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When Liu Cheng heard Hao Shaoqi's voice, he turned his head and laughed loudly: "Master Lu has arrived, don't blame me for being rude." Come, put the venison on the rack, start roasting, and bring the wine! ”

Lu Boqi came into the pavilion, Liu Cheng also came up from the pool, the orchid wiped Liu Cheng quickly, put on a wide robe, and both of them lay down on the short couch, the low table was full of all kinds of snacks and dried fruits, and there was a burst of meat fragrance on the side. Lu Boqi saw that the orchid was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with blue eyes, brown hair, apricot eyes and peach cheeks, delicate and incoherent, compared with the women of the Central Plains, she had a unique charm. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Lord Liu, I went to your house to look for you today, but I didn't see you, it turned out that I was hiding in this gentle township!" ”

"Lord Lu said he was laughing!" Liu Cheng smiled and poured a glass of wine for Lu Boqi: "She is the daughter of the leader of the Asut tribe, she was defeated by me, her father and brother were killed, and the soldiers who captured her sacrificed her to me!" I found this place before I set out on the expedition, let people clean it up, just come back to enjoy it, wash the dust on my body, there are many people in the city, it is not as convenient as here. ”

"Ahh Lu Boqi was taken aback: "This person is the daughter of the enemy, but you stay by your side, it's not suitable, right?" ”

"It's okay!" Liu Cheng smiled: "Just listen to her play the tune, and if she leaves me, her fate will only be worse!" Speaking of this, Liu Cheng patted the female orchid on the thigh: "Come, my lark, play a tune and let Lord Lu listen to it!" ”

The orchid answered, and stepped aside to play and sing, and Lu Boqi noticed that the instrument in her hand was somewhat like a lute, but it was smaller in shape and much faster in tempo. He couldn't understand the words of the song he sang, but his voice was crisp and sweet, and it was unforgettable. At the end of the song, Liu Cheng clapped his hands and praised: "Okay, good, it's a pity that my lark can't speak Chinese yet, otherwise it would be better!" ”

At this time, the venison had already been roasted, and the servants sent it up, Liu Cheng cut a piece of it and sent it to Lu Boqi, and kept a piece for himself, and let Hao Shaoqi distribute the rest to the guards outside. Lu Boqi took two bites and felt a little tired, so he put down his chopsticks. He saw that Liu Cheng had finished eating, and said with a smile: "General Liu, I came today to congratulate you!" ”

"Michiga?" Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Isn't it the matter of the Eastern Crusade?" I am a grasshopper on a rope with you, rejoicing together! ”

When Lu Boqi heard Liu Cheng say this, his face couldn't help but feel a little hot, and he smiled bitterly: "General Liu, although what you said is good, I still feel a little ashamed!" ”

"You can't say that!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "The two of us are old partners, we have been partners since Yanzhou, if it is someone else, I really don't dare to kill it like this, maybe something will go wrong when I come back." 【】Lord Lu, don't worry, as long as you don't dislike me Liu Cheng is arbitrary, I will definitely not change someone else! ”

Hearing Liu Cheng say this, Lu Boqi was a little embarrassed, but more joyful, he didn't know what to say, but he saw Zhao Wende coming in from the outside room, he saw Lu Boqi here stunned, Liu Cheng saw him, and said with a smile: "It's Mr. Zhao, is there something wrong?" ”

"Well, there's news from Jingshi!" Zhao Wende arched his hand and took out a document from his sleeve, Liu Cheng nodded and tapped his palm twice. The orchid and the servants got up and left, and only Liu Cheng, Lu Boqi, Zhao Wende, and Hao Shaoqi were left in the huge courtyard.

"My lord, it's Lord Yang's urgent letter!" Zhao Wende saw Liu Cheng's attitude, obviously he had no intention of hiding it from Lu Boqi, so he said in a calm tone: "The thieves captured Zhongdu, the imperial tomb was destroyed, the Son of Heaven was furious, and he has already sent a decree to let Hong Chengchou commit suicide, and he will also transfer the border army into the pass to pacify the thieves!" ”

"What?" Lu Boqi's eyes widened, and he almost dropped the wine glass in his hand to the ground: "Let Hong Chengchou commit suicide?" ”

"Hmm!" Zhao Wende's expression was also very serious, and he handed the letterhead to Liu Cheng: "Lord Yang wrote very vaguely in the letter, but the meaning is very clear. He suggested that the three divisions should be tried, but the saint said, 'You can't punish the doctor, and you can't give the courtesy', which is obviously because he already hates Lord Hong to the extreme, and he doesn't even want to give him the opportunity to be tried, and wants to directly force him to commit suicide! ”

Liu Cheng didn't answer, but carefully read the letterhead twice, and then threw it into the stove on the side, until the tongue of fire swallowed up the last bit of paper, and then he sighed: "The saint is really an urgent child, Lord Lu, what do you think?" ”

"This-" Lu Boqi looked at Zhao Wende, and swallowed back when the words came to his lips. Seeing this, Liu Cheng smiled and said: "Lord Lu, there are only four of us here, Zhao Wende is my confidant, as for waving the flag, I entrusted my life to him, what else do you have to say?" ”

"Lord Liu, will the Holy Lord transfer you to the mainland?"

