Traitor Summoning System [Infrastructure]

Gongsun Sheng made the candle.

Leonard had expected this, and he had great confidence in Gongsun Sheng's ability in this regard.

After Gongsun Sheng showed Leonard the candle he had made, Leonard heard the system prompt and actually added 40 Destiny Points, which surprised Leonard a bit.

System, how do you reward so many destiny points?

[The candle of this craft was invented in the nineteenth century. 】

Leonard: ...

Good guy, he is really ignorant and fearless.

What he was thinking was that there were so many candles on TV, and Gongsun Sheng was so powerful, it shouldn't be a problem to make a candle.

As a result, I didn't expect the crafting technology of candles to be so difficult.

Gongsun Sheng began to dictate to Leonard how to make candles.

He first added a strong base to the fat.

"Isn't this soap?" Leonard blurted out, he has a certain understanding of handmade soap.

"Yes, this step becomes soap, and then the soap can be made into candles." Gongsun Sheng said.

"Um, keep talking," Leonard said.

Then Gongsun Sheng continued to talk, Leonard didn't understand, but according to modern technology, Gongsun Sheng should have added hydrochloric acid, and then extracted stearic acid-this is the later paraffin candle up.

The candles invented by Americans in the [-]th century are this kind of paraffin candles, but later, the candles we use are all extracted from petroleum, which is cheaper and more efficient.

This kind of hard candle is cheap, and it can also be made on a large scale, and it is even cheaper to burn than an oil lamp.

"Can we do it in batches now?" Leonard asked.

"I'll try, it's not a big problem." Gongsun Sheng said lightly.

Looking at him like this, if Leonard hadn't learned how rare this craft is from the system, he really thought that the problem would not be a big one.

After letting Gongsun Sheng take charge of the candle making, Leonard once again sighed, these people are really strong.

Candles are produced in large quantities for sale, and the winter nights are longer, which is a good time to sell candles to nobles.

Leonard is now a little short of food again.

He thought that this year's food would be enough, but with the population explosion, the food was still not enough in the end.

In addition to the lack of food, there is also the problem of meat.

Everyone who can leave a name in history is awesome.

Leonard thought.

He Shen began to familiarize himself with this era in his own way after solving the matter of the Montreer people. He first went to Darkmoon Town, Chaos Market and Evening Bell Town, and then followed Dorothea and Emerson's caravan is out.

After he came back, he said to Leonard: "Here is very backward in all aspects, so there is a lot we can do."

He Shen was born in the Qing Dynasty, a period when centralization of power reached its peak. In terms of era, the Qing Dynasty was much more developed than the Han and Song Dynasties in various technologies.

There is no comparison between the Middle Ages and the Qing Dynasty.

Leonard remembered that he hadn't seen He Shen in the past few days, so he asked Sherwood, the valet, and learned that He Shen was listening in the city hall recently.

So Leonard went to find He Shen.

Everyone knows that He Shen is another bachelor from the East, and Leonard introduced that this is a bachelor next to the King of the East.

Although the people in Little Thorn Castle are very confused why the Oriental scholars came here one by one, but the fact is that, the editor doesn't know why.

In the end, they attributed this to the fact that the lord is very powerful.

These people naturally think so.

When Leonard came in, there were two freemen kneeling in the city hall. When the others saw Leonard coming, they quickly saluted. Leonard waved his hand to let them continue.

Then Leonard learned that these two people are father and son, and the two people are here because of money.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for an upright official to decide on housework, and the East is more restrained, so it is often 'don't show your family ugliness', but there is no such custom here, so it is quite common for relatives to go to court.

Specifically, it is the issue of support, but now the father is still quite young. The father thinks that the son needs to give some money to himself to repay the kindness of raising him. What his son thinks is that he wants to save money to buy a horse and go out to do business, so he doesn’t have much spare money. give him.

"You didn't raise me very much when you were young. I often went to the forest to pick up food by myself." The son said.

"I raised you too, and I gave birth to you," said the father.

"I didn't let you give birth to me, but you wanted to give birth to me." The son said, "And I have given you money for many years, do I need to keep giving it?"

The two quarreled for a long time in the city hall, and Leonard listened to him, feeling that this dispute was also an eternal dispute.

In ancient China, filial piety was very important. There are many stories like this: Parents don’t like filial sons and often beat and scold them, but filial sons are always very respectful to their parents. No matter how bad they treat him, he (she) is always respectful. Inspired, the whole family lived happily ever after.

