Wang Hou's "last wish" was not fulfilled after all, on the one hand, Cao Cao really didn't know where the chrysanthemum was, and on the other hand, the pepper was still lying comfortably in the jungle of South America! This idea of eating spicy tang is a fantasy, let alone finding chili pepper stuffed chrysanthemums.

Especially now, a few gunpowder craftsmen under Wang Hou's command not only can't be punished, but also have to be supplied like treasures, because the bombing of the river is cool, 4,000 catties of gunpowder, all the gunpowder stocks of Xu Du and Puyang have been consumed, and Cao Jun urgently needs to create another batch of such strategic weapons.

But this effort, the salt brine well in Pudong was lost, and the way to make nitrate in the ash of plants and trees by pouring salt brine well water was not feasible, but fortunately, Wang Hou left a hand before leaving the East County Taishou, that is, following the night incense collection order of Xuchang, he ordered that the night pot urine of Xuchang and several nearby counties must also be set aside separately, poured into the incense collection cart sent by the government every day, and then pulled outside the city.

Addicted to the earthen gun, and also knows the importance of this thing, Cao Cao pinched his nose and signed this smelly decree, and strictly enforced it, no matter whether the high door or the small household who does not pour the urine bucket in accordance with the decree, will be punished by a fine of grain! The entire city has a population of 100,000, and the population of the nearby county town is nearly 150,000, and under strict supervision, the accumulated urine has reached a considerable amount in the first half of 199 AD.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Hou to transport these noisy liquids directly to the battlefield, not to mention how to preserve them, just smoking is enough to smoke people down, after collecting these yellow whirring liquids, under the command of Wang Fu pinching his nose and urging sadly, he poured them directly into the fine soil dug out of the mountain, threw them into the shed pit to shelter from the rain, fermented for more than 20 days, and waited for a layer of white salt frost on the soil, and then covered them with plant ash and collected them, one summer, but collected a lot.

After the Battle of the Snow Mountains and Ice Rivers, the military struggle between Cao's army and Yuan's army eased again.

More than 6,000 soldiers and horses sank into the water, and although there were only a few dozen people who were directly drowned and washed away, more than 5,000 of the Yuan army cavalry who were immersed in the icy river water and whose body temperature plummeted within a few hours died suddenly due to hypothermia in the severe cold of the Xiaoice period, especially in the Yuan army barracks, which lacked heating equipment and facilities.

Attacking the Guandu camp head-on, the Hebei archers who shot at the ice buckets in the sky, and the elite soldiers of the Gaolan Zhang Hebu who relied on their own flesh and blood to attack wildly also had nearly 4,000 casualties, plus one piece, Yuan Jun went to a small 10,000 combat strength, even if Yuan Shao had many generals and generals, he could not afford to experience such consumption.

As a result, the duel turned into a boring stalemate again, and early every morning, Yuan Junzhuangding, who held a basket of ice and snow clods, climbed through the Shangtu Mountain like a thief, and then poured the snow basket down, and pushed Yuan Jun's snow-capped mountain fortifications step by step towards the Cao Guandu camp.

However, this process is extremely slow, after all, Cao Cao has increased the one hundred and fifty giant return cannons are not vegetarian, in order to deal with Yuan Shao's towering snow-capped mountains, Cao Cao ordered to capture the Hebei Yuan army of the well fence car dismantled a few, to create three full fifteen meters high watchtower, 24 hours a special sentry staring at the left, middle and right three large battalions, once the snow of Hebei Zhuangding exceeded thousands, a little dense, immediately the river ice beckoned over, smashed your head and broke the bloodstream.

Who is not afraid of death? Every day, the process is interrupted by a super trebuchet, and the speed of the advance of the fortifications of the Yuan Army in Hebei is not even half a meter a day.

In fact, Yuan Shao was not out of the way to achieve victory, according to the strategy provided by Tian Feng before, gathered all the cavalry, forced to cross the river by the frozen Jishui, went south to attack Xuchang, captured the Han court and Cao Cao's lair, and attacked back and forth.

However, this proposal was ruthlessly shelved in the collective veto of the Yingchuan faction and Yuan Shao's arrogance, and the battle of Guandu was dragged into a confrontation that consumed the national strength of the two sides, a long tug-of-war.

However, this slow and arduous rhythm of war gave Wang Hou a big stage for performance and a big space for play.

In addition to the wood that built the watchtower, the remaining well railings and carts all belonged to Wang Hou, and they were also dismantled into a large pile of wood by his extremely defeated family, and a series of wooden sheds were built next to the Guandu ferry.

