After Deng Haonan became the professor and master of more than 1,000 craftsmen, in the name of Jiangwutang, he successively accepted 215 disciples to carefully teach knowledge and technology.

Originally, Deng Haonan was ready to accept all the orders, but after the persuasion of the four dogs, he dispelled that idea. Undoubtedly, under the strict hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty, craftsmen were passed down from generation to generation. The people Li Ping poached from the mainland were all dragged by their families, and more than a dozen members of the family, men, women, and children came over together. Therefore, among the more than 1,000 craftsmen, only one place is needed for each family, and of course it is not fixed, and some families have several young and strong brothers, so they naturally have to be absorbed.

The idea of the four dogs is very simple, if Deng Haonan accepts all the orders, it will inevitably give people the feeling that it is done, which will reduce Deng Haonan's value. Therefore, under the secret investigation of Sigou and Huzi, they found that only 215 people echoed the request, so they set the quota to 215 people. In this way, it seems to all the craftsmen that Deng Haonan has a threshold for accepting people, and it is not so easy to enter, giving them a sense of glory.

It has to be said that the four-dog approach has achieved very good results. These two hundred and fifteen disciples of the Martial Arts Hall basically represent all the craftsmen of the gunpowder workshop. Most of them are young and strong people in their teens to thirties, and having them enter the martial arts hall means that their parents, brothers and sisters are tied to Deng Haonan's chariot.

Deng Haonan's status in their minds no longer needs to be explained, because they have already inquired about Deng Haonan's bizarre things, coupled with the secret propaganda of the four dogs, Huzi and Da Niu, as well as the help of the more than 80 craftsmen in the original gunpowder workshop, Deng Haonan's matter has been rumored to be miraculous.

These craftsmen have not had the opportunity to go to school since they were young, and their ancestors and grandchildren have not had much education for generations, so they naturally believe in ghosts and gods in their hearts. Deng Haonan had already made them happy as their professor, and now that he had accepted their son as a disciple, he was even more excited.

Of course, Deng Haonan also has to rely on his true skills to convince everyone. Teaching craftsmen to purify gunpowder raw materials is naturally not a problem, as long as Deng Haonan uses his brains a little, he can coax everyone to be happy. However, his two hundred and fifteen disciples are different, and Deng Haonan needs to show more attractive true skills.

To this end, Deng Haonan specially sent people to Xiangshanao to find the Portuguese to buy a batch of test equipment, mainly chemical reagents, as well as test tubes and other glass instruments. Of course, there was no chemistry in this era, and Westerners called it alchemy or alchemy instruments, but the equipment used by those alchemists already had the level of primary chemical experiments, and Deng Haonan used it enough to teach students.

The housekeeper was not too far away from the place provided for Deng Haonan to lecture on martial arts, and Deng Haonan named one of the large rooms the real yàn room, and took his disciples to watch the performance and experiment.

Of course, Deng Haonan could not teach them what chemical reactions are and chemical equations. Deng Haonan's purpose is only to arouse their interest in learning, just to talk about something that is easy to understand, and directly tell them what to put together, and under what conditions another thing can be generated.

These disciples already admired Deng Haonan, and they were able to enter the lecture hall to study, and they talked about Mr. and Teacher every day, so they naturally got closer and closer to Deng Haonan, and soon they formed an invisible whole in the process of Deng Haonan's vivid and interesting teaching, that is, Shi, or was secretly called a party by Deng Haonan.

As the days passed, Deng Haonan first took the time to carefully teach his disciples and students some basic knowledge of chemical reactions, and then took them to the actual operation of the gunpowder workshop, and understood the purification process of various gunpowder ingredients, so that they could combine theory with practice.

Finally, the gunpowder ingredients are mixed into gunpowder, and then the gunpowder or explosives pack is fired at the synthetic gun. In order to improve the pride of the students, Deng Haonan deliberately reminded them more, so that after they returned to the gunpowder workshop, they could guide others, so that they could experience the sense of achievement and belonging of Deng Haonan's students.

Of course, Deng Haonan also had to show his talent and ability in front of his students and apprentices. To this end, Deng Haonan upgraded the Huwei cannon and built a Huwei cannon with high-grade fine iron jacks. The thousand-pound tiger cannon, with a length of 260 centimeters and a caliber of about 80 millimeters, fires a five-kilogram iron projectile, and the gun carriage weighs 200 kilograms, which can be installed on the three-masted ship. During the test gun, the maximum firing range was three miles, and it could penetrate ten centimeters of hardwood within 500 meters, which was a sharp weapon for sea ships and ships, which was equivalent to the power of the Portuguese's large Franc machine gun.

