After Xu Yuanzuo arrived in the Ming Dynasty, his biggest feeling was that nothing was illegal here. Of course, this is because he was a businessman in his past and present lives, and killing people and setting fires is too far away from him, and what is really constrained is economic and financial regulations, but how can there be these now? Not to mention making artillery and gunpowder, even if he engages in pyramid schemes and sells opium, there are no legal restrictions.

As a liberal arts student, Xu Yuanzuo does not know how to "pick the gun", the boring car digging gun breech technology is still too high-end for him, and he only intuitively knows that he can do this from the name, but he does not know the specific technical conditions. However, he also has two major killing weapons, which are the iron mold cannon and the center cooling.

These two technologies are actually upgraded versions of the world's mainstream cast guns. Because the clay model of the clay mold casting cannon needs to be thoroughly dried for up to three months. And there must be no bubbles, otherwise there will be trachoma in the chamber of the iron cannon, which will reduce the service life and the problem of exploding the chamber. This is a technical bottleneck that limits the output and quality of iron cannons, so Li Teng said that a cannon is worth a thousand taels, precisely because the scrap rate is too high.

If you only look at the material cost of a single artillery, even if it is a thousand catties of iron cannons, it is only more than 100 taels of silver.

What Xu Yuanzuo needs to think about is more on technical secrecy.

After two days of repairing in Liaoyang, Xu Yuanzuo also met Li Chengliang's most promising son: Li Rusong. This general is also an indispensable figure in the military history of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the three major expeditions of Wanli, he was responsible for getting two of them.

Li Rusong is only twenty-two years old this year, not much older than Xu Yuanzuo, he has already been a martial artist, inherited the worldly position, and has been on the battlefield, with a bloody murderous aura far superior to his father.

Li Rusong was ambitious as a young man, and he didn't know the truth of being a low-key person like his father. When he was in the Pingning Ningxia Rebellion, he refused to bend to the matter. didn't have a good face for the civil officials, and the generals were disagreeable, and the lawsuit went all the way to Emperor Wanli. In Xu Yuanzuo's eyes, this person is very easy to get along with, and he only needs to gently hold him and praise him. Praise him, obey him, and he will treat you as a close friend.

Li Chengliang's other two sons are still young, so they called out to meet them during dinner, and then there was no intersection. Only this Li Rusong not only met, but also came to talk every day, and invited Xu Yuanzuo to go outside the city to ride a horse and hunt, completely as friends.

If Li Chengliang arranged for Li Pinghu to follow Xu Yuanzuo, it was to see Zhang Juzheng's face. So letting the eldest son Li Rusong associate with Xu Yuanzuo is simply that Xu Yuanzuo is worthy of him.

Of course, Xu Yuanzuo would not waste the opportunity to be accompanied by a generation of famous generals, and after a short rest in Liaoyang, he went to Zhenbei Pass with the remaining commercial goods. Before, from Liangfangkou to Liaoyang, although the caravan could use the post station to stay and eat, they all had to pay money, and the cost was not low, and they could not use military horses and mules. This time, Li Rusong and Li Pinghu are accompanied. Even the cost is saved, and the livestock are exchanged casually along the way. No effort at all. Although it is taking advantage of the public, it feels very comfortable.

Xu Yuanzuo personally went to count the horses and mules stored at the post station, and the number was not at all unhappy with the ministry regulations, and he was fed carefully, which shows that the post government is still very clear.

"There are few people in Liaodong, and the villages are concentrated near the city. Without these stations, there would be no transportation. Li Rusong saw that Xu Yuanzuo was particularly attentive to the post station, so he explained.

Xu Yuanzuo looked left and right and said, "Sure enough, it is much stronger than the Jiangnan place." However, my family also runs an inn, and if it is a post station in Jiangnan, it is also like Liaodong. I'm going to have a lot less business. ”

Li Rusong felt that this talent was neither as noble as a scholar nor as a businessman, which made people feel sincere and friendly, but also smart and witty. Along the way, he became much closer, not all because his father wanted him to befriend this person.

"Liaodong is so cold, it must be very troublesome for mules and horses to survive the winter." Xu Yuanzuo said.

Li Rusong said: "It's better to have a shed, the key is to prepare enough materials." If there is not enough material, the livestock will lose weight and become sick in the spring. ”

Xu Yuanzuo thought that the weather was getting colder and colder, and his brows furrowed: "Then if you catch up with the drought and cold, wouldn't it be a great loss?" ”

Li Rusong was helpless: "What can I do about God's business?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "I came all the way, but I saw a lot of farmland, but I didn't see patches of pasture. ”

"Grass should be planted too?" Li Rusong said unexpectedly: "The wild is everywhere, why waste that strength?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo shook his head and said: "Although it can be used to collect forage grass from the wild, the result is to live in water and grass, because after eating, you have to find a new pasture." A piece of land can't be eaten all the time, and the aquatic plants have to be recuperated. It's nothing for the Yi people to be like this, but we Han people are farming people, and we have to live on a piece of land for generations, so this pasture grass must be cultivated as intensively as crops. ”

Li Rusong's slender eyes narrowed, and he seriously considered Xu Yuanzuo's suggestion. He said: "The main reason is that I am afraid of not being able to make ends meet. "If you want to grow pasture, you must need human and animal power. If the output is less than the input, isn't it a loss?