When Leonard heard these stories when he was a child, he felt, wow, so moved.

Looking back on it as an adult, wow, kinda sabbi.

Many people say that the world is going downhill now, and traditional virtues are no longer emphasized.

However, there must have been people who did not support their parents in ancient times, but they were not advocated, so there are not many records left.

And Leonard has always been the type that I will treat you as you treat me.

In the end, the new administrative officer in Wanzhong Town ruled that the son should give his father some copper coins once again, so that he would not have to be responsible to him afterwards.

Objectively speaking, everyone is happy.

But if this is directly measured by money, they probably won't have any family affection after that.

After watching the verdict, Leonard and He Shen took a walk in Wanzhong Town for a while, and then sat in the oak tavern.

Golden sunlight filtered through the shutters, and today looked like a fine day.

Leonard couldn't help feeling a little emotional, "This kind of relationship where feelings and interests are mixed is too difficult to handle."

Either don't taint your feelings with money, or don't taint your money with your feelings.

The most troublesome thing is the two things mixed together.

He Shen said: "Well, but in fact, there are many differences between parents loving their children and children loving their parents."

Leonard said: "You might as well go into details."

"Children love their parents when they are helpless and seek support, whether it is psychological or material." He Shen said, "When parents love their children, it is usually when they are better off themselves, they will look Everything is pleasing to the eye, and I feel that the child is a gift from God and is his continuation."

This is the first time Leonard has heard this statement: "It is true... so when parents are in poor conditions, it is easy to beat and scold their children."

"Yes, the child is a burden at this time, and it will become more and more unpleasant to the eye." He Shen said, "There are more bad expectations, such as the form that I can't expect my child to do well."

After listening to He Shen's words, Leonard immediately felt that He Shen looked like a modern person.

These ideas of He Shen are also very applicable in modern times. Parent-child relationship may really be an eternal topic.

"That's it." Leonard said, "When you cut it open, it feels bloody and there is no warmth at all."

"Of course not all relationships are like this, I just said most of them. Many relationships, many self-conceived beautiful emotions are actually very beneficial to analyze the inner words. Love does not know where it comes from, nonsense, everything has a reason. "He Shen said, "If you master this, you can be a good lord, Lord Lord."

"What if I don't want to do it?" Leonard asked.

"That's simpler. Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish." He Shen said.

"This is overbearing." Leonard said, "If the opponent is disobedient, just run over him."

"The Lord Lord, what do you think is kingly way?" He Shen asked.

After thinking for a while, Leonard said, "After you run over him, tell the people around you why you ran over him, then help the half-dead person up, and gently say that I did it for your own good. Well...if the other person is crushed to death Just treat his corpse and descendants well, and then the people around will feel that they are a virtuous lord."

This statement... He Shen laughed: "The lord already knows the essence of domineering and domineering. So, what is the lord going to do?"

This is the first time Leonard has officially talked about this aspect.

He thought for a moment, and said seriously: "What I thought about in the past was actually to bless and develop this land."

"But you are a person favored by heaven, and ordinary people will not tolerate you one day." He Shen said.

"I will not be afraid of any challenge. When the tide pushes, I will stand at the forefront and lead the wave of the times." Leonard said, "If the people above cannot tolerate me, then I will be the top person at the end." He After finishing speaking, he smiled, the smile was quite refreshing, and he couldn't see how terrible and outrageous things he just said, "Do you think this is okay?"

"I will follow your will." He Shen said, "Personally, I like your courage."

[Heshen's loyalty increases, plus 10 destiny points. 】

Leonard smiled: "Okay."

It has been a while since Heshen was summoned, and this is the first time I heard the news that Heshen's loyalty has increased.

Leonard asked seriously: "Zhi Zhai, are you willing to be my bachelor?"

"Yes." He Shen said cautiously.

The bachelor Leonard refers to is the bachelor next to the lord of this era, the second person under the real lord.

Maester Rutherford didn't manage too many affairs before, but now he is doing chores for Cai Lun and Gongsun Sheng, so Leonard's territory still lacks such a person.

In this regard, He Shen, who has fully understood this era, of course understands what Leonard means.

……

Emerson came back, and he exchanged all the gold coins he got from this jelly trade for grain, and he brought back cart after cart of beans and grain.

A lot of beans are cheap because they're unpalatable, but these beans turned into magical sprouts in Leonard's domain, and apart from the inconvenience of cutting the roots, they were perfect.

So Emerson is very interested in buying this cheap bean.

