Zhu Hongsan didn't know that he had made a little contribution to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. After entering the city, he was separated from Zhao Goudan, Zhao Goudan wanted to go home to see his father, and Zhu Hongsan went home to get gunpowder.

When I got home, I went to the front yard to see my mother. Mother got up very well today, sat up and chatted with Zhu Hongsan for a few words. What is he busy with now? Of course, Zhu Hongsan can't tell his mother about his legendary experience in the past few days. I just picked out a few anecdotes about what happened in the farm and told my mother, which made my mother laugh.

Zhu Hongsan said a few words to his mother, and when he saw that his mother was tired, he waited for his mother to lie down. Arrange for Yahuan Xiaocui to take care of her mother. , returned to the house, and carried out the gunpowder jar in the cellar of the laboratory behind the room. Zhu Hongsan knew that gunpowder was very damp, so he didn't do much. After making about ten catties, put it in a ceramic jar and seal it with wax.

After opening the seal, I saw that the gunpowder particles were very good, and there was no moisture at all. Weigh out eight taels with a small scale, take an iron can, and put it inside. Compacted by hand, looking at it, it can still be loaded with one or two, and then one or two into it, so that a total of nine taels. The jar is a big belly and a small mouth, and the seal is only the size of a copper coin, so Zhu Hongsan found a one-foot-long wooden stick in the courtyard and sharpened one end with a knife.

Use a hammer to nail it into the seal and seal it, and it can be seen that it is okay, and the processed wooden handle can be used in mass production in the future. There is a small eye at the bottom of the tank, which is inserted into the * fuse, and he set a few meters of lead in the firecracker shop in the city, cut out a section of the small hole inserted, and sealed it with wax around the perimeter. A Ming Dynasty hand * grenade is completed.

Looking at the thick hand * grenade in his hand, how does it look like a toilet bowl. At present, the iron ox can't produce slender jars, so this one is still hammered in with a small hammer and knocked out by hand little by little. Now that the pig iron furnace is ready, the iron cow should be allowed to study the casting shell, which is okay to knock one or two by hand, and mass production is not good at all. Hand * grenades are consumables, and Zhu Hongsan remembers that the hand * grenades of later generations are cast.

Zhu Hongsan poured gunpowder into the three jars he took back according to this, and then cleaned them up. Look at the three small leather picks, put two of them at home, and take one of them and put them in your arms to prepare to go out to find a place to experiment.

It was nearly noon, and there were a lot of people on the street. Zhu Hongsan turned around and saw that there were people everywhere, there was really no place to experiment, why don't you go out of the city?

Zhu Hongsan didn't know that when he was wandering on the street, two people in the restaurant opposite had already seen him. At that time, it was not an outsider, it was Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong.

This morning, Ma Mingyuan came to find Feng Ziyong Kan Dashan, ah no, he was talking about the past and the present. It happened to be noon, and Feng County Ling wanted to arrange for his cousin to eat, so he came to the hottest restaurant in the county to eat for the day.

A few years ago, Zhu Hongsan's monosodium glutamate soy sauce caused a sensation as soon as it was listed, and the shopkeeper of Shiweitian immediately signed a three-year supply agreement with Zhujia Soy Sauce Factory. MSG soy sauce and the chef of Nanzhili, who was invited by Shiweitian, immediately became popular in the city. If you want to eat a meal at this meal, you must make a reservation three days in advance. Of course, this is an ordinary person, can the county magistrate wait three days if he wants to eat?

The brothers went upstairs to sit down in the Tianzi box, and after ordering, the brothers stood at the window and looked at the scenery outside. This day the box is indeed a good seat, adjacent to the main street. From a distance, you can see the Liangzi Lake outside the city, and a little farther away, you can vaguely see the city wall of Wuchang Mansion.

Standing by the window and seeing the little white sails on Liangzi Lake, listening to the boiling voices from the main street downstairs, the mood is particularly comfortable.

Feng Ziyong said: "Zhong Ming (Ma Mingyuan's words), looking at the blue sky and white clouds, listening to the voice of the betrayal, I don't know, I really think it's a peaceful and prosperous world." Who would have thought that crossing the Yangtze River would be a different scene. ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed: "Most of the people in this world are short-sighted, and they only see the infinite scenery in front of them. If there is no foresight, there must be near-term worries. ”

Feng Ziyong asked: "Ziqing (Ma Jiyuan's character) Brother hasn't written recently?" How's going on over there. ”

"The eldest brother came to Feng Jiashu half a month ago, and said that Xinyang is close to the Yangtze River, which is okay. In the north, except for a few large cities that are still in the hands of the official army, some prefectures have already begun to fall. By the way, what does the second brother think about the future? ”

Feng Ziyong said: "This world is not clear to see. I hope that the country can produce a minister who will quickly extinguish the Liukou. ”

"Second brother still thinks that this world is saved?"

Feng Ziyong frowned: "Why is the second brother so pessimistic, the north is a piece of erosion. Doesn't Daming still keep half of the country now? ”

Ma Mingyuan said sadly: "The second brother came from Nanzhili, and of course what he saw was singing and dancing. Didn't the second brother go to the shack outside the county to have a look? Selling sons and daughters, changing children for food is happening every day. But what are those gangs in Jiangnan doing? Drunk every day, dreaming of death. There is one who is in charge of this Ming Dynasty. ”

Feng Ziyong sighed, he knew that what Ma Mingyuan said was very correct.

