Zhu Qipao was stupid!
The people of Eunuch Pang’s family and his pigs all think so...especially the pigs!
Just when Dao Scarong led Shuzhen, a girl disguised as a man, to Dugucheng Village in Longjing, Zhu Hesheng was already doing something stupid.
Zhu Hesheng, who had a good sleep at the factory father Eunuch Pang's house, got up early this morning, and after having morning tea, he began to toss his "refugee soldiers" and Eunuch Pang's pigs.
Of course, not all the "refugee soldiers" were tormented by Zhu Hesheng. Zhu Hesheng only selected dozens of young refugee soldiers to toss - these little boys were all the second generation of the Dananshan rebels. They all knew how to read under Da Boling's education, but after all, they didn't have much knowledge. They all regarded Zhu Qipao, who was "as fierce as a tiger and as evil as a wolf", as their idol. They were all fans of Brother Pao, so they were naturally easy to command.
So after Zhu Hesheng finished eating last night, he gave an order to these little fans to gather in the pig pen after breakfast today!
This is a military order!
Zhu Hesheng taught them when they set off from Tianwang Village in Danan Mountain. Now they are all young warriors fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. Of course, they must know that military orders are like mountains!
In order to facilitate the management of them, Zhu Hesheng organized them into a "leader" (60 people) according to Zheng Ming's military system when he was in Tianwang Village in Dananshan. The "leader" had ten squads (each squad had six squad leaders). members), and also appointed two "little overlords", Su Zhanshan, son of Yongmeng Su, and Zhao Hongkui, son of Zhongyi Zhao, as chief and deputy chiefs.
So when Zhu Hesheng "visited" the pig pen last night, he took these two "little bullies" with him to familiarize them with the terrain around the pig pen and the "pig love" inside the pig pen.
In addition, Pang Siming, the young father-in-law of Eunuch Pang's family, also led several "alternate eunuchs" younger than him to the outside of the pig pen to obey orders - it must be said that this Eunuch Pang is serious about resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and he has done so early They are preparing a team of eunuchs for the future Ming Dynasty Palace...and those "candidate eunuchs" seem to be working very hard, and it seems that they can't wait to become the powerful eunuch.
After counting numbers outside the pig pen and reviewing his "little guards" and "little eunuchs", Zhu Hesheng began to assign tasks.
The mission is to seize and transform Eunuch Pang's pigsty!
The first thing is to expel all the pigs in the pig pen! Any pigs that refuse to leave will be killed without mercy - Eunuch Pang raises all black-haired native pigs! It looks delicious... It's a pity that these pigs are very ignorant, and none of them dare to fight Zhu Hesheng who is carrying an axe.
After expelling dozens of confused black-haired native pigs from the pig pen, Zhu Hesheng began to command the "Little Guards" and "Alternate Little Eunuchs" to clean the pig pen under the watch of the pigs.
Although the pigsty stinks, there are a lot of good things! There is the most natural organic fertilizer, and the non-GMO vegetables and rice grown with this fertilizer can be sold at a good price in future generations.
In addition, Zhu Hesheng also found a lot of white saltpeter in this pigsty... This is a treasure!
The local craftsmanship of making saltpetre was not a problem for Zhu Hesheng, a chemical professional. However, in Chaozhou and even Guangdong at this time, fire saltpeter was simply something with a price but no market. Guangdong itself does not produce much fire saltpeter. The main source of fire saltpeter is either from the northern provinces or imported from abroad.
The supply of goods in the northern provinces was controlled by the Qing court and was very tight. Not to mention the rebels in Nanshan, it was difficult for even the Qing lackeys such as Prince Pingnan and Duke Xushun to get the fire salt from the north.
The fire salt from abroad is controlled by the Prince of Pingnan, Dahao Qiu Hui, and the Prince of Yanping in Taiwan. Of course, the three of them will not sell fire salt to the outside world. Due to historical reasons in Guangdong, the use of Western-style muskets is limited. There are a lot of them in stock, and they can be copied in large quantities! If the supply of fire, salt, and gunpowder is not controlled, chaos will definitely occur, which will be detrimental to Pingnan Palace, Yanping Palace, and Dahao Qiu Hui.
For Zhu Hesheng, there are two things that are stuck now. One is manpower - there are not many people in Danan Mountain, and Mr. Yu's clan members are not many. If he can gather an army of five or six hundred, it will be overwhelming!
