"It's everyone's common idea." Zong Cheng said shyly: "Before building this kiln, we discussed it for a long time, and finally Mr. Yun made the decision to build a new kiln to try."
The look on this guy's face gave him away. Uncle Rong smiled and said: "I think it is your idea. If the kiln fails, I will be responsible for it. If the kiln succeeds, I will pass it on to Brother Yun. It is good to dare to try, but don't miss the business."
Jia Rong also reminded them, lest these guys try out any crooked ideas they come up with, not to mention missing work and wasting money. He also specifically asked Zong Cheng to hand over all the injured craftsmen so that they could see Long Yan so that they could go back and show off later.
After a while, the holy cavalry arrived, and the leading captain saw it, with an indescribable weirdness on his face. King Zhongshun rode into the village and saw the scars on the faces of the craftsmen, and his beard trembled slightly.
"I will bring the cement kiln craftsmen to welcome the Holy Master." Brother Rong shouted loudly.
As lowly craftsmen, Zong Cheng and others had no chance of meeting the emperor. They were extremely excited and nervous at the same time. I am deeply afraid that I will be blamed for my failure to perform well.
When the guards in brocade clothes saw the manor's appearance, they acted as if they were facing a formidable enemy and were on guard.
Emperor Xian De came out of the car and immediately saw the bruises on the faces of the two people at the front. He frowned and asked, "Who are they?"
The craftsmen knelt down and sang "My Emperor" loudly.
"These people are all craftsmen who refine heavenly things. Without them, there would be no birth of heavenly things." Brother Rong replied and said with emotion: "It's a pity that these meritorious people were all injured yesterday. Again. I’m afraid that Prince Zhongshun will blame me, so no one in the village’s kilns is producing anything today.”
King Zhongshun cursed Jia Rong for being shameless. He didn't even know about this, and it had nothing to do with him.
Emperor Xian De took a few glances and found that most of the craftsmen had injuries on their faces, and glanced at King Zhongshun with squinted eyes. Then he said: "Okay, stop trying to be clever. Let them disperse and take out the heavenly things you mentioned."
King Zhongshun felt bitter and glared at Jia Rong fiercely. I thought that although the Jia family was close to Prince Yi Zhong in the past, they never had any conflicts with me. Even though they have been checking the Household Department's deficit in the past two years, they have not caused any trouble to the Jia family because of the sake of the Supreme Emperor and the old concubine.
Why can't this guy get along with me?
How could he know that Brother Rong was influenced by certain groups in his previous life and believed that King Zhongshun was the enemy of the Jia family.
Brother Rong saw that his little idea was exposed, so he asked Zong Cheng and others to carry out the developed cement ash. "This is a natural thing. As long as water is added to it and stirred, it will solidify like a solid stone after drying."
"How long will it take?" King Zhongshun asked the question he was most concerned about.
"The usage is different, and the time is also different. If it is in this kind of climate, the thickness of pouring three to four inches can be as fast as three days or as slow as five days. The thicker the thickness, the colder the weather, the longer the time required." The brother answered with a smile and asked someone to carry out a few cement slabs.
"These were all made during earlier tests. There are boards made of cement ash mixed with sand and gravel, there are also boards made of cement sand and gravel mixed with iron bones, and..."
"There are also iron bones in it?"
Brother Rong saw that Emperor Xian De's face looked a little ugly, and hurriedly replied: "Many buildings in Lihentian are made of cement ash and reinforced iron bones. If they are used correctly, even waves and floods cannot destroy them. "
Emperor Xian De snorted and said nothing more. I asked someone to test the hardness of several stone slabs and asked about the approximate output.
Brother Rong said with a sad face: "We now know that the conflict yesterday was caused by this incident. If we want to increase production, a large number of craftsmen will be needed in the kiln. But Prince Zhongshun's Palace..."
"This matter has nothing to do with my government." King Zhongshun hummed.
"Okay, okay, it doesn't matter." Jia Rong curled her lips and said, "It's whatever Master Qiantose says."
