After saying goodbye to Yang Dayan, Xia Shan quickly returned home and recruited a group of friends who had played since childhood. The young men who grew up in Liangzhou have survived to fight and kill since they were children, so they all have a bit of kung fu in their hands, although Xia Shan is the best among them, but after all, there is a lot of power, not to mention that tracking is a job that requires manpower!

In the next few days, Li Kan always felt that there were a few tails staring at him behind him, but every time she looked back, she couldn't find any of them, how did he know that those little friends in Xia Shan, each of them was extremely familiar with the situation in Liangzhou City. Back in the days of hide and seek, they had studied what shelters were in each street, and now it's time to use them.

Although Li Kan's observation is keen, he is more accustomed to looking at small targets in the distance on the vast Gobi Desert, and in the crowded streets, according to the clues, Zhang Hong's stalker hiding in the street is obviously not his forte!

So in this environment, the speed of time becomes faster. Li Kan didn't dare to take further action because he always felt that someone was watching him behind him, but the day before, Yang Fu had sent someone to secretly contact him, hoping that he could send back useful information as soon as possible. This forced him to speed up the pace of action, and even if there was a possibility of exposure, he would have to do his best to get those gold, silver and jewelry.

So, he finally had the courage to come to the Weishui River, but he didn't break into the well-fortified industrial zone in a daze, he stopped near a farmland reclaimed by Suning.

He pretended to appreciate the busy figure of the people in the farmland, and even a smile of relief appeared at the corner of his mouth from time to time, if he only observed the expression, even when the busy farmers peeked at her, I couldn't help but have a sense of intimacy, how would they know that the benevolent brother in front of him was a notorious thief in the rivers and lakes!

After leaving the city, Li Kan still maintained the habit of glancing backwards from time to time, but the whole time, he still failed to find any suspicious targets. According to the logic he was familiar with, his keen observation should have come in handy in this wilderness, but since he still hadn't found anything, it proved that in the past days, he might have really been over-minded.

That being the case, but it's also time to get where you need to go. According to the rules of the rivers and lakes that he is familiar with, that person has money and people to do things, not to mention that there are rich after-the-fact rewards waiting for him, he can't give up the opportunity to get rich overnight because of a few suspicious emotions.

He even sometimes thinks that after doing this time, he will retire to the mountains and forests, and with the rich harvest, he can live a peaceful life, and from then on, the disturbances on the rivers and lakes do not need him to spend time to pay attention to them, unless someone finds things on his head, otherwise, dying in the countryside is his final destination.

Things went far more smoothly than he imagined, because he once defeated his opponent with an absolute advantage in the Jincheng County martial arts competition, so in Suning's system, his fame has long been spread.

So when he tried to get close to a few soldiers guarding here, the other party quickly got acquainted with him as soon as he heard that it was a famous soup, which made it convenient for him to enter and exit the industrial park, and on several occasions, he even talked to Gan Ning, who was guarding here, but he was willing to be unruly, and when he saw that this person's temperament was so mediocre, it was as if he had just been dug out of the mud, and he was not interested in making friends with him, so most of the content of the dialogue between the two was mutual greetings, and there was no substantive exchange, on the contrary, after meeting more times, Gan Ning's eyes actually paid a little more attention to him!

Li Kan knew that this was not a good sign. He is bullying Gan Ning is young now, if he is replaced by an old fritter, I am afraid that he has already detected a speculative appearance in his behavior, after all, he wanders in the Gobi Desert all the year round to find prey, although there are dozens of brothers under his hands, but there is a lack of intrigue on weekdays, not to mention, this is Liangzhou, where the people are fierce, and there are often things that happen when they don't agree with each other. Therefore, his attainments in this area are not very profound. is the kind of level that can barely bully Gan Ning.

However, his purpose obviously cannot be achieved through concepts, so he continues to wander around the industrial park until he comes across a mysterious Lijing man.

In Suning's system, people with high noses and deep eyes, white and yellow skin are generally called Westerners, which is naturally the name that Suning brought over from the 21st century, but the people don't know this, they only think that these people are from the West, so they are generally called Westerners.

Suning maintains a very close connection with most of this group of Westerners, they are nominally Suning's senior brothers, they have a lot of strange skills, they are not like those residents of Lijing County, Liangzhou, they have strong muscles and strange equipment, they speak Chinese, Suning has the same accent, so that the people around them know that they are indeed under a master. In fact, no one knows, this is a function of the system's language pack. Although none of the permissions brought by the system can be enforced, the existing gains are not deprived. Suning doesn't know what the reason for this is, but the current situation is very favorable to him, because his talent accumulation is quite rich, enough for him to show his strength in Liangzhou.

Arrhenius is the most important one in Suning's layout, this Swede, not only one of the main founders of electrochemistry, but also in the awarding of the Nobel Prize, played a pivotal role, to a certain extent, the candidate he supports, the probability of winning the award will be greatly increased, however, this person is not a Nobel after all, he has no obvious contribution to the manufacture of weapons, but Suning just let him complete the mission on the side of the road, at least, he needs diatomaceous earth to appear in front of him.

Prior to this, Arrhenius had worked with several chemists to produce a relatively crude diatomaceous earth explosive, but Zhao Yun's application in actual combat showed that the explosive could only be detonated in a stationary state, and could not be used as the propulsion energy of the cannonball, and the loading of the cannonball.