The second is fire and saltpeter - if he wants to prepare black gunpowder, he has to get sulfur, but his "gold finger" is "sweet gunpowder". Sugar is not in short supply in Guangdong today, and a little rust is not a problem. As for the copper material used to cast explosive shells, it is not difficult to obtain, just melt some copper coins. So the thing that’s stuck is the fire salt!
As for the fire saltpeter, we can only find a way to produce it ourselves, and to produce fire saltpeter, we have to get enough saltpeter soil.
The purpose of Zhu Hesheng's coming here early in the morning to compete with the pigs for the pigsty was actually to transform the pigsty into a nitrate collecting pond for producing nitrate soil - well, Eunuch Pang's pigsty is a natural nitrate collecting pond. Pool!
Just look at the quantity and quality of the nitrate soil that little Eunuch Pang and a group of teenagers who were not afraid of smell or hardship dug out of the pigsty.
This pigsty is very close to Haimen Bay, so the humidity is high and the temperature is relatively moderate. It’s not too hot in summer, but in winter... this is Guangdong, so of course it’s not very hot. There is also constant sea breeze blowing over, which makes the air circulation condition excellent, which is very suitable for the growth of nitrifying bacteria.
Moreover, next to the pigsty is the "Gulou River" of the Pang family's building. This "Gulou River" is connected to a stream with clear water. It is very easy to get water, which is convenient to ensure that the soil in the pigsty is moist.
In addition, Gucheng Village is a fishing village, and Haimen Port opposite is the largest fishing port in Chaozhou... so you can buy a lot of smelly fish and rotten shrimps. Smelly fish and rotten shrimps, like human and animal feces and urine, can produce a large amount of ammonium, and ammonium is the "food" of nitrifying bacteria.
Nowadays, there are not many people and livestock outside the coastal areas of Guangdong, so it is impossible to provide enough feces and urine, so smelly fish and rotten shrimps are the best and most stable "food" source for nitrifying bacteria.
Although Eunuch Pang's pigsty was a natural saltpeter pool, Zhu Hesheng formulated a renovation plan.
The first thing is to reinforce it - the ceiling doesn't look very strong, so it needs to be reinforced. Don't turn around and blow it away in a typhoon. The nitrifying bacteria are afraid of ultraviolet rays and will be gone if exposed to the sun.
The second step is to tamp the bottom of the pigsty with lime and then lay it with bricks. The pigsty was originally surrounded by bricks and stones, but the entrance and exit doors were left, and now they had to be blocked, thus turning the pigsty into a pool.
Then two thousand kilograms of fluffy clay, fine sand and a small amount of plant ash must be spread in the pond, and then the newly dug saltpeter soil must be spread into the pond.
Finally, dilute the mashed smelly fish and shrimps with water and pour them into the nitrate pond together...
Even though there are a lot of steps, with dozens of people working together, it can still be completed quickly.
By the afternoon of that day, when the fishermen from Gucheng Village brought baskets of freshly caught seafood to Zhu Hesheng, the renovation project of the saltpeter pond was almost completed.
So Zhu Hesheng asked Da Boling and Pang Siming to be called over. The three of them squatted on the ground together and selected the most plump, fresh and tender seafood from the baskets of seafood. They chose a large basket full of them! Then give the rest to Su Zhanshan, Zhao Hongkui and their men, and let them crush it and pour it into the saltpeter.
Oh, there are also dozens of black pigs that have been hungry all day and have no home to look at... Their homes are gone, and no one thinks of feeding them, looking at the baskets. I really want to take a few bites of the seafood, but I am afraid that Zhu Hesheng, a very fierce human being, will hit them. How pitiful!
And no matter how you look at this scene, it looks like a group of pigs watching dozens of idiots who are stupider than pigs doing stupid things!
Just when Zhu Hesheng was choosing seafood with a smile, he suddenly heard a thin and waxy voice shouting behind him: "Hey, how come all the pigs escaped?"
Then there was another loud voice: "Cannon Zhu, is that you? Why are you squatting outside the pig pen and letting a group of pigs watch? What are you doing? Are you really letting Deng Guangming, Xue Zhang, and Feng Mingshan... Is this dog officer stupid?"
Who is this? Why are you talking nonsense?
Zhu Hesheng looked back and saw dozens of people standing by the "protecting river" of the Pang family's building, watching with their mouths open. One of the particularly eye-catching ones is a man wearing a big red robe, a black gauze hat on his head, and a leather belt around his waist. The chest and abdomen of the red robe are sewn with Yunyan patches from the fourth-grade civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, which are full of flesh. A thick man with a scary scar on his face.
