After buying the barren mountain, Zheng Sheng quickly bid farewell to the Xiliang caravan, returned to Hanzhong, handed over the paperwork to Zheng Wen, and then returned home.

As a result, a few days later, Ma Suishan's people came to Nanxiang to complain.

"This old man reacts very quickly!" Zheng Sheng felt that Ma Suishan, who was fooled by him, would not react so easily. Could it be that there are still smart people in the Ma family?

But Zheng Sheng thought that after getting the barren mountain, Zheng Wen sent someone to open the mine.

Ma Suishan was not really a fool, he had to investigate a little, and he could find that the person who appeared in the barren mountain was someone from the Zheng family before.

Ma Suishan was probably angry, so he directly sent his son to Nanxiang to sue him.

Undoubtedly, this is a slap in the face!

That document, Ma Suishan in order to prevent Zheng Sheng from repenting. He invited many people to testify, including local powerful people such as the lord of Hanzhong and the magistrate of Chuyang County, as well as celebrities in the upper echelons of the literary world such as Hanzhong Zhongzheng. Because of his weak heart, he was worried that Zheng Sheng would "retreat" from the mountain in the future, so he racked his brains to bind the ownership of the barren mountain to Zheng Sheng. In retrospect, this is shooting yourself in the foot.

The paperwork is impeccable, and in any case, it is an indisputable fact that Ma sold the barren mountain to Zheng Sheng. With this contract, Ma Suishan can't win this lawsuit.

What's more, Ma Suishan wanted to say that he was a liar. But the fact is that Zheng Sheng didn't say that he was from Xiliang, he was just taking a ride, and it was they who speculated that he was from Xiliang!

If Ma Liang wants to sue, let him sue! Written clearly in black and white, Zheng Sheng is not afraid at all!

However, what he was more curious about was how Ma Suishan confirmed that he was Zheng Sheng? Is it a guess? He decided to ask about it after meeting Ma Liang.

When there was another incident in Hanzhong, Zheng Sheng sent a letter to Zheng Wen with a carrier pigeon to inform him of the incident. There is also to ask Zheng Wen to send someone to send the document, and Zheng Sheng needs to use it as proof.

After this matter was dealt with, Zheng Sheng went to work on fireworks production again.

He assigned Liu Wei'er the task of making the shell of the paper tube. Liu Wei'er had already gone to the kitchen to discuss the matter of glutinous rice juice with Aunt Cai.

And he himself managed to figure out the fuse and metal.

The only existing metals are sodium and copper, and with only these two, the flame color is only yellow and green, which is not perfect. But other metals are really hard to come by.

Zheng Sheng thought about it, and he also went to the kitchen to find Aunt Cai.

Aunt Cai was surprised: "Haiyan? What does the prince want that kind of thing for? Jiezhou fine salt is very good to use. Sea salt is bitter, and the prince does not have to eat it. ”

Zheng Sheng told her: "Aunt Cai, I don't take sea salt for eating. ”

Aunt Cai was suspicious, and saw Liu Wei'er, who was cooking glutinous rice next to her, and the glutinous rice she cooked was not for food. These two kids are really messing around!

But in the end, she still gave him a big bag of sea salt, and persuaded him: "This sea salt is a large piece of salt, don't eat it!" ”

Zheng Sheng made a guarantee and returned to Jing Sixuan.

Then Zheng Sheng remembered that he still needed some fine hemp rope, and went to the housekeeper Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong took him to the treasury, and Zheng Sheng picked out a hemp rope with a very similar quality fireworks fuse.

Zheng Sheng looked at the bag of sea salt and frowned, this Nima is the salt that people eat? It's just a dirty "stone"?

He wondered if Aunt Cai was lying to him. Zheng Sheng chose a slightly cleaner piece and pinched it off a little, looking at the turbid solid, it felt like salt? He put the solid in his mouth, which felt very bitter, but also confirmed that it was salt. Zheng Sheng felt that this kind of sea salt, which was of extremely poor quality, should not be the salt sold by the government salt officials, but the salt sold by private salt dealers and sold to the poor.

However, Zheng Sheng felt that good quality salt should contain fewer other elements, and those with more impurities should contain more other elements. He should be able to get what he wants with this salt.

Zheng Sheng made a new decision, he once again approached Wang Zhong and asked him to collect the worst quality sea salt from the smugglers near Shunyang.

The kings are almost collapsing, little son! Can't you just not toss? The worst quality sea salt? The more the merrier, do you want to eat this sea salt as a meal?

The kings set out in despair.

Zheng Sheng picked up the work he had put down again, and he began to prepare*.

* Zheng Sheng remembers the proportion of the three raw materials clearly. After weighing out the right proportions, Zheng Sheng mixes them together to make *.

Zheng Sheng looked at the hemp rope, he was a little embarrassed. Throw it into the * pile, roll it up a few times, and it's a fuse?

Zheng Sheng said just do it, make a "fuse", he lifted it and looked at it carefully, it was indeed stained with a lot of * small particles.

Zheng Sheng then conducted the experiment. He went outside, and lit one end of it with incense, and at first the twine burned, as he had hoped, but it burned in half, and perhaps the wind outside was too strong to blow it out.

Zheng Sheng's first fuse failed.

Wang Zhong was very fast, and he sent Zheng Sheng several large bags of sea salt, which were similar in quality to Zheng Sheng's original bag. Zheng Sheng estimated it and felt that these sea salts exceeded three hundred kilograms, and he said that he was very satisfied.

Wang Zhong walked away with a blank face.

