Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 156
There is a fully transparent glass house full of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, very spacious and bright, where they can draw and calculate at will.

There are even dozens of horse lanterns made of transparent glass in that house, even if it is dark night, the whole house will be illuminated as if it were day.

What's more, they had never seen the butter used for the lantern before. It didn't produce thick smoke or smell, and a spoonful of butter could be used for more than ten days.

Not far from these houses is their dormitory, where they can rest at will.

Not far from their dormitory is the back kitchen, and there is a special chef who cooks for them.

Three meals a day, as long as the meal is ready, someone will stand on the roof of the dining hall with a huge iron lock and shout.

Tiesuona is much thicker than ordinary suona, and it can actually amplify people's voice several times. As long as you put Tiesuona near someone's mouth and shout, the whole gunpowder workshop can hear it.

Whether it's the lantern or the iron lock, Tao Yiping and Yang Ting are very curious.

At the end of the gunpowder workshop, there are individual concrete houses ten steps apart from each other.

Looking at the thickness of the walls of the concrete houses, they felt that even after a few rounds of bombing with the General Cannon, the concrete houses were intact.

In those concrete houses, there are also various sizes and thicknesses of steel, and they can experiment at will.

There are often patrolling soldiers around, and they don't need to worry about someone rushing in suddenly.

In addition, there were dozens of craftsmen in the whole gunpowder workshop, both young and old, but as soon as they heard that the two of them were Tao Wanhu's youngest disciples, those craftsmen immediately looked at them with excitement.

Of course, what excited the two of them the most was that Guo An handed them a stack of papers in a room.

On the above, there are some gunpowder formulas and some outline drawings of firearms.

Although there are still countless complicated procedures for them to experiment with, this is ten thousand times more comfortable than when they were in Yingtian City.

It can be said that they only need to study and experiment with peace of mind according to the knowledge and experience they have learned in the past.

All logistics, even including their own materials, as long as they open their mouths, someone will bring them to them!

"It's a pity that I didn't know that His Royal Highness King Yan's gunpowder workshop is so rich. Otherwise, I could write the situation here in a letter and inform my father and all the senior brothers. I'm afraid that my father and all the senior brothers will leave everything in Yingtian Mansion and rush Come to Peking Mansion..."

When only Tao Yiping and Yang Ting were left in the room, Tao Yiping spoke excitedly while stroking the steel piled up in the room that weighed at least a thousand catties.

Yang Ting also nodded excitedly, "In the past, when the two of us wanted to forge a fire system in Yingtian, we had to queue up and wait for the senior brothers in front to use up the furnace before I could use it.

Even steel can only use the inferior iron used by the seniors.

And here, so much good steel can be used by both of us! "

"Guo Changshi said that the two of us don't have to worry about steel at all. If we run out of steel, we just need to tell Qiu Baihu outside and go to Tieye to pull it..."

"Yiping, look at the charcoal here, how is it different from what we used in the past?"

"Light one up and try?"

"I'm going to get the fire bag!"

"I'm going for a latte..."

So, on the first day the two came to the gunpowder workshop, they started to burn the furnace.

……

As for Tao Wanhu, who was far away in Yingtian Mansion, after receiving the letters from his youngest son and the closed disciple, he felt like a thunderbolt, and was stunned.

The two idiots in my family decided to worship Guo Changshi as their master after seeing Guo Changshi, and they will be the servants of Prince Yan forever.

What's more, he has to go to the artisan workshop of King Yan's Mansion to be a craftsman.

Is it easy to go to the artisan workshop in Yanwang Mansion?A secret of cement is worth millions of taels of silver.

If you go in, can you come out?
In desperation, Tao Chengdao directly cleaned himself and changed his clothes, and went to the palace crying.

Hearing Tao Chengdao crying outside the palace, Lao Zhu couldn't help being a little curious, and quickly sent Erhu to bring him in.

"Your Majesty, you have to decide for the grassroots!"

As soon as he entered Fengtian Hall, Tao Chengdao knelt in front of the hall, his face full of grievances.

Lao Zhu's face darkened immediately, and he hurriedly asked: "Since we became emperor, you haven't come to see us once in several years.

Today is such a grievance, but who bullied you?Let's send Erhu, or Jiang Yu to bring him, and cut him into pieces. "

Tao Chengdao shuddered subconsciously, and the tears in his eyes stopped immediately.

"Your Majesty, the grassroots heard that in Beiping, Guo Changshi in His Royal Highness's residence was proficient in craftsman's skills, unlike the grassroots, he only studied gunpowder and other life-threatening things.

That Guo Changshi, who can use his craftsman skills to the people's livelihood in the world, is a real craftsman sage.

Therefore, Cao Min sent his youngest son Tao Yiping and young disciple Yang Ting to Beiping Mansion to let the two boys learn more.

Unexpectedly, the two boys had just arrived in Beiping Mansion, and they were coaxed by that Guo Changshi, worshiped that Guo Changshi as his wife, and entered Yanwang Mansion...

Your Majesty, I feel sorry for the grassroots. It's a pity that I have worked so hard to train those two boys for more than ten years, and I still prepare the workshop where the two boys will take over the grassroots in the future...

Who would have thought that the two boys would be tricked into Prince Yan's mansion by Guo Changshi before they left their teachers...

Grass people regret..."

Lao Zhu's eyelids twitched slightly, but his face was gentle, "You mean, Lao Si tricked those two boys from your family into his palace?"

