Yang Chong remembered the news that Wang Ting had escaped in the army, and smiled slightly. Wang Ting is a very interesting person, as a member of the Sui Hantang, he took the initiative to find himself to sell the list, and there were ten people in one hand; Yang Chong couldn't figure out the truth or falsehood, and he was afraid that he would provoke Sui Hantang, so he didn't move the idea of those ten people at all, and the list was in hand, just in case, afraid that these ten people would run to his side one day.

After Yu Zhiben's accident, Yang Chong was more careful, and today he and Jiang Fei came to the farm to see the built courtyard, and took two guards, Wei Chili and Tie Di; Li Chun had already been waiting at the entrance of the village, and Yang Chong had now bought all the more than 600 acres of land that could be planted around the village, and he was the only owner of the villagers, how could Li Chun dare to slack off. What Li Chun couldn't figure out was that Yang Chong also bought more than 300 acres of mountains and forests between the fields, and the more than 100 acres of sandy land in Zhoushan Pass.

Waiting with Li Chun was Yang Lei, the person in charge of the courtyard, Yang Lei knew that the courtyard was a new workshop, not only the entire blacksmith shop had been moved, but like the Yuwen family's workshop, it was now also equipped with carpenters, stonemasons, and goldsmiths. Yang Chong got out of the carriage with a smile, talked and laughed with Li Chun and Yang Lei and walked through the village to the courtyard, the front yard was no different from ordinary people's houses, a large square, houses on three sides, where craftsmen and family members lived.

When you get to the middle courtyard, there is the workshop, on the left is the blacksmith shop, and on the right is the miscellaneous workshop; In the backyard, there are two rows of tiled houses, three wells and specially designed drainage ditches according to Yang Chong's requirements. Each courtyard and each workshop has a separate gate, the person in charge of the blacksmith shop is Yang Long, the person in charge of the miscellaneous workshop is Yu Jianzi who was born in Louguandao, the six masters invited by Yuan Hongzhao and the six people from Louguandao live in the backyard, Chen Hu, Hua Chun, Lin Tong, and Wang Jin are the guards in the village.

Yang Chong first held a meeting with the people in the backyard and asked only one question: "What have you researched?" ”

The six masters that Yuan Hongzhao bought were all craftsmen who had smelted copper and iron, and he had written down all the processes of copper and iron smelting that had been discussed, and also drew the shape of a blast furnace. Yang Chong smiled, he didn't have iron ore in his hands, and steelmaking was just a fight with the Guanlongmen valve to eat, and he couldn't make it, so when Yang Chong heard that they could design a blast furnace, his first thought was glass. Yang Chong, who has tested the composition of glass in college, has not forgotten it until now, and whether he can make a blast furnace or not can practice glass depends on these guys.

Yang Chong appointed one of the craftsmen named Perth Lemi to be in charge of asking Li Chun and Yu Jianzi to assist in building the blast furnace, and Yang Chong told Yu Jianzi that the house must be built high and large. As for the sand, natural soda ash, and limestone used to make glass, Yang Chong had already prepared it, only to make the color feldspar took a little effort, asked a lot of people, and finally decided that it was the ashlar that Tuoyu Haizhai got from Xiaojiayao, and the ashlar used by Sun Simiao and others as gypsum.

There are only four of the six people in Louguandao today, Qiao Hu, Liang Jiang, Fang Chou, and Wang Fu are all from alchemy, and they all heard Zhang Guolao say that Yang Chong also has attainments in alchemy, and these days he is pondering a still according to Yang Chong's requirements; Meng Tuo and Ye Heilong were sent out by Yang Chong, and Yang Dayang Wuyi went to Gaonu County, Yan'an County and Yanshou County, Jiuquan County to look for oil. There is also a record in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Chronicles of the County" written by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty: "There are mountains in the south of the county, and the spring water comes out of the stone, which is as big as that, and it is extremely bright to burn, and it is not edible." The county people call it stone paint. ”

Now people only recognize that oil is a good fuel, and find that it is "like a condensation, no different from paste", and do not think about other aspects, but Yang Chong knows that even if there is no deep processing, oil can at least be used as ink, candles, weapons, and to treat sores and insects. In addition, where there is oil, there should be natural asphalt, which can be used for paving roads in the future, so Yang Chong is not worried about the leakage of news, and only wants to determine the location where there is oil.

