The big man has a living father

Chapter 121 Statues of the Three Masters
The gunpowder you've been researching has not made any progress, while others have already developed tar.

Don't worry that the gunpowder you develop by then will not be as explosive as the explosion of tar!
It is obvious that the alchemy furnace is closest to the appearance of the distillation device, so how come you were not the one to come up with this result?
How can we make guns if we can’t make gunpowder?
However, Huo Hai was only angry, but not anxious.

Tang Si'er thought for a while and said, "Second Master, we can install a large number of dry distillers in the porcelain factory and glass factory to produce wood tar and charcoal."

"But I'm afraid that this coal tar can only be mass-produced by setting up a special factory. After all, if it is to be used on the roof of the house, I'm afraid that a small amount of production will not be enough."

Huo Hai nodded: "You should take a few apprentices to work on the distillation machine recently to increase the output. Also, pay attention to safety. In addition, coal is toxic when burned. Pay attention to whether there will be toxic gases when distilled. You can find a way to collect some research. Remember to pay attention to ventilation to prevent workers from being poisoned."

Tang Sier: "Understood!"

Huo Hai: "Remember to write an article and submit it."

Tang Si'er was distressed: "Write again!"

Huo Hai: "Don't want to write?"

Tang Sier pointed at the researchers watching nearby and said, "These guys haven't come up with anything in 800 days. They have so much free time. I have so many research results that it's very hard to write them down!"

One of the researchers watching shouted, "What the hell? You're showing off!"

"Hit him!"

"Hit him!"

Huo Hai smiled and said, "You have so many apprentices, don't you know how to let them write papers? You just need to be the first person to publish the article, and the same goes for the other apprentices."

Tang Sier clapped his hands: "Good idea! But I still envy these researchers who have no results. They have nothing to do, unlike me, who has to sign signatures until my hands are tired."

After Tang Sier finished speaking, he left the excited researchers behind and ran away.

A group of people: "Damn it, chase him!"

Watching a group of researchers running away, Huo Hai wondered why they didn't go back to do their research. Then he remembered that they were now implementing a three-meal system, with three meals a day, breakfast, noon, and dinner, and it was time for lunch.

"That's great. I can sleep for two more hours."

In the past, I had to get up before 10 o'clock to eat lunch, so I could only sleep until 9 o'clock.

It's time for lunch now, so I can sleep until after eleven o'clock.

Huo Hai went to the cafeteria to have a meal, and when he came out he remembered that the purpose of his visit was not to eat or to see the research results, but to take a bus.

Because all the roads here have been newly paved with cement, Huo Hai no longer takes a bus through the main gate of the Huo Mansion, but instead starts on the road to the research institute.

A new station has been built at the research institute, and the coachmen are responsible for transporting research materials back and forth, as well as taking researchers living in Chang'an to and from get off work.

If you live in the same direction, you can carpool.

So there are a lot of cars here, and a huge parking lot was built specially for this purpose.

Xiang Xu had already arrived here waiting for Huo Hai.

When Huo Hai arrived, Xiang Xu looked resentful and said, "Sir, what took you so long?"

Huo Hai pulled out a sausage wrapped in paper and said, "I'll make you some sausage."

As Huo Hai's right-hand man, Xiang Xu had eaten grilled sausages on the first day of starch extraction and was deeply fascinated by the taste. Seeing that there were grilled sausages to eat again today, he forgot about the long wait and immediately bit the grilled sausages and prepared to set off.

Huo Hai saw Xiang Xu driving his horse and walking: "Where is Huangfu Hua?"

I have to go to the other side of the river to discuss a big deal today, so I have to bring Huangfu Hua with me.

Xiang Xu: “Whoa!”

"I almost forgot about him."

"This guy saw that the young master hadn't come yet, so he went back to work."

As he spoke, Xiang Xu turned around and took out a loud speaker from the box in the corner of the carriage door: "Huangfu Hua, Huangfu Hua!"

Currently, Huo Hai has too many industries, and Xiang Xu and Huangfu Hua are basically responsible for counting revenue and expenditure.

Of course, the money had already been counted when it came in, but they had to count it again.

