Liu Ze sat in the car, never leaving the tea shop. It was indeed an unexpected thing to meet Zhang Jiao here. The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious. It seems that Zhang Jiao determined that the day of the uprising was set on Jiazi Day in the year of Jiazi, and the tide of history would never change anything because of his arrival. Just looking at the almost weak appearance of that horn, he was able to do such an earth-shattering thing, a Yellow Turban Uprising that gathered millions of people, dealt a heavy blow to the crumbling Eastern Han Dynasty, and directly promoted the Eastern Han Dynasty to its demise.

It's just that Zhang Jiao was born in the wrong era, and if he was replaced by the late Qin and early Han dynasties, he might become another Liu Bang, or at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty or the beginning of the Ming and Qing dynasties, he would have the opportunity to succeed and become another Zhu Yuanzhang or Li Zicheng, but the protagonists on the stage in the late Han Dynasty were destined to be Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and Zhang Jiao was at best a trickster. gave a trick to a role, Liu Ze refused without thinking about it.

"Big brother, where did those people come from? I've never seen you so dignified? Zhang Fei looked at Liu Ze's bad face and couldn't help asking.

"This person's surname is Zhang Mingjiao, founded Taiping Dao, and used charms to confuse people, and in just a few years, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered, and his power has spread all over Kyushu, and I believe that he will plot a rebellion in less than three or five years."

"Rebellion is a crime of killing the head, and that horn is bold enough. Big brother, we have to sue the government and there is a big bounty. ”

Liu Ze shook his head and said: "Such a whistle-blowing thing is a filthy villain's behavior, and we can't do it, not to mention that there is no basis for the words, there is no evidence, but people are convicted of false accusations." However, Zhang Jiao is not a person who has achieved great things, although he can disturb the chaos in the world, but wanting to overthrow the Han dynasty is tantamount to a fool's dream. ”

All the way north, out of the giant deer, to Zhongshan, straight to Shangquyang County. In the Han Dynasty, there were two counties in Quyang, one was Xiaquyang, and in Jin County, east of modern Shijiazhuang, Zhang Jiao's younger brother Zhang Liang was later killed in battle. The other is Shangquyang, which is in Quyang, west of Dingxian, which is the location of the Dingyao site that Liu Ze is looking for.

Liu Ze checked the teenagers he bought, and there were more than 1,600 of them, more than 1,400 boys, and less than 200 girls. Liu Ze explored the terrain near the Quyang Magnetic Stream, and found that there is a Phoenix Mountain ten miles north of the Magnetic Stream, which is deserted and uninhabited, there is a valley in the mountain, which is extremely spacious and flat, surrounded by cliffs, lush mountains and forests, and clear spring water, which is an ideal place.

After the address is chosen, the first thing you have to do is to have a good relationship with the local parents and officials, after all, so many people are stationed here without the approval of the government, there will definitely be trouble in the future. Liu Ze immediately rushed to Quyang County to meet the Quyang County Commander.

I don't know if I saw Liu Ze's worship post written on the disciple of Lu Zhi, or because Liu Ze is a fellow villager, or because Liu Ze was a fellow villager, or Liu Ze's long gift list touched his heart, after all, the gift list was impressively listed with ten Shu brocades, a pair of white bi and other valuable gifts.

The Chengxian Commander immediately met with Liu Ze, and agreed to Liu Ze's request to build a few new porcelain kilns near Cijian Village, and nodded to Liu Ze's request to place hundreds of child laborers (half of the number of whom Liu Ze concealed) in the Phoenix Valley, but the poll tax could not be exempted. Liu Ze did not expect to be exempted from paying the poll tax, as long as the government agreed to set up a kiln factory in Cijian to settle child laborers. The goal was achieved, and after a few casual greetings, Liu Ze immediately said goodbye.

So he led the crowd into Phoenix Mountain, set up dozens of tents in the wide and flat place in the valley, and spread soft straw mats in the tents, so that they could sleep on the ground, and finally settled more than 1,000 people.

The problem of living is solved, followed by the problem of eating. The Han Dynasty did not have three meals a day like modern times, but adopted two meals a day, eating after sunrise in the morning, which was called Chao Shi, and eating in the afternoon, which was called Shen Shi. Liu Ze understands that the weakness of these teenagers' yellow muscles and thin physique is due to nutrition, and nutrition must keep up with high-intensity training. So he changed his two meals a day to three meals a day, and stipulated that he would have breakfast at six o'clock in the morning, lunch at twelve o'clock at noon, and dinner at six o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Ze also personally ordered the recipe, breakfast for goat milk (there is not enough milk nearby, but the mountain people raise more sheep, goat milk supply is sufficient), porridge, pickles and steamed buns, lunch two dishes and one soup, there are meat and vegetarian, pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish are mixed and eaten, the staple food is rice or noodles, dinner is one meat and one vegetarian two dishes plus steamed buns, basically there is meat and vegetables in a meal, and it is not the same within seven days. All the ingredients were purchased from nearby villages and Quyang County, and Liu Ze also invited more than a dozen chefs to take charge of the cooking, with only one purpose: to let these children eat well.

Liu Ze specially asked a tailor to come to the door to tailor the clothes, and made a uniform suit for everyone, all black suits, narrow sleeves and tight fits, neat and uniform.

