Tu Shanyue looked at Yang Fan who was coming with a smile.
She and Yang Fan were in the honeymoon stage, and they couldn't leave their husband for a moment, and wished they could be together every day.
Tu Shanyue took off Yang Fan's cloak with her own hands, and took a hot towel from the maid's hand to wipe Yang Fan's face. Yang Fan raised his face in enjoyment, feeling that it was good to have a wife.
Yang Fan's family boarded a better-decorated passenger ship.
Everyone else gets on the cargo ship.
Five thousand people, plus livestock and baggage, prepared hundreds of boats. Now there are rivers inland. We can go downstream from Zhangjiawan, turn around in Jixian County and enter the Jiyuan Canal. We will arrive in Zunhua before dark tomorrow.
While it was still dark, the fleet weighed anchor and set sail.
The small house in Zunhua Iron Works can no longer accommodate so many people.
Yang Fan sat cross-legged in the living room of the cabin, feeling a little uncomfortable seeing so many women suddenly in the house.
Yesterday I was single, but suddenly I had a group of wives and concubines, including many maids and so on.
It made him feel a little dazed.
well! As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be alone, but if you are rich, you will have many wives and concubines.
The ancient people will never deceive me.
Next to her sits the young lady Pi Tu Shanyue, behind her is Mei Xiang, and in the distance is the maid. On the left are Lin Yueru, Xiaoyu and Xiaohong. On the right is sister Xiangyi.
They are all beautiful girls who are eye-catching, and they are all their own.
I feel so satisfied.
The mood is beautiful.
Yang Fan stretched out. After a day of marching, in order to feel the physical strength of the soldiers, he followed them. He was really tired.
"The new house is ready." Yang Fan asked.
You have to have a place to live when you go back. The iron factory is too shabby, so I won’t go back.
Xiang Yi leaned forward and said, "Master, everything is ready. I bought it from a cloth merchant's yard in Zunhua. Their family is from the south and has returned to the south. We bought the house. Although it only has two entrances, it has There are three courtyards across the east, west, north and west. There are two hundred rooms, which is enough for our whole family."
Yang Fan nodded and let the meal begin.
Aunt Mei directed the maids to merge the two small Kang tables that had been brought up.
Those who were qualified to eat with Yang Fan sat around.
The maids served the dishes in a steady stream, and the main dish was hot pot with sauerkraut, white meat and blood sausage.
The side dishes include twice-cooked pork, vinegar-stewed musu, grilled beef strips, rainbow trout, tomato scrambled eggs, grilled eggplant with sauce, celery and lily, tiger cabbage, stir-fried, Qianlong cabbage, a large pot of sauced lamb ribs, etc.
The vegetables are all grown in the plastic film greenhouse in Zunhua.
Mei Xiang, Aunt Mei, and the maids sent by the Tushan family, who had never eaten at the Yang family in Zunhua, Lin Yueru, Xiaoyu, and Xiaohong were all shocked that they could eat so many green vegetables this season.
Now that they are married, Yang Fan no longer cares about the family affairs. According to the Ming Dynasty's rules, this is the scope of Xiao Niangpi's authority, and Aunt Mei is the housekeeper, presiding over the daily work of the family and responsible to Xiao Niangpi. Leave everything to Xiao Niangpi to arrange.
In this era, every man has only one wife, and the wife has very great authority. Even where he sleeps at night is decided by his wife.
Yang Fan was quite lazy to begin with, so it was better to have someone help him, so he simply lay down and let his mother-in-law take care of him without having to use his brain.
She was quite happy with Yang Fan's cooperation, thinking it showed the master's respect for her.
Yang Fan and Tu Shanyue sit north and face south, with Lin Yueru on their left and Mei Xiang on their right. Sister Xiangyi had to report to work, so she sat across from Yang Fan and ate together.
Xiaoyu, Xiaohong and Aunt Mei set up several tables far away. They couldn't eat at the same table as Yang Fan.
Yang Fan first filled a bowl of delicious pickled cabbage soup and took a big sip with satisfaction. Then he picked up the big bones in the soup, wrapped the handles in a piece of paper and started chewing.
It's so refreshing, I just love the big bones in the pickled cabbage soup. Fragrant and not cloying.
The food at home is still delicious. During this period of time when I was living in a military camp in the capital, all I ate was big pot rice. The quality of the food was incomparable to that at home.
"Master, would you like some wine?" Xiao Niangpi asked gently.
Yang Fan knew that she was greedy for wine. Since she drank too much and became drunk, Yang Fan usually didn't give her a drink. She always stole wine while Yang Fan was away.
No one cared about him at his parents' house, and Yang Fan gave her father a lot of red wine. The little girl drank well at home.
