Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

Jiu Zifu, who was in the back room, curled his lips when he heard the conversation in the front hall. In the South, some people think kelp is too expensive even at five cents a pound!

The fish was not cleaned properly, the chickens would not eat it, it was salty and bitter, but it could be sold ten times more expensively in the north. He could only envy them in his heart, it was really easy to make money.

Just thinking about it makes me feel that this money is easy to make. When I think about the size of the Xie family's fleet, they deserve to make this money.

The restaurant has been open for a few days, but it hasn't been operating properly. Everything is busy, and the restaurant is making dried meat every day, so it is only used when we eat. No one comes at other times.

But just as Jiang Wu and his friends were eating meat and drinking soup, a half-grown child came to the door carrying a food basket.

"Boss, are you selling soup?" The little boy was fair and clean-looking, and he spoke in authentic Central Plains dialect.

Jiang Wu and his companions were stunned for a moment, as they could tell at first glance that the boy was a servant of a wealthy family. But then they thought, it didn't matter who they sold the restaurant to.

"Hey, yes, yes!" He pointed to the big pot on the stove, "Please serve it yourself, little lad," and told them to put as much as they wanted in, and these rough guys wouldn't do anything.

The little boy was not afraid, he ran to the stove and served himself soup. However, he froze for a moment when he held the long-handled spoon. He scooped up a bowl of soup and added some kelp.

He turned around and said, "My dear friends, how much are your dried meat and preserved fruits?" Since the host was interested, he naturally didn't want to make a wasted trip. Jiang Wu smiled and weighed a pound of preserved fruits and a can of dried salted fish. The boy didn't ask the price, but just threw down a silver ingot and left.

"Hey, boss, whose kid was that?"

Jiang Wu narrowed his eyes, recalled carefully and said: "It's hard to say, in this place, the only one who can use a servant is that guy!"

The hot soup he just bought was already placed in front of Ji Cang. He took a sip with a white jade spoon and said, "It's rich and fragrant, and it lives up to the word 'fresh'."

"Would you like to try some of these preserved fruits? Most of the better ones are from the south!" The little boy was a servant trained by the Ji family. Naturally, he was knowledgeable and experienced. Knowing that his master was a gourmet, he catered to his tastes.

Ji Cang looked at the familiar fruits, feeling deeply moved. "Hey! I haven't eaten these things for many years." He waved his hand and picked up one or two. "You can eat the rest!"

Seeing Ji Cangqi's homesickness, the little boy quickly changed the subject and said, "The things in the Black Stone Guard's shop are quite interesting. The pot they use to cook rice is actually made of iron, and the pot is so big that it can hold me!"

Seeing Ji Cang looking over, he continued to gesture, "Your Excellency, you didn't see that the spoon alone is that long."

"An iron pot, wouldn't that be a waste of a lot of iron?" Ji Cang found it a little unimaginable. His family used to use the cauldron to cook only when offering sacrifices to the gods. It would be really difficult to cook for hundreds of people.

"It doesn't take a lot of iron. I don't know how they made the spoon, but it's round, smooth, thin and light. I can lift it with one hand."

You have to know that in this era, most people used gourds as ladles, and larger ones used wooden spoons, which were not light for a little boy like him.

Ji Cang frowned and asked seriously, "What about the pot that can hold yours?"

The little boy recalled: "The pot was very big, sitting on something made of mud bricks, with a charcoal fire burning inside. The soup in the pot was always hot, but there was no fire pit."

In fact, when he first arrived, he discovered that there were several tall, smoking objects on the roof of the shop opposite. He didn't know what they were, but after going there, he found out that they were connected to the place where fire was burned and cooking was done.

But when I thought about the backyard, I felt strange that almost every roof had one. There would be no need to light a fire and cook in every room!

Seeing his master frowning, the boy knew that his master was interested.

"I also think that the pot is not made of clay. When I was serving the soup, I scooped some inside and it was very smooth." Before the little fairy tale could finish, Ji Cang had already started putting on his coat and getting off the bed.

Child:?

"Let's go and take a look!" Ji Cang is a man of action. He has been in Tongguan for so long and it is rare for him to see something that interests him, so he can't wait at all.

So when Jiang Wu and the others were collecting the bowls, the little boy came again. When he saw the elegant middle-aged scholar following behind him, Jiang Wu bowed and said, "Greetings, Lord Ji Cang."

Ji Cang had a short, neatly trimmed beard, and on his hand hung a string of shiny, glossy rhino horn beads. He raised his chin, stepped into the shop, nodded at Jiang Wu, and went straight to the stove.

Everyone in the store:?

Mr. County Magistrate, are you in such a hurry just to see their stove?

However, Jiang Wu turned his eyes and gave Si Ji a wild look, and the latter flashed into the house and knocked on Qu Qing's door.

There was a stone blocking the bottom of the earthen stove, and sparks flickered on the wood inside. The soup in the big pot on the stove had been almost finished, leaving only the bottom of the pot. However, this made it possible to see clearly that the iron pot was as round and smooth as a mirror.

Ji Cang walked around the stove several times, looked at the pot, then at the stove, and even looked up at the chimney that led directly to the roof.

He even took the spoon in his hand to weigh it, ignoring the oil and water on it, and felt the thickness. "What kind of iron is this? How can it be so even and thin?"

As he said this, he knocked on the pot with a spoon. There was a crisp, dull sound. Jiang Wu was shocked. Why did the county magistrate come and circle around their stove? It seemed that he wanted to take the pot off our pot.

Without waiting for Ji Cang to make a move, Jiang Wu took two steps forward and said, "Sir, I'll do it. It's time to wash the pot."

Then he picked up the pot, which was ten feet in diameter, from the stove with one hand.

"and many more!"

“Why is this pot so thin?”

After Ji Cang stopped caring about government affairs, he became very interested in miscellaneous studies and dabbled in alchemy and cast iron. Because he had done it himself, he naturally knew how difficult it was to make such a pot with even thickness, smoothness and roundness.

Everyone was puzzled, as these were all supplies brought over by the Queen, and the stove and kang were also built by Siji and his friends themselves. In his opinion, although these things were much more convenient, they were no big deal.

The iron used in their new weapons is much more powerful than that pot. Just as he thought of this, he saw Ji Canglingjun's eyes suddenly fixed on his waist.

Jiang Wu didn't care about the pot at this moment and took two steps back. He couldn't show the knife to anyone. He instinctively felt that this was the boss's secret and couldn't be known to outsiders.

As the two of them were in a stalemate, a light cough interrupted the tense atmosphere in the room.

"I didn't know you were coming, and I'm sorry for not coming to greet you!" Qu Qing finally appeared.

The guards immediately breathed a sigh of relief and ran away with bowls and pots.

Ji Cang looked up and saw a middle-aged scholar in a blue shirt looking at him with a smile.

He immediately regained his senses, stood up straight and said, "Well, I'm sorry for being rude!" The child following behind him also breathed a sigh of relief, for he was afraid that someone would see Ling Jun's crazy look just now.