There is Lu Feiqing, an old man who has been lurking in Li Kexiu's mansion for many years and is familiar with the operation methods of officialdom, Chen Jialuo can rest assured, and after changing his clothes a little on the second day, he went out to meet Luo Bing and the two of them went to the Zhuangzi purchased by the Red Flower Society. Fuding County was only a little more than 2,000 people in Dingkou when Qianlong first established the county in the fourth year, and now 20 years have passed, and the number of registered Dingkou has increased to nearly 20,000, even if you add those who are hidden and do not report, it will not exceed 30,000; The sudden arrival of two or three hundred outsiders in such a small place will inevitably arouse suspicion, so when Luo Bing purchased a house in the early stage, he deliberately chose a Zhuangzi hidden in a ravine and ravine, and there were only twenty or thirty houses, and some tents were set up to barely live.

"Brother Gao, Brother Yang, what did you two find? Could it be that there is a mine here? Before he reached the entrance of Zhuangzi, he saw Gao Zhisi and Yang Dewang arguing about something on the stone under the cliff, and several strong men surrounded him in the middle, looking around with vigilant eyes. Seeing that the Red Flower Society guarded the two very closely, Chen Jialuo nodded with satisfaction, and hurriedly went over to greet them.

"Helmsman, please look!" , Gao Zhisi handed the stone covered with yellow-brown rust spots to Chen Jialuo, "The two of us stayed in the Zhuangzi and were bored, so we went out for a walk, but I didn't expect an unexpected gain; If I'm not mistaken, this thing is iron ore! ”

It's good to have a mine! First, he can open a furnace to make steel, and second, with the mine as a cover, the people who come in and out here are not so suspicious, "Brother Gao, Brother Yang work hard!" According to the two of them, how many iron ore are there here? Is there any value in mining and smelting? ”

Gao Zhisi helped Yang Dewang's shoulders and climbed the big stone next to him, pointed to the endless mountains on the left and right sides and said, "Since the discovery of the first ore yesterday, we have taken people to walk around the surrounding mountains and made several holes to check. ”

"Oh? This gunpowder is a militaristic weapon, and it may not be a problem to get a little, but it is not easy to open such a large amount of mines! Chen Jialuo himself does not know how to configure gunpowder, and it is not realistic to buy it in large quantities at present.

"I also went to their arsenal for a while when I was in France, the process of making gunpowder is not complicated, if the helmsman can find sulfur and saltpeter, we can build a gunpowder factory here!" , Gao Xiangsi looked confident.

"If that's great!" , Chen Jialuo applauded and praised, "Sulfur is produced in Taiwan, and saltpeter is also widely distributed in the Ryukyus, so I will let Fourth Brother Zhao transport some more back!" ”

After finalizing the establishment of the factory and opening the mine, Chen Jialuo came to the village, and it took a week to complete the teaching of the meaning, methods and skills of the social investigation, but unfortunately these congregations came from all over the country, and there were not many people who knew the Fujian dialect, and finally only found more than 30 people to conduct social investigations, and the rest of the people helped Gao Xiangsi and Yang Dewang prepare for the establishment of the factory during the day, and shared the results with those peers who came back from the social investigation at night, and at the same time received training from Chen Jialuo, Luo Bing, Lu Feiqing and other teachers.

The congregations who went out to investigate have already begun to act, and they are not able to provide detailed data in a short time, but Chen Jialuo still received a good news, through his own operation, Dai Zhen's talent and fame were still removed, which means that his road to fame is basically cut off. Of course, the excuse given to him was that the magistrate decided to open a mine here to enrich the county treasury, and in order to make better use of the local mineral resources, it was also appropriate to teach these foremen some arithmetic knowledge. I don't know if it was because he was hit too deeply or for other reasons, Dai Zhen didn't seem to notice the strangeness of these students, and every time after class, he went to Gao Zhisi and Yang Dewang to exchange Taixi's arithmetic knowledge. Chen Jialuo was overjoyed to see this, and taught Dai Zhen the drawing techniques such as contour lines and scales in later generations through exchanges, and since then the Red Flower Society finally has a world-leading technology in science and technology.

It's not a way to hide from people in the ravine! Seeing that Zhuangzi was expanding day by day, Gao Zhisi and Yang Dewang were busy planning the mining of the mine and the opening of the factory every day, but Chen Jialuo was not happy. The increasing number of people coming here these days to spy on has obviously aroused the doubts of the locals. If you can't solve this problem, sooner or later it will cause an accident, and besides, you need a fair and honest reason to recruit workers and soldiers in the future, it seems that your plan should be advanced, and I don't know how the Twelfth Brother did it?

said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, and as soon as he thought about Shi Shuangying, he went to Zhuangzi, "Chief helmsman, I have already explored the details of the evil tiger village!" ”

"Brother Twelve has worked hard all the way, come and sit down and have a cup of tea before talking slowly." , Chen Jialuo hurriedly welcomed Shi Shuangying into the house;

After drinking tea, Shi Shuangying began to slowly tell the root of this evil tiger village, "There are three masters in this evil tiger village, the big boss Yang Erhu was originally a tenant of the Yang family, his father was seriously ill, he stole the chickens of the owner to make up for the old father's body and was found by the housekeeper, the old father was beaten to death, he escaped and went up the mountain and fell into the grass, the second master was a small landlord, the young master of the family, read some books, the Gao family fell in love with his family's land, colluded with the government to arrest his whole family into the government, his parents died in prison, only to avoid the three masters are local hunters, Hunting strayed into the Zhaojia mountain forest and was wanted, and most of the minions left were forced by the landlord to live before they went up the mountain and fell to the grass, but they were not extremely vicious thieves! ”

"Forced to Liangshan! Hehe, this is the prosperous era of Qianlong! I had only seen these things in novels before, but I didn't expect that there were so many people in the small Fuding County who were forced to fall into the grass, presumably the congregation's investigation report would bring more shocking data, Chen Jialuo sneered twice, and whispered to Shi Shuangying, "Brother Twelve, you take a few good hands and go to the house to find those masters, just say so!" ”

Shi Shuangying's face did not change, after getting along for so long, he had already obeyed Chen Jialuo's plan, and left after asking some details. Chen Jialuo went back to the county government to find Xinyan, and saw that he was discussing something with Lu Feiqing, and after asking, he realized that it would be Xia Xun soon, this Fuding has always been flooded, and if he wanted to repair the embankment, there was no silver in the treasury, and they were having a headache.

Chen Jialuo said with a smile, "This matter is easy, call all the gentry in the county and ask them to donate some!" If anyone does not obey, the people of the evil tiger village will come in handy, so that there will be an excuse to form an armed force by themselves.

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