Chapter 23 Sodium saltpeter

Huang Mengjia took a long breath, his face gloomy as if he was about to drip water. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He stood for a moment, then suddenly snapped his bow and threw it on the ground.

Lin Weiye and Fu Nanying happily hugged each other to celebrate their victory. Huang Hansheng kept his calm and looked at Huang Mengjia to see if he could honor the bet.

Fu Zhong had never dared to make a sound before, but now that he had won the bet, he cautiously stepped forward and asked: "Respected Lord Huangzhong, we won the bet, can we let us go?" ”

Huang Mengjia pointed at Huang Hansheng and said: "Your archery skills are very powerful, there are very few Han people I admire, you are one." ”

"I have a brother who is much better at archery than me, and you have no chance when you meet him."

Huang Mengjia didn't believe it: "There are already one in a thousand archers like you among the Han people, and there will be no more clever archers than you." You can go. However, before the sun goes down, you have not left the Foot Cutting Mountain, and I will change my mind at any time, and none of you will be able to leave by then. ”

Lin Weiye was not willing to leave like this, he asked: "Lord Huangdong, I want to know, why don't you like our salt and ironware?" ”

Fu Nanying finally avoided the tragedy of being occupied by this barbarian with the help of betting, seeing that Lin Weiye was dumbfounded and had to make extraneous branches, he was in a hurry, and quickly pulled his sleeve, accepted it as a gesture, and quickly fled from this place.

Huang Mengjia looked at Lin Weiye with a gloomy face: "You Han people really don't know how to do it. But it doesn't hurt to tell you, lest you take your own things for treasure. There is a cave on the mountain of Cutting Feet, and salt is produced on the stones in it, so your salt is not scarce. As for iron tools, we often sent troops to help the Han government fight, and every year the government issued us farm tools, knives and guns. ”

I see. Lin Weiye technical otaku instinctively attacked, and asked the bottom of the matter: "Can you let us see what the salt produced in stone is like?" ”

Now even Huang Hansheng was in a hurry, and it was the best policy to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as he won the bet, and repeatedly teased the other party, in case the other party repented, there was no place to cry.

Huang Mengjia laughed angrily and yelled: "Get out!" ”

Lin Weiye shuddered, came to his senses, and went out under the tudge of Huang Hansheng and Fu Nanying.

A native soldier monitored them out of the village gate, and the native soldier who was about to escort them out of the village watched the three of them go out of the village gate and wanted to go back, Lin Weiye took out a piece of broken silver and stuffed it into the hand of the native soldier, and asked in a low voice: "This big brother, is there anything else in the salt cave in your village besides salt?" ”

The native soldier hesitated and accepted the silver, looked back at the stockade, and no one had an idea, and replied: "In addition to salt, it is a kind of transparent stone, which looks good, but it cannot be eaten, and I don't know what it is for, so we usually make small gadgets for children to play with." ”

Lin Weiye was overjoyed when he heard this. The reason why he repeatedly inquired about the cave was that the rock salt produced by the cave was likely to be symbiotic saltpeter mines, with sodium saltpeter and potash being the most common.

Saltpeter was of no use to the Li people, no less than a gold mine for him - the nitrate extracted from saltpeter ore was the main ingredient in making black powder - and under the current environment and conditions, black powder was the best gunpowder that he and Xia Nan could make. Although nitrate can also be collected by using soil methods, such as scraping the corners of old houses and latrines in rural areas, or simply piling up large dung for enrichment, the former collects too little and the source is limited, and the latter has a long enrichment time, which is not the most ideal method, and only by finding saltpeter mines, even if they are small, they are enough for a firearms army to consume ammunition for a long time.

He asked the other party to show him that kind of gadget, and the other party took out a string of translucent beads, which were very simple, the beads were pale yellow and slightly glassy, Lin Weiye came to observe carefully, and even stretched out his tongue and licked it, it can be concluded that this is a natural sodium saltpeter with quite high purity.

He looked eagerly at the soldier: "This thing is useful to us, can you exchange it with us?" Do you want salt or iron, or silver? ”

The native soldier hurriedly turned around and walked back, and said without looking back: "This kind of thing can only be decided by the lord, you go quickly, I can't talk too much to you." ”

Lin Weiye still has something to say, Huang Hansheng and Fu Nanying have a tacit understanding to pull Lin Weiye away, and now they are not really out of danger, and the thirty-six plans are the best plan.

After meeting up with the guards waiting outside the wall, several people breathed a sigh of relief. The group hurriedly descended the mountain, for fear that Huang Mengjia would regret it, and ordered hundreds of elite soldiers to chase after him, but it was not something that thirty guards could resist.

After walking twenty miles in one breath, I found that no one was chasing me, so I really put my mind at ease. Lin Weiye was relaxed and in the mood to discuss archery with Huang Hansheng, "Hansheng, you won that barbarian so beautifully, you said that Yang Youji is stronger than you, if he is there, how can he compare?" ”

"If he is there, he will not shoot his prey, but his arrows."

Shoot arrows in flight? Lin Weiye can't believe it, this is as magical as the bullet that shoots down the enemy in the movie, although the speed of the arrow is not as fast as the bullet, but it is much faster than the flying bird, how can it be shot? Unscientific.

Fu Nanying was also curious, "Even if the archery technique is really so magical, then ten arrows shoot ten arrows of the other party, wouldn't it be a tie between the two of them?" ”

Huang Hansheng smiled slightly: "Yang Youji also has the ability to have no feather arrows, a stone thrown out can kill a wolf, let alone a pheasant?" The barbarian only said ten arrows per person, but he didn't say that the stone is not good, and he can also use the stone to smash it if he has the ability."

Everyone laughed and admired Yang Youji's ability.

The process of recruiting Li female workers had surprises and twists and turns, and in general it was close to the overdue goal, and when Lin Weiye returned to Qingshuitong along the way and returned with 350 female workers, Xia Nan was vomiting on the boat to Guangzhou.

There were not many ships coming to high in Guangzhou, and the small sampan was not looked down on in the south in the summer, so I waited for several days for a cargo ship that looked to be bigger, which was actually a fishing boat of several tens of tons, and then paid for the boat to take the boat to sea.

I thought that Lingao would arrive in Guangzhou in a day or two, but I didn't expect that this cargo ship would actually sail close to the coastline, and when it encountered a suspicious ship, it would hide in the harbor -- according to the ship's boss, the big pirates on the sea were represented by Liu Laoxiang and other giants, and the small group of pirates did not know how many there were, and dozens of people dared to come out to rob two broken boats, and even a group of fishermen would take a part-time job when they saw a single cargo ship in the gap between fishing -- for the sake of safety, they chose such a complicated route.

Although I had been prepared for seasickness, I didn't expect that the trip of one or two days was originally planned, but because I was hiding in Tibet, I couldn't set foot on land until the fifth day. Xia Nan's face also turned from red to white, from white to green, and from green to black...... He never knew that he was seasick - obviously these wooden ships of several tens of tons were not the same thing as iron ships of thousands or tens of thousands of tons in the old time and space. I had vomited all the things I should have vomited in the wind and waves of the first three days, and for the first time since I crossed over, I had the idea of seeking death......

Fortunately, the most difficult moment has passed, and when I sail as peacefully as I do now, I can occasionally come out and breathe in the sea breeze with pretended calm. For him, the test after landing is far more than seasickness, and this can be regarded as a small test for him in the dark.