Chapter 52: The Wind Has Not Suddenly Blown
The plot of destroying the three views is about to appear, everyone will wait and see!
The commercial districts in and out of Ha Tinh are all welcoming the New Year with booming purchases and sales.
Stores are trying to seize the last prime sales period of the year, and consumers are also using the last half month to buy some daily necessities and so-called luxury goods for themselves and their families.
Wang Bao's brother-in-law, Huang Duo, and his wife, dressed in newly-made satin cotton robes, walked beautifully on the trading street outside Hejing City, and from time to time went to several shops to buy some items.
Wang Bao's father, Wang Jin, said well, Huang Duo relied on his skill of chopping pigs and geldings, and quickly became famous in the veterinary world of Ha Jing, not to mention building a new house, and he was also incorporated by the veterinary supervisor under Hu Cao, and became the so-called official family.
With a thick stack of money tickets in his pocket, Huang Duo and his wife, take a look at this family, take a look at that family, buy some cloth and New Year's objects for a dry application, according to Huang Duo's meaning, he wanted to add a new set of wood to the newly built house, and he didn't see a suitable one in a few places.
"Boss, it's better to do this, let's first exchange the money ticket for the few catties of refined salt specified on the denomination, five hundred yuan bills, refined salt, can be exchanged for nine catties! Then, that day, when you went to the mountains to cut pigs and geldings for Jingpo and the servants, you exchanged some good wood with salt and came back, and when we came back, we went to the woodsmith shop to make wood. "Wang Bao's aunt is as shrewd as Huang Duo.
"It's good! It's a big deal to go to the tax office and pay your taxes! ”
In the bustling crowd, Miao people, Han people, Jingpo people, etc., who can be seen everywhere, are buying all kinds of New Year's goods.
Behind the Temple of Wealth in the city, the leaders of the Ha Tinh Chamber of Commerce gathered here.
"The general has something to order, from now on, an embargo will be imposed to the south, mainly the following items, refined salt ......" Lin Huofeng, the shopkeeper of the Han Yuan firm, had a stern expression.
"In addition to the embargo, all businesses that have business dealings with the south will give priority to issuing money stamps, and everyone will use the money stamps to purchase each other's various materials as much as possible, especially military supplies, bulk daily necessities, food, etc."
On the surface, the territory of Ha Jing Mansion and the entire General's Mansion is a joyful and peaceful atmosphere preparing for the New Year, but the high-level of the General's Mansion can feel that the current Ha Jing is like a precise machine, running slowly and powerfully, and the target is the Ruan family. The Nguyen family in Hue.
One command after another was delivered by the messengers, either on horseback or by boat.
The southern Han people who were exchanged for their own lives by Hu Licheng were also organized into armor according to the system of the general's mansion, with a slight difference is that after some simple training, the strong men were only equipped with desperate knives and mourning guns, not only did not equip with firearms, but also did not form an army, but temporarily used as a support unit of the army, commonly known as Changfu. Li Shouhan gave him a name, "Iron Shoulders", which was temporarily responsible for the supply of materials between the battalions and the construction of the camp.
Regarding this, the officials and officers of the General's Mansion are well aware of this, although these people are all Chinese compatriots, but do they know if they are mixed with the spies of the Ruan family? If the firearm is fired, it will be impossible to abscond with a gun.
The villages and towns in Guangping, on the north bank of the Lingjiang River, received a very strange order: "Widen all roads and bridges and make cement pavement." requirements, to be able to withstand the weight of the gun carriage. ”
Those merchants who had business dealings with the south received orders from the statistics office to "investigate the depth, width, and flow rate of the Lingjiang River," and as for the mountains, forests, roads, rivers, villages, and so on on the south bank of the Lingjiang River, there were several Han and Yuan firms, business information offices, statistics offices, and other companies that sent personnel to mix in the caravan to investigate, measure the numbers, and draw drawings.
Xu Huanshan, who was far away in Cam Ranh Bay, received such an order, "All ships should go to sea, intercept Portuguese merchant ships, and conduct inspections." At the same time, the port of Hoi An was blocked. Stop any vessels trying to enter Hoi An Port. ”
Zuo Xiaopeng, who provided armed support for the migration in the Jiulongjiang area, received an even more blatant order, "Arm the Chenla area to prevent them from going north to aid the Ruan family." ”
And Wang Bao, who led his division to guard the Lao area, wanted to monitor the Zheng family's army in the north to prevent them from stabbing them in the back when the Li family moved south.
The households under Li Peilin's jurisdiction also began to count their household registrations, calculate how many soldiers could be mobilized for the war, count the treasury, and calculate how much grain, grass, medicine, military salaries, and ordnance would be needed every day once the war began.
The Taipingdong Arsenal, the gun station, and the steel mill are also working overtime to manufacture weapons and ordnance.
The general's war plane began to run at high speed.
In order to ensure a complete victory in the south, Li Shouhan once again went to Taipingdong, his military production center, but this time, he did not go to the gun station and steel factory. Instead, he came to a hidden place in Taiping Cave.
Chemical production is taking place here.
In the open space, a ceramic tower was erected with dozens of ceramic vats. Big mouth to big mouth, small mouth to small mouth, the middle is wrapped in cotton cloth soaked in tung oil and filled with sand and gravel, and inside the tank is pyrite ore, which is everywhere in the Annam area. The cylinders were connected by freshly fired ceramic tubes, and a large amount of sulfur burned violently under the agitation of the horse-drawn bellows, emitting a pungent smell.