Xiang Xu is responsible for managing money, and Huangfu Hua is responsible for managing people.

There are more and more new people in the research institute now, and Huangfu Hua is a little overwhelmed.

Hearing the horn, Huangfu Hua, who was talking to a few retainers in charge of management far away, immediately ran over here, explaining as he ran.

After he finished explaining, he ran over at full speed: "Coming, coming."

Huangfu Hua supported the carriage and sat in the passenger seat. He looked back at Huo Hai who was leaning against the sofa in the carriage and said, "Sir, the person has been contacted."

"Currently, several large engineering teams have nobles who are subcontractors. They are all studying in our school. It will be easy to negotiate with them."

"As for the small subcontractors, we will probably have to select some people from technical schools to train them. However, they should learn faster than ordinary people. It will probably take at most three months for them to start building houses."

Huo Hai shook his head: "Three months is too long."

I didn't expect that asphalt would be produced so quickly. That also means that the level of productivity has increased faster than Huo Hai imagined, so the construction industry must be accelerated, otherwise the economic cycle will be in trouble.

Once the construction industry starts, it means that Huo Hai has officially stepped forward and can no longer hide like before.

It is even more impossible to say that you don’t want to be an official.

Only after the entire class has been transformed will Huo Hai be able to stop.

The big man had begun to transform from a simple wooden vehicle into a steel behemoth.

When the steel behemoth rolled forward, even its heart couldn't stop at will.

Now Huo Hai can only come out and take up the banner.

It is true that a tall tree attracts the wind, but the problem is that an elephant cannot squat and pretend to be a mouse.

Huo Hai's car did not go north on Chang'an Avenue, but turned to Honglu Temple.

There is currently a special school next to the Honglu Temple, called Chang'an Confucius Institute.

This place is dedicated to accepting foreigners to learn Chinese, and also accepting Han people to learn foreign languages.

Currently, many foreigners are both students and teachers.

The president of the Confucius Institute was Dongfang Shuo.

Before this, Dongfang Shuo listened to Huo Hai's advice and started to learn the languages ​​of the Western Regions, as well as the languages ​​of Bactria, Parthia, and Egypt. With his photographic memory, he was not so good at speaking, but made rapid progress in writing.

However, Huo Hai did not come to find Dongfang Shuo, but to find Nasus.

Nasus is the modern name of Thespolias from Egypt.

After learning that Huo Hai needed seeds and crops from distant places, he learned to read while trying to find a way to retrieve the seeds he brought.

You should know that he did bring a lot of seeds when he left Egypt, but not for the purpose of bringing seeds, but for other purposes.

For example, to eat the onions you carry, to wear the long-staple cotton seeds you carry, etc.

These are not meant to bring out seeds, but they are used just to bring out seeds incidentally.

But many seeds were left behind along the way.

For example, when Nasus arrived in Parthia, the situation in Bactria was unclear, so he learned the language of Bactria while growing vegetables in Parthia. Some of the seeds turned into crops and increased in number.

Along the way, he also collected some seeds of Parthian Bactria. It took him twenty years to get here, so he actually brought a lot of things with seeds.

but!
When passing through Longxi, all these things were left behind.

You have to know that Nasus and his team are not an official delegation, and they did not travel all the way directly to Chang'an.

They also have to live on the road, performing all the time, and then slowly hurry on their way.

In fact, when Huo Qubing defeated the Huns at the beginning of the year, they were already heading towards Longxi.

When Huo Qubing went north from the Hetao area to the north bank of the Yellow River and fought the Huns in the Jiuyuan area, Nasus and his group were already in Longxi.

And people in Longxi paid high prices to buy their seeds!

At that time, Nasus sold all the seeds.

The reason why people in Longxi buy seeds is because they have tasted the sweetness.

When Zhang Qian came back, he brought back a lot of seeds, some of which made the people of Longxi make a lot of money.

For example, walnuts may not be sold for much money, but if they are brought to Chang'an as novelties and given to other nobles to eat, in order to win their hearts and minds, the profit cannot be calculated with copper coins.

The oil in walnuts is much more potent than that in melon seeds.

Humans naturally like to eat food with high oil content. The higher the oil content, the fattier it is.

