Leaving the conference room, Liu Yao said to Yao Ying: "This is typical Chinese thinking: still expect Mingjun and Shengshang to solve all problems." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info We have to train lawyers, legislators, and the chief executive from scratch, which seems really complicated. ”

"That's not how I see it. Mei Xianzhuo: They just don't have a concept for the time being, so they don't know what to do, so they just don't move. And didn't he say to wait two years? In these two years, a lot of things will happen, and they will also see if the plan you are trying is good. I think the relationship is very similar to that between shareholders and managers. Yao Ying said with a smile.

"Haha, the manager is good, didn't someone say that I am the son of the people." Liu Yao said with a smile. Then he grabbed the hands of his son and daughter and said, "Let's go, let's set off firecrackers." ”

The family walked up to the top of Freedom Mountain, crossed the Shiroku River from the dam, and then walked down the mountain road to the industrial area at the bottom of the dam. Although it is close to the end of the year, all the workshops are producing, and the Li people do not have the concept of the Spring Festival, and they are constantly transporting iron ore. Liu Yao did not stop at these workshops, took his family through the industrial area, bypassed a stone wall, and saw a vegetable field and a sheep shed, passing between the sheep houses, you can see an empty flat land, this is a small valley at the foot of the mountain, about 500 meters square, there are four bamboo sheds built in the distance, and people are constantly walking between the bamboo sheds. This is Tang Zuoxiang's gunpowder workshop.

"Dad, that sheep farm is a disguise, right? To cover up the existence of this gunpowder workshop. Are all those sheep keepers agents? Liu Man asked excitedly.

"Blocking is definitely needed, you see this kind of row of small trees, it is also for shading. However, raising sheep is not a disguise, it is a serious 800 raising. The grass planted in the open space between the powder sheds was regularly cut and fed to the sheep by the sheep keepers. We still don't have enough land, so try to save land. Liu Yao explained carefully to his daughter.

"Why are these houses so far apart?" Yao Ying asked strangely.

"The house is full of gunpowder, or the raw materials used to make gunpowder, of course, they should be separated from each other, so as not to serve a pot after an accident." Liu Yao said seriously, leading the family towards the largest bamboo shed, and introduced: "This largest bamboo tent is a mixing workshop, where all kinds of raw materials are mixed into gunpowder. For safety, only a certain amount of raw materials are taken at a time, and once they are mixed, they are immediately taken to the warehouse and stored, not in this shed. That is, once it explodes, it will not be too much of a problem. ”

The more Liu Yao explained the safety measures, the more nervous Yao Ying became, and hurriedly asked, "Then is it not safe for us to come here?" ”

"So the standard procedure for a family visit is for the fast runner to go and check to see if there are any smoke and squeaky fuses. You're waiting here. Liu Yao said and put down his son and walked to the front alone. Liu Man rolled his eyes, laughed again, and was about to follow, but was grabbed by his mother, so he had to roll his eyes seriously.

The workshop should have entered the stage of product statistics, Tang Zuoxiang was counting at 1510 to see Liu Yao come in, and greeted him with a smile and said, "What new technology did Mr. Liu bring today?" Liu Yao spread his hands and said, "No." If we don't have nitric acid and sulfuric acid, we can't make gunpowder. Without it, there would be no bullets of modern structures. Of course, Tang Zuoxiang didn't understand this, so he had to introduce the results of his recent work: "This is gunpowder, all according to the method you said, that ...... Granulated. The gunpowder that came out in this way was really the same force. We're going to do a sample test soon. Liu Yao smiled and said, "I brought my wife and children, and I will let them see the test later." Tang Zuoxiang hurriedly instructed his subordinates, and a person quickly walked out of the door, and only ran outside the door.

Liu Yao nodded with satisfaction and said to Tang Zuoxiang: "Your apprentice is good. Remember not being able to run in the workshop. Tang Zuoxiang said casually: "This kid's name is Zhang Yongkai, he looks stupid, but he is actually quite flexible." Then he added: "These boxes are fuses for ignition, which have been tested, and the time is very ...... Standard. The new vocabulary was obviously still a bit of a mouthful for him.

