For Jiang Wei, home does not need much space, although this house is close to the mountain, but it is only a small hillside, surrounded by villages, less than twenty minutes away from Chang'an by carriage, it is closer to Yunling Village, and there is a river in front of it, this is indeed a good place.

If you really want to live, you must demolish it all and turn it into a modern villa, anyway, the cement is about to come out, but Jiang Wei still decided to wait.

After thinking about it in the end, Jiang Wei finally bought the house, which cost a total of 20 yuan.

"Li Wen, you help me find a Taoist priest, I need sulfuric acid, buy as much as I want. By the way, is there any saltpeter left in the village? ”

Li Wen nodded,

"At the beginning, everyone bought about three junctuaries of saltpeter to make iced mung bean soup, but now they don't need it."

Sanjun? Jiang Wei was a little surprised, one hundred and ten households, wouldn't that cost three thousand catties?

"Buy it all, at the current price, let Li Wu buy it, and you will be responsible for buying sulfuric acid."

Li Wen didn't ask much, nodded and agreed,

Sulfuric acid, saltpeter, toluene, these three materials are ready, you can start.

In the afternoon, Jiang Wei went to Song Cen Yue again to see the progress of the workshop, the workshop is ready-made, as long as the coal workshop is changed to a coke workshop. But who knows, nothing has started yet, which makes him feel that the Tang Dynasty people are so slow? It's been two days, and there's been no progress at all?

"Jiang Gongzi is in a hurry?"

Song Cen Yue listened to the report of her subordinates and smiled,

"Jiang Gongzi has been complaining, saying why we haven't started yet, so I will explain to him that this needs to be approved by the official uniform, and I can't be in a hurry."

Song Cen Yue nodded and commanded,

"Bring Jiang Gongzi over."

After a while, Jiang Wei saw Song Cen Yue and asked for a cup of cold white boiling, the two sat facing each other across the aisle, Song Cen Yue asked lightly,

"What problem is Jiang Gongzi encountering?"

Jiang Wei shook his head, did not answer Song Cen Yue's words, and asked directly,

"How long will it take for the county government to approve the paperwork?"

Jiang Wei didn't understand this, but he didn't expect Datang to be so troublesome.

Song Cen Yue took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and comforted softly,

"Jiang Gongzi, don't worry, the county government will give the documents within three days."

Jiang Wei nodded, chatted a few words, and then planned to get up and say goodbye.

"Jiang Gongzi, please stay."

Jiang Wei glanced at Song Cen Yue in surprise,

"Something?"

Song Cen Yue smiled,

"It's not a big deal, I just want to think when Jiang Gongzi is free, there are some businessmen who have business dealings with our Song family, I heard that I have contact with Jiang Gongzi, so I want to make an appointment to invite Jiang Gongzi to get together."

Jiang Wei understood, usually there are many people who send invitations in, but Jiang Wei didn't pay attention to all of them, he didn't have time to pay attention to these people he didn't know.

But Song Cen Yue mentioned it at this time, and he didn't have the habit of refusing people, so it was difficult to speak for a while.

When Song Cen Yue saw Jiang Wei's complexion, she understood,

"If Jiang Gongzi feels embarrassed, you can't go, the little woman helps Jiang Gongzi refuse."

Jiang Wei breathed a sigh of relief,

"Then thank you Song Niangzi, I really don't like to go to parties with some strangers."

"Jiang Gongzi is polite."

Song Cen Yue also didn't want Jiang Wei to have contact with too many businessmen, treasures, and who liked to share them with others? It's just a matter of affection.

After Jiang Wei left the Song Mansion, he went directly to the blacksmith shop to build iron pipes and two large iron buckets of different sizes. and an iron shelf for the upper and lower layers of the iron bucket. These are crafting equipment.

Crafting TNT requires not only materials, but also environments and equipment.

The blacksmith shop was very efficient, and the pipes and buckets were already made by the third day.

First of all, Jiang Wei needed to build a greenhouse, that is, a room that had to be kept within a certain temperature.

Now that the weather has started to get cooler, you need to heat the water with iron pipes to maintain the temperature in the room.

Jiang Wei asked Li De to take the thirty people he recruited to lay the iron pipes along the corners of the wall.

After the laying was completed, Jiang Wei ordered someone to renovate the stove. Once the lab is ready, everything is ready for the materials.

Saltpeter is ready-made, but sulfuric acid is in trouble, Li Wen took more than a dozen villagers to find all the Taoist temples near the entire Chang'an City, and only bought less than 8,000 catties of sulfuric acid.

That's not enough.

At the very least, you need 10,000 catties.

Do you have to make the remaining 1,200 catties yourself? When does that have to be done?

After thinking about it, Song Cen Yue was there, he went there yesterday, and the construction had officially started, and the thirty people he had recruited also went to collect toluene.

Although toluene is not very toxic, Jiang Wei still equipped 30 people with sheepskin gloves and three-layer linen masks.

And Jiang Wei's experimental equipment was also changed, changed to sheepskin, and a total of six sets were made.

In the long wait,

The Ministry of Industry has begun blast furnace steelmaking, and my uncle has been promoted several levels because of his meritorious contributions, and he has been directly promoted from the fifth grade to the fourth grade of the Ministry of Labor. From this, it can also be seen how much this steel refining method has shocked the upper echelons of the imperial court.

You need to know that if you are promoted to the fifth grade, and then you want to go up, it will be difficult. Before the third rank, each grade can have four ranks, the fifth rank down, the fifth rank up, the positive five rank down, the positive five rank up, and then the fourth rank. And Xu Xiaode, directly from the fifth grade, directly to the fourth grade. Some people have been in the position of the fifth grade for more than ten years, and they have not seen the first level.

And Xu Xiaode was promoted six levels in a row, and directly achieved the position of deputy of the Ministry of Industry. One step further, that is from the third product, the prime minister is also the third product. For a while, there was congratulations, jealousy, and madness.

But who calls someone to have a good nephew? But no one believed that this thing was researched by Xu Xiaode himself. Who else could there be but a golden bodhisattva sitting in the house?

There are many people who have crooked thoughts, is the disciple of the Immortal Family fourteen this year? Inquire privately, okay, I'm not married yet, if this girl can be married, then I still have to worry about promotion?

All of a sudden, Jiang Wei received inexplicably many posts from fifth- and sixth-grade officials, and later many posts from fourth-grade officials, and even a third-grade official also handed himself a post.

Almost everyone regards Jiang Wei as a golden bodhisattva, it doesn't matter if it's not the Ministry of Industry, I will directly play the book to the emperor, and I am afraid that I will not be promoted?

The content is nothing else, I am glad of you and want to invite you to my house for a drink.

Jiang Wei was in trouble for a while, what did he want to do? I couldn't figure it out for a while, and then Xu Xiaodra went to drink.

After the official reached the four products and comforted the ancestors and ancestors, he put on a banquet. The Xu family has been glorious in the past dynasties, the great-ancestor Xu Wenquan, the general of Liang Yuncai, the Taishou of Yangping, and the Ciyuan Hou.

Zu Xu Zong, General Chen Liangwei, Shi An Taishou, Attack Ci Yuanhou. Captain of the Pony.

Father Xu Fanggui, Chen Fengchao, Jiangxia Wang Shilang, General Fubo. Mother Jiangxia Huang is the daughter of Chen Sikong and Shen Guozhong Wugong of the Southern Dynasty.

But in his generation, he was down, and it once became his heart disease. Now he felt that the Xu family was standing up again, and he felt that he could do it again.

And the biggest hero, Jiang Wei, of course, has to attend the banquet.