Chen Mu found out that Zhang Han was teaching himself.

took a class on the procedures and forms of officialdom in this era, and he was also practicing the sentence he inherited from Shangguan by example.

The same is true of the way of dwelling. If you stumble, you will be doomed! ”

It took half a month for the banner army of Xiangshan Qianhu to transport tens of thousands of catties of nitrate, brass and iron to Guangzhou Mansion by rickshaw and ox cart.

These things had not been stored in the state capital warehouse for two days, and the governor Xiong Huan sent the Nanhai County Commander to inform Chen Mu that the military funds allocated by the governor had arrived, and asked him to send a flag army to collect them.

Then, it took another half a month for the banner army of the Xiangshan Thousand Households Institute to send this batch of nitrate brass iron back to the Xiangshan Institute almost intact.

Calculated hard, it is three or four thousand catties of nitrate and hundreds of catties of yellow, but this is neither Zhang Han's fault nor Governor Xiong Huan's fault, the problem lies in the intermediate link.

Chen Mu didn't plan to investigate, the really missing things in the goods were those silk utensils.

Maybe Zhang Han felt that Xiangshan Qianhu couldn't use those things, so he changed a gunpowder craftsman to give him medicine.

The gunpowder craftsman's name is Xu Erjin, but he was alone in the first year, he used to be a military craftsman in Huizhou Mansion, and was requisitioned to make gunpowder for the Qi family army in the war in the southeast Pingwa. It was from Qi Jiguang that he learned the ability to make gunpowder.

When he first came, Xu Erjin's face was full of gloom, in the past, he was also quite used in the East Frontier Guard, but now that he has an uncertain future in Xiangshan, he was originally worried, and then he looked at the appearance of the Xiangshan Guard, and he was even more desperate.

Thousands of households are repaired so well, and the Qijun house is like a kennel compared to it, with such a thousand households, how good can life be?

"Since you have come to Xiangshanwei, you will be Chen Qianhu's people in the future, Qianhu divides the military craftsmen into four classes, and now you are a fourth-class craftsman, one stone of rice per month, and five coins of silver." Guan Zunban took Xu Erjin to the iron workshop surrounded by a high wall in the Qianhu Yamen, blinked, and asked, "This brother, what about the third class?" ”

"One and a half stones of rice per month, eight coins of silver."

Xu Erjin's expression is different, in his past guards, the military craftsmen are all the same, one stone of rice per month, either working day and night, or having nothing to do, even if he secretly takes some private work for the military households, he can only earn one or two buckets of rice grain.

Silver?

All the money he's seen is in someone else's hands!

Xu Erjin looked at the gray clothes on his body, and then looked at Guan Zunban's clean cloth shirt and ruddy and healthy face, and asked anxiously: "That, first-class, first-class craftsman?" ”

"First class?"

Guan Zunban turned his head and glanced at Xu Erjin with a smile, and said, "The craftsmen sent by the state capital are all like you, don't feel embarrassed." ”

"The second-class craftsman has two stones of rice per month, one or two silvers, and can also manage several craftsmen, in addition to the workmanship arranged by thousands of households, he also has to supervise the craftsmanship of his craftsmen, weight, and quality. If the craftsmen under him do not do well, they will be punished. ”

"Don't think about it first, there is only one first-class craftsman in the Thousand Households." Guan Zun's class introduced Xu Erjin into the iron workshop and said: "The third-class craftsman is not difficult, he is diligent enough, and the quality of the things he makes is good, and it will take a long time; However, if you want to be a second-class craftsman, you have to improve it when you say it, and you can improve anything now, as long as it is useful, you can get the appreciation of thousands of households. ”

"You're not lucky, though, you're a gunpowder maker."

Guan Zunban shook his head lightly and said: "The gunpowder prepared by Qianhu is already excellent, and it is comparable to the bamboo tube, so there is no room for exceeding." ”

Xu Erjin raised an eyebrow, he was a gunpowder maker and understood what that meant.

It is not a big deal to figure out the ratio of gunpowder and make the bamboo tube charge by himself, but in the entire Ming Dynasty, the generals who can really do these things by themselves are only Qi Jiguang who knows in his mind.

