In the south courtyard, several young men were moving things into the house.

"I bought too much gunpowder to use so much." Zhao Qianqian said.

Shen Junchen said, "If there is no problem with this batch, the quantity will be increased later."

After Shen Junchen finished speaking, he called Leng Yu and pointed to a pile of parts on the table: "You follow along, and you will take your brothers to do it later, if you don't understand, ask Miss Zhao."

Zhao Qianqian assembled a short gun, and the remaining three guns were assembled by Leng Yu, and after they were installed, Zhao Qianqian checked each one: "No problem, complete the task." I'll take them with me to do the rest, and don't forget to pay the rest of my money."

"Is that worth so much silver? What's the use?" Leng Yu looked at the strange thing that was pretended, and he didn't know why.

Zhao Qian pursed his lips and smiled, picked up a teacup on the table and handed it to Leng Yu: "You put it a hundred steps away, and my sister will show you."

Leng Yu looked at the gun in Zhao Qianqian's hand and muttered, "What does it have to do with this cup?"

However, he still put the cup in the farthest position in the courtyard, and then walked back to the house, waiting for Zhao Qian's demonstration.

"Look at it." Zhao Qianqian picked up the pistol as he spoke, aimed at the teacup in the courtyard, stared for a moment and heard a "bang", and the teacup in the courtyard shattered to the ground.

Leng Yu's eyes widened and his chin touched the ground: "This thing is so powerful?"

Zhao Qianqian raised his eyebrows: "Do you say this thing is worth all this silver?"

Leng Yan looked at Shen Junchen and said, "How do I know, the general has the final say."

Shen Junchen said, "Let's go down if you learn it."

Leng Yu clasped his hands into fists and saluted, and then disappeared.

"Tomorrow, I will leave for the imperial city, Leng Yu will come to you if there is something, you must not act rashly on the side of Wang Biao and his wife."

"In such a hurry? Didn't you say two days later?"

Shen Junchen pointed to the gun on the table: "If you do this in advance, I will go back early, go early and return early."

"How long will it take to be back?"

"If nothing else, it should be about ten days."

The next day, Zhao Qianqian sent Shen Junchen outside the southern city, his heart was empty, and he walked along the path up the mountain in Nanshan for a long time.

I didn't get home until after noon.

When the old father saw her coming back, he said anxiously: "You are back, there is a man who said that he was repairing the river embankment outside the city, and he looked for you all morning, so you must go to the south of the city to find him when you come back."

Zhao Qianqian was stunned: "What's that person's name?" But what is it?"

Daddy thought for a moment, "What's the cold? I didn't say what it was, I just said that it was urgent, so you must go outside the southern city to have a look."

"Alright, I'll go now!"

surnamed Leng, it must be Leng Yu.

Zhao Qianqian walked to the end along the bank of Nancheng, but did not see Leng Yu, and looked back along the opposite bank of Nancheng, and finally saw Leng Yu halfway through.

In fact, it was not Zhao Qianqian who found him, it was he who saw Zhao Qianqian, there were men on the embankment construction site, and suddenly a woman appeared, and everyone's eyes followed all the way as if they were looking at a national treasure.

Leng Yu looked in the direction everyone was looking, and when he saw Zhao Qianqian looking around, he immediately ran over.

Leng Yu was wearing coarse cloth clothes, dressed as a peasant, Zhao Qianqian didn't recognize him, and continued to walk forward.

"Miss Zhao!" Leng Yu called out to her.

Zhao Qianqian looked at it fixedly: "Leng Yu? I heard that you were looking for me, but what is the matter?"

Leng Yu looked left and right: "There is coal in Nanshan, I have already asked the brothers to stop, Qianqiu can mine the coal by himself, what do you think will be arranged next?"

Zhao Qianqian was surprised: "What? Is there coal?"

Coal is coal, there is coal here, who said that pies will not fall from the sky? This great good thing actually fell on her head?

"Let's go, let's see!"

