Chapter 142: The Silver Sword Army

I'm going to give you a geography lesson today, what is geography? Intuitively, to put it simply, is the land under our feet. It is the water, the mountains, and the earth beneath our feet. Looking at the direction of mountains and rivers is geography. But, is there any point in any of this? ’

'Geography is people-centered. Geography exists because of people, and like history, there is geography only when there are people, and when we study geography, the relationship between man and land should be the core field of geography. Animals don't think about geography, they just act instinctively. Today, Li Chen is talking about geography, and to be honest, he has a lot of trouble sorting this out, and he doesn't know where to find relevant information.

In this day and age, even maps are sketchy and not readable to everyone. Like modern times, mountains, rivers and sulfur deposits are just basic knowledge that we have to memorize, and no one will take him seriously. But in ancient times, these were forbidden, and not many people would care, and most people had never stepped out of their villages for dozens of miles in their lives.

The reason why some of the uprisings of the people failed is very simple, they are all ignorant and uninformed. Wherever you go, you can fight. They don't understand the environment. Take the rebellion of Wang Xiaobo in Sichuan at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, which rose up quickly and almost swept Sichuan. But he just didn't think of going to the Sword Pavilion and blockading the entire Sichuan.

The Sword Pavilion was knocked down, the door was blocked, and they said that Wang was not a problem for a while according to Sichuan, and further, they could also attack Hanzhong, so that they would have the capital to dominate the world. At that time, the Song Dynasty was newly established, and if they made such a fuss, they might lose the country. It's a pity they just don't.

Therefore, Li Chen found it easy to get a little bit of history, and it was difficult to get some geography-related knowledge. It is not easy to find some geography books, not nothing, he wants to find the more famous geography books before the Tang Dynasty, the Hanshu Geography and the Water Scripture Note, but it is really difficult to find. Fortunately, he had an idea...

"Actually, geography has another name, you can call it public opinion, kanyu or feng shui", that's right, Li Chen accidentally remembered that in fact, there were other geography in ancient China, that is, feng shui, or kanyu or public land.

'Feng Shui is one of the geography, but not the whole story. It is geography, because it involves people, and it involves mountains and rivers. But this is only a small part of geography, and the bigger picture, for example, mineral deposits, such as water control, all involve geography. ’

'Geography, to put it mildly, even human activities are geography, human geography. For example, the South Ship and the North Horse... It's not geography, it's be. Those nomads live in pursuit of water and grass, we are an agricultural people, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, just the agricultural people and the nomads have to be divided, because the rainfall in the north is reduced, it is not suitable for farming, this is not geography, but also part of geography. ’

Li Chen said it and got out of class. Then Wei Xuan came over to report about the construction of Jitian and the orphanage in Barrel Bridge Town. After Li Chen determined the pattern of Barrel Bridge Town, he let Wei Xuan keep an eye on it. This time, Li Chen was not in a hurry to work, although he said that he would do it well a day earlier and make money a day earlier, but he was not the same now. Without the urgency of the desperate bet at the beginning, it is natural that there is no hurry.

At the beginning, he relied on a wine shop, and he wanted to build a building covering an area of 20 acres and more than a dozen buildings.

Besides, this time it is a cooperation between the two parties, not a matter of him alone, Zhang Tong and Lao Immortal seem to have some troubles recently.

The last time Lao Xun's incident was not accidental, after Niu Lao Si died, the whole Pengcheng began to be chaotic, and several new gangs of all sizes were established. These people are not as cautious as Niu Laosi used to be, and they meddle in a lot of shops, which brings a lot of trouble to the two of them, and they don't have the heart to pay attention to the affairs of Barrel Bridge Town, so Li Chen is simply lazy.

'The affairs of the orphanage are being supervised. I walked outside Pengcheng and picked a manor, planning to buy it and rebuild it according to the owner's blueprint. In Li Chende's imagination, he didn't just plan to build an orphanage, not to build a few rooms, so that they could have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

He planned to use the orphanage as a place to bet on his ideals. He hadn't forgotten the idea of changing the world. Since we want to change, we can't be alone, and it is not enough for him to gain strength alone.

He wants to turn the orphanage into a small school, an all-encompassing small school. Just like what he is doing now, teaching all the children out, teaching them experiments, teaching them to practice, so it takes a lot of places, there are laboratories, there are craft classrooms, and basic general classrooms and dormitories are indispensable. So he drew a blueprint and asked Wei Xuan to find a craftsman to follow it, and because of this, the progress of Barrel Bridge Town Elysium was not fast.

"Well, after you decide to start construction, first find a place where you can live for a lot of people, and then take some of it in, and then move in when it's all done." The orphanage can't be built in the short term, but those orphans can't wait, the weather is still very hot, but in a few months, the weather will cool down, and I don't know how many people will freeze to death at that time.

