Zhu Lang was afraid of heat, very afraid, and he couldn't sleep as long as there was a little heat. Since he used saltpeter to make ice but did not make ice, Zhu Lang got the ice tickets sent by Zhu Biao.

Some people must be surprised what this ice ticket is. In fact, it is the Ming Dynasty... Every winter, ice cubes are stored in the cellar and wait until summer to take them out to cool off.

This matter is under the responsibility of the Dushui Department of the Ministry of Works... After winter, the Dushui Department will gather Lingren and before taking the ice, they will worship the River God and thank the ice cubes given by the River God. The ancients were still in awe of nature. The emperor is the son of heaven, and it is okay to be disrespectful to his father's things.

After praying that everything goes well, the ice is divided into one and two crops every year... The number of times is not fixed, but at most it is only five crops.

And before you pick ice, you have to "shake the river" first... Get ice, don't jump into the river immediately and start digging ice. That's too unclean. You have to know that the ice you pick is transported into the palace. If your Majesty and the princes get sick after eating unclean ice, you will cut your head.

What is "Shaha River?

After the beginning of winter every year, we first remove the aquatic weeds and debris, then release the dirty water on the floating surface, and finally build a temporary dam to store water. Only when the ice is frozen after the winter solstice can you get ice.

After shaving the river, the weather became colder and the river water was frozen firmly. Seeing that the ice was quite thick, the shopkeeper of the ice cellar began to organize the ice punch. After one batch of ice was beaten, the gate was lifted to release water so that the water could be restored to normal. Then freeze and hit two more batches, even three, four, and five. The first batch of ice was the thickest, and the second and third batches were cleaner, while the fourth and fifth batches were much thinner and crisper.

The chiseled ice will be trimmed square and has standard size requirements, so that the space of the ice cellar can be used efficiently.

There are also dimension regulations: Guanbing is one foot and five inches square, while private ice is three feet long and two feet and five six inches wide, almost twice as big as Guanbing.

Every day before dawn, those ruthless people hold "hook and sickle guns" and ropes, take the ice trucks with ice cubes, and go to the river to get ice. The ice cubes are "square-foot-five-inches". The ice picker first draws the line, then uses the hook and sickle gun to poke the ice on the line, then puts the ice hooks of about the same size to the shore, put them on the cradle trucks, tie them with ropes, and transport them to the ice cellar to store them in the summer.

Ice cellars are usually dug and built half underground.

First choose a piece of land to dig out the cellar, lay grass felt under the cellar, and go to the lake to cut ice cubes when the ice is thickest, and then stack them from bottom to top to the top of the cellar.

After stacking it, cover it with a layer of straw felt on it, and cover it with a thick layer of loess on it. Finally, the entrance must be sealed with soil. This way, the ice cellar will be completed.

Every year, these arrogant people supply more than 20,000 tons of ice to the court for royal ministers to use.

How these ministers receive ice cubes is very simple. They rely on ice tickets, one ice ticket and one ice piece. The officials in charge of ice cellar affairs of the Ministry of Works will issue ice tickets to the royal family, princes and ministers, and receive ice with ice tickets.

Later, officials were corrupt and privately sold ice cubes to make huge profits, selling ice cubes worth a foot or five square for five taels of silver.

Zhu Lang had a lot of ice tickets in his hand, but Zhu Lang had never used these ice tickets because Zhu Lang's ice was greeted by Zhu Biao, so he asked Dushuisi to transport the ice to Zhu Lang every day. But today it was strange that Dushuisi had never transported the ice to him, which made Zhu Lang a little unhappy. He directly asked Zhou Pang to set up a car and took the ice ticket to get the ice.

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"Dingling...Dingling...!"

There was a small bell in the carriage where Zhu Lang was sitting. Once he ran, the bell would ring. This was what Zhou Pang hung on the carriage. With the ringing, Zhu Lang's carriage entered Yingtian City from Narcissus Village.

The Dushui Department is in charge of the eighteen ice cellars in Yingtian City. There are also some specialties in opening this ice cellar. You can only go to the open ice cellar to get ice. You can’t think of which ice cellar to get ice.

Zhu Lang is a very obedient person, so he first went to the Dushuisi Yamen to ask which ice cellar to get ice today. After getting the address, Zhu Lang's carriage went to the bell again.

Here is located to the west of Qingliang Mountain, close to Qingliang Gate. When you leave this Qingliang Gate, the Qinhuai River is outside. The carriage is parked aside, and a cool breeze blows. Zhu Lang feels the cool breeze on the Qinhuai River, sits under the shaded trees, and comes to life slightly. Looking at the various flower boats of all sizes on the Qinhuai River outside Qingliang Gate, Zhu Lang sighs.

The Qinhuai River is so prosperous now, which was promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang. In the third year when Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Yingtian, that is, in 1370 AD, the imperial examination began in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang built the Yingtian Prefecture Tribute Courtyard on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Yingtian. As a place for candidates in Nanzhili, the Yingtian Prefecture Tribute Courtyard was built next to the Confucius Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang also built an official fireworks land on the banks of the Qinhuai River opposite the Gongyuan of Yingtian Prefecture, called the Old Courtyard or Fule Courtyard. Because there are Gongyuan, Confucius Temple and Fule Courtyard on both sides of this section of the river, which gradually became the prosperous place of Yingtian, and also proved the statement of a talented man and beautiful woman.

Zhu Yuanzhang's move was for tax purposes. He was unwilling to increase taxes on the people, so he could only use such a crooked way. However, it is worth being happy... Not long after, the two sides of the Qinhuai River were piled up, and the butterflies were swarming and dancing. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were many shops, vendors everywhere, poets were rows, and the beautiful Qinhuai River of business women was back, and even more so, local fiscal and tax revenues rose sharply, and silver continued to roll into the national treasury. Lao Zhu was naturally overjoyed. Looking at the account book, he couldn't help but smile and said: I am very comforted, I am very comforted!

It was still early at this time, and the sun shone on the water, but Zhu Lang did not see the sparkling waves as imagined. The whole river water was like a charming young woman who had just finished lunch and was drinking slightly drunk. Her cheeks were red, and she lay lazy on the lounge chair in her yard to take a nap. Occasionally, the wind gently swayed her clothes and blew up some ripples.

Most of the time, he was motionless, as if this awakening had been a thousand years. The pleasure boats on the water were also lined up quietly together, and Zhu Lang smiled slightly, but before he could finish the laughter, he suddenly saw his younger brother, Big Dog, running over angrily.

"Brother...we have no ice."

The big dog's words made Zhu Lang stunned: "How is it possible? This ice cellar has only been open for less than a day, and there are more than 20,000 pieces of ice inside. How could it be without ice?"

There are about 20,000 pieces of ice in this ice cellar. Each piece of ice requires an ice ticket. Each person can only get at most five pieces, that is, five ice tickets. No matter how you get it, it is impossible to get more than 20,000 pieces of ice in this day.

So Zhu Lang didn't believe it and stood up.

The big dog said, "It was all the people in the Qin Palace who said it was because the weather was so hot. I planned to hold a cool night in the Qinhuai River, use these ice cubes to build a house, and invite talented men and beautiful women to talk about poetry and lyrics together."

"What..." Zhu Lang was ridiculous, but Zhu Lang didn't want to make trouble: "If you go and negotiate with the shopkeeper inside, just say I only have five yuan, and I must give me five yuan."
Chapter completed!