The nurse had no choice but to do so.

Li Youlai laughed contentedly at this moment.

Xiong Zhiyuan scolded when he saw this: "The surname is Li, you fucking this is a violation of discipline, you will be shot!" ”

"Shit! I didn't touch her, she wanted to kiss me herself, my sister wanted to kiss me herself, what could I do. ”

Li You asked the nurse as he spoke: "Sister, what is your name and how old are you?" Are there any men? Do you want to marry me? I saved more than ten taels of silver! ”

"Brother, I can't marry you! I, yesterday Dr. An checked our pulse and said that I have a child, and I am pregnant with the species of mountain bandits, woo! ”

As she spoke, the nurse crouched on the ground and began to cry.

"Don't cry, don't cry, good sister, it's okay, I don't blame you for this, as long as you marry me, I will raise you together after birth, but you have to give me one for myself."

Li Youlai hurriedly comforted him.

The nurse nodded her head as well.

"Brother, I'll feed you!"

"Brother, don't, they're all watching!"

"Brother, is it more comfortable to press like this?"

……

These days to come.

Li Youlai lived a life like a fairy.

And the wounded such as Yue Changgui and Xiong Zhiyuan are not far behind.

As a result, other field soldiers who were not injured came to the field medical hall to see them whenever they were free, and they were envious of them one by one.

After all, these field soldiers are recruited from homeless people and military households, and some have never even seen a sow, let alone a woman, and now seeing this nurse is like seeing gold, and her eyes are shining.

"Captain Wu, next time, can you let me have a sword and shield hand, let me exchange it with Li You, I don't deserve to be a firearm hand in this Laoshzi, I can't be injured if I hide behind, I also want to be injured and kissed and hugged by these nurses."

After Zhou Laojiu came to see his comrades-in-arms, he asked Yue Changgui for instructions.

Yue Changgui directly rejected Zhou Laojiu: "No! ”

……

"No way!"

Lu Yuan directly rejected Tang Ying's suggestion that this batch of copper ore be smelted into copper first, and then minted into copper coins.

"Lu Lang, now there are more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians in Qingquan Village, and most of them are workers, living by buying food and clothes from the market, and the commercial prosperity is comparable to that of Linqing, but because of this, it is inconvenient for everyone to buy daily necessities with silver, just like this to buy rice for a bucket but a dollar or two cents, you can't let the people of Qingquan Village have to bring a nickname every time they buy rice!"

Tang Ying is now more and more fond of managing the civil affairs of Qingquan Village, and even often pays attention to the living needs of the military and civilians in Qingquan Village, thinking about how to make the lives of these soldiers and civilians better.

Nowadays, there is no circulating small money in the market of Qingquanzhai, that is, copper coins, so that Tang Ying found that it was extremely inconvenient for the people to shop, and even his own government-run department stores were not easy to sell, so he started the idea of the batch of copper mines that Lu Yuan transported back and wanted to mint copper coins.

Now that the money law is in chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a new thing for people to privately mint copper coins, and Tang Ying is naturally clearer than Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan also knows the importance of economic reform, if Qingquanzhai wants to be more prosperous, it cannot do without its own currency, and this is also an important way to control the economy of Qingquanzhai.

But Lu Yuan didn't agree: "I said that before the world is peaceful, we should make decisions to give priority to military and political affairs, and then consider civil affairs, lady, you promised me!" ”

"Isn't it okay to set aside some of the minted money?"

Tang Ying asked.

"No, all the copper smelted from this batch of copper mines must be used to cast cannons, if you want to mint money, you can directly ask Xiao Chun to find someone to buy it, but you can't fight the idea of this batch of copper mines."

After Lu Yuan said this, Tang Ying couldn't insist anymore.

Lu Yuan naturally knew that commercial activities could not be separated from coins, but now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was about to enter the customs, he could only hurry up and strengthen his military strength first.

Lu Yuan asked Xiao Chun to come and find three craftsmen who smelted copper, all of whom had made private money for some wealthy families to smelt copper.

