In the middle of the night there was the sound of chopping meat, and the pork was diced under the knife and then chopped into fine pieces.

Aunt Yang came when she heard the sound and said with a smile: "County Marquis, let Auntie chop it." ”

Zhang Yang skillfully chopped the meat and said with a smile: "I'll come, my daughter and daughter-in-law both like the meat to be bigger, and I can chop the meat myself to better grasp the proportion." ”

Aunt Yang smiled and nodded, "It's okay." ”

The two aunts sat next to Li Yue and helped make dumplings.

The pork has been soaked in green onion and ginger water and wine beforehand, and now it can be wrapped directly after chopping.

After giving birth to a son, the daughter-in-law's mouth has always been very heavy.

At night, it rained again, and the rain with ice particles fell on the roof of his house and fell on the edge of Huaqing Pond.

As soon as I heard that I could eat dumplings, my younger brothers and sisters stopped sleeping.

Zhang Yang chopped two large pieces of pork, relaxed his arms, and handed over the next matter of making dumplings to his daughter-in-law and younger brothers and sisters.

Originally, the children should have slept at this time, but now Lishan is still lively.

Only Xiong Da was still snoring, and the bears and pandas were asleep.

It was really cold in the middle of the night, but looking at the children sitting in rows to make dumplings, the home seemed very warm.

There should also be extracurricular activities, Zhang Yang thought about it for a while, only to find that there are a lot of things to do this year.

A large family sat under the eaves and ate dumplings, and when the taste was light, they added more fine salt by themselves.

Xiao Hui and Xiao Wu were sitting together and discussing something in a low voice, and Li Yue listened on the sidelines, sometimes frowning, sometimes asking.

After eating supper, when entertainment life was scarce, Zhang Yang took chopsticks and knocked on the bowl to teach the children to sing, and the song he hummed was the simplest blessing song.

Bless you, every day......

Although it is a bit tongue-twisting to sing in today's Guanzhong dialect version, Zhang Yang uses his few language talents to teach it sentence by sentence.

Soon the children will be singing on their own.

The cheerful and festive atmosphere in the song is infectious.

I don't know how long I sang, the children were tired, and finally everyone fell asleep, and the two aunts were still humming the tune they had just sung and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in front of them.

After a night of joy, no matter how late he slept was, Zhang Yang would always get up on time at the fixed hour in the morning.

I have developed a habit of life and rest, and I don't have the heart to go to bed late.

People's needs start from the day, a day or a year, working in the early morning and living at night.

Because in the current simple life, at night, even if it's dark, you can't do much.

Zhang Yang carried a knife and walked to the southeast foothills of Lishan Mountain, where there was a bamboo forest.

I found a few sturdy bamboos and cut them down, and these bamboo knots can be used to make bamboo tubes.

And they tied up all the bamboo they had cut down with hemp rope.

Then he carried the back of the bamboo, and after these bamboos were tied, the back end was as thick as a footbasin.

Zhang Yang tied the end of the rope tied to the bamboo on his shoulder, and walked up the mountain with both hands and steps.

This kind of work is very strenuous, but I used to do a lot of hard work, and now it's nothing, it's just a little sin in my arm.

After dragging these bamboos to his workshop, Zhang Yang slowly put them down and loosened his sore shoulders.

After resting for a while, I saw that the rooms of my younger siblings were still locked, and most of the children still had to sleep.

It was Li Liqing, Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui who followed the two aunts to practice riding and archery early in the morning.

Autumn harvest and winter hide to autumn harvest and winter hide, a few bears in the family are always snooze in winter, even if these children are so snooze.

With dissatisfaction in his heart, Zhang Yang still took a second look and endured it, picked up the firewood knife and continued to cut off all the leaves and veins of the bamboo.

Not long after, Li Yue also woke up and took his son and daughter to wash.

After Zhang Yang cut all these bamboos, he began to saw the bamboo joints, and the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became.

Putting down the firewood knife in their hands, these younger brothers and sisters also learned that Xiong couldn't sleep lazily every day, although Li Yue had temporarily ended their schoolwork these days.

Zhang Yang knocked on the door, and it was Princess Qinghe who opened the door, she rubbed her eyes and opened a crack in the door, "Brother-in-law? What's wrong? ”

"Get up and help me wash the bamboo."

"Huh?" Qinghe blinked, a puzzled expression.

"Well, hold on!" Zhang Yang shouted, and there were bursts of complaints in the house.

walked straight into Li Zhi, Li Fu, and Li Ming's rooms, and took the three of them out.

