The most arrogant in history

Chapter 280 Junior Sister’s Enthusiasm.

Ye Kun was overjoyed and said with a smile: "When Ding Ding arrives in Chengdu, I will arrange a fishing and hunting training class and let Ding Ding be the teacher to teach everyone how to fish and hunt."

To be honest, most of the people in Dading Kingdom, except for the craftsmen, are not very smart.

Due to the low level of education, ordinary people are not good at learning; and due to inconvenient transportation, the spread of technology and experience is restricted.

Some people living in the mountains can't even use a carrying pole and can only use a backpack.

This is very funny because even in the intelligent industrial society, more than half of the countries in the world still do not know how to use a carrying pole.

The Indian Peninsula, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are all people who carry things on their heads. Their method of transportation is to carry things on their heads.

The Chinese are skilled in using carrying poles, which is simply a magical skill for those who carry carrying poles on their heads!

Hunting and fishing are even more highly skilled occupations, and most ordinary people in the Dading Kingdom do not know how to do them.

Since Tintin has this skill, he can promote it and teach it in the army. In this way, the field troops can solve part of their own meat needs.

Yue Juan laughed and said, "Who is this Ding Ding? Why is he so powerful?"

Ye Kun smiled and said, "She is my junior sister. I will introduce her to you later."

In Chengdu, there is a small manor with seven or eight houses, which is the residence of Miss Yuejuan.

Ma Jiaojiao and Yu Lian Chunhua both live here.

Ye Kun handles government affairs and checks various tasks during the day, and accompanies Yue Juan, Jiao Jiao and others at night.

Gongsun Erniang couldn't sit still and wandered around everywhere.

The next night, Gongsun Erniang came to see Ye Kun and said:

"Brother, I found something that can be improved. It will be of great benefit to the common people and can also save a lot of firewood."

"Saving firewood?" Ye Kun immediately realized and said with a smile, "Junior sister, you are talking about renovating the stove, right?"

Ye Kun had long wanted to make changes to the stoves used by ordinary people and in military camps.

But there are too many things to do and I can't take care of them.

The stoves in the military camps were small and scattered, because they could not make large iron pots due to technical limitations. Bronze pots could be made, but they were expensive and harmful to the body.

Whether in military camps or in ordinary people's homes, cooking is still done in traditional clay pots.

The stove is even simpler, and those who are particular will build a special stove;

Poor people who don't care about details would simply get a few small stones, make a fence on the ground, hang a clay pot up, and burn firewood underneath.

This cooking method seriously wastes firewood.

Ye Kun planned to wait until the iron pot craftsmanship became more mature, and then combine the iron pot with the stove, so he has been waiting.

Gongsun Erniang nodded: "Yes, I want to talk about the stove. We can design a stove that saves grass, has ventilation up and down, and saves the bellows. This stove saves grass and cooks quickly..."

"I know. It's not technically difficult."

Ye Kun nodded and drew a simple picture:

"Ordinary people don't need bellows for cooking. Just enlarge the stove and set up a chimney on top. Dig a foot and a half deep under the stove and use the principle of rising hot air to suck in air from below."

Regarding the various inventions of the ancients, Ye Kun believes that the ordinary civilian bellows is the most useless.

Cooking with a bellows is tiring.

Moreover, the cost of a bellows was not cheap in ancient times.

Before the time travel, all the bellows in Ye Kun's hometown had been eliminated and replaced with simple stoves with downward air intake and upward ventilation.

Based on actual usage results, this thing is better than a bellows stove.

Therefore, Ye Kun believes that except for special industries such as blacksmithing, making sugar, and grinding tofu, there is no need for household bellows to exist.

Wouldn’t it be nice to save the money on bellows and buy a new piece of clothing for the elderly and children at home?

Gongsun Erniang looked at Ye Kun's drawings and was surprised: "Brother, why do you want to go with me?"

"We are brothers and sisters, and we are very close." Ye Kun smiled and said:

"To build such a stove, you also need an iron hearth. I have not promoted it because of the shortage of steel. I have calculated that a small iron hearth requires one and a half pounds of iron, and a large one requires three or four pounds of iron."

"If we don't have iron, can't we use bricks instead?"

Gongsun Erniang looked down on him and rolled her eyes, saying, "Bake a batch of special bricks and leave a few parallel gaps in the middle, and you can make a furnace. Even ordinary blue bricks can be used to build a suitable furnace."

"Uh... Junior Sister is smart." Ye Kun was stunned and thought this method was feasible:

"Then I'll leave this matter to you, Junior Sister. I'll arrange a few workers who can build stoves to do the experiment with you, starting with the military camp."

It's rare that the junior sister is so enthusiastic and willing to share his worries, and Ye Kun can't dampen her enthusiasm.

Gongsun Erniang was very happy: "Okay, I will go and make a new stove right away, I guarantee it will work well."

Ye Kun was very cooperative. He assigned several assistants to Gongsun Erniang and also asked Lao He and his daughter to help with the design.

The next day.

Gongsun Erniang was making a new stove, and Ye Kun went to see the road construction progress in the parallel ridge valley in western Chongqing.

The road construction project has been going on for several months and has progressed rapidly, exceeding Ye Kun's expectations.

Ye Kun's plan was to build a highway between Chongqing and Chengdu, which would be very useful for transporting troops and food and developing commerce in the future.

While inspecting the site, Ye Kun discovered that it was easy to build roads in most of the mountains with parallel ridges and valleys.

Because the mountain is not high and the rock is not hard.

The rocks mined on site are all purple sandstone and red sandstone, which will break into pieces when stepped on.

Moreover, the mountains are covered with weathered purple-red sand and lush vegetation.

Ye Kun asked the local laborer who was working on the mountain: "Brother, the red sand on this mountain seems to be suitable for growing crops, right?"

The peasant nodded affirmatively: "The purple-red sandy soil on the mountain can be used to grow crops, but it often slides. It's also too far away, and we don't have enough manpower to finish the crops."

"It's a great place. There's not an inch of wasteland."

Ye Kun was very happy and told Wen Qi:

"In Chongqing, the winter is not too cold. We can arrange for refugees to come here and open up wasteland on the mountain. We can start by leveling the land from the top of the mountain and make terraces. Although we can't grow rice, we can grow wheat and beans. We can also try growing rapeseed."

If the barren hills and mountains parallel to the ridges and valleys could be developed over a vast area, it would be equivalent to building another half of the Chengdu Plain.

It would not be a problem to absorb hundreds of thousands more people.

Wen Qi didn't understand the ecology of this area, and frowned and said:

"Master Ye, if we want to open up wasteland, we need to have supporting water conservancy and irrigation. If we plant crops on this mountain and encounter drought, won't we get nothing?"

"Is it often dry here?" Ye Kun smiled and asked the local people.

The peasant shook his head and said, "We have plenty of rain here, and droughts only happen nine out of ten years. We grow wheat and beans in the mountains, and we never need to water them."

Chongqing has another name, called the Fog City.

Drought is less likely to occur in places that are covered with clouds all year round.

Ye Kun looked at Wen Qi and the officials accompanying him from Chengdu:

"Master Wen, all the masters, if you want to know what is happening in the mountains, you should ask the people in the mountains. As officials in Chongqing, you should go deep into the people and communicate more with the villagers, so that you can fully understand the situation in each place."