Chapter 676 Dad! Pee! (Please vote and subscribe)
Baoyin and Niuwei left, one went to Kaiyuan County to take up the post, and the other was going home. As for the current senior officers of Qianniuwei, Luo Chong will make adjustments for them. The commander of Qianniuwei is still Chai Duoduo, and the original military officer will replace Yingrui as the Wei Sima of Qianniuwei. In this way, the vacant military officer will be left to Baoyin.
Yingrui, who was replaced, directly left the military system, and was appointed by Luo Chong as the governor of Kaiyuan County, and was officially promoted to the chief of local administration.
Luo Chong had arranged these personnel changes in advance. The soldiers were sent to Kaiyuan County through the flying eagle letter. As long as Baoyin escorted the supplies over, the two sides could start the handover directly, and he didn't have to worry about the rest.
By mid-September, after Luo Chong made arrangements everywhere, he began to concentrate on cleaning up his house. Now it was autumn, and he planned to build the house early and move into the new home in winter.
In a few months, the main part of the house has been built. According to the current name, this is a Chinese-style villa that combines ancient and modern times. The rectangular courtyard is divided into four courtyards in front and back by several main buildings, and the main building in the front is a two-and-a-half-story brick-wood structure.
The living room is not placed in the central hall, but in a corner of the main entrance. The front wall next to the courtyard is still empty. A large floor-to-ceiling window will be installed there. Of course, the Han tribe does not have the ability to make large pieces of flat glass, so this floor-to-ceiling window will be made into a grid shape according to the method of lighthouse curtain wall, and each grid will be installed with a rectangular glass of about one square meter.
The upper part of the living room is a loft design, where a not very large calcium carbide chandelier will be installed, which is currently being customized. The tiled floor in the hall will be placed there, and there will be a circle of wooden sofas. There is also a hard bed close to the wall in the inner position. It is actually a brick-and-stone kang, but it is not as big as a kang for sleeping. It is used as a place for people to sit in the hall to entertain guests in winter, and it can also serve as a heating device.
There are several rooms on the first and second floors, including a study and a bedroom. The bedroom is equipped with a heated kang. In addition to the rooms, the second floor also has a terrace of several dozen square meters. You can put some flower pots and a table on the terrace to enjoy the breeze.
The third floor is not very large, but it is a luxurious sun room. Most of the walls will be installed with glass, so people can bask in the sun here in winter.
In terms of the overall structure, except for a small amount of blue bricks, most of the wood structure is used, including the design of the roof eaves and beams and columns, all of which are spliced with mortise and tenon joints.
Such a house, at most in modern times, is the concept of a country villa, but in the Han tribe, it is enough to be called a top luxury house. Of course, it is certainly not comparable to those government offices and schools, but those buildings are not for private use, so they cannot be compared together.
The kitchen was built separately from the main building, and it was also considered for the needs of hygiene and fire prevention.
This is just the building in the front yard. There is a backyard called the inner yard behind the main house. There is a circle of two-story buildings in the shape of a Chinese character “回”, which can also be used for living. Luo Chong plans to let the children live in separate rooms in the inner yard when they are older.
The remaining two side yards are also not small in size. One is for the maids to live in, and it also undertakes the functions of cooking and washing. The other yard is for the male servants to live in, and it also has the functions of sundry warehouse, stable and parking. In this way, basically all aspects of life can be taken care of.
As for male and female servants, Luo Chong certainly cannot let his two wives clean such a large yard, so servants are still needed. As for the source of servants, those whose families are all there and who want to be free can be selected from prisoners of war, or orphans can be selected from the newly joined tribesmen, as long as they are young, and brought back to train themselves.
There will be no shortage of orphans in every newly joined tribe, because the casualty rate of tribes that rely solely on gathering and hunting has always been very high, and some even live in an environment of group marriage and don’t know who their parents are.
There are many children like this who have no one to rely on, so Luo Chong does not have to worry about recruiting servants.