Lu Yuan directly set up the Chunfeng Copper Smelter, and let these three craftsmen serve as quasi-technicians in the first, second, and third groups of the copper smelting group of the Chunfeng Copper Smelter, so that they must smelt the copper as soon as possible.

In the pre-Qin period, the ancients mastered the technology of wet copper smelting.

Therefore, in today's Ming Dynasty, the skill of copper smelting has long been proficient, and these three technicians are also very fast in copper smelting.

Next.

What Lu Yuan needed was to use this batch of copper to cast artillery.

"Xiao Chunlai, how is the gunsmith you are looking for?"

On this day, Lu Yuan called Xiao Chunlai from Linqing and asked.

"Childe, the little one went to inquire three days ago according to your instructions, this gunsmith is not easy to find, the craftsmen who can cast cannons are all reported in the government, and now I have only found an old gunsmith Zhu Yuan, who has been a gunsmith under the hands of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, Zhu Yuanshan, because the governor of Sun later committed a crime, and he did not want to join Geng Jingzhong and them to build slaves, so he quietly ran to Linqing City to ask for a living."

Xiao Chun replied.

"In this way, you will invite this old gunsmith Zhu Yuanshan."

Lu Yuan nodded, as far as he knew, Sun Yuanhua was a well-known firearms expert, and he studied under Xu Guangqi, and the craftsmen who cast cannons under him should not be far behind.

"The little one has already invited him and is waiting outside."

Xiao Chun replied.

Therefore, Lu Yuan hurriedly asked Xiao Chun to invite Nazhu Yuanshan in.

Outcome.

What Lu Yuan didn't expect was that Zhu Yuanshan, who came in, was actually a Westerner, with white skin and yellow hair, hooked nose, and a cross hanging under his black robe.

"You are Zhu Yuanshan?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"Yes, my lord!" I wish Yuanshan to return.

"You're a gunsmith?" Lu Yuan asked.

"To be precise, the little one is a missionary, but he was left by Master Sun because he was good at casting cannons."

I wish Yuanshan to return.

"I need you to help me cast artillery, and I will give you the treatment of a quasi-technician first, and the treatment of one or two or five dollars a month during the probation period, are you willing?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"The little ones are willing."

This Zhu Yuanshan was reluctant to go to Liaodong to serve the Jiannu in the mouth of Sun Yuanhua and other officials, plus as a missionary, it was naturally difficult for him to make a living in this Confucian society, and now he was poor and destitute in the early morning, so seeing that this military attache was willing to take him in, he was naturally willing.

"That's very good, I'll assign you five apprentices, you take them to build an artillery construction base for this officer as soon as possible, and I order you to be the leader of the artillery team."

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he first took this Zhu Yuanshan to his current industrial base.

The entire industrial base of Qingquanzhai already has steel mills, machinery companies, chemical plants and their affiliated cement plants.

Zhu Yuanshan was stunned when he saw that the liquid state flowing out of the steel mill turned directly into steel ingots: "This lord, how can your land directly smelt molten steel?!" ”

"It's a secret," Lu Yuan replied with a smile.

Then, Zhu Yuanshan came to the machinery company again, and saw a few apprentices drilling the barrel of the gun, and exclaimed even more for a while: "My God, if you don't see it with your own eyes, I can't believe that the barrel can be drilled directly with an iron knife. ”

"It's a secret!" Lu Yuan still said with a smile.

Then, when Zhu Yuanshan saw the clattering gears and compressed springs and steel sheets on the hydraulic machinery of the hydraulic mill of the cement factory were driving the stone mill one by one through the linkage rod under the impact of the water, he was even more shocked: "My God, this is simply ingenious in the words of you Orientals!" It's the most beautiful machine I've ever seen! ”

"My lord, what is the clay milled by this machine, is this also a secret?" Zhu Yuanshan asked.

"It's no secret that you'll need this to build your artillery casting base, this is cement, a building material that solidifies quickly and hardens!"

Lu Yuan said with a smile.