The wine banquet was dispersed, Qiao Sheren, Li Jingyao and others returned to the post station, and under the moonlight, Wang Ji's back looked extremely desolate.

Lu Ning walked around the county office, and behind him, he followed a group of people who were pressed by the black, recording Jia Lun, Justice Zuo Liu Hanchang, Sicang Zuo Wei Jingye, Zuo Shi Wang Zhi and other officials.

Although the Donghai County Ya is not big, it has all the organs, the county house, the main thin house and the county lieutenant's six Cao rooms are extremely complete, and the inner house behind the main hall is also enough to live in the county order and a large family, but Liu Zhi did not live here before.

On both sides of the main hall, there are six Cao, the east side is the Gong, Cang, and Hu three Cao tooth rooms, and the west side is the soldier, law, and scholar three Cao tooth rooms.

Behind the hall on the west side is the county prison.

Lu Ning opened the mansion, and for the time being, he would also be in this county, but naturally it would be repaired and improved, and the mansion would be expanded.

Pacing, Lu Ning pondered the candidates for Xiang, Qing, and Shilang as his subordinate officials in the East China Sea, but he really didn't have a clue.

His relatives and friends, and no one else, are the material for being an official.

"You are, Zhang Dalang, right?" Lu Ning suddenly caught a glimpse that at the back of the large group of people who followed him, there was a soap-clothed messenger who was trembling, who was the neighbor and the son of Liu Po, who was once his own big creditor.

Because it's a neighborhood, although there is no intersection in life, I know each other.

Zhang Dalang immediately stepped out, trotted forward, knelt down and said: "Villain Zhang Da, I have seen the lord of the country!" ”

He was trembling in his heart, he was about to pee his pants, I heard that on the day Lu Dalang was knighted, his mother also went to the Lu family to force debts, this, isn't this death?

Originally, he was barely a servant, and his grandmother did not love his uncle in the yamen, and he was the lowest dog, and he shouted in the eyes of the people at the bottom when he was on errands, but in the yamen, his status was particularly low.

As a result, my mother also offended Lu Dalang in the past, and now the lord of the entire Donghai County, I am afraid that in just a few minutes, this skin will have to be stripped off, and even put into prison, tortured every day, and in the future, I may not have a miserable life.

"Well, get up." Lu Ning wanted to say hello casually, but he forgot that the current class is strict, and seeing Zhang Dalang trembling like a swing, he lost his interest in chatting with him.

"You all go back!" Lu Ning waved his hand.

"Yes, the villain will retire!" All the officials bowed down one after another.

At this moment, I heard a roar from the prison.

"What's going on?" Lu Ning was slightly stunned.

Liu Han often hurriedly walked up two steps, "First, there is a bandit locked up inside, who often roars like a wild beast. ”

If the county lieutenant is regarded as the leader of the public procuratorate and law collective, Liu Hanchang is the first clerk of the public security and law front, and in the eyes of the people of Limin, he is also a big man who stands up to the sky.

"Let's go, all of you! Liu Hanchang, you come with me to the prison to have a look! ”

Liu Han often broke out in a cold sweat, and the rest of the officials were a little envious, after all, being able to follow the lord of the country for a long time would always have some benefits.

Especially now that the subordinate officials of the East China Sea are vacant, and the lord of the country used to be a peasant, there is no satisfactory promotion of virtuous people, and it is impossible to say that it is to select the best from among the officials, and now it is a good opportunity to deepen the impression of the lord and his subordinates.

But Liu Hanchang is a tendon in his legs and stomach, just now the lord of the country and that Wang Ji gambled, although he was bold to help, but every time he thought of the terrible of this lord, he broke out in a cold sweat.

……

The prison was not large, and the lord of the kingdom came in, and the servants lit the torches inside.

The smell of the prison made Lu Ning almost want to turn around and leave.

This is the men's prison.

Two iron cages, one of them, locked up more than a dozen people, all of them were ragged and dirty, squeezed as if they couldn't stand, someone came in, but they were very numb, their eyes didn't look this way, as if there were still people lying on the ground, life and death did not know.

Another iron cage, but there was only a big man, unkempt, circling inside, looking up to the sky and roaring angrily from time to time.

Lu Ning suddenly looked at the group of prisoners in the iron cage, there was a middle-aged man, although he was also ragged and his face was full of mud, but Lu Ning felt so keen, and obviously felt that his temperament was a little different from that of the prisoners around him.

