Under the leadership of Zhu Hongyi, Zhu Hongsan saw the housekeeper Zhang Zhong in the front yard, who was a thin and tall middle-aged man. Seeing Zhu Hongsan coming, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "The villain Zhang Zhong knocked to see the master." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You get up, and you will be called Zhu Zhong in the future." Or steward, do a good job, you have seen my methods. ”

Zhu Zhong was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the grace of not killing, if you have anything to say, please ask the master, and the villain will definitely tell you the truth." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "What's going on with the musket in the backyard warehouse?" ”

Zhu Zhong said: "That's the master, no, Zhang Quanli went to Macau to buy it, he said that the local area is not peaceful, and he bought it for self-defense." ”

Sure enough, Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Do you have any contact with the Francophile?" ”

Zhu Zhong said: "In the past, Zhang Fa, the steward of the outer room, was in charge, and I will call him to tell the master in detail in a while." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "And Zhang Quanli's silver is there, do you know?" I don't think he should have done that. ”

Zhu Zhong said: "There is a cellar on the edge of the lotus pond in the backyard, which is full of treasures that Zhang Quanli has collected in the past few years, and I will take the master to take a look." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You go to Qian Yong and let him take someone." You go and bring Zhang Fa over first. ”

Zhu Zhong nodded and went down to find Zhang Fa.

After a while, Zhu Zhong brought a young man. knelt down in the hall and said, "Master, this is my son Zhang Fa, no, he will be called Zhu Fa in the future." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked: "You all get up, the master is not terrible, as long as you work hard, you will have your own benefits." ”

Zhu Zhong led his son Zhu Fa up.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Zhu Fa, did Zhang Quanli let you go to Macao to contact the musket that Franc Jiren bought?" ”

Zhu Fa said: "Yes, sir, I went to Macau to find the Francophone Torres to buy it." ”

Zhu Hongsan said that Zhu Hongyi said: "Big brother, you go outside and call Qian Wanli and Ma Fu to come in." ”

Now the main thing is to get the production technology of the Franc robot musket, and to open up overseas trade routes. Business is money, and you can't do anything without money. Zhu Hongsan plans to let Ma Fu be in charge of the country and Qian Wanli to be in charge of the overseas.

After a while, Qian Wanli and Ma Fu came in, and the two of them arched their hands and said, "I've seen the owner." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Wanli, do we have a shop in Guangdong?" ”

Qian Wanli said: "There is one in the city of Guangzhou, which sells some local products from Huguang. Not elsewhere. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You hand over the domestic affairs to Ma Fu, and after a while, you take this Zhang Fa to Macao to see the situation, and then the overseas trade routes will be handed over to you, and the domestic will be handed over to Ma Fu." ”

Qian Wanli was overjoyed, he knew how important overseas trade routes were, and he had told Zhu Hongsan before to open up overseas trade routes. Zhu Hongsan has always disagreed on the grounds that the time is not ripe, and now he has finally handed it over to himself.

Qian Wanli bowed deeply and said: "Please rest assured, Wanli will definitely live up to expectations." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "The most important thing now is to get the production process of the musket barrel from the Franco man, you must get it if you take Zhang Fa with you." Any cost. ”

Qian Wanli said: "Please rest assured that Wanli will definitely get this production process back for the owner." ”

After Qian Wanli finished speaking, he took Zhu Fa down.

Zhu Hongsan said to Ma Fu on the side: "I heard it." You bring money to Guangzhou now, one is to take over the shop, and the other is to buy me iron ore and coal, the more the better. ”

Ma Fu was also very happy when he heard that he was in charge of the shops in the country, and hurriedly agreed.

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Zhong: "Zhu Zhong, you go down to find Qian Yong and get all the money out." ”

An hour later, Qian Yong came to report that the silver was 200,000 taels, the gold was 10,000 taels, and the jewels were countless.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "You give the jewelry to Ma Fu and let him go to Guangzhou Mansion to sell it, this thing can't be eaten or drunk, what's the use." ”

After arranging everything, Zhu Hongsan came to the construction site outside the Zhuangzi construction site. The place where Tong Yangjia picks is very good, just by a small river. The view is wide and the land is level. Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied. Let people find Tie Niu, Liu Dali, and Duan Changyou, the three workshop directors.

After a while, the three of them came. Zhu Hongsan asked about the situation first. Zhu Hongsan asked, "How is Master Duan's gunpowder production?" ”

Duan Changyou said: "Owner, now there is a main shortage of saltpeter, we make other charcoal ourselves, and there is still a lot of sulfur left." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and it seemed that he was going to sacrifice the toilet Dafa.

Zhu Hongsan asked Gong Dafa to call him and said to him: "You take ten people to get the soil from the root of the toilet wall in the whole village, remember to be an inch deep, not too deep to know?" ”

Gong Dafa was stunned, this is a good job, but there is no way, the lord has to do it. I went down with ten people to get it.

