Liu Bingyi listened to all Chen Yue's words. He also heard the truth and sincerity in Chen Yue's words. He hugged Chen Yue happily, patted his back and said, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you, and I will always trust you."
Suddenly, Liu Bingyi pushed Chen Yue away again and said in confusion: "Why do you know so many truths? You know better than me, why?"
"I see more and think more and you will understand." Chen Yue said indifferently, "For example, when I was in the Chen family, it was a smaller version of the Han country. Except for the lack of nominal kings, military personnel and other state personnel institutions, everything else is the same. The patriarch of the clan is our heaven, and we must listen to what he says. He is like the one above, the ancestral temple is equivalent to the court, and all major matters are decided there.
The clan leader can basically determine the life and death of a clan member, of course, it must be agreed by most clan members. In fact, most clan members believe what the clan leader said. A clan, a county, a state or a county are equivalent to a reduced version of the country, but there are people on these leaders who can determine their life and death, otherwise it will be a court and a country. Therefore, I have learned a lot in the clan and understood a lot of things."
"Your patriarch stole your water truck and wanted to steal your cow and force you out of the family. Do you hate him?" Liu Bingyi asked with his head tilted.
Thinking of what happened not long ago, Chen Yue was still so angry that he was still tiring about his teeth, but he still expressed his true thoughts: "Hate, he snatched my water truck and made a lot of money, but he also gained an advanced channel for his son. Even when I fell into the water in the beginning of spring, he wanted to burn me. In fact, after falling into the water, he could burn me. Do you know why he didn't do it?"
"Want to learn your waterwheel technology?" Liu Bingye asked in confusion.
"No, at that time, I hadn't started to build water trucks, and they didn't know that I would build water trucks." Chen Yue replied.
"Why is that?"
"Benefit."
"If you don't burn you to death, what benefits can you get? Only by burning you to death can he get more, right? For example, taking advantage of your family's only an orphan and widowed mother, you will occupy your family's land. If he doesn't burn you to death, it should be the meaning of blood relationship between the same clan." Liu Bingyi replied that he was very satisfied.
After hearing this, Chen Yue laughed loudly. After laughing, he explained to Liu Bingyi: "The meaning of family love and blood ties may be a little bit. The most important thing is that the benefits are not maximized. I had already recovered at that time. He burned me to death and seized my land. In the future, the tribe members will slowly stay away from him, because they may become unable to speak or weird due to illness, and they will think that they may be burned to death like this. After I recover, he will burn me again, and there will be no righteousness. Or under the encouragement of those who are interested, most of the weak tribe members may stay away from him, and may even join together to overthrow his position as the leader.
However, when I had a cow, my relationship with my tribe changed. I would be better with me when I had a good relationship. They knew that I would lend them cows. If I had ordinary relationships, they might not change or get better. If I had bad relationships, they might get worse and worse.
And the patriarch, he would not allow me to own a cow, because I might gather some of the tribes around me and threaten his position. We are all from the same clan. Before the Five Barbarians have yet to be released, I can also serve as the patriarch. This affects his best interests, so if you want to take the cow back into the clan, it is actually his, so that it will not affect him. If I don’t leave, he will try all kinds of ways to make me leave or my family die."
Speaking of this, Chen Yue paused for a moment, saw that Liu Bing had no questions, and continued: "Of course, I also have many ways to retaliate against him, such as poisoning, assassination, making traps, etc. But I didn't. After all, after my eldest father and mother and Ahon died, he still helped my family and was also a relative of my family. Even if I can become an official in the future, I will not hurt him, but after his death, the kindness will be paid back."
Chen Yue regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. Isn’t this Huo Guang’s treatment of Liu Bingyi?
I wanted to slap myself twice and take back my last sentence, but I saw Liu Bingyi nodding and said, "You are doing the right thing, especially when we don't have the strength to resist, we must settle for the second best. A Yue, read."
"Okay, let's go out and start studying right away." Chen Yue said with a smile.
"No, I mean you want to find a master and follow the study." Liu Bingyi said sincerely, "You are very smart. As long as you have a good master, you will definitely achieve success in your studies. If you don't say that you will be the prime minister in the future, you will at least be able to govern the county."
