"Your Excellency has been wronged in the body of a prince, and you have been exempted from being a commoner, although your family is quite rich and does not have to work hard, but the August levy is imminent, and then it is a conscription, is there any difficulty? But where the power can be, I am. ”

Cao Shi told him a fact, the Han Dynasty was based on the Qin law's military merit lord name field system, the marquis was at the top of the twentieth level of the lord, enjoying many privileges and benefits, Fan It was widely lost marquis was swept to the end, from the liehou to the zero-level civil lord of the common people, the family to bear the poll tax, a part of the levy can not be less, a thousand troubles piled up in front of him enough to make him uncomfortable.

Fan Itguang's face was embarrassed: "What the prince said is very true, although I was exempted from being a commoner, but the family has accumulated a lot of money in the past few decades, and the family is very worried about being robbed by robbers on the road, even if he returns to his hometown in Pei County safe and sound, he has no relatives and no acre of land, and he is very worried about being exploited and squeezed by cool officials, and there are more than 80 people in the family who stutter food and clothing is a large expense, and it will not take three years to fall into extreme poverty." ”

"It's better to stay in my Pingyang Hou Mansion, this place is only three days away from the Jingshi, and you can get the news of the Jingshi at any time, maybe the Son of Heaven will lose his anger and reinstate Your Excellency as the Marquis of Wuyang."

"But a shameless white eater is the ...... of the prince"

Cao Shi knew that he was moved: "Your Excellency has been familiar with the etiquette rules and regulations of the Liehou, I want to ask Your Excellency to be my etiquette writer, in charge of the etiquette system of the Hou Mansion to guide my words and deeds, according to the rules of the Hou Mansion, how about giving a rank of 200 stones?" Your clansmen are virtuous and talented, and they can serve in the Hou Mansion. ”

"Thank you for your great kindness, it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." Fan It bowed down suddenly, raised his head again, and immediately changed his face, and took the posture of the division commander to Cao Shi to admonish Cao Shi about how the marquis treated the family officials back then, and he had to go to Hou Guozhong to inspect several times a month in the Hou country, and the five big and three thick strong men actually crackled and said for two hours without stopping, so that Cao Shi rubbed his brows and shouted and looked away.

The next morning, Uncle Chen walked back panting, followed by seven or eight honest men, Cao Shi saw them carrying cages and packages as if fleeing, only to find out that these people were blacksmiths recruited from Hedong County.

Cao Shi stared at the big man with five big and three thick and asked, the young man with a big bag was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he spoke in Hedong Anyi: "My name is Lian Ji, a native of Anyi Yuwang Township, the family has been a goldsmith for generations, according to my Taigong, the ancestors have built a blade for King Wei Hui, and I heard Chen Jiacheng say that the Hou Mansion recruits blacksmiths, and if you are willing to go, you will give me a thousand yuan to settle in, my father is unwilling to come, I think it is appropriate, so I came." ”

"You slave, you said it before the prince drove it." Lu Bu scolded Lian Ji, and said after a pause: "Lian Ji's craftsmanship in casting bronze is very powerful, and since the founding of Emperor Gao, iron has gradually gained the upper hand, and no one uses bronze before starting to learn iron-making, although learning is relatively late, but the smelting technology is still very powerful, and it has become famous in Hedong by Lian Ji." ”

Lu Buxian hinted that Lian Ji's skills are good, and if the prince wants to employ people, don't punish him excessively, otherwise he won't be able to do anything without such a talent.

Fan Itguang held the bamboo slip in his hand and questioned: "Lu is not harmful, Qi people, Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, huh?" Qi people Lu Lianzi is your ancestor, why did you choose to smelt iron as a career? ”

"In the next first Gong Lu Lianzi swore not to be the Qin people, two generations later Qin Annihilation Qi fled into the Yandi mountains to avoid disaster, after the death of Qin, he intended to cross the Yellow River west to honor the Han King, but the Wei War continued, my family was almost taken captive as a soldier, so he had to hide in Anyi to learn the iron-smelting process to be exempted from military service, and since then it has been the third generation in the next." Lu is not harmful, neither humble nor arrogant, and it can be seen that he is very proud of his ancestors.

"Lu Lianzi, that is the one who would rather go to the East China Sea and die than be the people of the Qin State, the righteous man of the Qi State!" Cao Shi looked at the unattractive man in surprise, he really had the posture of a famous man of the Warring States Period, only Lu Lianzi was the most patriotic in the Warring States family, and the treacherous rentier villain of Su Qin and Zhang Yi was far worse than him.

"Don't dare to be a prince and marquis."

"Then Lu Buxian will be the blacksmith's supervisor, and his rank will be more than a hundred stones."

Lu Buxian said goodbye to joy, and the craftsmen turned around and walked out to greet the relatives and helpers waiting outside the mansion, and after a while, more than 100 people were arranged in the iron-smelting workshop outside the Hou mansion.

There is an iron-smelting workshop in the Hou Mansion, and the usual work is only to make some iron farm tools used in the Hou Mansion, or repair the weapons and objects in the Hou Mansion, so the blacksmiths of the Hou Mansion live a very idle life, and only when the farm is busy will they be a little busier.

But his good days soon came to an end.

In the morning, people entered the blacksmith workshop, and in the afternoon, Cao Shi came to the scene to urge the blacksmiths to start smelting iron, and saw the red charcoal shoveled into the stove one by one, Cao Shi's brows furrowed tightly: "Why use the wood in the mountains as fuel, the water and soil in the east of the river are precious, and the trees have the effect of consolidating the soil and protecting the land, I remember that there is charcoal on the mountain that can be used as smelting fuel, why don't you use coal?" ”

The mountains he mentioned were the mountains in the western part of the Hou Kingdom, and there were many open-pit coal mines called black stones between the mountains, and these mountains were called black stone mountains, and many of them were exposed and rolled down to the bottom of the mountain with the wind blowing the sun, and the local residents cut wood on the mountains and threw the black stones aside as waste, and no one realized that it would be an amazing fuel.