"What roar?!" Liu Hanchang strode over, took the wooden stick in the officer's hand, and knocked on the iron cage.

The big man turned around suddenly, his face was full of black mud, but his eyes were bright, Liu Hanchang felt as if he was being targeted by a wild beast, his body trembled in fright, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

Then Liu Hanchang was furious, and he lost face in front of the lord of the country, he picked up the wooden stick and hit it into the iron cage: "Pickle things!" He roared in front of the lord of the country! ”

Lu Ning's attention also turned to this side.

The tower man stood still, and Liu Hanchang's wooden stick hit him as if tickling him.

"Not guilty!" He suddenly roared.

Liu Hanchang was originally extremely jealous of him, but the lord of the country was next to him, and he was even more annoyed, "You criminal! It's really looking for death! ”

"Wait." Lu Ning spoke suddenly.

Liu Hanchang hurriedly took two steps back, looked at Lu Ning's eyes, understood what Lu Ning meant, bowed down and said in a low voice: "Lord of the country, this guy claims to be from the north to find relatives, his name is Tong Jiu, I don't know if it's his real name, he got drunk, argued with people, claimed to have killed people in the north, the shopkeeper came to report to the official, more than a dozen of us, barely caught him, this guy has a lot of strength, if it weren't for drunkenness, I think we can't catch a dozen more than a dozen of us." ”

"Mingfu, oh, no, Liu Wei said that he was either a fine work in the north or a fierce one, and locked him up, no, before he passed the court, Liu Wei was ......"

Lu Ning bowed slightly, looked at the big man, and asked, "Why did you kill people in the northern country?" ”

But the big man was silent.

Lu Ning shook his head, "Since you don't speak, let's wait until the hall passes." ”

glanced at the man in the iron cage again, turned around and walked out, and said to Liu Hanchang: "The sanitary conditions here are too poor, so the cell boss is ordered to clean it frequently, and who are the people locked up here?" ”

"There are criminals, and among the displaced people who fled from the war in Shouzhou, some of them can't tell their origins and their accents are not quite right, and they are also locked up here, I am afraid that they are spies in the north."

Lu Ning bowed slightly: "Carefully check their identities." ”

Liu Hanchang agreed again and again, and after taking two steps, he suddenly remembered something, "First, Gan Erlang was also put in prison this morning and is locked up here." ”

Lu Ning was stunned at first, and then understood: "Mrs. Gan's second brother? ”

"Yes......" Liu Han often heard Lu Ning call "Mrs. Gan", so he knew that his reminder was just right, and said with a sneer: "Yes, Gan Erlang is the leader of Ganjia Village in the area of Liu Shunbaoju, Liu Shun incident happened, and he happened to be on duty in the county government, so he was imprisoned." ”

Lu Ning knew that Li Zheng was similar to the township chief of later generations, and Li Zheng was everywhere in the county, and occasionally came to the county government to be on duty.

"Well, let him out!" Lu Ning made a gesture.

"Yes!" Liu Han often bowed down, since the country was sealed, even if it was similar to Tang Lu's Shengyuange, it was not as big as the lord of the country in this county, not to mention, the lord of the country should have waited for a few auspicious days of the zodiac, and the amnesty was already festive.

Gan Erlang was the person lying in the other iron cage, dressed in satin clothes full of feces and urine, and was carried out of the prison by the officials, humming and chirping, and poured a basin of cold water before sitting up suddenly.

"Wake up! The Lord of the Kingdom has been gracious and forgiven your sins! Why don't you hurry up and thank you? Liu Hanchang squatted down with a smile, endured the stench, and patted Gan Erlang on the shoulder affectionately.

Gan Erlang was ignorant, and he didn't know what was going on, but he only knew that someone had pardoned him, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Lord Xie!" Thank you, sir! ”

In a trance, I saw that the handsome young man who kowtowed to me was very young, and I didn't know who it was, but I could forgive myself, and I thought it was a new magnate in the county.

"You have to thank the lord of the country!" Liu Hanchang was helpless, came to Lu Ning's side, and said with a sneer: "Gan Erlang is afraid that he will be frightened, and his soul will be lost, so he will have to refine the Divine Pills to return to his senses." ”

Lu Ning was slightly stunned when he heard this, "There is a Taoist alchemy in Ganjia Village?" ”

"Yes, there is a Taoist temple in Ganjia Village, don't you know it?" Liu Hanchang asked a little strangely.