Liu Wei'er's work also suffered a setback, although the glutinous rice juice was ready, but she found that the paper at home was too soft and too thin, if you want to achieve the level of fireworks outer cylinder, you need at least ten pieces of paper to be glued together, Liu Wei'er calculated, "Ten pieces of paper in one outer cylinder, six outer cylinders in a bundle of paper, 1,800 yuan!" Three hundred dollars for an outer cylinder! ”

She felt the cost was too high.

But Zheng Sheng didn't have a good way, maybe he could exchange a batch of fireworks in the future, but now he can only use paper as a shell first.

Liu Wei'er was unwilling, she went to the warehouse to find Jin paper. Zheng Zi paper is expensive, but Jin paper is not expensive!

The day passed like this, and in the evening, Zheng Sheng began to panic again.

He's going to do the balance experiment again.

Whether the second exchange can be done has not yet come to fruition, and he has a new idea.

Zheng Sheng placed the largest amount of sea salt on the right tray.

The word "ask" floats gently above the tray on the left.

Zheng Sheng took a deep breath: "Please isolate the various compounds in sea salt in their most common form. ”

The word disappeared, and in the balance on the left, a small pile of crystals emerged!

It's a bunker! Zheng Sheng thought excitedly, it can be synthesized and decomposed, the balance is simply omnipotent!

This night, Zheng Sheng was having a beautiful dream. On the other side, let's follow Zheng Sheng's perspective of releasing the white dove and go to Nanyang Wancheng.

Pigeons have a natural ability: they are homing.

When this white pigeon set off from Shunyang and flew to Wancheng in Nanyang, it was already nearly a child.

The white dove landed on its familiar nest, and it turned its head to look around with some uneasiness, the beating firelight, the chaotic sounds, everything around it was not the same as before. And, what about the master? It's already here, shouldn't the owner be here right away?

Where is Zheng Wen?

He was in Zheng Yuan's study, and he was talking to Zheng Yuan restlessly.

Zheng Yuan listened to him with a calm face, and Zheng Bao walked in again, his expression a little panicked.

Without waiting for him to speak, Zheng Yuan raised his hand and said, "If you want to tell me what Zheng Miao has done again, you don't need to say anything more." ”

Zheng Bao looked at the two with heavy expressions in confusion: "Patriarch, what is going on?" ”

Zheng Wen whispered to Zheng Ba: "Tonight, the patriarch and I wanted to talk to Zheng Miao, but not only did he not come, but he also sent people to surround Weilanju. ”

"Not a blue house?" Zheng Ba knew that it was Zheng Wen's other residence in Wancheng, he thought about Zheng Ming's movements, Zheng Wen's residence was monitored, and even Zheng Ba seemed to have more "guards" everywhere in Zheng Mansion, Zheng Ba blurted out: "What does he want to do?" ”

He said that it was for the Hanzhong mine. As you know, last month, Ke Wu and I went to Hanzhong to buy a mountain. That mountain was originally borderland, and after the Hanzhong Ma clan bought the mine first, they offered us unacceptable terms. Kewu made a little trick and took the mine. ”

Zheng Bao nodded, he did know about it.

"Zheng Miao told me today that Ma Shi came to Nanyang to file a complaint, accusing me and Ke Wu of using trickery to defraud his family's mine. Zheng Miao wanted to take away the main power of my Zheng family's commercial houses in the name of improper business and misconduct. Zheng Wen's face was full of resentment, "I am not doing business properly and misbehaving? So, the outsiders he helped, then Ma Suishan is above board? ”

Zheng Ba frowned, "Patriarch, Zheng Miao has always cherished feathers, and what he does today is not like his previous style?" ”

Zheng Yuan stopped Zheng Wen's next words, and said in a deep voice: "So far, we can only take one step at a time." Go down and restrain your subordinates. In addition, tell Shunyang about Nanyang as soon as possible and covertly. ”

Zheng Wen nodded and left in a hurry.

At this time, in another mansion in Wancheng, under a dim oil lamp, an old man with gray hair was drowsy, until a soft knock on the door sounded. The old man sat up straight in an instant.

An old man of his age with a smile on his face walked in.

The old man sitting on the chair stood up, took a step forward, and said with a smile: "Brother Han Zhen, I haven't seen you for a few years, but your demeanor is still the same!" ”

The old man named Han Zhen who entered the door smiled undiminishedly: "Zhao Zhongyi, you are the same!" ”

Then the two who hadn't seen each other for many years exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then turned the topic to the topics that the two cared about.

"Zhong Yi, what is Zheng Ziqing's character, you have to explain it to me! He took out such a big gift as a qualification for promotion, but what he asked for was the guard of the town, whether he wanted to agree to help him introduce. I'll have to think about it! ”

"Zheng Ziqing's assessment comments over the years, and the evaluations of major Confucians and celebrities in Nanyang are all here, and Brother Han Zhen can take a closer look."

Han Zhen picked up a stack of paper full of words on the table, and after reading it, he shook his head and said, "That's all?" What can be seen is only superficial, Brother Zhong Yi should know that the king of my family pays great attention to his reputation, what if? ”

Zhao Zhongyi's face remained unchanged, he smiled and took out another thing from his arms, "Brother Han Zhen also knows that Zheng Zizhi is famous all over the world, Zheng Ziqing said, if Brother Han Zhen can help him with this, half of the profits should be given to Brother Han Zhen." ”

Han Zhen smiled even more happily, "Zheng Ziqing was re-elected as his subordinate Zhu Cao, and he has no record of acting improperly, so it is not impossible to be promoted to the commander of Wancheng County." As for this thing, Brother Zhong Yi will put it away first! After all, there is no merit in vain! ”