"Take care of your brother for a place?" Zhang Qian put away his playful mentality and frowned slightly. "Did your grandfather ask for you?"

According to his observations and intuition in the few days when he first came to Datang, the status of the little fat man in the Ren family is not very good!

Although this person has no shortage of food and clothing, and he can spend money as he wants, he lives in the Zhuangzi outside Chang'an City, and he does not dare to step into the gate of the Ren Mansion in the city.

And the little fat man's stepmother, on the surface, seemed to be gentle and loving to him, and regarded him as her own. In fact, he was afraid that he would win the slightest favor from his father Ren Qiong. It's as if the little fat man will turn into a tiger in the future and eat all the half-brothers and sisters below.

Therefore, if it was Ren Qiong's request to the little fat man, Zhang Qian thought that he could barely consider it. After all, the two sides still maintain a close cooperative relationship in the area of the Six Gods Trading Bank. And if the request is made by Mrs. Ren, hehe, then you have to think about it carefully......

"It was my stepmother who begged me for help, and she said that my second brother Ren Bi is not young, and his reading understanding is average." The little fat man was asked weakly, blushing, and explained in a low voice. "My grandfather is going to Ganzhou again, and it is impossible to come back before the beginning of spring. I am the eldest son in the family, and I should share some of the burden for my father, so that he will not be at ease with the affairs of the family when he is thousands of miles away. ”

This is the weakness of the little fat man, he can't remember the bad of others at all. Zhang Qian sighed secretly in his heart when he heard this, and was hesitating whether to remind a few more words, but he heard the little fat man add in a low voice: "I know that my stepmother doesn't like me, but after all, she didn't learn from others to deduct my food and clothing, and didn't allow me to study." I used to want to learn swords, but she didn't stop me. So this time she asked me for help, and I couldn't bear to refuse. And after all, the second brother is also my father's son, and his character is still good......"

Zhang Qian completely lost his temper with the little fat man, so he could only roll his eyelids and agree in a low voice, "If you think your second brother is still useful, arrange for him to do a pawn under your second senior brother." Do not put it on the side of the cane. If you are your own brother, you must not be able to take care of yourself! ”

"Thank you, brother, thank you, brother!" Ren Cong immediately received amnesty, and while making a gesture, he added with a smile: "It must be on the second senior brother's side, recruiting apprentices in the shop, and they all pay attention to exchanging sons and nephews for each other." What's more, we are still the Nine Prisons here! My second brother is very smart, and if I put it under the second brother, I will definitely be able to make a difference in the future. (Note: In the past, the rules for businessmen to educate their sons and nephews were not to be brought with them to educate them personally, so as not to be the soft-hearted and arrogant sons of the elders.) Instead, he exchanged his nephews and nephews with his friends to do apprenticeships. ）

"If you can't even pass the Ming Sutra test, how smart can you be?" Zhang Qian muttered secretly in his heart, however, he couldn't bear to blow even the little fat man together, and he didn't announce it.

The little fat man Ren Cong had a matter on his mind, and his mood was high. Suddenly, he took a few steps forward and said in a very low voice: "Senior brother, Zhou Jianliang will leave the day after tomorrow." The second senior brother and I pondered, and the day after tomorrow in the Qinglou opened by Ashina's house, we invited him and Li Fengyu to drink and listen to tunes, and watch the Hu Xuan dance, I don't know how ...... you are, senior brother."

"It's good for you to go by yourself, I have a little bit in my heart in the last few days, and I need to do what I think of quietly!" Zhang Qian's eyes quickly flashed the figure of the ruby girl, and he quickly waved his hand to interrupt.

"Then we'll be happy on our own." Ren Conghu looked around suspiciously, but he didn't see any shadow of a woman, so he had to nod regretfully.

In his eyes, the reaction of the senior brother just now was very similar to that there was a fierce woman in the family, and the husband was sluggish. However, as far as he knew, there was no second woman by the senior brother's side except for a purple juan. Moreover, he has already figured out now that Zijuan's little girl is actually pretending to be a girl in the room, how can she have the courage to control the head of the senior brother.

