Chapter 66: The Legendary Craftsman
Although Ge Siyu did not dare to compare with Li Cunhan, a patriarch-level figure and a young eunuch of the former dynasty, he also had the desire to write a book in his heart. In addition to a "will be made scriptures" more than 400 years ago, the art of making will be passed down by word of mouth in the craftsman's door, Ge Siyu and his old father privately copied down the will to make a mantra and experience there are thousands of mantras, many mantras and experience on the basis of "will be a scripture" on the basis of great progress and improvement.
Although he longed in his heart, Ge Siyu still had a lot of hesitation.
"Why, when it comes to you, but you don't dare?" Zhao Shuhan turned Ge Siyu into the army and asked with a smile, "Or is it that your family has a unique knowledge and easily doesn't show outsiders?" ”
"For hundreds of years, craftsmen and musicians have been listed as lowly families, and they have become cheap...... Ge Siyu said self-deprecatingly.
"Since Brother Ge is not confined to the door, Lin Jian begs Brother Ge to bother writing a book," Lin Jian stood up from the banquet and gave a salute to Chief Ge Siyu, and said, "Jiyun Society will give an official silver hundred taels according to the custom, and there is no need for Brother Ge to worry about the engraving after the book is completed. ”
Ge Siyu hurriedly stood up, returned the gift to Lin Tie, and said: "It is not profitable to engrave books, I have to be recommended by Brother Zhao, it is a happy thing in my life to know Brother Lin, I hesitate because I am worried about causing trouble to Brother Lin, where do I dare to take the money back?" ”
"Brother Ge may not know, when I talked with Brother Zhao at night, I felt that miscellaneous craftsmanship can be of great benefit to the people and the country, I can't do moral articles, calligraphy, poetry and painting are reluctant, but I feel that it should be my generation's responsibility to carry forward miscellaneous craftsmanship," Lin Jian said, "Give silver to Brother Ge, not to say that Brother Ge is greedy for money, but just want to set an example to encourage more well-educated people to write books for miscellaneous craftsmen to pass on to the world, please Brother Ge don't refuse." Lin Jian asked Zhou Pu to go to Lin Jingzhong to get the silver.
"Speaking of which, I am a child of a craftsman, and I have the responsibility to carry forward the miscellaneous craftsmanship," Lin Lian's words moved Ge Siyu, grabbed Zhou Pu's hand and prevented him from taking the silver, and said, "Writing a book and saying that it is a big thing for us to do it, let me go back and discuss it with the old father, I really don't dare to take the silver, I want to take the silver back, maybe I will break the head of the old father with a cane......"
Ge Siyu and Zhao Shuhan left at dusk, Lin Jian sent a carriage to send them, but after dark, Ge Siyu and Zhao Shuhan came back in the carriage he sent, and Ge Siyu's old father Ge Fu came together.
Ge Fu is a legendary craftsman in Jiangning Mansion, Lin Jian has also heard of his deeds, since he was a child, he was illiterate but brilliant, his ancestors were the "gold diggers" of Ruian Mansion, but to Ge Fu's generation Ruian has no gold to buy, and the family was forced to flee to avoid servitude. On the way, both parents died, and Ge Fu was only eleven or twelve years old at the time. Because he was young, and because there was no fixed craftsman family to take him in, he ate hundreds of meals, followed the craftsmen of all walks of life to study, and when he became an adult, he was already an all-round master who could not do all the techniques of car and ship pottery and tile lacquer painting, especially good at creating generals. At the time of Emperor Longxing, Ge Fu was already the leading master under the Ministry of Industry in Jiangning, and the Nine Urn Bridge outside the Donghua Gate was supervised by Ge Fu and all craftsmen. Ge Fu spent half his life supervising the construction of palaces, houses, bridges, and countless cities, but he was never able to get rid of the craftsman's registration, and when Emperor Longxing congratulated his biological mother on her birthday, Ge Fu led the craftsmen to make a hundred birds and offer Ruibao ships to pay tribute, and Ge Fu had to get rid of the craftsman by Emperor Longxing. Lin Jian only listened to Gu Wuchen talk about the exquisiteness of the treasure boat, which can be called a treasure through the ages, and Emperor Longxing even dug a shallow lake with a radius of three acres in the imperial garden to place this treasure ship that was only seven feet long and seven feet long.
Lin Tie was already on Prison Island, and received a report that Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu had gone and returned, and Ge Siyu's old father Ge Fu also came with him, and Lin Tie hurriedly took a boat to the estuary thatched cottage on the south bank.
