"Gu Zi said hello to Bai Shoumin and sent someone to keep an eye on Fan Yongfa, they will also transport grain from other places this time, they are a big list this time."

Li Chaosheng said with gloomy eyes.

From the beginning of Fan Yongfa's entry into the house, Li Chaosheng made a general prediction, which was mainly based on some historical materials he had, such as the end of October of the Manchu Qing Dynasty this year, which would go south and enter the Central Plains.

Now Fan Yongfa buys grain on behalf of the Fan family, and it is very likely that he is providing grain and grass for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Since ancient times, there is a saying that the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains.

They now sell grain to the Manchus, who will not only reuse them, but will also give them a satisfactory price in the future, but the Manchus will not take money out of their own pockets, they prefer to plunder.

The strategy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was to first let the eight Jin merchants prepare grain and grass baggage, and then they led their troops to attack the border passes, as long as they fought down, they would pick up the grain and grass by the way, as for the money to buy grain and grass, they could not use it for robbery along the way.

This is a business without capital, and every time the Manchus are made by blood, that's why they are so keen to rob the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, the Manchus actually just wanted to rob the Ming Dynasty all along, and until they entered BJ, they didn't think they could firmly control this country.

Therefore, they have always had a strong sense of distress, the most important of which is to implement a retreat policy in the three eastern provinces, so as not to allow a large number of Han people to flow into the three eastern provinces, why?

In order to leave a way back for their Manchurians, in case the Han people reconquer the capital in the future, they will drive themselves away and have nowhere to stay.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era, they were actually robbers, they never thought of being able to possess the Ming Dynasty, although they were strong, but in their bones they were afraid of the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty.

Da Ming was actually festered by himself, not by the Manchus.

Li Chaosheng knew that the Manchus would definitely enter the Central Plains this winter, and it would naturally be very easy to push the process from the results, although 50,000 quintals of grain was a lot, it would definitely not satisfy the consumption of the Manchus.

And they didn't take this grain directly, he said that he had other things, what would he do?

With such an inference, Li Chaosheng could almost guess Fan Yongfa's next move.

Li Chaosheng asked Bai Shoumin to send people to follow Fan Yongfa to see what he was going to do, and then sent Shi Xiaolei, Li Chaolong with a firearms battalion, and more than 1,000 people from the first regiment to move from Qinling to Luliangdi in Shaanxi.

At the same time, Li Chaosheng asked Liu Airen to prepare 5,000 militiamen, each with a wheelbarrow, ready to transport the stolen grain to Lantian County from the mountain road secretly developed by the Qinling Mountains.

Hearing Li Chaosheng's order, Gu Zi immediately prepared to do it, but at this moment, Gu Zi suddenly stopped, followed by digging out his pocket, and took out an ingot of five taels of silver in it, and then said to Li Chaosheng with a smile: "Brigade commander, I almost forgot, that Fan Yongfa just stuffed me with five taels of silver, and I handed it over." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Zi and said, "Just keep it for you, and save for marrying a daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Li Chaosheng said with a smile, and after hearing this, Gu Zi said: "Forget it, I have a military salary every month, I am uncomfortable with this money, and it is even more unreliable to use it, besides, I am still young, whose girl can look up to me!" ”

Gu Zi said, turned around to find Shi Xiaolei, Bai Shoumin and them, Li Chaosheng looked at the five taels of silver on the table, turned to Guo Bao and said: "Nuo, take the silver to buy some wine and meat, and improve your food, it has not been easy for you recently, by the way, I told people that Gu Zi invited you to eat." ”

"Gotcha."

Guo Bao took the silver away at this time, and followed Lehehe to do things, in fact, Guo Bao is not stupid, these five taels of silver are not a problem, the main thing is attitude, Gu Zi this guy doesn't know whether he is really loyal, or smart, he knows that this money can't be taken, he must explain it clearly to Li Chaosheng, if Li Chaosheng knows it in the future, it is easy to lose trust.

This is more than worth the loss, when he took out the silver, Li Chaosheng gave it to him, or didn't give it to him, he took it, it didn't matter if he didn't take it, what is five taels of silver, it's really nothing in Lantian, after all, Li Chaosheng still has a silver ticket of 50,000 taels on his table now.

