After breakfast, Muramasa Kean led four people over. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Brother Iron Gun, this is the person sent to you by the Cheqi Mansion and the county, and I brought it to you."

Zhang Chao found that two of the four people were from the village, the two in the village were sixteen or seventeen-year-old offspring, and the other two were about thirty years old.

"What are they?"

Muramasa was very polite to Zhang Chao, explaining that these four people were the entourage of his father as a military attache of the nine grades. However, these four people have their own names, and two of the young people from the village were sent to their fathers by the county, one is Bai Zhi and the other is Zhiyi. This is a kind of forced labor, and it is also a kind of labor of the people. Bai Zhi is a guard, and Zhiyi is similar to the kind of pen and ink scholar, so generally Bai Zhi is a ding, and Zhiyi is a middle-aged man.

The people of the Tang Dynasty were born as yellow, sixteen to twenty-one were middle-aged men, and twenty-one were adults.

As for the other two, they were all sent by the Cheqi Mansion, and they were the soldiers on duty in the White Deer Cheqi Mansion. According to the system, although the deputy of the team is only from the ninth rank, he is also a real military attaché, so he can enjoy two battles according to the rank.

The battle body is actually a kind of forced labor, but it is only allocated to military attachés, which is equivalent to guards, and it is generally rationed by the soldiers on duty from the local military government. Because the government soldiers in Zhangjiagou are on vacation, this time the government soldiers from other villages on duty are drawn.

The four of them came up to salute very respectfully, and Daddy was very casual. After all, I have been a captain before, so I must be familiar with these.

It is said that before Luo Shixin, the fierce general of the world, became a general under Zhang Xutuo's account, he was a middle-aged man sent by the local county to serve Zhang Xutuo. Once, when he was fighting, Luo Shixin also wanted to go into battle, but the soldiers laughed at him. Zhang Xutuo said: "You don't even have the strength to wear armor, how can you fight?" Luo Shixin was furious, and immediately put on two pairs of armor, hung two pots of arrows, and flew on his horse to demonstrate. Zhang Xutuo was very appreciative and allowed him to fight.

As soon as the thief army lined up, Luo Shixin galloped into the thief formation, killed several people in a row, and cut off the head of one person, and patrolled in front of the formation with a spear, and the thief army did not dare to approach. Zhang Xutuo took advantage of the situation to attack and broke the thief army. For every person Luo Shixin killed, he cut off his nose and hid it, and then repaid the merit with the number of noses. Zhang Xutuo was impressed, rewarded his war horse to Luo Shixin, and kept him by his side, and since then he and Qin Qiong have become the two heroes under Zhang Xutuo, and the brave name has even reached Yang Guang's ears later, and he specially sent a painter to send Luo Shixin's portrait into the palace.

Now the two teenagers in the village are also like Luo Shixin back then, and they have been sent to work with their father. Both of them are still young and can't be guards, so they are actually handymen who run errands.

Zhang Chao couldn't help but envy the treatment of officials in the Tang Dynasty, although his father was only a nine-grade official, he still came from the nine-grade official, and as a foreign official, he didn't even pay his salary to the court, but he still had a job field to collect rent, and there was a Xuntian. Now there are still four followers, and they still don't have to pay for it themselves.

However, after listening to his father's explanation, Zhang Chao knew that if the official position was big, there would be more followers. For example, Beijing officials have defense cabinets and servants, and there are also accounts and relatives above the third grade. Foreign officials have white straights and clothes, military attaches have battle bodies, and there are also doormen, hand strength, and morale.

These are all free service for the common people, and they are assigned by the government to the officials.

Daddy's four retinues each served for two months. After the completion of the service, the county government and the Cheqi Mansion will be replaced again. Although these four people are serving the government, they have to listen to their father and help him work, whether public or private.

"Hachiro and Thirteen Lang will follow Saburo in the future." Dad directly arranged the two teenagers Ke Balang and Ke Shisanlang in the village to Zhang Chao. The two Ke family teenagers are both from the village and have a good relationship. Ke Balang is Ke Wu's younger brother, and Ke Thirteen is Ke Shan's younger brother. The Tang people are accustomed to being of the same clan and their peers, so they can often get a long line, what thirteen lang, twenty-one lang and so on.

The two teenagers are only sixteen years old, and although they have not yet reached adulthood, they have already reached the age of Juntian. The Juntian system, middle-aged men can Juntian. But the rent did not start to be paid until he was twenty-one years old. Therefore, for a few years, it was relatively relaxed, but there was no need to pay rent, but there was also some miscellaneous work, such as being assigned by the county to serve as a deacon for officials at all levels.

"In the future, please ask Brother Saburo to take care of it." The two guys seemed to have been given guidance when they came, and they could still say such kind words.

Zhang Chao smiled and said to the two, "You're polite." ”

Dad went into the house and changed into a new set of clothes, a black hat and a round-necked robe made by Qi Niang.

"San Lang, I'll go to the military mansion, and I'll go to the county later to meet with the county order and wait for the officials."

The government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are not completely separated from the local government, and the prefecture and county still have great participation in the jurisdiction of the local military government. For example, the imperial court transferred troops, the emperor's order and the military talisman of the military department must first go down to the hands of the state assassin, and the assassin and the military general can only transfer troops after they are each half-closed. In peacetime, the soldiers, training, review, etc., the history of the assassination is also involved.

