Chapter 549: Building a Meritorious Career for the Ming Dynasty

Li Feibai's pistol was brought over hundreds of years later, if he could go back hundreds of years later to steal the teacher, he would have gone back a long time ago, so why bother to invent it here.

He smiled bitterly and said, "I have only one relationship with that feudal merchant, and if I want to find him again and ask which small country made it, I'm afraid it's like looking for a needle in a haystack!" ”

Wang Feng rubbed his hands together and said, "How is this good!" If we don't hurry up and create a primer and powerful gunpowder, once other countries attack the Ming Dynasty with such things that even ghosts and gods are afraid of, which of our opponents will be! ”

Yang San suddenly took a step forward and arched his hand: "My lord, Brother Dai and I may be able to create such a powerful gunpowder and primer!" ”

Wang Feng has known Yang San and Deming for a long time, and he knows what the two can do. He waved his hand and said, "When is this, you are still in the mood to laugh!" Can you two make it? Do you dare to make a military writ? If you make it, you will be rewarded, but you can't make it and come to see it? ”

Li Fei looked at Yang San and flinched, and said, "Lord Wang, as the saying goes, one person counts short, and everyone counts long." Why not listen to these two brothers, in case they find a way? ”

Wang Feng nodded and said, "Okay, you two talk about how to make primers and explosives!" ”

Yang San said: "My lord, the two of us did not act for the tiger, and before serving for the Francosis people, they were from Songjiang Mansion. ”

Dai Ming said: "My lord also knows that there are many people who do textile in Songjiang!" ”

Yang Sandao: "There is a saying, red men and green women. When you are an official in our Ming Dynasty, you generally wear red robes, but if women want to be pretty, they wear more green clothes. ”

Deming said: "So, the demand for green clothes is very large! ”

Yang Sandao: "I partnered with Deming to run a dyeing house, and dozens of guys were hired in the dyeing house, and the business was not bad, and I could earn 10,000 taels of silver every year." ”

Deming said: "If you can earn 20,000 taels of silver, you want to earn 50,000 taels of silver, and if you can earn 50,000 taels of silver, you want to earn 100,000 taels of silver." ”

Yang Sandao: "But we are a dry dyeing house, and if we want to make more money, in addition to doing more work, we also have to deduct silver from the dye." ”

Deming said: "Dyes are quite expensive, such as the most commonly used green, which is made of yellow and blue. Blue is extracted from plants and is cheaper. Yellow can only be made with male yellow and orpiment. ”

Yang Sandao: "Realgar and orpiment are not cheap, and it is even more difficult to bear when used in large quantities. ”

Deming said: "So, the two of us often sigh to others, if only there were cheap yellow colors!" ”

Yang San said: "One day, a Taoist priest got the news and came to the door in person. After receiving the hundred taels of silver we offered, he told us a way to get yellow at a cheaper price. ”

Deming said: "Actually, it is very simple, it is to distill saltpeter with a special thing until it becomes a yellow dye. ”

Yang San said: "Because this dye exudes a bitter acid, we named it bitter yellow." ”

Deming said: "But this dye is very good, and when it is mixed with blue, the green color is very gorgeous." As for the bitter and sour taste, it will disappear after a few days of cold sunning, and the color will not decrease at all. ”

Yang San said: "The two of us are very happy, using this method to make yellow dye, the cost is much lower, originally we can only earn 15,000 taels a year, so we can earn 25,000 taels." ”

Deming said: "The two of us even imagined that we could sell this dye to other dyeing houses, so that we could make more profits." It is not impossible to earn 100,000 taels of silver a year! ”

Yang San said: "Therefore, we purchased a lot of saltpeter, refining day and night, and soon there were dozens of barrels of dye. They were all packed in iron drums and placed in the warehouse one by one. ”

Deming said: "That day, the two of us went out to buy saltpeter, and we were going to refine another dozen or twenty barrels of yellow dye to sell outside. ”

