Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 612 Hard work

   After walking a few steps, Zhao Hanzhang turned around and saw Ting He and two personal guards following her behind her buttocks, she waved, "You don't have to follow."

   The two personal guards came down, saluted and retired, but Ting He didn't leave, "Girl, I still have to wait for you."

   "Okay, you can follow." Zhao Hanzhang didn't want the guards to know that she was going to the palace, but he was not worried that Ting He would know.

Ting He responded happily, followed her with great interest, walked for a while, and a group of people came along the road. Zhao Hanzhang stopped, looked up, and saw Fu Tinghan and Zhao Erlang walking side by side. As soon as he saw her , the horse under Zhao Erlang jumped forward excitedly, and rushed towards her over Fu Tinghan.

   Zhao Erlang restrained his horse in front of Zhao Hanzhang, his eyes narrowed with laughter, "Sister, where are you going?"

   Zhao Hanzhang reached out and touched the horse's neck and mouth, rubbed its fur soothingly before raising his head and said, "Walking around, why are you here again? There is no meat at home today."

"I have," Zhao Erlang took out a fat rabbit with its limbs spread out from a cloth bag hanging on the horse's back, and said, "I took someone to cut beans today, and when I saw a rabbit, I held it down. Sister, do you want to eat rabbit meat?"

   Zhao Hanzhang immediately smiled, looked at him approvingly and said, "Erlang is getting better and better when he reaches out his hand, hand over the rabbit to the cook and let him divide it into two parts, one for frying and one for stewing with vegetables."

   Fu Tinghan couldn't help but smile when she saw the smile on her face, got off and asked, "Where are you going?"

   "Just walk around."

  Fu Tinghan gave the horse to the guard behind him, "Let's go together then."

   Zhao Erlang rolled his eyes, dismounted too, stuffed the horse and the rabbit together to Lu Hu, and said, "Take the rabbit back to the cook."

   He ran to Zhao Hanzhang's side, looked at them eagerly, and wanted to follow.

   Zhao Hanzhang laughed and waved at the guards behind them.

   The man and the horse walked away cleanly, only Fu An stayed.

   Zhao Hanzhang looked at the three of them and said simply: "Okay, let's go."

   Going forward, only half of the houses are good, and the other half are black with broken eaves and broken walls, all of which were destroyed by the fire before.

  Except for people who live in Taixue who occasionally take this road, few people come here again. Anyway, Zhao Erlang has not been here much since the emperor left.

He looked left and right curiously, and saw that the walls and yards of many houses were covered with weeds. Spring and summer were when the vegetation was flourishing. These houses were uninhabited and had been burned by fire, and the ashes of the plants and trees seemed to be very thick. It is easy to induce grass and trees. At first glance, there is a cluster of grass on the wall, a thin cluster of grass, and the yard is also full of grass.

   "Sister, will the houses here be like this in the future?"

   "No, rebuild the house when you have money."

   Zhao Erlang is already very sensible, he asked: "How much does it cost?"

   He said: "We are just building a barracks, and Mr. Xie said it would be expensive."

   "Isn't the construction of the house done by the soldiers under your command? You don't need labor costs, why is it expensive?"

   "Lumber, stone and brick cost a lot of money."

   Zhao Hanzhang sighed, "You all know that money, rice, oil and salt are expensive."

   Zhao Erlang turned his head and asked Fu Tinghan: "Brother-in-law, send someone to build a brick workshop outside Xin'an City."

  Fu Tinghan: "Isn't there already a brick workshop in Xin'an County?"

   "Their bricks are so expensive that I didn't even want blue or red bricks, I just used mud bricks."

The so-called mud bricks are bricks made of grass, wood and mud. The cost is much lower. Most of the houses today are made of mud, but made of bricks, they will be thicker, better to build, and more windproof. .

  Not only Xin'an, Gucheng and Luoyang, but also the houses built outside the city are mainly made of this kind of mud brick, which is low cost and high efficiency.

