As soon as Laba passes, it will be the day of the sacrificial stove in ten days. The most important thing is to clean up, that is, to sweep the house, the miscellaneous servants of the whole house, the subordinates, mothers-in-law, and maids are all mobilized, and even the family members who visit relatives are also given brooms to sweep the yard.

There are many courtyards where people live in the house, and there are more halls and pavilions, in addition to the idle courtyards in the inner courtyard, there are no less than 100 or 10 rooms. Not to mention the daily work such as cleaning the windows and sweeping the walls, just those indoor dark buildings, partition doors, railings, and various carved screens are enough to clean one breath, and some things are carved with landscapes. Figures, fish, insects, birds and beasts are finely carved things, and if you are not careful, they will be damaged. In addition, there are all kinds of furnishings in the house, fine porcelain, jade, antiques, calligraphy and painting, bottle Ding Yizun and so on are all treasures, more careful, some wash, some oil wipe, very cumbersome.

If you don't have a large number of people, it is impossible to achieve the morning and evening ends. Fortunately, Zheng Shou, who was in charge of the miscellaneous affairs in the house, and Jianxi, who managed the inner courtyard, had participated in this kind of general battle, and they were considered experienced, and they divided all the people into several groups, led by experienced people, and worked together to divide and cooperate, and each contracted a piece, which was completely the common model of 'production contract responsibility system' in later generations. The two of them coordinated and commanded, deployed manpower, and completely looked like a general commanding thousands of troops.

Zhao Ta looked in the way of seeing where he stayed, so he simply took the two small yellow doors and hid in the workshop in the mansion. There are more than a dozen people who are always here, not only masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and other 'rough work', but also coppersmiths and silversmiths, who are usually responsible for repairing and making all the necessary supplies, which is regarded as the maintenance team of the house. But don't look at their small manpower, but they are all experienced old craftsmen who have been in the industry for many years, or they would not have been selected into the palace.

As soon as Zhao Ta entered their small courtyard and saw those tools such as blacksmith furnaces, vises, hammers, and saws on the side, he felt kind, he originally studied mechanical manufacturing in his previous life, and in the future, he will either enter the design institute or go to the factory to produce aircraft cannons and machine gun missiles, but he was selected into the special forces by mistake, which changed his fate in his previous life.

"Hello second master, why did you come to this place, you don't even have a place to sit!" Zhang Erbao, the foreman in the workshop, saw Zhao Ta come in, and was a little surprised, and said at a loss.

"Master Zhang, wherever I go, they think I'm in the way, thinking of hiding from you, it seems that you don't welcome it!" Zhao Ta pretended to have a bitter gourd face and said.

"The second master is killing the little ones, we still can't invite you!" Zhang Erbao hurriedly let Zhao Ta and them into the house, and the others also hurriedly visited, Zhang Erbao wiped the only chair in the room with his sleeve several times, and then put on the cotton cushion sewn by his wife before inviting him to sit down, and the others also hurriedly turned the brazier and were busy pouring him tea.

"All the masters, sit down, don't be restrained, I'm just hiding here from you, if you are polite, it will be my sin!" Zhao Ta made a circle, revealing two little tiger teeth, and said with an innocent smile.

"Hehe, the second master is laughing, we are humble here, I'm afraid we will treat you slowly!" Coppersmith Zhang Liujin took out a handful of walnuts, jujubes, persimmons, chestnuts and other dried fruits and said with a smile, don't look at the rudeness of others, but he is good at making bronze with a six-pound hammer, people call him Zhang Liujin, but he ignores his real name, "Second master, make do with some food, this is brought by the mother-in-law who came to the house for the New Year, although it is common, it is produced at home, eat a fresh!" ”

"Okay, everyone in the family is here, are you still adapting?" Zhao Ta picked up a jujube and put it in his mouth, took a bite and said.

"This is thanks to the kindness of the second master, these old ladies rarely even go out, if it weren't for the house to send someone to pick them up, I'm afraid they would get lost just after going out, there is food and drink in the house, what can they not adapt to, stay here for a few days and want to find something to do, I don't want to go back!" Carpenter Lu Dabin said.

"This is a good thing, we will develop in the future, the lack of manpower, after the year to build roads and dams, there is no shortage of people on the construction site to boil water and cook, after the dam is repaired, we can also raise ducks and fish, and we will build a winery, a mill... People are needed everywhere, and you are worried that there is no work to do, and if you are willing to stay, the house can help solve the problem of where to live, and it will also save you from lovesickness in both places, and you can't sleep at night! Zhao said. ,

"Then we have thanked the second master, many mothers-in-law laundry and cooking are like a home, the old ladies don't know how happy they are when they hear about it!" Zhang Liujin said with tears in the corners of his eyes, several other people are also grateful, who doesn't want his wife and children to live together as a family, but in the past these were extravagant hopes, craftsmen are all independent members, not only can not leave the nationality at will, but also at any time to listen to the promotion, circle in the workshop to work, often have a home can not go back, husband and wife get together less and leave more.

