The book of heaven does not record rice in great detail, but only indicates a general range. This range is huge. If the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula is adjacent to the South China Sea in an "S" shape, the scope delineated by the book of heaven almost includes the upper half of this "S". This brought a lot of trouble to the collection work of the Zhang family's fleet, and under the pretext of buying grain, the fleet purchased 23 shelled rice in the nearby areas and brought it back as rice seeds.

The Zhangjia fleet was formed for just over a year, and the ships were also purchased from outside. It was not until the middle of this year that the dry dock was repaired, and a few small fishing boats have recently been built to practice. Slightly larger ships that can sail far away are estimated to have to wait until next year. However, with such a good financial road, Zhang Zhao can't wait. As early as the beginning of last summer, he bought three ships with a length of 15 zhang, a width of 4 zhang, and a width of 4 or 500 materials (stones) to form his own fleet. Subsequently, Zhang Ping went to sea with the fleet. Zhang Ping is Zhang Chao's father, and he is the one who runs the caravan privately. Zhang Zhao promised to give him a layer of dividends, and he would run the fleet.

Zhang Ping led the fleet out for the first time, it was careful and careful, always sailing not far from the coast, he was lucky, the sailing speed was a little slower, but the road was safe and sound, and there was no danger. On this voyage, the fleet did not make any money, if it weren't for Zhang Zhao selling some rough glass in the name of the fleet, most of the fleet would still lose money. However, everyone was satisfied with the voyage.

Zhang Zhao is proud of his good methods, no matter what the fleet is, the Zhang family will definitely make money. Zhang Ping saw the hope of making money - this time, Zhang Ping didn't know what goods he needed in the South China Sea, and he lost a lot of money when he went; The unfamiliar sea routes, the unskilled sailors, the slow navigation of the fleet, and the increased expenditure; Even so, the gains made when I came back almost offset all the losses. So, after getting acquainted with all this, will it be far to make money?

Zhang Han was more satisfied. The fleet arrived at the coast of the South China Sea on its first voyage, and Zhang Han was satisfied. The Age of Discovery and Australia, Zhang always remembers it. Obtaining improved rice varieties is also a bonus. It is not a trivial matter that an acre of land can produce half more grain. In later generations, China's rice output accounted for seven layers of grain production, and the yield of hybrid rice per mu was as high as more than 800 kilograms, which was equivalent to the yield of 167 stone per mu per mu.

The excellent crops recorded in the Book of Heaven are naturally not only Linyi rice, but also cotton from Tianzhu, watermelons and grapes from the Western Regions, and so on. In addition to the importance of rice, the Book of Heaven emphasized the need to keep secrets, and all other things, at the suggestion of Xiang Rang, the Zhang family asked Hu Shang for a lot of money.

The Han Dynasty had frequent maritime trade, and there were many maritime merchants, and the merchant ships formed by the Han merchants sailed all the way to the Malacca region, while the Hu merchants mostly came from Persia. These things are just a gesture, and they will be piggybacked along the way. The price of the Zhang family is high, and they have been able to get it in the past two years.

However, 'Hirojuko' made a joke in the Book of Heaven. Pu Tao (i.e., grapes) had already brought back seeds from Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, and the Great Han Kingdom already had them.

The Zhang family tried to grow Pu pottery in several farms in Donglai County, and found that the mountain villa (Mu Zhongzhuang) located between Muping and Dongmu had the best planting effect, and a large number of crops had been planted there. Meng Tuo used Pu Tao wine in a bucket, and exchanged it for Liangzhou Thorn History from Zhang Rang. Pu Tao wine is so valuable, Zhang Zhao himself is a wine lover, so he naturally attaches importance to it.

After entering Bian Nanzhuang, the family study is not far away, and it doesn't take much effort to see rows of neat red brick houses appear in the distance. Liu Wenbiao pointed to the house and told Li Xiaoer and Wang Jiajun:

"That's ethnology."

Before the two of them stretched out their heads to see clearly, the old cow pulling the cart used force, and the two little ones felt that they had gone up a small slope, and the road suddenly became gentle, and they could no longer feel the bumps. The two children couldn't help but be curious, and they didn't care about going to see the clan studies, so they looked at the ground first.

In the middle of the year, under the guise of experiments, Zhang Han built a cement road in the clan study - on the rammed earth compacted roadbed, a layer of cement slabs with a thickness of a foot was laid on it, making it quite similar to the cement road of later generations.

The gray cement road is as smooth as a mirror, stretching straight to the genealogy. The two couldn't help but smack their tongues - cement is a common thing in iron-smelting workshops, but it is used in furnaces, and it is rarely used to build houses.

Not far to the east of Ethnology was a large flat clearing, where Zhang Han planned to build his small workshop. At that time, the small workshop was in the east of the ethnology, and the households of Bian Nanzhuang lived in the northwest of the ethnology, and the two also contrasted with each other. However, the construction of the small workshop is still on paper, and Zhang Han now has no cement and other building materials to repair it.