According to the results of his laboratory tests, Yang Chong could judge that the output was not as good as the Persian stills, so he immediately asked Wei Chili to go to the carriage and bring the four stills he brought, and asked the four people if they could imitate them. Qiao Hu looked at it carefully, and immediately said that it could be imitated, but some glass places should be changed to copper, Yang Chong naturally understood the reason, and immediately arranged for Qiao Hu and Fang Chou to be responsible for imitating a distiller with the highest output, and Liang Jiang and Wang Fu prepared to build a workshop for making flower dew.

When everyone went out, Yang Chong told Qiao Hu and the four of them about the production method of flower dew, and Qiao Hu and the four of them were completely convinced, the same thing, they had been tinkering with it for more than ten years, but they didn't think of making flower dew perfume, and they were told by the master all day long that they were not doing their jobs, but because their qualifications were too poor. Qiao Hu's heart moved, and he asked, "Family Master, why did you say that Uncle Zhang Shi said that our alchemy was wrong, and in the end we were not allowed to stay in the master's sect?" ”

Although Qiao Hu and the others are older than Yang Chong, Yang Chong is older, he is Feng Qiquan's junior brother, and Zhang Guolao is also commensurate with his peers, even if he is still in Louguandao, Qiao Hu has to call Yang Chong's uncle when he meets, so now they follow Yang Lei and they call Yang Chong the head of the family. Yang Chong thought for a while and said: "It should be that your alchemy method is wrong, although the alchemy is mysterious, but it is harmful to the human body, Lou Guan Dao is a famous and decent family, so naturally this kind of thing is not allowed to happen." ”

Wang Fu has also been pondering this question and asked, "Family Master, our recipe was also found from the books of our predecessors, if it is not right, why did it pass it down?" ”

Yang Chong has a way in this regard, whether it is theory or practice, he can say something, and immediately pointed out: "The person who records the recipe only records the pills he has practiced, but the effect of taking them for a long time will not be recorded at all, and some pills will be fine if they are eaten for three or five days, or even one or two years, and the effect can only be seen in five to ten years, with the accumulation of the amount of medicine." Even if the next generation knows that the elixir of the predecessors is wrong, how can they slap themselves in the face, they can only secretly warn the future generations that the elixir you have refined must have been taught by the master, but they can't say it to you. ”

Yang Chong said it was very likely, and Wang Fu asked in a low voice, "Family Master, how to verify?" ”

Yang Chong admired Wang Fu's serious attitude, and said after consideration: "You should still have some pills in your hands, you can do an experiment, buy a few pigs, and feed them for two to five years at a time to see if there is any poisoning?" ”

Qiao Hu and the others nodded, people who take pills almost once they eat it for a lifetime, and two to five years is just a white horse, the minimum amount; The four of them immediately went to the village to buy four and a half pigs, and fed their respective pills in front of Yang Chong, Jiang Fei and others, one pig died on the spot, and the two pigs were obviously poisoned. Yang Chong hurriedly asked Yu Chili and Tie Di to tie up the pig, and as soon as the excitement of the pig passed, the pig immediately collapsed on the ground, no different from a dead pig.

This is clearly a manifestation of taking stimulants, Yang Chong immediately said to Fang Chou: "Your prescription is more harmful than theirs, but there is something desirable in it, and when I have time, I will take Daoist Sun Simiao over and see which of the drugs can be used." Yang Chong told Yang Lei that the four pigs could not be eaten, and they would be burned and buried; Yang Lei nodded again and again and arranged for someone to work.