Li Chen decided to find various places first, shelter those orphans, temporarily put up shelves, and teach them basic literacy and arithmetic first.

By the way, master, the servant has bought another batch of new tea, which has just been delivered. ''Okay, I see. Li Chen nodded in gratitude, and took a jar from his shelf, "I have made some new tea, you can take it and drink it to give some advice." ''Thank you, master. Wei Xuan's face was so happy that he walked out with the tea can.

Li Chen took down another jar, took out a small stove, threw some charcoal into it, took out the fire and burned the charcoal, put on the small teapot, took out the book to read, and waited for the water to boil. After waiting for a while, the water boiled, and the boiling water was washed into the small red clay teapot on the side.

Meimei drank a cup of tea, and Li Chen sighed with satisfaction, this is tea. Although the taste is a little insufficient, this is modern tea, and it is no longer the tea that is too bitter in the Tang Dynasty and needs to add a lot of seasonings.

This is Li Chen's latest achievement, although it is not perfect, but it is quite close to modern tea.

These days, Li Chen has asked Wei Xuan to collect a lot of raw tea, which is not easy, because the tea leaves are processed near the production area before they come out. Very few people will sell raw tea. Wei Xuan, through his previous relationship, only got dozens of catties of raw tea and let Li Chen practice.

Li Chen sorted it out according to the previous one, and the modern tea process began to be slowly tested, and it was more appropriate to dry it until it was dried before putting it away and continuing to ferment. How long does fermentation take to be good, these are all attempts.

Finally, you should also pay attention to how much you want to fry the tea, it is definitely not directly fried to dry, laborious, and modern tea has to be processed, and there is kneading and drying at the end, so you should also pay attention to how much it is more appropriate to fry.

After a few days of hard work, Li Chen made the first batch of tea. After tasting, the taste is okay. He first introduced this fresh method to Wei Xuan.

'Okay. When Wei Xuan tasted it, he high-fived and admired, "Just looking at this color, it is pleasing to the eye." The smell of fragrance is fragrant and penetrates into the heart and lungs. The taste is bitter and then sweet, this tea is good. At the moment, Wei Xuan became the first fan of Li Chen's new tea.

Li Chen sipped the tea, flipped through the records, and thought about how to test next time. Actually, summer tea is not the best, and it can even be said to be the worst tea. He had heard that it seemed that it was only when the climate was cold that good tea could be grown. Spring tea seems to be the best, winter tea doesn't seem to lose to it, and the worst is summer tea. But it doesn't matter, it's an experiment anyway.

'Do you want to buy a tea mountain?' After tasting tea, Li Chen thought while packing up the tea set. After packing up the tea set, I started today's routine inspection again.

Inspecting the Qinglou, Li Chen looked at it a little, and then planned to leave. It's a shame, a huge number of people who have been trained like grandsons. Eighty percent failed to challenge again, and it is said that this time the challenge failed again, and several of them seemed to want to worship Ah Yong as a teacher. Therefore, seeing them like this, Li Chen simply stopped looking at them and left immediately.

'You wait first, Erniang has something to ask you for. Li Chen was about to leave, when Xiaohong came over and said that Yang Er had asked him to discuss things.

'Starring? Or is it a handsome? Isn't that a good thing? Yang Er invited Li Chen to discuss, saying that the Xuzhou Festival envoy invited her to appear on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the team of Paradise was also invited.

'Alas, if it's just a handsome, that's fine, but the problem is that the performance is for the Silver Sword Army. ''Oh? What's wrong with the Silver Knife Army. ', Silver Sword Army, Pengcheng Four Coquettish or the First of the Four Evils, Li Chen has been famous for a long time, but he has no personal pain, and he has no feeling for the head of the Four Evils, so he doesn't know Yang Er's hesitation.

You don't understand. Yang Er glared at Li Chen, "Isn't it good?" The envoy invited us to go, and it should be to ****. Do you look down on those who serve as soldiers and eat food? There is an art team in the modern army, and the main responsibility is ****, using singing and dancing to let the officers and soldiers relax and relax, but he always thought that it was only in the modern army. But I didn't expect that there would be **** activities in the Tang Dynasty.

Please Yang Er go, probably the host. She has to play the same role as a modern host, and she is really responsible for the performance, and she has to rely on Bliss.

What should I prepare? In good conscience, Li Chen feels that **** this activity should be good. Probably influenced by modern times, Li Chen's impression of the Tang Dynasty army was not so bad.

All right... The difference between the ancient army and the modern army should be quite big, judging from Yang Erde's expression, she really hates this activity, it seems that she really doesn't have a good impression of the army, otherwise she wouldn't express it so unabashedly.

Forget it, if you don't like it, don't take it. In the end, Li Chen still decided to refuse, seeing that Yang Er didn't like it so much, although he didn't think it was good, no matter what, it was a party that had to be invited.

Yang Er shook her head, and in the end she didn't say anything, just set a date, and then decided.