Su Cai'er left, Xiao Ming didn't want her to follow him, and the next thing was still very dangerous, because he was going to explore the "Little Thunder Pool". The reason why I stayed in Xuzhou was to wait for An Daoquan to come back.

But An Daoquan has been silent, which makes Xiao Ming crazy!

"Did Pang Wanchun turn to An Daoquan and do it?" Xiao Ming sometimes thinks like this, after folding in Xiao Ming's hands one after another, Pang Wanchun will definitely re-evaluate the combat effectiveness of Xiao Ming's side, and after measuring, he will turn to the weaker An Daoquan, which is very possible.

Unless Pang Wanchun can find a greater force or deterrent, otherwise even if he gets the news, he will not act rashly in the hands of Xiao Ming, so far, Pang Wanchun has given Xiao Ming the impression that he is very insidious, and several times he has attacked sneak attacks, or attacked the people around him, the means are very despicable, and he never shows his face, always let his subordinates come out.

"It's a very tricky opponent!" Xiao Ming said secretly, since he is an opponent, he must face it, ignoring him or despising him will definitely suffer, Xiao Ming began to attach importance to the existence of Pang Wanchun, an opponent, from now on, so he started a habitual plan.

Xuzhou's Taiping Iron Works is still busy, and now the construction of the iron factory personnel living quarters, the previous several frameworks have basically been practiced into one, housing and dormitories have been built into buildings, although it is a three-story building, but still let many people not understand, such a house gives people the feeling of just fresh, but no one wants to live, the reason is too high from the ground, the heart is not steady.

Xiao Ming didn't bother to explain to everyone, but asked for the decoration of big hotels and inns in various places at the door and on the outer wall, which made people mistakenly think that they were high-end inns and restaurants.

To be able to stay in a few storey hotels and luxury inns, isn't that a blessing enjoyed by the rich, this psychological advantage, so that everyone flocks to it, and the room is soon filled, but soon such a building is lived in by everyone into a unit tube building, and even family members raise chickens and ducks in the corridor, and there is a foul smell everywhere!

For this reason, Xiao Ming had no choice but to build sewerage and sanitation facilities for them, and stipulated that chickens and ducks could not be kept in captivity, and that sanitary sewerage should be connected, and places where excrement and dirty water needed to be disposed of.

The construction of these things is not useless, from the beginning the planning of the iron factory is like a small city, many facilities are purposeful, like the function of septic tanks, you can't help but provide good fertilizer to the surrounding countryside, but also collect biogas there, which is the best way to solve the lighting problem at this stage.

Ding Jianpeng was very surprised by such a setup, and when he knew that Xiao Ming had spent a few nights drawing all this, he slapped the table and shouted, "Do you want to build a satellite city?" ”

"What's not to do?" Xiao Ming asked.

Ding Jianpeng shook his head and said a little worriedly: "The development of human civilization needs a certain stage of scientific and technological achievements, your current scientific research and production are seriously out of touch, such a practice can only ensure a period of results, but time has become a phenomenon of outflow, which is a very serious problem!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "I understand your worries, these problems, I also thought of them, the reason why I have a city around here is also considered in this way, all the living facilities and treatment of the personnel are the highest, just to help them stay here!" ”

"But it's still impossible to stop the exodus"

Xiao Ming took out the planning map and said to Ding Jianpeng: "I have thought of it at the beginning of the planning, you look here, and here" Xiao Ming pointed out to Ding Jianpeng to see the setting space of key technical positions, in the setting here, basically a key technology and the next key technology cannot be the same person.

That is to say, in some key technical points, Xiao Ming deliberately decomposed, so that different people can master different procedures, but the final result is unknown to anyone, in fact, this is a relatively primitive assembly line operation, Xuzhou Taiping Iron Works set up this aspect at the beginning, and basically resumed the manufacture of the Black God crossbow. Because Xiao Ming had a hunch, the demand for the Black God Crossbow would increase greatly in the future.

Ding Jianpeng heard Xiao Ming's explanation, and finally nodded, so he asked again: "Is the same for the setup of your Hangzhou Iron Works?" ”

Xiao Ming nodded, "Yes" Hangzhou Iron Works was born from Gu's Refinery, in fact, Xiao Ming attaches great importance to the intellectual property protection of key technologies, how can there be a law to protect you at this time, in the future generations, there is an intellectual property protection law, isn't it also a piracy copycat flying all over the sky? Not to mention antiquity!

"If that's the case, I can start developing explosives for you in Hangzhou right away, but you have to help me find the manpower," Ding Jianpeng said after thinking about it.

"That's great," Xiao Ming said excitedly: "With you, a chemistry professional, why can't you produce a cannon!" ”

Ding Jianpeng was surprised: "You still want to build a cannon!" Then he shook his head, "You think it's simple, probably you wanted to build a cannon from the beginning, right?" And from the beginning you wanted to build a breech-loading cannon, right? ”

Xiao Ming said: "Huh! How do you know? ”

Ding Jianpeng said: "I feel you as a person, you have a jumping character in everything, but do you know how many requirements for breech-loading cannons in terms of sealing and ammunition in addition to the metal casting process?" ”

Xiao Ming shook his head, he really didn't know, this belongs to the field of advanced military industry, he may be exposed to these things in a small house that studies finance, many things are derived from conjecture, in fact, Xiao Ming doesn't know, a large part of invention and creation comes from conjecture, it is with Xiao Ming's conjecture, so that there are many whimsical inventions and creations in the Great Song Dynasty.

