ps. The second and last update of the day

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou explained the water supply system to Buqi, and Zhou Xue was also very curious when she saw those faucets, and thought it was funny, she walked to the edge of the dishwashing sink, occupied a faucet position, and groped on the faucet. I just fumbled for a while and didn't know how to unscrew the faucet.

Liu Hou felt funny when he saw it, so he stepped forward to help her turn on the faucet, Zhou Xue put one hand under the faucet and then the water flowing down the water, and there was a cool feeling in his hand, which was very comfortable.

And her other hand was not idle, she continued to grope on the faucet, learning Liu Hou's movements to twist the faucet. At first, she twisted in the opposite direction, twisted in the direction of open, and screwed all the way to the end, but she couldn't turn off the faucet.

"Twisted the other way around, you try the other way around." Liu Hou reminded.

Hearing Liu Hou's reminder, Zhou Xue twisted the faucet switch in the opposite direction several times, and finally turned off the water. Zhou Xue's two eyes were bent into a pair of good-looking crescents, and the corners of her mouth on both sides were upturned, revealing white teeth, looking very happy.

Then, Zhou Xue unscrewed it again, closed it again, and so on, letting the water flow down for a while and stop for a while, and had a lot of fun.

"There is such a miraculous thing, Your Royal Highness the Prince, your craftsman is really highly skilled, and he can make such an ingenious thing."

Liu Hou pursed his lips and said: "This is not a strange thing, it is just an ordinary thing that we use every day, it is not worth making a fuss, you will follow me in the future, there are many such novelties." ”

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please forgive your subordinates for the sin of being lonely and unheard." Bu Qi sincerely pleaded guilty to sin.

"It's not a sin to be unheard, but it's a sin to be lonely and unwilling to learn. As long as you study hard in the future, you will soon understand the wonderful use of all kinds of new things in our country. Okay, let's go, let's go into the dining hall and have a look. ”

There is a wooden sign hanging at the door of the canteen, on which the word "canteen" is engraved. Entering the spacious dining hall, Bu Qi felt that his eyes suddenly opened up. I saw that this dining hall was very large, and according to Buqi's estimate, it was only larger than the largest meeting hall of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, that is, the main hall in Sun Quan's palace complex.

He secretly smacked his tongue, how much skill does this prince have, in this poor and remote disaster area, he can build such a large building in only a short period of time, is he dreaming?

Liu Hou seemed to see through what he was thinking, and took the initiative to explain: "With something like cement, it is actually easy to build such a big house. ”

He didn't brag about this, what kind of difficulty can this kind of one-story building be in front of reinforced concrete? However, it is just a matter of pouring the pillars first, then building walls on all sides, placing beams, and laying the roof.

It's just that in order to support the beams, the inside of this big house is not empty, but there are many pillars.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Qiu is very curious, where did so much cement come from?" Bu Qi finally thought of a key question.

"The cement was also burned, mixed with several ores and calcined, and the final gray powder was cement. Cement ore is very common, and we have found several raw materials nearby, so we built a cement kiln not far away, and now we are burning things day and night. ”

Liu Hou explained, "Actually, the biggest problem is the steel bar, and the copper pipes, which are very valuable, but fortunately we have found copper and iron ore in the Nanzhong area, and we are now hiring local barbarians to mine them." But even so, we can't waste it, and try to save copper and iron wherever we can. ”

This is also the reason why reinforced concrete is not used in the construction of private houses. Copper and iron are strategic materials, and Liu Hou does not want to waste them, so only important buildings such as water towers use reinforced concrete, and the use of tap water is limited to the canteen.

The canteen in front of Bu Qi was bustling with people. Most of the people sat on the benches and ate at this table, and some people lined up in front of them to eat.

The table is simple, a rectangular board with rudimentary legs nailed underneath the board. Such a table can seat two people on each side. Ten tables are put together in a row, a total of ten rows, and this canteen has a hundred tables, which means that it can accommodate 400 people at the same time.

"Let's go over for a meal, too." After speaking, Liu Hou pulled Zhou Xue and walked to the place where the food was distributed in front, and when he came to the end of a human dragon, he followed the people in line to stand still.

Zhou Xue was pulled over by him in a daze, and lined up behind Liu Hou, and Buqi, Zhao Tong and others who came to their senses also followed.

Liu Hou instructed his soldiers to help them find some bowls, and immediately some of his soldiers were ordered to go to the back kitchen to prepare.

Usually, Liu Hou is not so close to the people, the main reason is based on health and safety considerations, and the reason why this time is abnormal is to show Buqi. After all, he cultivated Buqi as a famous minister close to the people, so he wanted to take advantage of this time to teach him a lesson by word and deed.

A few of his own soldiers went to the back kitchen and found clean bowls and chopsticks, but they would not give them to the prince so easily. They have security clauses, and food safety is also very important.

There was boiling hot water in the kitchen, so they put the tableware they had found into a large pot, poured boiling water, and asked the firemaker to cook the dishes for a while before taking them out and giving them to the prince.

They are all old people who have been with the prince for a long time, and they know that the prince does not pay much attention to the price of food, or even whether it is delicious, but he attaches great importance to hygiene, so he is meticulous in doing these things.

Soon, Liu Hou and others in the queue received the sterilized tableware from the soldiers, and they, like ordinary people and soldiers, ate at the end of the line. I saw that the master in charge of the spoon first scooped a large spoonful of rice into the bowl, then used a small spoon to spoon a spoonful of green vegetables to cover the rice noodles, and finally used a smaller spoon to scoop a little shredded pickles and meat and put it on the rice noodles, which is considered to complete the rice process.

Bu Qiu noticed that the amount of rice in this master's spoon was very large, almost filling the bowl in his hand, enough for a strong man to eat his stomach. The composition of green vegetables is a bit complicated, and it is estimated that they are a variety of daily grown vegetarian vegetables, plus several kinds of wild vegetables, cooked together in one pot.

What Buqiu cares about the most is the small spoonful of pickled vegetables and shredded meat, although there are only three or two shredded meat, and there are not many pickles, but it is so fishy, these days, ordinary people may not be able to eat a meal of meat all year round.

But here, these people can eat meat every day, although there are only two or three shreds of meat, but that is also a very remarkable thing, these are all disaster victims, and there are tens of thousands of them, what kind of generosity is this. At this time, Bu Qi really felt that this prince was really unusual, and he really loved the people like a son.

No wonder the people I saw along the way praised the prince, although the Shu army belonged to the "invaders", but these people were very attentive to the Shu army, and they were all energetic when they worked, no supervisors, no leather whips, but no one was lazy, everyone was full of energy.

Even if there is no Shu army to rescue them, even if there is no Shu army to build houses and villages for them, there are many people who are willing to come over and sell their labor for such a good meal.

Labor in this era was very worthless, and such a meal could be used to hire coolies to go there.