Zhou Zhi subconsciously didn't talk about playing with children, because in her memory, children were all bad and would only laugh at her, although these two children seemed to be different, and her mother was very happy to see that she was in a daze every day and found such a good place for herself.

Ning Daguan smiled, Mrs. Zhou is a very good mother and a very good person, because she sent him a very beautiful chick.

There has always been nothing to do in the afternoon, just to deal with some trivial matters, but now everything in Ningxia is on the right track, and the city has lived up to the depression of the past.

There is still no business in the shop now, because the people are very poor, but Ning Zhiyuan still collects the silver that these merchants spent on the shop, he believes that when the harvest arrives this autumn, the whole city will be much better, well, maybe it will be just a little better.

After all, this year is another dry year, although Ning Daguan has already made preparations.

And these days, Ning Zhiyuan has attracted a lot of businessmen to sell grain to Ningxia, just in the northwest tranquility, and when the anti-people regeneration turmoil, I am afraid it will not be easy to transport grain, and he spent most of the silver military expenses that he was abducted and defrauded, and he continued to buy a large amount of grain, and those who came did not refuse, there was not much left, but fortunately, there were not too many places to spend money.

Ning Zhiyuan came to the workshop at this time.

Lu Chip went through the last Ningxia purge incident, and stayed here without reward or punishment, which made him a little depressed, but also a little lucky, after all, all the officials above the Gongshu level were dead except for him, so let's work honestly.

Due to his background, Lu Chou's professional ability is still very strong, and his father is a servant of the Ministry of Industry, and he is very familiar with the construction of Ningxia Weicheng City and the repair of houses, so that Ning Zhiyuan is still very satisfied.

"How's that dynamite experiment?" Ning Zhiyuan asked, since the gunpowder technology of the Song Dynasty matured, the power has been greatly weakened now, and it has not played much role, so he has not taken much advantage in the field war with foreign races, and can only attack with cannons under the city, which made him move the idea of developing explosives.

After all, this is the era of semi-hot weapons, and it is not enough to rely on military training.

"According to the instructions of the adults, the stone nitrate has been refined and then tried, and the power is indeed much greater, and the effect can already be felt within a zhang after the open flame." Lu Chou said very realistically, feeling that the Lord Ning in front of him had changed a little from when he first came to Ningxia before, although he was still so approachable, his momentum had undoubtedly increased a lot.

"Yes, I'll continue to refine it later." Ning Zhiyuan nodded and said, picked up a sample, the mixed powder of yellow and black still had some gravel, and then instructed the guards on the side to try the effect.

The fuse was ignited, and the guards quickly ran back, and with a somewhat violent sound, some intermittent gravel flew up, and Ning Zhiyuan noticed that a stone about two feet within half a zhang was blown up a distance of one zhang, but the stone itself had no cracks.

This is the power of the improved explosives at this time, maybe it can blow people up and seriously injure them, but it is unlikely that they will be killed, Ning Zhiyuan thought, but it is also much better than before, take your time.

In fact, he doesn't know much about himself, just put forward a few small ideas, otherwise it wouldn't be more than half a year and just such slow progress.

Lu Chouen sighed, compared to his previous inaction, his life is not bad now, at least he is still safe, but he doesn't know when he will be promoted.

On the street, Ning Zhiyuan paced by himself, he liked to watch the peaceful life of these people so quietly, there were not many vendors along the way, and there were a few stalls selling vegetables from time to time, presumably they were planted in autumn and winter last year, and they should grow in spring.

"Lord Ning," some of his people who knew him greeted him with some apprehension, and he responded with a smile, there are many people who know him, so they can always meet him on the street.

Ning Zhiyuan saw a stall selling fruits, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and thought of something, so he walked over.

The stall owner is a beautiful woman, quite old and holding a child, and the thing she sells is a fruit, but in fact it is some wild fruit, or wild barley pear, which is a somewhat sour wild fruit.

"Eldest sister, you're doing well now." Ning Zhiyuan asked, he wanted to buy these pears and go back to make wine, so he stopped by to learn about their lives, what he sometimes saw was not necessarily right.

