Chapter 163

"Hey, what's 'a lot of money, but the hairy ones don't count', it's difficult for the county to get some egg whites now."

Yang Shangjing stood in his study, facing the green trees outside, with a gloomy face, he glanced at the official robe hanging on the wall, and then at the official seal on the table, and the gloom on his face became tangled.

If the gunpowder wants to be granulated, the soil method is to directly put the egg white, and then dry it through a sieve, or learn the technique of the hairy countryman, mix the raw materials with water, mix evenly, and then make a large cake to dry, and then break the sieve, and then throw it into a large wooden barrel and add graphite to stir back and forth, grinding off the edges and corners of the gunpowder particles, so that the gunpowder appears smooth and suitable for long-distance transportation.

It's all local law, Yang Shangjing still thinks that the latter is more economical at the beginning, after all, gunpowder is invented by Chinese, and in modern times, it is still the white skin of Europe, but when he asked the price of graphite, he was directly stupid, there is no means of the industrialization era, and the graphite is not easy to get, there are no mineral deposits near Huangyan County, as for other minerals in Zhejiang...... Well, in the posture mastered by the representative of his three-year high school geography class, the famous non-metallic resource deposits have no use in this feudal year.

But when it comes to egg white, there is no big chicken farmer in Huangyan County this year, the root is in the sentence "family wealth is thousand, hairy ones are not counted", no matter how many chickens are raised, a chicken plague is all gone, just the chickens raised by ordinary farmers, how many eggs a day? Either save it and sell it at a good price in the market, or the children in the family celebrate their birthdays to satisfy their hunger, if he buys them in large quantities, the price of eggs can rise to the sky in an instant.

Moreover, this year is not a mechanized automated farm in later generations, the feed or something can't keep up, just rely on small insects, grass seeds and other things to supplement nutrition, an old hen can lay an egg a day that is a model worker, the total amount can not go up, the yield can not go up, the ancient feudal empire still has all kinds of disadvantages of the market economy...... This may be the most personal fact in the world.

All in all, graphite has to be mined, eggs have to be raised by chickens, and now he has to prepare for the large-scale production of granulated gunpowder in a few years, otherwise he will be able to blatantly engage in black powder one day, and he will have to catch blind.

"Gunpowder is made into small particles, is it possible that there is any use for it?" Uncle Zhong asked with an eyebrow.

You can't blame Uncle Zhong's posture level is not enough, granulated gunpowder hasn't appeared in these years, everyone is a bunch of scattered gunpowder, so Yang Shangjing sighed, and explained to Uncle Zhong: "The same amount of gunpowder is always made into particles and burned first, if it is placed in the chamber of the musket, its power is much greater." ”

Explaining what kind of gunpowder expands when it burns, Yang Shangjing himself was a little confused, so he simply changed the topic: "It's just that that thing needs some egg whites or graphite, but it's difficult." ”

Uncle Zhong was silent for a long time, and then nodded: "If this is the case, the old servant will go and think of a way for the young master." ”

After a pause, Uncle Zhong was also a little hesitant: "Now that the young master has recently made a great contribution, the promotion is still unresolved, that is, to promote chicken breeding in Huangyan County, there is also the risk of someone dying in government, if the new county order is a vassal of Jin Ying, Wang Zhen and others, I am afraid that I will have to counterattack and count it, although the matter of the Huang family is a certainty, but this matter of raising chickens ...... But the young master can be traced for a crime of disturbing the people. ”

In a word, if the feudal society wants to engage in a new economic model, especially when the internal court and the external court are in dispute, it is to hang a sword over one's head.

Just as he was speaking, he heard a family member outside cautiously report: "Young Master, Uncle Zhong, Daoist Cai is here." ”

The identities of Lao Cai's craftsmen are strictly confidential, and the people who know about it in the entire Huangyan County are only Yang Shangjing, Uncle Zhong, and Yang Qin, and there are five henchmen, and the rest of the ordinary family members are also kept in the dark, so Yang Shangjing raised his eyebrows and said to the outside: "Quickly invite him in." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Uncle Zhong, Uncle Zhong nodded, went to sit outside, and when he passed by the door, he exchanged a look with Lao Cai, who nodded understandingly, and knelt down at Yang Shangjing as soon as he entered the room: "Old servant Cai Bingkun, I have seen the young master." ”

Although he is also the head of craftsmen in the Yang family, there are some people who talk about status or something, but craftsmen in this era are looked down upon, so Lao Cai's status in the rivers and lakes is still thrown out of eighteen streets compared to Uncle Zhong.

Lao Cai is this age, but the action of kneeling is called a mally, Yang Shangjing looked distressed, and hurriedly stepped forward, while Lao Cai had not knelt down, he stretched out his hand and picked him up: "Hurry up, please get up, if you kneel like this, if you want to do anything in the future, you don't dare to trouble you when you are old." ”

Even if he is a member of the liberal arts monks, Yang Shangjing also knows that on the road of human beings moving from agriculture to informatization and industrial revolution, the backbone is science students and engineering students. He couldn't let Lao Cai kneel either.

This hand really moved Lao Cai enough, and said again and again: "How can the old servant be so polite to let the young master be so polite." ”

After settling Lao Cai, Yang Shangjing straightened up and asked, "I wonder how the new gunpowder is configured now?" ”

"It is for this reason that the old servant made some new gunpowder with others the day before yesterday, and the power is really much greater, but the gunpowder that the young master said condensed into particles, but it can't be made for a while." Lao Cai sighed, "The old servant and the others are stupid, so I came to ask the young master if you can show the old servant and others a clear way." ”

Hearing this, Yang Shangjing almost laughed, he was thinking about making some gunpowder noodles in small batches little by little, and then stirring the sieve with egg whites, without giving the next step at all, I didn't expect that these craftsmen were also very curious, so he smiled: "It's also simple, but the gunpowder is stirred evenly with egg whites, and it will be dried through the sieve, you should pay attention to it, but don't hurt yourself." ”

After a pause, Yang Shangjing waved his hand: "It's not a rush to do this, if you are always curious, you can get a few eggs and try it back, but ...... Drying gunpowder requires a secret place, and now the craftsmen who lead people to work there also have people who can make gunpowder, and if you can distinguish it, it will always be a trouble. ”