Chapter 17: Draw the cake and ask the craftsman

"Would you like to take a trip?" Ma Hanshan said.

"Gladly." Si Xingfang nodded vigorously and said.

Ma Hanshan looked at Wang Zhitan and didn't squeak, he was waiting for this guy to make a statement, if this guy still looks down on businessmen and wants to go back to be a small official, then he will suggest that Si Xingfang part ways with him, people who eat the ancients, people who look down on businessmen, he is not willing to be with him, and he does not let people on the same front be with him.

"If the virtuous brother wants to enter the business, then I will follow it." Wang Zhitan has shaken his ideal of being a small official, making money in business is too fast, although he is a close official, he can't make money.

In fact, the social atmosphere of Da Song is much more relaxed and friendly than that of the Ming Dynasty after the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song Dynasty in another time and space, although the literati are in power, but the identity of a merchant is still more acceptable. Because, not to mention the low status of businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't dare to spend money even if they had money, the old Zhu family killed rich people like Shen Wansan.

In ancient times, there were indeed many strange things, especially in the Ming Dynasty, not only the household registration management was very strange, but even people's clothing, food, housing and transportation officials issued a lot of strange regulations. Officials have office clothes for work, court meetings also have court clothes, and home clothes for homes. Merchants have merchants' costumes, and peasants' craftsmen's costumes are not the same. In the Ming Dynasty, no matter who wore the wrong clothes was to be beheaded, there were identity regulations for building a house, and building the wrong house was also to kill the head.

"Okay, very good, two, as long as you can invite that Li Zhuoshui and the old farmer in Tongzhou, I promise that in the future, if you get the goods in the tile pot village, your price will be half lower than others. Don't underestimate this half, it's very likely that you can earn hundreds of thousands of taels more every year. "Mahanshan painted cakes again.

"Ahh Hundreds of thousands of taels? You're not kidding, you're kidding. "The Si Xingfang has long been fooled and dizzy.

"It's up to you, not me. I can only tell you that in the future, the output of my tile pot village will reach tens of millions or more every year. At this point, Ma Hanshan is not a painting, he has such plans and ideals.

"The owner of the horse village should tell us how to get them." Wang Zhitan is more sober than Si Xingfang.

"It's very simple, you ask the old farmer three questions, ask him if he knows where rice is harvested three times a year, ask him if he knows the impact of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium on agricultural production, and ask him if he knows how to get rid of insects and fertilizer." Ma Hanshan said with a smile.

Ma Hanshan guessed that the old farmer lived in the north of the river, and he might know where the rice was double-cropped, but he shouldn't know where the rice was three-cropped. And nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, people in this world must have never heard of it. As for the world of insect control, in addition to relying on the sky to catch people, what fertilizer is, they probably haven't heard of it. Therefore, if this old farmer is really a person who is obsessed with farming, Ma Hanshan feels that he will definitely come to ask for results after listening to these three questions.

"Is that okay?" The division said.

"That's it." Mahanshan for sure.

"That should do." Wang Zhitan is also sure.

"Then we'll go now." The priest said again.

"You guys set off now, if they don't come in this way, if you don't move, whether they come or not is related to the livelihood of the tile pot village and the water curtain cave, and it is related to the future development plan of Dasong." Ma Hanshan said, his face became very serious.

"Got it, only success and not failure." Si Xingfang stood up and said solemnly, obviously, he had tied the fate of the Water Curtain Cave to the tile pot village.

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left, Si Xingfang and Wang Zhitan, who had just returned from Bianliang, left again, and rushed to Tongzhou with hope.

It is a thousand miles from the west of the pot to the west of the mountain to Tongzhou, and it will take two or three days to arrive on horseback, and Ma Hanshan estimates that if they go very well to invite Li Zhuoshui and Chen Laonong, they will be back within half a month.

Therefore, he had to hurry up and prepare the equipment and materials for making and steaming wine.

"Mr. Qi, when will the sealed pots and copper pipe sinks and other objects I asked you to find someone to build be ready?" There was no blacksmith in the village, and there was no workshop for ironmaking, so he asked Qi Nanyue to find someone to build it outside the village.

"I think, the copper pipe should be laid, and the long groove is not difficult, and it is estimated that it will be fine, but the cauldron is not so fast." Qi Nanyue said.

"You go out of the mountain immediately, and besides, these things must never be built in one place, they have to be separated." Ma Hanshan said.

"Divide the three counties to fight, I'll rush it." Qi Nanyue thought to himself, I'm going to go out of the mountain again, alas, how can I, the account office that has been changed from Xixi, look like an errand now.

"Well, there are a few more drawings here, you can take them and let them help you make them, and they should be made of the best iron." Ma Hanshan stuffed a few scalpels and drawings of suture needles and clips to Qi Nanyue.

"Knives? Needle? Clip? Lord, these are ....... "Qi Nanyue has never seen such a strange knife and needle.

"Medical equipment, don't save money, use the best materials, make one set first, and if the quality is good, make a few more sets." For the so-called surgery, Ma Hanshan, an undercover agent, only knows the skin, he has never even seen a few scalpels, and he has drawn a few from memory, these things, it should be possible to do some of the simplest operations.

He didn't want to be a doctor, but with these things, sometimes he could save lives, and he was happy to pretend when he had the chance.