The two came to a place where there was charcoal, Leng Yu picked up a small piece and handed it to Zhao Qianqian: "Miss Zhao, do you know charcoal?"

"Oh, I know we call it coal

Charcoal"

Coal is divided into lignite, mostly in blocks, black-brown, low ignition point, easy to catch fire, fast when burning, large flame, black smoke.

Another kind of bituminous coal, generally granular, small lumps, and powder, is mostly black and shiny, the texture is fine, the ignition point is not too high, and there is a large amount of black smoke when burning.

There is also a kind of anthracite, there are two kinds of powdery and small lumps, black with metallic luster and shiny, less impurities, compact texture, high ignition point, not easy to catch fire, but high calorific value, slow fire when just burning, strong fire after fire, short flame, less smoke, long burning time.

Zhao Qianqian took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and picked up a piece again, and many of them are powdery and small pieces, black with metallic luster and shiny, few impurities, and tight texture, which is the best in coal, anthracite.

I was worried about burning bricks and firewood, and the discovery of anthracite was really timely.

"You arrange for the brothers to erect scaffolds here, and tomorrow I will transfer dozens of more people for you, and pay attention to the scaffolds must be firmly erected, and the safety of the workers needs to be ensured."

"What about this section of the embankment?" Leng Yu asked.

"After digging out the coal, this section should be built thick enough, and the gap should be plugged with large stones as much as possible to prevent the flood from breaking the embankment."

Zhao Qianqian glanced at Leng Yu: "You have something to say."

Leng Yu said in a low voice, "Do we want to avoid Wang Biao's ears and eyes when we dig coal?"

Zhao Qianqian raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't have to worry about this, they want me to earn as much money as possible."

Leng Yu paused and said, "Okay, I'll arrange for someone to build a scaffold."

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Qianqian came back from Nanshan and drove the carriage to the foot of Dongshan.

Ling Feng handed over a cup of hot water: "Sister, why are you here?" Didn't you say you had a day off today?"

Zhao Qian drank a bowl of water in a shallow breath: "Nanshan found that there is charcoal, and you will send thirty people to dig the charcoal here, so you don't need to go to the mountain to chop wood."

"What is carbon?" Ling Feng asked.

Ling Feng had never heard of it, let alone seen it.

Zhao Qianqian said: "A kind of fuel, used to burn bricks is better than firewood cut on the mountain, build a temporary warehouse half a mile away from the brick kiln, for putting charcoal, pay attention to fire prevention, need to arrange special guards."

"Okay, no problem, I'll arrange for someone to build the warehouse."

Zhao Qianqian thought for a while: "It is estimated that there will be charcoal transported over tomorrow, you can arrange for you to weave a straw mat to cover it first, and try not to let it rain."

The matter of transporting charcoal cannot be carried by human beings from Nanshan to Beishan, the distance is too far, the efficiency is low, and a horse-drawn carriage is needed, and so much charcoal transportation requires a lot of horse-drawn carriages, and the cost is also a lot, if you can find a free horse-drawn carriage, then you can save a lot of costs.

Zhao Qianqian went home, found two pieces of cloth sent by Bai Ziheng in the courtyard, a gold bracelet, and brought a jar of kiwifruit fruit to the Li family's courtyard.

Looking at the gold bracelet in his hand, Li smiled from ear to ear: "You are here, why do you still send things?"

"I saw that this bracelet was very suitable for my aunt's noble temperament, so I specially bought it for my aunt, as long as my aunt is happy, not to mention the gold bracelet, it is a gold house, I can afford it, I will buy it for my aunt."

If he violated his conscience like this, Zhao Qianqian himself also lost goosebumps.

Li smiled, "Look at your little mouth, it's really getting sweeter and sweeter."

"Isn't that something for my aunt?"

Then he said: "Auntie, I think this cloth is most suitable for your fine white skin, let people make clothes for you to wear, and make sure to compare this noble lady of Qingyun City, and this section is very suitable for uncle."

"What kind of wind is blowing my niece here today? I can't even invite you on weekdays." Before anyone who saw Wang Biao, they had already heard his voice.

