Yu Zai didn't know that the emperor had quietly regarded Chonghua's wife as a spy and conducted a one-day inspection here. Since ancient times, spies have come from within...
Of course, even if you know it, what can you do?
Suspension for rectification?
I have taken all the safety precautions, so why should I stop work?
Besides, if you stop working for the Chong family, what does it have to do with my Azai from the south?
Fortunately, nothing happened, and soon a letter came from Zhongyuan. The emperor said that Huashan had sent him some news, expressing his sincere concern for the water conservancy construction carried out by Chonghe Jingling in the Luonan area in the west of the river. He paid close attention and attached great importance to it, and decided to send Ji Qi to bring some food and drink here to express condolences to his superiors.
The emperor highly affirmed the water control construction. Not only did he not order the work to be stopped for rectification, but he praised it and told others, such as Fanghu, Xuanyu and other water control tribes, to learn from the construction teams in the Luonan area, especially the name-calling party. Gongshi....
Of course, it will take a long time for this "report" to be delivered to Gonggong's territory, and with Gonggong's character, he will definitely not read it. After all, he can even scratch off the insulting remarks on the wood with a knife. .
But now, because of the onset of winter, the progress of the project has become slower. Yuanzai plans to complete the main part and design of the dam in the spring of next year.
Because it is no exaggeration to say that the Juling clan and the Chong clan, as well as some surrounding small tribes, heard that they can learn skills here with food and accommodation provided, and the tribesmen who came to help, there are three people on this construction site. Thousands of people are under construction.
It is equivalent to more than half of Hongzhou's labor force, and the most amazing thing is that the tribe can still operate as usual and prepare for the coming spring!
This is also the reason why the "Anti-Construction Team Alliance" in the Weinan area has never dared to come...
Thirty thousand people, even one slipper per person can beat Qishui Shen and the others to a bloody head...
With so many completely full-time laborers working here, even if the progress is a little slower, this is the construction of a primitive water dam. Many places are different from the high-tech dams of later generations, so the progress is of course fast... After all, these dams are not used Part-time power generation.
The shanty towns on the construction site are getting bigger and bigger, and there are some special public buildings among them. There is no work on the construction site today. A large number of people came to the public buildings before dawn in the early morning. The largest "temporary mill" ".
Many of the facilities in this mill were designed by Xiong Tao and then made together with the technicians of the Juling clan. He was the first factory director in the south. The design and production of these pottery and earthen stoves are very easy. .
After the autumn harvest, Huashanhe had grain sent by Chongshi, which contained a lot of wheat.
That's right, since the beginning of winter, that is, after Luo Shen left, Yuzai has already had people grinding wheat.
Wheat is not a product of China, but spread all the way from Asia Minor. It was planted in large quantities around the time of Emperor Ku to Yao, because it requires a lower temperature period, called the "vernalization stage", and more importantly, wheat is not a product of China. There is a large temperature difference between day and night, so it is easy to live in the north...
And this is the best time to live.
This period coincided with global warming. Wheat took root in the north, and then passed through the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. It fell out of favor for a while, but soon came back.
By the Zhou Dynasty, wheat had become a rice grown by Emperor Zhou and others. In addition, some water conservancy facilities were built during the Zhou Dynasty, making some places more conducive to the growth of wheat. Among them, the cause of the fight between Zheng Zhuanggong and Emperor Zhou was forgotten. Other factors are just facts. The trigger was precisely because Zheng Zhuanggong cut the wheat fields of Emperor Zhou twice in a row.
"As the saying goes, your wheat is my wheat. Even the gestures I give you to show my heart are like wheat skin."
The first person to improve barley and wheat was Houji, also known as Ji Qi. After the improvement, it was promoted and cultivated in the Central Plains together with broomcorn millet, millet, rice, and millet. After all, there were few types of grains in this period, and there was more to eat. Plants are naturally very good, but you still care whether they taste good or not?
During this period, barley was called wheat, and in some places, wheat was called lai. In fact, they all have the same meaning in oracle bone inscriptions, but they are written slightly differently.
Ruzai led everyone to grind flour in the mill on the construction site. Nowadays, all kinds of grains are available in the north. Occasionally, you can see people carrying a large combined pottery with a round bucket on top and two handles. Below is a tripod with three legs and a hole at the bottom for steam. This thing is called a tripod, commonly known as the "ancient pressure cooker".
The wisdom of the ancient working people was indeed infinite.
In the mill, a large number of people were mixing flour and water and beating them on wooden boards. This unprecedented activity made many people very interested.
living comfortably without anybody's help!
"Brother Zai, I remember you built a greenhouse in Nanqiu to grow these wheat, but you don't make wheat rice, why do you grind it into powder?"
Wen Ming was very strange, but he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be flour ground from rice in the Hongzhou market. However, Yan Zai did not rate rice flour as highly as wheat flour, and Wen Ming had not paid attention to it. He did not know what the rice flour was made of. What are you here for?
"What are you doing? Eat and eat! This wheat rice is not conducive to digestion, so I changed it. It is winter now. In winter, although you can't eat dumplings and sister-in-law...but you can eat some cakes...high-end Ingredients often require only the simplest cooking methods...."
The big mill was filled with smoke, and the huge earth stove and pottery worked together. Guzi and Jiaozi were forced to work. In the bright light, the sun rose high, and light snowflakes began to fall outside.
Being able to get light snowflakes is already the best effort of the God of Winter during this period...
But the atmosphere was just right. Everyone worked hard all morning and all morning, and the first tray of steamed buns on the earthen stove was already steaming!
When the large drawer of steamed buns was brought up, many people involved in the work stared wide-eyed, and the fragrant smell penetrated the pores of their bodies. Ruzai handed out the steamed buns from the first drawer, and those who were assigned, Just like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, he completely ignored the scalding heat and ate it directly!
The person next to him who hadn't eaten asked eagerly: "How does it taste? Huh?"
"Ah, it doesn't have much taste...but it's soft, soft...it's delicious anyway!"
Although this winter is not very cold, the emergence of food like steamed buns still brings huge surprises and joy to the people at the construction site for a long time!
When people from various tribes learned that these were made from wheat that they usually couldn't eat, they were speechless except for surprise!
This year is destined to be the year of steamed buns!
