It should be impossible for the Black Turban Army to dig a large amount of azurite ore for dyeing cloth, let alone for smelting, they don't have the technology to smelt basic copper carbonate, not to mention that with the current technology, the high cost of smelting is definitely not something they can afford.

But after thinking about it, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) couldn't think of a reason.

With the current material and technical basis, the Black Turban Army may not be able to make any chemical products from basic copper carbonate, but this thing is large in quantity and highly toxic. Biologically, it can instantly kill the active protein, 0.9g/KG can cure human life, and low-dose consumption in a short period of time can cause cancerous esophagus and gastrointestinal cancer.

If the water level drops sharply in the dry season or the dry season in summer, a large number of water sources are thrown into the river to pollute the water source, and the water is cut off for ten days and half a month, which is an unprecedented man-made disaster, and dozens or even millions of people will die of thirst because of this.

This matter has to be prevented, in case of collective poisoning, even the impregnable line of defense will not be able to withstand man-made disasters.

At dusk, Dian Kun rode a horse, and when he saw Bailiyan, it was already dark:

"General Dian, what's the matter here?"

"The last general was ordered to ask General Wei to come over to the mansion."

"Passing the house?" Wei Xian's eyes rolled, pinched his fingers and counted the past two months, could it be that the Anliang Coal Mine has a result? "General Dian, the matter of the coal mine will not be settled."

Dian Kun's face did not change his color, and he said seriously:

"The last general doesn't know, and I ask General Wei to leave immediately."

Bai Liyan smiled lightly and said:

"General Dian, it's already dark at this time, even if you rush back to Chenling, it should be the second half of the night, not to mention whether the city gate can be opened, Hou Ye can't receive the general in the middle of the night. Besides, Wei just returned to the camp today, and he was sleepy and tired, so Wei should be able to sleep all night to recuperate. ”

"This ......" Dian Kun was stunned for a long time, thinking to himself, it was dark this day, and he was tired enough to gallop all the way, so it was better to rest for one night first, anyway, the sky would not fall: "Let's go, I will rest in your camp tonight." ”

The Liang army was stationed 20 miles west of the Lingling Mountains, and the countermeasures stationed at all levels had almost nothing to do, except to accompany the Liang army generals to inspect the various armies and battalions, and every day they were full of food, sleep, and food, and this was almost every day for more than two months.

Bailiyan is not confined to Ji Tong's constraints, and Ji Tong can't restrain him, unless he doesn't want a first-class weapon. Therefore, in the past two months, Bai Liyan has not been to the camp of the Liang army, and eight out of ten days have been out hunting for the supplies and strongholds of the Black Turban rebels, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

Early the next morning, Bailiyan took Su Hong and fifty escorts, carried the goods transported from the deserted village, and followed Diankun to the Liangguo Legation's Mansion in Chenling, Li Yi was enthusiastic, and personally greeted him outside, seeing Bailiyan dismounting, Li Yi stepped forward and gave a slight salute and said:

"General Wei's frequent good news is gratifying, and the general is very admired"

"It's the young general who has an overreputation, what about Master Hou?"

"Oh, my uncle has already prepared a banquet and invited General Wei to have a few drinks."

"That's okay, the young general will ask first."

"Okay."

Li Yi hurriedly turned around, and swept over the two carriages, eight huge boxes stacked neatly, and I don't know what was in them. He hurriedly asked Bai Liyan:

"General Wei, what's in the big box in this carriage?"

"Oh, two hundred iron cloth shirts, fifty sharp swords, and fifty horizontal knives, which are specially sold to the Hou Ye at a price."

Li Yidun was taken aback and said:

"Could it be that they are all as sharp as the general's sword, and the iron is as sharp as mud and hair?"

Bai Liyan nodded and said affirmatively:

"Exactly, if the texture is uneven, how can Wei be assigned to the soldiers to use, how can the soldiers dare to use it with confidence, and if the weapons are of different textures, how can they be conducive to killing the enemy."