Ma Mingyuan continued: "Now the north is in ruins, and all the provinces along the Yangtze River have been ordered to transfer local garrisons to the north to quell the chaos. Huguang, SC Nanzhili is empty everywhere. Just look at our Wuchang, Wuchangwei, Changshawei, and Changdewei were all transferred to the north. The Yangtze River defense line is empty. And the northern rogues are mobile, like mercury laxes, and the weak defense of that place must go to that place. I see that the days of peace and tranquility in Huguang are coming to an end. ”

Feng Ziyong was surprised: "Can't you, can Liukou cross the Yangtze River?" ”

"At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huangchao fought all the way to Guangzhou. Just look at the northern liukou, Chongzhen was about to run away when he saw the official army three years ago, and now what? HN officers and soldiers did not dare to leave the city without tens of thousands of people. Isn't it far from crossing the Yangtze River? ”

After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he glanced at Feng Ziyong and saw that he was bowing his head and pondering. Then he said: "Second brother, we are our own family. My family doesn't talk about it, you see this... As he spoke, he pointed to the sky, "Is it going to change?" ”

Feng Ziyong was shocked, looked left and right to see that no one was there, and whispered, "Second brother is dead." We are all blessed by the imperial court, how can we say such things. ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "Don't the second brother and uncle have any ideas? ”

Feng Ziyong thought in his heart with a few faces: "Ma Mingyuan's words, I and my father have thought about it a long time ago. But seeing that the peasant army was not able to achieve great things, he also broke off this trouble. It seems that their Ma family has thought about it. ”

Feng Ziyong asked, "Has the second brother discussed it with his uncle?" Does Xinyang's eldest brother know? ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "They don't know yet, you know the character of the eldest brother, as soon as I say it, he will catch me and send me to BJ, how dare I tell him." ”

It seems that this second horse has a mind, no, I have to dissuade him for both public and private reasons. Thinking of this, Feng Ziyong said: "Second brother, it is normal for young people to want to achieve great things, but the likes of Gao Li in the north are not people who become great things, you see that they will kill scholars and rob landlords when they go to a place, and without a stable base area, they will not last long." We all have a family, so don't think about it. ”

Ma Mingyuan nodded, it seems that Feng Ziyong can't fight for it yet, and the time has not yet come.

While the two brothers were talking, they suddenly saw Zhu Hongsan sneaking across the street. Seeing him, Feng Ziyong was angry. He had never suffered such a big loss on people. couldn't help but say angrily: "Second brother, have you seen your good brother-in-law?" ”

Ma Mingyuan knew that Feng Ziyong still had fire in his heart, and said with a smile: "I saw it, it seems that the second brother is very angry with him." ”

Feng Ziyong snorted and said, "If it weren't for Xiao Fang's face, he would definitely not be spared." ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "He just knows that you can't kill you what he does." If it weren't for this relationship, he would have done something else. ”

Feng Ziyong asked, "It seems that the second brother has also suffered his loss." ”

Ma Mingyuan scolded in his heart: Not only have you suffered losses, but you have to work hard for him if you are calculated by him.

But these things can't be said about Feng Ziyong. Ma Mingyuan told him that he wanted to punish him for Zhu Hongsan's literacy in the past.

Feng Ziyong said: "What about later? ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed and said, "He found me when he came out of the county government and said that I should let him go." Otherwise, let his uncle, who was the head of the county government, hide a one-eyed stone man in the backyard of my house. Second brother, you know that it was the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and Wei Eunuch was in full swing, and our family was degraded and dismissed. I dared to act rashly, so I reconciled with him. ”

Feng Ziyong said curiously: "Then Zhu Hongsan was only five or six years old at the time, so he had such an idea?" Wasn't it taught by someone else? ”

I thought so at the time, but I found out afterwards that his mother was only the daughter of a servant, and that his two uncles, one of whom was the head of the class and the other who were businessmen, were not very talented people at all. It seems that he was born like this. ”

Feng Ziyong nodded. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a very good market for prodigies, and there were really a few who could recite poems at the age of five or six. So Feng Ziyong didn't suspect anything.

At this time, seeing the guy put the wine and food on the table, the two stopped talking about anything else. Tell me a little bit about the ups and downs.

Don't mention the two of them, let's talk about our protagonist Zhu Hongsan.

I walked around the street for a long time and ate a bowl of runtons. Haven't found a good place to experiment with hand* grenades yet. Zhu Hongsan wants to go to the out-of-town homeless people to try it? It just so happens that there are a lot of them, look at the lethality. But this method was vetoed by himself, this is too hurtful, after all, he is only fifteen years old, and his heart can't be too dark.

After walking around the city for a while, I turned to Xicheng, where some workshops are located. When I came here, I remembered that the previous soy sauce recipe was sold to the Zhujia soy sauce factory. At that time, the price was okay, but in the past few years, seeing that his family has made a big deal, Zhu Hongsan really regretted it. Now I am short of money, and I have spent almost all the money I got in the past few years. So now Zhu Hongsan can't look down on the rich. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan had a way, "Seeing that you make money, the master will be very angry, let you have a knife to pull your ass today—open your eyes." ”

I made up my mind, turned a few alleys and came to the door of Zhujia Soy Sauce Workshop. Seeing that the business is really booming, even those from Xiangyang and Changsha came to buy his soy sauce.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the door, there were too many people. Follow the courtyard wall to the back of his house. I saw that the wall was about two meters high, and I looked at it from a distance and there was a shed against the wall. There are rows of large wooden barrels, and this is probably the storeroom.

Zhu Hongsan went out of the alley first to see the direction and see if there was anyone. When he returned to the alley, he took out a grenade from his arms, lit the lead with a fire fold, threw it hard, and then turned around and ran. As soon as he ran out less than fifty meters, he heard a loud noise behind him, Zhu Hongsan knew that he had succeeded, and he ran along the path without a trace.