The craftsmen in the wood processing factory are making various furniture according to the drawings given by Luo Chong. Many rare decorative materials are shipped from all directions, especially the lamps and flat glass from the island in the middle of the lake.
Luo Chong even wanted to make a fish tank, but it was a bit difficult technically. He could find a way to make glass, but considering the problems of oxygen supply and temperature, he decided to forget it.
He originally thought about digging a fish pond and then building a pavilion on it, but the land was not big enough, so he could only think about it.
In Luo Chong's old house, the purple fruits on the cotton racks are in full bloom, and white cotton flowers are bursting out of the peels. Xiaodie is happily picking the first generation of cotton in the Han tribe, and then recording the entire process of cotton from growth to harvest in the Han tribe in a small notebook.
Zhan Ying has recently taken a liking to cooking, and has asked Luo Chong for advice on many novel food-making methods. Of course, the main thing is to feed the children, because the two children are gradually growing up, and now they can slowly eat some other foods as nutritional supplements in addition to breastfeeding, and then find an opportunity to wean them, which requires a slow transition in between.
At this time, the two children, Xiao Luocheng and Xiao Luolan, were sitting face to face in a wooden cart. The weather was getting colder, and the two children had already put on thick autumn clothes, of course, both of which were open-crotch.
In the cart, there was a detachable movable table board between the two children, and now there was a bowl of soft and glutinous egg custard on it. The two children were waving wooden spoons vigorously to grab it into their mouths. They tied long napkins around their necks to cover their calves, but even so, they were still covered with food.
Zhan Ying smiled and took care of them, wiping this and that with a handkerchief.
Luo Lan has been more naughty recently. She would throw away the spoon while eating, then lift her feet to take off the tiger-head shoes on them. While her brother was still eating the egg custard, she began to swing her shoes against the small table.
The clapping sound made the wooden bowl on the table bounce up, and the egg custard was directly smeared all over Luo Cheng's face. She was still laughing so hard that Luo Cheng got angry and took the almost empty wooden bowl into his arms. Then he threw away the spoon and put his whole head into the wooden bowl to lick the remaining egg custard residue. Seeing this, Luo Lan began to compete with him for the wooden bowl again.
The two children are still in the babbling stage, but they can walk unsteadily when led by adults. Luo Cheng also prepared a walker for them. I don't know when these two little brats will learn to walk.
It should be almost done after this winter! Luo Cheng thought so.
"Dad!"
"Dad!"
"Pee."
Perhaps because he had eaten too much egg custard, Luo Cheng suddenly slapped the small table in front of him and yelled. Luo Cheng, who was drawing a blueprint on the table next to him, heard it and quickly carried this guy under the cotton rack, holding his two legs and started to pee.
"Dad, I want to pee too."
Before he finished, Luo Lan next to him also started to yell. It was unknown whether she was really crying or just joking. But before Luo Chong agreed, Zhan Ying, who was standing by, took her away.
Little Luo Cheng leaned his back in Luo Chong's arms, while he was peeing, he was holding his head with his little hands, and from time to time he looked back at his father. At this moment, a small official in black clothes suddenly came to the gate of the courtyard and stood there. Although the gate was open, he did not dare to go in directly.
Dong, Dong, Dong -
the clerk knocked politely at the door and said, "Chief, the paint for the new house has arrived. The craftsmen want to know what color the beams and pillars should be painted in?"
"Red, a little darker, crimson, you know, the color of our military uniforms. Forget it, I'll go there." Luo Chong turned around and shook Luo Cheng's calves. After shaking Xiao Queque dry, he hugged him in his arms and went out together.
The distance between the old house and the new house is not far. Just go out and turn a corner along the street. The former iron smelting blast furnace has completely disappeared, and now there is only a new building standing there.
The glass shipped from the island in the middle of the lake is being installed on the doors and windows, and the lamps and furniture are also in their respective positions according to the design. After saying hello to the craftsmen who were mixing paint in the yard, Luo Chong carried his son into the main house.
