The time is about to enter June and July, and the summer heat in Hangzhou is unbearable, and with a loud bang, the nitrification explosives in Ding Jianpeng's laboratory have finally been successfully developed. This is something to celebrate, and it is also a key part of Xiao Ming's cannon plan, for which he specially went to Ding Jianpeng for a drink.

But now Ding Jianpeng has entered the state, wearing a sheepskin apron and sheepskin gloves, just out of the laboratory, now he is using bile alum distillation method to produce sulfuric acid, nitric acid and sulfuric acid should be the basis of Xiao Ming's entire chemical industry, Xiao Ming has no choice but to send good wine and meat to the laboratory, hoping that Ding Jianpeng can enjoy it in his spare time.

Ding Jianpeng should be regarded as the kind of technical research talent, once everything is drilled into, I am afraid it will be difficult to come out, or he will not change from an ordinary man to a Buddhist layman, but this is a good thing for Xiao Ming, he left your computer to Ding Jianpeng, so that he can consult the information, but he ran to pay attention to the casting of tubular materials.

At this stage, it is undoubtedly difficult to produce seamless steel pipes, there is no cold rolling mill, if you want to produce steel pipes that can be used for rifles, it is an impossible task to rely on traditional technology, so Xiao Ming only wants to build cannons at this stage, which is a big and then small step, that is, first the cannon technology is mature and then consider the proportion of reducing the proportion to make muskets.

There is one thing that Xiao Ming is paying more and more attention to, that is, the urgency of technology integration, Ding Jianpeng's laboratory is good to say, all day long with a few alchemists and veterans, bottles and cans, the products of the basic chemical industry can be made, but if you want to build cannons, it is a system engineering, you must cast, smelt, mold, lathe, screening, packaging and other processes one by one, and Xiao Ming equipped the laboratory with skilled craftsmen are basically from the iron factory, and now there is still a shortage of manpower.

Technology integration is the merger of technical personnel, Xiao Ming has already started a part, but due to the different personnel structure, he almost began to want to transfer people from Xuzhou, but a large group of technical personnel such as Richang Longmo craftsmen are not needed, Xiao Ming is not reconciled, so he ran to Song Wu several times, trying to get his support, but the effect is not too obvious, it seems that if he does not become the master, he still has no right to speak!

When Xiao Ming returned from Funei Yuan once, he suddenly heard someone calling him behind him, he looked back, and couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that the first one turned out to be Han Shizhong, and the one next to him also knew him, the original Hangzhou guard Wang Tong, the two were pressing a bunch of prisoners to pass by, and saw Xiao Ming's Gu's refinery carriage and Che Huwei, knowing that it was Xiao Ming, so he stopped and said hello.

The three of them were very happy to see each other, they were all friendships who had fought together, Yang Zhen had already set off for the northwest, while Wang Tong stayed in Hangzhou, Han Shizhong also had to follow Wang Yu to the north, and Han Shizhong's old boss Liu Yanqing was promoted to the commander of Xuanfudu, and the deputy commander of the Ma Army followed Tong Guan's division and defended the north.

Han Shizhong has made great contributions to quelling the chaos this time, and has become Wang Yu's deputy general when he was promoted to the third level, and under the control of Tan Shen, Wang Tong has been fighting with Wang Yuan, and Han Shizhong has also made great contributions this time when he fought with Fang La Gang Yuandong.

Han Shizhong was very happy to see Xiao Ming, he knew why, it turned out that Fang La, the leader of the Ming Sect, was captured, it was Han Shizhong who did it, and the crossbow arrow in Fang La's leg was shot by the black god crossbow that Xiao Ming gave to Han Shizhong, otherwise Fang La was very likely to escape, this Great Holy Emperor and the ambitious Ming Sect Leader, would never have thought that his fate would be ended by Xiao Ming's appearance.

Han Shizhong is a person who remembers his kindness, and the first time he saw Xiao Ming, he helped him defeat the rebels' cavalry and beheaded five hundred! And get military merits, so as to receive a black god crossbow, so that he can capture the enemy chief Fang La in one fell swoop, this love Han Shizhong must be grateful, and now he sees Xiao Ming naturally very kindly.

The three of them chatted on the street for a while, but Han Shizhong and Wang Tong still had military affairs, so they wanted to find another time to drink with Xiao Ming again, Xiao Ming was very strange, so he asked: "I don't know what military affairs are so busy?" Who are you escorting? ”

"These are the remnants of the Demon Sect!" Wang Tong said.

Han Shizhong also explained: "That's the case, someone reported it a while ago, saying that they found the old nest of the Demon Sect's Mingyue Mountain Villa, and we immediately sent troops to encircle and suppress it, the people of the Demon Sect have no fighting spirit at all, and we destroyed the nest in one fell swoop, these are all captured personnel."

This news made Xiao Ming quite happy, the destruction of Duobaoguan meant that Pang Wanchun, who had been working against him in the dark, was planted, and hurriedly went to see those captured people, these people were all roped and flailed, and they were unkempt one by one, but they didn't know which one was Pang Wanchun?

Xiao Ming asked, "I wonder if Pang Wanchun, the master of the Duobao Temple, has been captured?" ”

Han Shizhong said: "Pang Wanchun has fled, these people are all craftsmen of Duobaoguan, whether they are extremely evil criminals still need to be screened"

"That's right!" Xiao Ming suddenly felt uncomfortable in his heart, Pang Wanchun escaped, always a stone hanging in his heart, maybe when this guy ran out against him, but Duobaoguan was once a branch of the Mo family, and there were many skilled craftsmen among them, thinking of this, Xiao Ming felt that this opportunity could not be missed.

