The situation outside the mountain is becoming more and more severe, according to the news privately transmitted by the official post station, the southern Changmao has entered Hunan, the momentum is huge, Jiangxi is also in chaos, it is said that the front of the army is directed at Hubei. It seems that what the sixth master said is true, and the small group of bandits flowing to the mountain town is also purely accidental.

Xiang Xianyun remembered the first time he chatted with Zhang Yingquan in the workshop, he said: Come with me! The world is going to be chaotic. Foresee? It's really fulfilled, this world is about to be chaotic!

Zhang Yingquan didn't put too much thought on the situation outside the mountain, he knew that Changmao was currently on the west side of the mountain, and if he was Hong Xiuquan, he would not scatter the army into the mountain early, walk the two lakes plain, along the Yangtze River waterway, and point directly to the land of Jiangning gold powder, wouldn't it be faster?

Steady to God, the Taiping army attacked Zhejiang, there is still some time.

He now wants to open a kiln factory and burn bricks and tiles to build a house to accommodate the next needs.

The coke, bricks and tiles, as well as the cement and glass that will be developed in the future, are all under the responsibility of the kiln factory, and it is also professional, anyway, it is a statue of a god - Taishang Laojun.

Who is the shopkeeper of this kiln factory? People say: When the book is used, there is less hatred! It's the same when people use it! It's impossible to carry it all on yourself.

Zhang Hengshan line! Not to mention anything else, a bit of cultural foundation, good communication, not conservative, this quality, is already a pretty good candidate for the shopkeeper.

After his father passed away, the family business was managed by the eldest brother, and the second brother and the eldest nephew helped him. It's better to help Zhang Yingquan, the two of them are not fake about their temper, the key is to talk about going together, according to Zhang Yingquan's words: the shopkeeper is in charge, and there is no need to sell coolies in person.

That's right, the ancients said: Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern it! He has only one request, the charcoal from the skill to the production of the paper workshop, because the pen and paper family do have money to make.

"That's it!" Zhang Yingquan didn't drag mud and water: "When will you go to work?" ”

"Tomorrow!" Zhang Hengshan was determined to Zhang Yingquan.

"There's a question, you don't know what you mean by cement and glass?"

"I'm here, what are you afraid of?"

The second thing is to build a workshop and make matches, which he has already pondered and matured, thanks to John, this product has matured in the West, and it is not difficult to make, and John is certainly no stranger to this.

John also wondered, how did Zhang Yingquan know about match making? Although the young shopkeeper couldn't tell the difference between white phosphorus and red phosphorus, it was obvious that he knew the result, and even prepared a lot of saltpeter and sulfur, which was also an incredible thing.

Matchsticks are better to do, there is a shrub plant in the mountains, the branches are as thick as matches, tough, and uniform and smooth, farmers use it to sweep the floor, air dry and then use the fire, a little to do, so good! The mountain people also call it "matchmaking". It just so happens that it is enough to collect such matches and cut them to an ordinary length, and there is no skill content, which is suitable for people with weak physical strength and careful hearts, Zhang Yingquan immediately thought of the seven girls in Zhenbei.

The seven women in Zhenbei have developed into ten families, and no one picks on their life experience, and they can stand up to it at critical moments, which makes the big men in the mountains embarrassed.

One of the women had a picker, and after the banditry subsided, I learned that this picker was the daughter-in-law of Roar Six, Wang Xiaofeng.

Wang Xiaofeng's face is tender, she is actually in her early thirties, her waist is good, her walking is like a wind blowing willows, she is definitely a healthy kind, the most prominent thing is that her voice is sweet, sweet to greasy, and she is the preferred target of some peeping and eavesdropping quirks in the town.

She sang Danjiao in an opera troupe more than ten years ago, and she still knows some words, which is really rare.

"Less shopkeepers, rare guests, sit down! In the past, you couldn't get married, but in fact, the slave family also had something to say! ”

"What's the matter?"