Therefore, it is customary that although my father has only been promoted to a team vice-president, he also has to go to meet with the county magistrate and other officials. After all, the government soldiers are usually in the township and belong to the county supervisors.

"Dad, go to the county seat and help me buy a few things by the way, and the pharmacy is estimated to have them."

The things that Zhang Chaotuo's father bought were mainly alkali stone, miscanthus salt, and lime, which were all used to refine alkali, and these things could not only refine caustic soda, but also soda ash, and then process baking soda. In short, with these ingredients, you will be able to eat non-sour steamed buns and fluffy buns in the future.

Although it is too troublesome to use these things to refine alkali, after all, it doesn't take much if you just eat it.

Dad heard Zhang Chao say a few things, all of which were very strange things. It doesn't sound like medicine, but like the material for Taoist alchemy. He looked at Zhang Chao suspiciously, didn't Zhang Chao follow the old monk before, how did he learn the Taoist alchemy?

"I'll know all these things, you'll know. Oh yes, Dad, you can help buy some oil and come back, it's better to buy some smaller iron pots, and if you can have dogwood, green onions, ginger, garlic, and fennel, etc., you can also buy some back. ”

Daddy frowned, spices are very valuable things, even sesame oil is very expensive, more than 100 yuan a catty. But Zhang Chao said yes, and he just frowned.

"Okay, I'll buy it together in the county seat, how much do I want?"

"Just buy less of everything."

After Dad left with the two soldiers sent by the Wei Mansion and carrying the blankets on their backs, Ke Wu and Ke Shan came again.

It turned out that these two people were not only government soldiers, but also learned to be a cellar craftsman.

"It's not that I've learned, but I often follow the cellar master to do work in my spare time, and I can count on some work like masonry." Ke Wu said with a smile. In fact, in addition to being a farmer, he is more of a hunter. Occasionally, when he was free, he would follow his father to build a cave.

His father, Ke An, was not only the village leader of the village, but also a rich peasant in the village, and an experienced cellar maker. Ten miles and eight towns to repair caves, they will come to invite him. There are several Ke five brothers, and three of them learned this craft from his father, but Ke Wu likes to hunt because he is young, and later ordered the government soldiers, so he failed to become a teacher, and his father did not admit that he was also a cellar maker. Ke Wu still doesn't dare to say that he has studied cellar craftsman, he can only say that he has helped and knows a little.

Keshan's situation is similar, his father is a lizheng, but he studied carpentry with his uncle when he was a child.

"You're here just in time, the new cave has to wait for Dad to come back from the county to invite Mr. Feng Shui. You're just helping me make a kang. ”

If you don't grasp the labor that is available, won't it be wasted?

Zhang Chao is also very familiar with Ke Shan and Ke Wu now, and it just so happens that Ke Xiaoba and Ke 13 are also there, so Liu Jun plans to simply take advantage of the free time now to give this kang to the plate.

"Pankang? Is that the stove in the main house in the picture you draw? ”

"What a stove, that's a kang. The stove is for cooking, and the stove is for sitting and sleeping. Zhang Chao corrected them.

"That's sleeping, but don't I see the stove with a fire on the picture?"

"The kang is for heating, and it is warm on the kang after the fire is burned, and no matter how cold the weather is, I am not afraid."

The four members of the Ke family were all confused. They really couldn't understand, how could they sleep on the stove, and this person was not all cooked?

Zhang Chao didn't bother to explain to them in detail, so he unceremoniously sent four people. The old cave is really small, Zhang Chaoji unceremoniously prepared to rearrange it, dismantle the outer stove, and then build a kang by the door and window, and then build a new stove at the end of the stove, that is, next to the kang in the cave, so that the kang does not need to burn the fire again.

In addition, the hot smoke from the stove can also heat the kang through the kang tunnel. Here, the kang is repaired by the doors and windows, which is also conducive to repairing the chimney outside the cave, which is conducive to smoke exhaust and ventilation.

Zhang Chao pointed his fingers at the plan, and Ke Wu or Si quickly understood it.

"Just use adobe bricks, I still have some adobe bricks in my house, you can use them first." Ke Wu said very generously, he is now also a little moved by the fire kang and the Xinjie firewood stove described by Zhang Chao, if there is really such a good thing, he has to build one in his own home.

Ke Wu was also preparing to build a new cave, so he had been preparing for two years, and in these two years, he dug soil and cut cliffs and rammed adobe bricks in his free time. Under normal circumstances, many people's caves can be lived in for many generations, and they are passed down from generation to generation. However, because of the large number of children, the ancestral cave is often difficult to accommodate the whole family, so in the end, some sons have to be divided into other parts and repair the cellar by themselves.

And to build a new cellar, you have to work with the whole family for several years.

Zhang Chao is not polite.

"Then borrow it first, and then pay it back when I turn back."

Ke Shan also said excitedly on the side, "I'll go and call a few more people to come over to help, call a few more people, and your kang and new stove can be finished in one day." ”

"Then thank you Fifth Uncle and Uncle Dashan, who came to help eat here at noon and night." Zhang Chao said to everyone with a smile.

"Well, good class, I'm going to call someone."