"What about the fuse of Rafa? The result? Liu Yao asked eagerly. Tang Zuoxiang shook his head: "It's still not ideal." Three or four times out of ten, I won't be able to do it. Liu Yao thought for a while and said to Tang Zuoxiang: "You call all the apprentices, and I will announce a matter." So saying, he went out the door and brought the family in, and told them to look around and not touch anything. Yao Ying thought about it for a while, but decided to take her son and daughter outside the room. Liu Man refused his mother and insisted on listening in the room.

Liu Yao said to everyone: "Everyone, everyone is knowing that we are making the fuse of pulling hair, and we already have a basic design, and six or seven times out of ten times will ignite. This is not bad. But we are making this fuse to fight wars. When you're in war, you want the powder bag you throw out to go off every time. So I'm here to announce one thing: you have been making gunpowder for a long time, and there are all kinds of materials here, and everyone can do experiments, and whoever makes the fuse can hold it nine times out of ten, and I will reward one hundred taels of silver. If you can take more than 95 times in 100 times, you will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver. ”

The people in the gunpowder workshop looked at each other, which was a huge number. Liu Yao smiled at Tang Zuoxiang and said, "Old Tang, try not to lose, haha!" Also, pay attention to safety, and don't work day and night. Our work is dangerous, and we can't force it. Also, I repeat, be careful with secrecy, and whoever leaks anything here, don't blame me for being unkind. Tang Zuoxiang nodded hurriedly and repeated: "Safety and confidentiality, the two most important things, I know." Let's go see this powder pack test. ”

The family walked through a large open field to the foot of the mountain. Turning around a bunch of troubled times, there is a long and narrow valley inside. A C-shaped trench was dug in the ground, and the test bench was in the open space enclosed by the trench. The spectator stood 30 meters away, and there was a row of rocks, which appeared to be stools for people to sit on and watch the experiment. The experimenter stuffed the gunpowder bag into an iron rack, pulled the fuse, and hurriedly flipped into the trench to hide. Tang explained: "We use the lead of the pull hair to test it. Liu Yao nodded and said, "This time, it's on it." Ha ha. I heard a soft sound, and a heavy piece of iron on the iron shelf flew up dozens of centimeters. Liu Ze saw this on the side, and he was so happy that he just jumped up, and he was about to run to see it. Liu Man's eyes were quick to catch up with him in two steps, and he grabbed it, and said, "This danger!" You must not go without letting you pass! Liu looked at the light smoke with tears in his eyes, and tried in vain to break free from his sister's hand, but he soon gave up because his mother also ran to grab him.

The experimenter climbed up from the trench, checked the data displayed by the pointer driven by the iron block, and shouted: "27 centimeters!" The worker next to Tang Zuoxiang repeated, wrote down the data in the notebook, looked up and said: "Each time it is between 25-27 centimeters, and the error is very small." The latest batch is 27, and it uses nitrate dissolved in the nitrate soil sent by the Li people. ”

Liu Yao knows that the dissolved nitrate is often purer. However, he remembered that there were still a lot of saltpeter reserves, so he should not use nitrate, so he asked with concern: "Why, the saltpeter has run out?" ”

Tang Zuoxiang explained: "It was Wang Daixi who came to discuss with me. She said sir, you will buy saltpeter when you see it, and the saltpeter in Qiongzhou Mansion is expensive, and I want to try whether this saltpeter can be used to see if it is cost-effective. ”

Yao Ying heard it on the side, and said with emotion: "This Wang Daixi, it really works." It was in vain that I deposited shares in the steel mill for her as a dowry. Liu Yao suddenly thought and asked, "Did you say that the share was given to her husband in the future?" Yao Ying also felt a little problematic and replied, "Yes." Looks like I should give it to her now. Liu Yao nodded and said: "Even if we are separated by 400 years, we are still the same people, patriarchal, with men as the protagonists of a family, even if this man does not exist." You just go and change it, those shares are what she Wang brought joy. ”

Tang Zuoxiang didn't know what the two were discussing, so he took over and asked, "Sir, Daixi is also saying, when I meet Mr., I ask you, can this nitrate be used?" Liu Yao replied: "Whether it can be used or not, I want you and Daixi to tell me, not me to tell you." You care about the effect. The effect has come out just now, and the nitrate is as easy to use. Tell Wang Daixi to settle accounts, the labor and materials consumed to make nitrate from this nitrate, and the price paid to the Li people, how much worse is it than saltpeter, let her tell me. I think it can be used up to three times. Within ten times, it is worth moving the nitrate to store. ”