Signaling Su Hong to carry the wooden box into the mansion, Bailiyan accompanied Li Yi to the inner house, Ji Tongxi smiled proudly, as if he had picked up the gold ingot, and greeted him with a smile:

"General Wei has made another meritorious service, which is gratifying."

Baili Yan bowed and said:

"Wei doesn't dare to be greedy for merit, this battle depends on the soldiers to work together to gain an inch of merit, how can Wei be greedy for the military merits of the soldiers, and please ask Hou Ye to learn from it."

"Hehaha, don't talk about it, come in and sit."

Please enter the house, a table of sumptuous dishes is an eye-opener.

There are a total of twelve dishes on the table, all of which are Bailiyan's best dishes to entertain Boyuan Jun Ji Feng back then, but today it has become Ji Tong's banquet to invite himself, and it is ironic to think about it.

As soon as he entered the table, Ji Tong said:

"General Wei, this dish is cooked by a family kitchen, but Xianguo doesn't have it, General Wei might as well try it."

"Oh......" Bai Liyan's face was strange, and she couldn't help but think: "Ji Tong has sold liquor and soy sauce to the entire Central Plains, making a lot of money, and even the dishes have become the specialties of the Ji family. ”

Stretch out the chopsticks and put the vegetables in your mouth, and the taste will be okay. Of course, there are no cooking skills such as braised braised food, sweet and sour dishes, and what the Hou Mansion can bring to the table is basically not a delicacy that ordinary people can taste.

Let's just say that this Dongpo meat, it takes half a day to simmer slowly, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to burn firewood.

At this time, Li Yi said openly:

"Uncle, General Wei has come here to bring a hundred iron cloth shirts, and a hundred blades to be sold to my uncle at a price."

"Oh, that's a good thing."

Ji Tong pretended to be happy, his eyes wandered and he secretly observed Bailiyan's reaction, ate food and drank for a while, Ji Tong said:

"I can't hide it from General Wei, there is news about this Anliang coal matter, and it is true that there is coal underground in Anliang, as the general said."

"Oh, yes." Bai Liyan put down her chopsticks and continued quietly: "That being the case, when will the Hou Ye honor the gambling contract?" ”

"Within two months, 1.5 million stone grains and grass will arrive at the port of Dongyuan County one after another, and it will not exceed March at the latest."

Ji Tong was suddenly so refreshed, Bai Liyan thought to herself that he was definitely not so kind, there must be something to hide from him.

"Hou Ye is really refreshing, Wei has thanked Hou Ye here."

"Eh, don't be busy with Xie Benhou just yet. There is another thing, Ben Hou had already negotiated with King Xian yesterday, so he didn't know that General Wei was willing to part with his love. ”

"Cut love!" Bai Liyan frowned, and asked, "What does Master Hou mean?" ”

"Oh, that's right. The heat in July and August of the year in Liang was unbearable, so he wanted to get the method of making ice from General Wei, but I didn't know if General Wei was willing to give advice. ”

As soon as Ji's voice fell, Li Yi was taken aback and said:

"General Wei is really wonderful, he can turn water into ice, why doesn't General Wei grant this method to my uncle, it's also a cool summer."

Bai Liyan glanced at her good nephew, and she really turned her elbow outward, focusing on her uncle. He straightened his face and said with some unhappiness:

"Master Hou is really shrewd, this good deal of ten stones of silver and ice, I am afraid that he will earn more than Guangxin City in Liang Kingdom."

Ji Tong said with a cheeky smile:

"If General Wei is willing to dedicate himself to the Son of Heaven, there will be a good reward in the future."

"Okay, but I don't know what benefits my king can get, presumably the Hou Ye must have wasted a lot of tongues."

"Hehe, King Xian will not suffer a loss, but it is inconvenient for Benhou to mention this matter, if General Wei wants to know, he will ask your king himself."

