Daqin: I was heard by Zulong at the beginning

Chapter 77
Fusu immediately interrupted: "Brick and tile house? Just a brick and tile house for a store that sells food?"

【You live in mortise and tenon structure houses made of good wood, which are spacious and strong, and also prevent mosquitoes. Farmers live in rotten straw huts, and better ones live in adobe houses. You are not satisfied with just a brick house now. 】

Of course, Fusu is not Yingzheng, so he must not hear Su Chen's voice.

Su Chen complained for a while before saying, "If it's an adobe house, you have to use tiles for the roof. The thatched roof is easy to leak, and it's not safe to cook with an open fire."

Fusu didn't understand what an open fire was, but he probably understood that it was not safe to cook with a fire, so he took a step back and said, "The adobe house and the roof use tiles."

Su Chen understood the absolute coercion of the imperial power, and suggested: "It's just that everyone knows that this is the royal food street. If it is too cheap, will it affect the royal image?"

Fusu thinks it makes sense.It has to be said that Su Chen really knows this apprentice very well, and a few words from others can dispel all his previous worries.It's a good thing to be good at listening to others, but if you can't stick to your own principles, you can easily be at the mercy of others when you become an emperor.

The best emperor should go deep into the field to understand clearly, or listen to the suggestions of several people.

Fortunately, Su Chen is a husband, not a treacherous person, so he will slowly train Fu Su up.

Fu Su thought for a while and said to Su Chen: "Then sir, is there any way, since the house will not be too rich to be rented, and it will not lose the face of the royal family?"

Oh, it turned out that what Fusu was worried about was that the house was too well built and the rent was too high, so no one could afford it.But this idea is not contrary to what he thought.

He said to Fusu: "We can build a few brick houses at the street corner for some expensive food, and then build some adobe houses after the brick houses, keeping the shape as much as possible, but the rent can be much cheaper."

Fusu nodded, this is possible.

"Sir, I have another suggestion. A passage can be opened between the two types of houses, and the poor can enter the food street from the back street. This way, no one will be bumped into."

Su Chen knew that Fu Su's words absolutely did not mean any discrimination.He understood the temperament of these nobles very well, he hated to have to breathe with them when he saw slaves, and he would not have a good face when he treated the poor.

Rather than meeting each other and being unhappy, it is better to simply separate.Anyway, at present, slaves and poor people cannot be prevented from disappearing.

Sure enough, people of this era have the ideas of people of this era, and Su Chen agrees with Fusu's idea.

The two enriched the shape of the house on the paper, and Fu Su took the paper away with great care.These must be handed over to the craftsmen.As for the entire construction process, Su Chen still needs to personally oversee the construction.

The advantage of having a disciple is that you can skip the early legwork.

Fu Su left, Su Chen sat on the cushion, and suddenly remembered that he was looking for saltpeter!

But where he could find saltpeter, he couldn't think of it for a while. He only remembered that saltpeter could make ice.

Holding the grapes fed to him by the system, Su Chen wanted to go to the pharmacy.In addition to making ice, saltpeter can also cure diseases!
I was walking on the street and saw several children playing around. A plume of smoke came out from the middle. The children shouted: "It's on fire!"

Su Chen leaned over and took a look, this is playing with drilling wood to make fire!
It turns out that the children in Huaxia were very similar in their childhood. When they were young, they all loved to play drilling wood to make fire.Who would have thought that the little game I played, the ancestors also played.But the ancestors were smarter than him, and he had never drilled, let alone smoked.

Su Chen found it funny and watched for a while, seeing white powder on the wood they were drilling.Suddenly, Su Chen felt as if he was about to discover something. Something flashed through his mind, but he didn't catch it.

He asked the children, "What is this white thing?"

The children shook their heads in unison.

An older child laughed and said, "This is scraped from the wall."

The root of the wall?

The child showed him the remaining white powder and said, "This is it."

Su Chen squeezed a little bit to observe, and smelled it, could this be saltpeter?

That's right, this must be saltpeter!Otherwise, it is impossible to drill wood to make fire!No wonder!When he was a child, no matter how much he drilled, he couldn't get angry. It turned out that he lost to saltpeter!
Su Chen gave the grapes in his hand to the children to eat, and he immediately turned into the alley and looked at the base of the wall. Yes, there were some saltpeter in them.Well, he already knows what to pair with this summer.

Back at the house, he observed the base of the wall in the yard, some places also had saltpeter, and he summoned a few attendants:

"See this thing?"

The attendants nodded, "I see."

Is this a test of eyesight?Who can't see this big white?
Su Chen said, "This thing is called saltpeter, and it's abundant on the earthen walls. You can look outside and scrape it off. I need to collect it."

In the past, Su Chen would have been muttering about arranging the attendants in such a way, looking for trouble for nothing.But now they don't think so, and they are very excited, full of expectations for every arrangement of Su Chen.

They believed that the saltpeter this time would definitely surprise them!
Paper is indeed magical, but in their eyes, it doesn't mean much.

After so many days of busy work, I felt like a failure for the first time.It’s not as delicious as Liangpi, it’s not as good-looking as steamed buns, and it’s not as fragrant as noodles.What a failure this paper was!

So saltpeter is the key to their next surprise!Be sure to look for it!
When Fusu reported again that the craftsmen had been found and could start work at any time, the attendants had already collected a large amount of saltpeter and placed it in front of Su Chen.

Su Chen was excited when he saw the saltpeter.

This is not saltpeter, these are cold ice cubes!

Fusu looked at the pile of white saltpeter and asked curiously:

"Sir, it's white, can't it be flour?"

Su Chen raised her eyebrows, "I tell you that I was a teacher before, ahem, sir, I will do a magic trick for you first."

Fusu asked, "What is magic?"

Su Chen changed her tune, "It's just a trick."

Fusu nodded half-understanding, and the attendants were even more excited. Could it be that the saltpeter was going to surprise them?

Su Chen asked the attendant to bring two wooden basins, one big and one small.Fill the big one half with water, and fill the small one with water.

The attendants agree, as long as there is a surprise, let alone take the pot, they are willing to eat the pot!
Soon the basin came, Su Chen poured out some more water from the big basin, and put the small basin in.At this time, the water in the big basin is just half full.

Su Chen carefully poured the saltpeter into the big basin and poured it in little by little.

And smiled mysteriously at the onlookers: "Pay attention to the water in the small basin."

Upside down, the sharp-eyed attendant gasped!
(End of this chapter)