Tang Zuoxiang pondered for a moment and asked, "Sir, I think you mean this, you want to prepare for war?" If you want me to say that we have prepared a lot of gunpowder, do we still need to store so much nitrate? ”

Liu Yao laughed and said, "Old Tang, let me tell you, this nitrate is a treasure. You sent Sun Zhenggang a pick-up of the nitrate that had been made and asked him if he was willing to spend money to buy it. ”

"What? We're all lost. I'm going to dig it up and sell it to him. Tang Zuoxiang hurriedly said. Liu Yao smiled and said: "If you have been drenched in the rain, you can't ask for it." You pay attention to the place where the nitrate is thrown, and the grass will be greener. As for the war you mentioned, there is no plan for it now, but we have to prepare. In the future, the war will mainly rely on gunpowder, and no amount of more will be enough. ”

"I've heard that the spears and armor made by Qian Er's workshop are very domineering, and it will cost a lot of money. Isn't it to fight on those things? Tang asked strangely.

"Those things are also useful. But it will become more and more useless. It's just that we can't complete the weapons yet, so we need spears and armor. At most, a year later, spears and armor become honor guards. Liu Yao also participated in the queue to control Liu Ze, squatted down and said to him: "Listen, I don't allow you to touch these things, you can't touch them." Here, I didn't say what can be done, you can't do either. The only thing you can do now is stay with your sister and not leave a single step, and then you can't touch anything. Liu controlled his grievances and desires, and said as calmly as possible: "Dad, do you want to go over there and have a look?" Liu Yao couldn't help but smile and nodded. Liu Ze's eyes lit up and asked, "Then will you let someone order another one?" Liu Yao glanced up at Yao Ying and said, "I won't let people order another one, but I will take you to order one." Picking up the cheering son and holding his daughter's hand, Liu Yao didn't look at Yao Ying's expression and walked towards the test bench. Looking back, Yao Ying also followed calmly, saw her husband looking at herself, and replied: "The three of you have passed, it's better to die together." Liu Yao sighed and said, "Just a crow like you, I will punish you for facing the wall for three days." ”

When he arrived at the test bench, Liu Yao placed his wife and children in the trench at the farthest point from the explosion point, and confessed: "They all squat, and when I said that they were lying down, they were all lying on the ground." He also gave a special explanation to his daughter: "No matter what, you must hold down your brother." After climbing up the trench, he turned back to his son and said, "If you dare to make a move, I will never bring you here to play with this again." All three people in the ditch looked up and nodded. Liu Yao noticed that all three of them were a little excited, including his wife, who had always been timid.

The experimenter used an ignition powder pack, presumably for fear of a dumb fire. Liu Yao took the incense and asked the experimenter to return to the trench first, then lit the fuse, watched it smoke, stepped into the trench in a few steps, and beckoned the family to lie down. After a while, a loud explosion sounded. The family stood up, looking at the green smoke in front of them and smelling the pungent smell of gunpowder, and they were very excited. Liu Ze's face was a little pale, but he hurriedly followed his father out of the trench to check the recorded data.

Liu Yao waved his hand to fan away the smoke, pointed to a shed in the distance and said to his family: "This is our New Year's firecracker!" The shed is basically full of things like this, and with them, we can sleep soundly next year. ”

Liu Man looked at the iron on the test bench and asked, "Dad, is this a standard size?" It's not much bigger than a firecracker. Yao Ying asked strangely, "Why do you seem to know the size of the firecracker very well?" Liu Man waved his hand with a big grin: "Hey, don't care about these details." I spent all day hanging out with a bunch of boys, and they made their own muskets. Liu Yao hurriedly comforted his wife: "Don't worry, I will produce qualified muskets right away, and let the children practice them formally." Then he hurriedly changed the subject: "This is the experimental specification." It is only used to test whether the effect of gunpowder is consistent. A real grenade has five times the amount of this medicine. We're going to do the damage experiment soon, and you're welcome to watch it next time. ”

Liu Man jumped up excitedly and shouted, "Okay! Then he said to his brother, "Do you want to go see the sheep?" "Just run away. Liu hurriedly followed, shouting, "Wait for me!" ”