Zhao Ta chatted with everyone for a while, and the topic turned to craftsmanship, he did not know much about the production process in ancient times, and wanted to understand the modern level of scientific and technological development from the conversation with them, and these craftsmen are living teaching materials, and it is they who have created many new processes in practice.

"Master Zhang, look at this copper piece, if I want to make him look like this, what can you do?" Zhao Ta picked up a thin piece of copper on the case and gestured and said.

"Second master, this is easy to do, it can be knocked out directly with a hammer, and there will be no wrinkles!" Zhang Liujin took the copper sheet and immediately knocked it and said.

"If I need a lot of the same size, is there any way to hurry?" Zhao asked again.

"This... This is not impossible, as long as you make a yin and yang mold, the copper sheet is placed on the top, and you can ensure that the size is the same with a hammer! Zhang Liujin quickly came up with a way, and his hands were not idle, and he made what Zhao Ta wanted with his words.

"Master Cao, if I want to drill an eye in a two-foot-long fine iron rod, can you do it?" Zhao asked Cao Shuangcheng, who was watching from the side, he was a blacksmith.

"Second master, that one is too long, we can't do it, one is a drill bit that doesn't have a good one, and the other can't guarantee that it won't deviate, but a shorter one can do it!" Cao Shuangcheng replied respectfully.

"Oh!" Zhao Ta nodded, his question was not untargeted, he wanted to improve his gun, because his revolver propellant is black powder, which contains nitrate, this thing is easy to get damp when placed for a long time, if you don't pay attention, it is likely to be dumb when shooting, and you can only make a bullet that combines propellant and warhead to solve this problem.

In many people's understanding, it is the improvement of the gun before the development of the bullet, in fact, this is wrong, the development of the gun is with the improvement of the bullet manufacturing process and the development step by step. From the conversation and demonstration just now, Zhao Ta understood that it was a luxury for them to use the existing technology to make bullet shells in the modern sense, but it was completely possible to make a fire cap with a primer. He had the idea that if the use of early paper cartridge shells might work, then the serious wear and tear caused by the air leakage and frequent firing of the magazine during firing could be solved, and the barrel could be changed to fine iron, and a revolver that could be used in actual combat could be basically made.

"Second master, do you want to make something, we will find a way to make it for you!" Looking at Zhao Ta stunned, Cao Shuangcheng asked cautiously.

"Well, this is not in a hurry, but now there is a hurry to ask everyone to help think of a way!" Zhao said.

"Second master, you say!" Several craftsmen stretched their heads over and said, these days, only Zhang Liujin made a big hot pot for the prince, and he got a lot of rewards, and everyone else thought that their skills were not bad, and they wanted to show their hands.

"Have you ever seen a 'mercury extractor' used by a Taoist priest?" Zhao Ta asked, the soju he made two days ago was made from the mercury extractor that Qingyun left in the Taoist temple. Those ancient Taoist priests, in order to extract mercury from dansha, they designed a kind of distiller, which is divided into two parts, the upper part is shaped like a round-bottomed flask, called "pomegranate jar", which is a closed container for drugs such as dansha, next to a tube, the lower part is barrel-shaped, called "sweet pot", when heated, so that the mercury vapor generated in the container can flow into the condensation tank placed next to it, so that the mercury vapor generated in the jar becomes liquid mercury in the cold water of Gan Yaozi.

Such distillation equipment, even today, seems to be quite perfect. However, it is okay to use it for small fights in sake making, but it is definitely not good to use it for large-scale production of shochu, so it is necessary to improve on this basis, and these things may be used after the New Year, so I will discuss it with these connoisseurs now.

It is said that there is no first martial arts and no second, and craftsmen also love to divide a high, these people formed a 'scientific research team' around the proposition put forward by the prince, and began to discuss, the carpenters thought about how to solve it with their own methods, and the blacksmiths and coppersmiths also put forward plans from their own perspectives, and only silversmiths and jade craftsmen were depressed.

Everyone came up with their own ideas and found a way, Zhao Ta listened to this and said a few words to that, which can be regarded as mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm. Zhao Ta has been here for almost a day, and he eats lunch here, and finally came up with a preliminary opinion, and discussed that he would start trial production after the New Year.

When the sun was about to set, he found this place in a hurry, "Second master, why are you hiding here, everyone is waiting for you to preside over the sacrificial stove, go back with me to change clothes!" He saw that the prince and a group of craftsmen were talking enthusiastically, and said with a sad face.

"Second master, go back quickly, this is a big deal, it can't be delayed!" Under everyone's persuasion, Zhao Tacai reluctantly left the workshop and followed Jianxi back.