Blown by the cold wind, the three boys suddenly lost their sleepiness and hurriedly ran back to get dressed.

Seeing that his younger brothers and sisters came out one by one, Zhang Yang was much more satisfied, and when they finished breakfast, he asked them to help clean and dry the bamboo joints.

Children also need all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical and aesthetics, and their hands-on ability also needs to be improved.

The younger siblings were not energetic from the beginning, and slowly regained their noisy chatter.

Looking at the more than sixty bamboo tubes in front of him, according to Li Shimin's requirements, these bamboos are still not enough.

Let his younger brothers and sisters rest first, and then Zhang Yang will go to chop bamboo.

Qinghe, Dongyang, and Li Zhi are still sensible, and the rest of the children are going to play with the bear, or they will grab toys again.

Xiao Qingqing was eating her morning meal by herself, and she had to feed her younger brother by the way, she was dissatisfied while holding a small wooden spoon to feed her younger brother: "Daddy and mother are so busy, I can only feed you." ”

Seeing that his younger brother was not well-behaved when eating, Xiao Qingqing was so angry that he simply finished the food in the bowl by himself, and then his younger brother cried again.

The aunt who had dried the clothes hurriedly came to help, and the two aunts were the most distressed about Xiao Qingqing and this little marquis.

Li Yue tore open a page of the yellow calendar, and after the calendar was confirmed, Lishan could make his own yellow calendar, and today is the twentieth day of the lunar month.

These days, the village is becoming more and more lively, Li Tai was a child king in the village, and the boys in the village have become Li Tai's "subordinates"

But now that everyone has grown up, the children who played behind Li Tai have also become young adults in the village, some of them listened to the arrangement of King Wei to go to various places in the Central Plains to see, and some left home to go out to experience or study.

However, every year as Chinese New Year's Eve approaches, they will return, bringing with them what they have seen and heard from the outside world, and many changes have taken place in the village once they come back for a year.

Especially the vegetables growing in the fields, and the huge steam engine.

When the whistle of the steam engine sounds, it means that a new day has begun, and the villagers are used to this whistle.

In addition to these villagers, there are also Ouyang Xun, Wu Shi Tong, and Li Xiaogong living in the village.

The most important festival of the year is coming, and there are many guests coming and going in the village, but the door of Li Jing's courtyard is the most deserted.

However, recently Li Jing found a person in the village, and the blacksmiths in the village are divided into technical levels.

The current technical leader of the blacksmith workshop is an old man who is nearly sixty years old, and this old man is Master Jiang, according to Lishan, he is the chief engineer of Lishan.

There is only one blacksmith workshop in Lishan, and all the iron materials have to pass through the hands of this master.

Zhang Yang has been silent about firearms, and Li Jing is so angry that he can only ask this old master.

Li Jing talked to him and found that this old gentleman was very accomplished in weapon casting, and he was able to tell the story of horizontal knives, horse lances, and even bows and arrows casting.

If you ask him again, you can know that he was originally a craftsman in the army, and later made a living in Chang'an City, and was recruited to the ordnance prison.

In this way, this old gentleman was arranged by the Ministry of Industry to come to Lishan, and he has today.

"Zhang Yang, this kid did make the old man cast a lot of weird things, but he didn't know what those things were used for."

As he spoke, Master Jiang took out a stack of old drawings and put them on the table.

Li Jing picked up one of the drawings, and the figures drawn on the drawings looked confusing, and there were all kinds of densely outlined lines.

In the past, Li Jing often looked at some ordnance drawings in the army, and he used to think that catapults were complicated enough, but now when he looks at these drawings, this famous general inside and outside the epicenter feels that he has shallow knowledge back then.

"Did Lishan rely on these drawings to cast objects before?"

Master Jiang nodded, and the drawing said that it was useful, "For example, it is written here that the steam engine supports the parts above it, and the lathe rotates the shaft...... Well! ”

"Usually the drawings used for casting are named, as for those drawings without names, they are all brought by Zhang Yang, the child, sometimes the old man doesn't know what to do with these drawings, and some places are very finely designed."

Li Jing looked at the drawings one by one, and arranged the drawings that had no name, that is, Zhang Yang personally handed over to the blacksmith workshop for casting.

"I don't know the order, I don't know where it is, I don't know what it's used for, how do you know what these cast things are for."

"The general said so, the old man remembered something, Zhang Yang was like this in the past, but he would give one hand and keep one hand for everything, he was cautious and smart."

