"What do you say? Brother Feng, can this big and high stove still be used to make iron? ”

Xiao Feng looked at Niu Meng with disdain.

"What, you don't believe you, Brother Feng, and me?"

Niu Meng waved his hand again and again.

"No, no, no, I believe in Brother Feng the most!"

Of course, Niu Meng didn't believe Xiao Feng, he just didn't expect that as soon as he finished talking about the Eastern Star Society's gaining a foothold in the two urban districts, Xiao Feng would help them improve their weapons and take the rest of the urban districts.

When Niu De saw his younger brother coming back from Yanyang County, he rushed over from the brick kiln to meet him.

However, when Niu Dehao heard that Xiao Feng was going to smelt iron, his face was instantly filled with panic.

"Big brother, you don't really want to make iron, do you? This is a sin of killing the head! ”

Xiao Feng smiled.

Of course, he knew that it was taboo to smelt iron without permission at the moment, but the iron-making method that was punished in the law was limited to smelting iron from a few ores in the Guanzhong region, but he didn't say a word about smelting iron with new ores!

Therefore, as long as he used the magnetite found in the back mountain, instead of the hematite and siderite mentioned in the law, then even if it was discovered, what would the law do?

"Listen to me, and don't break the law. However, the matter of iron smelting can only be known to you, me, Mengzi, and blacksmith, and there can be no fifth person who knows. ”

Niu Dehao always thought that ironmaking was illegal, so he nodded tremblingly.

In fact, Xiao Feng's real purpose in not letting them release the news was that he didn't want too many people to know about the magnetite in Houshan, after all, the magnetite deposits were pitiful, and even if they were all dug up, it might not be enough for the people in their own village. If the surrounding villages know the news, I'm afraid that not everyone will have a knife.

"Brother Feng, don't worry, I will definitely keep my mouth shut, if anyone asks, I will say that the caravan bought it back in the imperial capital."

After following Xiao Feng for a long time, Niu Meng's brain seems to have improved by leaps and bounds.

"That's good, that's a good reason. By the way, how is the resettlement house recently? ”

Seeing that Xiao Feng asked about the victims, Niu Meng took out an account book from his arms.

As soon as he looked at the handwriting on the cover of the account book, Xiao Feng knew that it was from Zhang Shishi's hand.

"Brother Feng, look at it, this is the money spent on the resettlement of the victims these days. In addition, Miss Zhang said that although the victims of the migrant workers paid their wages, they were not much more than the wages of normal villagers, so she made another account and wrote it at the end. ”

After taking the account book and flipping through it, Xiao Feng found that Zhang Shishi's accounts were classified and extremely clear. If the part of the silver money calculated later is replaced by compound interest calculation, he even has to wonder if Zhang Shishi is also from the future like him.

"In that case, I just have to go to the village warehouse to have a look."

The malaria had passed, and the previous victims had been cured, so after they left, Xiao Feng converted the resettlement house into a warehouse for storing raw materials in the village.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the door of the warehouse, Xiao Feng heard a familiar voice calling him from behind.

"Village Chief Xiao, come and see the warehouse!"

Xiao Feng looked back from afar and found that it was the caravan driver Lao Wang who spoke. Looking at the direction he was driving, it should have just finished selling the white jade soap and was about to put the silver taels into the warehouse.

"That's right, the weather has become terrible in the past two days, and I'm afraid that the feed will spoil and cause the bamboo rats to have diarrhea, so I came to take a look."

As soon as he heard that Xiao Feng had come to check the feed situation, Lao Wang suddenly smiled.

"Village Chief Xiao, you are really a noble person. Now our village has not been changed to breeding bamboo rats, Niu Meng asked us to find a place to store the bamboo rat feed two days ago. ”

Xiao Feng thought about it for a while, and then remembered that it seemed that Niu Meng had indeed mentioned it to him when he was experimenting with cement two days ago, but at that time, all his attention was on cement, so he left this matter behind.

"Okay, I'll rest assured, you're busy, I'm going back to dinner."

