Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 146 Before Getting Married

Recently, Feng Daiwen planned to stay here until Dao got married.First, let’s find a few unique gifts for Guang’an, and second, think about what to do for the people of Tang Dynasty after marriage.

People from Taijia Village in Shuofang have all returned to Chang'an, and in the first half of the year they helped the Ministry of Industry build waterwheels in Henan and Shandong.

In recent months, most people have been helping to make the furniture of the Princess Mansion, all of which are made of high-quality wood, which makes everyone work hard to make a perfect work in their hearts. After all, these are some thousand-year-old immortals. Materials, if done well, cannot be handed down through the ages.

Many of them are done according to Feng Daiwen's habits and requirements. The Eight Immortals Table, Round Table, and Desk are all used for high sitting, and kneeling is really uncomfortable.Now in Chang'an, only the court meeting still uses kneeling, and other conditions have re-purchased furniture.

The specifications of the princess mansion are naturally very high. Li Shimin specially approved the carving of dragons and phoenixes, but they are three-clawed dragons and phoenixes, not phoenixes and five-clawed dragons.

Feng Daiwen asked them to recruit highly skilled people and join forces with blacksmiths to make a water-powered mill. In the past, it was manpower and animal power. Although the Eastern Turks were conquered, mules, horses, and cattle were not enough.

Water power can save a lot of livestock and manpower. A hydraulic mill can be used by a village, and the flour produced is finer.

Feng Daiwen was scratching his head as to how to make it different when marrying Guang'an. The royal family had the best gold, silver, jewelry, jewelry and clothing.

"It seems that the only hope is on the glass side, hoping to produce more high-quality goods." Feng Daiwen patted his forehead and said to himself.

"Second young master, what's the matter with you?" Yaya asked when she saw Feng Daiwen talking to herself.

Feng Daiwen's eyes lit up and he asked, "Yaya, what do you usually like?"

"Me! I like the beautiful clothes, delicious food, and so many jewelry that the second young master gave me!" Yaya replied with a blink of her eyes.

"No, I mean if you were a woman, what else would you like besides these." Feng Daiwen asked after thinking for a while.

"Except for these! Rouge gouache, sachet, I also like it very much, but I like to help the second young master with things the most." Yaya Xiangxiang said, biting her fingertips.

"Yes, yes, that's right, a lady's bag, this is a must-have for women! It's easy to make and easy to carry. If you have a bag, you need a cosmetic case, and if you have glass, you also need a small cosmetic mirror." For a while, Feng Daiwen's attention came out.

Thinking like a spring, he quickly asked people to recruit craftsmen. There are all kinds of leather in the warehouse, draw a rough picture, and then tell the craftsmen what they want.

Handbags, backpacks, satchels, several of them are made at the same time, each kind of leather is made, you can carry it on your back if you like, and carry it if you like to carry it.

I don’t know how to make rouge powder, but I can make essences. Essences are all kinds of flower petals dried in the shade, distilled out, and added with stabilizers. It seems that the best stabilizers are ambergris, sandalwood oil, musk, etc. There are many of these.

The more Feng Daiwen thought about it, the more excited he became, and he ordered people to collect the petals. July is when there are a lot of flowers.

They also brought in brewers and blacksmiths. Since they wanted to distill, of course blacksmiths were needed. It didn’t matter if they didn’t understand, as long as they told them the purpose, they could make practical tools.

Alcohol is indispensable for distillation. You don’t need to produce alcohol, you only need to increase the alcohol content of the ready-made alcohol, which is nothing more than increasing the concentration.

It seems that the essential oil extracted from peppermint can relieve itching and repel mosquitoes?This cannot be missed, and another group of people hurriedly set off to look for Mint.

Thinking of repelling mosquitoes, wormwood, realgar, and punting grass are all good materials, and the incense in the Taoist temple is all made by ourselves, so Qingyun old Taoists can use these kinds of mixture to make it.

