Gao Huaiyuan led a group of grizzled guys back to Crouching Tiger Village, the test just now was very successful, but he still miscalculated the power of gunpowder, although the porcelain bottle is small, but after the gunpowder is filled inside, it is at least half a catty heavier, and the power of such a dose is definitely not small after the explosion.

The washbasin-sized stone used for the test was blown up into the air on the spot, and it was split into several pieces, and everyone did not estimate that the gunpowder made by Gao Huaiyuan would be so powerful, and they all hid a little closer, but the result was that the gravel and soil falling from the sky smashed them into various dusty faces, and some people also had small stones on their heads, smashed pimples, and looked very embarrassed.

Only Gao Huaiyuan and Liu Er hid farther away, and the impact was very small, but even so, they were all stained with some mud, but their image was much better than the rest of them.

Although they were taken aback, everyone was in a very high mood, chattering and arguing along the way, asking Gao Huaiyuan how he could make such a powerful thing, Zhou Hao and Jia Qi were all in the battle of Zaoyang, and they had seen the Song army's thunderbolt cannon, but at that time, the Song army's thunderbolt cannon was not as powerful as Gao Huaiyuan's gunpowder bottle, so everyone was very curious.

Gao Huaiyuan naturally couldn't tell them that this was what he learned in his previous life, so he avoided this question without hesitation, and said with a smile: "After having this kind of thing in the future, mining will be much simpler, using this thing to blast the stone, and then digging, it will definitely come faster than chiseling little by little, but everyone remember, we must not say that we will make these gunpowder ourselves, we can only say that we bought it from outside, otherwise, it will inevitably cause trouble!" ”

Zhou Hao and the others nodded again and again, Jiang Peng covered the bag on his head and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "My mother! I didn't expect this thing to blow up so powerfully, fortunately, the young master personally lit the fire, otherwise, the little one would definitely be blown up into the sky today! Until this time, Jiang Peng still had palpitations and was afraid when he thought about it.

Everyone talked and laughed back to Zhuangzi, everyone was still talking about the roar they had just heard, and some people were still complaining when they looked at the sky: "This ghost weather, obviously a sunny day, actually thundered on the ground, which scared me!" ”

As soon as they saw Gao Huaiyuan and them coming back, the two servants who cleaned the front yard hurriedly bowed their heads to Gao Huaiyuan, but the corner of their eyes swept and found that Gao Huaiyuan's gang was covered with a lot of mud when they came back.

For this time, everyone is tight-lipped and never talks about this matter, and naturally no one knows that Crouching Tiger Village has since had an absolute killing weapon in this era, even if someone knows about it in the future, they can't imagine that this kind of thing will actually be produced in Crouching Tiger Village.

However, after Gao Huaiyuan passed this test, he was also a little scared, after all, this kind of thing is not ordinary, and many people in this era do not know the power of this thing, and now he makes it in large quantities, the process still needs to be improved, if there is an accident in the manufacturing, maybe Crouching Tiger Village will be razed to the ground, then his hard work in the past few years will be completely over.

So when Gao Huaiyuan thought of this, he immediately sent Zhou Lao Wu with a group of carpenters to build a smaller courtyard in a col north of Zhuangzi, specializing in the production of gunpowder, and selected more than ten people from among the teenagers, personally trained them, and repeatedly told them to pay attention to safety, no matter what, no accident can happen, this is a life-threatening matter.

Jiang Peng also participated in the training of these teenagers, and personally mastered the formula and process of gunpowder, for the sake of safety, Gao Huaiyuan also asked the craftsmen to make them specially made copper mills, copper pots, copper mortars and other special utensils, used to grind and crush saltpeter for use, save the fire caused by static electricity, and avoid accidents as much as possible.

After some rush, Ma Lian and many migrant workers only took a short time to build a house near the mine, and cleared the nearby woods, exposing the working surface, and prepared for the next step of mining.

Before Gao Huaiyuan applied the gunpowder to the mine, Ma Lian caught fire on the mine and began to ablate the stones on the surface, and the firewood stacked on the surface of the stone ignited a raging fire, which burned for two days before it gradually extinguished, and the stones below had already burned red and hot, and then Ma Lian ordered the miners to pour the stream water that had been prepared from the mountain, and after the cold water met the hot stone, it immediately made a cracking sound, and a large amount of steam immediately filled the entire valley, forming a dense artificial fog.

After the ground was completely cooled, Ma Lian and his people cleaned up the charcoal residue on the surface, revealing the stones below, and then looking at the boulders on the ground, after such a toss, all of them were broken into rubble, which greatly reduced the amount of work to excavate.

It makes the seemingly difficult operation a lot easier, and the rubble after the fire only needs to be removed by manpower, and it can be done!

In this way, it greatly saves manpower and material resources, and also saves a lot of expenses for Gao Huaiyuan, and the progress of the project is also greatly advanced.

After the first successful experience, Ma Lian immediately repeated the old trick and continued to get firewood, piled it on the stones and set them on fire, and after repeating this several times, it took a month to completely excavate the stone layer on the surface, revealing the ore layer below.

