Ang Lee's sudden stumbling was deliberately pretended, but he didn't have any bad intentions, he just thought that the grass was very cute, and it was a very happy thing to tease the little girl. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the little lady was frightened, Ang Lee's mouth was attached to his right sideburn, and half of her body was pressed against her, which made her feel numb and crispy, and she had a feeling of being very scared, and her eyes were tightly closed.

"Cao'er, how can you lead the way with your eyes closed?"

"Oh."

Cao'er opened her eyes slightly, and struggled to help Li An walk towards the backyard.

"Cao'er, you are Ruyu's dowry, and you are also my person, you understand."

With a faint drunkenness, Li Ang looked at the grass mischievously.

"Ah Lang, the grass is still small, you can't ......"

Cao'er was nervous like a frightened fawn, her eyes were raised, and she glanced at Li An worriedly.

"You little lady, how can Ah Lang tease you? Hahahaha! ”

Li An laughed wildly, let go of the grass, and strode to the bedroom, Yan Ruyu was still waiting for him?

Cao'er stood in place in a daze, and it took a long time to regain her strength, feeling angry and angry, and at the same time, there was a hint of sweetness and longing, after all, as a woman, it is the greatest blessing in her life to be able to marry the person she likes, and Ang Lee is so handsome and chic, and her status is high, how can Cao'er not like it.

Of course, Cao'er is too young, and she will have to raise it for a few more years before she can withstand Ang Lee's favor.

Black powder is the most important material in the Tang Empire, which has been valued by Li Longji and all his courtiers, in order to build a workshop for the configuration of black powder, the Tang Dynasty court has mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources, and even the project of the Daming Palace has been stopped.

As a member of the Tang Dynasty, Li An is the only person to configure black powder, of course, he must do his best, he got up early in the morning, and after a little preparation, under the escort of Duan Xiushi and other Yulin troops, he rode his horse to the black powder workshop ten miles south of the city.

At this moment, the Black Powder Workshop is guarded by six hundred dragon warriors, the city walls and gates in each of the four directions have one hundred people, and there are two hundred mobile people inside.

Duan Xiushi and the others were only responsible for escorting Li An to the Black Powder Workshop, as for the inside, he had no right to enter, so he could only stay outside the gate of the workshop and wait for Li An to come out.

"Li Shilang, you're finally here."

Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, was standing in the black powder workshop, and when he saw Li An entering, he hurriedly said hello, and he could see that Chen Xuanli's complexion was very good, and his mood was even better.

"General, why are you here, Your Majesty asked you to personally guard the Black Powder Workshop."

Ang Lee felt that Chen Xuanli was complaining that he was late, but Chen Xuanli personally guarded here, which surprised Ang Lee.

"Well, Your Majesty is worried that ordinary soldiers can't stop here, so he asked the old man to come over, if Li Shilang has any needs, you can tell me at any time, my task is to assist Li Shilang."

Chen Xuanli made it clear what he meant, this small workshop really let him come to the town in person, especially it can be seen that Li Longji really attaches great importance to the black powder workshop.

"As long as the raw materials and labor are enough, there is also a good guard of the workshop, don't let outsiders enter, and the rest, it seems that there is nothing."

Li An felt that Chen Xuanli was here, as long as he watched the gate and be an excellent watchdog, he really couldn't help with other things.

However, Chen Xuanli did not feel that he was a condescending talent to personally guard the black powder workshop, but had a sense of honor, because this was not an ordinary workshop, but an important workshop related to the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty.

"Li Shilang, these six hundred people are the labors carefully selected by His Majesty for you, what you need to do, you can just order it directly."

Chen Xuanli and Li An walked into the largest workshop together, pointed to the neat manual team of 600 people, and opened their mouths.

Li Anmeng was shocked when he saw these neatly arranged labors, where is this the dumb worker he wants, the division of troops is an army, and it is a well-trained army, but he does not wear military uniforms.

"These are all dumb? How does it look like an army? ”

Ang Lee voiced the doubts in his heart.