"Just forget to study at home." Chen Yue shook his head and said, "I just want to be a little landlord, grow land at home, collect more food for you, and let Xiaoshui go to study."
What Chen Yue said about collecting more food for you is both the present and the future.
"Xiaomiao still..." Liu Bingyi looked embarrassed.
Chen Yue said: "It is because Xiaomiao is a little stupid that she needs to learn more so that she will not be deceived in the future. I will learn with you. You often teach me a little, but over time, maybe you will learn more than you. Besides, the land at home is really not good if you leave me."
"Okay, I'll ask Peng Zu to help you ask what kind of master is better in Chiyang City." Liu Bingyi saw Chen Yue's determination and stopped persuading him.
Chen Yue didn't study, not only because his home was inseparable from him, but more importantly, he was afraid of studying again, which would cause serious conflicts between the ancients' thinking and the modern people's thinking and affect his own ideological development.
Liu Bingyi stayed at Chen's house for a few days. After seeing Chen Yue's plowing land, he visited his stone mill and swamp pool. The water truck could not be seen. The current river water is deep and is not suitable for installation. It will not be installed after the river water thaws in the spring next year.
On the day Liu Bingyi left, Huo Wang and his son also returned to Chenjiazhuang and agreed on the time to load the water truck next year.
Chen Yue followed Liu Bingyi into Chiyang City. He did not go to the magistrate of Chiyang County or to the Zhang family. Instead, he brought the two linens from his family to an official iron shop and replaced fifteen large iron nails. Of course, it was Liu Bingyi who asked the head of the Zhang family to help to complete the transaction successfully.
Chen Yue did not stay for dinner, but said goodbye to Liu Bingyi and returned to the Chen family.
Fifteen iron nails are used to cut the ground, which means scraping large pieces of mud. Of course, fifteen iron nails are not enough. When making iron ladles, he also used wooden nails. The iron ladles are very simple to make. Five or six wooden boards are nailed into a wooden door. One side is full of outstretched iron nails and wooden nails, so that the cow can pull them. People stand on top without nails, which is much faster than plowing the ground. People are not tired, so they have to control the uniformity, otherwise it will easily overturn.
After having the iron clover, the four families plowed the fields with three cows and one cow scraped the fields.
Four teenagers of thirteen or fourteen years old plowed the field, and three children of seven or eight years old followed suit. When they got off the field, they took the cows, took water, mowed grass, etc. When they were tired of plowing the land, the children fed the cows. The four women took the little girl to the woods and mowed the grass back and threw it into the plowed field to burn it. After the grass and trees were burned, Chen Yue began to scrape the ground.
In less than a month, all the two hectares of Datianzhuang were ready to be plowed, and he had a heavy rain and rested for three days. After a month, the land in Datianzhuang was plowed, and the four cows became thinner. Put down four curved plows and four iron plows, and Chen Yue started to make carts.
Why are there four iron jaws or all iron nails?
Because after seven or eight days after they started plowing, many people in extraordinary clothes came to Datianzhuang with copper coins or broken silver. After visiting Chen Yue and other arable land, they not only left behind the broken silver coins, but also left a sentence "Don't spread it to the outside world". What is not passed on is not only because they have come, but also the technology of iron shavings.
How could Chen Yue, who was so poor that he could not have the money? He happily held the hand of the visitor and said, "It must not be a story."
Of course, except for waiting a little longer when you first left, those who came later left just afterwards, but they all walked with a model of a plow iron.
The seven or eight families came, but none of them knew Chen Yue. The copper coins left behind were as many as 10,000 pieces, and I don’t know how much silver they were. However, Chen Wu mistakenly said that there were nearly 100 taels and various iron blocks of about 200 kilograms.
Chen Yue also knew that most of these people brought money for the sake of the Zhang family, otherwise they would only bring thugs. Of course, there were also more or less for Wei Xiang's face.
In late September, Chen Yue took a newly-equipped cart and spent three days planting the wheat. He was worried that there would be insufficient wheat seeds, but when he was worried, the money brought by the seven or eight families was just used to buy wheat seeds. He heard that during the Wuyue War, Goujian sold the cooked rice seeds to the Wu Kingdom, so he did not dare to go to the city to buy them, so he had to go back to Chenjiazhuang to find an acquaintance to buy them.