"Probably not, even if I transfer, I won't agree!" Liu Cheng's answer was categorical, making Lu Boqi stunned: "Lord Lu, you have been with me all these years, I, Liu Cheng, have worked hard to fight for so many years, just like a farmer plowing the land, and finally the autumn harvest is in sight, but someone wants to drive me away, he came to harvest, do you think I am willing?" Would you be willing to change you? ”

"But, but!"

"Nothing!" Liu Cheng sneered: "I worked hard to take the land of Monan, if I am transferred to the mainland to fight the thieves, won't I give these to the Donglu in vain?" If he is in a hurry, I will kill all the way to Beijing, so what's the harm in cutting him? ”

Lu Boqi was so frightened that he couldn't speak, he peeked at Zhao Wende and Hao Shaoqi, but found that the two looked as usual, obviously they had already heard Liu Cheng's rebellious words. He thought about it for a while and decided not to provoke the bad luck, and it was better to act when the opportunity came.

"General Liu, you've drunk too much, this joke is very funny!" Lu Boqi snorted and wanted to perfunctory this matter, but Liu Cheng refused to let it go: "Lord Lu, you have been in the cold for ten years, and you have been admitted to the examination, and you have been in the career for more than ten years, and you are only a Zhizhou." But you have only known me for three or four years, and I am already a squire of the Ministry of War, the Governor Xuan, the Governor of Shanxi, and the military affairs of Shanxi and the management of food and salary, and it is only one step away from entering the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister. Do you say that the son of the Zhu family treats you well, or does I treat someone Liu well? ”

"It's not easy to compare!" Lu Boqi was forced into the corner by Liu Cheng, his forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but glance at Hao Shaoqi on the side to see if the other party had drawn his knife out of the sheath and stepped forward to threaten himself.

"Huh!" Liu Cheng laughed twice: "Master Lu, I know what you're worried about, so I'll let you see something today and let you rest assured." Speaking of this, Liu Cheng tapped his palm twice, and Hao Shaoqi took something from the outside and put it in front of Lu Boqi. Lu Boqi looked at it, but it was an iron cylinder, and there were four or five black mud cakes, and he couldn't see anything unusual. He couldn't help but ask Liu Cheng, "What is this?" “

Liu Cheng smiled, didn't answer, walked to the iron cylinder, first took the iron frame from above, and then put a piece of mud cake into the iron cylinder with iron tongs, and then pulled a few pieces of shredded paper from the side and stuffed it into the small mouth under the iron cylinder, lit the shredded paper with a flint, and after a while, green smoke came out from the top of the iron cylinder. Liu Cheng put the iron shelf back on the iron cylinder, put a teapot on the iron shelf, and after a while, he saw that the spout of the teapot was steaming. Only then did Lu Boqi realize that the iron cylinder was a furnace.

"General Liu, is this a stove?" Lu Boqi asked.

"Lord Lu is right."

"This stove is very delicate!" Lu Boqi smiled, but he was a little disdainful in his heart, no matter how delicate the stove was, it was just a stove, Liu Cheng solemnly showed this thing, it was too much of a fuss, could this stove make him follow him with all his heart?

How did Liu Cheng see Lu Boqi's thoughts, he was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Lord Lu must not have seen the beauty of this furnace, so let me ask Lord Lu a question first, which season of Mongolia is the most difficult in the grassland?" ”

"It's winter, naturally." Lu Boqi replied.