After the news reached Crouching Tiger Village, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ran to the pit in person, watching the baskets of ore being transported out of the pit by the miners, and couldn't help but have a tendency to smile crookedly.

"Young master, the quality of this vein is still good, the reserves should be enough for us to mine for a long time, the small one has taken a look at it in the past two days, this vein is going down, along this ditch to the north, and after mining the ore here, it will be mined downward, but there is no one or two years, there is no need to think about this matter for the time being!" Ma Lian walked to Gao Huaiyuan's side with a smiling face and introduced him to him.

Of course, Gao Huaiyuan knew that with the reserves of the Daye ore layer, even if it was mined for a few hundred years, there would be no problem, so he nodded and said: "I naturally don't have to worry about this, but now that we have already produced ore, the next step is to consider the problem of smelting, I don't know if you have any plans, if we sell these ores to other smelters, we seem to be a little not cost-effective!" ”

Ma Lian nodded again and again: "What the young master said is true!" If the mine wants to make money, it is really not cost-effective to rely on mining alone, it can only be regarded as making hard money, but then again, the young master has just opened the mine, and if he immediately prepares to build a smelting furnace now, the cost may be quite large, and we have copper and iron ore here, if we refine it ourselves, we need to build two smelting furnaces, with our current output, it is obviously not cost-effective to smelt iron and copper by ourselves!

If the young master wants to open his own refining furnace, it is okay, we are just a pit here, not a mine, small to find a few more points, open two or three mines, in this way, the ore produced by himself can supply the refining furnace, but this will take some time, we can mine while building a refining furnace, to mine the furnace is also a way, do not need to invest too much money.

There is also a lot of bile in the pit, we can use the bile copper method for wet refining first, the young master Zhuangzi has his own blacksmith workshop, just make some thin iron sheets, immerse in the bile water, you can get red copper, in a small way, but you can use this method to smelt copper first, I don't know what the young master wants? ”

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan understood Ma Lian's meaning a little, and it seemed that it was a bit difficult to build his own smelting immediately in one fell swoop! Ma Lian's meaning is very clear, that is, sell ore first, and then open two or three pits, and then build a smelting furnace while mining, as for the wet smelting red copper he said, Gao Huaiyuan has also heard of it, which is the wet copper smelting process that later generations said.

In terms of the process of smelting metals, it can be said that ancient Chinese history has always been at the forefront of the world, especially this technology of hydrometallurgy, which can be said to occupy a very important position in the history of world chemistry, and can be said to be the pioneer of hydrometallurgy in the world.

Wet copper smelting in the Song Dynasty has reached a very high level, and many of the copper mining fields have used this method to smelt copper, and this is exactly what Ma Lian is talking about.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately nodded and agreed to Ma Lian's suggestion, and decided to sell the ore to raise the furnace first, and then build a smelting furnace after the mine reached a certain output, but now it can be done by using the method of wet copper smelting.

Gao Huaiyuan had only heard of wet copper smelting, but he never knew how to operate it, and he was also very interested in this process, so he took Ma Lian to the side and asked in detail about some process questions about wet copper smelting.

When Ma Lian explained to him, Gao Huaiyuan then understood what is called the bile copper method, it turned out that the ancients used iron to immerse in the so-called bile water (that is, copper sulfate solution) to replace the copper process, and the acquisition of bile water is even simpler, that is, to pour water on the bile soil, precipitate and then boil into a relatively large concentration of bile water, the iron is beaten into a thin iron sheet, placed in the bile water tank, and after the iron sheet is generated copper, take out the iron sheet and scrape off the copper powder on it to obtain red copper!

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan's heart suddenly brightened, and he had to praise the wisdom of the ancestors again and again, and he could come up with such a solution, even he, who had studied chemistry, did not expect it! That's amazing!

At present, the pit has just been put into production, and it has not been completely stabilized, and the ore output is not too large, so if you want to increase the production, you can only continue to increase the number of people, most of the people who came here to help in the early stage are farmers, and you can come here to help temporarily, once it is the busy season of farming, you still have to go back to take care of their fields, so there is a certain seasonal problem in the production of the pit.

However, this had little impact on Gao Huaiyuan, after all, he didn't expect to make money from the mines, he just needed the resources here, so he secretly obtained a large amount of copper and iron to help him make some things, and after hearing that the Gao family mine began to mine, some smelting furnaces in Daye sent people here to inquire in order to buy the ore here.

Gao Huaiyuan doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing, he now has Huang Zhen, an old man, under his hands, and he has him to deal with this kind of thing, and if it is true, Huang Zhen quickly finalized the deal with a smelting furnace surnamed Li, and temporarily sold the ore from the Gao family mine to the Li family for smelting at a fairly reasonable price.

As for the mine, with the help of iron work, the wet copper smelting workshop was also quickly put into production, there are stone and fuel, the stonemasons used the inherent resources here, and soon chiseled out the bile water tank, and under the command of Ma Lian, by soaking the bile soil, obtained the bile water, and the iron work made a lot of iron pieces from the ready-made iron materials, placed them in the bile water tank, and replaced the copper powder from the bile water.

