A Farmer's Lady's Guide to Getting Rich

Chapter 269 Firearms
"You're a puppy, but the winter wheat will be sown in October. I can plant it just after my potatoes are harvested. There is no rush now. You can send people to buy high-quality winter wheat seeds first, and find some people with rich planting experience. Come as a guide, let’s try it on the two hundred acres of land first, and then promote it on a large scale.”

After Chang Ning finished speaking, he immediately said: "That's right, if you grant me more wasteland, I want to be a big landlord."

"That little thing, do you have someone?" Xiao Qian immediately agreed and asked back.

"It's not easy to recruit people. Many of them are displaced and homeless people. Send them to the northwest and plant land for free. They will definitely come." Chang Ning quickly thought of a way.

"Okay! I knew my daughter-in-law was the smartest and most capable, so it was right to promise you to come to the Northwest." Xiao Qian was happy, and came forward to hug him again.

"By the way, I've been so busy these two days that I almost forgot. You said you want to make firearms, is that true? Have you made up your mind?"

Chang Ning looked at Xiao Qian, wishing he would say no, she really didn't want the world to suddenly enter the era of hot weapons.

"Yes." Xiao Qian's expression immediately became serious, and he said in a low voice, "I got news that my father, who is worthless, seems to have colluded with Bei Rong recently."

"What, King Zhenbei really wants to rebel?" Chang Ning was taken aback by the news. Beirong in this era is a very difficult country and Dayu's biggest foreign enemy.As the largest vassal king of Dayu, King Zhenbei controls a large piece of land in the northwest of Dayu. If he colludes with Beirong, then half of Dayu's national integrity will be gone.

"Maybe I didn't want to, but if I force it, I will reverse it."

Xiao Qian pulled Chang Ning into his study, pointed to a huge map on the wall and said, "Look, my current territory is at most only one-third of the whole territory in the northwest. If I just fight with my father , at least half of the chance of winning, but with Bei Rong, it's hard to say."

"But, didn't the old prince leave a secret army for you? Moreover, if the Beirong moved, Emperor Dayu would not stand by and watch. It is impossible for you to defend it!"

"Grandpa has abdicated for many years, and the army is scattered among several armies. It may not be able to be summoned with a single soldier talisman. I dare not put my wealth and life on a soldier talisman. And if Bei Rong joins the battlefield, The emperor will only protect himself first, Ken has no time to save me."

Yes!

Looking at the map, Xiao Qian's area is closer to the border, and is not connected to the Central Plains. Once a war breaks out, King Zhenbei can block the road here, and Xiao Qian can be surrounded and fought.

There are a few neutral factions in the Northwest Army, but they are neutral factions in the Taiping era. If there is a real war, people will see Xiao Qian on one side, King Zhenbei and Beirong on the other. Under the king's command.

At that time, even with the help of Azheluo and Ximan joining the battle group, Xiao Qian cannot be the opponent of King Zhenbei and the Beirong Allied Army.

If there is no war, with Xiao Qian's talent and the support of the old Zhenbei King, he will naturally be able to slowly erode Zhenbei King's territory step by step.

But now, once King Zhenbei starts the war first, it will be very difficult for Xiao Qian to win.

"So, you need to develop firearms!" Seeing such a scene, Chang Ning also sighed.

"Yeah, I grew up too fast, and he already felt threatened, but I never thought that he would actually want to collude with the Beirong people. You know, the value of our Zhenbei Palace is to resist the Beirong people. In order to kill me, he did not hesitate to betray the country. I never imagined that our father and son would hate so much!"

Thinking of his father who cheated his son, Xiao Qian felt very uncomfortable and heaved a long sigh.

"Okay, for the sake of victory and the real peace of the Northwest, I can make firearms for you, but they must be kept secret and strictly controlled, and must not be abused in the future."

Seeing Xiao Qian's difficult situation, Chang Ning knew that he was forced to do nothing, so he agreed after thinking about it.

The two immediately started researching.

To make a firearm, you must first have gunpowder.In ancient China, black gunpowder was the earliest and most widely used.Until modern times, it has been widely used in the production of firecrackers.

Black powder is easy to make, and the raw materials are easy to get: nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur, you can make it with these three.

Of course, this is the normal version. If you want something more powerful, you can replace the nitrate with potassium nitrate.

Of course, it is impossible for Changning and Xiao Qian to make powerful ones from the very beginning. Due to the constraints of backward conditions, they can only do ordinary ones first.

Xiao Qian had already started to work, and secretly built a firecracker workshop in a mountain outside Shuoyang City.

Originally, he didn't know the precise formula of black powder, so he had to let the workers find out first, but he couldn't produce the desired power for a long time.With the addition of Chang Ning, the formulation problem was immediately resolved.

The rest is to make firearms.

Chang Ning, who is familiar with history books, is very familiar with ancient firearms, and out of interest, she also searched for related popular science videos and watched them.Immediately, he drew the structural diagrams of several ancient firearms such as iron cannons, fireballs, muskets, fierce fire oil tanks, firecrackers, and bird blunderbusses, and wrote down the descriptions.

"These pictures are enough to change the world, so it's not safe to have pictures. How about this, after you prepare the black powder, I will personally go to the scene to supervise, and we will do the same."

After finishing the drawing, Xiao Qian showed the blueprints one by one. Chang Ning thought about it and tore them up again.

"Okay!" Xiao Qian also felt that Chang Ning's consideration was thoughtful, so he immediately called in his confidants to secretly arrange staff and affairs.

When Xiao Qian and Chang Ning were busy working on firearms, in Zhenbei Wangfu, Zhenbei Wang and Xiao Gang were restless.

Because Xiao Qian deliberately released smoke bombs, after Chang Ning arrived, he sent a letter to A Zhe Luo, asking him to spread the news that A Yi Lian is indeed a member of the royal family.King Zhenbei was very unhappy when he got the news.

"Ai Lian is probably the princess of Ximan. If Xiao Qian marries Ximan, Ximan will interfere in the future. It will not be so easy to destroy Xiao Qian."

"Although Ximan is not as powerful as Beirong, it is still a grassland country. It has the same origin as Beirong, so it is not easy to deal with. Moreover, the people of Rong are not easy to get along with. When the time comes, the lion will definitely take the opportunity to ask for more many benefits."

King Zhenbei and Xiao Gang had such a discussion, and suddenly felt that Ailian came at the wrong time.

He did not hesitate to provoke the war with the infamy of traitorous country, just wanted to march into the Central Plains while killing Xiao Qiankun, and divide the world equally with Bei Rong.If Bei Rong asks for too much after things are done, the loss outweighs the gain.

"Father, Xiao Qian and the Ximan prince Azhe Luo are good friends. If you add another princess, Xiao Qian will become the concubine of the Ximan royal family and have a relationship with Concubine Yun in the palace. Ximan will never stand by. In other words, if we want to stop the western barbarian royal family, we can only make them turn against each other."

Xiao Gang quickly thought of an idea, and said viciously,

"Oh, you have countermeasures?"

"Yes, send someone to assassinate Concubine Yun or Ai Lian, these two people, it is best to kill them all."

"Concubine Yun is now Emperor Dayu's favorite concubine. She is deep in the backyard of the palace and is tightly guarded. It's not easy to kill her?"

"If you can't kill Concubine Yun, you can kill Ai Lian first! I heard that she not only doesn't stay in the general's mansion obediently, but also likes to run outside. There are many opportunities to kill her."

(End of this chapter)