enough now, but they will not be enough in the future. You take care of these 800 people first, and then choose one of the 20 or 30 people to be the leader. You have to identify all the chosen leaders within half a month. It should not be difficult for you to know how to read, to count, and to draw the calculation of grain and rice. ”

"These 800 men are not only going to do these things these days, but they are also going to take advantage of these days to build houses with men, all of them made of bricks. I will tell you the number of heights and widths, which include two large barns, a large workshop, and a room for four hundred people, and a dining room for two hundred. Four hundred people lived in a hut according to ten people, as long as they could sleep. It may be a little difficult to complete these things in half a month, but I don't care, and no one else cares. As you know, I asked the company to send some more people back to Xia City, and if you do it within a month, and these people don't complain, when those people come, they will only be your deputies. ”

"I will calculate the necessary bricks, stones, tools, corn, meat, fish, and salt for the completion of the reward, and you will divide the rest. And these houses don't need to have a roof, as long as they have a large frame. ”

After finishing speaking, Jian Chen stretched out a finger and said, "Half a month!" Only half a month. If you do that and do not complain, you will be one more meritorious than before. The opportunity is rare, and when the group of people in Xia Cheng comes a month later, I am afraid that someone who thinks it is difficult can do it, and then you will have to slowly boil it down. It left a bad impression on me again, and I won't think of you first if there is any good thing in the future. ”

Several people agreed without dropping, and recalled in their hearts all the various co-ordination methods and incentives they had learned when Xia Cheng was working, thinking about how to allocate these eight hundred people to complete this matter in half a month.

As for the pool of corn soup, no one has long thought about what it is used for. (To be continued.) )