Liu Tan couldn't help but feel a little suffocated after taking a look, as if he felt the fear of being dominated by bubbles when he was playing with resin molds.
But... this is not a replica, why are there so many bubble pits?
Liu Tan picked up the brick and felt that it was not particularly heavy. The size and weight indicated that it was likely full of such bubble pits inside.
He looked up at Li Buyan and asked, "Have you looked inside? How is it?"
Li Buyan whispered, "It's the same inside, that's why I said something seems amiss."
Liu Tan was a little confused: "Why is it like this?"
Li Buyan was a little confused. He originally thought that Liu Tan would know the reason. In his heart, his prince was omnipotent. However, now even Liu Tan didn't know what was going on, and Li Buyan didn't know how to proceed.
Liu Tan took another closer look at the brick, and then discovered something very serious: if you look closely at the brick, you can see that the cross-section is very rough, the soil is not particularly fine, and the granularity is very obvious.
He suddenly remembered that it seemed that it had not been sieved!
Oh, I remember that even when I was making a dessert I had to sift flour, but I forgot about it in the blink of an eye when I was making bricks.
However, looking at the appearance of the soil, Liu Tan didn't think it could be cleaned by just sifting it.
He thought for a moment and said, "Well, first send someone to get some kaolin, preferably one with a weathered surface."
If it is not weathered, it still needs to be dried and powdered, which requires manual labor and is very difficult.
This is the only way to make large amounts of clay in later generations every day, but no one has discovered the function of kaolin yet, so there must be weathered soil on the surface.
Liu Tan asked Li Buyan to find weathered soil and dig out the soil to dry and weather it, and even specially drew a weathering field for this purpose.
After Li Buyan found the soil, Liu Tan wanted to go to the kiln himself.
After learning about this, Miao Rui and Bigo wanted to kneel down and beg His Highness not to go there - the whip wounds on their bodies had just healed!
Although Liu Tan gave him medicine and money as compensation after being punished, it still hurt.
The first time they were only punished with twenty lashes, but if they do it again, it would be knowingly committing a crime. Who knows how much punishment they will receive then?
Liu Tan coughed lightly and said, "I won't do anything. I'll just watch. Well, I'll provide on-site guidance. If I do, just stop me."
Stop it? Can they stop it? If they could stop it, they would have stopped it now.
Miao Rui and Bigo looked at each other and decided that if they really couldn't stop him, they would risk their old faces and take off their clothes to show the whip marks on their bodies. This method was probably much better than any other.
Liu Tan led his men to the kiln in a mighty procession. When they arrived there, he saw the old soldiers gathered together discussing something.
After seeing Liu Tan, they dispersed and saluted.
While asking them to get up, Liu Tan looked at the soil carefully. Well, this time it was not him who did it. Instead, Li Buyan pinched a handful of it in his hand and showed it to Liu Tan.
After carefully examining the soil, Liu Tan was satisfied to find that it was indeed finer than the ones he had used before.
But this was not enough, he insisted on screening it again.
The sieving tool had been prepared long ago - a sieve woven with fine copper wire.
Because the screening process was too dirty and there was nothing interesting to see, Liu Tan turned around and asked the veterans: "What were you talking about just now?"
An old soldier who spoke a little better said, "We're talking about the emptiness here."
Liu Tan felt a headache whenever he saw the air bubbles inside the bricks. He had been scratching his head till it was almost bald these days, but he still couldn't think of any way to eliminate these bubbles.
To be honest, according to his experience, the best way to eliminate bubbles is with a vacuum machine.
Just put it in and vacuum it, and all bubbles will disappear.
But the problem is that there is a ghost vacuum machine now.
And even in later times, brick making wouldn't be equipped with a vacuum machine, right? How much would it cost to equip a brick that costs only a few cents with a vacuum machine?
So there must be another way to eliminate it, but he couldn't think of it.
After getting used to the convenience of the industrial age, it is really difficult to go back to the farming age when there was almost nothing.
Liu Tan thought about it and asked, "Have you come up with a solution?"
He didn't have any hope at first, he just asked casually, and then he heard the old soldier gesture and say something excitedly.
Liu Tan looked bewildered when he heard this - the man was so excited that he stopped speaking politely.
Li Buyan, who was standing by, said with great tact, "Your Highness, he said that as long as we expel the air from the mud while mixing it, it will be fine."
Liu Tan was helpless: "I've thought about this method, but it's too labor-intensive. How many people would it take to knead the mud?"
If you really want to knead it manually, I'm afraid it will be no easier than kneading a film out of bread dough.
One or two pieces is fine, but when the demand gets huge, let alone rebuilding Shuofang City, just the amount needed to build a royal palace alone would probably exhaust a group of people.
Li Buyan scratched his head and said, "Well...what should we do then?"
Liu Tanxin said, "You ask me? If I knew, I would be able to come up with an idea."
At this time, an old soldier next to him said something cautiously, and this time, Li Buyan didn't understand.
Fortunately, the old soldier who just spoke a little politely managed to say, "He said we can use an ox."
Li Buyan asked foolishly, "What does this have to do with cows?"
However, Liu Tan suddenly had an idea and blurted out: "Use the cow to step on it!"
