Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

The iron pot only appeared during the Song Dynasty. This is a misunderstanding.

Accurately speaking, it was during the Song Dynasty that large-scale use of coal to replace wood for iron making made iron smelting cost reduction technology mature, and iron pots gradually became popular among the people. And the rich family, with craftsmen, workshops, and mines, really wanted to make an iron pot in the Eastern Han Dynasty, couldn’t they do it? At the end of the Warring States period, the technical level was enough to support the production of the simplest iron pot. As for the control of ironware in the Han Dynasty, isn't it ironware that the nurses are holding in their hands?

The golden radiance of the setting sun sprinkled on the courtyard, on the boiling oil of the iron pot in the courtyard. Uncle Mi wrapped the locusts with salt and flour, and with a dashing shake, all the worms on a plate of white flowers were shaken into the oil pan, making a "呲呲呲" sound. Fragrant.

A Sheng has a right to speak on this topic: "Because copper is not as resistant to high temperature as iron, and too much copper is easily poisoned, but iron does not."

Uncle Ding: "...how can I not understand..."

Cao Cao raised his small hand: "I know I know that swallowing gold will kill you of poisoning, but swallowing iron will not." "Gold" in the Han Dynasty sometimes referred to copper.

Uncle Ding gave the two children a slap on the head: "Learn all the wrong things." He pointed to Cao Cao and said, "Bold and naughty." He also pointed to Ah Sheng: "Full of bad water."

A Sheng is dissatisfied, is there any more upright girl in this world than her?

But after all, Uncle Ding is willing to eat fried locusts with them, and she has a high degree of favorability towards him. "If the second uncle is willing to stay for a few more days, I will call them to make locusts with sauce." She whispered, "It has a different flavor."

Uncle Ding swallowed: "No, I have to leave tomorrow. Why don't you give me the iron kettle and soybean oil, I will do it on my own."

Uncle Ding laughed, smiling and sad: "Both nephews are smart, but it's a pity that little sister can't see it."

In the early morning of the next day, Mrs Ding's coffin was carried into a specially made oversized ox cart, surrounded by maids and servants dressed in plain white, and slowly drove out of the eastern suburbs courtyard. Ding Yi wore a horse and mounted a sword, rode a black horse, and guarded the bullock cart. Along with Ting Yi, there were thirty other servants, all dressed in military uniforms.

Cao Kun, as the representative of the Cao clan of Peiguo, delivered a funeral speech on the official road. Then Cao Song, Cao Cao, and Cao Sheng's father and son will take the lead in crying and say goodbye to Ding's Lingshu.

Ding's Women's Medical Hall is built beside the official road, close to the official office of the eastern suburbs market. At this time, under the leadership of Ding Zhen, the women's doctor in the hall, Wen Po, all dressed in plain clothes, and went to the funeral at the side of the road.

For more than a month, they have opened their doors to give birth lectures every day, and at the same time delivered more than 30 newborns from poor families in the suburbs of Luoyang. Therefore, many families of pregnant women and newborns, and even ordinary people who heard about the reputation of the Women's Medical Hall, knelt down and worshipped Ding's spiritual pivot from a distance of 100 meters.

Behind the Women's Medical Hall is the Nursery Hall.

The original intention of the nursery was to adopt children whose mothers died in childbirth. However, it is difficult to actually implement it: only the mother who died is often the father and grandparents who can raise the child, which does not constitute the conditions for an orphan. As long as the family is not starving to death, who will give away their own flesh and blood?

On the contrary, those families who are too poor to support children, in order to reduce the pressure, Baba desperately want to send their children in. But these people are often of a sensible age, and their family members are still alive. Forcing them to cut off their ties with their families is not in line with human feelings or A Sheng's expectations. After several incidents of children stealing things from their parents, Ah Sheng stopped accepting people publicly, and sent some of those with bad habits home one after another.

There are two main sources of true orphans that are currently stable.

One is the beggar who almost starved to death on the street.

