Chapter 44: Spring is busy
Three more truckloads of copper coins were pulled to the room guarded by Mahan, who was now pretending to be a wounded person to "recuperate". Ma Han's eyes are wide open, his young master is making money too fast, right?
Ma Han is a little drumming in his heart, he has been under a lot of pressure recently, guarding a room of money. Now he can't leave his sword. But watching a cart of copper coins move into the house, the more heartfelt it becomes. I know my own ability, and I am not a real master. When you meet a good hand in the martial arts, you can't see it enough for a few moments.
No, this must let the young master know that Ma Han has been running the dart game in the rivers and lakes for a few years, and knows that the dark side of the rivers and lakes exists. After all, the wealth is moving! The young master is careless enough, so much money is just piled up here.
Mahan sighed! Childe, grandfather, have you seen it? Little master, he can finally restore the courtyard for the Liu family! Mahan was sincerely proud, and for the persistence of himself and several brothers, the corners of his eyes inadvertently began to wet.
There is no need to pretend to be wounded anymore, my sister-in-law said that the money was paid by the government. Hmph, you know, this group of grandchildren is going to be unlucky! Don't look at who the owners are? Something that doesn't have eyes! ……
This blacksmith in Luoyang City almost ran out for Changsun Chong, just to make more Xuanyuan plows.
Liu Ao said that he only got two masters, and too many things can't be separated from the blacksmith! The main thing is that the current saws are too easy to break and are not very efficient.
Can you imagine that the horizontal knife that Datang is famous for today is still beaten out of iron embryos? It's too slow, and the fines only stick to the surface. Don't you know that iron is turned into molten iron? Stirring with mineral powder? Do you want to make a model?
It is rumored that a good horizontal knife will take many days for a craftsman to build? No wonder it's so precious!
Through communication with the blacksmith, Liu Ao found that it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, he can also improve a lot of things by using what he has seen and heard in later generations! So, a special space was set aside in the backyard for two blacksmiths. The eldest grandson's old house is big, and the sound of banging in the backyard is not heard much in the classroom.
There are two small bamboo forests in the middle, and a small garden. There's time to really take a turn around this yard. I really haven't gone through it again! The children were able to figure it out when they were peek-a-boo.
Through understanding, Liu Ao knows that today's blacksmiths use a whole piece of coke to make iron, and no one wants toner, and some places are used to fill pits and pave roads. So, Liu Ao told Aunt Wang to buy these carbon foams.
Place is a problem. There's nowhere to put it! Liu Ao let the collected carbon foam be placed on the wasteland next to his family's 100 acres of fertile fields. In Liu Ao's view, there is no difference between barren land and fertile land, 100 acres of fertile land, if the edge is cultivated, 300 acres of fertile land can be cultivated, but now the productivity is low, and it is all barren.
The three hundred and sixty-five households in the south of the city, except for those outside, are now all employed by Liu Ao, there is no way, the weather is gradually getting warmer, these ignorant people, would rather pour the things that people and animals have drained into the river, and they don't know to bury them in the ground, now there is no chemical fertilizer, and it is strange that the crops can grow well?
But the water of the river in Luoyang, Liu Ao didn't know it before, but now he knows, and he was disgusted half to death. Let them stop going to the river to get water, and don't say why.
The eccentric young master asked a boiler for steaming wine to start steaming water, and said that before the groundwater was drawn, his family would eat this water called distilled water, and a large vat of distilled water was transported into the old house.
The old man who transports the water is the old grandson of the winery, and he drank a few sips, not to mention, it is really delicious, there is no strange smell in the past, this water is really clean!
In the past, all the firewood was burned, but now the young master asked people to mix the charcoal foam with soil to form black mud, not to mention that this black mud is really easy to use, not to mention the firepower, it is also resistant to burning, and there is no need to turn off the fire, when not in use, the top is full of black mud paste, and it is done in the morning. It's such a good thing, who would have thought that something that no one wants would be so useful?
The land is barren, and the people who know what they take from the earth are not like words! Liu Ao is now starting to collect the waste of people and animals, I heard that it was pulled to those wasteland outside the city, many people began to clean up the shrubs on it, and then buried the collected waste into the ground, I don't know what this strange boy is going to do.
It's a comfortable job for this errand to do, every day is to supply the water in this old house, and there is a salary every month, and I take care of three meals, three meals!
The old grandson has lived for fifty years, and he feels that the days of being able to eat a full meal every year are countable, and he has been in this wine shop for more than ten days, and he has eaten enough every day, and the daily food is better than what his family eats for the New Year.
There is a grandson in his own family, and his son is a servant in the eldest grandson's mansion, otherwise he and his grandson would have starved to death, I thought that I was old, and I lived in addition to dragging my son, but I didn't expect that I was asked to be this guy, and I felt more comfortable than my son? Wages can also be advanced!
My wife's illness is really going to be cured, I didn't have money before, but now I have advanced a lot of money, I looked at Lang Zhong once, took a few medicines and took them, and now I can walk around.
It's good to let my wife come to Childe's house to work, and look at a lot of young ladies in Childe's house, don't you have to wash your clothes? Well, ask the lady of the Wang family......
In the study room of the old house, Liu Ao, who had just finished giving a lecture to his sister, made himself a pot of tea, and felt that he was really a little powerless now, and there were too few people who could use it with his hands down!
Now his four retainers, each responsible for a piece, Uncle Wang is in charge of the home decoration workshop in Nancheng, Uncle Ma has the best martial arts, he is responsible for guarding the treasury, Uncle Zhang is in charge of the wine shop, and Uncle Zhao is now in charge of his own mansion and is responsible for fertilizing the wasteland outside the city.
Aunt Wang became the chief manager. Every day, I run east and west with clouds. It's really hard for her, so she still has time to come out to wash clothes for herself and her sisters, although Liu Ao emphasized that she should do her own thing, Liu Ao doesn't want her sister to become a delicate lady, and she doesn't even know her most basic life skills.
Aunt Wang didn't do it, but secretly washed the girls' clothes while they were in class. Liu Ao didn't see it, let her be. It's time for me to get a few people to help......
After the beginning of spring, Yan Zifei is going to Chang'an, which is arranged by Liu Ao, here in Luoyang, there is already a teahouse where storytelling is everywhere, and the manuscript of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" has been completed.
"Journey to the West", "Liang Zhu", the revised version of "Bao Qingtian" and "Yang Jiajiang" all wrote a little, and promised to let the caravan to Chang'an bring a manuscript to her every three days, so that she could settle in Chang'an, accept apprentices, and find Cheng Fu if there is any trouble, for this reason, Cheng Chumo also sent a letter back.
Yan Zifei likes this challenge very much, she is a child of the rivers and lakes, and being able to move around is in line with her temperament. The four apprentices she accepted here can already speak on their own, but they just lack a draft.
Liu Ao has no shortage of manuscripts, but he just doesn't have time to write more. Take your time, it will always be written......
What Liu Ao didn't know in his busy schedule was that the convoy of dozens of carriages was setting off from Chang'an at this time, accompanied by a few mighty fast horses, and even a team of ironclad guards......