Sent away Qi Nanyue, Ma Hanshan asked Ah Niu to call Liu Heizai and the other two militiamen, there is nothing important in the next period of time, it is time to enter the mountain again, this time to go to the Wild Wolf Valley.

"Young Master, are you really going to Wild Wolf Valley?" Ah Niu was a little scared.

"Of course, the more dangerous the place, the more treasures, do you want to live a better life?" Mahanshan is going to fool people again.

"Owner, we are not afraid of danger, we will go wherever you say." Liu Heizai is now a "celebrity" in the village and one of the most loyal to Mahanshan.

Seeing that the tile pot village is becoming more and more prosperous and life is getting better and better, Liu Heizai admires this owner who is several years younger than himself.

"Bring knives, javelins, strong bows, hoes, shovels, and most importantly, more burning things, fire folds, flints and so on." Ma Hanshan suddenly missed the days of using lighters, can lighters be made in this world?

Flint stones, stone wheels and whatever, it's easy to do, but there is no kerosene .......

"Everything is ready, young master." Ah Niu is very concerned about the affairs of Mahan Mountain, and he will bow down to everything.

"Okay, then go into the mountain, Black Boy, you lead the way, let's go directly to Wolf Valley." Ma Hanshan waved his hand and said.

Now the tile pot village is getting better and better under the leadership of Mahan Mountain, everyone is not willing to enter the deep mountains to adventure with this big child-like village owner, but no one can resist him, so he can only send more strong militia to protect, so, this time into the mountain, in addition to Ah Niu and Mahan Mountain, there are as many as ten people, the hunters of the five-person hunter team, five people are the militia selected by Liu Heizai.

As the so-called Wangshan runs a dead horse, and you will reach the Wild Wolf Valley after crossing two mountains, it sounds like it is not far, but when you walk, you can't reach it in a day.

In fact, the distance in a straight line may not be ten kilometers, but when it comes to crossing mountains and mountains, it is not the case, and it is already evening when you have just crossed the first mountain.

"Black Boy, find a place to camp, stay nearby for one night at night, and climb Wolf Mountain tomorrow." Beyond the Wolf Mountain is the Wolf Valley, which is so close to the legendary place of predators that you must find a cave and prepare firewood for the night.

In any era, it seems that when it comes to spending the night in the wilderness, the best defense is fire.

In the end, a dry cave was found next to a stream as a "camp", Liu Heizai assigned everyone to collect firewood and hunt, while Ma Hanshan found a place to rest in the cave and wait for tea, and Ah Niu was setting up a small iron pot with a few logs at the entrance of the cave to boil water.

"Ah Niu, what about the tea leaves I picked on the road just now, bring them to me to see." When I crossed Tiger Mountain just now, wild tea was found in a valley, but the variety seems to be different from that found in Yunshan.

"Oh, the tea sample is in the bag that the young master is leaning on." Ah Niu said.

"Bastard, I said it, tea is very delicate and can't be put together with other miscellaneous things, otherwise, it will turn sour." Ma Hanshan scolded as he took out a handful of tea leaves from his bag and looked at them carefully.

"Young master, we have found so many tea trees, are we going to get rich again?" Ah Niu said while breathing through the fire.

"That's not necessarily, this tea doesn't seem to be good, you know that there are a lot of bad teas on the market outside." Ma Hanshan wiped the tea leaves in his hand and sniffed them.

Tea this thing, since he as people's drink, the price of good and bad is worlds apart, in the previous life of Mahan Mountain, good tea, tens of thousands of yuan, hundreds of thousands of yuan a catty, a few dollars a pound is also a lot, the general public consumes more than 100 yuan a pound of ordinary goods.

It's the same in this world, the cheapest tea is only thirty or forty wen a catty, and the average person consumes about 100 wen tea. Of course, in addition to the green fragrance of Mahan Mountain, the most expensive tea retail on the market is only two taels of silver.

"Oh, in this way, I thought that as long as the tea I found in the pot cover mountain was worth it." Ah Niu brewed the tea and brought it to Ma Hanshan.

Ma Hanshan took the tea and smelled it, hey, what's going on? What about the smell of tea?

The best water for making tea is dew, mountain spring water, and well water are the second, but now the dishes soaked in mountain stream water, why is the tea fragrance gone?

"Ah Niu, where did you get the water for making tea? Outside the creek? Ma Hanshan blew on the steaming tea, took a sip and asked.

"That's right, what's wrong with the water in the stream outside, young master?." Ah Niu is very strange.

Spit.......

Ma Hanshan spit out half of the tea in his mouth, and then said, "Go and see, there is something wrong with this water." ”

"Where is the owner of the village? It's going to get dark. Walking to the entrance of the cave, Liu Heizai came back with two pheasants.

"Go and see that creek, do you catch fish? Go and see if there are any fish in the creek, and find a way to catch two fish and grill them. Mahanshan said as he continued towards the creek.

I walked to the creek, took a handful of water and smelled it, but found nothing wrong. It's weird, why does it smell weird after boiling tea?

"Owner, what are you doing? There are people catching fish in the deep water below, and although the stream is not big, the fish are not small. Liu Heizai came over and said.

"Really, quick, bring the fish and grill it." The fish live in this creek, and if there is a problem with the stream, then the fish must have a strange smell.