Zhao Xiong smiled and said:

"You see this steel pipe is better than the copper pipe you made!"

Wang Tiezhu on the side nodded excitedly.

Zhao Xiong looked at Wang Xiaoqi who was standing on the side and said, "I will give you 10 guns in a while, and you can make victory firearms for me in a few days?" ”

Wang Xiaoqi replied cautiously: "If it is your delicate gun, our grandfather will guarantee that all the victory firearms will be made within five days."

Zhao Xiong was very satisfied with his answer, and said: "By the way, in addition to building a fire gun, you must build a small blast furnace before the Chinese New Year.

In the future, I will send someone to guard you in the village, Liu Sheng, you come here! ”

Liu Sheng, the leader of the family, came over and asked, "What does Master Xiong command?" ”

"I'm going to keep you here and lead a team to clean up the old Acropolis, and secondly, you're going to keep this village safe."

Zhao Xiong said.

"Yes."

Wang Xiaoqi sighed in his heart when he heard these words, this Zhao Tianba's guardian is equal to a guard!

But fortunately, with the care of Zhao Tianba's family in the village, the water bandits and bandits will not dare to come easily.

Zhao Xiong didn't know Wang Xiaoqi's heart at all, even if he knew that he would just laugh, the evil feudal society, but he liked it.

He also said, "Master Wang, the food and wages will not be less than yours.

I will give you 20 taels of silver in a moment as the cost of the early stage of the small blast furnace.

As for what I tell you to do, you must not talk about it to outsiders, and if you disobey it, hehe. ”

"If there is a violation, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky!" Wang Xiaoqi hurriedly replied.

At the moment, these craftsmen are in the village, and there is no work at the end of the year.

Moreover, there are fewer prey on the mountain, and it is not easy for a whole village to have food to eat in this year!

All in all, today is a good day.

Wang Xiaoqi is still very confident in his skills.

In particular, there is also an ancestral brother-in-law Xu Feng who builds a small iron furnace by his side.

Zhao Xiong waved his hand, and Zhao Xiaodonkey, who was following behind him, took out two silver ingots of 10 taels from his arms and handed them to Wang Xiaoqi.

"This is 20 taels of silver, as the upfront cost of building a small blast furnace, you have taken it!"

Wang Xiaoqi took the silver tremblingly, and then handed the silver to Xu Feng.

Xu Feng looked at the dazzling silver in his hand, foaming at the mouth of his throat, and his face suddenly bloomed with joy.

The preliminary work of building a small iron furnace with his ancestral craftsmanship is nothing more than digging the foundation and burning wear-resistant bricks, which does not cost much!

There must be seven or eight taels left, please don't have a fat year for yourself and your brother-in-law's family.

As for their Thousand Households, they haven't taken care of them for many years, and they don't care about their lives or deaths, they are basically people who give hope.

Take refuge under Zhao Xiong today, so as not to starve to death, it's okay.

There was a bonfire barbecue event at noon, and the people in the village had not eaten meat properly for a long time.

Zhao Xiong bought the only three small black pigs left in the village.

He stood under the big tree and announced to the villagers who were gradually surrounding him that the Zhao family in Yi County would hold a bonfire party today, and everyone was invited to let go of the food together.

So the whole village, especially the children, went crazy, and those who were old knelt down and kowtowed to see if he felt good in his heart.

But that's what society is like today.

In the past few years, he has seen a lot, and truly realized that Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

He has limited abilities and can't help many people.

Because the well in the village dried up in the winter.

Two sheep and three pigs were still to be pulled, and the small river next to the Qianhu Acropolis was abandoned, and the pigs and sheep were slaughtered.

Eating meat is a big event today, and the whole village is moving.

After all, Wang Xiaoqi is the head of a village, and in addition to arranging for a cadre of people to kill pigs and sheep, the rest, young and old, followed his mother-in-law up the mountain to pick up branches.

The little beggar Tong Youzhu led Tian'er to open the luggage on the donkey's back, and there was a white down jacket inside, which Tian'er changed into.

Man by clothes, horses by saddles.

Tian'er changed into a big down jacket, and the whole person was like a penguin, which quickly warmed up and immediately became energetic.

The children of the other villages watched from afar, and they were all envious.

Then the little beggar brought the sweetness and wanted to see the excitement of killing pigs and slaughtering cows.

There are a lot of kids on the butt along the way.

Tong Youzhu of the child king gave each a piece of cake, which made the group of little fart children excited to death, laughing and laughing all the way, and followed the team to the small pier!

Looking at this scene, Zeng Guofan's eyes were deep.

Originally, he only thought about going to the capital after recovering from his injuries and forgetting about the things here.

Now it looks like it's time to change the original intention.

He turned his head, and the beautiful woman named Little Aunt was standing under the big tree in the middle of the village.

The little aunt's eyes never left Zhao Xiong, who was discussing things with others, which made him feel a little jealous.

As for Zhao Xiong, although he saved his life, he still looked down on Zhao Xiong and others in his bones.

Who made Zhao Xiong a miscellaneous official who is unlearned.

In his thinking, miscellaneous officials are out of the stream.

Unlike other officials, the appointment of these miscellaneous officials is not subject to examination, and the relevant departments select people who are familiar with the business, and report to the imperial court for the record.

The imperial court does not pay money, and they have to rely on their business ability to make money to make a living.

Different categories of officials have different identities, different job requirements and promotion order, but most of them have come to the end of their lives.

If there are miscellaneous officials, most of them are not scholars.

I think he will be a dignified person next year, and his status will be expensive, so he will not take Zhao Xiong seriously.

If it weren't for the injury, he would have avoided it.

So he secretly made up his mind that he would save his little aunt from falling into the hands of the disciples.

Outside the gates of the Thousand Acropolis is a small abandoned dock.

At this time, the small pier was full of tidal flats, silt puddles, and some fallen trees lay there.

It can be seen how big the tides are at Weishan Lake.

When the water rises, it backs up into the canal, and the riverbed expands on both banks, forming a tidal flat.

The tidal flats are full of silt and dirt, and the ruined small wharf is on high ground, and there are more than ten meters to the surface of the lake.

Otherwise, out of the village, it would be better to go directly to the lake to fish in a boat.

Zhao Xiong thought about expanding the small wharf by himself while he had time, and building a trestle bridge to connect to the lake, what to do.

The small pier is made of wooden piles, and there is a small river channel with clear water flowing down there, which slowly flows into Weishan Lake.

Someone in the village fetched water, so they came to this small river.

Liu Sheng and Zuo Liangyu, each carrying a dagger, led a few family members to kill pigs and sheep next to Xiaohedao.

They skillfully peeled off the skin, decomposed the internal organs, carried knives like flying, and acted quickly, which made the villagers applaud one by one.

In this era, the meat yield of pigs and mutton is not very high, and the three pigs and two sheep remove the bones, that is, 200 catties of meat.

The net meat of two sheep is only about forty or fifty catties, so mutton is expensive and pork is cheap.

This was also the case in the Dakang Dynasty.