Boom!

Poof!

Just when Liu Yueying and the others were still thinking, the long sword in Chen Yan's hand had already cut Xu Li's throat.

Yin Hong's blood flowed everywhere, and there was still a thick disbelief in his wide eyes, as if he was asking Chen Yan, and he said why he wanted to kill him.

"Heh, be honest with a thief?"

"Xianggong, why did you kill him?"

Liu Yueying asked a little puzzled.

Chen Yan shrugged his shoulders and asked rhetorically with a somewhat indifferent attitude.

"If you don't kill him, do you want to put him back?"

"Besides, what he just said isn't necessarily true."

Chen Yan said meaningfully.

……

The group quickly returned to Liangfeng Mountain, Chen Yan instructed some people to continue making soap, and then sent some people out to start preparing gunpowder.

Chen Yan specially found Liu Yunzhi and asked Liu Yunzhi to draw a vacant lot in Erfeng Mountain, a sparsely populated place, and let him set up a workshop for configuring gunpowder.

Gunpowder can be different from soap, soap can be made in crowded places, but gunpowder can't, gunpowder is very destructive, if the gunpowder explosion is caused by operation error, if it is still in a crowded place, the consequences are unimaginable.

It is not difficult to configure gunpowder, the most important thing is safety!

Chen Yan stipulated that no one was allowed to carry an open flame into the gunpowder workshop within ten feet, and in order to prevent the sparks from exploding, all the tools in the workshop were replaced with stone or wood.

The first is to lead people to grind charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter into granules, and then mix them together according to a certain ratio, which is granule gunpowder.

Turning gunpowder into granules can make the gunpowder fully burn and release a greater amount of energy, which is more than a little stronger than ordinary gunpowder.

Chen Yan came out of the gunpowder workshop and found Ma Liu.

"Uncle, do you have anything to do with me?"

Ma Liugong said respectfully, he had just come down from the training ground, and there were still fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

"From today onwards, go to Anping City to sell the soap, and then the matter of purchasing supplies will be handed over to you."

Chen Yan patted Ma Liu's shoulder and said.

"Okay uncle, leave this matter to me, I promise to give you a beautiful job."

Ma Liu's face was full of honest smiles.

"By the way, there is one more thing, when you go to Anping City, help me find some craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, and masons...... Yes, the salary can be given a higher point, but you have to fool me back to the cottage. ”

Chen said earnestly.

Ma Liu's face was wrinkled, and he felt that things were a little difficult.

But Chen Yan didn't care about him so much, turned around and went to the gunpowder workshop again, and began to try to make earth-shaking thunder.

He commanded a large group of half-sized men under his command to make the first attempt, pouring gunpowder into a clay pot, putting in rubble and iron nails, etc., inserting a lead, and finally sealing it.

Among them, the most difficult thing to do is the production of the lead, and Chen Yan also spent a lot of effort to get the production of the lead.

After arranging the earth-shattering incident, Chen Yan went to the blacksmith shop in the village, in his opinion, this is the quality of steel of the times...... It's hard to put into words.

If he wants to make muskets and artillery in the future, the quality of steel is a problem that cannot be overcome.

In the blacksmith shop, several blacksmiths were naked, sweating and wielding hammers, making all kinds of iron tools needed in the stockade.

"This master, what method do you use to make iron and steel?"

Chen Yan stood beside a master and asked very curiously.

Poop! Poop! Poop!

The master waved the hammer unhurriedly, but he didn't pay attention to the words.

Chen Yan was bored with himself, and turned around to find another blacksmith.

"Master, where did you get this iron-making method from? Can you teach me? ”

“……”

"This master, your craft looks really good, I have a new method of steelmaking, would you like to give it a try?"

“……”

Chen Yan walked around the entire workshop, but no one gave him a good look, until a gray-bearded old master couldn't stand it anymore, and after talking to him for a few words, he understood why.

"Uncle, don't ask."

The gray-bearded old master said angrily.

"What is your surname?"

Chen Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a very kind attitude.

"The little old man's surname is Guo, and my aunt can call the little old man Guo Craftsman."

"Master Guo, why don't they ignore me?"

Guo Jiangtou exhaled a breath of turbidity and said angrily.

"What else can it be, uncle, you came up and asked us how iron is practiced, how steel is practiced, you must know that this is our eating craft, can I tell you casually?"

Chen Yan nodded, understood, his mood was a little heavy, he finally understood why there were so many good things lost in ancient China in the long river of history, and he cherished himself with an open broom!

Some of them were in high spirits, Chen Yan and Guo Gongtou waved their hands, and left the blacksmith shop.

He knew that it would not be so easy for him to improve the method of ironmaking and steelmaking, at least not here.

Chen Yan exhaled slowly, he knew what he wanted to do, he could only wait for Ma Liu to recruit enough craftsmen, and then start from there.

Walking on the road of the cottage, Chen Yan suddenly seemed to think of something and let out an exclamation.

"School!"

All your worries are solved!

He was the teacher himself, and his students were the half-grown children under him, and he taught them the theoretical knowledge in his mind.

Then let them go for it!

Then, on this day, a piece of news spread wildly throughout Erfeng Mountain.

My uncle is going to teach the dolls in the family to read and write! But on the condition that the dolls had to work for him during the day.

The whole cottage is excited, reading in this era is not an easy thing, in addition to the cost of reading is relatively high, the average family can't afford to support it.

The main thing is that no one wants to teach!

There are two or three thousand people in the entire Erfeng Mountain, and there are absolutely no more than ten people who know words and can read and write.

In the eyes of the villagers, Chen Yan did not want their restraints or tuition, and was willing to teach everyone to read and write, which was simply a great grace in the eyes of the villagers in the village.

Isn't it just to help out during the day, what a big thing, anyway, the children are idle in the winter.

Chen Yan's reputation in the village has gradually improved, and the villagers have praised Chen Yan's actions.

Not long after the news spread, half of the children under Chen Yan's hands grew rapidly from twenty or thirty to more than a hundred, and some people still joined in from time to time.

It's just that, looking at the milk dolls in the crowd who are still foaming with snot, Chen Yan is straight.

But there is no way, the words have already been spoken, and they can't be taken back, right?

Liu Yueying came, as soon as she came down from the training ground, she heard about Chen Yan's side of the matter, so she came non-stop.