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When Chen De led his army to escort a large amount of grain and grass back to Lanzhou, it happened that in the evening, most of the households who went out to chop firewood, dig wild vegetables and rat food returned to the city. Seeing a large group of grain trucks entering the city, the military households were extremely happy. Although the lieutenants could conceal the fact that Lanzhou was short of grain, there was no shortage of grain in any town. Lanzhou added more than 15,000 households. Although only one liter of rice is received every day, the total number is huge. Everyone is a taboo to talk about the topic of wintering food and grass. Seeing that a large number of grain and grass entered the country, they all smiled happily. Even more talkative military households detained the imperial court, and commanders and others committed major dangers to rob grain from the Khitans. The word "When Lanzhou is his parents and the imperial court is a stranger.

When the grain and grass were put into the warehouse, Chen De didn't take a breath. He returned to the commander's office and ordered the lieutenants to say, "These stored grains must be saved and withdrawn. The food for the households will not increase for the time being. In addition, the sheep mouths purchased from the Khitan will be sent one after another. Each household in the city can be divided into thirty sheep, but they cannot be slaughtered privately. I plan to keep half of them for planting next year, and immediately let the households go out of the city to collect firewood and grass. In addition, each battalion organizes the households to repair the sheep houses for the winter. " He explained the construction regulations of the sheep houses in detail and asked Li Si to supervise the battalions. If more than half of the sheep flocks over the winter are frozen to death and starved to death, the lieutenant will be punished.

At this time, the herdsmen of all ethnic groups outside the Great Wall lived nomads by following water and grass. Many livestock died of starvation after wintering. The Han people in the mainland increasingly relied on farming and did not raise livestock on a large scale. Chen De planned to adopt a large-scale feeding method to first improve the survival rate of sheep overwintering. This place has been war-torn for a long time, with more land and few people, which is suitable for semi-agricultural and semi-animals. In addition to growing grain, households have a variety of forage grass to increase the proportion of meat in the food of military and civilians in Lanzhou.

After receiving the order, the captains went down to make arrangements. Chen De called Li Jian, the centurion who was ordered to prepare for the craftsman. Although the craftsmen were hung under the baggage camp, Li Jian, who was responsible for managing the craftsmen, was the head of the Ya Military Camp. Xiao Jiu was extremely tactful and did not interfere with the craftsman's work. He knew that Chen De valued it, so he fully supported Li Jian's preparation for the craftsman's work. Li Jian was a scholar and joined the army while defending the city in Changzhou. He was soon selected into the craftsman's army by Chen De. He was dedicated to his work and joined the brotherhood. He was regarded as a confidant. He planned to establish the craftsman's work and promoted him to the lieutenant.

"The army has been very expensive these days, and it is necessary for craftsmen to develop some ingenious things to make money." Chen De looked at Li Jian and said slowly, "I have a way to grind the bones of cattle, sheep, and horses into fine powder, mix them into clay to fire porcelain, use high-temperature ingredient, and then use low-temperature glaze to fire things. The things are said to be as thin as paper, as white as jade, as bright as mirrors, and sound like chimes. It is transported to Bianliang and the Western Regions. It is believed that it can be exchanged for a lot of silver. You can arrange an experienced porcelain maker to try this thing first."

Li Jian listened silently to Chen De's method of making bone porcelain, and tried to keep every word in mind. If he didn't understand, he would consider it with the seven kiln masters in the craftsmen afterwards. This was also where Chen De took him to take charge of the craftsman's camp. Li Jian would almost blindly implement Chen De's various intentions without any discount. He was a scholar and thoughtful person, how to choose and employ people, how to keep confidential, and other details, no longer need Chen De mentioned. If he didn't pay attention to these, he would not be able to be the lieutenant of the craftsman's camp.

Although there are many different systems in the Lanzhou system, there is one thing that is different from other Central Plains Prefectures, that is, the execution ability from top to bottom is like the arm commander. This is quite similar to the construction corps of later dynasties. With the commander's order, more than 10,000 households immediately built sheep houses outside the city day and night, harvesting weeds and cutting firewood, and striving to make various preparations for the sheep to winter before heavy snow fall. Seeing that the projects are progressing smoothly, the commander's office also ordered the baggage battalion to prepare two hot steamed buns for the households on the construction site every day so that they can exert more effort.

Xin Gu led the sheep house built by the people in the Cavalry Camp in the west of the city. He was originally a Khitan and knew the habits of the sheep flock. After Chen De explained the structure of the sheep house carefully, other lieutenants would come down to ask others for advice. Xin Gu roughly understood the intention of the commander. He did not wonder why the commander came up with this method to help the livestock survive the winter. Just as Chen De was not surprised that he actually killed an emperor, he immediately led the families of the Cavalry Camp to choose a good place in the west of the city to start building.

The commander's office had a military order. Except for combat construction and fortifications and internal service of the army, no officer was allowed to force soldiers to serve. Chen De made this military rule because he was afraid that the officers would serve soldiers, which would lead to the army's combat effectiveness as the wing army of the Song Dynasty later. He was doing business and working hard, and the war would be terrible. Moreover, too much labor was not conducive to cultivating the spirit of martial arts and the unique sense of honor of the army.

