Chapter 33 Movable Type Printing
In the early morning of the next day, today's Zhang Zheng was another day of getting up early to be a social animal.
asked the housekeeper Lao Zhou to transfer twenty people for himself, and asked Lao Zhou to prepare a carriage.
Then he pulled the start-up capital given by the old lady and some materials bought in Dongshi to make printing templates, and came to Zhuangzi in Lantian County.
The reason why Zhang Zheng chose to go to Zhuangzi to get these things was that movable type printing was too important.
There are many people in Chang'an, and I don't know how many spies from other forces there are around the Zou Guogong Mansion.
If this thing is taken away by other families, with Li Er's urine, Zhang Zheng's fate may not be too good.
So coming to Zhuangzi to do these things is also a helpless move for Zhang Zheng.
As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Lantian Courtyard, Liu Er, the housekeeper who stayed behind in the Courtyard, greeted him with a flattering face: "Xiao Langjun, why are you here." ”
Zhang Zheng threw the reins in his hand to Liu Er and instructed: "My son plans to live outside the city for a while, ask someone to move all the things in the carriage in, and then find the blacksmith on the Zhuangzi, I have something to order." ”
"Yes!" When Liu Er heard Zhang Zheng say this, he called the people in the courtyard and moved the lead and ink rice paper that Zhang Zheng bought in the East Market in the morning into the front hall of the courtyard from the carriage.
There are also three buckets of ice taken from the shop he and Li Chengqian jointly opened.
"Xiao Langjun has had lunch, the villain asked the kitchen to clean up some dishes." Liu Er arranged for Zhang Zheng to bring people and things from Chang'an, and buzzed around Zhang Zheng like a fly.
"No need, I don't have much appetite in this weather, and I have grapes to make a pot of ice. By the way, I sent someone to call Liu Sanbo, and said that I invited him to see me. Zhang Zheng waved his hand and wiped the thick beads of sweat on his forehead.
"Okay, then Xiao Langjun, if you have something to call me, I'll be thick outside." Liu Er was a little disappointed.
Lantian's Zhangfu Courtyard is idle all year round, and he finally looked forward to coming to Xiaolangjun once, but he didn't tell him to do anything, which made Liu Er feel a sense of loss that heroes were useless.
But Liu Er was a qualified manager of the hospital after all, and he quickly adjusted his mentality.
first asked someone to invite the third child of the Liu family, and then went to the warehouse with his hands behind his back to get a bucket of grape wine and put it in the ancient well in the courtyard to chill.
He picked a piece of ice brought by Zhang Zheng and knocked it into a knuckle-sized ice cube, and then carefully put the remaining ice cubes into the ice cellar of the other courtyard, at this time, ice cubes are rare.
When the grapes in the well were almost refrigerated by the cold well water, I found a tray to carry the beaten ice cubes and grapes to the front yard.
Liu Er came to the front yard and found that his little Langjun was talking to the blacksmith in the Zhuangzi around a pile of lead lumps, and the blacksmith was nodding like a chicken pecking rice.
The blacksmith's surname is Wang, and the people in Zhuangzi call him Lao Wang, and he was also a military craftsman who followed Zhang Gongjin in his early years.
The family has been working iron for generations, and after quitting the army, he settled in this Liujiazhuang, and his craftsmanship is well-known in ten miles and eight villages.
"Don't worry, Xiao Langjun, the ancestors of the old Han family have eaten this bowl of rice for three generations, and these lead bumps are just the size of a seal, and the old man promises that it will be completed tomorrow afternoon, and the old man will come to see him if he can't finish it."
Wang Laohan slapped his chest thumping and assured, as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a strong military style.
"It's not that serious, it's not something that you are particularly anxious about, you just have to do it slowly, and the most important thing is that the size must be consistent." Zhang Zheng looked at Wang Laohan, who was about to make a military order, and said with a smile.