The veterans beside him nodded their heads, and Liu Tan showed a happy expression: "Yes, this method can be used as a substitute."
Anyway, the bubbles can be squeezed out by heavy pressure, so why not use other methods?
The working people are so wise!
Liu Tan was so happy that he rewarded the old soldier who first proposed this idea with one string of coins.
This amount of money was not much for him, but the old soldier knelt down with tears in his eyes.
The old soldier continued to kowtow until Liu Tan was dragged away by Huo Guang.
Liu Tan didn't know why, but suddenly the poem "The rich have wine and meat, while the poor are freezing to death on the streets" popped up in his mind.
Even if he felt emotional, he wouldn't consider sacrificing his own living standards to distribute money to the people. If he wanted to make everyone rich, why would he just distribute the money? Besides, it would only make everyone lazy and overworked over time.
After Liu Tan got on the carriage, he looked at Huo Guang and asked, "What's wrong?"
Huo Guang took a closer look at Liu Tan and found that he was still clean and tidy. Although there was a little dirt on the corner of his clothes, he looked much better than the clay doll he had that day. He felt relieved and said, "It's nothing. It's just that the county governors from various places are about to arrive in Shuofang City. Your Highness should not run around for the next two days."
Liu Tan slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, I haven't shown you the proposal I wrote about the exam yet. Since you're here too, why don't we have a meeting to discuss it?"
Huo Guang responded. To be honest, he was also quite curious about what Liu Tan had created.
The main reason was that this form was very novel, but because it involved so many aspects, he still held a reserved attitude. If there was anything inappropriate, he would directly fight back and would not give Liu Tan the opportunity to harm the vast number of scholars.
After everyone arrived, Liu Tan took a look and found that he only had one copy and could not let everyone read it, so he had to use the most ancient method: passing it around.
There’s no rush anyway, let’s wait until everyone has finished watching it.
It is worth mentioning that Liu Tan did not exclude Sang Qian after all.
Sang Qian felt that His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory was kind, but Liu Tan just wanted to avoid being caught.
If it is sidelined, then it is sidelined. What if it is too obvious that Sang Qian is unhappy, or if Sang Hongyang finds out and transfers the person back directly?
If Sang Hongyang is unhappy, he will send a powerful person over. Even if Liu Tan is not afraid, he will still have a headache.
Huo Guang was naturally the first to read it. He originally read it out of curiosity, and at the same time, he read it more carefully than any document Liu Tan had read before.
However, what he didn't expect was that although this application only had a general framework, this framework had almost built the skeleton of the exam.
After reading it, Huo Guang couldn't help but glance at Liu Tan, with a hesitant expression on his face.
If he didn't know that there were no peerless masters around Liu Tan, he would have suspected who was giving advice to his prince. He couldn't say whether it was perfect or not, but at least from his point of view, he couldn't see any problems.
Liu Tan did not ask, he was very confident. After all, it was the examination civilization passed down by the Flower-Growing Family for thousands of years. He had been taking examinations since he was a child. It was impossible for him to be unfamiliar with examinations, no matter how familiar he was with anything.
Huo Guang handed the document to Jiang Chong with a thoughtful look on his face.
To be honest, even Huo Guang couldn't see the problem, let alone Jiang Chong.
Even Sang Qian's cultural level is higher than Jiang Chong's.
After these people had finished reading it, the main hall fell silent. Liu Tan was originally waiting for someone to ask a question, but in the end, everyone was silent and just lowered their heads in thought. Oh, Li Buyan and Wei Buyi were not among those who lowered their heads in thought.
Of course, the two of them were not qualified to participate in the meeting. Sang Qian had some complaints from the beginning, but because these two people came from good backgrounds, he did not get angry for a while.
After he was beaten and became obedient, he no longer protested.
Now, he has been completely absorbed by this rigorous examination process. He gets more points as he sees more details. In the end, he can't wait to show this document to his father!
Liu Tan sat there waiting for a long time but received no response, so he had no choice but to ask, "Does anyone have anything else to add?"
After hearing this, Sang Qian came to his senses and looked at Liu Tan with some regret.
Just based on this rigorous thinking, if he were not a prince, he could have done the job, not to mention the Three Dukes, but also the Nine Ministers.
Now he can only be a prince, and if he wants to take charge of things he needs the cooperation of the prime minister. Some time ago he heard that Liu Tan seemed to be advised by the prime minister not to do anything, and then Liu Tan really did not do it.
For a moment, Sang Qian felt that the power was still in the hands of the prime minister. As for the prime minister's attitude towards the King of the Northern Territory, he looked at the proposal in his hand and understood Huo Guang's idea for a moment. It seemed such a pity to let such a capable person be left idle and become a prince who could only eat, drink and have fun in the future.
However, what Sang Qian didn't know was that Huo Guang's so-called punishment was no different from a joke to both him and Liu Tan. Huo Guang's seriousness didn't stop Liu Tan from running to the county government to play in the mud.
Liu Tan was surprised to see no one talking: "Don't you have any ideas?"
In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to Huo Guang. As the Prime Minister, it was time for him to take the lead!
Huo Guang: ...
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