"Young eunuch, young eunuch, Master Guo is fighting again!" Wang Jun, the director of the Gunpowder Administration, rushed into the house with a head of water vapor and reported to Zhang Qian angrily.

"With whom?" Zhang Qian, who was wearing a five-grade official uniform, put a pure copper stove-shaped utensil made of pure copper and half a foot square in his hand flat, and asked casually while slowly twisting the mechanism on the side.

"Yes, it's Captain Zhou of the Shuofang Army, and he came to get gunpowder today. There was no speculation with Master Guo of the Gunpowder Administration, and the two tore up in the yard. Wang Jun, who had just been transferred from the position of doctor of arithmetic to the Ordnance Supervision Department as the director of the Gunpowder Administration, quickly began to straighten his eyes, staring at the six twists of kapok yarn rising in unison on the stove, and the report became intermittent. (Note: Kapok, cotton in the Tang Dynasty was not popular, and it was still perennial kapok occasionally used.) The large-scale use of grass cotton needed to be after the Song Dynasty. ）

When Zhang Qian heard this, he felt more and more relieved, smiled, and continued to focus on Yao Xuan'er. Carefully observe the degree of immersion with alcohol and the changes in hardness and thickness after immersion.

"Young eunuch, this is ......" Wang Jun was itchy to see it, raised his hand and touched the furnace body made of pure copper, and asked cautiously.

"Alcohol stoves, another use of gunpowder. The main thing is to add an object to the army to boil hot water and boil bandages to disinfect!" Zhang Qian didn't even think about it, and gave an answer that sounded extremely positive.

Although he is a fake Qin Mo disciple, in his opinion, using alcohol to set fire is purely a waste of things. However, the Tang Emperor had already given the alcohol the name gunpowder for this reason, and he had no ability to correct it. Therefore, in recent days, I have put my mind on the use and development of "gunpowder".

No, he personally drew the drawings and concentrated the efforts of more than a dozen skilled craftsmen in the Ordnance Prison, and the red copper small stove that had just been trial-produced was one of them.

It consists of four parts: the fuel tank, the fire tray, the wick adjustment device and the pot. Among them, the fuel tank, fire tray, and wick adjustment device can be nested and assembled together after filling the tank with fuel. It forms a complete multi-core adjustable brightness alcohol lamp, which can be used for both lighting and heating.

After the fourth big part, the copper pot, is also connected to the shelf, it becomes a complete multi-core alcohol small stove. The fire is fierce, the heating is fast, it can boil water, it can boil bandages, it can sterilize surgical instruments, and of course, it can also be used to shabu mutton pot occasionally!

"The young eunuch has compassion and his subordinates admire!" Wang Jun, who has just been transferred to the Ordnance Prison, how does he know what kind of temperament Zhang Qian is. Hearing him say seriously, he shook his head, and immediately bowed his hand with admiration on his face.

"Little Doyle!" Zhang Qian unceremoniously accepted Wang Jun's fart, and then twisted the wick to the shortest. Cover a furnace lid made of pure copper, turn the entire furnace body upside down, and check whether the alcohol in the medicine tank is leaking out after the two layers of medicine twist and furnace lid are closed. shouted loudly at Guo Nu in the courtyard, but turned a deaf ear.

"The young eunuch is too modest, and the soldiers sleep in the sand and snow all day long, and it is not easy to eat a mouthful of hot food. With this, at least, at least after getting sick, you can have a mouthful of hot soup to drink! Wang Jun thought for a moment, and while continuing to stare at the copper alcohol stove with his eyes, he expressed his sincere admiration.

Although he has known Zhang Qian for a short time, he admires this person from the bottom of his heart.

Ten days ago, this person was ordered by the emperor to be promoted several levels in a row because he presented a windmill and a machine well to the imperial court, and became the young eunuch of the ordnance superintendent. In the blink of an eye, he took out the sharp weapons of the field march such as the alcohol stove.

It is foreseeable that after the alcohol furnace is presented, even if the court no longer gives Zhang Qian an official rank in order to avoid being promoted too quickly, at least, this person's position as the young superintendent of the ordnance prison will be completely untouchable.

As Zhang Qian, Wang Jun was personally transferred to the Ordnance Prison, and he was personally promoted to the "quasi-descendant" in the position of the Gunpowder Administration, and of course the position was also stabilized. Even Guo Nu, who has just been promoted to the chief of the Gunpowder Administration, and Ren Qiong, who has just been promoted to the chief of the Bow and Crossbow Administration, will also benefit greatly.

can do things, will be promoted, and will bring his subordinates to add officials to knighthood, these years, such a good boss, where to find a second one? And Wang Junneng suddenly had good luck, wasn't it because when he was chasing the dynasty that day, he had the courage to add a few flowers to Zhang Qian, who was still the chief bookkeeper of the Gunpowder Administration at that time?