"That, Brother Han, Brother Wang, I have a reluctant request here, it's more abrupt to say it, and I hope that the two of you will sell me a thin noodle, can you ......?"

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Things went smoothly beyond imagination, Xiao Ming just wanted to pick some available people from the many craftsmen in Duobaoguan to supplement his talent pool, who knows, Han Shizhong was very cheerful, and promised with his mouth, anyway, these people, after screening, will also supplement the barracks craftsmen, unless the crime is extremely heinous and will be beheaded, the rest are co-wrapped thieves, let Xiao Ming pick a few, this is harmless.

Xiao Ming picked up the treasure now, in addition to some of the craftsmen who make evil artifacts, there are really some practical craftsmen, Xiao Ming picked some really useful people from the middle, such as: Meng Kang, a skilled craftsman who can build ships, Tang Long, who specializes in building armor, a tailor who makes saillocks, Li Jing, who can make exquisite mechanisms, and craftsmen with special skills, etc., a total of nine people.

These people are honest craftsmen, Duobaoguan used coercive means to take them away, and survived in Duobaoguan for safety, but the official army burned Duobaoguan with a fire, and a lot of hard work was destroyed, and he was convicted by the government because of the thief, and now he was rescued by Xiao Ming, and everyone who lived the rest of his life was grateful to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming is very generous to them, hoping that they will work for themselves, the wages of craftsmen are high, and those who have families can also take their families to Hangzhou, and all the benefits are the best, that is better than working under the coercion of the blade in Duobaoguan, not to mention the wages, so these people expressed their willingness to work for Xiao Ming.

With this group of craftsmen to enrich his talent pool, Xiao Ming finally became cheerful, especially the shipbuilder Meng Kang, with him Xiao Ming immediately began to start building ships at the wharf in Hangzhou Bay, but Xiao Ming's ship is very different from the current Song Dynasty ships, from the invention of the steam engine, Xiao Ming considered using it for shipbuilding, so the ship that Xiao Ming wanted to build was a steam-powered ship.

This matter cannot be completed overnight, it takes a long time to prepare, but with people, everything else is easy to say, the dock and shipyard must at least be built first, and the wood for shipbuilding must be purchased, and shipbuilders will be recruited on a large scale, and the plan needs to be implemented slowly, Xiao Ming is not in a hurry at this time.

It didn't take long for the news from Xuzhou that Andaoquan's water storage and drainage project had come to an end, the local people thought it was to solve the drought for them, the project did not cost a lot of money at all, the people spontaneously went to work every day, at most tens of thousands of people helped to dig the canal, and the cement plant in Xuzhou rushed to work overnight, a small water conservancy project with water storage and drainage irrigation project has been completed.

An Daoquan said that only after unloading part of the lake water, you can start to carry out the transportation of the gold gate, the final owner of this batch of gold is Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming was very excited about this, and immediately ordered Ai Qili to prepare to start the financial lending business, which is also the preliminary preparation of Xiao Ming's "private commercial bank".

"Private commercial bank" is part of Xiao Ming's financial plan, in view of the concept of "bank" is still relatively advanced, Xiao Ming and Ai Qili discussed still using the name "Qian Zhuang" that can be recognized at the moment, the name can be changed in the future, now the business model is carried out first, now the Song Dynasty industry and commerce are developed, it is a favorable factor for borrowing and lending.

Now Xiao Ming's plans in all aspects have been gradually put on track, basically according to his expectations, step by step, he doesn't know what the consequences of doing this will be, but being able to follow his own ideas and realize his plan is indeed a thing that Xiao Ming is excited about, as for the future, who knows? Love, what's the matter!

The tense and busy time passed quickly, and finally the annual tribute arranged by Richanglong was able to be shipped, and the imperial court also sent personnel to contact him.

In order to ensure safety, Yang Qizhong led three hundred new tiger guards to protect along the way, and the tiger guard camp in Xuzhou has been managed by Luo Wen, this time he also let him return to Hangzhou, originally Xiao Ming wanted to give Luo Wen an official position of an officer, Hangzhou defense of the war Luo Wen also had military merits, but Luo Wen refused, he found that it was more comfortable to follow Xiao Ming, earn more and have a sense of achievement, now the Tiger Guard Camp in Hangzhou is expanding, Xiao Ming is all handed over to Luo Wen to be responsible, when the time comes, thousands of people have to listen to themselves, that feeling is cool! As for joining the army? I won't think about it.

Xuanhe three years, the ninth day of the seventh month, Hangzhou Richanglong sent to the Liao State of the year tribute finally set off, Xiao Ming for the escort envoy, this is also the year of tribute in the Song Dynasty in the imperial court to give the position, to the border is another person for the escort envoy, Xiao Ming first transported part of the goods to Jiangning, and then will be with other years of tribute a total of 300,000, go straight to Xuzhou by water.

Su Cai'er and Shen Bei'er both came to say goodbye, their eyes rubbed with tears, Xiao Ming smiled faintly, and said in his heart: "It's not that I haven't been on a business trip, a trivial matter, can I use it like this to say goodbye to life and death?" But he still comforted the second daughter, saying that he would be careful on the road and return as soon as possible.

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