Chen Xuanli said lightly: "They were originally soldiers, but now they are mute, they will only obey Li Shilang's orders and will not reveal any secrets." ”

"What, you actually made the soldiers dumb, isn't it too cruel."

Li Antou was quite angry, he was originally worried that he would not find a sufficient number of mute laborers in the capital, but he did not expect that the Tang Dynasty Imperial Court did not look for it at all, but directly made the soldiers mute.

"Li Shilang, do big things informally, right now, black powder is extremely important to my Datang, for the rise and fall of Datang, let six hundred soldiers sacrifice themselves, what's not to do?"

Chen Xuanli disagreed, thinking that this was a very appropriate thing, after all, black powder was too important, and it was necessary to have enough people to be responsible for the work, and at the same time, not let them leak secrets, and the best way could only be like this.

"Informal, are they all willing?"

Li An was very shocked and felt that the imperial court was killing the soldiers.

Chen Xuanli sighed and said lightly: "Li Shilang can ask for himself and ask them if they are willing." ”

Ang Lee walked up to a man and asked, "Are you willing to be dumb?" ”

"Yes."

The man immediately nodded and saluted Li An, his eyes were full of determination, and he did not look forced at all.

"You also volunteered?"

"Yes."

"What about you? I also came here voluntarily. ”

"Yes."

Li An asked more than a dozen people in a row, and all of them responded with a righteous face, saying that they were not forced, but came to the black powder workshop willingly.

'Enlightenment! This is called enlightenment, for the benefit of the Tang Empire, willing to sacrifice his body, would rather be a disabled person, but also loyal to the Tang Dynasty, such a noble quality spirit, Li An feels so familiar, isn't this the patriotic feelings of later generations? ’

"General, these soldiers are willing to stay here for the rest of their lives, what will happen to their families? The court must not treat their families badly! ”

Ang Lee feels that heroes are very valuable, but the families of heroes are even more valuable, and it is they who cultivate heroes, so they must be respected.

"In this matter, although Li Shilang can rest assured, the families of these soldiers will all receive preferential treatment from the imperial court, not only do they not have to pay any taxes, but the imperial court will also reward them with enough fertile land, so that they will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives."

Chen Xuanli said.

"Alright! Since this is the case, it can only be like this, and I will make a sufficient amount of black powder in the shortest possible time to live up to His Majesty's high expectations. ”

Ang Lee had no choice but to admit this reality, and immediately divided the six hundred men into six groups and had them work in different jobs, one hundred of them were responsible for grinding the sulfur, grinding the sulfur into a very fine powder.

There are also a hundred people responsible for making charcoal powder, grinding charcoal into charcoal powder, the demand for saltpeter is relatively large, Li An let three hundred people be responsible for grinding saltpeter, and the last hundred people are separated by Li An to do something to hide people's eyes, and in order to save their physical strength, Li An also let thirty workers stay outside the configuration workshop, waiting for their orders at any time.

Since the powder particles are very fine and must be stored in suitable containers, a large number of clay pots are prepared in the workshop, and these ground powders are placed in these clay pots for easy storage and handling.

Since the family has been taken care of by the imperial court, these laborers do not have much psychological burden, and they all work very hard, and the three main workshops are all scenes of hard grinding.

Li An didn't need to do it himself, moved a chair, sat in the workshop to rest, opened his eyes from time to time, looked at the manual who was working, and inspected the progress to determine when to start configuration.

At noon, all the workers who work go to eat in batches to ensure the uninterrupted grinding work in the workshop, and at the same time, the eating area is too small to accommodate too many people at a time, so naturally there is no need to divide the batch, and at the same time, the soldiers of the Longwu Army who are responsible for the garrison also take the way of eating in batches to ensure the absolute safety of the black powder workshop.

After eating, people are prone to sleepiness, especially in winter, after lunch, Ang Lee moved a chair and sat in the sun to nap, the warm sun shone on his body, that feeling, not to mention how comfortable.