These old people in the house are good at everything, they are all straightforward and hard-working men, but they come out of their mouths to raise their heads at every turn, and this kind of talk really makes Zhang Zheng not very adaptable.
"Hey, Xiao Langjun, don't worry, it's definitely the same size." Wang Laohan said with a smile.
"Okay, then it's hard for you to get old." Zhang Zheng said.
Liu Er shouted, "Xiao Langjun, the wine is here, the best grapes from the Western Regions." ”
Zhang Zheng nodded, seeing that the old blacksmith had already understood his intentions, so he found a shady place in the courtyard.
The little guy in the courtyard spread the carpet with great vision, Zhang Zheng sat on the ground, took a cup of grape brew handed over by Liu Er and drank it all, and a cold breath penetrated the back of his head from his stomach in an instant.
At this moment, Liu San, who sent someone to invite him, also arrived.
However, although this Liu San and Liu Er, the steward of Zhangfu Courtyard, are both surnamed Liu, they are not related by blood.
It is purely that Liu Er is the second in his family, and Zhang Gongjin's former personal soldier Liu San is the third in the family.
"Liu Sanbo is here, sit down." Zhang Zheng was the first to greet and motioned for his subordinates to go and get another blanket.
Zhang Zheng has always respected this Liu Sanbo, because Zhang Gongjin often said that he owed Liu San a life.
Liu San's right hand, when he was crusading against the Qiang people with Zhang Gongjin, in order to protect Zhang Gongjin in the melee, he took the Qiang people's scimitar with his bare hands, and five fingers were directly cut off by the Qiang people's scimitar.
"Xiao Langjun." Liu San saluted Zhang Zheng, and did not share any respect with Zhang Zheng, and sat on the blanket next to Zhang Zheng.
"Your family doesn't need to be so polite, taste it, the grapes of the Western Regions have just been chilled." Zhang Zheng poured a glass of wine and handed it to Liu San.
Liu San was not polite, took it and drank it all, and praised it according to the custom: "Good wine, hiss, good ice." ”
"Uncle Liu, I want you to come over this time to tell you about the insect eggs found in the field a few days ago." Zhang Zheng explained the reason for calling him over.
When it came to the insect plague, Liu San, an iron-blooded man who had never changed his face, suddenly showed a heavy expression on his face, and asked, "Xiao Langjun, what do grandfathers and Your Majesty say?" ”
"Don't worry, my father learned about this and made it clear to His Majesty overnight, and Your Majesty attaches great importance to this locust plague.
At this time, the team sent by His Majesty to raise food had already left Chang'an, and even my father was sent by His Majesty to raise food.
In this locust plague, no one in Datang will starve to death. Zhang Zheng assured Liu San.
After listening to Zhang Zheng's assurance, Liu San's frowning brows finally relaxed, and said to Zhang Zheng: "Since the old man has gone out in person, the villain believes that this disaster will definitely be solved." The villain first thanked Xiao Langjun for the people of the world, the old man, and Your Majesty. ”
"Liu Sanbo's words are serious, this is what I should do." Zhang Zheng said warmly.
"Your Majesty has instructed me to do something, and things are more important, so I plan to stay in the courtyard for a few days.
The guards in the house have all been taken away by my father, and if Liu Sanbo has nothing to do recently, he might as well come to the other courtyard to help me.
If other people also have leisure, they can call together, and the more people there are, the better. ”
Zhang Zheng pondered for a while, the twenty people he brought from Chang'an were all small families.
There are no decent talents in the courtyard, Liu San has a high prestige in Zhuangzi, and if he is transferred to help him, he can avoid a lot of trouble.
"Okay, the crops are almost gone, and the young people in the village can only stare at the ridge every day, so what is there to be busy with.
Since Xiao Langjun didn't dislike it, I took them to the house to do some work in the house. Liu Sanyi heard that Xiao Langjun was going to ask them for help, so he responded very happily.