Granular gunpowder is still the original method, first use a wooden stick like rolling dough, roll out the powdered gunpowder mixed with thin rice soup and then cut it into thin strips with a knife, then chop the thin strips, sieve it with a sieve and put it into a large hand-cranked polishing ball for polishing, after polishing, dry the gunpowder that is still a little moist, and finally put it into oil paper and seal it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this way, the soldier only needs to use a knife to make a cut, pour gunpowder into the gun, and load the gun to ignite the fire, and no longer need to consider the amount of gunpowder.

"Captain Zhao, Wang Zhutou has something to look for you," a villager came to report.

Hearing that Wang Zhutou was looking for him, Zhao Guohua put down his work and went back to the village. Wang Zhutou and the two catchers were drinking tea in the village, and when they saw Zhao Guohua coming, they hurriedly stood up with a smile and said: "Brother Zhao, my brother has been waiting for you for a long time, come with me to the county office, Lord Song has something urgent to discuss with you." ”

"Lord Song has something urgent to discuss with me? Brother Wang, you're not joking with your brother, are you? Zhao Guohua said with a smile.

"I'm not joking with my brother, it's true that Lord Song has something to discuss with you." Wang Zhutou hurriedly said.

Looking at his eager expression, Zhao Guohua thought to himself: As an ordinary person, he knows a little bit of soap shampoo technology, although he has a good relationship with this Song Zhixian, but the relationship is not so good that it is not to the point where he has a big matter to discuss with him......

Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Brother Wang, what is the matter with Lord Song looking for me, can you get some wind?" ……”

looked at the people in the room, and Wang Zhutou didn't speak.

"You guys go out first...... Zhao Guohua said to a few villagers in the house who were bringing tea and water.

After spending the two catchers, Wang Zhutou closed the door, and then told Zhao Guohua in a low and detailed voice what Song Zhixian said in the county office.

Listening to what Wang Zhutou said, Zhao Guohua's heart was very surprised: "This officer and soldier is too bad, the little three thousand men and horses were actually captured by hundreds of bandits, what a joke to say, no wonder tens of thousands of people and horses will be beaten by hundreds of Tartars to lose their armor and flee, relying on such an army to protect the Ming Dynasty, it is simply a dream." ”

Seeing Zhao Guohua's solemn expression and silent contemplation, Wang Zhutou hurriedly persuaded him: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, when you get to the county office, listen to what Lord Song says, what you really can't do, don't be reluctant, just say the difficulty, I don't think Lord Song is not the kind of unreasonable person." ”

"Brother Wang, what you said is also right, but I can't forget the help and support of Lord Song and your Brother Wang, no matter what difficulties Lord Song has, as long as I can do it, I will do my best to help him." Zhao Guohua said sincerely.

Listening to Zhao Guohua's words, Wang Zhutou was very happy, and he took Zhao Guohua's hand affectionately: "Brother Zhao, you are really a very good person, Lord Song and I didn't mistake you, ...... in the future"

"Brother Wang, let's talk about it later, let's go quickly, I'm afraid Lord Song is in a hurry." Zhao Guohua said with a smile.

Wang Zhutou was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "That's what you said...... Let's go! With that, he opened the door and strode out.

Zhao Guohua also took Sun Fu with him, and a group of five people rode towards Yongxin County, and a puff of dust rolled up on the road.

When he arrived at the county government and got off the horse, Wang Zhutou walked in with Zhao Guohua, and when he saw Sun Fu also following in, Wang Zhutou glanced at him, and he didn't say anything to stop him.

"Oh, Mingyuan, you can count it as coming, the old man is dying, someone is coming to serve tea to Mr. Zhao......" Song Zhixian saw Zhao Guohua, and greeted him happily and greeted him warmly.

Seeing this, Zhao Guohua hurriedly took a step forward, bowed down and saluted Song Zhixian and Master Niu: "I've seen Lord Song, I've seen Master Niu, let the two of you wait for a long time, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry!" I'm sorry! ”

Master Niu smiled and said, "Just now, my lord and I were still betting on how fast you will get to the county office, it seems that I lost." ”

"I'm really afraid of delaying the affairs of adults, so I rushed here as soon as I put down what I was doing." Zhao Guohua hurriedly said.

Hearing this, Song Zhixian glanced at Wang Zhutou, Wang Zhutou nodded lightly, and now Song Zhixian was even happier, and it was even more pleasing to the eye when he looked at Zhao Guohua.

After everyone was polite, they separated the irrelevant people, Sun Fu was about to go out, glanced at Zhao Guohua, Song Zhixian smiled and said: "This strong man will stay here......" Sun Fu heard this, and glanced at Song Zhixian gratefully.

Seeing that there were only people left in the house who could participate in the discussion of this matter, Song Zhixian told Wang Zhutou what he had said to Zhao Guohua in Mingfeng Village again, but the content and details were more detailed.