At this time, Ge Fu was already in his seventies, under the reflection of the campfire, his white eyebrows were bright, his body bones were very tough, his skin was dark, his body was tall and thin, and he was very energetic when he stood there. Because Ge Fu is too famous, he is really afraid that all parties will ask him to supervise the construction of the project when he is old, and he has been recuperating at home for several years without seeing outsiders. Jiyun Society's private apprenticeship from Jiangning Mansion Gongcao and several masters invited by Jiangning Mansion had a deep relationship with Ge Fu, and when Lin Jian came over, these masters had not yet left, and greeted Ge Fu around.
"Mr. Ge! Shizi Lin is polite here. Lin Jian watched Ge Fu gather in front of the thatched hall, he walked over and gave Ge Fu a salute in the posture of a junior and a junior.
"Lin Sijiao is polite," the old man Ge Fu's temperament is very full, and his voice is so loud that people's ears are buzzing, although he has lived a very cold life, but he is also a person who can stand up straight and speak in front of high-ranking officials such as Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning, Shilang, and Cao Shengjun of Jiangning Mansion, and he is very generous when he talks to Lin Lian, he is not in a hurry to talk about the book, he looked at the camp at the mouth of the river with his waist crossed, and said, "The old man also knows a few generals who lead troops to fight, and they all say that those who are more than thirty percent of the casualties can still restrain the soldiers from breaking up and falling can be called famous generals. The old man heard Si Yu talk about the scene here in the house, but he didn't believe it, he saw it with his own eyes, it was really orderly, if Lord Lin went to be a general, he would definitely be able to be a famous general......"
It was precisely because after the tragedy that Lin Jian was able to quickly stop the spread of panic, and organized the displaced people to restore order in the estuary as quickly as possible, which also made Gu Wuchen and others trust Lin Jian more.
In fact, Lin Lian's command organization is only one aspect, Lin Mengde, Zhang Yubo and others are also one aspect, and the homelessness of these displaced people and the scattered among Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and many of his brothers are the mainstay of stabilizing the mood of the displaced people.
There are some things that others don't know, so naturally they all go to Lin Lian's personal head.
"The tragedy was caused by Lin Bin's negligence, and I really don't dare to bear this reputation," Lin Jian said, "Mr. Ge must have taught Lin Tie when he comes, it's too late, I'm afraid it's too late to go back to the city, why don't you go to the island as a guest?" ”
Lin Jian invited Ge Fu, Ge Siyu, and Zhao Shuhan to take a boat to Prison Island as guests, and asked Zhou Pu to lead the guards to guard at the mouth of the river.
In the past five hundred years, the craftsmen of the former dynasty have been regarded as the master of the craftsmen who will do the work, and the work will be made for thousands of years. After Ge Siyu returned to the house, he spread Zhao Shuhan's "Prison Book" in front of Ge Fu, and Ge Fu was immediately moved, and regardless of the rule of not leaving the house for several years, he immediately pulled Ge Siyu and Zhao Shuhan out of the city.
Ge Fu got rid of his craftsman status, and Ge Siyu, the only son born in middle age, entered the official career again, and the old man also looked at money very lightly, so he naturally did not have the mind to pass on the secret craftsman's skills. As a famous craftsman in Jiangning, Emperor Ge Fude Longxing specially took off his craftsman status, which also made his reputation in the future work in this life also reach its peak.
Ge Fu has always had this thought, and over the years, he has also copied the secrets and experiences that have been passed down in the industry with his son Ge Siyu, but the world's contempt and rejection of the miscellaneous arts have made Ge Fu delay because of various scruples even if he has a mind.
The so-called opportunity is very subtle, Ge Siyu spread out the real book of "Prison Book", which made the old man have the mind to let go: they are all in their seventies, and they will not have a few years to live, and if they hesitate, this mind will follow into the coffin.
Ge Fu has experienced almost everything in his life, and he has also developed a transparent and back-to-basics temperament, not sloppy with Lin Tie, the old man's knowledge and skills are so wide that Lin Tie and Zhao Shuhan are dumbfounded, and they walked to the livestock pen and told the swineherd about the art of raising pigs, and the two prisoners nodded frequently. Lin Tie Tuolin dreamed of buying a large spinning wheel from Pingjiang Mansion for the prisoners who could do carpentry to imitate, and here the big spinning wheel was dismantled, because the structure was too complicated, the prisoners did not restore it as it was for two days, let alone imitate it, Ge Fu pointed out the problem in three or two clicks. Lin Lian said that the island sent minor crime prisoners to the river beach to fish every day, and also considered adding two fishing boats, Ge Fu immediately took a wooden strip and charred it on the candlestick to draw a pattern for Lin Lian to make the living water grid of the fishing boat, and asked him to use it for the shipyard to renovate the living water grid for fishing, so that he could not worry about the problem of small-scale fishing fish meat preservation.
