Chen Mu made a big deal.

Before he could cover the heat in his arms, Chen Junye was very willful and scattered most of it and went to Guangdong Mansion to buy a few small items. When he first knew that Chen Mu wanted him to do this, Shao Tingda thought that Chen Mu had been shot in the head by the bow and arrow of the Japanese Kou, and he just wanted to go to the Huimin Pharmacy of Guangzhou Prefecture to invite Cheng Hongda to see Chen Zongqi's injury.

Of course, covering the heat in his arms is just an adjective, nearly eight catties of silver, Chen Mu will not be stupid enough to carry it in his arms, if he really walks like that for a day, he will have to be turned into a gong pot.

"Guan Jiang, you said that you can grind it out, and Chen got it, you can take a look."

Today, the Guan family father and son have their own workshop, located on the left side of the future village construction site, near a small stream. Including the blacksmith house and the carpenter's house, plus the house and small warehouse of their family of seven, the land with a radius of six zhang is encircled, and the 300 acres of land on the other side of the river are Chen Mu's private land.

However, the workshop is still only in its infancy, and only a few simple huts built by the father and son of the family have been built, and the iron furnace and carpentry house have been built. Chen Mu's 'General Banner Yamen' has not yet been built, where is there spare labor to build a workshop. But in terms of planning, Chen Mu wants to make at least a fifteen-zhang radius of woodland around him a craftsman - craftsmen are very important, and he has to find a way to recruit more craftsmen.

Now three craftsmen are just enough, and he can't afford to raise more, let alone use them. But it may not be the case in the future, Chen Mu estimates that he will have at least ten craftsmen of all kinds in the future to supply his various needs, and no more will be around his 300 acres of land, but to relocate the workshop to the bank of the Beijiang River.

Hydraulics are sometimes better used than manpower.

The palms of Chen Mu's spread out hands are two pieces of flaky white crystals the size of the palms of small babies, smooth and transparent.

Like such a crystal piece, he asked Shao Tingda to carry a hundred taels of silver ingots, and led the flag army to Guangcheng to spend more than 70 taels to buy five pieces, and galloped all the way back to Qingyuan, which is not invaluable. Sometimes there are too many small inventions in the brain, but it is easier for people to be indecisive, burning sand to make glass does not sound difficult, but for Chen Mu he doesn't know anything, thinking that this will inevitably cost a lot of time, energy and money.

However, in the spring of the first year of Longqing, Chen Mu found that what he lacked most was time.

Like a hunter, he aimed at his second prey after Bai Yuanjie, Tan Lun, the governor of Liangguang, a civil official who was skilled in military affairs and was later known as the Gancheng of the country during the Wanli period. Chen Mu's memory of the few understandings of this era and the experience of this life corroborate each other, Qi Jiguang, Tan Lun, Zhang Juzheng, an emerging faction of the Ming Dynasty saw the details in the eyes of the Qingyuan Wei General Banner in the southwest of the big country.

An important part of this, Tan Lun, who was sitting in the Yamen of the Liangguang Governor of Zhaoqing Mansion across the river in Qingyuan at this time, was about to go north to the border.

This is the first time Chen Mu has seen the opportunity to go straight to the sky, if he can't catch it, it may be the last chance in his life. And to seize this opportunity, it lies in the two crystals in Chen Mu's palm.

This is the same thing as the lenses he saw in the Guangcheng optical store, but the price is slightly cheaper, the price of unprocessed crystal pieces is twelve taels a piece, if everything goes well, only one and a half pieces can achieve his goal, but he is afraid that it will not go well, so he taught Shao Tingda to buy back five yuan for backup.

On the paper handed to Guan Yuangu, there were three convex lenses drawn with charcoal, just enough to use up the two crystal pieces and leave some scraps. Although he had already thought clearly in his heart that this was likely to fail, he still couldn't help but feel distressed when he came here, and repeatedly told Guan Yuangu: "You must polish and be transparent, and there must be no mistakes!" ”

He wanted Guan Yuangu to polish three lenses to make a monocular telescope for positive imaging, which he dedicated to Tan Lun, who was about to go north.

Although he hadn't figured out how to give the telescope after it was completed, and he didn't even know if he could do it well, he already had an expectation in his heart about the return for donating strange things, and the expectation was that there would be no return in the short term - seventy taels were familiar, would it be too expensive?

Chen Mu thinks it's totally worth it, at least for now, he is not so short of money.

Guan Yuangu once helped the senior officials of Qingyuan Wei polish the glass cup, but he himself didn't know if he could complete the mission of making lenses given to him by Chen Mu, and even what was the "lens"? He couldn't figure it out.

"Don't worry, Xiao Lao'er will do his best, even if he can't polish it, he will try to carve other things, and sell them as pendants, maybe he can raise some price." Guan Yuangu tried his best to think about how to save money for Chen Mu, after all, he was a full-time blacksmith and carpenter, not a glazer, so he didn't have much confidence in his heart. Chen Mu was very relieved of him, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you try your best to polish, and those things will not be said in the end." ”

Then Chen Mu asked Guan Zunban about making a cow-pulled hand-cranked seeder, and was told that he could make a good one in seven days at most, and he would not delay the farming, so he was relieved to prepare to leave. I saw that on the road leading to Anyuan Post Station at the end of Tianlong, Fu Yuan, who had just recovered from his wounds, drove a few ox carts and shouted towards the 300 acres of private fields, and said a few words to the banner army under his command across the stream, and saw Chen Mu here, took off his boots and stepped on the stones to trot across the stream.

"Hey, General Banner, twelve, no, fourteen cylinders of wastewater have been shipped." Fu Yuan took off the iron helmet and scratched the hair under the net scarf, obviously counting to more than ten is a good number, which is an extremely difficult task for him. The distressed expression turned his head and was driven by the curious scratching of his ears and cheeks, and said: "General Banner, just that dead salty wastewater, can the rice eat and grow?" ”

What dead salty wastewater, that's called potash!

No, how did Fu Yuan know that it was salty?

"You drank?"

Potassium nitrate, which is particularly low, is also potassium nitrate, can you drink the chemical solution casually?

As soon as Fu Yuan nodded, he was pressed into the stream by Chen Mu's head, poured a stomach full of raw water, and kept howling with his teeth and claws: "Just, just drink, a little!" ”

Later, Cheng Su and Fu Yuan were all having diarrhea.

"Tell everyone that you are not allowed to drink it, and that the two bald men in the cave are not allowed to eat the powder. Yes, and this stream water can't be drunk, the craftsman will make a few stoves by the stream, and I will give you two Yu Ding Xiaowa to boil water here every day, and pour it into the vat, whoever is thirsty will come here to pick it up. ”

Under the red sunset, the busy farmers in the fields raised their heads to wipe their sweat, and in the distance, Shiqi waved small flags, and the bird team burst out again a cloud of gunsmoke, and the huge trees in the forest fell to the ground and pierced the rudiments of rows of houses...... The smoke also rises from the Anyuan Post Station at dusk.

Chen Mu stretched out in satisfaction and turned over on the horse.

The picture in front of him brought him an unparalleled sense of accomplishment, which was what Wei should be in his heart. Perhaps in the future, the people living here will be well clothed and fed, and the banner army will be strictly trained and the combat power will be high, and they will no longer be frightened into hiding in the city and shivering because of dozens of Japanese robbers.

Chen Mu knew that those days would not be far away.