Zhu Hongsan then asked Liu Dali: "Dali, how is the steel mill?" ”

Liu Dali said: "Master, a refractory brick kiln and a coke stove are being built. As long as the coal is in place, it can be coke. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Build two blast furnaces and one pig iron furnace. If you don't have enough manpower, you can ask Tong Yangjia for it. ”

After speaking, he asked Tie Niu, "How is Tie Niu?" ”

Tie Niu said: "Big brother, it's simple on my side, as long as the steel and workshop keep up, I can produce weapons and cannons." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "The steel may have to wait for a while, and it won't be finished in half a month." Weapons: Don't produce cold weapons on your side in the future. Since then, all have produced firearms. ”

Tie Niu asked, "All of them are producing firearms?" Armor is no longer needed? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Yes, don't get it." We're going to have an all-firearms force in the future. You have the men ready now, and in a few days we will be able to produce the barrels, and in the future we will all be equipped with muskets. ”

Iron Bull asked, "If we all use muskets, we need a lot of manpower, and we are all short of manpower. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I will let Tong Yangjia recruit people." ”

This is Gong Dafa bringing people back, and each of them came back with a bag of soil. Zhu Hongsan knew that in the eyes of ordinary people, these floating soil and nitrate soil were worthless at all.

Zhu Hongsan asked people to set up an earthen stove, a large pot was supported on the earthen stove, and on the side of the stove were several large vats with wooden sticks, and a large wicker basket was placed on the wooden sticks.

At the bottom of the basket, two or three layers of fine woven kang mat heads are padded, and the nitrate soil in the basket is drenched with water in the jar, and then slowly watered, and the nitrate in the basket is soaked.

The water slowly seeped down, and the dripping nitrate seeped down, and the nitrate water was brownish-yellow, and it leaked almost from time to time, and then the water was drenched, and the nitrate seeped down again.

This basket of soil is almost filtered, and then a basket of nitrate is loaded, and then the nitrate water is poured through and leaks down.

Filter it basket by basket. When the tank is full, you can make a fire to boil it.

The process of boiling soil nitrate, that is, the process of drying part of the water in the nitrate water by heating, and finally pouring the soil nitrate crystallization into the tile pot.

In order to make full use of the fire, it is generally a two-eye stove built with two bricks, and the nitrate can not be too vigorous, most of them are holding the firewood and fire, and the nitrate water is dried by continuous heating.

Generally heated to about 50 degrees, you can take it out and put it into the vat, when the crystallization is gross nitrate, then add fire to boil, when the water is reduced a little fished out and poured into the pot, the boiling thick marinade is poured into the tank for crystallization, at this time it is water nitrate.

The water nitrate is heated again to make the water continue to evaporate, and finally poured into the pot and cooled to crystallize into soil nitrate. That is, potassium nitrate, and now the big countries in Europe and the United States have set up toilet officials in order to produce gunpowder, and they have a lot of power.

Seeing the crystallization produced, Zhu Hongsan knew that the production of potassium nitrate was successful. This more than 100 catties of toilet soil produces more than one catty of soil nitrate, which is not bad. It's just that the smell is unpleasant, and the air is full of urine*.

Zhu Hongsan covered his nose and said: "Old Gong, you can see clearly, and an official position will be set up in the future to take care of this matter." In the future, we will have to do this in the toilets in the places we are in charge of. ”

Gong Dafa said with a bitter face: "Lord, is this good, this is a matter of the gunpowder workshop, let them take care of it." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it well, after all, this thing has to be kept secret, and it is not safe for outsiders to get it. Thinking of this pair of Duan Changyou, he said: "Old Duan, this job is handed over to you." You find someone to specialize in this. ”

Duan Chang didn't feel anything, but he was surprised that this method of getting nitrate in the toilet was actually possible. Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, he hurriedly said, "Okay, boss, I'll let my son take care of this matter." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Old Duan, you also heard that we will all use firearms in the future, and the demand for gunpowder will be very large, so don't delay things here." ”

Duan Changyou said: "As long as the manpower and saltpeter arrive, the production will be restored immediately." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked Tong Yangjia to find him and said, "Mr. Tong is tired, and he has to recruit workers." ”

Tong Yangjia asked, "How much do you need?" ”

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Let's recruit two thousand first." Are there many displaced people in this place? ”

Tong Yangjia said: "I took a look at the county seat yesterday, not too much. Two thousand people are almost all recruited. ”

Zhu Hongsan knew that Nanzhili was still peaceful, and when the Manchu pigtails entered the customs and Nanzhili surrendered, Guangdong was all homeless. But that's going to be two years from now, so let's get some people to prepare for it.