"Then that's about it." Leonard looked at the food in the car, and said to Emerson: "There won't be a large group of people from the Montreer side recently, and the free people nearby can come." It's almost here, and we seem to have enough food this winter."

"Well, actually, it looks like there will be others," said Emerson.

Leonard: "Huh?"

Emerson said with a wandering gaze: "Well... I bought a lot of grain, so some nobles asked the common people to pay taxes with grain, and some of their free citizens had no grain because of this, and I specially gave it to them when I left These freemen advertise that those who have no food can come to Wanzhong Town and the Chaotic Market, and Baron Green has enough food to distribute to the freemen.”

Leonard: "..."

Good guy, your trick is really bad.

You have taken all the bamboo shoots of the giant panda.

Sure enough, Dorothea was right, this Emerson is not a good guy.

But...well, it seems to be pretty good.

Leonard felt that he had turned bad.

Cough cough, it's for their own good anyway, how nice it is to come to his territory, have food and clothing, and take care of employment.

After learning that the territory was short of meat, He Shen offered a plan to dig ice for fishing.

Leonard knew there was such a method, but he couldn't use it, and neither could Cai Lun.

He Shen described how ice fishing and the principle of ice fishing.

The nets for ice-picking fishing are idiosyncratic.

The first thing that needs to be made is the silk screen, a sticky net woven of very fine threads, to which weights and floats are attached.Because the fishing net is very small, the fish cannot see it in the water, so they will swim to the net, and then the net will get entangled with the scales and gills, and they will not be able to struggle until the net is caught.

In fact, this net does not catch the fish, but hangs the fish on it.

Then dig holes in the frozen lake in winter, and the fish will come to breathe oxygen, which is entangled in the net.

Now the big lake to the east of Wanzhong Town has been frozen very thickly. The thicker the ice, the less space to swim in it, so the fish in it are fatter.The fish is even tastier at this time than at other times.

Leonard's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately asked He Shen to handle the matter.

He Shen first studied the fishing net with Cai Lun and Gongsun Sheng, and then spent a few days making it.

Then he put on thick clothes and took the slaves to the big lake in the east.

At intervals he had slaves dig holes in the ice and lower the nets.

He used a pig iron block as a sinker.

After working so hard for a long time, I downloaded five nets in total.

The net can be collected the next day.

Leonard and Bachelor Rutherford also went to watch.

The winter chill lingers on the bare branches, the wind is still blowing, and it feels very cold to walk on the frozen lake.

"You can still catch fish like this?" Maester Rutherford mumbled tremblingly, "Isn't it winter now?"

He still has some doubts about this newcomer, which is also human nature.

And in the impression of people here, winter should be the season for everyone to rest.

Of course slaves are excluded, and slaves are not considered human beings.

Under He Shen's command, the slaves began to pull the first net, because the slaves were a little confused at first, and the first net was actually broken.

He Shen sighed and directed them to pull up the broken net, and there were actually a dozen fish in it.

"There are really fish!" He Shen's sigh was in stark contrast to Bachelor Rutherford's shock, "It's really caught!"

"It's a pity that the net is broken." He Shen shook his head, "There were probably a lot of fish in the net just now. If the net broke in the water, the fish in it would die if the net was broken." He felt it was a pity.

Leonard also felt very sorry when he heard it.

But how can everything in life be as you wish?

...Speaking of which, those fish that were hung on tattered fishing nets and ended up starved to death or entangled to death are even more pitiful.

These ten or so fish were enough for the few of them to eat today, but Leonard wanted to use more fish to solve the meat problem in the castle, so he was not as happy as Bachelor Rutherford.

Now only necessary pork, beef, and mutton are left in the castle, and they can no longer be eaten by slaves.The harvest of seafood is relatively stable, but the daily amount is not very large, and some slaves cannot eat it. After all, catching the sea and salvaging seafood are completely different.

Currently only clams are available in large quantities because of that clam farm.

Looks like it's still artificial.Leonard thought.

"You must use cleverness." He Shen said to the slaves next to him, "If you get stuck, don't pull hard, relax, pull, back and forth, and be patient."

Then He Shen said to Leonard: "You can study the material of the fishing net again when you go back. The material is still a little fragile."

Leonard nodded, "Well, I'll leave it all to you."

The slaves began to pull the second net. Fortunately, the second net was not stuck and was pulled up smoothly, but it was very heavy, and the four slaves pulled it together.

You know, the power of the slaves in Leonard's territory is much greater than that of ordinary people, so one can imagine how many things are in it.

