Chapter 97, The Humble Judah
The place where Feng Luoxue sat is called rice noodles, which is very famous in Liaodong County, and has been inherited for nearly a hundred years.
Cai Yan sat down generously, and diligently cleaned up the chopsticks for Zu Zhao, but Zu Zhao looked at the rice noodles in front of him, because the rice noodles in front of him were yellow, no matter how you look at them, there is no appetite, this is the rice noodles that have been inherited for a hundred years? Under Feng Luoxue's explanation, I learned that this yellow rice noodle is made of millet, and it is often eaten to nourish the stomach and other effects.
Zu Zhao ate a bowl, but unfortunately it was too different from the cold powder he had eaten in his previous life, because there was no chili pepper, and the most important thing was that there was no monosodium glutamate! How can clear soup taste good? His mouth was raised, and when he looked at the crowd around him, they all looked delicious.
Even Cai Yan also looked very delicious, and he ate more than one bowl, and Feng Luoxue also ate one bowl.
And Zu Zhao had no interest in eating a bowl anymore, because the taste was not exquisite.
"Sister Yan, you're coming!" Feng Luoxue greeted inside, and heard a promise, and a young woman wearing wide robe sleeves came out inside, with a little sweat on her face, but her bright and moving eyes flashed, making people feel a sense of excitement.
The young woman came to the three of them, and when she saw Zu Zhao, she was obviously stunned, and then saluted Zu Zhao: "I've seen my lord!" ”
'You know me?' Zu Zhao's face was interesting, and he couldn't imagine that he could be recognized in civilian clothes.
"The slut has seen adults on the street, and she has also seen the scene of adults fighting horse thieves in the middle of the night, so she has some impressions of adults!" The young woman stepped forward to speak.
At this time, Feng Luoxue explained on the side, it turned out that this woman was a widow, but she had some romantic deeds in Liaodong County, and later she was taken by the head of the Huang family and wanted to occupy her and let her be a concubine, but she didn't obey, just when the Huang family was about to rob hard, Zu Zhao directly destroyed the Huang family, this is the cause and effect, in a sense, Zu Zhao is the benefactor of this widow.
Zu Zhao looked at the young woman in front of him, in fact, the real age was about twenty years old, women in the Three Kingdoms era got married relatively early, twelve or thirty had already made a daughter-in-law, and when she was twenty years old, she was already a young woman for more than ten years. And the young woman in front of her is the legendary white tiger, who killed her husband just after passing the door, and later there were several ruffians who wanted to beat her idea, but these blind streams had something to do before and after. And the last housekeeper of the Huang family was even more miserable, and he died directly before he could do anything, because of this incident, this young woman has become famous in Liaodong County, and the name of the White Tiger Buster is even more famous than the rice noodles she makes.
Zu Zhao listened to Feng Luoxue's introduction, and when he saw Feng Luoxue's expression, he knew that those blind streams came to entangle this woman named Situ Yan, and Feng Luoxue cleaned it all up, otherwise there would not be a situation where no one was alive or dead, and no body was seen, because of this incident, Situ Yan became more and more famous in Liaodong County.
But because of this, Situ Yan is living a simple life, no one is going to die as a peony flower, and he is also a romantic ghost as a ghost.
"Oh, your rice noodles aren't very delicious, and if you're wrong, it's hard to eat! Can you improve it? Zu Zhao pointed to the rice noodles in his bowl, in the eyes of others, this kind of rice noodles is very delicious, but in his eyes, this kind of rice noodles is very bland.
What the?
Whether it was Situ Yan, Cai Yan or Feng Luoxue, the three women all stared at him with big eyes.
"Husband, it's very delicious, this kind of rice noodles is very flexible, and it has a cold feeling when you eat it, and it tastes good!" Cai Yan explained in a whisper next to him, for fear that Zu Zhao would use the excuse to embarrass this sister, after all, women are sympathetic, how difficult will life be for a woman to live by herself? At this time, Zu Zhao, who is the lord of Liaodong County, is looking for something again, how can he let this Situ Yan live?
"Situ Yan, tell me if you are a Xianbei person?" Zu Zhao's tone was even more cold, because he could see the young woman in front of him, her eyes were blue, and her hair was red, which was a typical representative of the Hu people, and Situ, whose surname was the noble name of the Xianbei people, he didn't understand how such a family could have someone come out to do lowly labor?
"My father used to be the eldest son of the Situ family, but the Situ family was wiped out by the enemy Tuoba family ten years ago, and the entire Situ family fled and scattered, I followed a cook to wander here, relying on the rice noodle business given to me by the chef, I have survived to the present!" Situ Yan replied calmly, with a helpless look on her face.
