Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Taoyuan City has a name, which makes everyone's cohesion and sense of belonging stronger.

In addition, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and everyone's faces are beaming.

As Zhengdan approached, the weather cooled down a little bit, Xiao Zirong directly asked people to start heating.

Because the heating water uses the height difference when going downwards, it is more difficult to go up, so Xiao Zirong and the Zhai sisters specially built a water house in the middle of the upward pipe. In order to keep warm, there is a pool and water wheel in the water room.

There are actually two waterwheels, one inside and one outside the pipe.

The fan blades of the two waterwheels are completely opposite. The outer waterwheel is just inside the stream. When the stream flows down, it will drive the waterwheel to run, and when the outer waterwheel starts to rotate, it will drive the inner waterwheel through the bearing. The cart rotates so that it can bring water from the lower part of the interior to the pipes higher up.

And the design of the water-receiving pipe is a little higher, so that after the water truck brings the water up, the water can still be sent to the boiler room by using the height difference, and then continue to circulate.

Before turning on the heating equipment for the first time, Xiao Zirong let the ordinary water circulate for a while, and tested whether it was feasible.

Not to mention, the circulation is not bad. Although the water flow is not so fast, at least it has formed an overall circulation.

Moreover, the water loss in the middle is not too much, and everyone in the city has not noticed any water leakage from the ground dragon.

After the cycle went through, Xiao Zirong asked people to turn off all the earth dragons in those vacant rooms, so as not to waste resources when they had time.

Yes, every Dilong has installed a small gate to switch, this is a choice for everyone.

After all, Dilong still has to collect money. Although Xiao Zirong generously stated that the treasury can subsidize half of it, there is still a lot of money in one winter. Not everyone can afford or is willing to pay, so Xiao Zirong let them Choose by yourself, if you don’t pay, someone will go over and close the gate.

In order to prevent people from secretly opening the gates without paying the heating bill, Zhai Xi specially made a small mechanism lock on those gates, which cannot be opened without a key.

Because it was the first winter, Xiao Zirong directly gave it to everyone for free, but he also emphasized that there would be a charge from the second year onwards.

Otherwise, the firewood used up in one winter would make Xiao Zirong's heart ache.

The effect brought by the earth dragon is also very obvious. Everyone needs to wear thicker clothes when they go outside. Everyone needs to wear a lot of clothes when they are outside. Some girls who are good at hunting have fur to wear, and those who don’t have no money to buy Of course, it can only be worn very thick.

When you get indoors, you can wear very thin clothes, and you can't feel the cold outside at all if you close the windows tightly.

What's more, another advantage of Dilong is that it removes dampness. The humidity in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively high. They are still in the mountains. The temperature is low, not to mention the precipitation is more than outside, and the humidity is even higher. When I got up and opened the door, there was a vast expanse of white mist.

When I was in the bandit village, the clothes were not dry in winter, and the ladies often wore wet clothes. Many people even died of illness due to the cold air entering the body.

Now you only need to put your clothes on the ground to dry slowly. Wearing dry clothes is not to mention how comfortable it is. Even if you go out, your clothes will still become very damp, but at least it is more comfortable indoors.

And Xiao Zirong was not idle when the little ladies were building the city wall. He brought the three sisters of the Zhai family and Ayin Aman the shells that had been grinding for a long time.

These shells are selected relatively large ones, and after being thinned, these shells will become translucent, and then they are dug out on a whole piece of wood and inlaid with corresponding sizes to form shell windows.

With such a window, the light in the room will be much better and it is not afraid of the wind.

These windows, Xiao Zirong, were all sold to those young ladies at a very low price, which was almost the same as the treasury used to buy shells and wood, and the extra money was to pay Zhai Xi and the others.

Xiao Zirong was still grinding shells after the earth dragon heated them, but this time he was making windows for himself.

Liu Cainiang came to help when she had nothing to do, she said while grinding, "This earth dragon is really a good thing, it's so comfortable to sit on, city lord, why don't you promote it outside?"

What the whole earth dragon needs is lime mortar, but it is not without replacement, but it seems that no one has mentioned that the whole city should be heated. When the city lord proposed it before, everyone was surprised. Only later did I realize the benefits of this thing.

Xiao Zirong threw a piece of ground shell in his hand to Zhai Wei for her to inlay, and took the next shell while saying: "You are right, of course it is because you have no money, think about the laying of pipes and hot water. Our Taoyuan City is not that big, and we are rich enough to do this, if we do this outside, the end result will be increased taxes, I believe more people don’t want to do this.”

He said that Taoyuan City is rich. It’s really not nonsense. They were really poor before, but after they started selling salt, they became very rich. They even bought a lot of soybeans to squeeze oil for everyone to eat.

After all, the salt in Taoyuan City can be regarded as a huge profit, and the place that really needs to pay for it is the labor and the firewood used for extraction.

If it wasn't for Yuan Jia's suspicion, Xiao Zirong would have dared to guarantee that the other party would give him as much salt as he wanted.

But this is just to think about it. The wealth brought by trade is very unstable, especially in their current situation. The most important thing is to cultivate the land, and the increase in production is real.

For this reason, Xiao Zirong started to study hybrid rice in the spring of next year. He just took advantage of this time to read those documents and papers, and try to figure out a little bit. The experimental results can help future generations avoid detours.

Of course, the most important thing for him now is to prepare for the New Year.

There are not many people in Taoyuan City, but it is not too small. At least as Zhengdan approaches, the taste of the New Year is also stronger. This richness means that everyone has started to prepare food for the New Year.

However, because many of them are independent households, so many young ladies are planning to have a meal with a partner for personal gain.

But Xiao Zirong's place is a bit more lively, Liu Cainiang, A Yin Aman and Bai Yan are all going to celebrate the New Year with him.

