Yang Qilong?
This name is so familiar!
By the way, during the Kangxi period, there seemed to be a fake Third Prince Zhu who rebelled in Beijing, named Yang Qilong! Couldn't it be the one in front of me?
Zhu Hesheng looked in the direction of Da Bo Ling's finger and saw Yang Qilong, who was handsome, elegant, and extraordinary in bearing. He said to himself: "You, the high imitation third prince, look much more like the third prince who looks like Guan Gong! No wonder in Beijing city You can also fool people into following the rebellion. But if you don’t prepare for rebellion in Beijing, why would you come to Chaozhou?”
Yang Qilong was in a daze again. He never thought that the guy in front of him wandering around a row of smelly "pig pens" was actually the famous grandson of Zhu San... This guy looked fierce, looking at He was just a mountain bandit and pirate who committed murder and arson. How could he look like the grandson of Zhu San? If the descendants of Lao Zhu's family were to be like him, why would Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebel? Hurry up and call me big brother!
And why does this Third Prince Zhu build so many pig pens? Shouldn't the rebellion recruit troops?
You can just build some stables, build so many pig pens... ride pigs to the battlefield? Can't we defeat the Manchus like this?
Da Bo Ling was also stunned. She originally thought that Zhu Hesheng and Yang Qilong would have a late meeting or something, but why did they end up in silence?
Could it be because this monk Yang also discovered that Cannon Zhu was not normal?
I don’t know what happened to Artillery Zhu recently. He stopped being a good bandit and started to learn how to do business with others. What kind of saltpeter do you need to build more than ten or twenty pig pens? What kind of side business is this?
And after he learned how to do business, he became less aggressive. He smiled all day long and looked like he was trying to make money in a friendly manner. I didn't like it anymore - Da Bo Ling liked the original fierceness of Cannon Zhu! The original Cannon Zhu was a tiger on Danan Mountain! Why is it almost like a lucky cat now?
What puzzles Da Bo Ling even more is that this "lucky cat" makes herself smelly all day long...
But Opolei's heart was towards Cannon Zhu after all. After sighing, she began to bridge the gap between the two parties.
"Cannon Zhu, this Master Yang was introduced by the old friend of the factory. He brought a seal that can prove the identity of Tianwang Zhu. Moreover, he came directly from Shang Zhixin's army and brought the latest military information of Qinglu !
Master Yang, the third grandson is currently inspecting the saltpeter pond...the pond where saltpeter is produced! There are no saltpeter mines in Guangdong, so we can only boil saltpeter with saltpeter soil. However, the yield of naturally grown saltpeter soil is very small, so we can only use this method to produce it. "
"Oh, that's it... The poor monk Qilong, respectfully wishes the third grandson Wanfu Jinan!" Yang Qilong also reacted, quickly got off his horse, walked to Zhu Hesheng, lifted up the monk's robe and was about to kneel down.
Zhu Hesheng hurriedly supported Yang Qilong and prevented him from actually kneeling, "Master Yang's name is something I have heard about in Tiannan... Master, please come in!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the gate of the Pang family building. Oh, now the Pang Family Weirou has been renamed the Zhujia Weirou, because the factory owner, Eunuch Pang, did not want to be surrounded by a "pig pen", and he was angry with Zhu Hesheng because the "auspicious pot" was blown up, so he also Moved to Dongyinqianchang in Haimen Port.
After exchanging a few words, Zhu Hesheng took Yang Qilong's hand and walked together to the building where he lived.
After entering, Yang Qilong discovered that this enclosed building that looked quite impressive on the outside had been converted into a workshop inside. A huge shed has been set up in the courtyard in the middle of the building. There are several large iron pots and a copper pot set up under the shed. There are also twenty or thirty large wooden basins, twenty or thirty small wooden basins and three or four pots. Ten iron basins.
This is the "workshop" for refining fire saltpeter. Because the purity of the saltpeter collected from the "pig pen-type saltpeter pit" is not high, it must be purified here to obtain crystallized fire saltpeter. The method of purifying fire saltpeter is of course a local method, but as long as the process designed by Zhu Hesheng is strictly followed step by step, you can still get fire saltpeter with higher purity - Zhu Hesheng had already used it from other places (stables, chicken and duck sheds, toilets, etc.) He conducted experiments on the saltpeter soil scraped from the ground) and successfully obtained three or four kilograms of fire saltpeter with good purity.