Lu Ning's heart moved, "So, do you use saltpeter for alchemy?" ”

"It should be used, right?" Liu Hanchang scratched his head, "Ganjia Village has a tradition of making soil nitrate, many farmers make soil nitrate, and the Taoist leaders of Haizhou Baiyun Temple also buy soil nitrate from Ganjia Village." ”

Lu Ning's heart immediately warmed.

From coming to his senses to being crowned the lord of the East China Sea, he knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to get rid of the strife in this troubled world.

What's more, he shot Guo Rong himself, but he didn't know how history should go.

According to historical development, the original Southern Expedition to conquer the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, made great contributions, in order to gain the trust of the Zhou lord, and gradually became the master of the Zhou forbidden army.

But now, he is fledgling, and he can't suppress the original important ministers of the Zhou State, and the battle between the two sides doesn't know what will happen in the end.

And if Zhao Kuangyin can't seize power, and even, the two sides are evenly matched, Guo Zongxun grows up, and he is still the lord of Zhou, will he let go of his father-killing enemy?

So, it's time to plan ahead.

In fact, even if the Zhou State is a country, if you don't have relatives and friends, you don't have to be afraid, you don't need to escape from the end of the world with a sword, you only need a little time to create some tools, and you can single-handedly turn it upside down in the territory of the Zhou State.

However, I have my mother, relatives, and friends, and I want to protect them by myself, I'm afraid it's a little difficult.

It would be nice if my own action team was here.

It seems that only one elite pro-soldier can be trained.

The number of this pro-soldier is not large, about 1,000 people, so that the equipment built by himself can be supplied.

And what kind of appliances to build, Lu Ning is still calculating.

Whether these appliances can use gunpowder, Lu Ning is also pondering.

I don't know if I can make some firearms with the resources I can use.

Needless to say, the golden ratio is still unknown in the world, but for yourself, it is as easy as a finger.

Nowadays, the problem of making firearms is mainly the skill of ironmaking.

However, the current ironmaking technology, in terms of the quality of iron, is no different from the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, but after the Song Dynasty, a large amount of coal was used in ironmaking, which led to a decline in the quality of iron, because in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, there was no technology to remove carbon impurities in iron, not to mention that domestic coal contained more sulfur, which led to a decline in the quality of iron.

Just like the self-produced arquebus in the Ming Dynasty, the power cannot be compared with the European arquebus at all, mainly because of the quality of iron, the amount of gunpowder produced by the Ming Dynasty is only one-third or even less of the amount of gunpowder in Europe, otherwise, the firearm is easy to explode.

If they were equipped with thousands of European heavy arquebuses and used properly, the Jurchens would not have had much chance at all.

At the same time, Europe was relying on muskets and a small number of soldiers to defeat the fierce and cold-armed natives of Africa and America.

And now, slowly, what resources can I have? Black powder, no problem. Arquebus ignition devices, although from the first tubular powder gun to arquebus, have undergone hundreds of years of development, but they are all about perfecting the proportion of gunpowder configuration and improving the ignition method.

The technology that is really difficult to overcome has never been.

In fact, the thinking of human beings about how to use gunpowder to create lethality in the past few hundred years is all in their own minds.

The only key is the skill of ironmaking, how to forge a qualified barrel that can be used as a firearm.

In his previous life, he was most interested in all kinds of armed weapons, from cold weapons to hot weapons, all of which were his favorites, and he had beaten iron, forged bows and crossbows, and also made antique firearms such as arquebuses and flintlock pistols with his own hands, but that was supported by modern technology.

Now?! But I don't know.

Although I also knew in my heart that even if I could make a firearm similar to an arquebus, it was obvious that I could only rely on myself for manufacturing and maintenance, at most, I would accept some apprentices, but the main thing would have to be done by myself, so it would be impossible to ration it to the army in large quantities.

However, there are always some miraculous effects when dozens or even hundreds of firearms are made and equipped with personal soldiers.

And to make black powder, sulfur charcoal is easy to say, only saltpeter, not everywhere.

When I heard about Ganjia Village, I refined soil nitrate.

Lu Ning's heart was hot, and he pondered for a while and said with a smile: "Today, I will go to Ganjia Village to take a look and send this Gan Erlang back." ”

Liu Han was stunned for a moment, "Next, I'll order some errand soldiers to accompany you." "The heart said that it seems that the lord of the country likes Gan very much, so he has to send him home so late for this Gan Erai House and Wu.

Lu Ning smiled and waved his hand: "No, I'll go by myself." ”