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After Zhou Jin changed his clothes, he called Zhou Hong and Meng Changjiang over, and after the two congratulated, they began to inquire about training and house expansion. Due to the approaching Spring Festival, the mud master could not be found, and the expansion of the house had not yet started, so it could only be started after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The training has been going on for a few days, and the guards who have asked for the rules and new recruits have all been accepted, and there are many rules in doing things and training. In addition, the furnace required by Zhou Jin has been completed and is waiting for Zhou Jin's acceptance.

Zhou Jin didn't really know how to burn glass with a furnace, but in order to show his attention, he decided to check it out tomorrow. Then he called the carpenter Liu Quan over and told him to continue making crossbows, and when he was done, he would equip these new guards. In order to speed up the progress, Zhou Jin asked Zhou Hong to recruit five more reliable carpenters back. Strive to equip all of them when the New Year comes.

"This time you're going to hire some blacksmiths to make nails. Of course I'll let them do other things. After these are recruited, Liu Quan will be managed. Zhou Jin said: "Where Liu Quan didn't notice, Zhou Hong, you have to stare at him and remind him." ”

"Yes, Fourth Master." Liu Quan and Zhou Hong replied.

"Zhou Hong, you're going to recruit one or two stonemasons. Then take them directly to find quartz, which is the kind of whitish stone, and then buy some soda ash, and lime. After the quartz stone is found, it is ground into powder first. I'm going to make glass. ”

"What does the fourth master do making this glass? I know this is a secret technique of Westerners, but I don't know that the fourth master will also. ”

"Pharmaceuticals need glassware, and foreigners are hard to buy. Just a while ago, I saw a record in an ancient book and wanted to make some of my own. And you go to store thousands of catties of coal and use it in the kiln. ”

"I've heard that the kilns are all made of charcoal." Zhou Hong said.

"You don't have to worry about this, go ahead and do it first." After Zhou Jin finished speaking, Liu Quan and Zhou Hong went down. Leaving Meng Changjiang alone: "Zhongwei, I still have something to tell you." ”

"Fourth master, you command."

"Find ten people with good skills and clever brains among the guards, and follow me to Xilin Temple in three days. The day before yesterday, the people we met on our way to Ji'an shot an arrow in front of the gate of the house and left a note asking me to meet them. You're ready. ”

"Why don't you bring all of our people over?" Meng Changjiang was a little worried.

"This time it's not to fight, and killing those people won't help solve the problem, more than a dozen people, if we plan well, we can still escape. Tomorrow, you and Wang Sicong will go together to check the terrain and make a retreat route. ”

The next day, Zhou Jin casually looked at a furnace and didn't see anything. Later, I chatted with the craftsman who built the kiln, but found that the craftsman burned charcoal, so the kiln was used to burn charcoal, which made Zhou Jin smile bitterly. After thinking about it, it was just right for this person to make coal.

Then asked Zhou Hong to negotiate employment with him, and the result of the negotiation was that the man and Zhou Hong signed a ten-year employment contract. Zhou Jin looked at this contract, which was like a deed of sale, and was very satisfied. But what surprised him was that this person's name was actually signed below: Sun Gancai.

"Sun Gancai, are you literate?" Zhou Jin asked in surprise.

"Villain, I went to social studies, passed the county government exam, took the exam five or six times but didn't pass the hospital exam, so I gave up doing this charcoal burning business." The man in his thirties said.

"Now that you have signed this contract with me, I will tell you something. I didn't build this furnace to burn carbon, but to burn coal. But you can only roast coal, and the temperature is as high as when you come out of the charcoal. There is also sealing, you want to evacuate the air in the furnace, and there can be no air in it. When the coal is burned, it also produces gases that are collected. Note that these gases have the potential to explode when exposed to heat. That's all I have to say, and you'll figure out the rest. ”

"The villain understands."

"Well, make sure to collect those gases. If you have anything, you can find Zhou Hong. For the time being, you will do this alone, and when you succeed, I will recruit someone to assist you. ”

"Understood."

