Putting down the wine glass, Li Nan made a compassionate gesture and sighed: "Since ancient times, due to the differences in culture and customs in Lingnan, there has been a lot of estrangement between the Han people and the locals. X Now that the situation in Quang Nam has just improved, I don't plan to stir up the army and anger the servants of the two tribes, so let's stop here. ”

Hearing these words, the three servant patriarchs who couldn't take advantage showed a slight disappointment on their faces, but Li Nan was now strong and seriously ill, so they still praised: "The general is merciful!" ”

Li Nan also knew that not letting them eat the benefits might cause some dissatisfaction, but on Guangnan West Road, the number of the Gu and Miao ethnic groups was greater than that of the Han people, and at present, the Dong of all ethnic groups formed a scattered situation, and he absolutely could not let the power of either side become bigger.

Due to Li Nan's long stay in the Roman era, his disappearance lasted for half a month, and although Pang Qiuxia claimed to be recuperating, Song Guan and others, who were already a little dissatisfied, began to move.

The main purpose of Li Nan's banquet this time is to tell everyone that Lao Tzu is still there, so be honest!

The so-called Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and after the banquet that night, Li Nan naturally wants to appease his wives and concubines (delete two chapters here......

** The bitter short day rises, and the king does not come to court early.

After enjoying the tenderness for a few days, although Li Nan was unwilling, he had to start getting down to business.

The first thing to do was, of course, to open up a huge workshop in the camp of the Zhennan Army, which was the most heavily guarded, which was specially used to make earthen grenades.

Although the Lingnan area is remote, it is not difficult to buy relevant raw materials, but there are only a few of them. With Li Nan's hand-in-hand guidance, the Jiaozhi slaves in the workshop soon produced the first batch of grenades.

This kind of weapon should be the standard weapon of all the armies under Li Nan's command in the future, so he summoned all his trusted people to the shooting range in the barracks.

Because none of the people present had used this gunpowder weapon, Li Nan personally picked up a grenade for everyone to test on it.

In the Resident Evil world, Li Nan has used various American weapons, but this old-fashioned wooden-handled grenade is the first time he has used it.

First of all, he pulled the thin wire under the wooden handle and ignited the fuse through friction, Li Nan didn't dare to test whether the thing exploded in a few seconds, so he directly threw the grenade at the straw man twenty meters away.

"Bang!"

A loud explosion sounded, and the straw man and the wooden stake below were shattered by a grenade, which startled everyone who watched the experiment, except for Li Nan, who was not very satisfied.

The iron head of the grenade did not scatter and explode, but only shattered into two pieces, and the power of the explosion was only about half a meter.

Although in Li Nan's eyes, this grenade was slightly better than a large firecracker, but in the eyes of other Song and Romans, this was already an extremely powerful gunpowder weapon.

According to the records in the book, the power of this grenade is so great, Li Nan has no choice but to accept this fact.

Li Nan was actually very lucky to get this kind of low-tech native grenade manufacturing book, because the current industrial level of the Song Dynasty was too low, and the mining of minerals was not very good, even if he got a book on the manufacture of hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs, he could only look at the book and lament.

After Lu Zhishen saw this thing explode, he walked over excitedly, took a grenade, and threw one according to Li Nan's demonstration just now, but the arm strength of this great monk was amazing, and he almost threw it outside the barracks.

After throwing three or four pieces in a row, Lu Zhishen said happily to Li Nan: "Brother, this thing you made can not only make a loud noise, but also explode and injure the enemy, if the number is enough, it will definitely have a miraculous effect when used against cavalry!" ”

Today's most ferocious in the world is undoubtedly the Western Xia, Liao, Jin, these three countries, these countries are considered nomads, the cavalry is not only many but also strong, if Li Nan wants to do something big, sooner or later he will have to face the armies of these countries.

Among the people, Lu Zhishen once served in the Western Army and had a lot of experience fighting against the Western Xia people, since he said that grenades were effective, it was definitely not a lie.

After everyone tried throwing a few grenades, Li Nan took them on a tour of the manufacturing workshop.

That's the power of this grenade, if you want the army to use it in battle, it must be compensated for by quantity, which requires a lot of raw materials.

Needless to say, charcoal is enough to make by yourself, but saltpeter and sulfur are not produced in the Lingnan region, so you can only buy them from the Song Dynasty, but you also have to pay attention to buying such important raw materials.

Of course, if these materials are bought once or twice, there is no problem, but if they are purchased in large quantities for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that any thoughtful Song people will interfere with them, not to mention that after the power of grenades and new gunpowder is exposed in the future, there will definitely be other forces who can deduce the formula from them.

As the saying goes, one person is short-minded, and now he has some talents under him, Li Nan simply told everyone about this problem and asked everyone to help think of ideas.

After a while, Hu Bing, who was in a wheelchair, took the lead and said: "We can form or buy several caravans to buy, and then hand over the goods to our own people and transport them back, so that people can't detect the real buyers behind the scenes." ”

"It's not the right thing to do."

Master Li, who has no experience in military affairs and only accompanies Li Nan out to play today, objected: "The slave family used to have a lot of dealings with those rich businessmen, so they know some of their industry information. Although these merchants are adversaries, they will also be in constant contact to control the price fluctuations of certain goods, and if we behave too specifically, we will definitely not be able to hide those who have a heart. ”

What Master Li said made sense, this is the usual trick of merchants to monopolize goods, this method really does not work, at this moment, Ashur, who was serving Li Nan diligently, suddenly asked: "Master, do you have money?" ”

Although Li Nan didn't know why he asked like this, he still replied: "Rich is rivaled by the country!" ”

"Why didn't the owner buy the mines that produced the raw materials? In this way, you can grasp how much is mined and who the goods are sold to, and no one else can find out if they want to. ”

Hearing Ashur's suggestion, Li Nan couldn't help but exclaim: "This is a good way." ”

After translating Ashur's words, Lin Chong shook his head and said, "As far as I know, all kinds of mineral mining in the Great Song Dynasty are owned by the extremely rich and high-ranking officials, and they are definitely unwilling to sell this kind of industry that can be passed on to future generations and continue to make money, how can this matter be explained?" ”

"Hehe......"

Seeing that many people had the same doubts as Lin Chong, Li Nan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Li Nan now has quite a few subordinates, but most of them, like Lin Chong, have been brainwashed by the morality of the Song Dynasty for many years and are too conformist.

After relaying Lin Chong's words to Ashur, this guy from Syria took out two things from his arms and showed them to everyone.

Ashur held a copper coin in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand.

The implication is simple: use financial and military resources, and everything in the world can be solved! r