Lu Buxian said with a smile: "The prince doesn't know, Wei Wuhou also said that the black stone on the mountain can be used to smelt iron, but the iron that the blacksmiths later smelted is hard and brittle, and some of them will break when they touch the sharp bronze, and since then, no one has gradually mentioned the matter of black stone and iron." ”

"Of course you can't make good iron if you do it wrong, this furnace of molten iron will stop working first, Uncle Chen recruited a few people who are looking for mountains and forests to lead the male servants in the house to guess the charcoal on the mountain, I have a lot of use."

Uncle Chen stubbornly asked: "The prince is the lord of a country and all the people look up, and the people will definitely cause criticism in the Hou country, and the Hou Ling Chang Ding Hui is always watching the Hou Mansion's every move with suspicion, has the prince ever thought that this will definitely be known by the Son of Heaven, and it will make our Hou Kingdom in danger?" ”

"I heard that the Jingshi is rumored that the Son of Heaven is going to attack the Marquis, and now the princes are panicked and the government is uneasy, and the important ministers have no mental government to hope that the Son of Heaven will change his mind, and the prince will be impeached by the imperial history if he makes a controversial move."

Fan Itguang cooperated with the persuasion to force Cao Shi to change his strategy: "I heard that a person is not afraid of the shadow crooked, and the words written in the heart will be straight, if I make a move that violates the Han law, even if Uncle Chen and the teacher do not advise, I myself will be weak and short of breath and dare not face myself, I went to the mountain to dig stones to strictly abide by the prohibition of the first emperor to Chi Shan Ze, if the Son of Heaven condemns me to be guilty of failure because I abide by the law, people with a righteous heart in the world will definitely stand up and avenge me." ”

"What the prince said was great." Fan Qiguang closed his mouth very happily, Uncle Chen was stubborn,???? Is it bad? Lang Ш Wan Mo mounted?? Stunned Mu 苁代皇て浞骋粤敹取? What is the aluminum? >pTwo days later, hundreds of servants of the Hou Mansion carried bamboo baskets carrying countless pieces of black charcoal, which were stacked as high as a hill, occupying most of the open space outside the blacksmith's workshop.

Cao Shi picked up a piece of coal weighing seven or eight catties and weighed it a few times: "These are high-quality smokeless charcoal, they can release a very high temperature to melt iron ore, and they can also be used to smelt gray iron into soft sponge iron. ”

"Is the prince referring to the soft iron that was oversmelted when smelting wrought iron? This kind of thing has also been refined in a few pieces, and because of this, he was punished by the first public for wasting charcoal. Lu Buxian recalled the experience of learning ironmaking.

"I have also smelted that kind of cotton iron, but my father called it charcoal iron, like a piece of burned charcoal, sometimes I look at the stove and fall asleep will smelt this kind of scrap iron, my father also beat me a few times, and then I grew up and did not practice again." Lian Ji picked up a wooden shovel and poured coal into the iron furnace, and the five big and three thick men worked quickly.

"Yes, this kind of iron is called sponge iron, you can use it and pig iron to fuse to get high-carbon steel, this method is easier than pig iron frying, this is not to talk about this first, you cast the pig iron pot according to the drawings, and then use the stacked wrought iron to make the wrought iron pot, I will mark the size and specifications for you." Cao Shi picked up the wooden stick and drew three views of the iron pot on the ground, muttering in his heart that he had to make the paper quickly, he really couldn't stand the fly-headed Gu Li on the wooden bamboo slips, and even if he could understand it, he didn't want to look at it.

"This appliance is very similar to a wok, but the woks don't have cranks, and the shape is not so good-looking, is this the new kitchenware created by Junhou Chuangzào?"

"I call it a pot, and I put it on the stove and use charcoal as a fire to cook food, which is more convenient and delicious than cooking in Dading." Cao Shi licked his lips and couldn't help but think of those delicacies, he hadn't eaten a decent meal in the more than ten days he had been here, and the oil and water in his stomach were almost exhausted.

Lian Ji stared at the sketch for a long time, and couldn't figure out how this iron lump could make better food than Da Ding, and only powerful people in this era would use Ding to eat, and Da Ding has always been a symbol of power.

Lu Buxian squatted beside him and looked at it for a while, shaking his head without stopping: "Junhou's drawing method is exquisite, even a novice blacksmith can create a customized iron pot." ”

Cao Shi clapped his hands and stood up: "These iron pots must be perfect, build a few more sets as backups, and I will take a few sets to Beijing in a few days." ”

"Whoa!"

The iron casting workshop of the Pingyang Hou Mansion started overnight, the clanging hammer knocking sound did not stop all night, and the iron trucks and horses transported from Anyi to the Pingyang Hou Mansion continued, and within a few days, it was rumored that the Hou Mansion was making iron tools.

The governor of the Hou country, Hou Ling Changding moved back to the wind and came to the Hou Mansion with the officials of the Hou State in a menacing manner.

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ps: No need to be surprised to use "I" to call, in the Western Han Dynasty, "I" and "I" are mixed, the Son of Heaven, the Queen, and the Queen Mother are also mixed with "I" and "I" in private, the Son of Heaven sometimes uses "Yu", and the Queen Mother sometimes uses "I", the title is particular about the words and sentences of the Venerable, for people with the same status is "I" and "I", and it is also the most common to treat the inferior, or close people "I" and "I".

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