Wang Xiaofeng took out a peach wood card, looked closely, it was engraved with the words "Han Bandit Zhenshan Roaring Seat Six Cards", she said: "Roar six asked me to give you this, the legend is that the peach wood wards off evil spirits, the top in the village have this, say that you are a master, and if there is a bandit in the future, you will show the card, at least you can keep safe." ”

"The sixth master is still alive?"

"Not many people know, I am a monk, my injuries are not healed, it is inconvenient to walk, and I fall ...... lower body. also persuaded our mother and son to remarry, no, we will stay in this mountain for the rest of our lives. Xiaofeng burst into tears.

"Please!"

"Just say."

"Outside the stone gate that day, there were two old brothers who survived, the injuries were not light, fortunately the limbs were not disabled, they did not plan to return to the village, people in their forties, although they were in the prime of life, they were not suitable for fighting and killing, and they were injured. If you don't make a living, can you give a convenience to the shopkeeper, just eat, I guarantee that they are good people. Still...... There is also a bandit, still a child, only sixteen years old, he calls me sister, strange and pitiful! If you save them together, can you ......? ”

"If you have time, call me to see, if you can, go to the kiln factory, eat and live."

"Really? This is polite! ”

As for the matter of building a workshop to make matches, of course, it is not a problem, a few of their sisters are worried about finding something to do business, picking mountain treasures that is hiding people's eyes and ears, where are there so many mountain treasures?

"You take the lead, temporarily act as the shopkeeper, and treat the match workshop as your own family business, so that everyone can have something to rely on, and I will arrange the sales."

"Less worry about the shopkeeper."

When I returned to the shop and saw John, no one understood, Zhang Yingquan asked and found out that someone in the shop was injured and broke some skin, and John asked him to take medicine.

Suddenly remembered to build a small clinic for John, and there will be doctors in the mountain town since then, Yanglangzhong! Haha, let Xianyun follow along, and let her practice medicine in the future.

Then there is the eldest brother in charge of the blast furnace, the second brother in charge of the forging furnace, and the thin cloud is also in charge of the accounts.

The old saying of later generations: the goal is clear, and the cadres are the key!

Busy and busy, always thinking about one thing, the ravines and ravines will also be the 'industrial revolution'.

A mountain stream. The water surface is not wide, and it is more than a foot long; The bottom of the water is not deep, more than five feet. The terrain is steep, the drop is large, and it flows endlessly all year round, especially after the mountain rain in summer, it roars instantly.

This stream, close to Zhang's craftsman shop, whenever Zhang Yingquan thinks of the "industrial revolution", he thinks of it for the first time. Steam engine? There is no Qing Dynasty, and the only thing that can be used in the mountains at present is this water power.

Where an efficient transmission device, there is a part that is indispensable, and it is called a bearing. Otherwise, according to the traditional hard friction mode of transmission, there is no precision, not to mention the power loss, and when the speed is high, the squeaky and screaming sound will make people grin.

It is not generally difficult to do bearings, starting from scratch, only through casting, manual polishing, and strive to break through the first hurdle first, a bite can not become fat, everything is like this, first seek to have, and then keep improving.

Steel ball bearings are definitely not possible, but it is still possible to make roller bearings. It's not possible, but it's definitely possible.

Traditional paddle wheel, not big! But the wiper board is not small and powerful! The whole can be lifted and lowered, which is easy to maintain.

The axial transmission rod is still made of hardwood, the shaft position is generally high with the shore, and the direct transmission goes ashore, making a simple clutch, in fact, it is a opening and closing device that uses friction to decelerate and avoid hard impact, and then build a shed on the shore, and the simple industrial revolution begins here!

Through the cow belt drive, you can drive the grinder, soil lathe, soil drilling machine, soil punch, but also prepare to build a soil forging machine, then a forging furnace, the processing site is moved, and the shotgun is replaced.

Tungsten carbide tools have excellent performance, turning, cutting, and drilling are not a problem.

Originally, it was not difficult to build a telescope! It is not difficult to refer to the firing of lenses; It's actually very difficult to make good lenses! The difficult thing is to make the mold of the concave-convex mirror, don't even think about it without a lathe, now you can test it.