Li Chaosheng took the silver ticket and thought about it, this money has to be used, and the money is a number when it is put on the body, but if it is used, it will really increase its strength.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng pondered slightly, at present, the development of Lantian County has been on the right track, as long as it continues to open up wasteland for farming, build water conservancy, and govern benevolently to the people, it will be able to continue to expand its territory.

So the people's livelihood is not in a hurry to improve, in addition to the people's livelihood, there are only two that Li Chaosheng is currently more concerned about, the first is the spy organization, Bai Shoumin is currently forming, this needs to expand its influence, it is necessary to try to use money to open the way, this is very expensive, but I just allocated a sum of money to them, but I don't need to allocate too much.

In addition to the spy organization, Li Chaosheng was more concerned about the arsenal, thinking that Li Chaosheng looked at the 50,000 taels of silver on the table, and then got up and took the guards to the arsenal in the firearms camp.

At this time, the firearms battalion was ready to set off under the integration of Shi Xiaolei, Li Chaosheng encouraged Shi Xiaolei a few words, Shi Xiaolei was a little excited, saying that he was tired of shooting targets every day, and he was just looking for a living person to try.

Looking at Shi Xiaolei's excitement, Li Chaosheng was not good at dampening his enthusiasm, so he had a few words of encouragement, and came to the arsenal, Lao Sun Tou was studying artillery, Lao Sun Tou studied and came and went, and found that he wanted to make a cannon that was more powerful than the red-coat cannon, had a long range, and had the ability to fire quickly from the Francophone cannon.

The focus is no longer on the cannon itself, because the biggest problem with the cannon body is hardness, and the immortal materials provided by Li Chaosheng completely surpass the perception of steel in this era, which is very in line with the requirements.

So if you want to complete the above requirements now, the difference is gunpowder.

"County Zun, our big guy has been studying here for several days, and found that the only thing that can improve the performance of the cannon is gunpowder, and the gunpowder formula used by our Ming Dynasty is recorded in the "Wubei Zhi", and the ratio of gunpowder for large artillery is seventy percent saltpeter, one and a half percent sulfur, and one and a half percent charcoal."

"Musket medicine, saltpeter seventy and a half, sulfur one, charcoal and a half, recently we have been studying this problem, but we don't know where to start, we don't know how to improve."

Lao Sun Tou said to Li Chaosheng, after listening to Lao Sun Tou's words, Li Chaosheng remembered, as if he had heard someone say that there was a problem with the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty.

After the normal gunpowder is ignited, the smoke coming out should be white, but the firearms used by Li Chaosheng and them are all brown and yellow, which must be something wrong with the formula, thinking of this, Li Chaosheng said: "Okay, I know, you continue to be busy, I'll go and think of a way for you." ”

Li Chaosheng got up after speaking, he couldn't solve this kind of problem, and professional things still need professional people to complete.

Li Chaosheng thought that there was nothing to do, so he opened the door of time and space, and returned to the modern era, as soon as he arrived in the modern era, Li Chaosheng immediately used his identity and money to open the way, and made an appointment with an associate professor who taught chemistry.

Li Chaosheng invited the professor to have a meal, and the two chatted during the banquet, Li Chaosheng said that he liked chemistry more, and he had a question to ask the professor, and the professor agreed, after all, Li Chaosheng promised to donate 500,000 yuan to his laboratory for scientific research funds.

Li Chaosheng asked a question: "Professor, I went online a few days ago, and I saw a very strange question, in the Ming Dynasty, they already had muskets?" ”

The old professor nodded and said, "Yes, and very early, Zhu Yuanzhang used firearms when he founded the country. ”

"Then the professor asks you a question, why does the musket used by the Ming Dynasty emit yellow smoke after it fires, I think we will fire the cannon during the New Year, and the gunpowder seems to be emitting white smoke."

After listening to Li Chaosheng's question, the old professor smiled: "You are very careful to observe, oh, this is the case, there is a problem with the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty......

The old professor talked about the knowledge of Huaxu inside, Li Chaosheng listened a little foggy, the old professor smiled, asked the waiter to bring a piece of paper, a pen, and wrote a gunpowder ratio casually: "If you are interested, you can study it, this is the granular black powder that we improved later." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at the formula given by the old professor, and suddenly put it in his pocket with a smile, followed by Li Chaosheng with some long-term hope, looked at the old professor and said: "Professor, do you think it is possible for the Ming Dynasty to invent yellow powder?" ”

The old professor was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "Yellow powder is difficult to develop under the conditions of the Ming Dynasty, because yellow powder and black powder are completely different things. ”

"Yellow powder is what we often call explosives, TNT, the main chemical component is trinitrotoluene, which is a chemical compound."

