Just a few days after the Beginning of Winter, the imperial court ordered the government to dig wells in a group of places, and the people complained endlessly.
The current situation is that in the next half month, the river will be able to be used for pedestrians. How will we dig it?
It's useless to dig shallow. If there is a drought next year, the shallow well will definitely dry up. How about digging deeper? Isn’t everyone celebrating the Chinese New Year this year?
The local government told the people that they would not serve in the army next year and use the labor force in advance for the tasks imposed by the imperial court. This made the people feel better.
Zhu Wentian got the news, and the prince sent good charcoal. By the way, he said that it would have been better if he had informed him earlier.
Zhu Wentian definitely doesn’t believe it. If I told you last year, would you make arrangements immediately? Stop lying.
This is the trust I earned through drought, interplanting, multiple crops, rock sugar recipes, soap recipes, gourd cranes, silage, life-saving medicine, a hundred currently unavailable prescriptions, and livestock treatment methods.
This was recognized based on the wealth of the first village in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not just a matter of saying a few words.
When a drought occurs next spring, you can say in advance that there will be a drought in Shandong in the fifth year of Hongwu, so let's continue drilling wells!
As for the fact that Xu Da was about to go on another expedition, I had not decided whether to support him as a support player or to wait for Ming Dynasty to accumulate some strength and stop it first.
Zhu Wentian knew that he could only change the general situation now, otherwise he would change too much and the subsequent history would also change, except for natural disasters.
All natural disasters that can be recorded are major disasters, and you can inform them of any of them in advance if you are here.
If you change it to a small one, it depends on whether you have read the local county annals before. If you haven't, you can only express regret.
No matter how smart or talented I am, there are still things I don’t know, and there are many. My life has a limit, but my knowledge has no limit. If there is no limit, then there is no limit, it's already dead!
With this in mind, Zhu Wentian went to see the glass kiln. Glass was fired today. The stabilized furnace was built, and all the tools and troughs for glass blowing were completed.
Glassware is blown, and the fired glass is reheated. Some can be blown directly, and some require molds, which are the same principle as the molds used by sugar blowers.
The difference is that one has a higher temperature and can be eaten, one needs to be annealed slowly, and one will melt when it is hot.
The village chief led some villagers to watch and burn colored glaze. It was surprising that his own village could burn such a good thing.
Glazed products are sold in Xuancheng and Dangtu. You can see them in gold and silver shops and large jewelry shops. They are expensive.
There are hairpins, bracelets, pendants, glass bottles in gourds, etc. Among them, the ones brought by foreigners look more beautiful.
The village had money, so they wanted to buy it, but Hanhan wouldn't allow it.
Sure enough, if you really buy it, you will be as aggrieved as the little girl feels after buying rock candy.
Who would have thought that the village guard in the east and west villages could be so stupid? It’s amazing.
'Woof, woof woof woof...' A dog barked, and Li Chang frowned. Zhu Wentian immediately fell silent and stood aside with a giggle.
Not long after, Zhu Taiyi and four others came over, and the villagers immediately greeted them with smiles. In fact, they wanted each other to leave quickly.
This is the area of the mountain temple, and the dogs around it bark whenever outsiders come.
Hanhan always teaches children to read and make things in the temple. He must not be discovered by others. When the dog barks, Hanhan pretends to be a fool and the children read by themselves.
"Chief, everyone is busy...what are you doing?" Zhu Taiyi seemed to feel the rejection in his warm smile.
Seeing the four people approaching, the chief could not drive them away, so he smiled.
“This is not about going to the county seat and seeing Liuli’s beautiful jewelry and toys, and the children clamoring to buy them.
You also know the situation in the village. They are poor. Where can they get the money to corrupt their children?
Later, everyone thought about it, just like children who want to eat rock candy or want to buy round-flavored soap, let’s make colored glaze ourselves!
As long as there are other ways, the village will not be so picky and fussy, alas! "
The manager said, touching the head of Hanhan next to him, and Hanhan said, "Poor, um, hey hey hey hey!"
Zhu Taiyi and four others: "..."
They really want to ask, are you sure you are poor? Don't insult this word!
If rock sugar is expensive, you will make your own rock sugar. If honey locust soap is expensive, you will make better soap. Now that glass is expensive, you actually know how to burn it?
Our Ming Dynasty has more expensive firearms, muskets, etc., which are put out for sale to you. Can you make them yourself because you find them too expensive?
Thinking like this, Zhu Taiyi echoed: "Xiaqiu Village is not easy! That Liuli..."
"Isn't this coming out?" The director turned around and got out of the way. In the heat wave, the liquid glass flowed into a special pool.
You can't see anything right now. You need to wait until it cools down before you can see the amount of impurities more intuitively.
Some villagers who had been trained in advance stretched their tools into the pool to take out some glass, put their mouths to it and blew a glass bubble, which quickly cooled down.
Zhu Wentian looked at it and shook his head slightly, no, there are too many impurities, wait until the other groups are burned out before adjusting.
He believed that there were many impurities because he wanted to use them to make test vessels. For today's glass jewelry, this impurity can be ignored.
Another villager nearby took the glass solution and put it into the mold. Everyone waited. When it was almost cold, they took it out and a glass bracelet appeared.
Others kept taking the glass solution out and putting it in the mold. It was the first test anyway, so don’t waste too much. Just make it if you can and give it to the people in the village.
The first bracelet was completely cold. The chief picked it up, wiped it with a silk handkerchief, and put it on the little girl's wrist: "Here, are you happy now? You have been shouting to buy it all day long. We poor people can't afford such expensive things." bought?"
The little girl didn't care what the mayor said. She never said she wanted to buy it. At this moment, she nodded vigorously: "Yeah! Poor, no, buy it, make it, hehehehe!"
She shook her wrist. The glass bracelet was beautiful, like jade.
"Do you also have a fire under the pond?" Zhu Taiyi glanced at the bracelet with envy and discovered the secret again.
"There is no way. If you don't light the fire, it will be cold. It takes a pile of good coal to burn it. It's all money. Isn't it because..."
"You are so troubled, I know what's inside." Zhu Taiyi said it helpfully.
Zhu Taier said from the side: "Chief, I see there is a lot of colored glaze. Can you make a batch for... to show to the palace?"
"Of course, I heard that His Majesty and the Prince are living in poverty in the palace, so I shouldn't buy any more colored glaze."
The head of the village did not hesitate at all. If he made good things, he would definitely send them to the prince and sell them to foreigners.
The villagers burned colored glaze because they wanted to buy something. There was no good colored glaze available elsewhere, so they didn't expect to sell it and make a fortune.
The village has all food and clothing, and the silver in the warehouse exceeds 10,000 taels. Even if you earn 100,000 taels, it is still in the warehouse.
Pieces of glass products are made, and the broken ones are thrown aside and dealt with later.
Zhu Taiyi and the others looked at the thrown glass and thought they could take it and polish it before selling it in the market.
I heard that it is not easy to make colored glaze. Why does the village look so simple? What exactly is the problem?
So at noon, Zhu Taiyi and Zhu Taier finished their meal, took the supper food and glassware for the palace on board the boat, and put four bracelets on their wrists, which made a jingling sound.