The fishing net was pulled up, and there was a splash of water on the surface of the water, and then it became more and more turbulent.

"One, two, one, two." The slaves chanted and worked hard together.

crackling-

The fish in the fishing net were exposed, all white, and they slapped the water with their tails frantically.

"This, wow—" Maester Rutherford's eyes were straightened, and now Rutherford wanted to slap the water crazily.

This scene is simply too shocking!Subverted his cognition!

There are actually fish in this winter lake!Still got so much!

Leonard's eyes also straightened: "A lot!"

"It seems that no one has ever caught the fish here." He Shen was actually taken aback when he saw so many fish at first, but he soon calmed down.

In the Qing Dynasty, the fishing industry was already very developed, so it was rare for him to see such a grand event.

"Hahaha..." Leonard couldn't help laughing, "It seems that this year's meat is not worrying."

The fish, big and small, are alive and kicking, and they are dazzling in the sun.

Fortunately, although the temperature here is cold, it is not extremely cold, otherwise the fish will freeze after a while out of the water.

The slave immediately began to untie the fish from the net, and the small fish was thrown back into the water under He Shen's order.

Leonard has no problem with this approach.

China's agriculture and fishery all emphasize the unity of man and nature.

Some of the slaves began to unravel the fish, and the others began to fetch the third net under He Shen's command.

This time it was not as smooth as the last time. He Shen was directing beside him, and it took a long time to catch it, and it was a net full of fish again.

The next net was not so lucky. One net was frozen, and a broken net was fished out. There were even fewer fish in it, only a few.

After retrieving the fish, all the slaves began to tear the fish off the fishing net together.

It must be pulled now, otherwise it will be difficult to pull it when it freezes solid later.

These nets are basically not easy to use the second time, but He Shen also took the nets back, saying that Cai Lun might be useful.

It's all about saving now.

Leonard set up a pot on the snow, put coke under it, and boiled fresh fish soup directly.

These cold-water fish are delicious. The meat is very tender, high in protein and low in fat. It is a very healthy meat.

When the soup is stewed over high heat, the fish will be stewed quickly.The milky white and fragrant fish soup has a light fishy smell. Because of the addition of seasonings, there is no fishy smell, and it tastes full of fragrance.Leonard took another bite of the soft and sweet fish with chopsticks.

Eating fish and drinking fish soup on the spot in such snow is so refreshing.

He Shen and Leonard also ate happily.

It really feels like a fairy day.

Although the slaves only shared some fish soup, they felt much more comfortable after eating the hot soup, and they worked faster.It's more of a psychological effect.

Soon, all the fish were fished out, and the big guy threw the fish directly into the bucket, then put them on the car, and returned triumphantly.

This time, a total of nearly a thousand catties of fish was harvested, enough to eat for a while.

Leonard felt flattered.

That night, Little Thorn Fort held a welcome party for He Shen.

There are two protagonists, one is cold water fish, but Parmesan pig.

There are a total of 30 Bama pigs rewarded by the system. Leonard has not eaten them and wants to keep them for breeding.Welcome Heshen today, making an exception and killing two heads, let everyone have a taste together.

Roasted Parmesan pig, this is a pure original ecological game barbecue.

As the saying goes, there is Peking duck in the north, and Bama roast pig in the south.

However, Leonard felt that this 'common saying' was invented by someone who sold Bama fragrant pigs.

...But it's just that the Parmesan pig itself is really delicious.

Put the marinated Parmesan pig on the fork and keep turning it, watch the pork skin gradually turn into an attractive color, brush the sauce on it, wait for the skin to explode, then brush it with oil and continue roasting ,back and forth.

The skin of the pork is sizzling with oil, and the fat from the hot charcoal grill is flowing out. The pork skin is roasted until golden yellow, evenly colored, and the appetite will be whetted by watching it.

The Parmesan pig roasted in this way has a delicious taste even from the skin, the skin is crispy and the meat is smooth.

Parmesan pig itself is delicious, with thin skin and tender meat. The meat itself has a strange fragrance, no fishy smell, and it will not be greasy. It is quite excellent.Coupled with this kind of baking method, it is even more amazing.

Under Leonard's hint, He Shen tasted the first bite. The meat close to the skin has a bit of gelatinous elasticity. It is fragrant but not greasy, the lean meat is burnt but not sticky, and the gravy bursts out with one bite, smooth and soft, full of collagen.

He Shen's eyes lit up.

Then Leonard heard the prompt that the loyalty had reached the highest level.

ah. ...It's okay.