Although this time and space seems to be in the Little Ice Age, but in the summer, the temperature of Dacheng is still as hot as ever, the highest temperature in the daytime is about thirty-six degrees Celsius. Zheng Yuming from July, it is as busy as a gyroscope, every day before dawn to get up, get up to face the valley steward of the report, because Zheng Yuming in the valley after breakfast has to go to Nambu, not much time during the day in the valley, the steward to find Zheng Yuming can only be in the morning and evening. The valley's other master Chu Chao Hui early in the dawn, with a selection of fifty able-bodied slaves to go to the west side of the valley training.
"My lord, I am going to spray vinegar liquid in the rice fields today, is the vinegar liquid still in the same proportion as last time to water?"
Dazhuang is now the Valley Farm Steward, under the management of more than two hundred strong laborers, his father returned to the valley two months ago from the South Port with prisoners blacksmiths iron, the valley blacksmiths hit not agricultural tools, not household goods, but weapons and crossbows.
"Yes, it's still the same proportion of water as last month." Zheng Yuming answered Dajiang while eating breakfast, Dajiang arranged the farming properly, when Chu Chao Hui selected the soldiers, Dajiang was originally among the selections, it was only because Zheng Yuming was firmly against it that he wasn't picked. The fifty slaves selected by Chu Chao Hui were all loyal and strong young men, and of the twenty slaves purchased in the first batch in the valley, thirteen were selected, and Er Zi, who shared a room with Dajang, was one of them.
The acid liquid that Dajiang said is made by fermenting wine lees that Zheng Yuming asked people to buy from the winery, Zheng Yuming is not making sour vinegar for consumption, but using vinegar liquid to exterminate insects, there is no pesticide in this era, rice paddies exterminate insects in addition to relying on frogs and toads, there is no other way for people to exterminate insects, and this is the important reason why the field's grain acre yield is not high. Acid is a very good insecticide, environmental protection without pollution.
Dajiang reported some more things with Zheng Yuming before saying goodbye and leaving. After Dazhuang left, Dazhuang old man came to the emergency, the valley of the iron ore will soon be chiming, and then do not buy goods, the workshop will stop, Chu Chao Hui selected fifty soldiers have not all equipped with weapons, Dazhuang old man on the shoulders of the task is very heavy.
Zheng Yuming put down his chopsticks and took out a small book from his coat pocket, the small book records some trivialities, he manages too many things, no need to note down will forget. "Tomorrow there will be a wooden boat disembarking in the West River, at that time, let Da Zhuang arrange for manpower to help you guys load and ship over."
The valley now has a road running east to west, east to the mouth of the gap, west to the long lake, the long lake there is a temporary dock to facilitate the mooring of wooden boats, the dock at the roughly shallow stalls, wooden boats can only be exercised from a deep ditch to the dock, if you are not familiar with the underwater terrain of this place, unfamiliar boat owners hastily want to moor to the west bank of the valley, often will be stranded and can not move. Chu Chao Hui with his slaves is training near the pier, and will also leave a few slaves to guard the pier at night.
After Dajiang old man left, the valley of the half-toned teacher Fan Jin took the book to seek advice, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui free time hand-copying some book knowledge for Fan Jin self-study, because the hand-copy always have this time and space does not have the appearance of simplified Chinese characters, Fan Jin can only take advantage of the Zheng and Chu two people have the opportunity to come to ask for advice.
Zheng Yuming took a look at the codex, he could not think of any traditional characters to replace the simplified characters, but he had a traditional and simplified character comparison, which was recorded against the parchment he brought from the Ulsanjunfu.
"My lord, is it possible for Jin to copy down a copy of this control?" Fan Jin hooked his head to look at Zheng Yuming's hand-copied control and immediately realized that he could solve the problem himself after having the control. After more than two months of night school training, Fan Jin was now able to master seven to eight hundred words, and his math had been learned to the level of the second grade of elementary school.
"Well, take it." Zheng Yuming handed the handwritten copy to Fan Jin. "You shouldn't work in the fields in the afternoon from now on, have time to learn more on your own, if you don't understand just come and ask."
