Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 245 “Script” exceeds [-] words
  The Jin Dynasty was a dynasty where you could buy officials with money. Whoever had more money would get a bigger official position!
  Wang Quan had seen these before when checking the information.

Even Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, put the money from selling his official position into his own pocket instead of entering the state treasury.

With this money-first ideology, people across the country are struggling to make money from top to bottom.

If you have money, you can become an official. Being an official is to make more money!
  In this historical environment, Wang Quan felt that he was in the right place as "the sky is high enough for birds to fly, and the sea is wide enough for fish to jump".

Afraid that what was recorded in the book was different from the actual situation, he also asked someone to inquire about it, and what he found out was even more serious than what was recorded.

The court directly issues documents and uses money to run for officials!
  According to the information he learned, it is currently the second year of Yongkang, June of 2 AD. In the next three months, Linru County of this county will hold an election for county magistrate.

With this news, Wang Quan definitely wants to participate. After all, in about four years, the "Five Husbands" will begin, and those barbarians will invade the Central Plains.

In order to protect the lives and property of the people, he must develop his power as soon as possible and make more preparations.

In the next period of time, he used high technology to follow the rivers around the barren mountains in places where there were no people.

From those shallow areas of the river, we were searching for some money that was either lost or buried there.

During a scan, he discovered a hoard containing a lot of broken silver and a small amount of gold and silver cakes.

With the money, he first bribed a person similar to the village chief in the surrounding village to help him apply for an "ID card". After all, he didn't have an identity when he came here.

With this new identity, he spent money to buy another official equivalent to the "town mayor" level.

It has been more than a month since I got these things done.

When scanning those mountains and forests before, he also discovered many tombs, of various sizes.

There is a large tomb in which the treasures are buried very deep, almost ten meters away from the outside.

He remembered this place in his heart.

Of course, while doing these things, he also contacted and met some friends, and some of these people followed him after he bought an official position.

After becoming an official, he began to understand the town's resources and search for talents to prepare for the war four years later.

In the more than a month since he traveled back in time, he has not seen or heard of any fireworks or firecrackers in this place.

This shows that gunpowder has not yet been invented.

As a time traveler and a soldier, he must know their ingredients.

Gunpowder is composed of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal in a certain proportion.

Even the proportions of the more powerful black powder and explosives were clear to Wang Quan.

Wang Quan also knew about the production of saltpeter and sulfur.

The simplest way to make saltpeter is to take some saline-alkaline soil, let it dissolve, and then filter and boil the dissolved water to extract it.

Sulfur is made by mashing sulfur ore, adding water and boiling it, then cooling and filtering to obtain a solution, then adding butter and sesame oil and boiling it in a certain proportion.

The current condition is a lack of talent and resources.

When looking for talents, he found famous carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, etc. in the town, and these people were brought over first as backup.

Let them try to make some grinding tools first, such as guns, cartridge cases or the shapes of some screws, etc. to practice their hands and accumulate experience for actual production in the future.

If we want to achieve good results in future wars, we must develop military weapons.

And good weapons will definitely not be the cold weapons of this dynasty, they must be hot weapons!

To develop thermal weapons, we need gunpowder, explosives, and good steel.

It seems that it is not that easy to develop military industry.

The current conditions are too backward and we can only proceed step by step. He will run for county magistrate in more than a month. In his spare time, he will take that top-notch detector and go out to search secretly.

With high technology, in more than a month, he discovered several places where money was buried relatively shallowly in the mountainous areas within the jurisdiction of the town.

These are the belongings hidden by some wealthy or prestigious people in the previous dynasty and earlier when they fled.

If you find out now, you will get an advantage.

Of course, I don’t think I’m cheap either.

If these yellow and white things are left there, they will definitely be useless. Only when they are taken out can their value be reflected.

In addition to the cost of "buying an official", other kings will definitely spend it all to develop military industry and purchase supplies.

Anyone who knows the history of the "Five Husbands" certainly doesn't want that tragedy of man-cannibalism to happen again.

Peace can only be found in the face of truly powerful military power.

After he became an official at the level of "town mayor", he discovered that the term of the "township chief" in a village was about to expire, and someone paid him to come to him and want to be the township head.

Officials have the power to appoint and remove lower-level officials within the jurisdiction of the territory. This is a veritable "Tu emperor".

But the situation here is that after the term is up, you have to spend money to run for election again.

Part of the campaign money is given to the court and part to superior officials.

The man who wanted to buy an official position under him and become the head of the township lived in a mountainous area, not far from the barren mountains he had just arrived when he crossed over. He also bought their things.

Not knowing what he was like, Wang Quan went to that village to investigate.

Through investigation, he found out that this man was the patriarch of their clan, and the family collectively paid for him to buy an official position.

The previous township chief was from another place. He had been plundering people's wealth in his township all year round and used the money to buy officials in other towns.

During the investigation, he also unexpectedly discovered that there were coal resources there.

Coal is the food for industrial development. This discovery made him decide to make it a key place for future military industry development.

Through understanding, he knew that this man was highly respected, so he agreed to let him be the township head without taking any money from them, and asked the man to return all the money to the villagers.

However, as a "town mayor" level official, this township is his sphere of influence.

Wang Quan hired some skilled craftsmen in the village and began to dig caves and build houses in preparation for the future development of "military" products.

More than a month passed quickly. He used the money he found to bribe superior officials and bought the official position of "Linru County" and "County Magistrate" level at the highest bidder.

The term of office of this official is three years. If you want to continue to serve after three years, you must run again.

"Honey! It's almost 11 o'clock, go to bed!"

While he was writing, Yi Xiaoyue said to him.

Some of these scripts are plots that Wu Yuansheng wrote some time ago, and today he wrote some more.

The number of words written so far has exceeded [-] words.

"Well! Time flies so fast, more than an hour passed before I knew it."

Looking at her, he smiled.

After putting away the writing papers, they went to bed.

(End of this chapter)