Pinzo Mausson said. In fact, the steel wheel fire device is similar to the gear bar of the ripple gun, the structure is very complicated, I am afraid that there are few craftsmen in Shunxiang Fort will make it, rather than wasting this manpower and material resources, it is better to use the material funds to the place where they are needed.

There is also the gunpowder, there were only more than 120 catties in the storage warehouse of Shunxiang Fort, and there were only more than 2,000 pieces of fire medicine made into Huotongzi, and after these times, the use of Shunxiang Fort craftsmen and Shunxiang army will soon be over. Without gunpowder, the workers who were making cartridge ammunition had to stop working.

Regarding what Li Maosen said earlier, he stopped the production of knives and spears and other instruments, Wang Dou thought that it was okay, and now the number of spears in the warehouse was enough to use. But it's hard to do without gunpowder.

Mining with gunpowder can save manpower and increase the efficiency of the iron plant, and a large amount of gunpowder is required for large-scale operations in the future, especially if shooting artillery.

The supply of raw materials for this gunpowder saltpeter has always troubled Wang Dou, and there is no other way than to buy it from outside? Can we find a stable supply of saltpeter nearby, like the Koujiagou Iron Works? Coming out of the craftsman's workshop, Wang Dou had been thinking about this problem, and finally he recruited a cadre of officers and officials from Shunxiang Fort to discuss this issue.

For this problem, everyone was also at a loss, and finally ordered the official Feng Dachang to offer a plan and post a notice in Shunxiang Fort to see if anyone knew that there were related minerals near Shunxiang Fort in addition to buying from outside, or that there were any soil methods to accumulate nitrate.

If you can offer a clever plan, you will be rewarded with one stone of rice and ten catties of meat.

After the notice was posted, it aroused great interest from the whole of Shunxiang Fort, and everyone was talking about it, and they were all trying their best to think, what method did they have?

The next day, a new soldier suddenly asked to see him, saying that he had a solution.

Wang Dou was overjoyed and hurriedly let him in, and soon, a big ball of meat rolled in, and everyone looked at it, but it was a man in his forties, who was short and fat, with a round face, and quite rich. There were very few people as short and fat as him among the victims, and it was his blessing that he had not been eaten by the homeless people because he had so much meat. ”

He asked Wang Dou to arrange manpower for himself, took some plant ash, crushed the nitrate and wood ash separately, sieved them, and mixed them into a large cauldron. Start rinsing with hot water. After the liquid is slowly filtered and refined, the concentration gradually fades from reddish brown to lightened, and after cooling and crystallization, pure nitrate clay is formed.

After that, as long as these nitrates are added to sulfur, charcoal and other materials, they are crushed and stirred in proportion, and then put into a stone mill to grind finely, and the black powder powder is born. This is made by any craftsman in Shunxiang Fort.

Seeing Li Zhifen's achievements, Wang Dou and the others were overjoyed, the gunpowder problem was finally solved, and they could be self-sufficient in the future and would not be controlled by others.

Li Zhifen was also intoxicated, and he said to Wang Dou: "The narrow method of adults is like this, 100 catties of nitrate in a month is just a small villain, and there is still a way to make nitrate in large quantities, but it requires a lot of manpower and materials." ”

Wang Douyi raised his hand and said: "Okay, in the future, you will be the nitrate collector of our Shun Castle, specializing in making and collecting nitrate." ”

Wang Dou named Li Zhifen as the collector, and selected dozens of women and old and weak men for his use, he made meritorious contributions, and also received a heavy reward of one stone of rice and ten catties of meat, which made Li Zhifen's fat face smile.

Soon, Li Zhifen took office, took dozens of his subordinates, specially found a shady place, mixed human and animal manure with sand particles and furnace ash, piled up several high dung heaps, and urinated regularly every day.

This stinky place of nitrate collection attracted many onlookers, and it also carried Wang Dou and others

Soon, living up to expectations, there were a lot of white natural nitrate in these dung heaps, according to Li Zhifen, this nitrate collection site, you can easily get 200 to 300 catties of pure nitrate in a month, which is much better than the nitrate mud dug from toilets and stables.