Tao Chengdao shook his head hastily, "Your Majesty misunderstood, it was Guo Changshi from His Royal Highness Yan's residence. The grassland people thought that Guo Changshi had such a heart for the world, and his virtue was not bad.

But I didn't expect that Guo Changshi was so immoral, cheating the youngest son and disciple of the grassroots!

I also ask Your Majesty to make decisions for the grassroots..."

Old Zhu's face turned serious, and he said solemnly: "Don't worry, we will write a letter to the fourth bastard in a while, and we must give him a severe reprimand and tell him..."

Tao Chengdao's face changed, and he said quickly: "Your Majesty, absolutely not!"

"Ok?"

Lao Zhu looked at Tao Chengdao with some doubts.

Tao Chengdao said worriedly: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Yan is impatient, and you must not be reprimanded. This matter is the fault of Guo Changshi, and the young man and his disciples are still in Yan Wang's mansion... Those two boys are fools, Cao Min is afraid of them Wronged..."

Lao Zhu sighed lightly, and comforted him: "Don't worry, we understand what you mean, let the prince write a letter to ask."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Tao Chengdao breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, Tao Chengdao resigned.

"This old fox..."

When only Lao Zhu was left in the hall, Lao Zhu hummed lightly, then bowed his head and began to review the memorial.

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Beiping Prefecture.

For five consecutive days, Qiu Fu told Zhu Di what happened in the gunpowder workshop, begging Zhu Di to take care of it.

Zhu Di couldn't bear it anymore, so he brought Guo An over.

"Guo Qing, it's been five days in a row. Ever since Tao Yiping and Yang Ting entered the gunpowder workshop, Qiu Fu has reported to us every day that those two boys don't seem to be studying gunpowder in the gunpowder workshop. To blow up houses.

Every day, every few hours, there will be a shocking explosion in the gunpowder workshop.Of the two concrete houses you had people build, one of them has been blown out of a huge hole...

There were even a few times when the fire in the house could not be extinguished with water...It started to burn again after a while..."

What surprised Zhu Di was that Guo An was overjoyed when he heard this, "Your Highness, is that really the case?"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di looked puzzled.

"Your Highness, the development of gunpowder requires more explosions, more burns, and improvements through repeated experiments."

Guo An explained: "According to Qiu Fu's reaction, Tao Yiping and Yang Ting are not lazy in the gunpowder workshop.

Perhaps, within a few days, they will be able to develop the incendiary bomb that Wei Chen needs. "

Zhu Di said with a strange expression: "Those two boys are not lazy, Qiu Fu has not had a good rest in the past few days.

Even, those two boys almost killed Qiu Fu and several guards. "

"Ok?"

Guo An's expression froze, and he said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please give an order to reprimand Qiu Fu and strictly order them to approach the experimental house.

Otherwise, his guards were not killed by Japanese pirates and Mongols, but were blown to death by their own gunpowder. "

Zhu Di also reacted and nodded slightly.

"Those rammed goods really dare to come forward."

"Your Highness will understand."

Guo An's expression eased slightly.

Afterwards, when the topic changed, Zhu Di asked again: "Guo Qing, we heard that you have been running to the farm for the past few days, but what happened to the farm?"

"Return to Your Highness, I am studying farming." Guo An replied.

"Study farming."

Zhu Di was taken aback, "The matter of farming has been passed down for thousands of years, so what is there to study?"

Guo An said: "His Royal Highness, I found that when the common people plow the fields, they always plow out a field, then plow the field into ravines, apply fertilizer at will, and then bury the seeds in it.

When the seeds germinate, weeds will be hoeed at most, and the rest will be ignored. As for whether the harvest will be good, it all depends on God. "

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Plowing the fields has been like this since ancient times. Could it be that Guo Qing has a better way of plowing the fields?"

Guo Andao: "Your Highness, although I don't tend the fields very much, I always feel that farming should not be like this."

"Ok?"

Zhu Di asked curiously: "Does Guo Qing have a better way of farming?"

Guo Andao: "Your Highness, I feel that you can't always rely on God for farming, and the common people also need to work harder."

Zhu Di sighed slightly, "Guo Qing, the common people are suffering from farming."

Guo An said helplessly: "Your Highness misunderstood, this minister does not think that the people are not working hard on tending the fields.

Instead, I feel that none of the farmers and tenants can read big characters, and they rely on the experience passed down by word of mouth in farming.

However, these experiences did not improve farming techniques or yield per mu. "

"They don't know how to record with pen and paper, and they have never thought about what is the final yield per acre if different soil qualities, different fertilizers, different seeds, or different irrigation water volumes are combined?"

Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "Guo Qing's intention?"

Guo An said: "His Royal Highness, the last time Weichen came to Beiping Mansion from his hometown, there happened to be some fellow villagers from his hometown who wanted to follow Weichen to Beiping Mansion.

Moreover, most of these folks in the village know a few words.

Weichen then arranged two older and two younger fellow villagers to the farm to help them study how to farm. "

Zhu Di's eyes widened immediately, "You actually let the literate fellows go to the farm to farm?"

"Exactly!"

Guo An nodded slightly.

Zhu Di was full of doubts and asked, "Guo Qing is not afraid that this matter will spread, and the world will laugh at Guo Qing for being ungrateful and ungrateful, and treating his fellow countrymen harshly?"

(End of this chapter)