Dozens of local workers next to them wore thick masks over their mouths, each carrying a brand-new night pot that was said to be used to hold the liquid that flowed out of the jar and onto the iron plate. Just now, the master used a piece of pigskin to show you, a drop of liquid drops up, and it is immediately burned into a bad shape, the master told you that the thing is very inferior, you have to be more careful, otherwise, once the skin is stained with a little, it will immediately become like pigskin, so that you can not marry a daughter-in-law no matter how much money you have.
People carefully poured the liquid in the night pot into another ceramic jar, and a casserole was placed next to the jar, and charcoal was lit in the casserole, because Li Shouhan repeatedly explained that these liquids could not see fire, but they needed to heat these things, so they put the charcoal in another casserole and heated it indirectly. More than a dozen ceramic pipes, one after another, are connected to a pot filled with sand, which is covered with a stone lid and next to a bellows.
A native worker with a night pot in his hand looked curiously at the lid, which he saw had two ears that served as handles, and a long spout to connect the ceramic pipes. "This is a pig's head!" The workers suddenly discovered that the appearance of this pot lid is characteristic.
His companion looked at this series of production processes with great curiosity, "The general doesn't know what he's doing?" Are you praying for something with the gods of heaven? ”
Unbeknownst to the worker, this set of things was a process for producing sulfuric acid by the cylinder tower method, and the thing he called a pig's head was a process for producing nitric acid. He didn't even know, because of his joke, in the future, this pot lid and this set of equipment for producing nitric acid will be called the pig's head production method.
This is the production line of sulfuric acid and nitric acid formed by Li Shouhan with reference to the production process of the anti-Japanese base areas behind the enemy lines.
"With this, I can produce nitroglycerin! Make explosives out! ”
Li Shouhan secretly laughed in his heart! Shouhan knows very well that concentrated sulfuric acid plus saltpeter is nitric acid, and concentrated nitric acid is obtained by distillation, and then animal oil plus salt and caustic alkali is glycerin, or soap, another weapon that can be used to absorb gold.
"My lord? My lord? Ling Zheng looked at Li Shouhan, who was smiling with a strange smile on his face, and felt a little panicked, and called him in a low voice.
"Oh! What's the matter? Li Shouhan woke up from the invincible scene of his troops being equipped with fire explosives in the real modern sense, charging into battle, and looked at Ling Zheng, the director of the military industry in front of him.
"Why don't you take a look at that rifled barrel line?"
"Oh! That nephew of your own family, Ling Xiao, brought it up? Lead the way in front of the head. ”
Grooves are carved into camphor logs, which can be used as raw materials for shipbuilding, and the logs with threaded grooves are called rifling guides.
This guide rail is pulled through two rings with a raised tenon and a slightly larger diameter than the log, and the raised tenon is forced to rotate according to the threaded thread when the tenon slides through the threaded groove.
A cutter head and a slender steel pillar are used as a hard steel knife (longer than the barrel) used to draw the rifling, fixed at the front end of this rifling guide, and the barrel is clamped with a Tongtian vise, which can be used to pass through the barrel and carve a perfect rifling by pulling the guide rail.
Generally speaking, due to the requirements of stability and precision, this action is pulled, that is, the core of the rifling cutter is loaded on the guide rail through the barrel, and then the head of the knife is pulled through the barrel, rather than pushing the knife to the end. Therefore, this set of process is called rifling, and the set of tools developed by Ling Xiao is called a broaching machine.
The barrels of those rifled guns in Li Shouhan's army were made by this process.
"Adults, a few children at the bottom feel that there should be room for transformation and improvement of this process, and they want to ......" Ling Zheng reported to Li Shouhan with some muttering.
"Isn't there such a thing in the articles of association of our firm? Don't always ask me, no matter who you are, as long as you have an idea, give him a platform and a money base to experiment. ”
was patrolling several other production workshops in Taiping Cave, and inadvertently, Shouhan found that Niu Qiandao in the statistics room didn't know when he was standing on his own.
The face that ordinary people can't remember after seeing it, and the expression that they never know is in a state of joy, anger and sorrow, this is Niu Qiandao, the head of the Statistics Office of the General's Mansion.
"My lord, something's wrong."
"Go home!"
In the General's Mansion, Li Shouhan listened to Niu Qiandao's report in his signature room.
"Who else is tandem underneath?"
Holding the tea made by salt and plum in his hand, Shouhan seemed to be careless.
The so-called tandem means that some old people who have blind orthodoxy and superstitious ideas about the Ming Dynasty, especially the old people among the refugees who withdrew from the south of the Yangtze River, under the leadership of several village elders, are ready to give tens of thousands of people to the yamen of Guangxi, the governor of Guangxi, and the general army, and ask the Guangxi side to send troops to seek justice for them.
"Led by the five elders of the Liao family, the Mai family and the Chen family. The rest is no one else. ”
"Did the old men of our General's Mansion participate?"
"Nope." Niu Qiandao shook his head.
"In this way, you should agitate below, and let those old people in the villages and towns where the General's Mansion belongs also go."
"What do you mean, my lord? Let all these ill-intentioned people come out, and then? A glimmer of light in Niu Qiandao's eyes was fleeting.
"Don't ask so much. Also, you go and invite Mr. Li over. ”
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