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Chapter 114 Pharmacist
Chen Mu found out that Zhang Han was teaching himself a lesson.

Taking a class on the procedures and forms of officialdom in this era is also setting an example to practice the words he inherited from Shangguan.

"The same is true for the way of living in the body. If you make a mistake, you will go anywhere!"

It took half a month for the Banner Army of the Xiangshan Thousand Households Station to transport tens of thousands of catties of nitrated brass and iron to Guangzhou Mansion by rickshaws and ox carts.

These things had not been stored in the warehouse of the state capital for two days, and the governor Xiong Wei sent the magistrate of Nanhai County to inform Chen Mu that the military funds allocated by the governor had arrived, and asked him to send the banner army to collect them.

Then, it took another half a month for the Banner Army of the Xiangshan Thousand Households Office to send the batch of nitrated brass and iron back to the Xiangshan Office almost intact.

Calculated hard, it would cost three or four thousand catties of nitrate and hundreds of catties of yellow, but this was neither Zhang Han's fault nor the fault of Governor Xiong Guang, the problem lies in the middle link.

Chen Mu didn't intend to pursue it. The things that were really missing in the goods were those silk and satin utensils.

Perhaps Zhang Han felt that Xiangshan Qianhu could not use those things, so he changed a gunpowder maker to make medicines for him.

The gunpowder maker's name was Xu Erjin, but Li Zhinian was alone. He used to be a military craftsman in Huizhou Prefecture.It was also from Qi Jiguang that he learned the skill of making gunpowder with one hand.

Xu Erjin had a bad face when he first came here. In the past, he was highly valued in the Eastern Guard, but now that his future in Xiangshan was uncertain, he was already worried, but when he looked at the appearance of the Xiangshan Guard, he was even more desperate.

The yamen of thousands of households is so well built, and the houses of the Banner Army are like kennels in comparison. With such a thousand households, how can life be better?

"Since you have come to Xiangshanwei, you will be Chen Qianhu's people from now on. Qianhu divides military artisans into four classes. Now you are a fourth-class craftsman, with a monthly salary of one stone for rice and five qian for silver." Guan Zun's class took Xu Erjin to Qianhu. Tiefang surrounded by high walls in Huyamen blinked and asked, "Brother, where is the third class?"

"The monthly salary is one stone and a half of rice, and eight coins of silver."

Xu Erjin's expression is different. In the guards he used to have, all the military craftsmen looked the same, with a monthly salary of one stone per meter. They either rushed to work day and night or had nothing to do. You can only earn one or two buckets of rice.

silver?

All the money he has seen is in the hands of others!

Xu Erjin looked at her dusty clothes, then at Guan Zunban's clean cloth shirt and rosy and healthy face, and asked anxiously, "Where are the first-class, first-class craftsmen?"

"Wait?"

Guan Zunban turned his head and glanced at Xu Erjin with a smile, and said, "The artisans sent by the state government are all like you, so don't feel embarrassed."

"A second-class craftsman has a monthly salary of two stones, one tael of silver, and can take care of a few craftsmen. In addition to the work arranged by Qianhu, he also has to supervise the craftsman's craftsmanship, weight, and quality. The craftsmen under his hand can't do it. Well, you will be fined."

"Don't even think about it, there is only one first-class craftsman in Qianhusuo." Guan Zun's class led Xu Erjin into the iron workshop and said: "The third-class craftsman is not difficult, hardworking enough, the quality of the products is good, and the time is long Just do it; but if you want to be a second-class craftsman, Qianhu said that you have to improve it, and you can improve anything now, as long as it is useful, you can be appreciated by Qianhu."

"But you are not very lucky, you are a gunpowder maker."

Guan Zunban shook his head lightly and said: "The gunpowder prepared by Qianhu is already very good, and the bamboo tubes are matched, there is no room for surpassing."

Xu Erjin raised his eyebrows. He is a gunpowder maker and understands what this means.

It is not a big deal to figure out the ratio of gunpowder and make a bamboo tube to charge the powder by himself, but in the entire Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang is the only general who can really do these things himself, as far as he knows in his mind.