Zhou Jin looked at the middle-aged man and felt good, so he said: "You are also a scholar, if we get along well, I will help you get a future." ”

Of course, Sun Gancai understood what Zhou Jin meant, and he also knew Zhou Jin's identity, so he didn't suspect that Zhou Jin was lying to him, so he bowed to Zhou Jin excitedly: "Thank you Young Master Zhou for your support." ”

Zhou Jin looked at the training of these guards that day and felt that it was too cumbersome, so he thought about simplifying the training content. For example, in hand-to-hand combat, Zhou Jin plans to simplify it to only three moves. The formation was left with only the queue moving forward and turning. The combat subject idea requires them to be familiar with shooting, as well as ambush hiding, etc.

It turned out that the twenty guards were now a leader, and they were satisfied, and they were even more obedient to Zhou Jin, the master. Meng Changjiang was not here today, and they did not hesitate to implement Zhou Jin's words.

At lunchtime, Zhou Jin remembered Li Xiuwen's matter, so he asked, "Xiuwen, your aunt asked you what your plans are?" Want to read a book? ”

Li Xiuwen said: "I'm not reading material, so I don't want to waste time. ”

"So what do you want to do? Business? ”

Li Jian pondered Zhou Jin's tone for a moment, and after confirming that he would not be reprimanded by the Dao, he replied, "Yes." ”

But he was wrong, Zhou Jin felt inexplicably uncomfortable after hearing this, and scolded: "The Li family is also a scholarly family, why don't you want to think about reading." ”

Zhou Jin's attitude towards himself is also very strange, perhaps because he has integrated into this society, so his thinking will inevitably tend to the mainstream. Of course, it is because of the reason that I am not optimistic about the future of doing business in this era.

After Li Xiuwen heard this, he was silent. For this kind of character who doesn't know how to fight, Zhou Jin is not optimistic that he can be a good businessman, so he said: "Since your parents entrusted your brother and sister over, I will arrange for you." You read well here now, even if you don't want to go to school, you have to read, understand. ”

"Understood."

In the evening, Meng Changjiang came back from a search. Tell Zhou Jin that there is another Tallinn next to the Xilin Temple, and there are woods near Tallinn, which is very suitable for hiding and escaping when meeting, and the other party will most likely choose there. Five miles north of the temple is a river, and Meng Changjiang will send someone to prepare a boat there to meet it. The situation in the forest was solved by Wang Sicong with two or three.

In the afternoon of the next day, Sun Gancai came to report that his furnace had been built.

Zhou Jin rushed to check, only to see that the middle of the stove was a sealed oven, made of sand porcelain. Sun Gan burned it for a day and a night before it was burned. There are two holes above the oven, one for filling water, the other for venting gas after heating, and one below for drainage. The water inlet hole will be equipped with an iron pipe, and then divided into two, one for water inlet and one for adding pulverized coal.

When the water in the oven is drained, it starts to heat up, and after drying, open the valve and pour in the tightly sealed pulverized coal. Continue to heat and expel most of the air.

After listening to this, Zhou Jin couldn't help but admire his imagination and exclaimed: "You are really high-quality." How are you going to collect the gas. ”

Sun Gancai said: "I can't do anything for the time being. ”

Zhou Jin remembered a method from his junior high school days: "I can tell you a way, which is to fill the irrigation with water, put it upside down in the water, and then extend the exhaust pipe into the irrigation bottom." The gas will drain the water from the filling. That's the general idea, and you can figure it out. ”

After the affairs of the other courtyard were explained, Zhou Jin returned to the Zhou Mansion with ten guards and Meng Changjiang. After a day of rest, I rushed to Xilin Temple early the next morning. When he arrived at Nanxunmen, he met a grandson shirt who was dressed in short clothes and holding a sword.

Zhou Jin Zhengse said: "What are you doing here?" "He didn't want to mess with his shirt.

