Ning Changrong touched his nose, looked at the officials who were scattering birds and beasts, and thought to himself, is he so terrifying? How do you call him like he's seen a ghost?

This morning, he was busy drinking tea and learning about Chang Yuan's forces.

He glanced at those ledgers a few times and threw them aside, anyway, he was not in a hurry, many of those ledgers were in the past, and he would not be in a hurry at this time. It won't all be stuffed into his hands alone.

In addition to these ledgers, some other documents were later moved in his room.

He mainly read those documents and got a general understanding of the situation in the army.

Chang Yuan's current subordinates plus the north can probably have about 200,000.

It looks like a lot, but those cities that have been beaten down also need soldiers to defend them, otherwise they will be fought in vain, so there are only 100,000 people who can really be used.

Grain and other supplies should be barely able to make up for now, and only wait for the winter to be sown in the spring, and a lot of soldiers and horses can be raised.

Chang Yuan's subordinates are mainly some generals who can fight, from those who were originally loyal to Nan Chen, and some of whom he recruited from the people.

The old generals who took refuge in Nan Chen's side were mainly stationed in the land of Liangfu in the north to help Chang Yuan defend his hometown, and Wang Hanting, Ma Honglin and others who followed him out were all recruited from the people and climbed step by step to today's ordinary peasants.

Seeing that it was time for noon, Ning Changrong came out and walked twice and then returned to the public house, they did not have a lunch break, and lunch would be delivered by someone.

Ning Changrong is a strategist and the chief of these ordinary officials, so the food is better than that of the officials outside, those people only have two vegetarian dishes, which look bland and tasteless, and he has one more meat dish, but it is not so delicious.

Ning Changrong was eating a tasteless lunch here, but Ning Qingxi was happily eating braised rabbit meat at home.

"Milk, delicious! Have you eaten it? Ning Qingxi asked while eating.

Wang Xiujuan originally wanted to separate the kitchens of the two families and make it more convenient, but when they thought about what their family had now, they didn't know what Ning Lao and Ning San?

In that case, don't bother, just eat together, she doesn't have to do it.

It was the feast that hurt her.

I didn't want to touch the kitchen for months.

She was in charge of bringing the food.

Wang Xiujuan smiled and watched her granddaughter eat, "We all ate it late after work, this is specially reserved for you, this is what I specially made for your second aunt, otherwise her picky and searching temperament will definitely be reluctant to put seasonings, and then make good meat tasteless." ”

"How do you feel today? What are you doing? Wang Xiujuan asked curiously.

Ning Qingxi went to the workshop, which was mainly a place to make military equipment and farm tools, a little farther away, and the office where Ning Changrong went was in two directions.

Ning Qingxi nodded while eating, "It's okay, everyone takes good care of me, the head over there is Master Lu Xulu, who is a master craftsman, and I have dealt with him before." ”

"Actually, I didn't do anything in the morning, I just visited the workshops to see what they were doing."

"In the afternoon, I'm going to start finishing all the drawings we gave to General Chang before."

Wang Xiujuan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that her granddaughter did not suffer a loss, her granddaughter is also a student who only knows how to read in modern times, but she didn't expect to start classes in this ancient world.

Anything else is okay, but I'm afraid that my granddaughter will be bullied at a young age.

Ning Qingxi saw Wang Xiujuan's worries and comforted: "Milk, don't worry, I'm just a child, how can they have the face to bully me?" And there is Master Lu to help me, you don't know how miserable those craftsmen are, it's okay if I don't bully them. Some of them have been craftsmen for generations, not only do they have no money, but they are not allowed to quit, and their children and grandchildren have to be craftsmen. ”

"It's okay for a master craftsman like Master Lu, but the other low-level craftsmen are really miserable, when I came, I took a look at their food, and I estimated that I couldn't eat enough of the scalding water, so they still had to do the hardest and most tiring heavy work."

"You said that's it, where do you dare to bully me?"

Wang Xiujuan frowned, "This craftsman's status is so low, then you ......" She looked at Ning Qingxi worriedly.

Ning Qingxi didn't care, "Milk I'm different from them." ”

Wang Xiujuan thought to herself, her granddaughter may have done it, she has an encyclopedia, as long as the industrial base can keep up, what can't be studied? No matter what, it will not fall to the level of those craftsmen.

Ning Qingxi returned to his room after eating, and went to work as soon as the lunch break came.

Ning Qingxi had just arrived, and Master Lu couldn't wait to pull her to start working.

Master Lu communicated with Ning Qingxi for a morning, and found that the other party's thinking was very out-of-the-box, and many incredible words seemed to be effective when they came out of the other party's mouth, no wonder they could study so many incredible things.

The respect for Ning Qingxi in my heart has increased greatly.

"Miss Ning, let's get started, shall we? The general ordered that gunpowder be developed first. ”

"Gunpowder doesn't need to be developed, just make it directly according to the ratio I gave, of course, if someone can continue to improve the formula, it will be better. However, the process of making gunpowder is very dangerous, and Master Lu must explain it to the craftsmen. ”

"And when making gunpowder, remember that open flames can't be approached! Otherwise, there will definitely be a violent explosion, and then the innocent will be injured more than worth the loss. ”

"It's best to do it during the day and not at night." Ning Qingxi was worried that these generals would be artificially rushed, and he lit the lamp to make explosives at night, and his tone was very serious.

Lu Qi felt the solemnity between Ning Qingxi's words, "Don't worry, Miss Ning, I will definitely give orders." ”

Then he looked embarrassed again, "It's just that if we can't continue to do it at night, it may not reach the amount that the general wants." ”

Ning Qingxi asked, "How many explosive packs does the general want us to make?" ”

"10,000 packs in two months."

Ning Qingxi was surprised, if she remembered correctly, she had seen the workshop in the morning, and she also remembered the approximate number of people, there were not 200 people in the entire workshop, not to mention that not all craftsmen could devote themselves to the production of explosive packs, and there were other weapons, armor, and farm tools, which also needed people, so how many people were left who could make explosives packs?

She asked, "How many people can be drawn to do it?" ”

Lu Cui's face was bitter, "At most, 50 people can be drawn." Up to 60 people, no more. ”

Ning Qingxi fell silent, two months, 10,000 bags, how could it be possible to rely on only these fifty or sixty people?

Not to mention that the direct proportioning of explosives needs to be done carefully, that is, the explosives need to be submerged before they become powder, and the step-by-step process is not something that can be done in a short time.

It's over, isn't this a stall potato?

Ning Qingxi wanted to say if she could recruit people from the outside, but she opened her mouth and swallowed the words, needless to say, she knew that she definitely couldn't recruit people from the outside.