Just when he was confused, he heard Zhang Qian ask in a low voice: "Are you ready for Shuo Fangjun's alcohol?" How many catties can you take away from Zhou Duwei in total? It's freezing right now, how can he take it? ”

"The imperial court has added two thousand cavalry to Shuofang, each cavalry is packed with ten catties in leather bags, and twenty thousand catties can be easily taken away!" Hearing the senior brother ask about the matter, Ren Cong quickly put away his smile and responded seriously, "But the imperial court only granted Shuo Fangjun 10,000 catties of alcohol for trial, and Zhou Jianliang went to Zhang Zhengjian to grind 3,000 catties according to the instructions of the second senior brother." A total of 13,000 catties, the cavalry carrying capacity is still rich. ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Qian nodded, and then solemnly ordered, "Put our chrysanthemum white and put two thousand catties on Zhou Jianliang to take away." Tell him that this is for the soldiers to drink, not for washing wounds and setting fires! ”

"Yes, I knew that Senior Brother would help him!" Ren Cong had expected this for a long time, and he was extremely excited to agree.

"For the alcohol that Shuo Fangjun took away, you asked Guo Nu to put some sulfur powder into it. Later, according to this convention, all alcohol called gunpowder was slightly powdered with sulfur. Zhang Qian hesitated slightly, and quickly added.

Sulfur is able to destroy the organic protective film on the surface of bacteria until they die. After a small amount of sulfur is dissolved in alcohol, it will only increase its disinfection effect and will not cause any harm to the human body. But with sulfur added to the alcohol, the taste becomes very poor. Even if it is diluted, it is impossible to be used as liquor to satisfy cravings.

This is also his precautionary plan to avoid the supply of alcohol to the front line, which is diverted for other purposes. After all, the current alcohol is distilled and purified from rice wine made from pure grains. Just calculating the cost of raw materials, it is more than ten times that of rice wine. If it was not used to clean the wounds of the soldiers or destroy the enemy army, but only satisfied the appetite of some officers, he, the first person to introduce the liquor distillation technology to the Tang Dynasty, would be guilty of a great crime!

"Put brimstone?" Ren Cong's brain couldn't keep up with Zhang Qian's thinking jumping speed, and after pondering for a long time, he still asked in a daze. "What do you do with the brimstone? How much is appropriate? ”

"Let you inform your second senior brother, and you will notify. For specific doses, try one or two per poke first. Remember to put the sulfur powder, and then arrange for someone to mix it well with a wooden stick. Zhang Qian thought about it a little and continued to add. I'm talking about a two-hundred-pound vat. It's not a keg for your bartending! ”

"Yes, senior brother! I remembered! Ren Cong didn't dare to ask again, nodded, grabbed the charcoal, and wrote down the numbers on the paper.

"I'm going to be doing something these days, and at that point, it's going to be a big noise. You can wait a little bit and arrange for the workshop guys to dig a bigger cellar in my back garden. In this way, the noise will be quieter, so as not to disturb the neighbors. Taking advantage of Ren Cong's presence today, Zhang Qian simply handed over the problem of the site for the trial production of gunpowder to the other party to solve.

"Yes, senior brother!" Having already witnessed too many of his own senior brothers' magic, Ren Cong had long been surprised, and immediately agreed to quickly record them on paper.

"The cellar was dug two feet deep, and when it went down, a separate room was enlarged at the bottom, supported by good timber, to prevent it from collapsing. The room is one zhang high, one zhang and five feet long, and the width is about one zhang and five feet! Seeing that he remembered seriously, Zhang Qian simply explained the specifications of the "underground laboratory".

He was about to explain some more specifications of the steps in and out of the cellar, as well as the details of the heating and lighting equipment, when out of the corner of his eye, he saw the chief butler Ren Quan, running over in a hurry, "The owner, the owner, there are distinguished guests!" Ambassador Bi, the supervisor of the capital, and Yan Dajiang, who will be the supervisor, came. The Fang County Order of Weinan County also came. The servant doesn't know who to bring in first, so please show the owner of the village quickly! ”