Qi Jiguang's gunpowder was a ratio that was tried out time and time again; Qi Jiguang's bamboo tube was also made in battle.

That is a true practical school, no matter how proficient and greedy a craftsman is, he can't fool such a general who tries everything by himself.

"This room is yours, and the gunpowder room is next to it. In addition to making medicines, you must also be careful not to take care of sparks, or you will be the first to blow up." Guan Zunban took Xu Erjin to the gunpowder storehouse outside the Qianhu Yamen, Pointing to the side, he said, "That's the storehouse. The nitrous oxide that the state government has allocated recently is in it. In the past few days, people from the iron workshop have come to take away the copper and iron."

"There is not much gunpowder left, it will be of great use in a few days, don't delay, you want to make three thousand catties of gunpowder first, how long will it take?"

Xu Erjin went into the warehouse and looked around, and found that there were all kinds of utensils, so he cupped his hands and said, "Five more helpers are needed, and I can't do it as a gunpowder maker. Five more people will make it in ten days. The carpenter will also be tired." Make a few more wooden troughs."

Made in ten days, do you need other utensils?
Do it slowly enough.

"Don't dawdle, you will delay the important matter." The new gunpowder maker, Guan Zunban didn't say anything, just said: "I will send you a few helpers in the afternoon, and do it as soon as possible."

After talking about Guan Zun's class, he no longer took care of gunpowder craftsman Xu Erjin, turned around and walked back to the Qianhu yamen. His mind was now full of the drawings Chen Mu had drawn for the Guan family and his son.The large and small hydraulic mechanisms are not exquisite, maybe the finished equipment can be said to be exquisite, but Chen Mu's drawing is definitely not exquisite.

There are still many things to fill in, but the advantage is that they have a unique vision, which can provide them with ideas for skilled old craftsmen, and ideas plus experience can burst out powerful sparks.

For example, Chen Mu's large wheel in the composition can drive the small wheel and add a belt to turn quickly. Adding something to the belt can replace manual polishing, and can save a lot of man-hours in the production of wooden gun beds.

In the side hall of the yamen of the Qianhu Office, Chen Qianhu, who had eaten delicious food, took two sips of iced coconut and said with a smile, "I regret letting shopkeeper Yan go to Yuegang."

In the morning, he supervised the two-hour flag army training outside Qianhu Institute, during which he galloped and shot. Although sometimes he still couldn't hit the target, but this kind of situation has become less and less, and he can barely reach [-] out of [-] in [-] steps. Target.

Back at Qianhusuo, shopkeeper Xiaoyan not only brought beef to Qianhusuo, but also asked him to bring food boxes directly from the drum belly building.Qianhusuo also makes ice, and drinking two sips of iced coconut juice can relieve the fatigue of the whole body.

Comfortable!

"How can you be an official like you, and have people come to deliver meals all day long, and the cooks in the house are resting, and my old lady is in charge of the drum belly building, not your cook!" Yan Qingyao complained, and cleaned up the dishes with her hands It was quite neat, and after complaining, he yawned and looked at Chen Mu, with dark circles under his eyes like little pandas, and asked, "What do you regret?"

Coming from the drum building, shopkeeper Xiaoyan got up in the dark to prepare meals, and traveled in a carriage for a whole morning before delivering the meals at noon.

Chen Mu said with a smile: "If shopkeeper Yan hadn't left, wouldn't you be able to come to Qianhu to cook food? Being the shopkeeper is too humiliating!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Qingyao curled his lips to speak, when Qi Zhengyan heard from outside the hall: "Report!"

"Come in, what's the matter?"

Qi Zhengyan was not surprised to see Yan Qingyao when he came in, and whispered to Chen Mu: "Magistrate Zhou asked how your flag army training is going, and said that Haojingao is about to be locked."

Chen Mu nodded to let him go down, turned his head to see Yan Qingyao tidy up the food box neatly, sighed and said, "Don't run around if you have nothing to do in the next few days, Xiangshan, there is going to be a war."

(End of this chapter)