So I found Hengshan to operate together and make glass lenses first.

Quartz sand is pre-soaked, washed and dried, and melted in a small blast furnace with tongs, which also needs high temperatures, which are higher than those of ordinary iron.

The first pot, slightly transparent, gray-blue, well! If the iron content is too high, remove the upper and lower impurities, take the middle section and refine, and add the furnace temperature.

The second pot, translucent, pale gray.

The third pot is pure and a little green.

Yes! As for him, the model is processed by a lathe, the brightness is extremely high, and the molten glass liquid is poured into it to make concave and convex lenses.

With the lens tube made of hardwood, the concave and convex lenses are inlaid, the expansion and contraction amount is adjusted and fixed, and the monocular clairvoyant is made.

It has not been compared with foreign clairvoyance, except for Zhang Yingquan, people in the mountains have never seen what Western clairvoyance looks like? This is an authentic domestic product.

A clairvoyant mirror was placed in front of John's eyes.

“Made in Qing Dynasty”

"This ...... This...... No way! "John already knows a lot of Chinese words, and they are pronounced in Mandarin.

Zhang Yingquan discussed the issue of burning ash with Hengshan again, and asked him to try it himself, because no one had burned it, and the principle could not be explained, so he had to explore it.

In fact, at that time, it was only 30 years since the Western ash entered the practical use, and the popularity rate was not high.

"Will this work?"

"You try first!"

"Done!"

Zhang Yingquan was thinking in his heart, water-powered spinning, weaving, and the most important thing is to make guns, and he has become accustomed to leapfrogging thinking.

Reality brought Zhang Yingquan back to his senses.

"Silver, silver! Less shopkeeper spends money like running water, how can this be? Xiang Xianyun has been chattering every day for the past two days.

"I'll go to the county tomorrow and find the Zhan family to settle some money and come back, it's not enough to borrow more."

Zhang Zhan's two families are cousins, Zhan Yuqing, the shopkeeper of the Zhan family, is Zhang Yingquan's uncle, in fact, he is only five years older than the eldest brother of the Zhang family, and he is twenty in forty this year, which is considered to be the prime of life.

"I heard that there were bandits in the mountains some time ago?" As soon as Zhang Yingquan entered the door, the shopkeeper Zhan asked eagerly.

"If there is no danger, don't mention it!" Zhang Yingquan put the three clairvoyant mirrors and a large bag of matches on the table: "The old watches have come to take a look at this fresh object!" ”

"Yo! Good stuff. Clairvoyant mirrors, we have them on our sea boat, they are all cracked and still in use, you have three here, or brand new, where did they come from? ”

"Make it yourself, go to Hangzhou and try it on the counter, see if you can sell it at a good price." It will be available in large quantities in the future. ”

"Will this also be done? Really! ”

"It's a match, look!"

"Whew-!"

"Hey! Foreign fire? How did you come up with it? "People who ran through the outer docks recognized it.

"This thing is cheap, I estimate that a box of copper plates will do, the sales will not be bad, and it can be earned!"

"The key to this civilian product is the large quantity, and one copper plate and two boxes also make a lot of money!"

"How many? Again, the Zhan family underwrites, although the delivery comes, I will arrange the vehicle to be towed regularly. ”

"The key is that the turnover at hand is not working, so I came to ask for help."

"Hey! Your dad is cooler than you, first! More or less, go back and count. ”

"Then ......."

"Sir! Master! Something happened to the second young master? ”

"What's the matter? Over there? ”

"In the government."

"Ahh

“……”

"Master, master, no!"

"Screaming, screaming, talking!"

"No, sir. Someone came to the Quzhou counter to report the news, the mountain bandits robbed the goods, Erlang and they were kidnapped, this is the letter, look at the letter! ”

All together, Zhang Yingquan also caught up, and he really responded to the sentence: Disaster is not a one-way street!

The Zhan family was in chaos for the first time.