King Zhongshun said angrily: "Is it harmful to bully my royal family?"
"That's enough." Emperor Xian De stopped the two of them and taught Jia Rong a lesson. "The ancestors have great achievements and dare to contradict the prince. Even if you have a hundred lives, it will not be enough."
"I know that today's sage will definitely make the decision for the foolish minister." There is no complaint on Uncle Rong's face, and his face is full of flattery when he speaks.
No one was held responsible afterwards. Brother Rong took Xiande and Zhongshun to see the water conservancy in Ningguofu Farm and praised the cement profusely.
"This dam was built in the cold spring of this year. When the water comes upstream in the warm spring, this dam will not only be used by surrounding farmers. Jia Qiang, the least talented person in our Jia family, also asked the village to build two water canals. The water from the river is directly transferred to the surrounding farmland for irrigation. From now on, farmers on the village no longer have to fight to the death over irrigation issues."
Emperor Xian De asked: "Can we fight with just one person using water?"
Uncle Rong said: "How could the men who are so high up in the temple know these things? It is common for farmers to fight for water, and even between villages and villages. That is a real war, even if there is a fight. The kind that even the county government officials can’t control. As long as no one is killed, the officials will just ignore it because this kind of thing is too common."
"How dare they do this?" This was the first time Emperor Xian De had heard of these things.
Brother Rong said: "It's not that some people in office don't care. If the Ministry of Industry's Farm Cleaning Department can build more reservoirs and more dams, so that every household can use water for their farmland. Where are they? Will there be a war over this? Without water, how can crops grow, and how can farmers survive without crops?"
King Zhongshun's face turned red with embarrassment. He had only been directly under the direct control of Yingtian affairs last year, and he felt that Jia Rong, a bastard, was just scolding him.
Most of the bodyguards around Emperor Xian De came from distinguished backgrounds, but the father-in-law beside him was from a peasant background. One of the elderly father-in-law shed tears and said, "What the young master said is true at all. Before the old slave entered the palace, his family once had two acres of thin farmland. Later, his father had a fight with people from the next village because of grabbing water for irrigation. The root of the disease fell into place and he died within two years."
Brother Rong saluted his father-in-law and said, "My condolences, old man."
Emperor Xiande saw Jia Rong acting here, laughing and angry in his heart, and hummed: "You are so concerned about people's livelihood, why not go to the Farming Department of the Ministry of Industry and become a chief executive."
As the saying goes: if the internal affairs department is sufficient, the official department is noble, the household department is rich, the ritual department is poor, the military department is military, the punishment department is strict, and the engineering department is low.
Think about it with your toes, working on duty at the Ministry of Industry is not as cool as now in Ningguo Mansion. Brother Rong was naturally unwilling. He quickly knelt down and said sadly: "I have just left, and my grandfather is old and in poor health. Today's emperor is so kind and generous, I...I..."
As he said this, a few tears fell from Brother Rong's eyes.
Emperor Xian De gritted his teeth and snorted, coldly letting Brother Rong stand up. He also asked Jia Rong not to disturb Prince Zhongshun's palace again, otherwise he would be punished next time for being guilty of disrespecting the royal family, so he drove back.
"Why did the emperor want to confer an official position with him on a whim?" King Zhongshun asked curiously.
Emperor Xian De said: "It's not just a whim. It's a pity that this guy didn't agree. Tomorrow you will personally bring Xiong Da here and buy some cement from Jia's house for the departments of the Ministry of Industry to use for testing."
"Why is this so?" King Zhongshun didn't understand.
"It will change later. This time the royal family has lost the reputation of Ning Rong, and they are afraid that the emperor and the old concubine will suddenly give them a favor. At that time, I don't know whether the daughter of the Jia family has entered the imperial family, or the royal daughter has entered the Jia family. .”
"This..." King Zhongshun was stunned for a moment and said, "I remember that there are currently no marriageable men or women in the direct line of the Jia family."