"Your first husband must have been poisoned by you, right? Or did you kill it? Zu Zhao's tone changed again, because he felt that the attitude of the girl in front of him was too calm, and she was not afraid at all when she encountered a big event, how could this kind of person be a submissive person?
How could a nobleman of the Xianbei clan be so willing and ordinary?
This kind of thing is not very common.
There are no ghosts.
"I did it, I didn't expect that Lord Zu Zhao would be able to deduce it as soon as they met!" Situ Yan smiled and spoke, but there was no fear on his body.
Zu Zhao pointed to the window behind him and said, "Because I feel the killing machine, how can ordinary people press such a thing as a strong crossbow in their own shop, the most important thing is that this strong crossbow seems to have been made by me, isn't it?" There's someone in your shop who is holding a crossbow at me, so you're not afraid, right? ”
Come out! Let the guests see how powerful you are!
Zu Zhao clapped his hands, and when the words fell, more than a dozen black-clothed people appeared on the surrounding walls, holding a strong crossbow in their hands, and there was also a sound of fighting in Situ Yan's shop, and after a while, the guests of the entire inn were scared away, and two young people were escorted out, each with dark blue eyes.
"These two should be from the Situ family, the prince of the original Xianbei family, right? was wiped out by the Tuoba clan, but he was a person who survived by luck, isn't it? Situ Qingfeng, Situ Changkong? ”
Zu Zhao spoke lightly, but Zhizhu was in his hands, holding everything in his own hands, and before destroying the Huang family, through the mouth of the Huang family's slaves, he knew that the Huang family had been thinking about getting rid of the Situ family recently, but Zu Zhao killed him before he had a chance to implement it.
But Situ Yan, Situ Qingfeng, and Situ Changkong, Zu Zhao was interested, so he ordered people to monitor them.
Originally, Zu Zhao didn't want to have a killing intention, but the other party seemed to have a lot of hostility towards him, and he also snatched the strong bow of his subordinates, which had already touched his reverse scales.
"What do you want to do?" Situ Lan exclaimed, she didn't expect the young man in front of her to be so powerful, his mind was extremely delicate, and he couldn't seem to hide anything in front of him.
"I, I don't mean to kill you, I just want to know if you have killed you back to be the Xianbei royal family? If so, then I have an interest in guaranteeing that you will kill the Tuoba clan and make you a royal family, of course, provided that you cannot destroy the border trade! Contain your people, your people have now degenerated into horse thieves, burning, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, if you can't control your people within a year, let them settle down and work, I'm sorry, the Xianbei clan will be wiped out from Liaodong County! ”
Zu Zhao slapped the table hard.
"Liaodong County doesn't need horse thieves, what it needs is people who live and work in peace!"
Situ Lan grew her mouth, she didn't seem to expect that this young man would have such a big mouth.
Let them return to the Xianbei clan and regain the demeanor of the royal family?
These things are things in their dreams, and they never dare to do it again, but today's young man is as simple and easy as taking a sip of water, and it seems that it is a very simple thing for them to be royal families.
But is it really a very simple thing?
The opponent was Tuoba Liuyun, the vicious executioner, in order to perish their Situ clan, he directly slaughtered nearly 50,000 clansmen. The Situ clan who fled never returned to the Xianbei clan's station, but became horse thieves and road bandits.
"You seem to be talking about a dream, but how can we believe you can do it? Do you think you are a god? Situ Yan stood up at this time, still looking at Zu Zhao fearlessly.
"Because I have faith! There are still means! Zu Zhao stood up. Holding Cai Yan and Feng Luoxue's hands, he stood up and left.
Seeing that Situ Qingfeng Situ Changkong Situ Yan was still standing in place, he smiled and said, I invite you to see a miracle, you can come up to my side.
Situ Yan didn't know what Zu Zhao wanted them to do, but he still walked over with his two younger brothers.
Zu Zhao smiled: "This small shop is your comfort zone, so that you don't have the enterprising heart you once had, it has been in ruins since you saw the sky, and from today onwards, you will start to become the royal family of the Xianbei clan again!" ”
Situ Yan said stubbornly: "Are you telling a joke? Your jokes aren't funny! She still has a lot of affection for this small shop, this little shop has given her a lot of warmth, thinking of that tragic night, she would rather survive in the small shop than set foot on the residence of the Xianbei clan and start a life-and-death struggle with the Tuoba clan.
Zu Zhao smiled coldly: "Three, two, one!" Put! ”
Bang!
A fierce explosion sounded, the dust was flying, and Situ Changkong, who was walking the slowest way, was directly fanned by the huge waves, and when he landed, his head was covered with a big bag.