The middle-aged woman didn't know Ning Zhiyuan, but she didn't look like an ordinary person, so she smiled and said, "It's better than before." ”

"How do you sell this pear?" Ning Zhiyuan continued to ask lightly, he heard that the woman's words were a little unsatisfactory, but he didn't want to care so much, the people in each of his households were divided into some arable land and planted by themselves, and the rations were distributed according to their work, which could ensure their lives, and the woman's expression told Ning Zhiyuan that they at least didn't even take care of food and clothing, as for what trivial things they were bothered by, he couldn't care about it, and there was a yamen to manage it.

"Three pounds a penny." The woman said, with a little hope in her eyes, she had been unattended for a day, and it was good to open when the stall was about to close.

Ning Zhiyuan felt that it was really cheap, there should be fifty or sixty catties in front of him, and it would only be twenty wen if he sold them all, but he didn't know how long this woman would have to pick for two catties of grain.

He took out thirty wen from his bosom, and motioned to the guards to move away along with the bamboo basket in front of the woman, "The other ten wen is the money of the bamboo basket." "The people of the lower classes are just barely living, and they should do something for them as a plug-in, and there is still a long way to go in Ningxia.

Buying these pears now is only the first step, a very small step.

"I don't need that much." The woman said hurriedly, and her hands were also shirking, which made Ning Zhiyuan quite happy.

He could have given more, but he felt that it was always bad to do everything in moderation and to get something for nothing, and it was unfair to others.

Ning Zhiyuan shook his head very firmly, "It's worth so much." Then he was about to leave, and then he turned around and said, "If there is something that can't be solved, you can find the yamen." He spent a lot of effort on the construction of Ningxia Wei, and set up office yamen in almost many small areas, just to prevent the people from being oppressed if they had any problems.

Ningxia Wei, who has just undergone a major blood change, believes that no official dares to deceive him, not to mention that there are still people to supervise.

The woman was stunned, and then took the child and left, this is a good official, but his own business, the yamen can't solve it, the so-called knot is difficult to solve, what happened before, the husband doesn't care, but she cares about herself.

It's a little strange that the guards buy so many sour pears and go home, but it's not strange that many of the things that this adult does are incomprehensible, such as letting people grow those strange things.

Washed pears, a little sugar, and a few wooden barrels for winemaking, the tools for making pear wine are complete, and it is not complicated, but with the raw material of white sugar, it is destined that this thing is not something that ordinary people can afford, at least not the people now, and it may be possible in the peaceful years.

The two little Loli were blinking and watching, they liked to watch Ning Daguan do these strange things, and it was fun to feel very funny.

This is about how much wine he makes, but it is enough for him to drink for a long time, and it can be regarded as adding some color to the ordinary life of himself and his girls.

He didn't want to care about many things, and what happened in the DPRK was not something he could care about, but Xu Guangqi's letter made him a little painful.

To put it simply, Xu Guangqi set him a family affair, so Ning Daguan was very angry.

He now has three girls who have had an intimate relationship with him, whether it is Liu Ruyi, Shang Jinglan, or Da Yu'er, it is impossible for them to become his wife, because of his identity, either from Qinglou or from a criminal official, Da Yu'er is Mongolian, so he will not have any troubles.

But these reasons did not prevent him from taking any of them as a wife, he did not care about status, but he did not want to marry because he needed to give these girls equality.

The relationship with Xu Guangqi is very pure, and Ning Zhiyuan is also very grateful, but this does not mean that he can let Xu Guangqi call the shots, especially in this regard.

replied to Xu Guangqi with a letter to the effect that he refused, and Ning Zhiyuan fell into thought.

Xu Guangqi is his teacher well, but the teacher-student relationship does not seem to be to such a point that he can be married, and he has not been consulted.

Xu Guangqi is over 70 years old this year, how could he do such a stingy thing?

There is also a very important question, what if the other party is very ugly?

Therefore, Ning Zhiyuan was very unhappy.