But in addition to supervising the work, Xin Gu, the commander of the cavalry, rolled up his sleeves and moved stones and digging soil with the households. The centurion, ten men and soldiers of the Cavalry Camp could not stand by and could only follow him. The Cavalry Camp had hundreds of strong laborers out of thin air, and others such as Zhang Er, Li Shiba, Sun Gouzi, Zhu Huilan and other households under the Cavalry Camp. Seeing that the sergeant who was always high and above also did a hard job, they naturally did not dare to be lazy. The Cavalry Camp was responsible for the construction of this sheep house, and was also fast and good, and was praised by Chen De, who inspected the construction site one by one many times.

Zhu Huilan only realized that the boss had great power at this time. According to other households, except for the commander, the biggest official in the city was the gentle and vicious Lord Xin. Seeing that the other officers were respectful to him, if anyone offended him, he would immediately blew his beard and stare at him, as if he was really going to chop someone with a knife. The little girl secretly sang her heart, thinking that even if the person who forgot to collect the rent next autumn harvest, he would just send it to him to the mansion honestly.

After autumn begins in the north, the weather is colder every day, and most of the households are thin and trembling when the biting cold wind blows.

"Brother Li, is this commander crazy and asked someone to build a house for Yang'er. The program is even more harsh than the straw hut we originally lived in." Zhang Er shivered and complained to Li Shiba beside him. He really couldn't stand the work day and night, repairing the sheep house, collecting firewood, and mowing the grass. Under the supervision of the soldiers of the Cavalry, the hard work of the households is no less than being slaves in the Khitan. Although the soldiers of the Cavalry would not whip them with whips, the fierce eyes and the threat of punching and kicking were real. As for the major affairs of the commander, the households naturally did not dare to complain to the civilian guardians because of these.

"Shh," Li Shiba looked around vigilantly, and saw that there were no soldiers nearby, and then scolded, "You can't eat hot steamed buns, you're so dizzy, don't want to live?"

Sun Gouzi said with a grim face: "The steamed bun is good, but in such a cold day, I have to put in my strength. All the food has turned into heat and floated away. Isn't it so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back." He also looked around and plucked up the courage, "I would rather drink porridge every day than suffer this life."

Li Shiba looked at Sun Gouzi with some contempt, and hummed, saying, "I don't even look at who gave the porridge you drink every day. Do you want to be sent to the north?"

His words scared Sun Gouzi to take a breath. If he had been in the north of the north, God knew if he could live until the warm spring next year. Sun Gouzi thought about it, sighed as if he had accepted his fate, and followed Li Shiba to cover the wall of the half-built house with wooden boards. The terrain of the sheep house was high and dry, facing the sun, with floors seven inches higher than the ground. The stone wall was covered with plaster. The roof was covered with thick hay, trays, partitions, doors, feed troughs, etc. There was also an open space for sheep to vent the wind in the courtyard wall. Chen De even set up a fireplace next to the sheep house, preparing to burn firewood to keep the sheep house warm if the climate was cold. The construction was really more sophisticated than the thatched hut of ordinary tenants.

Li Shiba looked at Zhao Fu, a mason who was supervising the worker, who was also called Jiangzuo, and he was also very proud to point at the construction site. The fierce military man in the Cavalry Army was polite to him from top to bottom. Li Shiba knew that the food rations of craftsmen were the same as ordinary soldiers. If they had good skills, they would be better treated. As a blacksmith, Li Shiba was born with a contempt for masons, carpenters, bamboo craftsmen, stonemasons, weavers, and tailors. The horses were still good.

Lai, in Li Shiba's mind, blacksmiths are the most useful and difficult to learn among all craftsmen. However, now, he, a blacksmith who has been passed down from generation to generation, was called and drunk by a bricklayer who had no idea where to go. Li Shiba felt a huge sense of humiliation. But he didn't know that this was the natural pride of a technician. Although this pride was suppressed by officials and scholars in every way, it still exists deeply in the hearts of craftsmen with a "useful" craftsmanship, which is the pride that is engraved on their bones.

Note: The so-called bone porcelain was invented by the British in 1794. It was named after the addition of herbivorous ashes such as cattle and sheep (beef bone meal is the best) to its clay. It is an environmentally friendly green consumer product. After grouting, molding and pressing embryos, dehydrating gypsum molds, as well as preliminary firing, glazing firing, decal paper baking, etc., it was fired at high temperature and became a porcelain with high whiteness, high transparency and delicate porcelain. During the firing process, bone porcelain has extremely high requirements for its regularity, whiteness, transparency, thermal stability, and other physical and chemical indicators, so the waste rate is very high.

It is exquisite in materials, fine production, and strict standards, so its value is higher than other porcelain types. The unique firing process and the addition of bone carbon make the impurities in the porcelain clay be eliminated, and the bone porcelain appears whiter, delicate, transparent, lighter, with few flaws, and thinner than ordinary porcelain. It has a special sense of cleanliness visually, with a higher intensity than ordinary porcelain, twice that of daily porcelain. The higher the content of bone meal, the relatively lower the composition of clay, and the easier it will be to burn during the production process. Higher technology is required in forming, which increases the difficulty of firing, so it is more precious.

Author: Lanzhou needs to find a way to make money. There are five types of commodities in this era: grain, cloth, livestock, tea and porcelain. Judging from the conditions of Lanzhou, it is most reasonable to produce porcelain by yourself. The traditional porcelain technology is too different from the famous kilns in China. Only by passing through and introducing tests and firing bone porcelain. Porcelain is not steel pipes or explosives. Huaxia has long had a very advanced craftsmanship foundation. I believe that under the same principle, the British can successfully produce it, and my Chinese kiln master can also produce it successfully. It should not be considered a gold finger, at most half a piece, haha.

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