"That's my means, maybe you will ask what such means are there, I will not explain it to you, just let you know that I have the means to amaze the ghosts and gods! Means, strategy and surprise are my confidence! Zu Zhao spoke lightly.
The three of the Situ clan looked at the small shop that had become a ruin, and then looked at Zu Zhao beside them, and felt the terrifying feeling of dancing with the devil.
Was that earth-shattering explosion man-made? Could it be that this is what Taoists often call a thunderstorm on dry land? Or is it a curse or a punishment? In the end, it was a member of the big family in the feudal era, just after the explosion, the three members of the Situ family had countless thoughts in their minds.
"Why did you choose us? We don't seem to have any use for it anymore, do we? What can we, a declining royal family, do when we return to the Xianbei station? With the Tuoba Liuyun clan here, we can only lose our lives when we go back! Situ Yan's thinking is still very clear at this moment.
Zu Zhao smiled: "You are of use to me at this time, instead of letting the Xianbei clan plague the border, it is better to stand up and fight against the Tuoba clan, so that you can fight among yourself, and our border can live in peace, the most important thing is that I am familiar with you, but I am not familiar with the Tuoba Liuyun clan, and how can a beast like Tuoba Liuyun be my partner?" The biggest reason why I can choose you is that you have your own prestige, as long as you stand up and make your identity public, those comrades who are horse thieves will gather around you, so that the people of Liaodong County can be better! ”
Situ Yan still asked: "Even if I return to power, our clan only has cattle, sheep and horses in our hands, and there is no food in winter, so in order not to starve to death, we still have to go to the border to threshk grass, I think Lord Zu Zhao seems to be a little optimistic!" “
Seeing blood for a while, Zu Zhao looked at Situ Yan with some surprise, he didn't expect this young woman to have such an opinion, it was really a royal family, and her thinking was extremely big.
"No, in the future, your wool is a very valuable existence, in the future I will let the wool textile industry flourish on the grassland, I will also let your people live a good life, let the people live and work in peace and contentment is my idea and goal!" Zu Zhao's mind immediately flashed the British sheep cannibalism enclosure movement, wool textile is a good industry, but there is a process of promotion.
What the?
Situ Yan felt that he couldn't understand Zu Zhao's words, but he still asked: "We want food, food for the winter, no food will kill people in winter!" ”
"I don't dare to say that the grain is in other places, but in Liaodong County, it is guaranteed to be supplied to you, and it is constantly supplied to you from afar, and you have to pay it back with wool! Do you understand the wool? It's wool! Zu Zhao emphasized the word wool very seriously.
Situ Yan felt a little dizzy, and the other party actually asked her to use wool to return food.
What is wool used for? The grassland is to bury the wool, and then process the fresh mutton, only the mutton and mutton bones are the favorite of the grassland people, and the wool is not eaten by the hungry wolves.
Cai Yan opened her eyes wide on the side and didn't know what to say, Rao is she is rich and rich, but she doesn't understand what her husband wants wool for?
Feng Luoxue also felt an incredible.
Strange things happen every year, but let her encounter such a strange thing today this year?
In the steppe, grain more valuable than gold is exchanged for wool?
"Give you 100,000 catties of food every year! In exchange for wool! I am your strongest ally, don't doubt that Miss Feng Luoxue and Miss Cai Yan can prove that I have the capital to come up with 100,000 catties of food! ”
Cai Yan nodded instinctively, according to the yield of 10,000 catties per mu of sweet potatoes, 100,000 catties of grain is only the yield of 10 mu of sweet potatoes, which seems incredible to outsiders, but in the ancestral family, it is just a very ordinary thing.
Feng Luoxue stood up, put on Situ Yan and said: "I can guarantee it, because I have seen that kind of food, it is really a miracle-like existence, Zu Zhao Gongzi's personality is really not said, and the two are exchanged, Zu Zhao is not worried about wool, why should you worry about wool?" Do you really think that you are smarter than Prince Zu Zhao? ”
"After a long time, let's go to the nearby Situ people, I hope that the son of Zu Zhao will remember what he said!"
Situ Yan said.
Zu Zhao nodded, thinking of such a sweater, Zu Zhao felt excited, thinking that he was wearing linen cloth at the moment, although he was wearing silk outside, in this Three Kingdoms era where there was no cotton, clothes made of layers of linen cloth were really crazy.
How good it would be if there was cotton, but where is the cotton now?
Zu Zhao raised his head and found that the Three Kingdoms were really missing too many things, and there was nothing to use.
If you want to put on a sweater, you have to encourage other people's sisters and brothers to seize power, is it so easy?