Due to the relatively backward financial resources and technology of the Li family, it is difficult to obtain fine iron. The existing blacksmiths were inefficient in striking iron, and could not supply Deng Haonan with large-scale casting artillery. And Deng Haonan was only in the position of prestige to his students and disciples, and he also did not want Li Ping to have a large number of artillery too early. Deng Haonan is fully capable of helping Li Ping drum up a large-scale steel smelting plant, but at this time, Deng Haonan has learned smartly, and he must not feed Li Ping, otherwise he will be mixed in the future!

In a month and a half, Deng Haonan led the students of the Wutang and the apprentices of the gunpowder workshop to cast ten thousand catties of tiger cannons for the Li family, all of which were equipped by Li Ping's son Li Ao to his ship. Li Ao and his pirates were full of praise for the artillery cast by Deng Haonan for them, and their attitude towards Deng Haonan became better and better. Over time, many pirate sailors also quietly joined the lecture hall and became Deng Haonan's students, listening to the lectures of his mentor Deng Haonan.

For them to join, it is Deng Haonan's most hopeful thing. So whenever Deng Haonan tried the gun, he would specially inform Huzi or Sigou to call his pirate students to teach them artillery skills. Gradually, the name of Deng Cannon was transcendent in the hearts of pirates. Because many pirates joined the lecture hall and worshiped Deng Haonan as their teacher, so that whenever Li Ao was not in the water village, the pirates invited Deng Haonan to the warship to teach them artillery skills in person.

The strength of the Li family continues to improve, and Li Ping's face is full of bright smiles every day. Because his son Li Ao recognized Deng Haonan's errand very much, Li Ping loved Wu and Wu, and paid more attention to Deng Haonan's expression.

During this period, the housekeeper Li De once mentioned to Li Ping that Deng Haonan opened a martial arts school, which won the favor of many craftsmen in the water village and reminded Li Ping to beware of Deng Haonan. However, Li Ping and Li Ao are both on the rise, and they have a great feeling for Deng Haonan's flattery. At the same time, in the eyes of the Li family and his son, what can Deng Haonan do even if he attracts all the craftsmen? In the end, it's not obedient to do things for the Li family! If Deng Haonan could control all the craftsmen, Li Ping would be even happier, because they could control all the craftsmen directly. Wouldn't this be more cost-effective and convenient than the previous Li family had to find a lot of people and spend a lot of effort to control these craftsmen?

Therefore, for the reminder of the housekeeper Li De, the Li family father and son couldn't listen to it at all. After Li De said it a few times, he saw that they were impatient, so he stopped talking.

After the establishment of the martial arts school, Deng Haonan finally has a foothold in this era. However, this foothold can only temporarily keep himself at the moment, Deng Haonan's net worth and life are still in the hands of Li Ping, so if he wants to be completely free, Deng Haonan still has to do a lot of things. For him, in troubled times, he would rather be a chicken head than an oxtail, and only by constantly climbing up and climbing to a place where others cannot threaten him can he truly live freely.

After lunch, Deng Haonan called Sigou, Huzi and Da Niu again to discuss things. After Deng Haonan's recommendation, Sigou became Deng Haonan's assistant, helping Deng Haonan sort out his accounts on weekdays, and also helping him take care of the big and small matters in the martial arts school. Huzi was recommended to enter the small Western Water Village, in charge of ten minions, responsible for daily patrol tasks, although the status is not very important, but it can help Deng Haonan contact the students in the water village and the workshop, and everything can be done to gather everyone. And Da Niu became Deng Haonan's guard, with a saber at his waist to protect Deng Haonan's safety.

Originally, Sigou wanted to arrange the people who spoke in the martial arts hall, but Deng Haonan vetoed it, thinking that it was not the time, and these students may not all be of the same mind as Deng Haonan, and it would take time to observe. At this time, it is not appropriate to make a noise and attract the attention of the Li family's father and son.

