Li Meng still rubbed his forehead and laughed, Zhao Neng saw that the atmosphere had eased somewhat, and hurriedly followed Li Meng and said:

"Brother, now we have the right to have the right to give us some face even if it is the prefect yamen, I always feel that you still have something on your mind, I am very content, I never thought that there would be a day like today, Brother Li, you are so non-stop, what are you still running forward!?"

Quanjiaozhou, no, the people in Quanlaizhou are wondering about this problem, Li Erlang is rich and powerful now, if he had changed others, he would have married more than a dozen beautiful women, and he would have cultivated a big Zhuangzi to enjoy happiness, but Li Meng still did it every day like a military camp before the field, hard-working, self-disciplined and diligent.

The room was quiet for a while, Li Meng sighed and said:

"I just want to have more strength and ensure that I can live happily ever after."

"But brother, your life is already peaceful and worry-free, are you thinking too much."

“…… You don't understand, there's not enough time..."

Li Meng's mood recovered after a month, and the news of Kong Youde's defection to Houjin has been almost a year, and for this established fact, he is currently just a small person in the local area, even if he is worried, it is useless.

Now between Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Salt Field, it has been opened up several martial arts training yards, to put it bluntly, it is the place where the new salt Ding is found in the practice, the leaders drawn from the various old salt Ding teams have come to Fengmeng Town to be the head of the coach, Li Meng is training with the horse team for two hours every day, to train the salt Ding for two hours, and the next time is to soak in the blacksmith shop.

Interestingly, thirty percent of the weapons of the Yanding still have to be repaired in the original blacksmith shops in Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Guard, which is also a lot of money. There are many craftsmen in the Liao people, many of whom make armor and weapons, but there are very few people who can repair and manufacture weapons. It's really incomprehensible.

Many of the Yanding people regard the Inspection Division as their own territory, and they are very worried, and they themselves do not have a very good impression of the Liao people, so many people went to report in front of Li Meng for a while.

Ping Suri has always been Li Meng, who is careful about his calculations. This time, he ignored everyone's rhetoric, and even Ning Qiangui, who had always been sleek, couldn't help but check the accounts. was also stopped by Li Meng, and everyone wondered in their hearts, wondering why Li Erlang was so selfish.

Perhaps taking this sentiment into account, the blacksmith shop presided over by Guo Dong moved to a nearby place, where Li Meng and the others used to trade smuggled salt, and there were a small village with a few dozen families there, so as not to upset everyone.

"Master, this bird gun can penetrate heavy armor and kill people within fifty steps, and light armor can be broken within a hundred steps."

It's in this remote village. Li Meng frowned and looked at the target in the distance, every time he hit the firearm at this time, he felt a little anxious, loaded with gunpowder, projectiles, compacted with a strip, and then gunpowder in the medicine pool. It is then lit with an arquebus, and these steps in modern times are nothing more than pulling the trigger.

Guo Dong and six blacksmiths have already built more than 30 firearms. However, in Li Meng's eyes, the power is a little small, and the range is too close, so it is no wonder that those firecrackers were unceremoniously destroyed and rebuilt. Ning Qiangui had to tear off his face to check the accounts.

The cost of each torch is about five taels of silver. Coupled with the saltpeter gunpowder and the various expenses of the blacksmith's shop, it has been more than 600 taels so far. An old saltman is only twenty taels a year, how can a few blacksmiths spend so much money.

However, it was constantly vetoed and remanufactured by Li Meng, and it would be abnormal if the cost was small.

The caliber of the barrel of the newly built gun has been much larger than the first one, and the barrel is still very long, but after it is shot, there is no reaction to the target placed a hundred steps away.

But the target a hundred steps away is a door panel, such a big target, a fire blasted over, so a large door panel did not even touch the edge, five shots in a row, only one dozen on the door panel, but this is much better than the first time, at least the door panel was penetrated.

Guo Dong was very apprehensive in his heart, after coming to Shandong, that is, after more than a year of peace, every day when he went home, he looked at his wife with a smiling face, the children were well fed, and they grew strong.

Therefore, he was particularly attentive to the task assigned by Li Meng to build the firecracker, but he didn't expect Li Meng's request to be so strange, obviously what he built was the standard of Liaozhen, but this Master Li was still not satisfied, and often put forward some seemingly inexplicable requirements.

Guo Dong consciously built the fire gun is already improving, in the past, he would take a fine file to polish the gun chamber, and blow up the chamber, anyway, he didn't do his own business.

