Chapter 155: Nirvana out of the deep mountains

Thank you for the book friend Paradise of Sin, sleepy to drink green tea, Lingxijun, cat demon? Tips!

Thank you also for your suggestions, some of the circumstances will be avoided after July, the military law in the previous chapter has been revised, each article is divided into three different levels of severity: the light one is punished with millet and the armor, the middle one is punished with a rod and endured punishment, and the heavy one is beheaded, and the right judge is authorized by the gentleman to sentence the punishment.

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The status of the house was also strengthened by Wuxi, and it was renamed "pavilion", and the pavilion set up pavilion chiefs, thieves, and pavilion guards, who were responsible for the inventory and security of the road. In the surrounding pavilions, in every village in the township, the identity of pedestrians must be strictly checked. If there are outsiders and the pavilion chief and Li Xu do not interrogate and stop them in time, they must be convicted.

If you intercept strangers from other places, you must first send them to the village temple and interrogate them about who sent them. If they claim to be visiting relatives and friends, they should first make proper arrangements for them to live in a village temple or pavilion, and if they want to meet their brothers and friends, they should summon them for them, and they should not be allowed to enter the alleys of the village on their own and run around.

There are also a few dogs at several entrances to the township gate, and the most majestic of them is the Zhongshan Di dog raised by Xiao Tong Ao. It was dark, like a shadow in the night, except for a crescent-shaped white stripe under its neck. This dog is fierce to outsiders, seeing Wuxian and Wei, but like a spoiled pet, both of them like to tease it, this beast has become the king of dogs in the township.

Although Jing was forgiven by Zhao Wuxian, his experience seemed to stain himself, and he buried his head every day doing hard work such as Chengnai. Yu Xi, Mu Xia, and several other Simas, who were friendly with him, treated him as before, but others were a little distant from him, and from time to time they would look at him with contempt.

As for Tian Ben, he was originally old and capable, and even the two Sima who were in charge of controlling him had to give him a few points. However, since the promulgation of the military law, he has become much more honest, but no one dares to treat him as an ordinary pawn.

After doing a few days of reinforcing the wall and carrying the work of fertilizing the fields, the two were called together by the township Situ Dou Pengzu, saying that they were going to follow everyone to the mountains more than ten miles away.

"Quarrying? Sinus...... Xiang Situ, what is this going to do? In the past, Tian Ben had no one in his eyes, and he dared to pat Dou Pengzu's shoulder, but now he is a lot more honest, and he has changed his respect to call him "Xiangsitu".

Dou Pengzu knew that this person was a gentleman's favorite general, and although he was temporarily punished, he was not sure that he would rise again in the future, and he didn't dare to take it big, but explained the reason in detail.

It turned out that with the completion of the sowing of summer millet and the rest of the Chinese people after a few days, the pottery kiln that Zhao Wuxian had been thinking about started again.

The last firing failed because the kiln temperature was not high enough. This time, when he personally inspected the workshop, he saw that the potters first burned ordinary firewood into charcoal and stacked it into the kiln one by one, but although the pottery fired had improved some time compared with before, it still did not satisfy Wuxian.

Moreover, it is not a long-term method to burn with charcoal, because the mountains of Chengxiang are thin and the forests are not lush. Trees have the effect of consolidating the soil and protecting the land, and the villagers pick up and cook on weekdays is barely enough, if a large number of them are cut down for firing ceramics, the consequences of the trees in a mountain are gone, not only Zhao Wuxian knows, even Ji Qiao, Wang Sunqi and others are very clear, and there have been several admonitions.

People in the pre-Qin era have paid enough attention to the protection of forests, especially the Jin Kingdom, which has experienced a history of deterioration of the surrounding environment of the capital city of Jiujiang and had to move the capital to Xintian.

There is a stipulation in the "Book of Zhou" that "in spring and March, the mountains and forests do not climb the axe, so as to grow the grass and trees", and has begun to advocate rational felling and rational use, which does not violate the time of day. "Falling into a mountain", that is, cutting down a mountain of trees, is considered to be something that the lord of a mountain should never do.

What's more, recalling the evil consequences and tragic phenomena of soil erosion in his hometown of Ganshan and Shaanxi in later generations, Zhao Wuxian also had palpitations, and the purchase of wood and charcoal from distant Huoshan, Luliang and other places would increase the cost of porcelain.

Besides, the Jin Kingdom is located in Shanxi, and it sits on a big treasure house, but no one has discovered and used it.

So Zhao Wuxian called Ji Qiao, Dou Pengzu and the local elders to inquire, and learned that the kind of thing he wanted was indeed available in the nearby mountains!