"If you want to sell it like food, I'm afraid it's a little difficult." Xu Yuanzuo said: "However, in the future, Liaodong will open a horse farm, and the supporting pasture land must be available." By the way, is the grass budding now? ”

"It's about to bloom at this time." Li Rusong said.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Then without further ado, let's do a small experiment." ”

"Experiments?"

Li Rusong had never heard of this word.

Li Teng heard Xu Yuanzuo say that it was about the meaning of the Dan family's so-called "drug test". It's just that what can pasture have to do with alchemy? Where did this experiment begin?

Xu Yuanzuo didn't want to say it explicitly, but said: "Please ask Brother Zimao to order someone to bring some pasture grass and cut it into fine materials." Then wash a large jar and fill it with compaction. ”

Although Li Rusong didn't understand what he meant, anyway, it was a matter of moving his mouth, so he ordered someone to call the horseman of the post station to come and tell Xu Yuanzuo's request. The groom is a military household, how dare he say anything about the general's words? Immediately called a few people to go and harvest fresh pasture.

"And then?" Li Rusong asked.

Xu Yuanzuo took a moment: "Then what should we do." By the way, is there any yogurt here? ”

4,000 years ago, the steppe people accidentally discovered yogurt and found that the taste was better than goat's milk, so they consciously began to make yogurt. The Turks brought yogurt to the West, and the Mongols to the East. So throughout the North, yogurt is a very common dairy product.

After Xu Yuanzuo arrived in Liaodong, he ate a lot of meat. If you don't eat enough vegetables, you will always feel greasy, so you will eat yogurt as a snack. At this moment, he suddenly asked for yogurt, Li Rusong didn't think much about it, and ordered someone to prepare it. There are villages in the vicinity of each inn, and there are even towns in the larger ones. It's not hard to find some drinks that you always have.

By the time the groom brought the grass, cut it into fine ingredients and put it in the jar, Xu Yuanzuo had already eaten half a can of yogurt.

Li Rusong had long run out of patience and was busy with other things. Li Teng stayed by Xu Yuanzuo's side to see what kind of experiment he did.

Xu Yuanzuo waited for the groom to fill the jar and said, "Go and help me with some mud." ”

The groom obeyed.

Xu Yuanzuo poured half a can of yogurt in his hand into the jar.

"You ......"

"Shh

Xu Yuanzuo stopped Li Teng, who was about to ask a question, and closed the lid.

After a while, the groom returned with wet mud.

"Sealed." Xu Yuanzuo said.

The groom did as he was told.

Xu Yuanzuo waited for him to completely seal the altar and said, "Okay." This jar was handed over to General Li to take away. Then he turned around and walked away.

Li Rusong didn't know what medicine Xu Yuanzuo was selling in the gourd. Xu Yuanzuo only said that he would naturally know in the future. Li Rusong didn't ask any more questions, but ordered someone to bring the jar and throw it into the stable when he returned to Liaoyang. This incident was only a minor episode, and General Lee had already forgotten about it in the next day.

Li Teng asked.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "I also see this method in the book, and it may not really be possible." If it is really done, the pasture grass harvested in spring and summer in the future can be stored until the winter is still green. This is called the silage method. Maximize the nutrients in the pasture. Animals also love to eat. Seeing Li Teng's "so it is" look, Xu Yuanzuo hurriedly said: "But I really glanced at it." It may not be reliable, so it is better not to say it first, so as not to be embarrassed. ”

Li Teng smiled: "You are cautious. ”

Xu Yuanzuo raised his eyebrows: "Of course, how would you do business otherwise?" ”

"This is also business?"

"It has to be." Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "If this silage method can really be useful, the livestock can eat green fodder in winter, and the survival rate in winter can be greatly improved." You say such good technology. Is it worthless? ”

Li Teng said: "Hearing you say this, it's really valuable......

"Listening to your disdainful tone, it doesn't seem to agree."

"It's not that I disagree, it's just curious."

"Huh?"

"Is there anything you can't make money on?"

Li Teng's question. made Xu Yuanzuo fall into deep thought.

"Theoretically, anything has value as long as it has a price." Xu Yuanzuo summed it up: "Well, that's it. Everything has a price, more or less. ”

Li Teng said: "You don't actually have to answer the poor road so seriously. ”

- I'm just mocking you.

Li Teng added in his heart.