Ge Fu had a reverence for his predecessors, and only said that he would make a supplement to Li Cunhan's "Jiang Zuo Jing", and Lin Jian said that he would offer a hundred taels of official silver, and the old man did not refuse, but said: "I want to make a good note of "Jiang Zuo Jing", I am afraid that one hundred taels of silver is not enough, and the old decay also has some silver for the elderly, so I will use it together. In addition, if you really want to write a book, I will make a list, all kinds of capable people in the industry, if Lin Sijiao and Director Zhao can invite as many people in the list as possible, writing a book will get twice the result with half the effort, after all, Si Han and I have limited knowledge, and we haven't touched life for several years, so there may be deviations in our brain memorization...... These people are not all masters who hold on to the hands of various yamen, and some of them even particularly annoy the officials, who have been in this industry for sixty years, and know who has what expertise. ”
Ge Fu is not very literate, and his son Ge Siyu wrote it orally, and the people on the list are all craftsmen in Jiangning Mansion, some are under the jurisdiction of Jiangning Gongcao, some are under the jurisdiction of Jiangning Ministry of Industry, some are under the jurisdiction of Jiangning Garrison General's Office, some are under the jurisdiction of Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy, some are under the jurisdiction of Jiangdong Admiral's Office, and some are under the jurisdiction of the Inspectorate Division.
Although Zhao Shuhan said that he was an official residence, he actually did not have any real power, so of course he could not invite these masters.
Lin Jian looked at this list, a total of 26 people, in addition to covering trenches, stone work, large wood work, small wood work, sawing work, bamboo work, tile work, mud work, brick work, kiln work and other 12 types of work involved in the construction of the work, but also involved in iron work, boat making, car making and other related trades, Ge Fu listed these people are undoubtedly the top craftsmen in the industry. Jiangning is the southern capital of the Great Yue Dynasty, naturally it is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, some dragons and some tigers are despised by the world, but Lin Jian feels that this list is as heavy as a thousand pounds, thinking that if he must escape to Changshan Island tonight, in addition to picking up Su Mei and Xiaoman and others from the city, the most important thing is to tie up everyone according to this list and take them to Changshan Island.
This list is simply asking him to recruit talents in Jiangning.
The old man Ge Fu had a straightforward temperament, saying that when he went out of the house to others today, he would definitely come to the door to invite him out of the mountain, and he couldn't help his son Ge Siyu to write a book without worrying, saying that the prison island was quiet, and it was better to stay on the prison island.
Of course, Lin Jian couldn't ask for it, he built a stack wharf in the estuary waterway, and in the future, he would invite capable and famous craftsmen from Jiangning Mansion to do things, and with Ge Fu on Prison Island, these craftsmen would definitely not take Qiao with Jiyun Society.
Ge Fu was also not very happy to live within the high walls, and asked Lin Jian to borrow five people to call him for three days, and Lin Jian naturally allowed him, and he was afraid that others would not have enough manpower, so he gave him ten people.
Ge Fu lived in Prison Island for three days, and actually built a bamboo house on a small flat land near the river at the southern end of Prison Island, three connected bamboo houses split bamboo for tiles, bundled bamboo for walls, even the floor in the bamboo house and the corridor outside, handrails are made of bamboo, and the bamboo branches are woven into a fence circle into a small courtyard, there is a kennel at the entrance of the courtyard, and a few lush green bamboos are planted in the corner, which are integrated with the white waves outside the courtyard and full of vitality.
On the night of completion, Ge Fu invited Lin Tie to take a look, and even the tables, chairs, beds, cabinets, cups and bowls inside were made of bamboo.
"My craftsmanship is not as good as the bamboo craftsman Zhao Drunken Ghost...... Ge Fu said with a smile, "This Zhao Drunken Ghost is ruined on this wine, only after drinking wine can he sober up and have the strength to work, but who will serve wine to him when the official family sends the craftsman?" He has been living half-dead all these years. ”
"If he can send ten young men to build such a small courtyard in three days, I will provide him with wine every day." Lin Jian said with a smile, and asked Ge Fu where the drunken ghost lived, and he wanted to invite him tomorrow, even if he was a half-wasted person, he would not care about the life or death of this kind of craftsman if he wanted to come to the Yamen.
"If you are willing to use him, let Si Yu bring him over tomorrow, I have known that it is annoying to rub my family wine over the years, and now it can be regarded as getting rid of a trouble...... Old Man Ge Fu smiled happily.
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PS: The second chapter is sent, and today it is also updated with 8,000 words, asking for a red ticket!