   The better blue and red bricks were used by wealthier people.

   Compared with khaki mud bricks, Zhao Erlang prefers blue bricks, but red bricks are fine, so he and Fu Tinghan suggested, "Brother-in-law, you can open another brick workshop in Xin'an, and then I will be cheaper."

  Fu Tinghan shook his head and said, "The manpower of the workshop is limited, and their brick prices are within a reasonable range, so we shouldn't compete with the people for profit."

   Zhao Hanzhang asked, "How much is it expensive?"

  Fu Tinghan said with a smile: "Each brick is only half a penny more expensive, but they are different from us. They need to pay part of the money to the local county government to acquire land."

   That is indeed not expensive.

  Fu Tinghan said: "I am planning to raise the price of bricks in our workshop recently, so as not to compete with the common people for profit."

   Zhao Hanzhang happily patted Zhao Erlang on the shoulder and said, "Yes, I know it saves money, so don't be extravagant in the future."

   said again: "It's not easy for the common people to do some business. It's like throwing bricks for pure hard-earned money, so don't complain, but don't owe them brick money."

   Zhao Erlang responded and said, "Although Mr. Xie said it was expensive, I still have the money."

   Just took out a gem from the loot and exchanged it for copper coins. It's almost... "Sister, our jewelry can't be sold, have you sold it?"

   Zhao Hanzhang was also depressed, "No."

   The two brothers sighed together.

  Fu Tinghan smiled and shook his head. When he looked up again, they had arrived at the bottom of the imperial city. He was puzzled, "What are you doing here?"

   "Go in and walk around."

There are guards at the gate of the imperial city, not many, just two, mainly to prevent thieves from sneaking into the palace to steal things, and there are still patrolling people in the city. Slip into the cave and go to the palace.

   It’s just not certain whether you can steal something.

   Zhao Hanzhang was about to go in. Although the soldiers guarding the door were puzzled, they immediately pushed open the door and let them in.

  Theoretically speaking, she shouldn't enter. In fact, there is no place she can't go in Luoyang City. Even beggars can sneak in, not to mention her?

Inside the gate is a spacious straight road with high walls on both sides, and there is a branch after a hundred steps. Zhao Hanzhang introduced to the curious Fu Tinghan and Zhao Erlang, "These two sides are where the officials of the DPRK and China work. The Zhongshu Province, Shizhong Temple, and Secretarial Supervisor are all working here.”

Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan said: "My uncle was the Minister of the Book of Ministers, the chief official of the Book of Ministers, and the Ministry of Industry. Now it is divided into the Ministry of Water, Tian Cao, etc., and they are all managed by the Book of Ministers. I decided to subdivide the functions and make a prototype. Six, of which the Ministry of Industry is handed over to you."

  Fu Tinghan asked, "What about the household department?"

   He didn't know much about the Winter Officials and the Water Department, but he still knew about the Sixth Book of Shangshu, the historical content he had learned in middle school, so even if he rarely came into contact with relevant knowledge after middle school, he still remembered it firmly.

   Zhao Hanzhang said: "The household department is handed over to Ji Yuan."

   "However, the Ministry of households is very important, the court is still there, and everyone in the world is staring at me, so I won't announce it for the time being, just leave this part of the matter to him."

  Ji Yuan has always been doing the same thing. Fu Tinghan nodded. He looked around and asked, "Then what are we doing in the Imperial City?"

   Zhao Hanzhang walked to the wall, reached out and patted the thick wall he knew and sighed: "I feel bad, I'm too poor, so I came in to relax and take a look at the house inside..."

  Imagine a day when she no longer has to worry about the place where she works, and she can work directly there.

   Anyway, just give yourself a shot of chicken blood and encourage yourself.

   She sighed: "Probably just like people who work hard to make a down payment, they take a look at their favorite real estate from time to time to encourage themselves to work harder and save money."

  Fu Tinghan couldn't help laughing.

   (end of this chapter)