Situ Yan asked Feng Luoxue to keep the two, probably to encourage the woman to do some assassination for them and the like, it is estimated that the female politician has already begun to ponder the maximum development potential of the people around her.
Zu Zhao didn't care, whether these three people were Jackie Chan or Adult worms, it depended on their creation, and then he would ask people to give them 20,000 taels of silver, which was counted as a fee.
Now he is more interested in the iron ore of the Huang family, the Huang family occupies an open-pit deposit, and dominates the iron business, so the wealth is rolling, and this iron ore has reached the name of the ancestral family, so he wants to see how this deposit is.
When he walked to the construction site, he found that the current smelting level was poor.
At this moment, the leather bag is used to blow the wind, even the most bulky bellows are not available, and the melting point of molten iron cannot be reached at all, which shows how poor the quality of forged iron will be.
And it also uses charcoal for smelting.
A whole bunch of blacksmiths get together, the wind blows, the firewood is the firewood, it's a mess, just like that? Zu Zhao felt like he was about to faint for the first time.
This was an era in which he had a great sense of superiority.
Moreover, the smelting method is not appropriate, and there is no model in this era without the concept of quartz sand.
In later generations, coke and iron ore were mixed together and finally burned.
Iron oxide is reduced to iron with carbon monoxide, and finally refined into iron ingots, and here it is? Burning up the ore directly and forging it with a sledgehammer is really ...... Speechless.
The state of the barbarians.
And next to Zu Zhao stood the butler of the ancestral family, this butler didn't seem to be very familiar with smelting, and he looked at it with a blank face, but he respected these guys with hammers very much.
"Stop, all go find me coke, don't refine it without coke!"
It's good that there is such a thing as coke nearby, but now it is not called coke, but animal carbon, and the happiest thing is that animal carbon exists in the open air.
This made Zu Zhao breathe a sigh of relief.
When a lot of beast carbon and ore were put together, Zu Zhao ordered them to refine them.
When the red iron ingots and ashes appeared together, everyone was stunned, iron smelting was actually made like this, and it was enough to burn beast carbon and iron ore together? How simple is it?
Zu Zhao stood on the iron mine, and directly invited Gong Zhihong to make a bellows, and it was a high-power bellows, and then gave him the drawings.
The speed of the public macro is still fast.
When a huge bellows one meter long and one meter wide appeared in front of everyone, these so-called blacksmith heads were convinced.
Originally, there were 100 catties of iron ingots a day, but at this moment, after improvement, there were 1,000 catties of iron ingots!
It's that simple to make iron.
Zu Zhao smiled, these iron ingots are money, he can use these iron ingots to trade with horse thieves and rebels now, but he has done that, the biggest reason is to keep it for himself.
You can make armor, make the vest of the kidnapping horse, make the Mo knife and all the other things you need for war.
At this time, Gongsun Du's people came to find it, because this iron mine has a part of Gongsun Mian.
And Gongsun Mian couldn't help but be furious when he heard that Zu Zhao had killed his housekeeper.
Personally ran to find Zu Zhao.
Zu Zhao walked along the iron mine and saw that Gongsun Mian was already watching a new method of how to make iron, and when he saw that there were nearly 1,000 catties of iron ingots coming out in one day, he instantly turned red.
"This brother is looking for me?" Zu Zhao pretended not to know him, and sneered.
As soon as Gongsun Mian looked up and found that there was a brocade-robed young man in front of him, he couldn't help but ask with a cold face, "You are Zu Zhao?" Did you kill my butler? Do you know who I am? ”
Zu Zhao stood proudly: "I don't know any housekeepers, but I know that the people who died in my hands are the most heinous people, and I will kill anyone who has anything to do with these people, I don't know who you are, but if you have anything to do with those guys, I can kill you here with a single knife at this moment, because I am a general guarding the border!" ”
"You're crazy!"
Gongsun Mian couldn't help but take a few steps back.
In his heart, what is there to be afraid of a childish teenager?
But at this moment, it made him feel terrible, this young man's old face was deep, far from what he could say in a word, and this young man belonged to the kind of soft and hard that did not eat.
"I don't know if you're crazy or not, but I know that you're not the kind of master who can sit on an equal footing with me, and your attitude is not pious enough, if you want to talk to me and find your family master Gongsun Du, what kind of slave are you? Get lost! ”
The Huang family should be the puppet of the Gongsun family, and it should be the Gongsun family who really seeks huge benefits, and this Gongsun Mian should be the main person in charge.
"Zu Zhao, you don't know how powerful I am when you're young, soon, within ten days, I'll make you cry and beg me, you wait!"
Gongsun Mian said fiercely, he had a mortal enmity with this young man, and that magical smelting method made him even more greedy.