Yang Fan thought about it and felt happy when he got home. If he wanted to drink, he could drink.
"Bring me my box of Wuliangye," Yang Fan said.
Tu Shanyue was excited. After she and Yaoguang killed a box of Maotai last time, Yang Fan hid the liquor. She searched everywhere but couldn't find it.
This time the name is clearly that of liquor, but I don’t know if this Wuliangye tastes good.
"Master, is this Wuliangye good to drink? I still want to drink the Moutai from last time," Xiao Niangpi said, shaking Yang Fan's arm.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly, now she has learned to act like a baby.
"There are many good liquors. The Maotai you mentioned is Maotai-flavor liquor, and the Wuliangye is strong-flavor liquor. There are also light-flavor liquors, which is the Daqu liquor you often drink, such as Shanxi Fenjiu. There is also a special-flavor liquor called Four special wines. Everyone has different tastes, I think you can try them all."
Lin Yueru suddenly became interested and clamored for a drink.
It was also popular for women to drink alcohol in this era. If you look at the ancient poems of Li Qingzhao, she is clearly a gambler and a drunkard.
What kind of drunkenness does not know the way back? He runs out to drink and falls drunk, and he is not afraid of being picked up.
Her husband is also big-hearted.
Why does a deep sleep not eliminate the remaining wine? How much did you drink? You still haven't sobered up in the morning.
She also wrote a book on gambling to systematically organize this kind of knowledge in ancient times.
Yang Fan discovered that this was really the case in ancient times. It was common for ladies and ladies to play cards, make money, and drink.
A box of six bottles of wine was given to Aunt Mei and the maids.
There were four bottles left, and Yang Fan and sisters Xiao Niangpi, Lin Yueru, and Xiang Yi drank them all.
Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru went crazy, dragging Yang Fan to boxing and drinking.
Yang Fan was no match for these two. He was so drunk that he couldn't hold it down after drinking almost a kilogram of wine. Ignore these crazy bitches and go to the back warehouse to sleep.
When I woke up in the morning, my nose felt so delicious. I looked around and found Lin Yueru lying on the left, Tu Shanyue and Mei Xiang lying on the right, and the four of them were covered with a quilt.
Yang Fan was a little drunk. He only remembered that he ran back to sleep alone. He didn't remember who dragged his clothes. I don’t know when they came here.
They were all resting on their arms. No wonder I had a nightmare last night and had to lift weights all night long.
Lin Yueru's face was red, and she leaned her head on her shoulder. She was still muttering something in her sleep. She was the only one who had not bowed to her as Duke Zhou, and she still looked shy like a girl.
The hangover feels bad, and I have a slight headache.
I also felt sick to my stomach and wanted to find something to eat.
He quietly pulled out his arms and climbed up carefully so as not to wake up his wives.
Tuck them in to avoid catching cold.
Four people grabbed the quilt, but some of the quilts were not big enough, and the fragrance of plum blossoms leaked out, leaving a patch of white flowers. Push her back quickly.
It's still very cold in spring, and it won't be good if you catch a cold.
Yang Fan still loves his wife very much. Although it is a bit much now, it does not hinder him
Get dressed and go to the bow of the boat to enjoy the breeze.
Yang Fan looked to both sides of the bank and saw that the fields were barren, the land was cracked due to drought, and the overwintering wheat seedlings were sparsely growing. It seemed that this year was another year of drought.
It is now 1628, the first year of Chongzhen, and natural and man-made disasters are about to begin one after another. Yang Fan sighed. I can't control too much, so I'll finish the construction of the land I bought west of Zunhua first.
In this troubled world, without a stable base, nothing can be done.
The diversion channel and diversion and spillway tunnel of the reservoir have been completed, and I just happened to be back, so I can intercept the water immediately.
At that time, a concrete gravity dam can be built by building dams on the upper and lower sides of the gorge mouth and draining water from the middle. The dam is only two kilometers long. Yang Fan mobilized 100,000 people and estimated that it could be built in one year.
Starting next year, the land here will no longer be afraid of floods and droughts. Enough to feed millions of people.
With the reservoir, an industrial zone can be built here, using water as power, a steel base integrating steelmaking and steel rolling can be built, and the textile industry, water-driven machine tool manufacturing, food processing, etc. can be developed.
Before the invention of the steam engine, hydraulic machinery was very important.
Yang Fan plans to move out of Zunhua City in the future, as the small space there is not conducive to development. Relying on the reservoir, Yang Fan planned to build a brand new industrial city, with steel as the main industry and textile as a side industry. At the same time, there would be enough fertile farmland to feed millions of people.
This will be Yang Fan's base to change the Ming Dynasty.
