In order to use this firearm, in addition to the musket, it is necessary to have black powder. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If there was no gunpowder, of course, the musket would just be a pile of scrap metal, so after Li Weiguo inspected this craftsman's workshop, he came to the gunpowder workshop of the Tongxiang Army.

Black powder is a mixture of charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter in a certain proportion.

Sulfur is easy to say, when he was doing business with Wang Zhi, Li Weiguo exchanged Tongxiang's silk and cloth with Wang Zhi for a boatload of sulfur, and now the sulfur in the Tongxiang army is simply piled up.

Charcoal is also easy to say, there is a forest in this Tongxiang, and the trees are cut down and burned into charcoal in the charcoal factory.

Under the instruction of Li Weiguo, now the Tongxiang army hires ordinary people to cut wood and burn charcoal.

Now many people in Tongxiang have also made a fortune because of the work of purchasing charcoal in the army, and to put it bluntly, it is also beneficial to the people, and there are many benefits.

But this saltpeter is a bit of a problem.

It's not that it's troublesome because saltpeter is hard to find, but because it's hard to get it on a large scale!

Like the white powder peeled off from the corner of the wall is saltpeter, but after all, the quantity is limited, although Li Weiguo allowed the saltpeter team to enter the houses in Tongxiang to find this white powder, but the huge family may only be able to buy a little, which is a little annoying.

"My lord, our gunpowder workshop has also made a lot of black powder now!"

The leader of the firearms workshop was called Zhong Dawen, and when this person saw Li Weiguo coming, he said happily.

Open the big wooden box, good guy, the box is full of black powder, it seems that these guys have indeed not been idle these days.

Try it, all of them are of the highest quality.

"Huh? This is? ”

Li Weiguo actually noticed that now about a mile outside the firearms workshop, there is a large open space, and it is all covered with dung.

A huge open space, actually doing this work?

"Master Li, now the saltpeter collected by the nitrate collection team is not enough, these things are contraband, and it is not easy to buy them from outside, so our firearms workshop will open this vacant land, give the people some money, and let them all come over to collect dung."

Zhong Dawen said with a smile.

The white powder produced during the process of dunging is also saltpeter, from which the firearms workshop collects saltpeter.

In this way, the common people found a place for dung, and the firearms workshop got saltpeter, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Li Weiguo smiled and appreciated it.

In today's Tongxiang army, as long as there is this saltpeter, black powder can be continuously made, and when the time comes, this musket will also come in handy!

A few of the men of the nitrate collection team were collecting saltpeter in the open space where the dung was soaked.

A special brush carefully brushes the saltpeter into a small bowl, which is then placed in a large vat.

Every day when I go back, the saltpeter in the vat will be weighed, and there will be more rewards and fewer punishments.

Through such a reward and punishment system, every member of the team is now busy and sweating profusely.

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After the saltpeter is collected, it is mixed with charcoal and sulfur in a certain proportion, and then poured into the grinding disc and carefully crushed with a spoon, which becomes the best black powder.

In order to strengthen the power of the musket, the charcoal was made of willow charcoal, and the gunpowder made in this way was more powerful than ordinary gunpowder.

Today's gunpowder workshop is crowded, and everyone is very busy, everyone's enthusiasm has been fully mobilized, and black powder has been continuously produced.

Due to the rare procurement and recruitment of workers by the government, the city of Tongxiang has never been busier than ever!

In the past, ordinary people only knew how to farm with their heads down or spin yarn at home, but now it is different.

The county government is now vigorously developing military equipment and trade, which requires a large number of manpower and goods, and the common people are now eager to do business with this government.

Many ordinary people did not understand at first.

Taizu Yunyun was talked about by these people, they felt that Li Weiguo was not doing his job.

But seeing that everyone else is doing business with the government and making so much money!

Tongxiang people are already heavy on profits, and now they look at so much money, and they can't take care of the useless-truths in the past, and they are all scrambling to do business with the government, or to ship goods, or to produce physical strength, or to turn around from it.

A Tongxiang city is now completely mobilized by Li Weiguo.

This is actually what Li Weiguo wants to see the most.

After the people of a place are mobilized, everyone will come and go more or less, and people's hearts are easy to change, because more or less interests will be connected between all people, and it is easier to become united.

Whether it is money or unity, in the upcoming Tongxiang Anti-Japanese War, Li Weiguo expects to see!

In addition to recruiting troops, there are also a number of civilians who have now been mobilized by the government to build cities.

In the past, the government built bridges and roads, and the like to drive the people to servitude.

Conscription is a heavy burden imposed on the common people in the feudal era, and it is said that the court forces you to do work, if you don't do it, you can't do it, and you don't have any money to do it!

As a result, the common people of this era are actually the most hated people, except for corrupt officials, it is this conscription!

But Li Weiguo's conscription is different, although it is also a construction of fortifications, but Li Weiguo is a silver!

Whenever a farmer goes to work as a servant, Li Weiguo will give some silver.

Using the power of the government to mobilize the people at no cost, Li Weiguo didn't like it, but he still liked to use silver when he came over in later generations.

The main last trade with Wang Zhi was smooth, and the county government got a lot of silver, so Li Weiguo was also wealthy, anyway, where silver can be used, silver is used, and the people are delicate and delicate, and they must be cared for with their hearts.

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It is said that there is no cement in this era, and it is still very troublesome to do fortifications, and some places are even staggering!

Many of the century-old fortifications are actually made of egg whites and glutinous rice juice to mix mud and white ash, and it is said that the city wall that came out of this way is still a hundred-year-old fortification, which is for the fortified city.

You must know that many of the common people in this era can't even eat, and they even use egg whites and glutinous rice juice to make a city wall?

Li Weiguo shouted for waste, and he didn't allow it, so he urged the construction of the city wall with white ash.

It costs too much money to build a century-old city wall, and it doesn't really work.

If the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and the country is rich and strong, naturally no one dares to attack your city, and only you have to fight others, where can you use such a strong city wall?

If you are expropriating and expropriating, the people are not able to make a living, and all parts of the country are uncovered, even if your walls are impregnable, what is the use?

The purpose of the walls is to help you reduce casualties, not to loot the people's fat and ointment!

Li Weiguo said with emotion in his heart.

The peasants in front of him were busy carrying stones or mixing white ash, and everyone was busy fortifying the city.

The attack of the Japanese is imminent, and this file, it is natural to do this, and no one questions it. (To be continued.) )