Go to the brick house and you'll find the main pavilion, which is quite spacious.

Li Mengxi raised his head and looked left and right, feeling good.

"Then, where to put the medicine?" Li Mengxi looked at the room, which was completely empty.

Li Mengxi remembered that in his previous life, in the village, the doctors at the health center and the older generation seemed to be extremely good. They all trained in both Chinese and Western medicine. Here is a shelf for Western medicine, and over there is a wooden cabinet for Chinese medicine.

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The wooden cabinets are filled with drawers. On the drawers, there are labels with the names of Chinese medicines written on them.

In this way, if you want to take medicine, just open the cabinet directly.

This set of tools is so professional.

So, Li Mengxi opened his eyes and asked, "Bu, tell me, if we have a cabinet with a drawer on the cabinet, and the medicine is placed in the drawer, it will be extremely convenient to access. Do you think it would be easy to use if there was such a drawer?"

Li Mengxi asked.

Bu Wenyan, who was placing large and small bags of medicinal materials against the wall, thought about it carefully and said, "The medicine cabinet is very useful..."

"Oh!" Li Mengxi said.

Then, before Bu could react, Li Mengxi left again and went to ask Liu Bei for something.

Li Mengxi asked for a carpenter. Liu Bei was curious at first, and then excited. Liu Bei remembered what Li Mengxi had said about the magic of steaming wine and pouring steel. He thought that Li Mengxi was going to make some magical mechanical creation, and he was looking forward to it.

But later, Li Mengxi said to make a cabinet, but Liu Bei's expectations were disappointed.

Li Mengxi asked a carpenter to make a medicine cabinet. Zhang Fei waved his hand and said, "Why bother? Why don't you go to the city medicine shop and buy one?"

Li Mengxi opened his mouth and scratched his head, "Is there...a medicine cabinet?"

"Why not?" Zhang Fei stared.

Li Mengxi thought about it again, and it was true that the medicine cabinet was not a high-tech thing. It was normal to have it in the Han Dynasty.

Damn, I thought it was a little invention.

Zhang Fei sent someone to the county again to disturb the medicine shop.

Zhang Fei told his servants to give him more money and buy the medicine cabinet no matter how much he wanted.

A local tycoon is a local tycoon.

As for the drug store taking the opportunity to ask for a price, it is impossible to happen. Zhang Fei is one of the few powerful men in Zhuozhou, and he is also a powerful man with a lot of force and a hot temper. He dared to cheat Mr. Zhang, and he was impatient to live.

Seeing that the medicine cabinet was in stock, Li Mengxi went back to Bu's place to see what he could do to help.

Li Mengxi looked up and down the room that was about to become a clinic and asked, "By the way, Bu, do you have to endure the medicine you prescribe?"

Bu carefully checked the quality of the medicinal materials without raising his head, "Ah! It must be boiled."

"Then what should I use to boil the medicine? I haven't seen an earthen pot or a stove, so I can't boil it in a bonfire, right?

Also, there are so many refugees, and they can’t even cook for themselves. Wouldn’t it still be your responsibility to cook the medicine?

If there are many patients, wouldn’t there be many medicine jars and many fires? If a fire is lit, wouldn’t the house be filled with smoke?”

Bu may be better than Li Mengxi in medical skills, but their identities are different. When Li Mengxi asked Bu to buy medicine in the first place, he was thinking about treating civilians, especially children. He had been thinking about this matter, so when considering the problem, he started to think about it.

Consider it comprehensively.

Bu, as a medical officer, was thinking about whether there was enough medicine and which medicines to buy. Therefore, he did not consider the medicine pot and whether there was enough fire to brew the medicine.

After reacting, Bu raised his head and looked at the clear-eyed young man in front of him. Bu felt a certain amount of respect in his heart.

Even though I was a doctor, I didn't even think about this, but he was considerate of it. No wonder, he was a military strategist and he was really capable.

Bu stood up and bowed his hands to Li Mengxi, "I have the help of military advisor Lao."

"That's easy to say!" Li Mengxi chuckled, waved his hand, and stepped out again.

Li Mengxi went to Liu Bei again and told him that there was still a shortage of earthen pots for brewing medicine, and even more so, a source of fire.