Cement has a wide range of uses. Cement is needed to build chimneys, blast furnaces and hearths; Cement is needed to build Cen Mansion, Ethnography and Zhang Mansion; Cement is also needed to build reservoirs, digesters and roads. Since the initial trial firing of two kilns of cement, the demand for cement has been growing rapidly. Although coal mining, which is necessary to burn cement, requires a lot of manpower, and the Zhang family is always insufficient, lime kilns, cement kilns, and brick kilns are still repeatedly expanded.

However, now, when the smelting workshop is about to move to Lubeizhuang, Zhang Han once again finds that the output of cement is still insufficient. Fortunately, Zhang Han wants to form a small workshop, and there is still a lot of work to be done, the smelting and filling steel are busy smelting, and the one who builds the treasure knife is busy building, but he is not in a hurry for a while. As a result, the construction of the small workshop was postponed.

In the autumn and August of the first year of Xiping (172), a total of 26 children and subordinates of the Zhang clan reached the age of six and officially entered the clan study. In this way, there are three more shes in the family science at this time, and one of them is only six people who are dissatisfied. It is said that Li Xiaoer and Wang Jiajun can be arranged in this Shili. However, Li Xiaoer is now twelve years old, and Wang Jiajun is also eleven years old. Zhang Han was handy, so he arranged the two of them to Liu Wenbiao's Shiri, temporarily followed them to study and train together, and then rearranged them when they had the opportunity in the future.

-The two were officially handed over to Liu Wenbiao at an early age, and they all knew each other, so there was no need to introduce them. Liu Wenbiao led the two children to circle in the family science.

"The hill behind the ethnography is the Mingli Mountain, and there is a valley behind it, which is the Ligu. Mr. Zhou's family lives in the valley, and Mr. Zhou likes to be quiet, has nothing to do, and rarely runs into the valley......"

The valley where the ethnography is located is not high, the valley is not deep, and it is deserted, and it has no name. After Cen Hui moved in, he felt that he was such a big and famous person, how could he live in a nameless place, so he wanted to give the mountain a name. At first, Cen wanted to name the hill "Xuanqiu" (from "The Book of Songs, Shaofeng, Xuanqiu"), which was to laugh at himself as an exile. However, this idea was unfortunately known to Zhang Zhao, and he made great fun of it, saying that Cen Hui didn't name it "Dunqiu" (from "The Book of Songs, Wei Feng, Gangster"), which was making fun of Cen Hui like an abandoned woman.

Cen Hui's face is not as good as Zhang Zhaohou, and after being teased like this, he really couldn't hold on, so he had to change it to "Liqiu". Lili means luxuriant, from the Book of Songs, Wang Feng, Huang Li. It means that the mountain is lush and green, and at the same time, it is also to express one's homesickness. If you know that it is not possible to reason, you will move it with affection. At this time, Zhang Zhao was very embarrassed, so he had to send a lot of gifts, and Liao apologized.

At the southern end of the valley, there is a condescending hill, which is more than ten zhang higher than the surrounding area, and is the highest point of the hill. If a ballista is erected here, it can not only control the valley under your feet, but also threaten the ethnology outside the mountain pass. It can be said that it is a strategic place, and Zhang Han plans to build a small fortress on the hill at that time, so that it and the fort dock with the ethnology as the center, will be mutually relevant.

Since the mountain is separated from the hill, the valley is naturally separated from the valley. Ligu is a valley in the shape of a sting, the bottom is small and the mouth is wide, in the shape of a trapezoid, and when it reaches the upper mouth, it shrinks sharply. It is 283 steps long from north to south, and the average width from east to west is about 70 or 80 steps, but the mountain pass is less than 40 steps. The stream that flows in the middle divides the valley in two, and the ethnology was originally built on the east side, while the larger part of the west side is the residence of Cen Hui's family. It is not high from the mountain, generally only a dozen zhang high, and the slopes on all sides of the valley are not steep, and the mountains and forests are densely covered with grass and trees, but there is no worry about the occurrence of mudslides.

Because they fled, the population of the Cen family was not large, and there were only eleven masters and servants. Zhang Zhao was afraid that the news would leak out, so he didn't dare to send more servants, so he carefully selected eight servants who were alone to serve. These people are all from Yuzhou, which was accepted by the Zhang family for nine years, and they know the roots, and they have worked in the Zhang family for a few years, and they have no contact with the outside world, so they should be reliable.

has been a friend for many years and Zhang Han's teacher, Zhang Zhao will not snub Cen Hui. The house of the Cen family is not small, with a total of more than 40 rooms in the front and back, and a garden was built in the back this year. More than a dozen people lived in it, and it was somewhat lonely. However, thinking about the situation of other party members, Cen Hui is also content. Not to mention the arrested party members, the eunuchs will never show mercy. Those party members who fled in all directions also had a very hard time, either hiding in the market and pretending to be small merchants, or fleeing into the mountains to work as miners, or being searched everywhere, implicating countless families and people. In contrast, Cen Hui doesn't have too many extravagant hopes.

[Be kind, read a book and smash the ticket]