This ancestor worship, four generations of the Xie family in the same house, is the most prosperous male in the past 20 years.

It stands to reason that the clan sacrifice is held once every two years, but the last time the clan sacrifice Xie Shence went to Huaiyang Dao, this year Xie Jia Tianding imported, which is a great joy, so the old lady decided to advance next year's family sacrifice to this year, which was set at the beginning of the year.

said that it was a family sacrifice, in addition to participating in a big sacrifice of the Xie family, Xie Shence's family was more focused on their own family and swept their ancestral graves. The clan sacrifice activities actually have little to do with the Xie family in Yangzhou City.

Yangzhou City is the ancestral land of the Xie family, but it is also the place where they lived two hundred years ago, and now they have all moved to Jindu, although the old mansion has been expanded several times, but it is usually uninhabited. Although every time the head of the Xie family dies, he will be buried in Yangzhou, but the blood relationship is already so faint that it can't be lighter than the local Xie family. It is said that the Xie family is now the clan of Henan Province, and the Xie family of Yangzhou City is a distant branch, but in fact, the Xie family in Yangzhou City pastes gold on their faces.

This directly led to the fact that Xie Shence's family had the highest seniority in Yangzhou City. Today's Xie family in Yangzhou City, the highest generation is the old lady, the next two generations are Uncle Xie and Xie Erye, and the next three generations are Xie Shenwei Xie Shence brothers and a group of old antiques from the local Xie family, and then the juniors below.

Xie Cheng is the fourth generation of the Xie family, that is to say, he is the same generation as Xie Shenwei's son Xie Rafter. In terms of the Xie family, it is the youngest generation, but if it is placed in Yangzhou City, it is actually terrifying.

Xie Shence looked at the four people in front of him, a little helpless, the four of them wore their upper bodies and carried thorns on their backs, and knelt at the back door of the Xie family's ancestral mansion like that.

It's quite obedient

Xie Shence just smiled, left a "meaningful" look, and then turned around and left.

This gesture made the hearts of the four of them beat drums. I don't know what Xie Shence means, is it to blame or not?

Xie Chengcai and Zou Fatzi were already about to faint. The two, the businessman surnamed Liu and Gu Fuzi with a mustache were trembling.

After Xie Shence left, he didn't speak, and the four of them naturally didn't dare to move, so they had to kneel and not dare to get up.

After a long time, it was about noon, Xie Laosan paced over step by step with a teapot in his left hand, took a sip of tea slowly, and then said to the four of them: "Get up, young master magnanimity, just be happy about this little thing, I didn't take it to heart." But the third master, let me remind you, there are some things you have done. Relying on the Xie family to oppress the good? With the support of the family, you can ignore the people of the world? Let me ask you, if it wasn't the young master last night, but really a poor scholar of Huaiyangdao, what would you do? Yes? Wild! ”

The four of them knelt on the ground, already stiff, and when they heard Xie Laosan's words, they just didn't say anything, but they were already greatly relieved in their hearts.

It's finally over, and my life is saved

Xie Laosan continued: "In Yangzhou City, being a good citizen who abides by the law is what the young master is willing to see. Now Yangzhou City is already my family's fiefdom, the old lady and the old lady will be here in the future to retire, you unsightly faces, all put away for me, otherwise the young master said, Ti Qi Si is not afraid of killing! ”

"Go back!"

After Xie Laosan finished speaking, he took another sip of tea, and slowly paced back, very stylish.

At this time, the four of them were truly relieved.

While the four of them had palpitations, they also got a shocking news from Xie Laosan's mouth: the old lady and the old lady will not go back in the future, and they will retire in Yangzhou City.

The four of them endured hunger and soreness all over their bodies, especially their legs, and slowly walked to the entrance of the alley, where they were picked up by their own men and put into the carriage

Tomorrow is the Cold Food Festival, after the cold food will be clear, while there is still half a day's effort, Xie Shence took Xie Gang Xie Di and more than ten iron guards, led by Xie Laosan, went north for thirty miles, and came to a small mountain village next to the Qin River.

It is said to be a small mountain village, but in fact there are no more villagers, and the original dozen empty thatched huts have been demolished, and a large number of buildings have been built at this time.

In January, there was a government project in Yangzhou City to recruit workers, because every family in this small village had prime of life and craftsmanship, so the Yangzhou City Government moved all of them to the suburbs of Yangzhou, and the household registration became the work registration of the government. Although it has dropped a level in the "Shinong Industry and Commerce", isn't today's society going to be reversed? Where are the scholars considered first-class? However, the last class quotient is more first-class. The people who moved from the small village will not be lost or have the sourness of leaving their hometown, but they have more smiles on their faces, after all, every family has surplus food by handicraft, and life is much better, isn't it?

And the small village of the small village is now a secret base of Xie Shence.

In this base today, there are a large number of craftsmen and alchemists, and their current job is to dispense gunpowder.

Sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal, and all the other necessary materials are almost all available. The research and development is also in continuous progress, and now the finished product has been preliminarily formulated, but the effect is not known, let's see first.

Xie Shence watched an alchemist demonstrate in an open space.