In this way, basically several major events in Crouching Tiger Village have been arranged, and as long as the affairs are gradually advanced, it is estimated that in another half a year and a year, Gao Huaiyuan's business will once again develop explosively.

In the blink of an eye, Gao Huaiyuan returned to Daye County for a few months, and the summer grain was harvested again, and a huge industrialized group has been formed on the side of Crouching Tiger Village, in addition to the original soap workshop and glaze workshop, Gao Huaiyuan now has a mine, an iron workshop, a gunpowder workshop, and also purchased a piece of land in the lower reaches of the river, built a large water mill, and built a large-scale rice mill in Daye.

And after Gao Jian received Gao Huaiyuan's letter a few months ago, he was completely relieved, and replied to Gao Huaiyuan, ordering him not to make decisions without authorization, to do such risky things, to stay in the old mansion honestly, to read books and practice martial arts, and to threaten Gao Huaiyuan, claiming that if he dared to disobey again, he would not recognize his son Yunyun! Gao Huaiyuan naturally laughed it off and continued to be busy with his own affairs.

In order to consolidate his position in Daye's old house, Gao Huaiyuan simply put this water mill in the name of the old house, which was counted as the industry of the old house, and after it was put into production, the money earned was also counted on the books of the old house, and reported this matter to Gao Jian, the father of Shaoxing, so that Gao Jian was happy again, and said that his third son seemed to be not only able to write and martial arts, but also to do business. The grain in the south is mainly rice, and it is really a good deal for him to open this rice mill, and now he will no longer worry about Gao Huaiyuan for the rest of his life, even if he can't be an official, at least he has hundreds of acres of land in the old house and this rice mill, and his life can be very nourishing.

But when I think that Gao Huaiyuan is also a nine-grade named Bao Yilang now, if I don't want to use his identity, wouldn't it be a bit too much of a loss? So Gao Jian himself began to think about Gao Huaiyuan's future path in Shaoxing......

And Gao Huaiyuan did not stop after he was busy with these things, while letting Huang Zhen start to build their own shop in Crouching Tiger Village, working hard to build a business kingdom of his own, and at the same time, he and Jiang Peng tinkered with new gadgets in the original gunpowder workshop in the backyard.

During this time, Crouching Tiger Village relied on gradually strong financial resources, constantly adding Ding and mouth, and collected a lot of orphans from the surrounding area, with the current industry under his name, it is nothing to feed these orphans, and it will not attract anyone's attention, after all, now Crouching Tiger Village has faintly become a new big village, and Gao Huaiyuan is the only owner of Crouching Tiger Village, a Zhuangzi lives in hundreds of people is really nothing, plus Gao Huaiyuan is still the elder in this area, no one dares to come here to find him trouble, So now that he is taking in a large number of orphans, he will no longer arouse suspicion!

Liu Er stood curiously next to a large table, staring at her beautiful eyes, watching intently Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng tinkering with the bottles and cans on the table, and saw that Gao Huaiyuan kept directing Jiang Peng to either pour this liquid into that bottle, or put the contents of that bottle on the fire to bake, in short, everything was so magical in her eyes.

She really couldn't see what Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng were messing with, but she didn't ask, and helped Gao Huaiyuan hand this and that, she was also very busy, and now Liu Er is very satisfied, as long as she wakes up every day, she can see Gao Huaiyuan, which is the best time for her.

She didn't have anything else to ask for, she just wanted to be content with Gao Huaiyuan forever, as for what Gao Huaiyuan did, she didn't want to ask, but she knew that Gao Huaiyuan would never do anything boring, these days she watched Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng mash and juice all kinds of flowers and plants all day long, making this room taste everything, but Gao Huaiyuan didn't say what they were doing.

Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan mixed several liquids together, Liu Er suddenly smelled a strong * fragrance, so she immediately exclaimed softly: "Oops! It smells so good! It's so thick*fragrant! ”

Gao Huaiyuan took the translucent glass bottle and grinned almost to his ears, his face was full of pride, he handed the bottle in his hand to Liu'er and said, "Liu'er, smell it, how about feeling this fragrance!" ”

Liu Er carefully took the small bottle from Gao Huaiyuan's hand, leaned under his nose and sniffed it slightly, a rich * fragrance immediately rushed into his nose, and even his head seemed to be a little dizzy after smelling, so he quickly took it away and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "Good fragrance, very strong * fragrance!" It's just that this fragrance is a little too strong, and it's even a little choking! What is this? ”

After Gao Huaiyuan took back the bottle from Liu Er's hand, he replied triumphantly: "This is the world's first jasmine essence, pure natural extraction, the treasure of the baby!" Ha ha! With this thing, we're going to make a fortune again! You do smell a little too strong now, because these are the original liquids, and if you use them, you have to dilute them with wine! Wait a while, I'll give you a bottle of the world's best jasmine perfume! I'm going to give you the first real perfume in the world! Ha ha! ”