Chen Yue felt that he was very lucky. Three days after planting the wheat, he was about to lead everyone to dive into the water, but it turned out to rain heavily in the world. Although the weather would get cooler after the autumn rain, the wheat in the land could survive.
It was getting colder and colder. Chen Yue thought that he was awakened by the cold every day. Without quilts, not even cotton, and the little money he saved at home could not buy any animal skins, because Chen Wu did not agree.
Chen Wu specially raised wood charcoal for the Chen Yue brothers to keep warm. Just one night, Chen Yue disagreed.
That thing can be kept warm when put in the house, but when the window is closed, the two brothers almost got poisoned by carbon monoxide, and the wind blows in when the window is opened.
Chen Yue knew about heating in the north. He also knew the most basic principle, which was to boil water in a large boiler, and the water steam flowed through the pipeline. But now he didn't talk about building boilers, and he couldn't even build steam pipes. Not to mention bamboo tubes, that thing was used as a steam pipe. I guess the whole house was covered with water droplets after dawn.
Then, there is only one way to build a fire kang.
The kang is not complicated, just yellow mud and stone slabs are enough, but it is impossible to make those that are too high-end. A certain space is available in the middle, with one import and two exports.
When the first snow came, Chen Yue's two kangs had been built, and the other three families also built one. The reason why Chen Yue's family built two was mainly to build next to the cowshed so that the cow could borrow some temperature.
Before the snow came, Chen Yue went to see the wheat fields and had grown wheat seedlings, which were also growing well. The main reason was that it had rained a few times and the bottom soil was not short of moisture. As long as it was not cold in the spring next year, the harvest should be good.
When the winter solstice is five days away, Liu Bingyi has brought mutton to Chen Yue's house. The mutton was peeled, but there is no mutton offal, which makes Chen Yue a little disappointed.
After Liu Bingyi slept at his house for one night, he captured Chen Yue before dawn the next day. Because he asked Chen Yue to build a kang for his house, there was no way. Chen Yue and Liu Bing had been walking and stopping for two days and came to Chang'an in the evening.
It’s not because it takes two days for Chen Yue’s family to go to Chang’an, but because they have to go to Chang’an to go to the county government to handle the road guide.
Chen Yue felt that the city wall was more than ten meters high, because in a slightly better county town, there were too many houses with 20 to 30 floors and 50 to 60 meters high. Moreover, there were more than ten buildings in a community, and there were also dozens of buildings next to each other. Dozens of buildings stood together, looking like city walls.
The city gate, which was seven or eight meters high and thick, still gave him countless feelings. He wanted to touch it, but was shouted back by the soldiers guarding the gate.
With Liu Bingyi's insurance and compliant road guide, the most important thing is a small piece of silver when searching, Chen Yue and the other three successfully entered Chang'an City.
They entered the Anmen where Liu Bing had often entered and left, but Hengmen. After entering the entrance, it was Xishi. Liu Bing was worried that he would spend too much time to enter the city, so he decided to enter from Hengmen.
Chen Yue still knew about the West City in his previous life. It was a place where ordinary people or foreign businessmen gathered, with a large number of people and messy people. The East City was mainly for high-end customers such as aristocratic officials.
But when he entered the western market, he was confused. Why were there few people? They were still in a hurry to travel?
Liu Bingyi said to him speechlessly: "It's already this time, why are you still doing outside? Are you afraid of being captured by the night patrol officer Ding in a while?"
"Are you not afraid of us?"
"How is it possible? It's the same thing that I'm beaten to the board."
"Then why, we don't find a place to live?"
"Because, you keep standing here and asking why."
In movies and TV, the ancients usually called inns when they lived outside. From the 1990s to the beginning of the 2000s, the more famous one was called Yuelai Inn. Later, the more famous one appeared in movies and TVs.
Usually when you go in, you will see a waiter wearing a felt hat and holding a rag in his hand and asked happily: "Customer, are you a top player or staying in a hotel?"
However, there was no Yuelai Inn and Youjian Inn in Xishi City in the Western Han Dynasty, only a place called Yeshe, which was equivalent to a hotel. After entering the door, there was no waiter with a smile on his face. He was just an old man in robes, with no greeting or smiling face. After asking for a room, he walked in under the guidance of the old man.
Chapter completed!