Modern people who traveled through the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 18 Yuchi's Great Gift
After the craftsmen had left, Zhao Han put his legs up on the table, lay on the master chair and hummed leisurely, sighing in his heart, this is life, but there are still too many things that need to be changed. Electricity and paper wait for return. Going to Xingyangzhuang to make it, think about what else is needed?

Zhao Han thought for a long time before he realized that coal and iron are the most important things today. He had to hold the coal in his own hands. The iron was in Changsun Wuji's hands. He couldn't grab it, but coal was a good thing. Ask the housekeeper in the front yard where there is coal.

When I walked out of the backyard, I met the butler walking towards me, and hurriedly shouted: "Butler, where are you going? I just have something to ask you."

"If you go back to the uncle, the little one is going to look for the uncle. Just now, the Duke of E came and saw the master and his wife playing mahjong, and then the Duke of E also learned it. He was arguing with the master in the front hall. The mahjong made by the uncle is really helpless, so I have to ask the uncle, can the mahjong made by the craftsman be given to Duke E?"

"I told Duke E of this matter that you don't need to worry about it. By the way, Steward Ma, do you know if there is an open-pit coal mountain near Chang'an?"

"Back to Uncle, what kind of mountain is Meishan?"

Only then did Zhao Han realize that he had said the wrong thing. Coal was invented by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called graphite or coal in the Tang Dynasty.

"Uh... which one, it's a black stone that can be burned, you know?"

Zhao Han is an otaku. He has already returned the history he learned to the teacher. How does he know what the ancient coal was called?Just casually said Meishan, who knows what period coal was called.

"Uncle, are you talking about graphite? But which graphite is poisonous to burn? In the past, many people secretly burned graphite at home in the winter, and many people died of poisoning. After that, no one burns graphite anymore. Graphite is useless. No one wants this thing now, uncle, why are you asking this?"

"That's because you don't know how to use it. Who am I, your uncle? How can I be troubled by this graphite? You can just say that there is one near Chang'an."

"Back to Uncle, there is a mountain in the east of Chang'an that has graphite, but it's all inside the stone, and it's hard to dig out. There are two open-air graphite mountains fifty miles to the west, which seem to be the fiefdom of Duke E, and there are no people nearby. Because there is very little land to grow food."

"Hey, you just said that Yu Chigong wanted mahjong, right? I'm really sleepy and someone gave me a pillow, hahahaha, Zhao Han laughed and walked to the front hall."

"Uncle, are you okay? You asked about Shi Mo just now, why did you suddenly talk about Duke E's desire for mahjong?"

The housekeeper followed Zhao Han to the front hall wonderingly.

Zhao Han came to the front hall, and before he entered the door, he heard a voice shouting: "Old goblin, thanks to the fact that we are old comrades-in-arms for many years, I am not robbing you, let's talk about you... oh yes, it's called mahjong, you It's not just one set, isn't your craftsman still making it? Just give me this set of mahjong."

"Yu Chigong, you idiot, don't even think about taking away the old man's mahjong. If you have the ability, let your craftsman do it. If you want to take away the mahjong from the old man today, why don't you ask the old man's mountain ax to agree?" , go out and practice."

"Let's go, old goblin, do you think I'm afraid of you?"

As they spoke, the two walked out, and happened to bump into Zhao Han who was about to enter the door. Before Zhao Han could speak, Yu Chigong said first: "Little baby, get out of the way, I want to go out to practice with your old goblin, don't hurt you .”

Zhao Han was speechless for a while, but Zhao Han thought to himself, Yuchi is really a good person. Although he regards himself as a servant, Yuchi Gong's status is already very high, and he can treat his servants so well, which really shows Yuchi Gong's character , It’s really good. I originally planned to exchange mahjong for his two coal mountains, but now I feel that I have gone too far. Zhao Han is such a person. If others treat him well, Zhao Han will not treat others badly.

"Uh... Uncle Yuchi, the boy is called Zhao Han. I invented this mahjong. If you want it, uncle, I'll let the craftsman make a pair for him. It won't take long. It was originally intended to be given to the emperor." , but there is no rush."

"Oh, you are the county uncle of Lantian. That's right. You're still sensible. You're not as stingy as the old goblin Cheng. Don't learn from him in the future. Come and play a few games with the old man. I just watch the old goblin play. My hands are itchy now." cruel."

"Which one, wait a moment, uncle. This afternoon I asked the craftsmen to make some chairs and tables. I really can't bear to sit on my knees. After a long time, my legs will become numb, so I developed a set of sitting chairs by myself." , After playing like this for a long time, the legs will not be numb, and then he said to the butler: "Steward Ma, please ask Goudan to bring four grand master chairs and a table."

"Okay uncle, master, wait a moment, then rush out and ask the servants to move the chair and table to the workshop."

Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong were both taken aback when they heard this, but they didn't understand what a grand master's chair is.

Yu Chigong was a master who couldn't hide things, so he said something, so he asked: "Little guy, what is the Taishi chair you mentioned just now? Listening to the name, it feels pretty good."

Zhao Hanxin said, do you want to say you are tall?
"Uncle Yuchi, this grand master chair is actually a chair modified by the boy from the Hu stool. It is very comfortable to sit on and not tiring." After a while, a servant brought it over, and Zhao Han said, "Uncle Yuchi, you will know after you try it."

"By the way, Uncle Yuchi, I heard that there are two graphite mountains fifty miles west of Chang'an that belong to Uncle Yuchi? I want to buy them. Can you sell them to me?"

Yu Chigong patted Zhao Han's shoulder with his big hand, and Zhao Han was almost slapped on the ground. The strength of this hand is worthy of his background in war, and Zhao Han bared his teeth in pain.

"Haha, you and the old man are so polite, since you gave the old man a pair of mahjong, the old man will give it to you, and it will be considered as a meeting gift for the old man."

Cheng Yaojin couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "Old fool, you are too stingy, just give away two broken graphite mountains and it's over? Who doesn't know, which graphite mountains are useless, and you say I'm stingy, Take a look at yourself, how embarrassed are you to be so stingy in front of the junior?"

Yuchi was also embarrassed when he was said, after all, he knew which two mountains were really useless, but he didn't know what to give for a while, and he didn't bring anything out with him. After thinking about it for a while, there was a jade pendant on his body, but it was Li Er The emperor gave it to himself, but he gave it to Zhao Han cruelly, and it caused dissatisfaction from many people in his own hands.

This was the Xuanwumen incident back then, and I rushed all the way in front of Li Yuan to force him to abdicate, Li Er gave this jade pendant to himself, it seemed that he was going to bleed a lot this time, but Yuchi also knew that Zhao Han worshiped an old god as his teacher, I have earned quite a lot from the newly made salt alone. Now that I have a good relationship with Zhao Han, if he has any new things in the future, how can I lose my share?So this jade pendant is worth it.

"Uncle Yuchi, this jade pendant can't be accepted."

Cheng Yaojin stared straight at the jade pendant, this is no ordinary jade pendant, this jade pendant can mobilize a hundred thousand troops, although Yuchi would not be stupid to take the jade pendant to mobilize one hundred thousand troops, he Yu Chigong's son can't inherit this jade pendant, and it will definitely be returned to Li Er or the next generation of emperors after Yuchi Gong's hundred years.

This right is too great to be inherited, unlike the title that can be inherited to one's descendants, but it is also a real right. Will Han holding the jade pendant make Li Er unhappy? This is even more impossible. He Cheng Yaojin knows how important Zhao Han is to Li Er's heart, but the power of the jade pendant is a bit big, so he has to think about how to stop the minister. Q.

(End of this chapter)