Zhang Fei watched the money flow like a stream, but he really didn't understand what Liu Ze was doing, especially eating, he actually changed it to three meals a day, and the food was so rich that even the landlord's old wealth could not be compared, every time he couldn't help but ask Liu Ze, Liu Ze just smiled and said nothing.

Next, Liu Ze formulated a detailed training outline, considering the physical condition of these teenagers at this stage, that is, to carry out some physical strengthening training and basic martial arts, the intensity is not too large. However, this is only temporary, and Liu Ze believes that after three months or six months, this training program will be adjusted. Liu Ze hired several teaching gentlemen and martial artists from the county seat with high salaries, and as for the position of head teacher, Liu Ze handed it over to Guan Hai. Guan Hai once occupied the mountain as the king, commanded hundreds of people, and handed over more than 1,000 teenagers to Guan Hai for management, I believe he will be competent.

He said to Guan Hai: "These more than 1,000 teenagers are uneven, and our first stage of newcomer training focuses on selection, making the best use of materials, and making the best use of talents. Before the child, you were in charge of the first part of the camp, and three months later, I personally came to inspect it. ”

Guan Hai naturally responded, and there was no gossip. Liu Ze really likes Guan Hai more and more, loyal, down-to-earth, hard-working, he will do everything you explain with his heart, never say anything, and more importantly, he asks what he should ask, and doesn't ask a word when he shouldn't ask, such a loyal and upright person is really rare.

The affairs of the Phoenix Mountain camp have been busy for nearly half a month before he has a clue, looking at the neatly lined up team for morning exercises, Liu Ze temporarily breathed a sigh of relief, and he began to prepare for the construction of the kiln factory.

The history of Quyang porcelain can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Han Dynasty, there has been a larger scale, has been able to produce high-quality white porcelain and black porcelain, but at this time most of the porcelain glaze is not correct, white and impure, pure and uneven, the glaze layer is also thinner, the shape of the vessel is not beautiful, until the Song Dynasty, the kiln was listed as an official kiln, become one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, the white porcelain produced is famous in the world, the Yuan people have a poem to say: "Dingzhou flower porcelain Ou, the color of the world is white", it can be seen.

Liu Ze didn't have to work hard to find several kilns for the production of white porcelain in Cijian Village, and purchased these kilns at a high price. At that time, the Cijian kiln was only a private kiln, firing some ordinary civilian utensils, such as bowls, plates, plates, cups and other magnetic ware, due to the average quality, the market was not very good. It was because Liu Ze's acquisition naturally did not have any resistance, and Liu Ze's purchase price gave the kiln owners no reason to refuse, as for the craftsmen, Liu Ze paid double the price, and no one was willing to leave, but the porcelain craftsmen elsewhere jumped over a lot.

The kiln mouth was settled, Liu Ze decided to abandon the porcelain burning process of the Han Dynasty, and even skipped the Tang and Song dynasties and directly imitated the Yuan blue and white flowers, after all, the Yuan blue and white jar that sold two tons of gold was too impressive for him. There is no problem in technology, Liu Ze had worked in a porcelain factory in his previous life, and the porcelain factory produced antique porcelain, which was exported to the European and American markets. The porcelain factory is located in Jingdezhen, specializing in the production of blue and white porcelain and pastel, exquisite, color glaze of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the process used is the antique process. Although the porcelain produced cannot be called an antique, it can only be called a work of art, but its carcass is white and delicate, shiny and shiny, blue and blue, deep and verdant, and has completely reached the point of being fake. Liu Ze also has a good understanding of the construction of the magnetic kiln and the process of firing, even if there are any difficulties, don't you still have the know-it-all superbook? Liu Ze is full of confidence and is ready to do a big job.

But then the problem arose, the Han Dynasty porcelain kiln used charcoal, but the energy of charcoal is limited, can not provide the high temperature required for firing blue and white porcelain, and the kiln must use high-temperature resistant refractory bricks, ordinary bricks can not withstand that high temperature. To fire refractory bricks and blue and white porcelain, there is one thing that is necessary, and that is - coal.

The discovery and utilization of coal in ancient China is completely disproportionate, as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people have found coal, there is a clear record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", called Shi Ni, "the mountain of female ying, its yang is more red copper, its yin is more stone Nirvana", the Wei and Jin dynasties called it graphite, but in the large-scale application of coal to iron control, porcelain burning and heating seems to have been after the Song and Yuan dynasties, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the famous poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote the record of Chang'an City at that time, and the heating in the palace was charcoal, Charcoal was also considered a luxury at that time, and only the nobles could enjoy it, and ordinary people could only chop some firewood to cook and keep warm.

Liu Ze has always wondered that China discovered coal thousands of years ago, and if you don't use such an economical and cost-effective coal, you can't use it, and you have worked hard to go up the mountain to cut firewood, and the great forests have been cut down in exchange for a bunch of firewood, not to mention the low combustion value, and it also produces billowing smoke, which pollutes the environment strictly, and how good it is to replace it with anthracite...... Thinking of anthracite, Liu Ze naturally thought of Yangquan, which is the most famous anthracite production base in China, in the Han Dynasty, Yangquan was called Shangai County, which was not under the jurisdiction of Jizhou Changshan State, less than two hundred miles away from Quyang.

Wow, now everything is ready, only coal is missing, isn't it just digging coal? Done! Liu Ze put down what he was doing, handed over all the training camp to Guan Hai, and immediately rushed to Shangai with Zhang Fei and dozens of guys.