Zhu Yougong has been floating recently, and he feels like he is in the clouds. followed Zhu Wen to fight all his life, for something, isn't it just for money and power.

Although the right thing is good, it is too intriguing, and it is called happy to guard the endless gold mountain.

The first batch of trial desulfurization copper ore has been completed, and the next step is to enter the furnace for smelting.

Piles of charcoal have been brought in and used to burn the stove. Seeing the calcined copper mineralized into copper water, Zhu Yougong became excited again.

The copper water in the dry pot was hot, and Zhu Yougong and his subordinates surrounded to watch this magical scene.

The smelter adds lead water to the copper liquid, and then uses the lead to remove the silver in the copper, and the lead sinks to the bottom, and the copper liquid that takes off the silver is in the upper part to achieve the purpose of obtaining high-purity copper.

The purified brass copper juice is then poured into the mold, and when it is cured, it becomes a yellow copper ingot.

The ancients also referred to this type of copper ingot as gold, note that this gold does not refer to gold. Gold is still gold, and gold is nothing more than a monetary name for brass in the ancients.

As the mold opened, the copper ingots blinded everyone's eyes. The freshly cast copper ingots are not oxidized, and their appearance is yellow, which is extremely attractive.

Ge Congzhou hurried his horse and whipped, and the deputy general Pan Da was stunned and rushed to Yique County with more than 2,000 soldiers.

Fortunately, Yique County is not far from Luoyang City, and it will take half a day to arrive, and two thousand soldiers will gallop all the way.

"General Ge, Zhu Yougong has offended King Liang, and this time I am afraid that there will be less luck. This guy didn't stumble on us, he didn't say anything bad about us in front of King Liang on weekdays, but this time it fell into the hands of Lao Tzu, see how I clean him up! It's just, do you think King Liang will kill him? Pan Da asked as he rode on his horse.

Ge Congzhou followed Zhu Wen to fight in the south and the north, and made a lot of meritorious contributions. Zhu Yougong said that he was afraid that Ge Cong would be shocked by Zhou Gonggao, and this person must not be guarded against. It was because Zhu Wen was still wary of Ge Congzhou sometimes.

For example, when attacking Zhao County, Ge Congzhou besieged Liu Fei with more than 6,000 people from Shannan Dongdao Jiedu in Zhao County. Zhu Wen changed generals on the spot and replaced Ge Jiajun, so that Zhang Guihou got this credit.

At that time, it was Zhu Yougong who made a speech to prevent Ge Congzhou from taking too much credit. This was originally the credit of Ge Jiajun, but it was taken up by others, and Ge Jiajun was angry about this matter.

Ge Congzhou didn't seem to like this kind of question: "Let's only obey King Liang's orders, don't ask anything else, escort him into the capital first."

Pan Da was stunned and said angrily: "If you want me to say, you can directly hack this guy to death with an axe, and save him from making noise." Such villains, what to do! ”

Pan Da was stunned and brave in battle, but he has always acted recklessly. Ge Congzhou scolded: "Stunned, don't be reckless!"

Pan Da was stunned and didn't dare to say any more, and the boss in his heart was not happy.

Yique County Lingnan Batian has already hooked up with Zhu Yougong, how can he not want to get a piece of the cornucopia of Huangling Mountain.

At this time, Nan Batian was preparing to use the county people, and a cadre of officials stood in the council hall to listen to things.

To smelt copper, it is not enough to rely on the five hundred soldiers that Zhu Yougong himself brings. It requires people to build roads, dig and transport ore, and also need a lot of charcoal to smelt copper.

"Everyone listened to it, and went down to mobilize the officials door to door. Tell them that anyone who goes to Huangling Mountain will have three buckets of rice per month. ”

The officials below were dumbfounded when they heard it, three buckets of rice, such a high salary. If this is a trick, it will definitely break the head.

But before everyone could be happy, they were disturbed by the messy sound of horses' hooves outside.

Nan Batian was taken aback: "Who are you going out to see?"

Before the official could react, the door of the yamen was kicked open.

The officials were about to draw their swords, but they found that a group of soldiers had arrived.

In troubled times, the magistrate was afraid of the officer, not to mention that the person who came was still dressed as a general.

Soldiers don't like to go around the bend, Ge Congzhou brought people to Nan Batian, he didn't speak, just stared at Nan Batian coldly.

Nan Batian's heart was a little hairy: "Dare to ask ......"

Ge Congzhou went straight to the point and never: "I am Ge Congzhou."

Sure enough, Ge Congzhou's three words were enough to have a powerful shocking power, and everyone including the officials was startled.

Nan Batian stammered and said: "Yuan, it turned out to be General Ge, Ge, General Ge's name is like thunder, and the lower officials have been admired for a long time!"

"The general of my family came to arrest the traitor Zhu Yougong on the order of King Liang, tell me quickly, where is Zhu Yougong!" Pan was stunned and shouted, and the sound was like a bell.

Nanbatian oppressed the people and was the evil party. But in the face of the fierce and vicious Pan Da, he was so frightened that he leaned back and almost fell.

The reaction of this Yique County magistrate was a little slow and half a beat, he stood up straight and hurriedly clenched his fists and smiled: "It turns out that the general is looking for General Gong, this ...... What the? Do you want to arrest and arrest General Gong? “

Nan Batian, who reacted, was taken aback, Zhu Yougong was the righteous son of King Liang, and it was too late for him to stammer, how could he be arrested.

Ge Congzhou said coldly: "Zhu Yougong conspired to frame King Liang, and the crime is unforgivable. General Ben was ordered to come and arrest him, where is Zhu Yougong now, quickly recruit him! ”

Nan Batian trembled his hands and pointed to the southeast: "Gong, General Gong is here, in the southeast direction of Huangling Mountain, there, there to refine copper."

Pan Da was stunned by seven feet tall, stretched out his big hand like a fan, grabbed Nan Batian's back collar, and lifted him up in the air: "This guy still has the courage to smelt copper, you dog official, take us now, it's too late to cut off your dog's head!"

In the Tang Dynasty, one foot was 30.7 centimeters in today's size, and the "height of seven feet" was about two meters and one four.

Pan Da was stunned and tall, Nan Batian was like a chicken caught by an eagle, his legs kicked in the air, and he was so frightened that his soul was not possessed: "General, general, calm down, down, down, this will lead the way."

"Humph!" Pan Da was stunned and threw Nan Batian to the ground, staring at those servants with a pair of big bull's eyes like copper bells: "These dog things in your yamen, if you let me know which of you dares to oppress the people again, I will screw off your dog heads one by one as a night pot!"

Pan Da was persecuted by the government in his early years, and he hated officials deeply. Later, he joined the Huangchao rebels, and then followed Ge Congzhou to Zhu Wen.

When fighting, Pan Da was often the first to take the lead, and he was a deputy general because of his merits, but his hatred for the local government did not change.

During the late Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, local officials were exploiting fish and meat, and the people were miserable. Since the officials forced the people to rebel, Datang finally gradually embarked on the end of the country.

A cadre is like a frightened sparrow, how can anyone dare to squeak for half a sentence. Nan Batian trembled and straightened his clothes, and led the soldiers out of the county government to the direction of Huangling Mountain.

At this time, Zhu Yougong didn't know that his end was coming, and he was still sitting in the newly built camp tent counting the copper ingots on the table.

The next step is to go back to the capital to mint money and get a money fan, that is, a mold for minting coins. Then the copper ingots are melted and poured into the mold to create strings of copper coins.