Hearing this, Zhao Guohua thought about it for a while before asking Song Zhixian: "Lord Song, I don't know if it is easy for my county to collect these 200,000 taels of silver?" ”

"Alas! Don't say 200,000, even 100,000 can't make it up. Song Zhixian shook his head and said with an embarrassed face.

"But what should you do with the order of the Meng Governor's Mansion, he has a deadline of one month to let the county collect 200,000 taels of silver." Zhao Guohua asked again.

Song Zhixian said with a wry smile on his face: "If there is really no way, this official ...... The official can only eat the grain, but if he does this, the official will be sorry for the father of Yongxin......"

"Adults can't, the people of Yongxin are already bitter enough, if you do this, I'm afraid that the officials will force the people to rebel, how to deal with the adults at that time, one is not good, I'm afraid the adult's net worth and life will also ......" Zhao Guohua said here and stopped.

Hearing this, Song Zhixian Ji Ling Ling shuddered and woke up like a dream.

Originally, he only thought of collecting 200,000 taels of silver through the method of expropriation and expropriation, but he did not expect the consequences of this matter, the north was already a mess, and if there was a riot in the south because of his own expropriation and expropriation, the consequences would really be unimaginable.

He looked at Zhao Guohua for a long time, and said gratefully: "If it weren't for Mingyuan's reminder, the old man would have almost made a big mistake." ”

Zhao Guohua avoided Song Zhixian's big gift, he pondered and said: "200,000 taels of silver, in fact, it is not much, as long as the big households in the county and the merchants in the city support it, you can also collect it all, so if you want to collect the money, you can only collect it from the big households and businessmen, so as not to cause turmoil in the county." ”

"Big families and merchants?" Song Zhixian said, smiling bitterly and shaking his head.

Master Niu said: "Brother Mingyuan, I admit that the method you said is right, but in this Ming Dynasty, it doesn't work at all, these big families and big businessmen, who have no shadow of court officials behind their families, don't say that Song Zhixian can't move them, even the governor of the province may not dare to touch them." ”

Listening to Master Niu's words, Zhao Guohua sighed, knowing that what he said was right,

Zhao Guohua loves to read history books, and he knows that this malaise of the Ming Dynasty began when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a series of decrees and decrees that gave preferential treatment to scholars, one of which was that the gentry did not pay food, did not pay taxes, and did not perform labor. At the beginning of the new dynasty, land annexation was not too serious, and such decrees and decrees were indeed able to attract a large number of intellectuals to work for the new dynasty

However, as time went by, the ranks of officials and squires became larger and larger, more and more people needed preferential treatment, and fewer and fewer people paid taxes and grain, and political corruption made the problem of land annexation more and more serious, and there were more and more lands that did not need to pay grain and taxes, so that the imperial court received less taxes, and in order to maintain the normal operation of the country, these burdens fell on those yeoman farmers who still had small plots of land, and suddenly increased the taxes several times and more than ten times, forcing the yeoman farmers to sell their sons and daughters. In the end, when there is nothing to sell, it is logical to rise up.

And because of the lack of sufficient taxes, the country's financial difficulties, famine, and no money to help the victims; So the hungry people revolted; There was no money to pay the soldiers, and the hungry soldiers were in rebellion. The combination of the hungry people and the hungry soldiers led to a massive civil rebellion. The government army lacked combat effectiveness, and the state could neither eliminate foreign invasions nor suppress internal rebellions.

financial crisis, leading to a military crisis; The military crisis, which led to an even greater financial crisis. In such a vicious circle, the Ming Empire eventually came to an end......

He was thinking about these things, and Master Niu asked, "Brother Mingyuan, has you thought of any good way?" ”

With a wry smile, Zhao Guohua said: "In this case, it is nothing more than helping soldiers and helping silver, since helping silver can't be successful, then there is only helping soldiers." ”

"Helpers? But I have so many soldiers in Yongxin County, not to mention that the three thousand officers and soldiers are not the opponents of the bandits, and the one hundred and ten soldiers of my Yongxin are not enough for the bandits to stuff their teeth. Alas......" Song Zhixian said with a sigh.

A few people in the room felt uncomfortable when they heard it, and Zhao Guohua was also thinking about countermeasures.

Suddenly, his heart moved: "Ah, isn't this a good opportunity to take the opportunity to expand the security team again?" By seizing this opportunity, you can legally have a large-scale team and speed up the formation of your army. But he couldn't make such a request, because it was a bit unusual.

After a while, seeing that everyone still hadn't come up with a way, Zhao Guohua couldn't hold it back, so he said inquiringly: "If Lord Song really has no choice, my security team can give it a try, but the number of people is a little small." ”

"Oh, Mingyuan, did you mean to send your security team to fight the bandits in Jinggang Mountain?" Song Zhixian asked in surprise.