After Li Meng fired a few shots, the courtyard was filled with the smell of saltpeter gunpowder, he shook his head, threw the firearm to Guo Dong, and asked:

"How far can a bow and arrow shoot?"

"If we make our own bow, there is an accurate head within fifty steps, and we can hurt people within one hundred and fifty steps, my lord, fighting in battle, or this bow and arrow is the best to use......

"If there is an accurate head within a hundred steps of this firebolt, can it be made?"

The craftsmen present were silent for a while, whispered a few words to each other, and Guo Dong hesitated and said:

"It's not on foot, but my lord, if it's such a firecracker, I'm afraid it will cost more than a dozen catties, then I can't take other weapons, isn't it ......?"

Hearing this reply, Li Meng's eyes widened, and he looked at Guo Dong in surprise, thinking about what he meant, Guo Dong looked at Li Meng's expression, and thought that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly explained:

"On the battlefield, the army is a firecracker, and it has to rush up with weapons, and the march will move there!" "Do you want to carry other blades?"

In the face of Li Meng's more surprised, Guo Dong's confidence became stronger, he felt that Li Meng had never been on the battlefield, thinking that Li Meng could also get enough food for ordinary salt here, presumably he had read a lot of military books, so with these wonderful ideas, he immediately said:

"Our Ming military system, originally said that the bird gun hand on the battlefield with a short knife to defend himself, but every time with the foreign enemy fighting, always the enemy did not come to the front is fire, the result of the ammunition is not hit, the enemy did not hit, rushed to the front, the other party is a spear and a big knife, with the short knife can not defend themselves, besides, the fire gun is often blown up duds or something, so the bird gun is armed with spears and big knives, the weight of these things is not light, counting the fire gun is even heavier, for the convenience of us are particular about the bird gun can not be too heavy."

Hearing Guo Dong's explanation, Li Meng's expression on his face was quite wonderful, this is really making people laugh and cry, what is the use of me if I do this, it is obvious that the officials and soldiers are timid, and the craftsmen have no enthusiasm for labor, and as a result, the convention has become a rule, this is the standard bad habit, and he said solemnly at the moment:

"Don't care if it's heavy or not, if ten catties and twenty catties of salt can't be lifted, then there is no need to make salt, there is a place where you need to spend silver, you and your family have anything to lack and come to me, this is a big deal, don't slack off."

Although these Liaomin blacksmiths are experimenting and building here every day, they really don't think that this matter is worth paying so much attention to, but when they heard what Li Meng said solemnly, and remembered the benefits that Li Meng gave them, they also agreed awe-inspiringly, it is actually easy to increase the caliber, and it is better to make larger things than small ones.

In June of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the officialdom and the people of Jiaozhou City were preaching two things, one thing was that Zhou Xiucai Township was selected in the trial, and became the first person in Jiaozhou City in the past fifteen years, and then Li Meng sent a few pieces of porcelain to Yan Zhizhou's home.

With Li Meng, who is interested in the inspection of the salt administration, money and power will not be less beneficial, but Yan Zhizhou doesn't feel how happy, if anyone talks about this matter in front of him, Yan Zhizhou, who has always been kind, pulled his face down, and everyone was confused.

However, Yan Zhizhou, who has always not oppressed the people, is rare once, and the officials of the Zhizhou Yamen were sent to seal down a porcelain shop by the Jiaozhou River, which really made everyone scratch their heads.

There are also people in the know chatting at leisure, saying that the porcelain shop has long been not uncommon in Jiaozhou City to make this little money, I heard that the inspector Li Erlang in this shop into the shares, to Jining City near the kiln to make a lot of money to make a lot of money, I heard that their small porcelain jar is a hot goods?

Of course, compared to Zhou Xiucai's promotion, these are just trivial things, the rich and noble families in Jiaozhou City either give Zhou Xiucai gifts and congratulations, or see if there are any girls who have not been out of the cabinet, so as to marry in the past, but after hearing that Zhou Xiucai has been married for almost six years, many people regret it.

Looking at the noisy and lively in the city, Li Meng's anxious mood has calmed down a lot, I remember that in modern times, my county has a provincial college entrance examination champion is also so lively, everyone is excited, as if their own children also have such good results.

But those officials in the city and the rich are so keen to make friends and pull relationships, so Li Meng is a little incomprehensible, thinking that isn't it just a lifter, with the knowledge he knows, only Jinshi and Tongjinshi can be officials, but it's not right to think about it, it seems that Fan Jinzhongju, who has learned before, is also this posture.