Time flies for four or five days. Zhang Ran, who has been careful and guarded, has not seen any action from Zhang Qi and others. Zhang Ran even heard that even when he goes to Sankui's house next door to collect taxes, Zhang Qi himself has never come forward, but just asks Zhang Miao to take people over to collect taxes. Zhang Miao was also kind and did not see the tense look he had before.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran finally let go and secretly estimated that Zhang Qi might have really stopped and no longer wanted to get entangled with Zhang Ran about the issue of over-the-counterfeiting of land and houses.

As time passed day by day, it was mid-October in a blink of an eye. At this time, the weather turned cold and the temperature dropped sharply. The temperature difference between day and night was very large. It was better if there was sun during the day, but the temperature was very low at night, and even freezing occurred. Zhang Ran estimated that the temperature at night was close to about minus five or six degrees below zero.

In this winter, when there is no heating or air conditioning, ordinary people can only minimize the frequency of going out and try to hide at home to winter. However, despite this, most of them are frozen in the cold wind.

At this time, the kang in Zhang Ran’s family began to exert its power. Unlike other people’s houses who can only burn braziers to keep heating, Zhang Ran’s family only needs to burn the kitchen stove, which is enough to make the kang warm and not afraid of the wind and cold.

The effect of the kang is so outstanding that it soon attracted the envy of Sankui next door. Over the past few months, Sankui has been staying in the incubation room for help, and his understanding of the kang is naturally very sufficient. Therefore, when the weather turned cold, Sankui repeatedly begged to ask his Ah Weng Zhang Meng to repair a few kangs at home.

After Zhang Meng came to Zhang Ran’s house to experience the function of the kang in person, he immediately agreed to Sankui’s request and apologized for stopping Zhang Ran from building the kang in shame.

Zhang Ran didn't care much about this, but instead comforted Zhang Meng, and said to Zhang Meng: "Uncle, this kang is not too difficult to repair. You just need to simply renovate the existing stove and repair a few flue channels leading to the room. If you have enough manpower, you can finish it in three or two days!"

"Well~" Zhang Meng nodded in agreement. He had seen it with his own eyes when Zhang Ran repaired the kang, so he had more or less aware of the process of building the kang.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran pondered for a moment and said, "Using this method of burning the kang for heating can not only save a lot of firewood, but also make the house warmer! So, I plan to teach the method of building the kang to our tribesmen in Zhangli. What do you think?"

"This is a good thing!" Zhang Meng slapped his thigh and said happily: "Brother, if you can teach this method of building a fire kang to our people in Zhangli like a fish cage or a stone mill, it would definitely be a great thing with immeasurable merits!" ("Book of Han·Biography of Bingji": "So you have all the gods and cultivate the holy man, and you have immeasurable merits." "Immortal merits are not a special term in Buddhism, but they were found in the Han Dynasty, and Buddhism is just borrowed frequently.)

"Haha..." Zhang Ran smiled slightly and continued: "The weather is cold this winter, but the people's methods of keeping cold are very limited. I believe that as long as the kang can be promoted, it will definitely be very popular!"

Suddenly, Zhang Ran's mind flashed and he said excitedly: "And I think this kang repair is also a good deal that can make money!"

"Oh?" Zhang Meng couldn't help but feel surprised when he heard this, "Can this thing be done as a business? Didn't you just say that you would teach everyone how to repair a kang for free?"

"Hehe..." Zhang Ran smiled cunningly and said, "I only said to teach it to our Zhangli tribe members, but I didn't say that I would make it public to the whole world!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ran told his thoughts and said, "We can organize a group of people to practice in Zhangli first and help our tribesmen build some kangs. At the same time, we can accumulate some experience. After everyone is familiar with how to build kangs, they can walk out of Zhangli and promote kangs to other places, and also take on some kang repairs for a fee.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, it has begun to freeze. Even if the people in other places know how to repair the kang, they are afraid that they will not be able to repair it in a while!

But we are different. We have a professional team and sufficient staff. As long as the other party is willing to give money, we can repair the kang for them in one or two days, and within three days, we can let the other party live in a warm kang for them!”

"But..." Zhang Meng thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "But there are still many poor people in other villages. They are afraid they can't afford the cost at all!"

"It's okay!" Zhang Ran waved his hand and said indifferently: "I have never expected to make money from the poor. For the poor people, we just need to teach them the simple construction method of the kang for free. What we want to earn is the money of those rich people! For example, landlords like Zhang Li who own a lot of land, or wealthy residents in the city, and powerful families! They have money!"

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Zhang Meng's last concerns dissipated. He immediately slapped the table and said, "Okay! Brother Ran, let's do what you said! I will help you gather people tomorrow, and we will do a big fight this winter!"

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The main reason why Zhang Ran told Zhang Meng about these things was that he was too young and it was difficult for people to feel convinced based on his appearance alone.

The situation inside Zhang Li is better. After more than half a year of hard work and a series of strategies that benefit the villages that Zhang Ran himself has implemented, the people of Zhang Li have already gained great trust in him and are willing to follow Zhang Ran's advice.

But after Zhang Li, no one knew who Zhang Ran was. Why did you win the trust of what Huang Kouzi said? When they met, they saw that the leader of their team was actually a boy who was under the ranks. First of all, they would feel a little more suspicious. Even if they couldn't do it well, they would unfortunately die in the middle because Zhang Ran's face was too immature.

Therefore, the construction team still requires the middle-aged Zhang Meng, who has a simple and kind personality, to take the lead. Only when Zhang Meng appears instead of Zhang Ran, can Zhang Ran's ideas be implemented as soon as possible.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another reason why you don’t want to explain, that is, Zhang Ran just wants to hide at home, read, write, feed chickens, etc. Now he doesn’t want to brave the cold wind to move bricks outside in this cold winter.
Chapter completed!