The second one is the abandoned baby by Luoshui.

In addition, there are small slaves who are used as extras in the slave market. They are too young to become laborers, so they often cannot be sold, and most of them will eventually starve to death. Ah Sheng's instruction to Ding Zhen was that if he could save a life, save a life. Although these little slaves signed the body deed, they were also raised in the orphanage with the free people orphans.

Children can't understand the importance of freedom and personal rights, but most of them are free people orphans who hope to repay their debts to slaves when they grow up. The social atmosphere is like that. In fact, in this era of no imperial examinations, the free people at the bottom have no way to rise, and they have to bear the risk of natural and man-made disasters. This is both a convenience and a tragedy of the times.

A Sheng has not had time to formally start teaching literacy and numeracy among orphans. She plans to wait for the limelight of Ding's funeral to pass before doing this quietly.

Nowadays, what is taught in the nursery hall is the same as the servants in other courtyards, which are rules and regulations: wash hands before and after meals, line up when eating and sleeping, calm when disaster strikes, behave politely, etc. In many cases, the cultivation of living habits and three views is more important than the input of knowledge.

The only literacy required is the character "D".

There are two strokes in total, and after four or five strokes, everyone knows it. The orphans in the whole orphanage have only one brush, which can be dipped in water to write on the smooth slate. The handwriting dries immediately, and reuse is almost zero cost. In addition, there are sand tables and branches. It is also very convenient to use the branches to practice calligraphy on the sand.

The linen was laid beside the road, and the orphans, in descending order of age, stepped forward one by one and wrote crooked "D" characters on the linen. The little baby who couldn't hold the pen was held by an adult, and the palm of the hand was covered with ink, and it was drawn horizontally and vertically.

Since the establishment of Ding's Nursery Hall, there have been no beggars on the street, so it is also somewhat famous in the eastern suburbs market. With this kind of mobilization, some smart people immediately guessed: Cao Ding's funeral is going to be held today. Sure enough, when Chen Shi arrived, he saw a mighty white-clothed team coming out of the courtyard in the eastern suburbs.

Representatives of orphans - two boys around ten years old, holding linen cloth with the character "D" and offering them in front of the coffin. Cao Cao Cao Sheng came out under the surprised eyes of his relatives in his hometown, took the sackcloth and put it on Ding's coffin. Then, Cao Song announced to the onlookers that he would exchange all the copper coins from Ding's funeral in exchange for farmland in the eastern suburbs, which would be used to support the nursery hall and the women's medical hall. Tian Qi was certified by the officials in front of the public and was nailed to the wall of the main hall of the Women's Medical Hall.

Until many years later, Ding's funeral was still talked about by Luoyang people. However, due to the limitations of the times, there are very few imitators.

Although the voice that the Cao family was unfilial was small, it never disappeared.

Secondly, the Cao family rescued the untouchables. Needless to say, the Women's Medical Hall, delivering births and medicines for free, is to spend money to buy reputation, or reputation among pariahs, and it is not worth it in the court. Many people can think of the fact that the nursery hall adopts beggars and abandoned babies, and it is about training servants and servants for the two little masters. But these days, it doesn't cost much to buy a well-trained strong laborer. When disasters happen, people are cheaper than food. Why should you start with a baby? The mortality rate of young children is terrifyingly high, isn't it a waste of investment to die accidentally? Moreover, Confucian society pays attention to loyalty and righteousness, and people generally have a high degree of loyalty, which is really not inferior to that loyalty.

How could they think of Ah Sheng's idea of ​​education?

In the more than ten years since then, some benevolent families in Luoyang also imitated the establishment of a nursery and women's medical hall, but because they could not see any profit except burning money, they gradually became abandoned. Only Ding's Women's Medical Hall and Ding's Nursing Hall have survived, and they have achieved a resounding reputation among the people at the bottom of the capital. Later, they became royal enterprises, which have been rebuilt and renovated continuously for thousands of years, and have been the most famous welfare institutions in Luoyang area.