Two hundred catties of pure nitrate, a month can be made into at least three hundred catties of black powder, with this lot of gunpowder, Wang Dou a series of plans can be carried out, for example, the gunpowder mine of Koujiagou Iron Factory, only one hundred miners, can meet the ore demand of 20,000 catties of iron a month.

When Li Zhifen commanded a group of men and women to pick urine and pass by the construction site, many people greeted him from afar: "Li Daji, go and see your precious place again?" ”

Everyone laughed, and seemed to find pleasure in the boring and hard work.

During these times, Li Zhifen's reputation can be said to be well-known in the fort, and many people talk about it. Li Daji's officials were all laughing and laughing. Many people also rumored that in order to accumulate nitrate, Li Zhifen must wear a broom and dustpan with him, and he is wandering around the toilet and stable all day long, and when he sees white blocks. will instinctively sweep up.

Behind everyone's back, they have already given Li Zhifen a nickname: "Li Da Toilet Official." ”

After listening to everyone's teasing, Li Zhifen was not angry, and said with a smile: "It's the ground, it's the ground." ”

While walking with his own sturdy steps, he commanded a group of men to pass by.

The crowd laughed even more.

In the crowd, Xu Yue'e also smiled, she carried a load of soil, attracting many men on the other side to look at her secretly.

This Xu Yue'e has always been cold in front of people, and she is even more pretentious to men, but I didn't expect her to laugh too, and she looks really good when she laughs.

But no one dared to come forward to talk, not to mention that this girl is ruthless enough, a few days ago, a few single military households came forward to laugh at her, and she was stabbed in the heart of the lower abdomen, and the pain did not recover for a few days, and then the men stayed away from her.

In addition, there are regulations in Shunxiang Fort that male military households are strictly forbidden to harass female military households, and it is okay to talk and chat normally, such as moving hands and feet, and those who speak frivolously will be merciless with military sticks.

Now the nickname of "Chi Peeling" has become well-known among the new military households, and Chi Dacheng has become a rigid person, who violates the rules and is caught by him, and he will have to peel his skin if he does not die. Those single military households were beaten by Xu Yue, not to mention, and were beaten by Chi Dacheng afterwards, with new injuries and old injuries, and they lay in bed for ten days ().

As a result of this, no man dared to approach Xu Yue'e's side, and Xu Yue's previous things didn't know why it was spread, and everyone's eyes looking at her were even more weird.

Xu Yue'e picked up the soil to the side of the fort wall, and several children ran towards her, shouting repeatedly: "Auntie." Maternal aunt. ”

Xu Yue'e said softly: "Good." ”

Take one out of your bosom. Slowly, he divided it into several parts, handed them to the children, and touched the head of one of them.

The kids were bouncing around. While jumping. He also shouted: "Oh, oh, there is food, there is food." ”

These children are all children of children's affairs, and in order to save manpower, some children are often allowed to run on the city wall. It can also achieve the effect of timber ramming. When these children are children, they can eat two more steamed buns than usual.

Looking at the backs of these children, Xu Yue'e had a smile on her face, beautiful and quiet.

I don't know why, Xu Yue'e likes children very much, she sits alone on weekdays, and when she looks at those playful children, she will have a smile on her face, only at this time, she has no usual indifference, just like an ordinary girl.

However, as Xu Yue'e's past affairs quietly spread in the fort, more and more military households forbade their children to associate with Xu Yue'e, only those orphans in the women's camp liked Xu Yue'e very much, because she often saved some food for them, and these children also affectionately called her aunt on weekdays.

Xu Yue'e rested for a while, and was about to turn around to pick up the soil, when she suddenly heard the sound of gongs, and there was a humane person in the distance: "Your Excellency has an order, the whole fort gathers, the whole fort gathers,"

For a moment, everyone was in a commotion, and they all said, "What's wrong?" The adults want to call the whole castle to assemble "only."

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