However, the "nitrate making workshop" did not start work today because there is no saltpeter soil to use! So there was no one in the workshop, except for a young man with a big head and a big head. He was sitting in front of a small stove "boiling sugar water." When he saw Zhu Hesheng coming in, he quickly dropped the small copper pot at hand and hurriedly took out the mask, crystal glasses and Put on gloves. But accidentally, the "sugar water" was burnt. If the small copper pot with a long wooden handle was not removed from the small stove in time, the "sugar water" might be "fried"!
The young boy knew that he had made a mistake and was caught in the act by Zhu Hesheng, so he had to stand up with a sad face and look at Zhu Hesheng like a boy who had made a mistake.
Zhu Hesheng didn't get angry, he just said to the kid angrily: "Ahuzi, it's okay if you overcooked the sugar water... but it's wrong if you don't wear a mask, gloves, and goggles. It's safe in production." Put it first! Also, where is the sand for extinguishing the fire? Why not put it within easy reach? Boiling sugar water is very dangerous, don’t you know?"
"Brother, I..." Zhu Hesheng said a lot to this kid. He felt aggrieved. He stammered and couldn't speak. He even called Zhu Hesheng "Brother". It turns out that he is Qiu Hui's son, born in the age of ten, with the character for tiger in his name, and he is only twelve years old this year.
Probably because he was too careless in studying, which annoyed his father, he was sent to his brother-in-law Zhu Hesheng to attend a "technical school" - there were twenty or thirty people who came with him, all of whom were members of Big Boss Hui's soldiers Son, come to Zhu Hesheng to learn "making sugar", that is, making sweet gunpowder.
However, Master Zhu Hesheng regarded most of them (all except Qiu Hu) as cheap labor and only gave them half an hour of lessons every day (half an hour a day would be enough if he really taught them). But they were made to do manual labor for five and a half hours at the "Nitrate Pond Factory" construction site without being paid a penny... This black-hearted capitalist's problems have not been corrected yet!
Qiu Huna was the son of Qiu Hui and the brother-in-law of Zhu Hesheng. Of course, he had to be taken special care of. Not only did he not need to work hard, but he could also "open a small stove" to practice his skills. Zhu Hesheng also passed on to him the skills of making granular black powder.
But this kid is not a craftsman, he is clumsy, he has practiced more than others, and he learns slower than others. What makes Zhu Hesheng even more troublesome is that this kid has a particularly bad temper and will berate others if he disagrees with him. That is to say, Zhu Hesheng (actually the original Zhu Qipao) who is "as fierce as a tiger and as evil as a wolf" can restrain him.
Zhu Hesheng said a few words to Qiu Hu, and then ordered: "Wash the copper pot clean, be careful not to burn it... When you go back, copy the 'Tang Shu Jue' and 'Black Sesame Jue' to me. Remember Yes, your handwriting must be neat!"
The so-called "sugar water formula" and "black sesame formula" are actually formulas for making sweet gunpowder and granular black gunpowder - because most of the children Qiu Hui sent cannot read and cannot take notes. So Zhu Hesheng had no choice but to compile the procedures, precautions, etc. for making sweet gunpowder and granular black powder into a catchy limerick, which he also called a "rhyme."
When he heard that he had to write neatly, Qiu Hu's voice sounded like tears when he agreed, but he didn't dare to contradict Zhu Hesheng - that was Cannon Zhu, who was as fierce as a tiger and as vicious as a wolf!
Seeing Qiu Hu obediently agree, Zhu Hesheng continued to lead Yang Qilong into the carpentry room - this was originally the main room for entertaining guests, but now it has become the workshop where Zhu Hesheng does carpentry work. There were several carpenters hired by Gucheng Village who were working inside. They didn't stop their work when they saw Zhu Hesheng coming in, and continued working.
Zhu Hesheng smiled and said to Yang Qilong: "Master, this was originally the living room, but now it is my carpentry room... Let's go a few steps further inside and talk in the study."
Your woodshop?
After listening to Zhu Hesheng's words, Yang Qilong discovered that there were book desks and a master's chair in the woodworking room. There were four treasures of the study on the book desk, and there was a row of strange "white paintings" hanging next to them. They were all painted on unknown types of wood. There are also several small round hammers made of copper.
Yang Qilongxin said: "How come this grandson of Zhu San has the same hobby as Emperor Ximiao? Could it be that he is a 'grandson of a carpenter'? Can we rely on a carpenter to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"