Following Feng Daiwen's orders one by one, the craftsmen and guards under him started to rush around, and people kept coming in and out of the villa.

After inquiring in the village, it turned out that Lord Hou needed these common items, and everyone who was empty set off to look for them, and when they found them, they left them at the gate of the Hou's mansion, and left without asking for money.

Feng Daiwen was very moved when he heard about it, and asked his personal guards to go to the village to buy a few pigs to kill and reward everyone.

Having not eaten butchered pork for a long time, Feng Daiwen couldn't help feeling a little greedy. The offal, pig's head, tail, and hooves were all kept by the butcher. There were 10 big fat pigs in total, which were enough to eat.

The large intestines are stir-fried, the small intestines are washed and minced meat, and made into sausages. It happens to be used when getting married. The quantity is estimated to be insufficient, so I asked the guard to write it down and take someone to buy more to make it ready.

That night, the whole village, old and young, brought their own bowls and chopsticks, tables and stools, and the women who cooked the vegetables stepped forward to help. Dozens of tables were filled in the open space outside the villa.

Seeing Feng Daiwen standing there, Lizheng Zhu Hao came over with two old people, folded his fists and bent down and said: "On behalf of the whole village, old and young, I would like to thank Lord Hou for his kindness."

Feng Daiwen hurriedly stepped forward to support the three of them and said, "Mr. Zhu, I can't bear you doing this."

"It should be, it should be. When Lord Hou came here, he said that he would make the life of the whole village better and better. Now it's only been a year. Not only do every family in the village have surplus food, but they also build a school so that children can study for free. I don't know how to repay Lord Hou." Zhu Hao said with a grin.

"Haha, this is the result of the hard work of the villagers. As long as everyone works hard, life will be richer." Feng Daiwen smiled and beckoned the three old people to sit down.

"It's good enough! It's good enough! Not only do we have surplus food to eat, but we can also eat meat every few days. This old man has lived for more than 70 years, and he has never heard of people living there living like this." In addition An old man surnamed Zhu said in a voice with missing front teeth.

"It will be even better, Mr. Zhu, you will gather all the people in the village who are not working tomorrow, and build a few fish ponds at the foot of the mountain, plant lotus root in them, and raise the small fish you catch in the future. Drought can release water from fish ponds, and secondly, everyone will earn more money." Seeing that the food was not ready yet, Feng Daiwen first introduced the plan in his mind.

"Yes, yes, Lord Hou has a way. You teach everyone to stir up pigs. Sure enough, they are not only willing to eat and grow, but also don't have that bad smell. The price is much higher than before. Now everyone who raises pigs learns from it." Just do it." Zhu Hao quickly agreed.

"Everyone thinks it's feasible. Plant all the mountainous areas with fruit trees. From now on, only fertile fields will be planted, and all the front and back of the house will be planted. Fruit trees are easy to take care of, and they will be no worse than growing crops in the future. I still have a few vegetables here. Everyone Also help plant it, and tell the folks, please rest assured, even if you don’t plant a single grain, you won’t be hungry.” Feng Daiwen ordered.

"Middle! Middle! Everything will be done according to your wishes, Master Hou. With a master like you, there is no reason to be worried." Zhu Hao nodded repeatedly.

"Everyone has surplus food now. No one will eat the bran of the food now. You can raise more chickens and ducks. Tomorrow, we will arrange for people to purchase youngsters. We will build duck farms and chicken farms in the fish pond. We need to raise them on a large scale. , I am building a pig farm, and I want Zhujiazhuang to be the largest breeding base in Wannian County and even Chang'an." Feng Daiwen saw more and more people gathered around to listen to his speech, so he let go of his voice and introduced to everyone.

"We listen to Lord Hou, what do you say we should do." The crowd listened quietly to Feng Daiwen's explanation, and the more they listened, the more excited they became, and the more reasonable they felt.

(End of this chapter)