Therefore, when he could express his admiration and gratitude to Zhang Shaojian, Wang Jun's mouth was never idle. It's a pity that most of the time, Young Eunuch Zhang is very numb to these praises, and basically forgets them immediately after hearing them.

This time, it is obvious that Zhang Qian took Wang Jun's praise as a deaf ear. After staring at the alcohol stove at hand and playing with it for a long time, he replaced it with another semi-finished product, and while assembling the parts by himself, he commanded, "You go and ask Yang Jiancheng for me, how is the preparation for the relocation of the A Staff Department." When I came back, I went to Ren Cong's side again by the way to see how the relocation was prepared by the bow and crossbow department. The overall relocation of the Ordnance Supervisor to the Weiyang Palace outside the city is a major event, and someone has to watch carefully. They are old and young, so you should put more thought into them! ”

"Yes!" Wang Jun reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the alcohol stove and solemnly arched his hand.

Passing on the order and reporting the situation of each department, it stands to reason that it should be those jobs that can only be done from the nine ranks, and Zhang Qian should not instruct him, the seven rank department, to do it. However, he didn't feel any condescension at all.

Among them, of course, there are factors that need to repay Zhang Qian's kindness, and more reason is that Wang Jun's arithmetic skills, which he was once proud of, are useless in front of Zhang Shaojian.

Not only did Zhang Shaojian himself not ask him for advice from him, the third place in the "clear arithmetic" subject, when he needed to make some complicated material advance calculations, but even Guo Nu and Ren Cong didn't pay much attention to Wang's "arithmetic" skills.

The three brothers seem to have a very mysterious arithmetic inheritance, a few strange numbers, plus a few strange symbols, can basically do most of the daily computing work in a quarter of an hour.

Moreover, when the three brothers used this stunt, they never shied away from outsiders. As a doctor of arithmetic, Wang Jun has observed several times on the side, except for the ten weird-looking so-called Arabic numerals, which can be corresponded to the numbers he uses in his daily life, everything else is like reading a book from heaven!

"If you want to learn, if you want to learn, you can worship our master and be my little junior brother!" It has long been discovered that Wang Jun is obsessed with arithmetic, and Ren Cong once proposed with a smile.

In this regard, Wang Jun was very moved. However, he didn't dare, and he couldn't pull his face down, and sent a request to Zhang Qian.

First of all, as a subordinate, he has only been in the ordnance prison for a few days, and he worships the young eunuch in power as a senior brother, which is really suspicious of sycophancy. Secondly, he was not sure if his "qualifications" could enter the eyes of Zhang Qian, the senior brother of Qin Mo's master.

After all, Guo Nu and Ren Cong, although they did not pass the imperial examination. But one of the elders of the family has worked for the Baoguo Mansion for generations, and the other father and uncle are all four-grade assassins. And he Wang Jun is a real son of a poor family, and his family originally only had 100 acres of thin fields, until he passed the "Ming Calculation" examination, and his father finally mixed with the gentry qualification in his hometown.

"It's better to behave well and let the young eunuch know that he didn't see the wrong person!" With a stomach full of anticipation and apprehension, Wang Jun quickly turned around and went out, and before he could step down the steps, he heard a muffled sound of "poof". Immediately after, I saw Guo Nu, the chief secretary of the Gunpowder Administration, planted like a wooden stake in the snowdrift not far away.

"Stinky fat man, do you lack virtue?" Zhou Jianliang, the commander of Guoyi, had the upper hand, but he did not dare to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill. After quickly retreating more than a dozen steps, he covered his nose and scolded, "I actually deliberately roasted a sweat next to the stove, just to disgust people when I started!" ”

"Scarred face, there's a kind of going to single out my senior brother!" Recently, Guo Nu has been guarding either the refining alcohol furnace of the Gunpowder Administration or the refining plant essential oil pot in Zhangjiazhuang every day, resulting in a top-secret weapon under his armpits, and the power has dropped significantly.

Knowing that today with the smell alone, he would definitely not be able to smoke the opponent, so he decisively began to agitate, "You won the battle against my senior brother, and you said that you took away 20,000 catties of gunpowder at a time, which is 30,000 catties, and Guo Mou also fought hard not to sleep, and rushed it out for you before you left!" ”

"Defeat your senior brother? Can you be his Lord? When Zhou Jianliang heard this, he was immediately eager to try.

Before the words fell, Zhang Qian's scolding had already come from inside the door, "Have you fought enough?" When you've had enough, go wash up. Then he went up to the roof and brought down the whole sheep he had just bought in the morning. Zhang taught the two of you how to use the gunpowder stove in the wild! ”

"Howler!" Zhou Jianliang and Guo Nu immediately forgot the cause of the conflict. Shuangshuang jumped up and went straight to the bathhouse that had been specially opened up behind the alchemy furnace and used wastewater, and in the blink of an eye, they both disappeared.