Wu Shigong is now slowly entering the harvest period, and the silver in his hand has increased. So, in addition to leaving some silver around him as a backup, Wu Shigong wanted to deposit all the silver in the bank.

However, as soon as Wu Shigong's idea was proposed, it was opposed by Zhu Yun. Zhu Yun thinks: My uncle's silver should be used to buy land and collect rent. Even if you buy a shop and collect rent, you can do it. Even if my uncle didn't want to buy these, he should hide the silver in the silver vault of the Xue Mansion. Anyway, the silver treasury of the Xue Mansion is large, and the small money of the uncle can't take up much space. The Xue Mansion family has a big business, is my uncle still afraid that the Xue Mansion will swallow this silver? So you want to save it in the bank?

Wu Shigong has no way to argue clearly with a little girl like Zhu Yun, who has deep-rooted ideas. As a modern person, the benefits of keeping money in the bank are deeply rooted in Wu Shigong's heart. Seeing Wu Shigong's insistence, Zhu Yun came up with another idea. She asked Wu Shigong to put the silver in the pawnshop of the Xue Mansion to put the money (that is, usury), although the reputation is a little ugly, but it is better than storing it in the bank, and the income is also high.

Oh? This made Wu Shigong interested. After understanding the situation, Wu Shigong handed over all the silver to Zhuyun for specific operations. However, Wu Shigong set a rule: Sancheng silver must be saved in the bank. Seventy percent of the silver was taken to the pawnshop to put the money in the print.

After that, the shopkeeper of the money bank personally came to the Xue Mansion to handle the procedures for depositing silver. After getting the silver tickets, Wu Shigong asked the shopkeeper: Are these silver tickets exchangeable in other places? The shopkeeper replied to Wu Shigong and said: Their money bank was opened by several nobles and nobles. Therefore, there are semicolons in several large states and capitals along the Grand Canal, and the end point is in the city of Nanjing. This silver ticket can be redeemed in those semicolons. Wu Shigong thought to himself: I didn't expect that the finance of the Ming Dynasty was still quite developed.

Na Yang Goudan also sent the haode dagger and saber one after another, and Wu Shigong also paid the silver in batches according to the said haode price. At this time, Yang Goudan also made the first sample of the firearm and handcuff. After hearing the news, Wu Shigong took the Xue Mansion guards to Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop to test the firecracker.

When he arrived at Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop, Wu Shigong suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Wu Shigong had not bought these bullets for the firearms. After listening to Wu Shigong's question, Yang Goudan smiled and waved his hand and said: No. He took out a piece of lead and heated it in a crucible, turned the lead into lead, and then poured the lead into a mold, and when the lead water cooled, what came out of the mold were round bullets. Before use, at most, use sand skin to polish the bullet smooth.

Yang Goudan told Wu Shigong: This lead block is not valuable, and when the time comes, Yang Goudan will send Wu Shigong a batch, and then attach some crucibles and molds. Yang Goudan also told Wu Shigong: On the battlefield, as long as the used bullets are collected, even if the bullets are deformed, the bullets can still be made by turning the bullets into lead water and pouring them into molds. Of course, if the situation is special, iron bullets or stone bullets can be used in the firecracker, but it takes some effort to make those bullets, and it is not as labor-saving as lead bullets.

This also opened Wu Shigong's eyes. In modern times, when the gun is out of bullets, it becomes a lump of iron. And in the Ming Dynasty, there was almost no difficulty in how easy the bullets of the fire gun were.

Then it's time to test the firebolt. It's definitely not okay to try it in the blacksmith's workshop, it's still in the capital. So, Wu Shigong and his entourage and Yang Goudan took the fire gun and handcuff to Zhuangzi, who was training the guards of the gambling house outside the city.

When the guards of the gambling house saw Wu Shigong coming to test the firecracker, they all helped set up the target, and then watched the test shooting of the firecracker. Then Xue Yong was good at firecrackers, so Xue Yong became a test shooter.