Hearing this, Bai Liyan couldn't help but think that Ji Tong must have used some empty check to take away the white wolf of King Xian, otherwise he would not be on the stage.

The simple ice-making method is not a critical technology, and it is difficult for Liang Guo's ice to be sold across the ocean to Xianguo, not to mention that there is no way out.

The ice making method of the deserted village is a combination of potassium nitrate ice making method and salt bath ice making, and only potassium nitrate is used to make ice, which is easy to melt, poor preservation, and the water temperature is too high to freeze.

At that time, people did not have a deep understanding of chemical and physical phenomena, and did not understand their reasoning, and only thought that it was easy to make ice, but in fact it was not. Since Ji Tong wants to make ice, it is enough to sell him his personal favor, just give him the potassium nitrate ice making method, so as not to make him an inch.

Thinking of coming to Ji Tong to ask for the ice-making process, he planned to make it in a large number of countries in the Liang Kingdom, and then sell it to rich people to make huge profits.

Especially when the state apparatus is completely monopolized, such a capitalless transaction is tantamount to firmly holding the windfall profits in one's own hands, which is far more cost-effective than borrowing 1.5 million stone and borrowing 50,000 military horses.

"Master Hou, can this matter be decided after the king is clear?"

"How can Ben Hou deceive you, just ask, I think King Xian will never lose his trust in me."

"Okay, when General Ben asks my queen, I will pass on the method of ice making to the Hou Ye."

After the banquet was dispersed, Ji Tong and Li Yi sent Bailiyan out of the house with smiling faces, and on the way, Su Hong saw Bailiyan sullen and couldn't help asking:

"General Wei, but at the banquet, Marquis Antai insulted us and made the general unhappy?"

"Don't talk nonsense, the dignified Marquis of Liang Kingdom, how can you blackmail us for a batch of weapons."

"Then why does the general always look at it?"

"Okay, you don't understand. You take people back to the station, and tell Sikong Nan and Lu Gao that it will be the first month in a few days, and all the armies will inevitably celebrate their achievements, and you ask Sikong Nan to spend some copper money from the account to buy some meat, and give me enough food and drink for the holidays, and give me enough strength to kill the thief after the year.

Before the holiday, I decided not to return to the camp, and asked Sikong Nan to pay some more money from the account to buy rice and grain for the dead brothers in their respective families and others to bring back to their relatives. ”

"General Wei, you are really a good person, there have been many deaths over the years, and there can be a few people who can get a pension, and only the general pays for the pension yourself, and you have to take some New Year's money during the New Year's Festival, so you are kind-hearted."

"Alas......" Wei Xian sighed helplessly, and said the next moment: "Let's take people out alive, and we didn't bring them back alive, because we are sorry for others, we can't let people chill and poke our backbones in the back." ”

"That's what the general said, but how much does this person plan for?"

"The brothers who died in Guangxin, the Guangxin Mansion had a pension before, and the generals later gave less, so the brothers of Guangxin will be less, according to each person's four stone rice, ten catties of salt, fifty catties of vegetable oil, and six zhang cloth for the compensity.

For other non-Guangxin brothers, there is basically no bereavement allowance from the Yamen, although I gave some, but after a pillar died in the family, each person was given a compensatory allowance of ten stones of polished rice, twenty catties of salt, one stone of vegetable oil, and ten zhang of cloth.

As long as the other disabled brothers are assigned to the deserted villages, as long as they farm and work, they will all be done according to the rules of the deserted villages. ”

Su Hong was taken aback when he heard the news:

"General Wei, this is a lot of money. We came out of Guangxin, and up to now, nearly 400 brothers in Guangxin alone have died, more than 200 are disabled, and no less than 300 brothers in other places have died in battle, and there are no tens of thousands of dollars, so I am afraid that it will not be able to stop it. ”

"That's why the general has to give a hundred iron cloth shirts and a hundred swords to An Taihou, otherwise how can I spend this money."