After leaving the Shaofu Office, Zhang Ran immediately took a bus to the construction site near Jianzhang Palace. Oh, no, it is no longer suitable to call this area a construction site. After so many days of construction, it has changed from a desolate farmland to a row of neat houses. Not only does it have a total of twenty artificial incubation rooms with kangs built, but also several small and medium-sized oil pressing workshops under construction.

If it is based on the more popular name in later generations, it should be called the handicraft workshop park. Therefore, a few days ago, Zhang Ran named it "Workshop Garden"!

Since this workshop is still being expanded, there is still a lot of infrastructure construction work that needs to be continued. Therefore, in this workshop, in addition to a large number of professional craftsmen, such as carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, etc., there are nearly 600 laborers and slaves, totaling nearly 1,000.

Such a complex group of people is very, very unfavorable for confidentiality work, but all the things Zhang Ran does now need to be kept confidential.

In this way, we will undoubtedly fall into a paradoxical circle. The construction of workshop parks requires people and cannot be separated from people. However, the various technologies that Zhang Ran needs to verify must be avoided as much as possible to ensure confidentiality...

Therefore, although the incubation rooms and oil press workshops that Zhang Ran needed were almost built, these houses and workshops were still just empty shells.

Sankui and others who were in charge of manual incubation, and Zhou Cang and others who were in charge of oil pressing equipment were actually not in the workshop garden, but in an independent garden in Jianzhang Palace Garden.

This garden is located in the north of Jianzhang Palace, far away from the main hall of Jianzhang Palace Garden. It is relatively remote. Except for a few living here and responsible for managing the labor service here, there are few other personnel exchanges, so it is relatively independent.

Zhang Ran also took this into consideration, so he directly asked Jianzhang Palace Supervisor for this place as a confidential technology research and development area independent of the workshop park.

In order to ensure the safety of this place, Zhang Ran also asked the emperor to order a group of guards from the nearby Jianzhang cavalry to guard the surroundings and various exits of the garden and patrol the surrounding areas, so the guards here are very strict.

In addition, Zhang Ran also ordered that, except for him, anyone else, including Sankui, would be allowed to enter and not leave. Once you enter this place, without Zhang Ran's order, you must stay here until you order again or the workshop garden is completely completed, you will be able to move out of this place.

Under such an arrangement, Zhang Ran can maintain the construction progress of the workshop park, but also protect the technology of manual incubation and soybean oil pressing to the greatest extent, so as not to leak out.

But this made Sankui suffer. Since he came here with Zhang Ran that day, he has been staying in this garden for more than ten days, not to mention resting or going home to visit his parents.

Perhaps he felt that he was in debt, so after Zhang Ran came here, his first thing was to visit his good brother Sankui.

When Zhang Ran came to the hatch room of the specially built kang, he found that Sankui was gathering with the chicken raising experts drawn from the chicken husband, and was busy with something.

Zhang Ran walked into the incubation room and saw Sankui standing next to a kang covered with hay and eggs, whispering to the craftsmen about many matters about manual hatching. He was not aware of Zhang Ran's arrival at all.

Seeing that Sankui's expression had no depressing expression, but seemed to have some pleasure in it, Zhang Ran immediately breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.

"Ahem~"

After standing at the door for nearly a minute, Zhang Ran suddenly coughed twice. When everyone's eyes gathered at him, Zhang Ran called out lightly: "Sankui!"

"Brother Ran?"

When he saw Zhang, Sankui couldn't help but cheer, quickly squeezed out of the crowd, rushed to Zhang Ran in three or two steps, and gave Zhang Ran a solid bear hug. Then he said happily: "Brother Ran, what a guy, you are back! I don't know, the two days you are away have made me very tired..."

"Well~ Thank you for your hard work!" Zhang Ran nodded slightly, looked around everyone, and finally set his eyes on Wang Yu in the crowd, and ordered him: "Wang Lushi, continue to explain and be familiar with the subsequent things. Sankui and I have something to talk about!"

"Here!" Wang Yu quickly separated the crowd, came to Zhang Ran and leaned over and bowed, and replied respectfully: "Abide by the orders of the Zuo Cheng!"

"Let's go out and talk!" As he said that, Zhang Ran took Sankui out of the incubation room. While walking, Zhang Ran asked Sankui beside him: "Sankui, how are these craftsmen trained? How long will it take to master the methods of manual hatching?"

"Oh~" Sankui shook his head and replied helplessly: "It's still a long way to go! Most of these people only know how to raise chickens. I asked. When they raised chickens in the past, they basically rely on hens to hatch chickens themselves... So, everything has to be taught from scratch. I guess if they don't take them to see how we hatch chickens in a complete way, it's probably difficult for them to fully master the method of manual hatching!"

As he said that, Sankui couldn't help but feel a little depressed: "Brother Ran, you know that it takes at least twenty days for this kang to hatch chickens, and the newly-shelled chicks also need careful care. It will take at least one month to go there. So, I guess I won't even think about leaving here in the last month!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but pat Sankui's shoulder with sympathy and comforted him: "Sankui, thank you so much for your hard work this time! But don't worry too much, it's just a month, just bear it! If you want to be an official, you must be able to endure hardships. After staying here for so many days, you also know the situation here. You should know that if you don't have enough ability and contributions, it will be difficult to convince the public..."

"Yeah..." After hearing Zhang Ran's words, Sankui nodded heavily and couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Ran, you're right! I've just realized that being an official is not an easy thing. It's much busier and much tired than when I was at home!"
Chapter completed!