Chapter 32: Craftsmanship Department

Ma Su's concierge has resigned. The original concierge came back before the Spring Festival and said that he had brought his parents and his wife to live in Gong'an County.

"Thanks to Liu Jingzhou's blessing, my humble wife gave birth to a fat boy."

The original concierge's face was dark, but when he said this, his face was filled with joy.

Although it sounds strange to Ma Su, it is quite good to be able to share a red egg with good taste.

After finishing the red egg in a small mouth, he looked up and saw Mr. Kong Ming smiling at him.

Ma Su blushed. It was really out of style to eat while walking.

Kong Ming smiled and waved over to assign Ma Su a new job.

"Chopping firewood?" Ma Su was confused and aggrieved.

"It's not just about cutting firewood." Kong Ming explained patiently: "I will give you ten strong men to accompany you. We will cut down the grass and trees around Gong'an County. Cut down thirty kilograms of each type according to type. I will have a lot of use in transporting it to the county."

What good can this do? During the Spring Festival, the county government wants to stew pork for a banquet for the village elders?

Ma Su, full of doubts, took the order and left.

Behind the public security county house, Sun Qian called for the craftsmen again.

Because Kong Ming has officially moved his office to the side hall, other public buildings are temporarily unavailable. Liu Bei waved his hand: Now that we know the formula, we can also make paper!

After Kong Ming calculated the cost and selling price of Zuo Bo Paper in detail for Liu Bei, everyone present was moved.

A roll of Zuo Bo's leather paper is almost the same as a bolt of silk, worth 1,200 yuan.

But the cost is just adding mulberry bark as a raw material in the process of making hemp paper, which sells for 180 yen.

The selling price has increased more than ten times, which is really...

"Why would I, Lao Zhang, be a butcher if he had such means?" This was Zhang Fei's sigh.

Sun Qian couldn't help but smile when he thought of General Zhang's words:

After traveling with his lord for ten years, Sun Qian felt like he was in a dream with the foundation of Jingzhou. Now, the blessing from heaven has made Sun Qian firm on the idea he had long believed:

My lord is truly the hero of the Han Dynasty!

"What is this doing?"

Sun Qian turned around and looked around, saluting: "Mr. Liu just came back?"

"My lord has just moved to Jingzhou this year, so he will celebrate the Spring Festival." Liu Yan smiled and said, "Gongyou, we have known each other for ten years. You can call me Wei Shuo as many times as you like."

Seeing that the craftsmen were leveling the ground in the backyard, and hammers were placed next to the low houses, which were about to be demolished and rebuilt without knowing what to build, Liu Yan was very curious:

"My lord, do you want to rebuild this place and use it as a governance center?"

"No." Sun Qian shook his head and said, "My lord, seeing that there is a lot of open space here, plans to make paper here."

"Paper making?" Liu Yan raised his head and thought: "What is it used for?"

"Sell for money."

If he didn't understand, he didn't want to think about it. Liu Yan changed his mind and asked: "Where is my lord? I brought back some jars of the good wine from the Zhang family in Jiangdong. My lord will definitely like it!"

"My lord has gone to find the miracle doctor Zhang Zhongjing." Sun Qian said honestly.

"Zhang Zhongjing?" Liu Yan was confused: "A miracle doctor?"

"Miracle doctor!" Sun Qian nodded, very sure.

Liu Yan rubbed the back of his head. I have only been away from Gongan County for three months. Why does it seem like three years have passed?

At night at Zhuge's house, after dinner, the servants took Zhuge Qiao and Zhuge Guo to play as usual. Kong Ming and Huang Yueying talked about themselves around the heater.

"My lord has talked with me. In a few days, the county will set up a craftsmanship department, which will still be under my control. I want to recruit you as a craftsmanship officer."

Kong Ming smiled and said: "Don't you feel bad that Zuo Bo paper is too expensive? Our first step is to make Zuo Bo paper."

"Where did my lord buy the secret recipe?" Huang Yueying asked curiously.

"It's a long story." Kong Ming thought for a while and took the bamboo tube that he never left, extracted the last few volumes of the light curtain copied inside, and told Huang Yueying in detail one by one. Understand the ins and outs.

Yesterday, before my lord left, he had a private discussion with Kong Ming. In view of the importance that later generations placed on technology and craftsmen, a craftsmanship department was first established in Gong'an County. The first thing he did was to restore the printing technology mentioned by Zuo Bo Paper and Light Curtain. .

The Ministry of Medicine and Industry is also in the process of making preparations, and Zhang Zhongjing is the only one who can claim that everything is ready. The successive deaths of important officials of the Shu Han Dynasty as mentioned by Guangmu cast a haze in Liu Bei's heart.

Huang Yueying's eyes sparkled when she heard the mysterious things, but when she heard Kong Ming's confession that he might have died on the march due to overwork and illness at the age of fifty-four, she secretly shed tears again.

"My husband is like this, how can I live alone?"

Kong Ming sighed and hugged Yueying into his arms: "We will never be like this."

So she said Wen Yan to comfort her for a while. Huang Yueying temporarily revealed the matter and quickly understood:

"Then the curved plow and round cart from last month are also..."

"That's right."

"That's it!" Huang Yueying suddenly realized, and a smile broke out on her face again:

"But husband, it's better not to set up the Ministry of Industry and Skills in the county government. Let me show you something."

Huang Yueying stood up and pulled Kong Ming through the hall and to a small room in the backyard.

Lighting the copper lamp lightly, Kong Ming saw the scene in front of him: on the table was a round car only the size of a palm. It was placed in a groove cut out of a log. The round car was also connected by cranks and other components. There are also the same small stone grinding mortars and other things.

Before Kong Ming could figure it out, Huang Yueying picked up the half bucket of water next to her and carefully poured the water into the log groove.

The water drove the round cart to rotate in circles, the round cart drove the wooden handle, and the wooden handle drove the stone mill and mortar.

An all-rounder like Kong Ming is no stranger to craftsmanship. After looking around twice, he understood the advantages:

"No need for any human drive?"

"More than that..." Kong Ming murmured, "If the round cart is enlarged five times, and the millstone and mortar are also enlarged to five times the size, only three can meet the needs of the entire Gong'an County, and we can charge per use, even if we only charge 70% of the market price... No, no, no, only charge 50%, and all the people in Gong'an County can come here to process grain!"

"No, no, no, what if we only charge 10%, 20%, or even nothing?" Kong Ming anxiously turned around in the house. He could feel that there seemed to be a door in his mind with a gap, and the gap revealed a charming golden light.

Huang Yueying could understand her husband's anxiety, so she thought with him:

"If only 10% or 20% is collected, wouldn't the pressure on widows and widowers in the county be greatly reduced?"

"Widowers and widowers can easily make a living..." Kong Ming followed his thinking: "The workload will be greatly reduced."

"If there are things like round carts in the fields that can be plowed with water..."

"The people of Guizhou don't have to work all year round." Huang Yueying seemed to understand: "If they have enough food and clothing, know etiquette, and a well-governed world is just around the corner."

But soon Huang Yueying splashed a Basin of cold water: "How much wood is needed to spread all over Kyushu? How many craftsmen are needed?"

"Moreover, water power is endless, and the joints of the round carts are strained very quickly. As my husband said, if the size is expanded five times... No, not five times, even if it is only three times, the wood parts at the joints may only last for half a day."

"All these will cost a lot of money, and the round cart can only be used in places with fast water flow. How many places in Kyushu can meet these requirements?"

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