Qi Jiguang's gunpowder is a ratio that has been tried again and again; Qi Jiguang's bamboo tube was also made by him in battle.

That's a real realist, and no matter how good a greedy craftsman is, he can't fool such a general who tries everything himself.

"This room is yours, the gunpowder pharmacy is next to it, in addition to medicine, you have to be careful not to take care of Mars, otherwise you will be the first to blow up." Guan Zunban took Xu Erjin to the gunpowder warehouse outside the Qianhu Yamen, pointed to the side and said: "There is a warehouse over there, and the nitrate allocated by the state government has been in it recently, and the people from the iron workshop have come to pull away all the copper and iron in the past few days." ”

"There is not much gunpowder left, it will be of great use in a few days, don't delay, you have to make 3,000 catties of gunpowder first, how long will it take?"

Xu Erjin went into the warehouse and looked around, and there were all the utensils, so he arched his hand and said: "I need to send five more helpers, just I can't be a gunpowder maker, and there are five more people, and it will be made in ten days." I also have to work hard for the carpenter to make a few more wooden troughs. ”

Ten days to make, do you want other utensils?

Slow enough.

"Don't delay, delay the big thing." The gunpowder craftsman is new, Guan Zunban didn't say anything, just said: "I will transfer a few helpers for you in the afternoon, and do it as soon as possible." ”

After speaking, Guan Zunban stopped caring about the gunpowder craftsman Xu Erjin, turned his head and walked back to the Qianhu Yamen, his mind was now full of the drawings that Chen Mu had drawn for their Guan family father and son. Those large and small hydraulic mechanisms, to say that it is not exquisite, maybe the finished appliances can be said to be exquisite, but Chen Mu's drawing is definitely not exquisite.

There is still a lot to fill, but the advantage is that the vision is unique, and it can provide ideas for these skilled old craftsmen, and the ideas and experience can burst out a powerful spark.

For example, Chen Mu's big wheel in the composition drives the small wheel and the belt to rotate quickly, and the belt can replace manual polishing with something, which can save a lot of man-hours in the production of the wooden bed.

In the side hall of the yamen of Qianhu, Chen Qianhu, who had eaten delicious food, took two sips of iced coconut with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "I regret letting Shopkeeper Yan go to Yuegang." ”

In the morning, he supervised the training of the flag army outside the Thousand Households for two hours, during which he also rode his horse and galloped and shot, although sometimes he still failed to hit the target, but this situation has become less and less, and he has barely been able to reach the goal of 30 steps and 10 in 4.

Back at Qianhusuo, Xiaoyan's shopkeeper not only sent beef to Qianhusuo, but also asked him to bring food boxes directly from Guyulou. Thousands of households also made ice, and drinking two sips of iced coconut water can relieve fatigue all over the body.

Comfortable!

"How can you be such an official, let people come to deliver meals all day long, the chefs in the house are resting, the old lady is in charge of the belly building, not your cook!" Yan Qingyao complained, and he cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in his hands quite neatly, and after complaining, he yawned and looked at Chen Mu, the dark circles under their eyes were like red pandas, and asked, "What do you regret?" ”

Coming from the Gubelly Building, Xiao Yan's shopkeeper got up in the dark to prepare the meal, and walked in a carriage all morning before delivering the meal at noon.

Chen Mu said with a smile: "If the shopkeeper Yan didn't leave, wouldn't you be able to come to the thousands of households to cook food, it's too condescending to be the shopkeeper!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Qingyao just pursed his lips and was about to speak, when Qi Zhengyan said from outside the hall: "Report!" ”

"Come in, what's the matter?"

Qi Zhengyan was not surprised to see Yan Qingyao when he came in, and whispered to Chen Mu: "Zhou County Commander asked you how the Qi army is training, and said that Haojingao is about to be locked up." ”

Chen Mu nodded and asked him to go down, turned his head to watch Yan Qingyao cleanly pack up the food box, sighed and said, "Don't run around if you have nothing to do in the next few days, Xiangshan, there is going to be a war." ”