When Xiao Feng returned home, he found that Lin Shuiyao had already set up eight or nine dishes on the dinner table, and also scalded a pot of wine, just waiting for him to sit down and enjoy it.

"Shui Yao, don't be busy, sit down and rest, if you have to walk more than ten miles to buy fish, you must be tired!"

Fish appeared on the dinner table, which showed that Lin Shuiyao should have been to the dock, coming and going for more than ten miles, when did Lin Shuiyao suffer like this.

Unexpectedly, when Lin Shuiyao brought the last dish, there was no tiredness on her face.

"Husband, you guessed wrong, I didn't buy this fish at all!"

Xiao Feng was stunned for a moment.

"I didn't buy it, could it be that it rained and fell?"

Lin Shuiyao pouted.

"Husband, have you been stupid in the back mountains for the past few days, the fish was obviously brought back by the caravan in the village! Thanks to the fact that I asked Uncle Niu to leave me a few, don't you see how fast the villagers buy fish. ”

"Xiao Chen, who is in charge of selling bamboo rats, brought it back?"

Lin Shuiyao nodded, took a large piece of fish belly and stuffed it into Xiao Feng's mouth.

"Naturally, it's him, husband, taste it, this fish is so fresh."

Xiao Feng chewed the elastic fish meat in his mouth, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It seems that it is the right move to let the villagers be responsible for trafficking bamboo rats and flexibly buy the supplies that the village needs.

Only those who live in the village know what is really missing from the stove on the wall of every house at any given time.

Besides, now the people in the village have an income of at least three or four taels of silver every month, and the cost of a fish has long been out of their eyes, even if they eat fish every day.

"Shui Yao, don't look at it, you can eat it too!"

As he spoke, Xiao Feng stuffed a large piece of mutton into Lin Shuiyao's mouth, and then swept around Lin Shuiyao's placket.

It is said that lamb helps in development......

After three rounds of drinking, Xiao Feng felt that the world was spinning a little, so he stumbled back to the room and fell asleep.

"Brother Feng, Brother Feng, wake up."

Xiao Feng was dreaming of the blessings of all people, when suddenly a shout mixed with broken sound woke him up from his dream, rubbing his eyes, and he saw who it was.

"Mengzi, why are you in such a hurry, it's not dawn yet!"

"My good Brother Feng, how much have you drunk, why did you run to the firewood room and fall asleep?"

Niu Meng tried to pull Xiao Feng up, but he was so weak now that he really couldn't get up, but fortunately, he woke up for three minutes and found that he was indeed in the firewood room.

Looking at the quilt on his body again, it is estimated that Lin Shuiyao found that he couldn't move him, so he had to hug him.

"If you have something to say, I'll sleep for a while if it's okay!"

Xiao Feng's eyelids sank and he was about to fall over, but Niu Meng was quick to grab his shoulder again.

"Brother Feng, according to the method you taught, the blacksmith has already knocked out a new knife, and the iron is sharpened like clay!"

As soon as he heard that the new iron tools were made, Xiao Fengjiu also woke up, and the people were also energetic, and dragged the cow and went straight to the stove in the back mountain.

The blacksmith handed the newly made knife to Xiao Feng, and with just a flick of it, he knew that this knife was a hundred times better than the old things in the past.

And by the time he came, the blacksmith had already made seven or eight weapons.

After considering the number of people in the Eastern Star Society and the speed at which the blacksmith made weapons, Xiao Feng called Niu Meng over.

"Mengzi, pass on my order, let all the members of the Dongxing Society gather at the entrance of our village before noon, and I plan to take down the remaining districts in Yanyang County!"

"Yes!"

Niu Meng was ordered, flew on his horse and went straight to Yanyang County.

Xiao Feng didn't waste time, and asked Niu Dehao and the blacksmith to create enough weapons to put at the entrance of the village in the morning, just waiting for the people from the Eastern Star Society to come and send them to them.

However, what Xiao Feng never expected was that it was not only the members of the Eastern Star Society who came after Niu Meng.

Also, the gang ......