"How can you not make money if you have money?"

The father-in-law frowned slightly, thinking about this possibility, he had offended so many people in Jiangnan, and there were many nobles in Nandu, even if he was now promoted to the town guard of Jiangnan, but the signboard of this town guard may not be able to be eaten in Nandu.

In the final analysis, there is also a garrison in the southern capital above the Jiangnan town guard, and that is the real boss in the southeast, that is, isn't his father-in-law Wei also trying his best to get on the line with the old lady Liu who is guarding the people, and ask someone to help take care of him as a backward employee of the company.

Otherwise, Mrs. Liu would be unhappy, and the little soldiers and horses that my father-in-law had in hand were really not enough for the first person in the southeast military and politics.

And the gang of people in Jinyi Weinan Town are eating together in Nandu, if you really want to make a message behind the back of the noble who offended Gonggong Wei, these people are likely to really have money and not make money.

County officials, it's better to take care of it now.

"Then I made it myself, and I have all the prescriptions..."

It's better to buy than to build, the father-in-law will decide in a word, gunpowder is the foundation of the army, and it must not be manipulated by others. He spends money to buy from others, and he has to worry about whether he will receive a card, so it is better to be self-reliant.

It's a good idea, once and for all.

However, the reality is that even if there is a recipe for medicine, the saltpeter manufacturing bureau that gunpowder needs cannot be made. At present, the nitrate in the gunpowder formula used by the army mainly comes from saltpeter mines in the north, such as the Laojunshan mine in Luoyang. There are very few nitrate mines in the south, and even if there are any, they have not been developed.

The demand for gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was very large, and Liangchen remembered that he had read a material from the Ministry of War in his previous life, which said that the gunpowder needed by the nine sides and various guards every year was about more than one million catties, and this figure was credible when combined. During the five years of the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty's conquest of Jinchuan, more than 4.2 million catties of gunpowder were consumed.

In terms of millions of catties, the little gunpowder that Wei Gonggong has on hand is really not enough. If the highest standard is used to meet the current demand for gunpowder of the imperial army, it will cost 100,000 catties a year.

This is still based on the fact that the total number of troops is only about 7,000 at present, and if the army is expanded, it will have to be doubled several times.

With such a large amount of medicine in demand, not to mention that Rennanzhen is willing to sell you, he Wei Gonggong can't buy it. According to his great plan to conquer Asia, it is not enough to allocate all the gunpowder to him when the nine sides are stopped.

There is no doubt about self-produced gunpowder, but how to get this nitrate?

The nitrate mines in various places are under the management of the Ministry of War, and the quota of nitrate is also quota, and his father-in-law Wei can have money to make the ghost grind, but it is impossible to purchase enough saltpeter.

Li Yanzhao couldn't think of a good way this time, but his father-in-law had a flash of inspiration and came up with an idea.

He said: "When our family was in the palace, I heard from the staff bureau that boiling dung can make nitrate, and you can start to verify whether this method is feasible." ”

Boil manure to make nitrate?

Zheng Duo, Li Yanzhao and others looked at each other: can dung make nitrate?

The father-in-law nodded: "Our family has not verified this method, but since the people of the Staff Bureau have said it, it can be done." In addition, according to them, this nitrate soil is mostly stored in thatched houses, pig and cattle pen houses, old house corners and other places that are not easy to be washed by water, if it contains nitrate, there are bitter, spicy, salty three flavors, and the particularly spicy is good nitrate. You can also mobilize people to scrape the nitrate, and a little boiling is good nitrate...... In short, the gunpowder factory must be built for us immediately, whether it is to spend money to buy it, or to make it yourself, everyone brainstorms, no matter what method is used, this medicine cannot be lacking! ”

The father-in-law has made a decision, started in an all-round way, invested manpower and funds, and focused on treatment, and I believe that in the near future, the problem of gunpowder shortage will be satisfactorily solved.

"There is also a law to follow for specific nitrate. I heard from the people of the Staff Bureau that there is a place where nitrate is placed on red charcoal to see if it can explode fire, if it can explode, it is good nitrate, and vice versa. In addition, the plant ash used in boiling nitrate must be made of tung in the shell and wheat straw, so that the nitrate quality is the best. ”

Li Yanzhao didn't know when he took a pen and paper, and his father-in-law said that he would remember one.

"Our family once read a Westerner's book in the past, which said that if nitrate is dissolved in water, the nitrate quality will be better, but I don't know if there is such a thing."

Li Yanzhao hesitated and said, "The method that my father-in-law said, my subordinates will start to test this matter, and I will report it to my father-in-law after the results are available." ”

Wei Liangchen nodded, how to extract nitrate with higher purity must be continuously tested, and it is not something that can be done with one mouth.

Thinking of this, he told Li Yanzhao and Zheng Duo: "If you practice this method of boiling dung to make nitrate, you must make a special dung shop and ask this dung shop to collect it, not only the dung in the special zone, but also in other places." The price is higher, but ask the incense to bring the dung. The boiled manure can not be wasted, so ask the people to take it to the fertile fields to see, the Westerners say that this manure is stronger than ordinary manure, which can increase the yield. If that's the case, we can still sell dung to the people. ”

The left and right were dumbfounded, and they had never heard that boiled dung would fertilize the fields more than unboiled dung, but since Father-in-law Wei said so, it was true to think about it. If we can increase the harvest, it will be a great thing. The people regard food as the sky, and only two or three percent more grain production is produced, which is a great virtue policy.

As for the father-in-law who still wants to make money by selling dung, he subconsciously ignores it.

In the end, the father-in-law personally made a decision and ordered Zheng Duo to allocate 8,000 taels for the experiment of boiling manure to make nitrate and scraping nitrate, and once the verification effect was obvious, an additional 10,000 taels would be allocated for the establishment of a special zone dung bank to specialize in the purchase and resale of manure in Susong and other places.

After deciding on these things, Guo Jujing also drew the self-generated gun figure from memory.

Seeing this figure, the father-in-law was stunned at first, because this self-generated gun was not the machine gun Maxim he thought. But instead of being disappointed, he was equally excited, because the structure of the self-generated gun was clearly a flintlock pistol.

Guo Jujing was afraid that Gonggong Wei would not understand it, so he deliberately said the principle of this self-generated gun.

The principle of this self-generated gun is actually very simple, that is, the device of using arquebus ignition for shotguns is improved to using flint as a firing device, so as to overcome the weakness of arquebus ignition and fear of wind and rain.

Flint is flint, and it's not uncommon.

When the flintlock pistol is placed on the firing device to fire, the shooter pulls the trigger, and the faucet placed on the trigger is struck by friction with the flint to form a fire, and the spark falls into the charging chamber, so that the gunpowder burns, produces gas thrust, and shoots the projectile out.

This kind of gun can be fired as long as the bolt is continuously pulled and the flint is struck, thus simplifying the firing procedure and increasing the rate of fire.

If combined with granular gunpowder and fixed gunpowder, to a certain extent, the flintlock pistol already has the concept of "gun", and in the future, as long as the front-loading gunpowder projectile is changed to the rear-loading, it will truly live up to its name.

The production of this gun is definitely at least 30 years ahead of Western countries.

My father-in-law was sure that arquebuses were still being used in Western countries.

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