Sigou took out a bill and said, "Today, according to Brother Haonan's intentions, I asked the housekeeper Li De to apply for 50,000 taels of silver to purchase various materials. In the past, Li De asked and inquired at every turn, and as soon as he asked him for money, he would push back and block. This time with such a large amount, he didn't even ask a word, and just gave it to me! ”

Deng Haonan smiled: "This is already expected!" ”

Hu Zifu shouted: "Li De was so miserable by us, and his prestige in front of Li Ping was swept away, so naturally he didn't dare to investigate us anymore!" ”

It turned out that Deng Haonan had long known that Li De had repeatedly said bad things about Deng Haonan in front of the Li family's father and son, if it weren't for Li San and Cheng Er often coming to report the news, Deng Haonan wouldn't have known that there was such a big obstacle in front of him.

In order to ensure the implementation of various plans in the future, Deng Haonan will simply take the plan, use Li San and Cheng Er to find accurate information, and deliberately reveal something to lure Li De to take the bait, forcing him to complain to the Li family father and son, as a result, Li Ping and Li Ao began to investigate Deng Haonan several times, but because Deng Haonan was prepared, there was no result. Forget it once or twice, there are one or two in everything, but there can't be three or four, with Li De's repeated misses, the Li family father and son are naturally very unhappy, thinking that Li De is jealous of Deng Haonan's talent, and gradually Li De's words they can't listen to.

Sigou smiled: "Brother Haonan is still smart, and the account book is not leaky, we have done such a big deal, but Li De can't find anything wrong!" ”

In ancient times, there were big loopholes in the management of the ledger, and the management of goods purchase, sale and inventory was chaotic. Due to the huge amount of work in the gunpowder workshop, it was impossible to calculate how much gunpowder could be refined from most raw materials, and Li Ping's request was only how much gunpowder and artillery must be made for how much money was given. This is too simple for Deng Haonan. After his storage process, the same raw materials are much higher than before, so that Deng Haonan can save a lot of procurement expenses.

Of course, in the first few times, Deng Haonan did not do anything, but instead gave Li Ping the illusion that he was bent on saving expenses for Li Ping, in order to give Li Ping trust and squeeze Li De out. Sure enough, Li Ping was very satisfied with Deng Haonan's diligent work, and finally ordered Li De not to interfere and handed it over to Deng Haonan to deal with. Li Ping's only request to Deng Haonan was to make more gunpowder.

Therefore, when Li De was unable to meddle in Deng Haonan's affairs, Deng Haonan began to quietly carry out his plan. According to Li Ping's explanation, Deng Haonan can take money directly from the housekeeper without asking, as long as at the end of the month, Deng Haonan can hand over the corresponding gunpowder and artillery. Li Ping no longer cares about the intermediate process, he only cares about the result, and strictly orders Li De not to obstruct it.

And Deng Haonan began to divide all the money he collected with the big and small heads of the gunpowder workshop, in order to have both prosperity and loss, and tied everyone to his chariot. Gradually, the whole gunpowder workshop got involved with Deng Haonan because of various interests, and at this time, Deng Haonan began to use the money he collected for other purposes, mainly to distribute benefits to craftsmen in his own name and buy people's hearts.

Deng Haonan asked, "Four dogs, how much silver can we keep this time?" ”

The method used by the four dogs to make accounts was taught by Deng Haonan himself, and there were two accounts in total, one was recorded according to the bookkeeping method of the gunpowder workshop in the past, and the other was recorded according to the purchase, sale and inventory management method taught by Deng Haonan in later generations.

I only heard him say: "This time we have paid 50,000 taels of silver, and we can intercept 2,000 taels from it, and if we are ruthless, 5,000 taels will not be a problem!" ”

Deng Haonan waved his hand and said: "Don't do that, we still can't fight with Li Ping now, so it's better to develop quietly!" ”

Huzi said: "Brother Haonan! I don't think I need to give benefits to those craftsmen every time! In the past, not only did the stewards not pay benefits, but their wages had to be deducted by 30%! Now that Brother Haonan does not deduct their wages, they are already grateful to Dade! ”

Sigou nodded and said, "Yes! Brother Haonan, I think so too! These craftsmen are good enough for him right now! Even if they don't help us, they won't come out against us! And what Brother Hao Nan wants to do has to rely on the students of the Martial Arts Academy and those pirates, why don't you use this money to deal with those pirates! ”

Deng Haonan thought about it, after all, he couldn't count on these craftsmen, when it was true, he had to rely on people who could fight, so he nodded and agreed.

Suddenly, the hurried bell rang, and the four dogs, Huzi and Da Niu changed color one after another, only Deng Haonan was confused, and he didn't know why. Then, Wanshu knocked on the door and ran in, her face full of panic, and shouted, "Xianggong, hide!" ”

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