Sun Shirt hugged the sword and said, "Wait for you." Come with you to Xilin Temple. ”

"It's no joke, what are you going to do."

Sun Shirt said disdainfully: "Looking at your riding posture, it is difficult to escape for your life, without my protection, it is difficult to say whether you can come back this time." ”

Zhou Jin didn't talk nonsense with him, he made a gesture, and the twelve horsemen entered the city gate. Sun Shirt was not slow, jumped on the horse next to him in one step, and came to Zhou Jin in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Jin also saw Sun Shan's horseback action, which was called a chic. And I still need someone to help me climb on the horse's back, I feel very unhappy, and I can't drive away like that: "There are quite a lot of flower shelves, and when you get there, you have to listen to the command, and you can't talk nonsense." ”

Sun Shan was also unhappy: "Don't talk nonsense, be careful that I kick you down." ”

Pretending to be forced, Zhou Jin really kicked himself off the horse, so he had to shut up and hurry.

An hour later, we arrived at Xilin Temple. At the gate of the temple, he was led to Tallinn by a person, and went to the open space in front of a tower. The other party had been waiting for a long time, and there were more than twenty people who appeared, all with a murderous look on their faces. And Zhou Jin is only eight people here.

Zhou Jin stopped twenty steps from standing on the other side, and first arched his hand and said, "Which of you is in charge, next Zhou Jin, come to the appointment." ”

No one answered him, no one came out, and the two sides were unusually quiet for a while, but suddenly a scream burst out. Meng Changjiang and other guards looked over and saw that an archer in the crowd on the other side had been shot. Immediately, he took his crossbow and aimed at the opponent, ready to shoot.

Zhou Jin raised his hand and said, "When my hand is down, if no one comes out, shoot them all!" ”

At this time, a strong man walked out laughing: "Zhou Gongzi is really unusual, I admire it." Under is ....."

Zhou Jin interrupted the other party's words and said, "I don't want to know who you are, as long as you are the principal." ”

The strong man said, "Oh? Zhou Gongzi is not interested in a person who is looking for trouble for himself? ”

"If we know, then we will never meet." Zhou Jin said: "It's not good for everyone, what do you ask me to come here, please say, if I think it's okay, I might as well sell your personal favor." ”

The strong man laughed a few times and said, "Good! Actually, we want to know how to make the crossbow you guard. We also find someone to imitate it, but after the nail is shot, it will fly around and cannot be controlled. ”

Zhou Jin asked casually, "How much can you bid?" ”

This made the strong man inexplicably wonderful, thinking that he knew why it took so much effort to sell, but he was unwilling to say the price directly, and he still had to bargain for business: "As far as I know, the gold and silver I paid to Qinglongzhai last time were obtained by you, and I think the money is enough to pay your honorarium." ”

Zhou Jin smiled: "This leader, what you said is very funny, what you have given to others is still yours?" ”

"They didn't get what they agreed on, so naturally the gratuity didn't belong to them."

"This is your agreement with Qinglong Village. Why don't you want to pay? Looking at your stinginess, it is estimated that it will be a waste product for you, and it will not be able to accomplish anything. ”

At this time, one of the strong man's entourage jumped out: "Boy, you say who can't do it!" ”

saw a figure flash, and the man actually came to Zhou Jin's body, waved his hand, and slashed at Zhou Jin's neck. Before everyone could react, Sun Yi, who was beside Zhou Jin, had already drawn his sword and pulled the slash out of the direction. And took advantage of the situation to bully him, and grabbed the opponent's chest with a black tiger in his heart.

The man's face flushed, and he took a few steps back to dodge.

Zhou Jin had already seen this person clearly at this time, and said, "Restrain this woman!" ”

The strong man said angrily: "You haven't come back yet!" The woman saw that the other party had a master, so she had to be unwilling to return behind the strong man. The strong man didn't expect that the other party actually had a master, and he knew that he might not be able to take advantage of it today, so he said with a smile: "Forgive me for not being strict with discipline." I don't know how much honorarium Zhou Gongzi wants? ”