A total of thirty or forty bullets were fired before and after, and Wu Shigong found that the power of this firearm was okay, but the accuracy was too poor. At a distance of fifty steps (one step in the Ming Dynasty is about one meter and two in modern times), it is possible to hit a target of a person's size. And the accuracy of those handcuffs is at most thirty paces away. No matter how far it goes, the accuracy doesn't need to be mentioned.

When Wu Shigong raised his question, Xue Yong told him: This is still Yang Goudan's good craftsmanship to ensure such an accuracy. If Wu Shigong wants to improve his accuracy, he must reduce the power of the firebolt and make the barrel of the firebolt thinner.

Wu Shigong thought for a while: he didn't want to be a sniver rifle. There's no place to use them now. Making these firearms yourself is nothing more than a little more self-defense weapon. It is enough to be able to guarantee the power and precision of the present.

So, he told Yang Goudan that he would build it according to the appearance of this fire gun and handcuff. And, after returning to the blacksmith workshop, Wu Shigong happily paid off Zuihou's sum of silver.

This made Yang Goudan very embarrassed. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was very low, so bullying craftsmen happened from time to time. When Yang Goudan was working as a blacksmith, he liked to take over the business of the children of powerful people like Wu Shigong, because of their generosity; And some are afraid to take over the business of these powerful children. Because if these powerful children find faults, they will have no place to reason with your money.

Therefore, when he took over Wu Shigong's big business, Yang Goudan quoted a high price. He saved a careful eye, if Wu Shigong's three thousand five hundred taels of silver, even if he lost five hundred taels, Yang Goudan could still earn more than one hundred taels. Unexpectedly, Wu Shigong was very generous and paid off all the money very quickly. Now Yang Goudan is a little scared. He didn't dare to explain the situation to Wu Shigong, but he was afraid that if Wu Shigong knew about the high price in the future, he would settle the account after the autumn.

And Wu Shigong looks at Yang Goudan with modern thinking. In modern times, anyone has a lot of respect for skilled experts. The same goes for Wu Shigong. Even if he knew that Yang Goudan slashed him this time, he would suffer a loss and grow wise at most in the future, and he would be more careful in his business with Yang Goudan in the future, but he would never retaliate against Yang Goudan.

After returning to the Yamen, Wu Shigong thought that it would be impossible not to go to the fat powder shop in the future, so he still had to block the mouth of Xiaojie, the little ancestor, and make her a big rag doll. So, Wu Shigong brought Xue Yong again and asked him to find a tailor with better craftsmanship for him.

Xue Yong's work efficiency was quite high, and he soon took Wu Shigong to the tailor. But walking on the road, Wu Shigong looked at the road and became more and more familiar, zuihou, Xue Yong took Wu Shigong to Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop. The one who came out to greet Wu Shigong was indeed that Yang Goudan.

Wu Shigong wondered in his heart: This Xue Yong's work is too unreliable. I'm going to find a tailor to make a doll Pikachu, what is he going to do with me a blacksmith? Do you want to be a Transformer?

Xue Yong saw the question on Wu Shigong's face, and he hurriedly stepped forward to explain to Wu Shigong: That Yang Goudan's daughter-in-law is a very haode tailor, Wu Shigong can just tell Yang Goudan if he has any requirements.

I see. So, Wu Shigong drew a cute white rabbit pattern on the paper, and explained the size of Yang Goudan, a big rag doll. After hearing this, Yang Goudan said that there was absolutely no problem. and refused to accept Wu Shigong's money. He said to Wu Shigong: Making those weapons, Yang Goudan has already earned a lot. This big rag doll can be regarded as Yang Goudan's filial piety to Wu Shigong.

Of course, it's good not to pay, Wu Shigong agreed. Na Yang Goudan was also relieved to see that Wu Shigong had agreed. After Yang Goudan's daughter-in-law made this big rag doll, Wu Shigong took this doll to the fat powder shop again.