The alchemist poured a jar of gunpowder on a wooden board four or five feet away, then slowly laid out a lead, took the torch, carefully lit this end, and then immediately ran away to the other side, hiding himself with a wooden plank.

Xie Shence also had two iron guards in front of him holding shields to protect him.

This look, thank you Shence suddenly full of anticipation.

A burst of white smoke rose up, and then quickly ignited, making a clattering sound, and a burst of white smoke drifted over, Xie Shence obviously smelled the familiar smell of gunpowder, but it was a little stinky.

Then, the powder that burned it was extinguished.

Extinguished!

Xie Shence's eyes widened, and then he looked at the alchemist.

The alchemist looked at the extinguished gunpowder in embarrassment, and then explained in a low voice: "Sometimes this happens, but it doesn't matter, most of the time, it can be used, after igniting, it will emit a purple flame, it is very beautiful, very hot, and can ignite the wooden board." ”

Xie Shence motioned for him to step forward and continue to light the fire, but he was scolding in his heart: Can it be used most of the time?! That's a fart! Do you have to be mentally prepared to be silent at any time when you go to war in the future? If it doesn't ring when it's used to save lives, wouldn't it have to be explained? It's just that being beautiful can kill the enemy beautifully, right? It's just hot and fart-like! I want an explosion! Explode! Do you understand?!

However, Xie Shence will not show what he thinks, these craftsmen and alchemists are all temporarily forcibly recruited, and in a place they don't know, their relatives are imprisoned, and they are equivalent to being coerced by Xie Shence. It's just that their conditions are good, the soldiers here are also very kind to them, even respectful, and the tasks they are asked to do are relatively close to their original jobs, and if they promise to do a good job, they can also consider letting them meet their families every other month, so these people's emotions are not very resistant.

After all, if you do it well, you can still have rewards, and the rewards are very generous.

These were all planned by Xie Shence, and then through Xie Laosan's hands, he tried to find a way to comprador the land, build facilities, purchase materials, and then "hire" through the iron guard, and then start construction. At present, it has only been going on for less than half a month, and although Xie Shence is anxious, he has little hope for the progress itself.

However, even if he didn't have much hope and was mentally prepared to face failure, Xie Shence was still very disappointed after seeing such a situation.

The alchemist lit the gunpowder again, and this time, it was finally not extinguished again, and the gunpowder burned all the way down the grass to the wooden plank, burning a black mark.

Finally, the gunpowder on the wooden board "boomed", and a beautiful blue-purple flame erupted, and then the wooden board burned a scorch mark, and the wooden board began to burn.

Well, it's a good-looking fireworks show, but there is no height.

The alchemist had already jumped up excitedly, his face full of excitement.

Xie Shence looked at his excited appearance, and sighed in his heart: unseen soil buns

However, in this era, Xie Shence also knows that he can't be more demanding, even Greek fire is a legendary weapon, where can such a thing as gunpowder be successful casually?

If I had known that I was going to cross, I would have studied engineering and joined the army. Xie Shence thought so in his heart.

"Come here." Xie Shence beckoned to the alchemist.

The alchemist happily came to Xie Shence's side, although his face was full of joy, his body was still trembling slightly. After all, his own life and the life of his family are in Xie Shence's hands, if Xie Shence is not satisfied with killing him, it is really killing him, and he has no power to resist.

"How long did it take to make the one you just made?"

"Thirteen days!" The alchemist replied with some pride.

Xie Shence smiled: "Very good! But that's not what I want, what I want is explosive gunpowder, the kind that has a lot of power, the kind that can blow through the walls, so you still need to work hard. ”

The alchemist looked at Xie Shence's smile, and listened to Xie Shence's words, but he didn't quite understand what Xie Shence meant.

Xie Shence looked at him with a somewhat confused look, so he said, "In short, the more powerful, the better, you know?" ”

The alchemist nodded.

So Xie Shence smiled with satisfaction and waved him down.

The alchemist had already taken two steps, and then he turned around and asked, "This great man, what kind of powerful thing do you want, do you want to use it to kill people?" ”

Xie Shence was stunned, he took a closer look at the alchemist's appearance, and found that although his face was sloppy and his body was not gray, his age should not be very large, and it would be good to be over thirty.

"How old are you?"

"Huh? III. XXX. ”

"What's your name?"

"Liu Guitian."

"What?"

Xie Shence was taken aback, Liu Guitian? Liu kneeling and licking? Good chic name.

The alchemist then said, "Wen. Dao Liu, the return of the hermitage, the field of the countryside. ”

Oh, it means to retreat to the countryside

"It's used to kill people, but it's used to kill bad people, Yan people, Qin people, Xianbei people, Song people, and people who invade my Great Jin."

The alchemist nodded as if he didn't understand, and then was taken down by the soldiers.

Xie Shence beckoned Xie Gang over, and then said, "You can give him some sweetness appropriately, let him meet his parents, wife and children or something." And then I'll write something over and you do that. ”

Xie Gang nodded, and then Xie Shence casually looked at the infrastructure of the base, and the group returned to Yangzhou City.

When we arrived at Yangzhou City, it was already night.

(ps: Wen and knife are forbidden words, what's wrong with that?) )