"And we all know black powder, one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, there is no need to produce a chemical reaction, just mix together, this is a mixture, the simplicity is much lower than yellow powder."

"So the Ming Dynasty did not have the conditions to produce yellow powder, you must know that Nobel experimented in an environment that far exceeded the production conditions of the Ming Dynasty, and almost blew up, and the Ming Dynasty people rashly experimented, it would definitely kill people, after all, with the environment of the Ming Dynasty, the purification of compounds can stump them."

The old professor talked with Li Chaosheng for a while, and the two began to talk about the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is a dynasty that modern people like to talk about, especially the history of the late Ming Dynasty, everyone will have their own opinions, whether it is wild history or official history.

It can be said that modern people talk about history, two major disaster areas, one is the Three Kingdoms, which is a household name, steadily suppressing all dynasties, standing in the first echelon, followed by the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

Among them, the Ming Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty were popular with everyone.

Young people like to talk about the love triangle of Chen Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui, and Li Zicheng.

Young people like the golden iron horse of that era.

A little older, I like to discuss the political system of that era and discuss the shortcomings of the government.

Anyway, everyone has a different opinion, and today's old professor has a different point of view, he and Li Chaosheng discussed various talents in the late Ming Dynasty.

This is definitely a huge inspiration for Li Chaosheng, he seems to have forgotten that there were many talents in the late Ming Dynasty who did not have their own connections, and they only thought about opening up wasteland and expanding their territory, but they forgot that science and technology are the primary productive forces.

If you want to change a dynasty, it is not possible to be the master of your own two worlds, a dynasty without its own production base, no matter how much technology it brings, it is all a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water.

So find a way to develop your own technology in this era.

Not to mention that I want to chat with cultured people, after chatting with the old professor for a while, Li Chaosheng remembered the names of several people, Li Shizhen, Chen Shigong, Zhang Jingyue, Xu Xiake, Xu Guangqi, and Song Yingxing, who was most respected by the old professor.

When Li Chaosheng heard these names, he slapped his head, these are all great talents of the Ming Dynasty, why did he forget about them, fortunately, he came over to make amends with the old professor.

Li Chaosheng was very grateful to the old professor, so he added 200,000 yuan to the old professor's laboratory for scientific research funds, and the happy old professor toasted Li Chaosheng with two glasses of wine.

Li Chaosheng said that he was not welcome, this is what he should do.

Li Chaosheng was very comfortable after eating a meal, and after going back, Li Chaosheng opened his mobile phone to check the people the old professor said.

First of all, Li Shizhen, this is too famous, Compendium of Materia Medica, a miracle doctor, but Li Chaosheng was the first to rule him out, the reason is very simple, the person died.

And they have been dead for almost thirty years, this year is the second year of Chongzhen, 1629, and there are four more years to hold the thirtieth anniversary of Li Shizhen's birth, so this is not good.

followed by Chen Shigong, who is also a medical scientist and a surgical expert, a native of Donghai (Nantong), Jiangsu, but the information records that the old man died in Chongzhen's fifth year, which means that the old man will die in three years, and the information shows that the old man was eighty-one years old when he died, and now he is seventy-eight?

This is a tiring journey from Nantong, Jiangsu, to Lantian may not be able to live for three years, this is better to think again.

As for Zhang Jingyue, this information shows that he died in 1640, so he can live for ten years, and his medical achievements are also very high, which is called Zhang Zhongjing's regeneration, which is very good.

Moreover, the information shows that he was seventy-eight years old when he died, and it was the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and he went home at the age of fifty-seven to write a book and write a biography, which means that he returned to his hometown Zhejiang in 1619 and began to study medicine and study books and theories.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng smiled, okay, this person can be wooed, and the way to win them over Li Chaosheng has thought of it, that is, medical skills, like this kind of technical bull, in addition to money, interests, that is, higher medical skills, can make them flock to it.

I figured out that this Li Chaosheng wrote down the first name in his small notebook, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zhang Jingyue, the founder of the Wen Bu School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, can be wooed!