Yang San's face showed a look of horror, and said: "Who knew that that day, we each drove a carriage and pulled the saltpeter back to rush back, before entering the city gate, and when there were still more than ten miles away from the dyeing room, there was a sudden loud noise, like a thunder in the sky. ”

Deming's face also showed a look of horror, and he said: "At that time, the loudest noise I heard in my life was even louder than the sound of a hundred Franc machines!" ”

Yang San said: "Then there is a heat wave!" ”

Deming said: "Many houses have been blown down, people have been blown into the air, and two city gates have been blown down. ”

Yang Sandao: "The two of us were pushed by the heat wave, rose from the ground, hit the city wall and fell to the ground hard. ”

Deming said: "The carriage was also blown over by the heat, and the saltpeter rolled to the ground, and the horse was crushed under the carriage and struggled. ”

Yang San said: "The two of us feel that something is wrong, hurry up and go to the dyeing room." Along the way, there were tragic scenes of collapsed houses, and from time to time you could see torn apart corpses. ”

Deming said: "The closer you get to the dyeing room, the more miserable it is, and the more broken corpses!" ”

Yang Sandao: "When I arrived at the dyeing room, I found that our dyeing room was gone?" Several houses around it were gone, and a huge hole appeared in the ground, and the hole was full of water. ”

Deming said: "We immediately woke up to the fact that it was caused by an explosion. I am afraid that it has been blown up to the Yellow Spring, and the water in the cave is the Yellow Spring Water. ”

Yang San said: "We didn't know what happened at the time? Trembling with fright, he stared blankly at everything in front of him. We don't have gunpowder in the dye room, what's going on! ”

Deming said: "At this time, someone was calling the two of us, and the voice was extremely weak. ”

Yang San said: "We searched for the sound, and finally found a bloody person under a pile of rubble, who was already incomplete and couldn't do it." ”

Deming said: "That person is the shopkeeper we hired!" We were busy asking him what was wrong, and he spoke intermittently and couldn't speak clearly! ”

Yang San said: "But we still understand a rough idea!" ”

Deming said: "It turned out that the yellow dye in the dye room ran out, and the shopkeeper asked two guys to carry another bucket." Those two guys are new, not very old, they are two hairy young men, and they are also hairy when they do things. ”

Yang San said: "They carried a bucket of yellow dye from the warehouse, talking and laughing while carrying it, teasing cats and dogs, you touch me and I will touch you." ”

Deming said: "One of the two people didn't hold it steady, the barrel fell to the ground, and the dye was hit by this and exploded!" ”

Yang Sandao: "It actually exploded!" This explosion caused other dyes in the warehouse to explode together! At the first explosion, the shopkeeper had been thrown out of the way, thrown to the ground, crushed by the collapsed house. When the second explosion sounded, he fainted, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw the two of us. ”

Deming said: "The shopkeeper will die after talking about this!" And the two of us saw that there was such a big disaster, hundreds of houses were destroyed, and there were no casualties, how dare we stay any longer, so we fled in a hurry! ”

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they said this. This is a secret that has been buried in their hearts for a long time, and now that it is revealed, the whole person is much lighter!

He Ru said: "What happened later? The government didn't hunt down the two of you? ”

Deming said: "The two of us have no fixed place to live, and we are wandering around. Later, after hearing rumors, the government could not find out what the cause was, so they reported it as suffering from a tornado. ”

He Ru said: "But the two of us don't dare to go back!" I'm afraid that those unjust ghosts will seek revenge on the two of us! Later, we ran to Liangguang, and we couldn't get mixed up anymore, so we went to Franco's to beg for food to spend the rest of our lives! ”

Dai Ming said: "Originally, the two of us have made up our minds that we don't want to mention this matter again in our lives, so it can be seen that Li Gongzi and the adults are worried about this matter, and in order to be able to build a contribution to Daming, they turned this matter over again." ”

Yang San said: "The two of us want to think about it, but I'm afraid that the bitter yellow is the primer that Li Gongzi is looking for!" ”