In the entire black powder workshop, only he would be so comfortable, and the rest of the people were busy and on duty, which made Li An sigh at the difference in fate, he could lie comfortably in the sun, while others could only work hard and be on duty.

In the afternoon, the three major raw materials of black powder were ground in sufficient quantities, and a large number of clay pots were piled up in the workshop, which looked quite spectacular.

Li An felt that it was time to configure, so he went to the sulfur grinding workshop first, and asked the manual who was working to move the ground sulfur powder to the configuration workshop.

After entering the configuration workshop, Li Ang asked these people to pour the sulfur powder into ten mixing drums, each drum poured the same powder, that is, the same number of clay pots, and after they were done, they were asked to carry the empty clay pots back to the grinding workshop, continue to grind the sulfur powder, and wait for the next configuration.

Then Li An went to the charcoal powder workshop and the saltpeter powder workshop, and in the same way, they were asked to pour the ground powder into the stirring drum, of course, the amount of pouring was calculated in advance, and it was carried out according to the proportion of black powder.

Of course, Li An definitely did not bring in three waves of people, between these three groups of people, there were also several groups of people, and the items brought in were croton powder, herbs and other things that had no effect, of course, these things were not poured into the mixing barrel, but put aside, and then Li An hid them in the cabinet, and only sulfur powder, charcoal powder and saltpeter powder were poured into the mixing drum, and they were poured in according to the proportion of black powder.

Stirring the drum is a very hard job, of course Li An will not do it all by himself, so let the thirty workers on standby enter the configuration workshop and take turns to stir the drum until he said it was okay.

"Okay, it's almost time to stir, you guys work hard, lift the drum down, open the lid, pour the powder inside into the clay pot, be careful not to damage anything."

Ang Lee gave the order to harvest the finished product.

Thirty workers worked together to carefully hold the drum down, lift the lid, and pour the powder inside into the large clay pot.

Li An counted it, there were a total of thirty large cans, and the amount of each jar was very sufficient, piled up to the vicinity of the mouth of the can, such a jar of black powder, if packaged into a gunpowder bag used to blow up ore, was enough for several hundred.

"Seal them all up and put them in an underground warehouse."

This was the first batch of finished black powder products manufactured, and Ang Lee decided to seal it first as the most basic reserve.

After all the thirty cans of black powder were stored in the underground warehouse, Li An once again configured thirty cans, but this time, Li An did not seal these black powders, but moved them all into the safety workshop, and transferred thirty people from the manual responsible for misleading to be responsible for packaging the black powder that can be used directly.

The practical production of black powder is actually very simple, that is, pour out a small part of the black powder in a large clay pot, wrap it in a piece of linen, and stuff a hemp rope soaked in oil into it, and tie it strongly.

These thirty people are to produce every day, and the thirty people who are in charge of stirring, when there is nothing else to do, also come to help increase the production of practical gunpowder packs.

When the sun was setting, hundreds of black powder packets could be used directly, and they were stored in large clay pots in underground warehouses, of course, sealed to prevent the hard-earned black powder from getting wet.

All the manual workers are still working hard, but Li Ang doesn't need it, he has been busy for a long time this day, definitely more than the four hours required by Li Longji, however, Li An's busy work is busy but not tired, all the specific work is done by others, he is just responsible for commanding, and even his hands are clean.

Moreover, with the familiarity of these workers with the work, it will be more convenient and easy to command in the future.

"Is Li Shilang preparing to go back to the city?"

Li An walked out of the safety workshop, and just stretched his waist, Chen Xuanli walked over and said hello to Li An.

Chen Xuanli's attitude is very good, the whole person is kind, with a smug expression, perhaps, in his opinion, it is a supreme honor to be a watchdog in the black powder workshop.

"The general is over half a hundred years old, and his spirit is still so good, the lower officials really admire it."

Ang Lee shook his spirits and said with a smile.

"Hmph, what's wrong with being over half a hundred years old, the old man doesn't climb the watchtower like this, and he won't lose to your next life."

Chen Xuanli looked unconvinced, which made Li An want to laugh, but he had to endure it. (To be continued.) )