"Yes, my lord!" Fan Jin is full of joy, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui set a name for him called teacher, all students who learn the characters from Fan Jin must address Fan Jin as teacher, which makes Fan Jin, who has never enjoyed respect, feel dignified. Fan Jin was exiled for the crime of being very oolong, because his ventriloquism is too realistic, learning tiger whistle when a nobleman watching the show scared sick, this nobleman was sick and then infected with wind chill, the result was dead, the nobleman's family to take the anger of the Fan Jin, originally Fan Jin was to be convicted of capital punishment, in the past companions around the pleading for leniency in the case of the Fan Jin was lucky to be spared from the death penalty, but instead of the city of exile Da.
"My lord! Now that the number of students is increasing by the day, Jin is too busy." Although Fan Jin had a great sense of honor to bow and scrape for the Zheng Chu duo, he could not go teach all the students in the valley in one half-tone.
There are now seven or eight hundred people in the valley, more than two hundred laborers in the Ministry of Agriculture, more than fifty craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, more than one hundred apprentices, more than one hundred women and old people, and more than ninety children, and of these ninety children, seventy or so are learning. Yayabay's Harbor Fiction Shares Entertainment yayabay.com+ _1 q. S3 p4 G) f2 W1 O. s
"Let Sihua go teach the first enrollment." Zheng Yuming thought about it, the valley really can not mention the characters that can be a teacher, the entire valley, literacy is more in addition to him and Chu Chao Hui, it is Fan Jin, witch doctor Jiang and three children who tutor at night, Wei Qing is Chu Chao Hui's right-hand man, he can not get away from Huo Sizhong in Nambu, only Huo Sihua can spare the time.
"Fine." Fan Zin accepted with a bitter face, although the helper was only nine years old, he was the best one among the three children attending night school, young is young, he can always help himself to share some of the work. Nowadays in the valley, except for a few young children, basically there is no idle food, the other women and old people are working, the women do not do less work than the labor force, there are not many old people, there are only six or seven, they can't do the heavy work, they can do the cooking and cleaning to look after the children.
After Zheng Yuming watched Fan Jin leave, he was just about to pick up his breakfast when his nose suddenly caught a whiff of medicine, he sighed helplessly and put his bowl down, waiting for witch doctor Jiang Gui to come and report to him.
"My lord, the malaria medicine has been boiled in large quantities, isn't it making too much." Jiang Gui had five eleven or twelve year olds as apprentices under him, these apprentices did not need to go to Fan Jin to learn, Jiang Gui would personally teach them.
"It won't be too much, you boil it as much as you like." In the Dacheng area, the plague rages in the hot season, and now with Artemisia, malaria is prevented in the valley, and even if one is infected with malaria by a mosquito bite, one can be cured of the disease with the healing of the Artemisia pills.
"The pills for worming have also been prepared, are they given to the children?"
"Oh! Configuration out?" Zheng Yuming was surprised, the people of this time and space had roundworms growing in their stomachs because of poor hygiene, and these roundworms seriously affected people's health. "Has it been tested?"
"Gave the dull melon to take, no adverse reaction." Dull melon is a fifteen or sixteen year old teenager, Jiang Gui went up the mountain to collect medicine to pick up, is a fool, it is estimated that after the birth of the disease became stupid was abandoned by the family to the mountains to feed the beast. After Jiang Gui retrieved the fool, he let the fool clean up in the medicine clinic, doubling as a guinea pig.
"Then let the people in the valley take the medicine in batches, in the future the drug test will still use white rats." Zheng Yuming heard that Jiang Gui used dullards instead of white rats for drug testing, his mouth teeth a little sour, this Jiang Gui is obsessed with medicine, if there is no fool to test the medicine, Jiang Gui may ask to use slaves to test the medicine, there is really no one, he will personally go into action. Zheng Yuming sometimes pondered that Jiang Gui's exile may not be a wrongful conviction, and this medical maniac may have treated the favorite concubine of the minister as a white rat.
