Chapter Forty-Eight: The Gunpowder Cellar of Wang Gongchang
After the court meeting, there was a kind of spectacle in the capital that had never been seen before.
Horse-drawn carriages drove out of the large and small Zhuangzi of Beizhili, pulling carts and carts of things into the capital.
Thousands of large and small Zhuangzi in Beizhili used to be inlaid with gold and jade on the blue brick walls, and in less than half a month, all of them became four walls.
Not to mention a grain of grain, tables, chairs, benches, even a straw mat were not left.
Zhu Shun, who was at the center of this turmoil, was carefully checking the storage of gunpowder, but the location of the cellar where gunpowder was stored was very strange.
A large amount of gunpowder was buried around the new Wang Gong Factory, and a large amount of gunpowder was buried in the center of the Wang Gong Factory.
The 100 hydraulic drilling machines of the Wang Gong factory were also dismantled, and all of them were transported to the old Wang Gong factory and handed over to the blind man Hu to watch together.
The craftsmen of the military line also returned to the old Wang Gong factory, and in the past workshop, according to Zhu Shun's instructions, they made the parts of the Iowa rifling machine, and finally assembled the parts when Zhu Shun went back and assembled them himself.
The group of stickers and books who like to jump up and down can only stay in the public office now, and the craftsman's room, the warehouse, and the iron room are all handled by strong sergeants.
There were a few stickers who were not afraid of death who wanted to break in, but before they could speak, they were frightened and fled by the eyes that ignored life.
Zhu Shun inspected all the cellars one by one, nodded with satisfaction, and prepared to lock the door of Wang Gong's factory and go back.
His ability is limited, and he is not reincarnated by the superintendent Yuan Chonghuan, nor is he the king of a country, Chongzhen, who is soft-spoken.
A few days ago, when Chongzhen came over, he was in a good mood, and he had already told Chongzhen that Huang Taiji might enter the Central Plains from Xifengkou.
still analyzed it to Chongzhen little by little, but Chongzhen said that he knew, but he didn't think so in his heart, Zhu Shun can only make some biggest changes within his ability now.
Zhu Shun just closed the door of Wang Gongchang, Wang Chengen didn't know when he appeared behind him, and Sun Yuanhua, these Western French people, all arrived.
Just as Zhu Shun frowned, Wang Chengen read out a letter, saying that Zhu Shun was asked to deliver 1,000 rifled flintlock pistols within a month.
After listening to the content of the book, Zhu Shun became even more confused, and grabbed Wang Chengen, who was about to leave in a hurry, and asked, "Princess, what does the emperor mean by this?" ”
"My father-in-law knows that Wang Gongchang has built a hundred rifling machines, and it can build 3,000 rifled flintlock guns a month, and if you work overtime, 5,000 will not be a problem."
"How can we only build a thousand now, and the number of reductions is too much."
The corners of the West Farr's mouth twitched when they heard the conversation between the two.
Wang Chengen pointed to the West French who came with him, and said with a stiff face: "Our family still has important things to do, so Mr. Zhu should ask these people about this matter." ”
After speaking, Wang Chengen was anxious as if he wanted to go home to give birth, so he hurriedly got into the official sedan chair and went back.
Zhu Shun locked the door of Wang Gongchang, turned around and walked to Sun Yuanhua's side: "It's a little unsafe here, let's talk while walking." ”
Sun Yuanhua and these West French people all came on leave, just to pay homage to Zhu Shun's rifling machine with a monthly output of 3,000, where is he willing to go.
Zhu Shun saw that they refused to leave, so he said a word, and ran away one by one.
"All the gunpowder from the old Wang Gong factory has been moved over."
Zhu Shun looked at the West French people who were trying their best to avoid here, and laughed in his heart, it seems that the big explosion in the year of the Apocalypse brought a lot of shadow to the hearts of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.
It wasn't until they stepped on the Lugou Bridge on the Yongding River that Sun Yuanhua and the others stopped, holding on to the stone fence and gasping for air.
Sun Yuanhua saw Zhu Shun's smiling expression, knew that Zhu Shun had not been exposed to gunpowder knowledge, and did not understand the seriousness of this, so he said with a serious expression: "Zhu Shun, try not to go to Xinwanggong Factory in the future." ”
"There is a saying that the more you know, the more awe you have in your heart, and with the way we store gunpowder now, there is a high possibility that there will be another big explosion."
"If a gentleman doesn't stand under the wall, you should try to go to Xinwanggong Factory as little as possible in the future."
Zhu Shunke is a doctor of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and he knows the characteristics of gunpowder too well, and he knows how to preserve it, so he keeps gunpowder more flammable and explosive.
There is no need for Sun Yuanhua and others to say, Zhu Shun will not come over this year for the time being: "Sun Langzhong has not explained to me the emperor's book. ”
When it came to the content of the book, the seriousness on Sun Yuanhua's face instantly eased, and he stroked his short beard and said with a smile: "It's not that the Donglin Party has seized the weakness that you can't build a thousand rifled guns a month and re-created a set for you." ”
"In the past two days, the whole Gyeonggi has been boiling, and silver and bone Dong calligraphy and paintings, as long as they are valuable things, are transported to the capital one by one."
Before he could say anything, there were carriages coming from a distance, Sun Yuanhua pointed to the carriages on the plains in the distance, and said with a smile: "The Eight Great Jin Merchants and the Donglin Party are now calculating each other. ”
"In order to eat all the Zhuangzi and Tianli properties in Beizhili, the eight Jin merchants opened another strange gamble."
"There are less than a hundred rifled guns taken out, and one pays twenty."
"If it's more than a hundred, it's also a loss of twenty."
"When it reaches 1,000, there is only one loss of ten, and the last item is specially set up in order to prevent some people from taking advantage of opportunism, and the minimum investment is 10,000 taels of silver."
Zhu Shun's brows furrowed again: "The Eight Great Jin Merchants are crazy, according to the information they have, I definitely can't take out a thousand rifled guns, after all, they don't know the existence of rifling machines." ”
"Then there are only two possibilities, either less than a hundred, or barely a hundred."
"But the odds of these two kinds are too high, one to twenty, the eight major Jin merchants are evil or what's wrong."
Sun Yuanhua took a breath, looked at the flat fertile soil near Gyeonggi and said, "The Eight Great Jin Merchants are not evil, but for an unimaginable wealth. ”
"Even if it is a loss of 20, they will buy all the Zhuangzi land at a low price of 221 mu."
"Because the amount of Zhuangzi land mortgaged is too large, the eight major Jin merchants pressed the past seventy or eighty twenty-one acres of Shangtian to one tael of silver."
"The secondary field of thirty or forty hundred and twenty-one acres has been pressed to eight dollars of silver per acre, and the inferior land of ten taels of silver per acre has been pressed to one penny of silver per acre."
"It's like picking it up for nothing."
"You said that this one loss of twenty is earned? Or is it a loss? ”
Not only is it earned, it is completely a million profits, and the eight Jin merchants are indeed crazy, but they are crazy about accumulating money.
Zhu Shun saw that these people were almost rested, so he continued to walk towards the capital: "The eight Jin merchants are the eight Jin merchants in the end, and this business is really clever. ”
"But with the scheming of the Donglin Party, the city government will not be ......."