Li Jing bowed his head and said: "In this way, even if you get these drawings, it is useless. ”

There are more than 30 drawings, and the lines on the drawings are dazzling just by looking at them.

Li Jing observed the brushstrokes of these drawings and sighed: "What a complicated way of drawing. ”

"General, these drawings are not complicated, as long as you understand them, you will have a sense of proportion in your heart when they are cast,"

Li Jing smiled bitterly, "I used to gallop in the Central Plains, thinking that I had seen all the heroes in the world, and I didn't want to be really someone outside the world." ”

Now Li Jing is surprised by the design of Lishan's drawings, as long as Zhang Yang does a little tricking, even if he gets these drawings, he can't make firearms.

If he owned firearms, he would definitely list the blacksmith workshop as a forbidden place in the village, and now Lishan did not enclose the blacksmith workshop, in fact, he understood in his heart that the drawings were not important, Li Jing said the answer in his heart, "Even if you get these drawings, outsiders can't make the things on the drawings?" ”

The drawings here are beyond the knowledge of ordinary craftsmen.

Master Jiang drank tea and shook his head, looking at the general suspiciously, "I thought the general could know some blacksmith things." ”

"Isn't that so?"

"General, the old man doesn't hide it from you, dare to ask the general if he can understand the drawings?"

"I can't read it, but an experienced craftsman might be able to understand it."

Master Jiang said with a smile: "Even if there are top craftsmen in the casting of weapons in the Datang Ordnance Supervision now, most of these parts will not be able to be made. ”

Li Jing frowned and said: "The craftsmen gathered in the Ordnance Prison are all experts in the army. ”

In this regard, Master Jiang did not deny it, explaining: "They are indeed experts in the army, but the matter of casting requires craftsmanship. ”

Li Jing shook his head and said, "That naturally requires craftsmanship." ”

Master Jiang said again: "The general is still wrong, the casting process of Lishan is a barrier, and we have worked hard to meet Zhang Xiaozi's requirements. ”

"If that's the case, as long as the armament superintendent of the DPRK and China takes a little more time, it can be built."

Master Jiang stroked his beard and said: "It's not good to say, there is one thing that is indispensable for the casting of Lishan to have today's progress, that is, Lishan ruler." ”

As he spoke, he carefully took out a ruler.

Li Jing looked at this thing, which looked like a flat hammer.

"This thing is the key to Lishan's casting technique, which can measure depth, width, length, and thickness, and can be accurate to the millimeter, Zhang Xiaozi also has a thing called a lathe, but now the blacksmith workshop can take it down the mountain before the next year."

Li Jing looked at the Lishan ruler in front of him and noticed the scale, which can twitch the internal scale to measure things.

"The general may not understand, but after learning how to use it, you can know that this thing is infinitely useful, this ruler is the core object of Lishan casting, and those complex parts can be cast, His Royal Highness King Wei is an informal person, so he handed this thing to the old man."

As far as the old man knows, this Lishan ruler is also called vernier caliper, there are only three in the world, one is in the hands of Niu Chuang, one is in the hands of Lishan Hou, and the only remaining ruler is the one in the hands of the general.

Li Jing handed back the Lishan ruler, "Mr. Xie instructed." ”

The old master said: "The general came to ask the old man, and the old man must know everything, but there are some things about the casting process, even if they are said, they must be understood...... Hehe, how easy is it to say? ”

"Zhang Xiaozi has always insisted on technology, for the technical level he and the King of Wei spared no expense to invest endlessly, over the years to create the current situation of Lishan, less than five years, and so on to inch in, the current Lishan casting process, looking at the world, there is no better than Lishan."

The benefits of industrial advancement and foundry technology are huge.

The current lathe cannot be made without springs, that is, the springs that took two or three years to make, so that there is the current production level of Lishan.

Don't look at a small object, it can change a lot, and it can also make Lishan. ‘’

This is the reason why King Wei and Zhang Yang have been working hard and going all out in technology.

Lishan's springs are getting smaller and smaller, that is, looking at the world, only Lishan can cast this thing.

Every time I thought of this, a smile appeared on Master Jiang's face.

Li Jing looked at these drawings and fell into deep thought, and on the other side of Lishan, Li Chongyi brought his family to visit Li Xiaogong.

It's just that his father has lived in Lishan for a long time, and he still hangs a rope on the beam of the house.

Listening to his own mother, counting his father.

"You know what people out there say? It is said that you Li Xiaogong know to protect Lishan, and you don't know how to take care of the children at home. ”