So when this thing started to be produced, several major families in Longxi immediately felt that they had made a fortune.

When Nasus and his companions passed by, they began to buy their seeds.

As ordinary people, Nasus and his companions did not know the meaning of the seeds, so they sold them at a very low price.

After learning that Huo Hai wanted seeds, Nasus didn't know what to do.

But Zhao Po Nu has a solution.

He let Nasus follow his men and go to Longxi.

It’s true, the seeds we brought back originally needed to be cultivated, but now that’s not necessary, they have been cultivated in Longxi!
We brought back seeds of quite a few things, in large quantities.

There are also many real things.

After more than two months, Nasus finally got all his things back and made preparations before he asked to meet Huo Hai.

Since Nasus offered the seeds, Huo Hai would of course see them.

The car stopped at the entrance of the Confucius Institute. Huo Hai tilted his head to look at the three sculptures at the entrance of the Confucius Institute.

"WTF?"

At this time, Nasus came out and saw Huo Hai's excited face. He knelt on the ground and held up a plate with both hands: "Mr. Deputy Envoy!"

Huo Hai: "Get in the car."

Nasus hurried into the car.

Huo Hai didn't look at him, but continued to look at the three strange sculptures or clay-like things.

These three things don’t look like humans, and they are arranged like mobile phone models, with the one on the right being the shortest, the one in the middle being the second, and the one on the left being the tallest.

"What the hell is this?"

Nasus explained: "This is a statue we spontaneously erected for the educators of the Han people."

"I heard that in the Han Dynasty, statues of living people are not allowed. Carved and embossed bricks are used in tombs. But according to the rules over there, statues of living people are allowed."

"Because there are a lot of foreigners in the Confucius Institute, the director agreed to let us do this."

Huangfu Hua was also a curious child, and turned around and said, "Then who are these three people? Your carving skills in the Western Regions are not good enough, and they don't even look like human beings."

Nasus introduced: "The shortest one on the left is the shortest among the three great educators. The three of us are all realistic in height. The shortest one is Master Huo Qubing."

Huo Hai spurted out a mouthful of water: "Puff~"

Nasus continued to introduce excitedly: "The one in the middle is the greatest educator of the Han Dynasty, Confucius!"

"The man on the left is the master of international education at our Confucius Institute, Dongfang Shuo."

Huo Hai Ga Ga Le.

Unexpectedly, General Huo Qubing looked the thinnest among the three educators.

But then again, Dongfang Shuo was indeed a little giant, and Confucius was also a strong man from Qi and Lu, so my brother was indeed a little shorter than them.

"Brother, you... people who don't know would think they are physical education teachers."

Confucius' height calculated according to Lu ruler is 1.96 meters.

Dongfang Shuo is 2.16 meters tall.

Huo Qubing was at most 1.86 meters tall.

But Huo Qubing was less than twenty years old, so it was hard to say whether he would grow taller.

From this point of view, Huo Qubing's body shape really looks most like a scholar among the three scholars.

Huo Hai pinched his chin and began to think.

I don't think all schools will be like this in the future.

This international school is affiliated with Dongfang Shuo, the design school is affiliated with Yang Liancheng? The technical school is affiliated with Chen An?
Then Confucius and Huo Fuzi will definitely die?

Thinking of this, Huo Hai hugged his stomach and laughed out loud.

Nasus felt guilty and said, "Master Deputy Envoy, Master Hoffman's image is not quite like the real thing. I am sorry that I made you laugh."

Huo Hai waved his hand: "I'm not laughing because of this. I'm laughing because I remembered something funny."

After he stopped laughing, Huo Hai took the paper from Nasus's hand.

After opening it, Huo Hai became serious.

Nasus wrote down everything he knew about Greece, Athens, Carthage and Egypt.

But no matter how Huo Hai pronounced it, it felt strange.

It says above that the Taoist boy of Prince Jinwu came to Egypt and left behind an offspring who was called Pharaoh and so on.

Huo Hai tilted his head: What the hell?

What does the Taoist boy of Prince Jinwu mean?
This has to do with Nasus learning the standard Han mythology system.

The mythological system of this era is quite different from that of later generations.

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