Ding Jianpeng simply explained to him, first of all, the sealing problem, when there is no rubber industry, it is necessary to find suitable materials, secondly, the problem of ammunition, the primer and trigger of ammunition is thunder mercury, this kind of thing will not be invented until the nineteenth century, and then there is the propellant, the current stage of black powder is not competent at all, and there is the packaging of ammunition, the current stage of metal technology can not meet the needs of the cartridge charge...... There are a lot of them, and Xiao Ming is just a big head!

But then, Xiao Ming found that Ding Jianpeng was simply talking to himself, "The sealing material can use seaweed or fish gelatin, which should be replaced, and seaweed ash can also be used for adsorption, nitroglycerin can basically be manufactured, and thundermercury seems to be produced by dry alcohol, and this seems to be able to be produced.......

"There are no basic chemical reagents, they need to be blended, and they need pure glass containers, alas! There is no glass at this stage! This one is a bit harder! When Ding Jianpeng was talking to himself, he was interrupted by Xiao Ming's voice: "We have the glass!" Ha, we really have glass! ”

It turned out that as early as the time of cement firing, sometimes the workers found some crystals, but they didn't know what they were, so they invited Xiao Ming to come and see, Xiao Ming immediately found that this was glass, this discovery was too important, glass products are a very profitable industry, especially at the moment, Xiao Ming immediately reacted.

In fact, glass was introduced to China from Central Asia in the fifth century AD, but the level of craftsmanship at that time was very backward, and the glass contained too many impurities, and contained a large number of bubbles, so it has always been used to make handicrafts, that is, the later "glass", but his fragile characteristics have made the upper class people have not been very fond of it.

Xiao Ming now needs to carry out industrial manufacturing glass, then there must be a strict process, the firing of glass is basically the choice of quartz ore with the least iron content, this thing is sand to put it bluntly, cement firing uses bile bauxite with high iron content, so it will affect the quality of glass, so only quartz ore can be mined, fortunately, there are still in this mountainous area.

Xiao Ming specially set up a blast furnace for firing glass, fortunately, as long as the high temperature is on the line, glass only produces carbon dioxide, there are no other by-products, at this stage it is impossible to produce flat glass, but there will be in the future, now Xiao Ming is holding a strange-shaped bottle in his hand to Ding Jianpeng to see, this is the original product, blown out with a copper pipe, although it is very irregular, but it is basically a glass container!

Looking at Ding Jianpeng's stunned eyes, Xiao Ming smiled and said, "Now we can probably build cannons, right?" ”

Ding Jianpeng immediately dialed over a basin of cold water, "It's still early!" Think about it, if you want to set up a scientific research base in Hangzhou, we will at least have to set up the laboratory and prepare how many things we have to prepare when we go back, but don't you say that you have no money? ”

"Yes" Xiao Ming realized this time that in the recent period, the funds are indeed a little stretched, and the large amount of money in Richanglong has not yet arrived, so why not produce 10,000 looms for him in order to borrow money, although Su Caier has made it clear that he can enter Richanglong, but such a behemoth, if he wants to use a large amount of money to build a scientific research base, he will definitely have a lot of resistance.

But the way can be thought of at any time, Xiao Ming clenched his fist and said to Ding Jianpeng: "Tomorrow we will go to Xiaolei Pond, this time I have a hunch, I will definitely find a large sum of gold." ”

Said to go, Xiao Ming didn't wait for An Daoquan, early the next morning, he set off with more than a dozen tiger guards and Ding Jianpeng, Qian Baguang was supposed to come together, but he was injured, Xiao Ming asked him to cultivate his body, and only took Gu Xiaoliu with him.

Hao Stick smiled: "Old Qian, you can accompany me, our brothers haven't drunk together for a long time!" ”

Duan Jingzhu didn't accompany him this time, Xiao Ming specially set aside a room for him to raise horses and buy the best feed, Duan Jingzhu was very satisfied, Xiao Ming told him that soon his skills will be able to play, and I hope he will show his strength when the time comes!

The team headed towards Jiaogang, 20 miles southeast of Xuzhou, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Huai River, where the Grand Canal forms an angle with the Huai River.

Xiao Ming pondered all the way, "There is a way: when the cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold, I can do it well, I have to smash it with gold before there can be a cannon!" ……”

The surrounding fields, a bleak, this is the season after the spring planting, but now there is a spring drought, and the upper reaches of the Huai River also encounter a rare drought, many tributaries are dry period, the trees in early spring are also listless, there is no rain to moisten, the new young leaves are also drooping heads.

When Xiao Ming and the others arrived at Jiaogang, they found that this was just a small village, and they were looking for someone to inquire about the location of Jiaogang Lake, but they happened to encounter a water shortage among the people in the village! A large group of people with hoes and poles were pouring in from the entrance of the village, as if they were looking for someone to settle accounts, and the crowd was excited, and it was very chaotic.

Xiao Ming stopped a villager and asked, "Little brother, tired, what are you doing in your village?" ”

The man saw that Xiao Ming was a foreigner, and replied: "Gongzi doesn't know, now this spring drought, the crops are dying, but the rich man of Wei controls the only well in the village and does not let it be used, do you say that he doesn't drink human blood!" If this continues, the crops will not be saved, and people will die of thirst! ”

It turned out to be a water dispute in the countryside, and this rich man of Wei seemed to be unkind to the rich and occupied the well, so it seemed that it must be his means to make money.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting in front of me: "Oh no, do it!" The second dog was killed, everyone come on——! ”