My whole family traveled across time with an encyclopedia

Gunpowder is a vital secret. If you recruit people from the outside, you cannot guarantee loyalty, but if you recruit people from the army, others will definitely not be willing. In the army, you can climb up step by step through military exploits, but if you are a craftsman, then It's hard to get promoted, unless it's a great craftsman like Lu Cui, or a special person like Ning Qingxi.

After a long silence, Ning Qingxi said: "Let them do it first, we will think about how to solve the specific difficulties later."

Lu sighed, feeling a little dazed, how could he put all the difficulties on a little girl?

"That's all it takes."

Ning Qingxi really couldn't understand why the treatment of craftsmen was so low since craftsmen were so precious?

But this is a problem of the times, and she can only think about it in her heart.

Lu Cui arranged for people to start making gunpowder, and found a very secret room for those craftsmen to make gunpowder.

When he came out, he saw Ning Qingxi walking beside an old craftsman, directing what the other party was building.

"What is this for?" Lu Cui asked curiously.

Ning Qingxi explained: "This is an alcohol still, used to make alcohol."

Ning Qingxi explained the general function of the still, and Lu Cui quickly understood.

"This thing is not difficult. Let's go. Tell me about the spring that fires the crossbow. I can't do what you said these days. You can leave this thing to Old Chen." , he can make it for you in less than two days."

Ning Qingxi originally thought that she was going to bring the real thing or draw a blueprint, but who knew that she just said it briefly, and the old craftsman named Old Chentou completely understood what she meant.

Although these people are illiterate, they have been craftsmen all their lives and have a lot of experience. It is not difficult to build a distiller, it just takes some time.

Ning Qingxi felt that he was worthy of being an official craftsman, even better than Carpenter Sun.

These craftsmen are Chang Yuan's trophies.When he robbed Fucheng, he took all those craftsmen into his own workshop.

When Lu Cui went to order the gunpowder to be made, Ning Qingxi chatted with the old Chen for a while. She thought that these craftsmen might be bitter and bitter, but not everyone complained all the time. According to what Chen Tou said, when he worked for the imperial court in Fucheng, he was much more miserable than now. At that time, there was no food to eat, and the food he ate was the chaff that was used to feed pigs.

Although they have a little clear soup and water, at least they are for people to eat, and sometimes they will get some steamed buns as subsidies when they are busy.

Ning Qingxi looked at the other party's dark complexion, ravines and contented expression, and felt quite uncomfortable.

The two sat on the stool, and Ning Qingxi took the spring that Lu Cui handed over, "This thing is made according to your drawings, but it can't achieve the elasticity you mentioned."

Ning Qingxi tested the elasticity of the spring with her hands. Indeed, when she pressed it down, she didn't feel much elasticity at all. Even if she pressed it down for a long time, the spring's turning force would become less. The more the spring is used, the more it will squeeze into a lump.

"Master Lu, have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with your iron?"

Lu Cui was surprised, "How is it possible? This iron is already of the highest purity."

Ning Qingxi hadn't started to study the purity of iron yet. After thinking about it, the repeating hand crossbow they made was also made by the blacksmith in that county. After a while, she pointed to the spring, "Then there is something wrong with its thickness, or you try to increase its thickness and length and the number of coils of the spring?"

Lu Cui's face softened, "Okay, I'll send someone to try it later."

The two chatted for a while, before Ning Qingxi left, he took a look at the gunpowder craftsmen in the gunpowder room and left.

When he returned home, Ning Changrong was already sitting.

"father."

Seeing Ning Qingxi come back, Ning Changrong said happily, "Are you back?"

The two of them sat on the table like grandpas, waiting to eat with their hands outstretched.

"Father, how are you doing today?" Ning Changrong came back relatively quickly. He found that no one cared about their work. Just leave.

Ning Qingxi was late today because he talked with Lu Cui for a while, so he came back later than Ning Changrong.

As soon as Ning Qingxi's flowers bloomed, Ning Changrong couldn't help complaining, "Do you know that! That Bai Yunliang looks like a kind-hearted scholar, but who knows that there is so much black water in his stomach, I can't do anything all day long." No, just looking at the many ledgers he gave me, those ledgers are all messed up, it's impossible for me to sort them out by myself!"

"I figured it out. This old boy is afraid that I will fight for his rights, so he deliberately arranges a bunch of things for me to distract me, so I don't have time to grab his rights."

"Do you think this person has persecution paranoia? Am I committing the crime of grabbing some power or interest? He'd better do it all, then I'll be more free and happy!"

"But he just gave me such a trick. I saw that the little officials seemed to listen to him more, and they didn't want to fight for steamed buns. I didn't want to snatch anything. He has to do it, okay! Then I can't let him do what he wants. !"

Ning Changrong felt much relieved after speaking in one breath.

"General Chang has a lot of generals who can win battles, but there are not many literati advisers who can help him deal with business. Some of them are still in the north. Only Mr. Bai came with General Chang. He probably thinks that you are here. Fight for his favor."

"But Dad, you are right, don't fight for steamed buns, you didn't do anything, he came up and gave you a big blow, if you don't return it, people can't treat you as a soft persimmon, you can squeeze it if you want? Let's not It’s one thing to have power, but it’s another thing if people don’t allow us to have power!”

Ning Qingxi expressed his firm support for Ning Changrong.

Ning Changrong was overjoyed at first, and then suddenly seemed to be exhausted, and said weakly: "But how can I read through so many ledgers? You don't know how messy those ledgers are, and they don't use Arabic numerals." , the income and expenses are all recorded together, not separated, it's a mess! I think it's a big headache!"

Ning Qingxi didn't get any better, "It's hard for me too, Dad, I've only been there for a day, and General Chang gave us a task target to make 60 packs of explosives within two months with only 1 people. , How is this possible? You can’t dig explosives or stones? You can’t grind them? You can’t wrap them up? You need people to do everything, isn’t that embarrassing! Making two thousand packs at most is the limit!”