Anyway, Xu Yuanzuo still believes that he is not wrong.

On the seventh day after departing from Liaoyang, the convoy arrived at Kaiyuan City. The delay of one day was because Li Rusong wanted to entertain Xu Yuanzuo in Tieling.

The Li family is a native of Tieling.

It is only said that after Liaoyang came out, Tieling was really the largest city, and the business could almost catch up with one-third of Zhuli. As for Shenyang, which passed through on the way, it is still only an acropolis of two streets. There are not only vegetable fields in the city, but also livestock pens, which cannot be compared with a big city like Tieling.

Kaiyuan was a county of Tieling in later generations, but now it is a key place on the same level as Tieling. This place is the center of Sanwanwei, Liaohaiwei and Anle Prefecture. The first two are military towns, and Anle Prefecture is the area where the border walls are located outside and inside. When you are in Tieling, you can only feel Hu Feng, and when you arrive in Kaiyuan, you can see many Mongolians and Jurchens dressed in exotic styles.

When these people saw the Ming army's troops, they always consciously retreated to both sides of the road, watching the horses' hooves trample by with awe.

Li Rusong noticed that Xu Yuanzuo was quite curious about the Mongols and Jurchens, so he said: "Jing Lian must have never seen the Yi people." ”

"There are also Yi people in Jiangnan legends, but they haven't been seen for a long time." Xu Yuanzuo said: "Just looking at these people, it's hard to imagine that they are the fierce people who swept across Europe and Asia. ”

Li Rusong laughed and said, "These Mongolians are not the same as the Mongolians outside the border wall. The Tartars out there are like wolves. The tartar here is nothing more than a wolf, in fact, it is not much different from a dog. ”

Xu Yuanzuo is not accustomed to this kind of blatant ethnic discrimination. However, if you think about it carefully, there is no modern concept of nation in this era, so naturally there is no discrimination. Li Rusong may have expressed his feelings purely out of his status as a ruler.

"What about the Jurchens?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

"Jurchen?" Li Rusong laughed: "They are Mongolian dogs. ”

Xu Yuanzuo sighed. It turns out that the chain of discrimination here is: Han people discriminate against Mongols, Mongols discriminate against Jurchens, and mature women really discriminate against raw Jurchens. No one discriminates against the birth of a girl, because they have no concept of "discrimination" at all.

Xu Yuanzuo peeked at Shi Tie with his spare eyes. Shi Tie's face was unusual, as if the Jurchens Li Rusong said had nothing to do with him. However, judging from the appearance of clothing, Shi Tie does look like a Han Chinese, which is enough.

Li Rusong held a horsewhip and swept over a group of "Mongols" from afar: "Jing Lian, you see, those people are mature women." ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked over and said, "It's no different from the Mongols." ”

"The Jurchens are fake." Li Rusong said: "First of all, the Khitans bullied the Jurchens; Later, the Jurchens rose up and established the Jin State, first destroying the Khitan and then the Northern Song Dynasty; What do these Yi people know how to govern the country? Follow the example of the Khitans and bully the Mongols to the death. As a result, after the Mongols rose up, they almost wiped out the Jurchens. ”

The history of the northern nationalities has always been complex and chaotic and niche, Xu Yuanzuo has not read many books in this regard, and he thinks it is quite interesting to listen to Li Rusong.

"The Jurchens we are talking about now are all born from the Xianbei Wasteland in the far north after the Mongols were destroyed. I heard that my Ming and the Mongols were enemies, and that the Mongols were enemies of the Jurchens, so they claimed to be the Jurchens of the descendants of the Jin Kingdom, and asked the court to let them live and fish and hunt here. ”

The Xianbei Wasteland is the Siberian Wasteland of later generations, and it is also the birthplace of many northern peoples.

Li Rusong is like a treasure, although he lacks an academic style, but he is quite credible. Xu Yuanzuo also vaguely knew about this, because when Huang Taiji changed his clan name to Manju (Manju), he also denied the relationship between his own clan and Juxen (Juxen). In the Huang Taiji era, the Jurchens really did not need to pretend to be descendants of the Jin Kingdom anymore.

"They intermarried with the Mongols, wore Mongol clothes, learned Mongol hairstyles, gave Mongolian names and spoke Mongolian, so they didn't look much different from the Mongols." Li Rusong said.

Xu Yuanzuo asked, "Aren't they going to shave their heads and keep small pigtails?" ”

"Shaved your head? That's the custom of giving birth to a girl. Li Rusong said: "Mature women really either learn from the Mongols to comb braids, or learn from the Han people to tie their hair in buns." They don't wear hair scarves though. ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked at the Jurchens that Li Rusong had just pointed out and said, "Those people look the same as the Mongols, how did Brother Zimao determine that they were Jurchens." ”

Li Rusong smiled and didn't explain.

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