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Hu Wubiao, the commander of Yuanyin County, was sitting in a hole in a cave and writing official documents, and not far from his bookcase, two boys were gathered on the edge of the fire, each with a sand board on his knees, holding chopsticks in his hands, and was learning to write stroke by stroke. The two boys were left behind by his brother Hu Wuban and are now being raised by him.

Compared to the howl of the wind outside, the inside of the cave seemed very warm.

After the autumn sowing, Hu Wubiao personally led the team and organized Minzhuang to lead cattle and horses to the north of Yuanyin to look for peat.

The peat in that place was not only shallow but also very abundant, and the people just dug down casually and found large chunks of peat. Hu Wubiao informed Ling Changlin of the discovery to Lingchanglin in Yuanyang County, and then the people of the two counties worked together, some in charge of excavation, and some in charge of transportation, taking advantage of the weather to cool down to the point of freezing, to bring back a large amount of peat.

Some craftsmen came from the stone side, and taught the people of the two counties how to build a clay oven in the house, how to bury the pottery pipes into the wall, and then stick out from the top of the cave, and then seal it with white mud to ensure that there is no trace of poisonous gas.

Although the tandoor is a bit troublesome, the use of the pan after the plate is really convenient. This tandoor not only adds temperature to the inside of the cave, but also allows for placing iron pots and copper basins on top of the mouth of the furnace, which can then be used to boil water or even cook.

For such a convenient and affordable tandoor, every family competed to build it, because people found that burning peat was much cheaper and cheaper than burning firewood, and a cart of peat was enough for a family of three to survive the cold winter.

Because of such a stove that benefits the people, no one has frozen to death since the beginning of winter in Yuanyin County and Yuanyang County.

Hu Wubiao is writing an official letter to the Tiance Prefecture, the main content of which is to vigorously promote the use of tandoors in the northern part of Bingzhou, and then prohibit people from cutting down trees for firewood, ensuring vegetation cover, and preventing large amounts of loess from being washed away during the rainy season. In addition, Hu Wubiao suggested that women should stay in warm caves during the cold winter months to spin and weave cloth, so that children could gather to read and write, that the elderly should play straw sandals, and that men should go to the mountains to mine.

In a word, Hu Wubiao strictly followed Lu Bu's idea of "those who don't work, don't eat" in his internal politics, and he felt that after solving the people's food and clothing, everyone should have something to do, and they couldn't hide in a warm cave all day long.

When Hu Wubiao was busy writing official documents, Changlin, the commander of Yuanyang County, was also not idle. He took some of his men to the newly completed village of Lüjia and asked Lü Bu's mother, Huang, about weaving and printing techniques.

Chang Lin and Hu Wubiao coincided with his thoughts, he felt that there were large areas of slopes and hills in Yuanyang County where mulberry hemp could be grown, and after these mulberry hemp were planted, there would be materials for spinning and weaving, so that the women in the county could have something to do in the long winter, turning the twine and silk thread into horses of linen and silk. And these cloths can be sold to the Hu people in the north through the Yuanyin grass market, and then exchanged for cheap livestock and wealth from them.

Huang, as the mother of General Lu Bu, has a noble status, but he has no arrogance. She welcomed Chang Lin's arrival, and felt that this weak county magistrate had brains, unlike some officials, who were willing to put down the shelves and ask for advice on textile and printing and dyeing skills.

The Huang family gathered the skilled women of the village and demonstrated to Changlin from the first process, until a white cloth was dyed into a beautifully patterned and colorful cloth.

Although the Huang family is spicy by nature and attaches more importance to money, since Lu Bu became a force, she has taken the matter of accumulating wealth much lightly.

After Chang Lin left, Lu Liang turned his back and asked the Huang family: "Aren't you afraid that after those eating skills are learned, the Lu family's dyeing workshop will have less business?" ”

Huang replied to Lu Liang and said: "You old man, don't think that I am a woman, and my eyes are shallow!" My son is now sitting on a state and a state, and the Lu family is still worried about food and clothing? In the future, if you sit in the country, the people of the world are my son's people, if any family is not well fed and clothed, I have to worry about it? ”

Lu Liang was taken aback by his wife's unwarranted generosity and self-confidence, and hurriedly said to Huang: "You can just say a few words to me, in front of outsiders, don't say it, otherwise it will cause great trouble to your son!" ”

Ten miles west of Shicheng, there is a village where displaced people are settled, and Zhang Ergou and Li Dadon, two single households, live here.

Because there was no one else in the family, and the number of caves in Xinhoop was limited, the government temporarily placed them in a cave after obtaining their consent. The two of them worshiped the heavens and knocked on the earth to become brothers with different surnames, and then worked in the fields together, went home together to make a fire and cook, and the days gradually became normal.

On this morning, the weather was fine, Li Dadonkey and Zhang Ergou got up early, washed their faces indiscriminately, and then carried the Hu cakes made the night before, and hurried in the direction of Shicheng.

Recently, Lishicheng is being built, and the government pays money and grain, and hires people to work. Li Dadonkey and Zhang Ergou stayed at home and had nothing to do, so they came to the city to work as a part-time job to earn some money and food.

Zhang Ergou asked Li Dadonkey: "When you save enough money in the future, how do you want to spend it?" ”

Li Dadonkey thought for a while and replied, "I want to open a food shop in Lishi City, and let passers-by buy the food I make every day." ”

"Why don't you buy the land?" Zhang Ergou asked a little puzzled.

Li Da Donkey said angrily: "What's the use of buying so many fields? I can't plant it all after I am tired and tired! I like to cook all kinds of food for people to eat, and I don't like farming. ”

Zhang Ergou disagrees with Li Dadonkey's ideals and ambitions, and he secretly thinks in his heart that when he has saved enough money in the future, he will buy fields and livestock, and then fill the family's granary with grain, raise big fat pigs in the pigsty, and raise roosters and hens in the chicken pen.

In the backyard of Tiance Mansion, as soon as it was dawn, Lu Wen urged Guo Huai and Hao Zhao to come to the martial arts training ground.

Although Lu Bu led the army to fight outside, the practice of martial arts by the three of them did not fall for a day.

Because of the cold weather, Lu Wen followed the method taught by her father, and first took Guo Huai and Hao Zhao to jog in small steps on the martial arts training ground for more than a dozen laps, so that the body was warm and the muscles and bones were stretched.

Lu Wen's weapon is a gun, Guo Huai likes to use a knife, and Hao Zhao is a spear. Before the three of them officially practiced using weapons, they first tied their horses for half an hour, then lifted the stone lock a hundred times, and then hung on the iron bar to practice bending their arms upward, and waited for the strength exercise to end, and then began to actually use the weapon.

Although there was no one to supervise the three of them, they didn't dare to relax in the slightest, because as long as Lu Bu returned to the mansion, he would inevitably have to test their martial arts.