Zhao Qianqian poured a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Am I not busy? Yesterday, I saw two beautiful pieces of fabric bought back, but I didn't have time to send them, so I took the time to come here today."

Wang Biao said, "What has my niece been busy with lately? I don't have time to spend time with your aunt."

"Uncle, this is weird

Me? I still have to look for a carriage, I don't know where there is a carriage in this Qing City, and I am waiting for it to be used in a hurry, does my uncle know where there is a carriage?"

Li Shi smiled: "You are asking the right person, your uncle has a carriage, let him arrange it for you, how many do you want?"

"Oops! Auntie, you are really my savior, I have been worried all day, I knew that I would have gone directly to you, I ran all over the city to find the carriage today, but I didn't even see the shadow of the carriage."

"Looking for it all over the city?" Wang Biao asked.

"Ah! I don't know where there is a carriage, I have searched everywhere in the city and have not found it, thinking that this horse must only be found in the mountains, and I was going to look for it outside the city tomorrow, but since my uncle has a carriage here, I will not have to look for it everywhere."

"Hahahaha!" Wang Biao and his wife laughed.

This kid is so stupid and cute, I don't know how to go to the horse market and ask?

Zhao Qianqian served tea to Wang Biao and Li: "Uncle, you shouldn't have many carriages, right?"

"What? Underestimate your uncle so much? There are still twenty or thirty cars, how many can you use, and someone will send them to you tomorrow."

Zhao Qianqian secretly thought, at the beginning, he shouldn't be able to dig much in a day, he borrowed too much, and he had to raise the horse for him, if it wasn't enough, it would not be too late to borrow it again.

"Let's borrow five first, and if there's not enough later, I'll borrow it from my uncle."

Lee asked, "Where is the carriage for you?" Let Huan'er arrange it later."

Zhao Qianqian said: "Just send it to the south city gate, and I will let people wait there tomorrow."

Wang Biao asked, "How are your mountains going?"

"It's almost ready, all that is left is to repair the canals and ridges, I was about to discuss with you, I'm almost here, I'll take some people to the cottage, open up the land around the cottage and plant crops, and the cottage won't have to buy grain tomorrow."

When Wang Biao and his wife heard this, they were so happy that they couldn't stop talking: "You are still a good brain, I see that we have lived in the mountains for more than ten years, and we have never thought about planting the land.

Zhao Qianqian said: "Since my aunt and uncle have no opinion, then I will take someone over after I arrange it."

In the following days, Zhao Qianqian shuttled between the east, west, north and south cities of Qingyun City every day.

More than 200 jars of Fanchen's fruit brew have been sold, and he is the fastest, and the "Future Knife" stores in the four cities of the southeast, northwest and northwest have been officially opened.

With the full assistance of Chengshuang, the money shopkeeper has found a good shop in the three cities of the east, west and north, Zhao Qianqian looked at them one by one, and felt satisfied with the location, but the store was old and needed to be renovated.

The decoration matters all fell on the shopkeeper of Qingyunzhai, who was busy looking for shops in the three cities of the east, west and north, and the shopkeeper was also so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

Zhao Qianqian asked Fan Chen to assist the shopkeeper Zeng, and find a helper for the shopkeeper Zeng as soon as possible.

Fanchen directly took over the sales of Qingyunzhai, and the shopkeeper was only responsible for supervising the processing.

The things made by Yao Cunfu were directly handed over to Fan.

The supply of ingredients for Qian Mantang is in charge of Chengshuang.

Ling Feng took care of the affairs on the four mountains in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and the brick kiln in Dongshan had already been built, and Zhao Qianqian handed over the brick-burning process to Ling Feng.

At the same time as the bricks were burned, some small items such as porcelain bottles and rice spoons were also burned inside.

Everything in Qingyun City was in good order.

Ten days passed like a white horse, and after arranging the work of Qingyun City, Zhao Qianqian took dozens of people to the cottage, and it was Li Xiaoran, the lustful nephew of the Li family, who received her.