The shed is covered with straw mats, temporarily isolated from the heavy snow falling from the sky, and under the shed, it is a busy scene in full swing.

It's really not a meaningless adjective to be in full swing, the war needs a lot of steel support, the most under the shed is to burn high-quality coke, spray thin hot gas to hit the railway, the damaged swords, guns and halberds on the battlefield are remade and repaired here, and the steel poured by Xu Du is also made into new weapons or arrows, stirrups, which occupy more than 5,000 strong men.

And then there's what Wang Hou desperately needs! Cement!

The iron-making slag was ground to pieces under the back and forth cutting of the stone mill, and fired together with the clay, limestone, which had been widely exploited in this era, became substandard cement of various grades.

On the other side, there are brick burning yards, the firing process of Han bricks is said to be completely copied even in the era before Wang Hou crossed in later generations, anyway, even Wang Hou does not know what kind of process, a piece of high-quality big green bricks are also in the hands of these local craftsmen who have to get rid of the slag, and are pulled out by a furnace.

Before that, there were also steel bars made from the Funiu Mountain Iron Mine, which were transported to Zhongmu County one by one.

What do you do with these? Build a house!

In the future, wherever the Mi army is stationed, it must first build a military base! Having a permanent military fortress is so important for war! And even if the military defense function is removed, as a military camp for the Cao soldiers who live in the field to warm up and live, and maintain combat effectiveness, it is also good, compared to living in the wilderness, burning some poor grass and firewood, the Yuan army who is shivering from the cold, sleeping on the kang with straw, and the Cao army who is warm and comfortable every day, which combat effectiveness is higher, it goes without saying!

What's more, how to build the barracks, Wang Hou, the head of the rear camp, has the final say, but there are no groups of scholars and businessmen in Puyang to debate his aesthetic views! He can build it however he wants!

There are nearly 70,000 strong men on hand, even if 30,000 people are placed in the rear camp to build and produce, Wang Hou can mobilize more than 40,000 people, he can be regarded as the largest contractor in this era, in the second half of the Guandu camp, in his triumphant command, tens of thousands of people are wheeled hoes and hard frozen soil on the ground, pushing bricks and cement to build houses.

More people are powerful, there is no ice bucket challenge that comes at any time on the head, the project of the rear camp can be carried out at full speed, more than 20,000 strong men work together, to January 15, 200 A.D., 32 days, the first batch of more than 20 military camp buildings have been completed and can be occupied.

I really don't have confidence in the cement produced by my own family, Wang Hou doesn't dare to build high, twenty two-story small buildings with clear water in the barracks, but the width of the building is wide, a small building has three corridors and aisles, four rows on the second floor a total of forty rooms, at this time can not talk about any privacy and accommodation comfort, about 20 square meters of rooms against the wall is a row of Datong Kang, enough to sleep a group of ten Cao soldiers, a military camp can be stationed under 400 infantry, 20 is 7,600 people.

Well, after all, this is still the era ......of class privilege, and some of the rooms are still provided separately to high-ranking officers.

Compared with the small room on the second floor, the room on the first floor is much larger, in the support of the column, the first half is divided into four dining rooms, two large kitchens, two public toilets, and even Wang Hou also built a bath extravagantly, the hot gas of the coal stove burning in the kitchen can be supplied to the heating of the entire barracks kang along the flue, and the hot water that burns all the time can also provide drinking water for the sergeant and bathing, which can be described as a complete function!

"Look, this is the kitchen, here is the restaurant, here is the bathroom, here is the bath, and the warehouse, all the functions are available!"

led Cao Cao to visit, while the first floor was full of cement plastered walls, and the rough house was not flat, Wang Hou also introduced with flying eyebrows, and there was no awareness of the black-hearted developer, however, following him, Mr. Cao's bearded old face was always tight, and his brows were tight, because Wang Hou's house in his opinion could not be separated from a big word, that is, ugly!

I don't know how the Red Festival fell in love with this kid, the aesthetic point of view is extremely different, if Cao is lucky enough to win this battle with Yuan Thief, after returning to Xudu, he must cultivate this kid's aesthetics well, and then let him make such an ugly building, it will be too embarrassing for me Cao someone!

As he walked, Cao Cao thought to himself.

After visiting the lower floor, Wang Hou was still interested in pulling Cao Cao to visit the lower and upper army dormitories, but unfortunately, he couldn't bear his postmodern aesthetics, and Cao always pulled him helplessly.