If the explosives that cannot form the war department will have no range advantage on the battlefield, Suning needs them to come up with a better plan, on the one hand, to further purify the explosives, and on the other hand, naturally according to the course of the original technical history, to get out all the picric acid and nitroglycerin.

At the same time, the imported physicist Mei is also rushing to make iron cannons, if their progress seems to be relatively slow, it is not that there is any problem with their technology, the main reason is that a large amount of steel is used to make weapons, and the technology they use to refine these steels is hemp steel, which has been lost in later generations, and Damascus steel, which was once famous in history.

Although the latter has a higher demand for raw materials, after all, it needs an iron ore native to India, however, Suning has already made contact with the Western Regions and asked the merchants there to travel to India to purchase and excavate the corresponding iron ore.

He promised a huge profit, which was why he moved some of the merchants, but he also knew that he would have to personally send people over after all, and these people were just an upfront investment. Upfront investment is extremely important for mineral exploration, as they can save a lot of time for successors. Therefore, Suning thought that the biggest profit for the merchants of the Western Regions turned out to be an investment that could get a greater return.

It's just that these things are entrusted to Ma Chao's uncle Ma Yi, and the others, including Arrhenius, know very little about it. After all, most summoners have their own things to keep busy with at the moment! In particular, Arrhenius, who is good at electrochemistry, has now been included in the university curriculum, which requires him to often go to Hanyang University to teach, and the gunpowder workshop here often needs his guidance, and even requires him to operate it himself, after all, the recruited workers were still farmers in the fields not long ago, and they are not skilled workers in the industrial era.

The peasants are always simple and honest, which gives Li Kan a huge opportunity. At first, he pretended to be curious about Arrhenius and the others, and deliberately started a conversation with several peasants who were helping here. Although he did not communicate much, his fierce breath and straightforward words could often tell the sourness in the hearts of those peasants, so as he came and went, the feelings between the two sides were much deeper.

Finally, one day, Li Kan asked one of the peasants to also work in the gunpowder workshop, according to him, he had been running around the Liangzhou territory for too long, he had had enough of sleeping in the open air, and wanted to find a relatively fixed job with an income comparable to that of a guard.

After some observation, he thought that gunpowder exercise was a good choice, so he took the liberty to mention it, hoping that a few peasant brothers could help him with this and tell the Westerners in charge here.

Where are the farmers willing to take on such a heavy responsibility? They can't intervene in the personnel appointment here, but this guy in front of him has become their friend these days, and since he asks for it, he can't help nothing, so they promise to help him ask in front of the steward.

Li Kan immediately put on a posture in front of them, and casually presented dozens of copper coins, which were insignificant compared to the rewards they had received a few days earlier, but the peasants had only lived a good life for long, and although their salaries in the gunpowder workshop were not low, their concept of money had not immediately kept pace with the increase in income.

Therefore, they were still very happy with these incomes, so their enthusiasm for labor also increased a lot, and within two days, they brought back news to Li Kan.

This news obviously made him very happy, the reason is naturally very simple, Arrhenius does not know much about the atmosphere in Liangzhou, and his current offense and defense need to start expanding production, just preparing to recruit a group of workers, but the recruitment order has not been issued yet, someone has been eyeing here in advance, and Mao recommended himself to send it to the door, so naturally there is no reason not to accept it.

So he left someone and entered the workshop without any problems, but at first he was in charge of extremely rough things. For example, the simplest scenery of the collected raw materials, such as putting the stage and the sulfur on the stone mill and crushing it. These jobs are more difficult than robbing houses, because the requirements of each process are very detailed and strict, which makes her, who is used to being unrestrained, obviously a little uncomfortable, but in order to achieve his goal, he finally endured it.

In the first few days, the work was very hard, and the amount of goods I had to supply for the house was very large, and to those experienced workers, such a situation was also very rare, but according to the meaning of the above, this will become the norm in the future, and there is a tendency to increase further.

This was a headache for both the old and new workers, who were obviously unable to cope with such a huge amount of labor, but fortunately, the recruitment poster had already been posted early, and it didn't take long for me to line up as long as a dragon outside.

This dragon, apparently a Mamenxi dragon, is about thirty meters long. There are even a few half-grown children among them, they don't seem to go to school, although it's almost the children's vacation, but twelve or thirteen-year-old children, that will not take any elementary school entrance exams, and the university entrance exams are too difficult for them children who grew up in the mountains, so they choose to come here to seek a livelihood, which is also a fairly understandable choice, as your job, and even become their lifelong dependence.

Li Kan stood at the door and greeted them with a smile, this guy was also his, because the migrant workers who were more experienced than him were called to do more important things. He originally thought that this was just an easy job, and secretly rejoiced about it, because the arrival of these people meant that he finally did not need to do those miscellaneous jobs, so that he could get access to more core secrets, and perhaps, he could learn the whole process of making gunpowder, and not only could he get the opportunity to send this place to heaven, but he might also master a big secret.

However, in his heart, when he was full of longing, he unexpectedly sensed a strange message, this perception ability, from his years of fighting on the Gobi Desert, although it was only an intuition, but for him, it was extremely trustworthy. This instinct told him that the people who had just passed in front of him seemed to have seen it somewhere, but he didn't remember it.

After all, it was just a bunch of twelve or thirteen-year-olds.