"Uh-huh! Okay!" Kang-gyu was satisfied with his two masters, although he didn't think that a white rat test would work better than a test with a human.
Kang Kyu walked away, taking the strong smell of medicine with him. Zheng Yuming looked down at his breakfast, picked it up and poured it into his mouth. Just after pouring down the last mouthful of white porridge, Gongsun Artisan's footsteps sounded.
"Sir!" Gongsun carpenter bowed towards Zheng Yuming when he entered the kitchen, he was the most standardized smith in the valley in terms of saluting, it had to do with the fact that he specialized in building houses for dignitaries and noblemen, and when he met noblemen more often, he saluted more. "The camping has been built, is the following for the smith to build a house?"
Brick kilns were also constructed in the valley, which made bricks and tiles, and the first to be built was the house where the soldiers stayed, but of course the two Zheng Chu men didn't say that it was a barracks, but only that it was a field camp, which was built in the western part of the valley, close to the valley wharf.
"Well, give the smiths who have family members to build houses first, the smiths houses are built well before they are built for the others, and in the future, all the people in the valley will have to live in brick and tile houses." Zheng Yuming wiped his mouth with a towel.
"Aye! My lord!" Gongsun smith's voice was very loud, when he first entered the valley, he had studied the villa for half a day, wondering what materials the villa was built of, when the bricks and tiles were burnt and he knew that stone powder could be made into cement, Gongsun smith came to the realization that these building materials were not rare, they could make them by themselves, especially after the glass workshop burnt the semi-finished glass, Gongsun smith had no more doubt about the last bit of it. Gongsun smith is a smith with a family member, and is at the level of a master craftsman, he is the second person who can get a new home with bricks and mortar, the first one is the father and son of Dajiang.
Zheng Yuming was finally able to move to Nambu when the sun climbed high, and Huo Sizhong had already brought out two horses to wait for them, which were the most docile of the four horses rewarded by Azure Mountain Monarch, and were the transportation for Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong to travel back and forth from the valley to Nambu every day. The other two strong horses were used as mounts by Chu Chao Hui and Wei Qing.
It takes only ten minutes to ride from the villa to the mouth of the slit; the slit passage has been dug wide enough for the horses to be ridden through the wooden gate into the passage, where they can be exercised just as well; the large camphor trees at the exit of the valley have been cut down, and the slope down the hill has been built so gently that the horse can be ridden up and down the hill with ease, and with the horse running down the hill for another ten minutes, the Nambu will be reached. With such a means of transportation as a horse, it would only take more than forty minutes to travel from the villa to Nambu.
As soon as Zheng Yuming entered the village, he saw from a distance his sworn big brother, Wu Yin, also known as Wu Da, greeting him with a smile on his face.
"Second brother, a Tang merchant came to the port, wanting to buy jacquard cloth." The village women of Nanbu learned jacquard after skillful weaving, after the jacquard cloth of Nanbu was introduced, although the price positioning of jacquard cloth was slightly higher than silk, it still caused merchants to grab it. Nambu produced half of the cloth is Wu Mu distribution, Wu Mu would have liked to monopolize the business, but unfortunately he was busy, busy, had to watch other merchants to compete with him for supplies. Zheng Yuming generously Nambu textile factory production out of the cloth half to Wu Mu sales, but jacquard out of the cloth, Zheng Yuming is only willing to allocate one-third of the share of Wu Mu, the other jacquard cloth to other businessmen distribution. Zheng Yuming did this because Wu Mu's sales channels are in Chu, can not be sold to other vassal states, Zheng Chu two people hope that the goods of the South Port can be sold to the whole of Great Qin, that is to say, the South Port will not only earn the money of Chu, but also to earn the money of all the vassal states of Great Qin. If all the commodities in Nanbu were sold to Chu, the economy of Chu would collapse in less than a year. Now, Wu Mu's goods sold to Chu in a month can earn 50,000 gold for Nanbu.
In the final analysis, Nambu is a bloodsucker that wants to suck the flesh and blood of the vassal states of Great Qin to strengthen itself.