"Tuqiu, there are still military affairs to deal with! Let's visit another day! The most important thing was solved first, did the nitrate brought by Xu Du start refining? ”

"Back to the prime minister, it's already begun! Prime Minister, please! ”

It's a barracks building designed by a genius designer, and Mr. Cao is not interested! Wang Hou was a little disappointed, and the big sleeves of the robe in the depths made a gesture of invitation, inviting Cao Cao to come out of the last military camp and run to the first built military camp.

Just as they got closer, a bad smell accompanied by heat was already blowing in their faces, and both Cao Cao and Xu Chu couldn't help pinching their noses.

"Right here! The prime minister inspects and opens the door! ”

While leading the way, Wang Hou also shouted orders to Wang Hu, the leader of the personal soldiers in charge of the handle, who immediately saluted and opened the door.

The first floor of this barracks was much smaller than the others, because one-third of the space was isolated by Wang Hou alone.

There are a total of sixteen small rooms, eight small rooms, all of which are built with huge pools like wine cellars, the bottom of the pool is filled with soil, and the upper layer is constantly splashed with hot water by the strong men, and the unpleasant smell comes from here, and there is a hole at the bottom of the pool, which is hugged by the pool and bubbles with white foam, and the dirty water that is slightly reddish-brown comes down, and whenever a bucket of water is filled, it is immediately carried by Cao Jun Zhuangding to the six rooms next to it.

The whole room stinks, but thinking about the raw materials of this thing, Mr. Cao is also relieved.

The other six rooms are hot, each room was originally repaired to the place where the kang was repaired three cauldrons, under the stove, the coal fire burned non-stop, the nitrate filtered from the filter pool was poured directly into the pot, crackling and boiling, a large pot has been burned almost completely dry, the bottom of the pot, a layer of gray-white powder piled up at the bottom of the pot in the future, and I don't care about the hot hands, two Cao Jun Zhuangding wiped the sweat beads on their foreheads, and immediately took the pot down, and set up a new pot on it, then with a big spoon, I didn't dare to waste a gram of the white powder at the bottom of the pot and put it in a wooden box.

This is saltpeter!

In later generations, I went to the forum if I had nothing to do, I didn't learn anything about making money, but I read a lot of useless miscellaneous studies, this set is what Wang Hou saw from the Internet, in the old social era, the steps of local method of refining nitrate.

The nitrate pond is spread together with the plant ash transported from Xudu, and the hot water is sprayed on it, and the hot water promotes the reaction of the nitrate in the nitrate and the potassium carbonate in the plant ash, and then dissolves it and precipitates it through the filter screen, and it is rich in potassium nitrate in the barrel.

Like boiling salt, it is boiled in a large iron pot, and what is left is potassium nitrate powder containing impurities, which make up three-quarters of the substance that makes up black powder.

"It can produce about fifty catties of saltpeter a day, and when mixed with the sulfur and charcoal refined by Xudu, you can get about seventy-five catties of black powder!"

In the Ming Dynasty, where firearms have begun to prevail, there is a saying called 100 days of nitrate, which is not enough for the general to make a cannon, which is an important raw material for gunpowder, and the difficulty of saltpeter refining.

Cao Cao, who listened to this number, was also dull, and then he looked up gloomily at the very small window that Wang Hou had specially repaired to keep warm.

"The tiger and leopard cavalry will send you 500 people, you build that ugly house, and then build nine nitrate-making workshops for the prime minister, all craftsmen will be strictly guarded, once there is a suspicion of escape or leakage!"

Cao Cao didn't say the rest of the words, but from his murderous and gloomy eyes, Wang Hou could already see what he was going to say! Mercy is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth! Now it is a life-and-death battle with Yuan Shao, there is no room for half a difference, and gunpowder is a top-secret killer weapon! Wang Hou respectfully hugged his fists.

"The son-in-law obeys!"

"I still have official business, so I won't bother you! Be quick! ”

is really full of face, Cao Cao didn't dare to disturb him for a long time Wang Hou patted him on the shoulder seriously, and left with Xu Chu, but looking at his back, in Wang Hou's pupils, Ye Ye beat an extraordinarily bright gaze.

The food is enough to eat for two years, and the back camp swords, guns, swords, halberds, winter clothes, shoes and socks, cement bricks, and even gunpowder can be produced continuously, even if you can't win the battle of Guandu by attacking Wuchao, then the master will consume you Yuan Shao, see if your Hebei soldiers can resist, or our old Cao family's Central Plains soldiers can resist!

Just when Wang Hou was thinking gloomily, outside the door, a black shadow broke in, knelt on one knee, and Zang Hong muttered quietly and urgently.

"Lord, Zhongmu County prisoner of war camp, Deng Yi came to report......"

These words made Wang Hou's originally fiery eyes a little brighter, and he nodded heavily.

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