Xiao Zirong was so happy that he got some extra paper, then covered the lantern with bamboo strips, dyed the paper red with cinnabar, stuck it on the bamboo frame of the lantern, put a small oil lamp inside, and hung it up again. to the door.

Because oil lamps were used instead of candles, the lanterns were fixed directly under doorways and roof ridges to prevent them from wobbling in the wind and catching fire.

In addition to the red paper on the lantern, there is also the word "Fu" written by Xiao Zirong. It's a pity that he doesn't have the skills to draw, otherwise he would draw some door gods or Nian beasts.

Xiao Zirong is now basically the weathervane of the whole city, everyone saw that he hung up red lanterns at home and wanted to hang them.

Xiao Zirong simply set a price for the red lantern. The price is not particularly low, because a small oil lamp will be given as a gift, and it takes a long time to make paper, and it is also very precious, so the price is on the high side.

He originally thought that not many people would be willing to buy it, but unexpectedly, almost every household bought it.

In addition to lanterns, Xiao Zirong also made peach charms.

Yes, there are no Spring Festival couplets these days. When Zhengdan arrives, two rectangular peach wood boards will be hung on both sides of the gate. The names of "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei", the peach charms at this time are more inclined to exorcise ghosts.

Some of the ladies below can write. Of course, this year they made peach charms by themselves. It may be a habit in other places, but here... Although everyone seems to not mind this place, so many people died here. It will make people feel dizzy, and getting a peach charm can be regarded as a peace of mind.

However, what Xiao Zirong did was very similar to that of the later generations. He wrote all kinds of auspicious words on the peach wood board. After knowing the meaning, many young ladies couldn't help but bought them back and hung them at the gate, while the peach charms were hung in the main room. the door.

Xiao Zirong was a little surprised. He originally did this based on his own habits. Although he used peach charms as the Romans did, he still felt that it was not enough to write the names of two great gods. Besides, ghosts are not all bad. The ghosts that have been around for many years have never harmed anyone.

On a day like Zhengdan, if there are still ghosts wandering here, Xiao Zirong hopes that they will come to his place and not disturb those little ladies.

For this reason, his peach talisman is not even made of peach wood, but made of pagoda wood, pagoda wood gathers shade, those ghosts should be more comfortable, right?

In the end, I didn't expect that the Spring Festival couplets he made would be favored by the ladies, mainly because the auspicious words above seemed to make people happy, and they were more in line with the favorites of the ladies than the simple peach charms to exorcise ghosts.

In Liu Cainiang's words, it's probably a good start, and I hope the days to come will be more and more prosperous.

Xiao Zirong laughed after hearing this, feeling that no matter what era, the expectations of ordinary people seem to be the same.

On the day of Zhengdan, Xiao Zirong personally cooked a table of dishes—of course he didn’t cook the fire himself. He has been here for so long, and he still doesn’t know much about the skill of cooking fire, but the earthen pot and earthen stove are quite mature. up.

Most of the dishes in this era are roasted or steamed, and stir-fried dishes have not been released yet, so there are naturally no recipes.

Xiao Zirong hadn't eaten stir-fried vegetables for a year or so. Before in Jiankang, he didn't dare to ask for or give the recipes. Later, he didn't have the conditions, and later, he didn't have the time.

Now that he finally has time, he can be regarded as a show of cooking skills. The day before Zhengdan, they specially worshiped the mountain god and the water god. They couldn't make up the three animals, so they had to make up pigs' heads, chickens and ducks in the end.

On the day of Zhengdan, Xiao Zirong rolled up his sleeves early in the morning and started frying and frying.

Because there were a lot of people eating, Xiao Zirong ordered ten dishes directly, and put together a perfect one, and then six hot dishes, three cold dishes and one soup were all ready to go.

The ingredients were prepared early, and when he entered the kitchen, everyone was worried and planned to follow him.

In Bai Yan's words: "Where is the reason for us to sit and wait for food?"

Indeed, these days, it is the young ladies who go to the fields, the young ladies who thread the needles, the young ladies who feed the chickens and ducks, and the young ladies who cook, as if it is only right and proper.

Xiao Zirong stood at the door of the kitchen in a daze and only put in one Liu Cainiang to help him light the fire, and the rest of the people were all driven away by him: "Okay, okay, you can go out and have fun, can't you?" Just eat dried fruit and chat in the house, don't come in to make trouble, you don't know how to cook."

Bai Yan and others: ...

They really have no way to refute this. Xiao Zirong's salt-baked chicken made them dream about it for a long time, but their city lord has always been generous, and the recipe was given to them directly. Now they can cook this dish by themselves. However, people outside have chickens and cannot use salt, but they have salt but no chickens, which is also miserable.

Xiao Zirong's words meant that there might be new dishes, which made Bai Yan and Ayin Aman's hearts drift to the kitchen while sitting in the room, especially the smell from the kitchen kept wafting out, mixed with oil and The aroma of the meat was very overbearing, making the three people inside swallow their saliva all the time.

And Liu Cainiang is more lucky, she can occasionally eat a bite or two of semi-finished products in it as an excuse to taste the saltiness.

Not to mention that even the semi-finished product made Liu Cainiang endlessly memorable, if Xiao Zirong hadn't watched it, she might not be able to control the sinful hands she stretched out.

In the evening, Bai Yan took Ayin Aman to put away the desks early, and then lined up to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

The dishes were packaged one by one. Although they were placed on relatively simple wooden plates, their appearance and taste made their mouths water.

Xiao Zirong divided the dishes into pieces and started to order: braised mutton, steamed sea fish, boiled shrimp, boiled wild rice, braised frog, crab meat and egg custard, salt-baked chicken, smoked duck, mixed chicken offal, and a kelp and egg drop soup.

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