Or Sang Yang Weng provided a clue: "The mountain of Chengxiang has a little red copper, but it is buried deep in the soil and cannot be excavated." Its yin is more stonely, the whole body is dark, if it is burned with grass, then the smoke is blazing, and the gentleman said, the coal that ignites the fire seems to be somewhat similar. ”

Zhao Wuxian's eyes lit up when he heard this, what Sang Yang Weng said should be the coal seam that was exposed to the surface.

"Is that far away?"

"It's not far, just walk three hours on the mountain road, and you can go back and forth in one day and one night."

Zhao Wuxian also remembered that when he came to Chengxiang, he did see the black mountain from afar, and he thought it was a black stone at the time, but he didn't know that it was such a treasure. Many of them are exposed and blown down by the wind to the side of the mountain road, where they are thrown aside as stones by the local residents, and few people realize that they are incredibly efficient fuels.

Zhao Wuxian immediately ordered: "Stop the pottery kiln first, and then ponder the composition of the glaze, Xiang Situ is looking for a few people who are familiar with the mountain road, bring one or two guards, prepare tools, and go to the mountain to mine the open-air stone, and the rest will be of great use!" ”

So there was Dou Pengzu's move to recruit Jing, Tian Ben and others, I heard that it was the gentleman's need, Tian Ben with the idea of meritorious atonement, rolled up his sleeves and was full of energy, and everyone carried a bamboo basket, carrying a hoe and a copper shovel up the mountain.

They stayed in the mountains for the night, and in the afternoon of the next day, dozens of guards and savages carried bamboo baskets on their backs, and brought back hundreds of black things, which were none other than the lintels, stacked higher than the lintel.

Zhao Wuxian came to watch after hearing the news, and ignored Tian Ben, who was smiling and inviting credit, picked up a piece of "Shini", and found that it was indeed coal from his previous life, and after weighing it a few times, he found that it weighed three or four catties.

He was overjoyed and said, "These are all good things, once they are fired, the kiln can reach 1,300, 1,400 degrees, which is much higher than the temperature produced by firewood and charcoal!" ”

"Temperature? One thousand three hundred, one thousand four hundred? Ji Qiao and Lu Taoweng looked at each other, it was the first time they had heard of it, was this a gentleman's whimsy?

In the pre-Qin period, there was no standard concept of temperature, and the skillful craftsman could only observe the color of the flame with the naked eye to judge the temperature and the atmosphere in the kiln and furnace.

As the saying goes: "Where gold is cast, gold and tin, black and turbid are exhausted, followed by yellow and white; Yellow and white qi is exhausted, and green qi is secondary; The green and white qi is exhausted, and the green qi is secondary. Then it can be cast also. ”

This passage translates to this: when copper and tin are added to the furnace and melted, the first thing that is melted and volatilized is those impure debris, and their combustion is "black" and flame-colored; Then, tin and sulfur with lower melting points melt and volatilize, showing a "yellow-white" flame color; As the furnace temperature rises, the copper melts and volatilizes, and the copper and tin become a bronze alloy, showing a "blue and white" color, and then the furnace is pure and can be cast.

The heat observation method can be used not only in smelting and casting, but also in potters.

So, Zhao Wuxian could only popularize the concept of "temperature" to the two of them by the way.

"The so-called temperature is to describe the degree of cold and heat of a thing, water freezes, it is zero degrees, and water boils and becomes steam, which is a hundred degrees; Therefore, when you see the ice of the bottle of water, you know the cold of the world and the hiding of fish and turtles. ”

Lu Taoweng suddenly realized, and Ji Qiao, who seemed to have been trained by Zhao Wuxian to become half a mathematician, hurriedly wrote it down on the slip and pondered it.

Now, everything is in place, the east wind has arrived, but the first thing that blew was a lewd rain, even if Zhao Wuxian was in a hurry to fire porcelain, this heavy rainy day could not be used, and he could only give up.

With the ripples of summer rain, the time has come to mid-June in a blink of an eye, and the spring corn has begun to turn from green to yellow, but the young green millet seedlings planted in summer have not yet begun to bear fruit.

On this day, when the dark clouds first dispersed, Zhao Wuxian was discussing with Lu Taoweng and Chengwu to pick a good day and open the kiln again to fire pottery, and it was successfully developed in one go. At this moment, the little boy Ao who was guarding the door came to report that a messenger from the lower palace had come to the township.

"Messenger of the lower palace?"

Zhao Wuxian's heart moved, and he hurriedly let people in the door, only to see that the person who came was a vertical person wearing a soap coat, and he was responsible for conveying a message to Wuxian on this trip.

Zhao Ying is back!

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