The basic decoration of the main house has been completed. The floor and walls have been treated. The living room is still empty because there is no sofa. Luo Chong walked directly into his own study. The tall bookshelf against the wall has been installed, and a small ladder with wheels stands quietly there.
At one end of the study, there is a solid wood desk made of oak. It is very heavy and cannot be moved easily by one person. The tabletop is shiny because it has been painted with tung oil for more than ten times. However, little Luo Cheng doesn't care about this at all. His curious eyes just look around casually, and then stare at a wooden ship model placed behind the desk. Then he began to struggle over there, pointing at the ship model and calling daddy.
Luo Chong immediately put his hand on his forehead. Damn it, he doesn't even recognize his father when he sees something that can be played with.
Patting Luo Cheng's little butt, Luo Chong said, "Son, you can play, but you are not allowed to be a carpenter when you grow up. Do you hear me?"
Luo Cheng immediately said "hmm". In fact, he didn't understand anything. Anyway, no matter what his father said, he just had to agree first, and then he continued to struggle towards the ship model.
Luo Cheng brought the ship model over and put it directly on the desk, and then put his son on the desk. The little guy squatted on the table and started to tinker with the ship model. He pulled a chair and sat next to him to watch.
The little guy didn't know what it was at all, but he thought the ship model looked very delicate and the size was just like a toy, so he couldn't wait to ask Luo Chong to come and play with it. In fact, this ship model was not small, it was a three-masted ship model, and the overall manufacturing method was exactly the same as that of a large ship, but this was a miniature version of the same proportion, but it still looked very large, half a meter long.
As for the reason why someone made this thing, it was not just because Luo Chong wanted a decoration. In the era of sailing warships in Europe, when a new ship was built, the shipbuilders would first make a scaled-down model of the ship. While finding and solving problems while making the model, they could also improve the design plan. At the same time, they could also deduce the materials needed for actual shipbuilding, the number of craftsmen, the working hours, the sequence of processes and other important information from the process of making the model. This would be very convenient when the ship was actually built, and there would be almost no trouble.
Luo Chong made the same plan. When he built a small boat before, he didn't mention that there was no model, but now he had to make a large ship of 80 meters long, and the materials and craftsmen's working hours were huge. He didn't want to have any problems halfway through, which would lead to a waste of money and food. After all, every day the hull stayed in the dock cost money.
"Dad." Little Luo Cheng called his father again, holding a window that he had broken off, and he couldn't put it back, so he had to come to him with the window for help.
Luo Chong sighed, stuffed the window back, and then walked out with his son in his arms.
Little Luo Cheng was still struggling in his arms, pointing at the boat model behind him and groaning. Luo Chong slapped his buttocks and said, "That thing is all pointed, it's not something you can play with now. Come on, Dad will take you to get some toys."
When he heard that there were more toys, little Luo Cheng stopped making trouble immediately, hugged Luo Chong's neck and looked around curiously. Not long after walking, they came to the wood processing factory. The gears of the windmill drove the saw blades to make a squeaking noise. Sawdust flew everywhere and cut wood was everywhere. Luo Chong didn't stay here for long. He took his son to the warehouse next to him and got two rocking wooden horses and two small boxes made of golden rattan from the manager.
Wooden horses are very common things, but they are the first time they appear in this world. As a toy to coax children, this thing can be used to play and cultivate children's interest in riding horses from an early age. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Luo Chong has ordered that this thing can be produced in large quantities and put out for sale.
As for the two small rattan boxes, they are actually filled with building blocks. These building blocks are really made of wood, and the edges and corners have been polished and smooth. Compared with the high-end ship models, these should be toys for children. First of all, they are safe, at least they will not be pierced by any sharp objects.
However, Luo Chong was careful. In order to broaden the child's horizons and cultivate his son's interest, these building blocks are really in all shapes. Not only can they be assembled into various vehicles, but there are also parts that can be assembled into "railways" and a not-so-large wooden locomotive. Although the Han tribe has no trains yet, he also wants his son to play with trains first. Maybe when the child succeeds to the throne and becomes emperor, the Han Dynasty will have trains.
(End of this chapter)
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