Earthen jars, earthen jars specifically designed for brewing medicine, are really hard to find.

Pottery urns for cooking rice are easy to find, but cooking medicine is definitely different from cooking rice. It takes a lot of effort to fry a pot of herbs into a bowl.

Zhang Fei added that he would go to the city to buy fifty earthen jars.

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Third brother, don't buy it all for me at once. What if someone goes to see a doctor after buying it and can't boil the medicine?"

Zhang Fei then sent someone to pull a cart to the county seat and bought him half a cart of medicine cans.

As for the source of fire mentioned by Li Mengxi.

Liu, Guan, and Zhang were puzzled. If they raised a fire and hung the medicine jar, wouldn't they be able to survive?

Li Mengxi shook his head and mentioned the inconvenience of the fire. The bonfire occupied a large area and the fireworks were also large, making it difficult to manage them uniformly.

"I have a method," Li Mengxi frowned and scratched his head. "Use an iron sheet to make a barrel, put earth inside, have a support on top, and have a mouth. This is used as a stove.

This stove can be carried by one person and is easy to move. Not only can it be used to boil medicine, but when setting up a fire for cooking during the march, the firewood is in the stove and the fire is not moved by the wind, so the fire is not easy to extinguish. Isn’t this a weapon for marching? "

As soon as Li Mengxi finished speaking, Liu, Guan, and Zhang's eyes lit up.

The dining style of the Han Dynasty was still at a stage that was not as developed as that of later generations. Rich families used cauldrons to cook, while ordinary people used earthenware pots and clay pots to cook. The more advanced ones had earthenware pots with bases and stands.

The firewood is burned under the earthen pot, which is a more advanced appliance.

Earthen stoves connected to chimneys, like those in later generations, may have existed in the Han Dynasty, but they were extremely unpopular. The popularity of earthen stoves was almost at the same time as the popularity of iron pots.

It is said that iron pots were not used on a large scale until the Song Dynasty.

This matter made Li Mengxi extremely puzzled as to why it was so difficult to make iron pots and why they only became popular in the Song Dynasty.

I'll see if I can straighten out the pot when I have time.

The key to what Li Mengxi said about the iron-sheet earthen stove is that it is easy to move, is windproof, and is not easy to extinguish when it catches fire. It is indeed a good thing.

Liu, Guan, and Zhang couldn't wait to see Li Mengxi make this thing.

Li Mengxi scratched his head and thought for a while. It seems that a small earthen stove can be used without an iron sheet. The cost of iron is still a bit high. How about using earth to make pottery? What is the cost of burning pottery? Or, if it is not possible, just build the whole earthen stove.

Come out, forget it if you don't have an iron pot, dig some more holes on the stove, so that five or six medicine pots can be boiled at the same time.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Mengxi felt that it would be the most cost-effective to just build an earthen stove.

Earthen stove, why is it so sticky?

When I was a child, I often played in the stove, and often looked for cats in the stove. The kittens always crawled into the stove in winter. For a child who grew up in the countryside, although I had never built an earthen stove with my own hands, its structure was...

Too familiar.

Clay craftsmen and bricklayers are needed.

There is no shortage of craftsmen and bricks.

Li Mengxi asked for something, and Zhang Fei soon had someone pull a cart of bricks over.

Everything is ready.

Doctor Bu was surprised when he saw Li Mengxi returning with a cart of bricks.

Li Mengxi didn't plan to have a chimney for his earthen stove. The chimney was difficult to make and would take a lot of work. It had to be left in the open air.

Just outside the medical center, on both sides, Li Mengxi communicated with the craftsmen about the structure of the earth stove.

"It's just a brick that looks like a chair...no," meow, there were no high chairs in the Han Dynasty. "It's just a round shape with a space in the middle."

Li Mengxi drew on the ground, "Insert a few iron rods here. This is the place for burning firewood. The firewood will be filled inside so that it will not fall. After the firewood is burned, the ashes will leak out."

"On top of the stove, leave six holes for the fire..."

The structure of the stove is not difficult. Li Mengxi explained it to the craftsmen once, and they understood it.
Chapter completed!