"Yes, everything is dry in winter, and the livestock have no forage, so they can only rely on hay to survive, and the grassland departments are indeed the most difficult!" Liu Cheng laughed: "What if I could provide enough hay feed for the Mongolian ministries in winter?" ”

"This—" Lu Boqi was dumbfounded, and was speechless for a while. It is no wonder that he was so surprised, as we all know, the nomadic economy on which the peoples of the steppe depend is much more fragile than the agricultural economy of the Central Plains, and there are two biggest reasons for this: First, the main products of the nomadic economy are dairy products and meat, and the first two are much more difficult to store than the grains produced by farming, so the farmers can easily rely on the food stored in the autumn for the winter, while the herders have a hard time doing this. Second, farmers can store the harvested grains and use these seeds to sow seeds after spring. But in the fall, herders have to kill their animals that don't have enough fodder for the winter, so as not to starve to death and waste fodder. In other words, as long as there is enough land, farmers can expand their sown area almost indefinitely and get more harvests; The upper limit of the livestock population that a herder can maintain is determined by the amount of forage that can be stored in winter, and even if he breeds more livestock in summer and autumn (the amount of forage on the steppe in summer and autumn is almost unlimited), in autumn these animals that exceed the limit of forage can only be turned into meat and leather, and cannot enter the next round of expanded reproduction. It is not difficult to see that in order to increase the livestock storage capacity of grassland herders, the most important thing is to solve their winter feed sources, if this problem can be solved, in a very short period of time, the herders have livestock and population to achieve an explosive growth.

"Could it be that this stove can solve the hay problem?"

"Not bad!" Liu Cheng smiled: "Lord Lu is a southerner, like a farmer in the north, most of the cooking at home is straw and wheat straw, and those who can use dry firewood and charcoal are already from middle-class or above families." My honeycomb coal is made of yellow mud, pulverized coal, and wood chips, and the cost is low, if you just cook rice and cook vegetables, it will be enough for two or three yuan a day. If the farmers use this to cook vegetables, not all the straw and wheat grass will be saved, and it can be used for the herdsmen's livestock to survive the winter! ”

"That's a solution! It's just that although the honeycomb coal is cheap, it always costs money, and the straw wheat straw is their own thing, and they don't need to spend a penny, so how can farmers be willing to spend money to burn the adult's honeycomb coal and give the straw and wheat grass to the herdsmen? ”

"Lord Lu, that's a good question!" Liu Cheng slapped his palms and smiled: "It's also thanks to Jiansheng that he came up with a countermeasure." Come, Jiansheng, please talk to Lord Lu! ”

"Yes, sir!" Zhao Wende said respectfully: "I thought of two ways: first, how much straw and wheat grass the herdsmen eat, they would give the farmers a voucher, and then the farmers could use these vouchers to come to the adults to receive honeycomb coal; Adults, on the other hand, can use this voucher to collect ponies from herders after their livestock are bred in the spring, and put them in the horse prison for raising; The second method is to have herders also burn honeycomb coal, which is dried with livestock manure and used to exchange it with farmers, who can use this manure to accumulate fertilizer, and make up for the deficiency with leather and wool. Now both methods are being tested in the Hetao area to see the pros and cons of each, consider them, and then promote them! ”

When Lu Boqi heard this, he couldn't help but high-five. Liu Cheng's method is complicated, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to use the excavated fossil energy to replace the straw and dry manure produced by agricultural planting for heating, and then use these originally burned straw straw to make up for the shortcomings of the nomadic economy in winter feed shortage, so that it will not stay at a very low level of simple cycle, can develop to the next stage, and at the same time use a large amount of manure and animal power produced by the nomadic economy to supplement agriculture, to achieve complementary agriculture and animal husbandry, and improve each other's strategy. Although the invention of honeycomb coal does not seem to have too high scientific and technological content, and it cannot bring too many direct economic benefits to Liu Cheng, it can directly penetrate the tentacles into the lowest level of the social economy, and the indirect economic and social benefits that can be produced are astronomical.

"Actually, this matter is still troublesome Lord Lu!" Liu Cheng picked up the teapot from the tin stove, poured the already boiling tea into the tea bowl, and then picked up the tea bowl and sent it to Lu Boqi. Lu Boqi hurriedly took the tea bowl and asked cautiously, "I don't know what the matter is!" ”

"That's the honeycomb thing!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "You also know, I, Liu Cheng, have the final say on the Hetao, but Datong is another matter, at least those states and counties don't care too much." Lord Lu, you are the governor of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi military affairs and management of food and salary, one sentence is better than a hundred sentences of me Liu Cheng! ”

"The general is too modest, if it's just honeycomb coal, it shouldn't be a big deal!" Lu Boqi was relieved to hear that it was just honeycomb coal, in his opinion, it was just a gesture, and Liu Cheng had never let himself down in terms of making money.

"Of course it's just this honeycomb coal thing!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "I have almost prepared the workers for the site selection of the coal mine, and the iron furnace has also started in Chaoyi, with a daily output of 500." I also set the price, one and a half taels, if I buy it, I will get two hundred honeycomb coals, which is almost enough for a family to boil water for cooking for a month! (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.