73. Chapter 73 They all study on their own because of poverty (first update)

Author: One Pot from the Farm

Chapter 73: Self-study because of poverty (first update)

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 really drought next year, the shallow wells will inevitably dry up. How about digging deeper? Isn't it good for everyone this year?

It was a task forced by the imperial court. The local government told the people not to serve in the army next year and to use the labor service in advance. 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 be better if he informed him in advance.

Zhu Wentian definitely doesn’t believe it. If he 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, not just a few words.

When a drought occurs next spring, you can say in advance that in the fifth year of Hongwu there will be a drought in Shandong, so let’s continue drilling wells!

As for the fact that Xu Da is about to go on another expedition, I haven't 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.

To 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. It’s too late to let the limit follow the limit!

With this in mind, Zhu Wentian went to see the glass kiln. Today, the glass will be fired. The stabilized furnace has been built, and all the tools and troughs for glass blowing have been completed.

Glassware is blown, and the fired glass is reheated. Some can be blown directly, and some require molds, which are similar to the molds used by sugar blowers.

The difference is that one has a higher temperature, one is edible, one needs to be slowly annealed, and one will melt when it gets 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, gourd-filled glass bottles, etc. Among them, the ones brought by foreigners look more beautiful.

Now that the village has money, I would like to buy it, but Hanhan won’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 Liang frowned. Zhu Wentian immediately fell silent and stood aside with a silly smile.

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 four people approaching, the chief couldn't drive them away, so he smiled.

"This is not like 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. If you are poor, where will you get the money to corrupt your children?

Later, everyone thought about it, just like a child who wants to eat rock candy or wants to buy round-flavored soap, let’s make the colored glaze ourselves!

If there were other ways, the village wouldn't be so picky and miserable, alas!"

The manager said and touched the head of Hanhan next to him. Hanhan said, "Poor, um, 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..."

"Why don't you come 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.

A villager who had been trained in advance stretched a tool into the pool to take some glass, put his mouth 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. Let's 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 out the glass solution 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 such expensive things all day long. We poor people can't

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 a very poor life in the palace, so I don't want to buy colored glaze anymore."

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 make something for themselves. 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 being stored in the warehouse.

Pieces of glass products are made, and the broken ones are thrown aside and processed 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 burn colored glaze. Why does the village look so simple? What is the problem?

So at noon, Zhu Taiyi and Zhu Taier finished their meal, took the dinner food and glassware for the palace on board the boat, and put four bracelets on their wrists, which made a jingling sound.

It’s a new day, cast your vote, thank you brothers and sisters for your support, and the farm family bows!
Chapter completed!