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Chapter 22 Gunpowder
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The spicy Wei Balang was about to burst into tears. Not only was it spicy, but it was probably because Chen Xiaoqi had held the matchlock in his hand for a long time, and it was also mixed with the smell of gunpowder, which made Xiao Balang cough and run back to the post house to drink three bowls of water before he could drink it. This energy is suppressed.Wei Balang was crying hotly, while Chen Mu was laughing until his stomach ached, although he really felt from the bottom of his heart that happiness should not be based on Balang's pain at this time, let alone he was just a child.

He seemed to see a large sum of money waving to Hachiro while crying, just wanted to laugh, and couldn't help it!

When you are poor, the whole world will come to make things difficult for you.But once the time turns, it will really be the contribution of heaven and earth!Ever since Chen Mu got 20 taels of silver from Zhang Yongshou, Chen Xiaoqi had a very happy life in the days to come, not to mention anything else, and when he returned to the guard, he got a job security guard when everyone else was busy working in the fields like cattle and horses. For such a quick job at the far post station, if you get a big bucket of gunpowder and give you a pillow when you sleep, you will find such a cave that produces nitrate on the mountain behind the post station.

After returning from the cave to the post station, Fu Yuan, who was already riding smoothly, came galloping with an earth dragon wrapped around the buttocks of a weighted horse. fell off the horse.At any rate, he knew how to rein in his horse, and he was dressed a little thicker in the late autumn season. He didn't hurt him from the fall, and when he got up, he rushed into the post happily and shouted: "Xiao Qi? Big Brother? You're paid!"

"You've just... paid your salary?"

Chen Mu thought that Fu Yuan was scolding him, but he didn't realize it until halfway through the sentence. After calculating, he should be able to get two months' salary this time.When the salary was distributed last month, he was in the Guangzhou mansion. If the salary was distributed this time, it would be six shi of brown rice, which is nearly three taels of silver.

Although Chen Xiaoqi can be regarded as "rich and powerful" with more than a dozen taels of silver in his pocket, but you have to ask if he wants six stones of brown rice?

nonsense!Based on the official position inherited from my father, why don't I want a salary!
Fu Yuan rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Liu Shi and a half, there is no one in your house, I will put it in a rice jar, and let old man Zheng watch!"

"Hi!" Chen Mu laughed as soon as he heard the clapping, "Don't bother, whoever is free will come to my house some other day and sell that rice, it's useless to keep it, Xiaoqi stays here all winter, and it will be old rice when I go back— — Let’s not talk about that, you came back just in time, go to weigh the medicine, Shi Qi is waiting outside."

As Chen Mu said, he took Balang who had just wiped away his tears and went out. Wei Balang resisted with all his strength, and now he just wanted to vomit when he heard the word Ziyao.

"Etc., etc!"

Fu Yuan was drinking water with a ladle in his hand. Seeing that Chen Mu was about to leave, he quickly came out of the bamboo tube and poured beans and said, "Hundred households are in a hurry in Qingyuan. There is news of Japanese pirates appearing in the east of Guangzhou Mansion this morning. The commander sent an order to each of the hundred households." Harvest the fields as soon as possible, guard the various places, and the hundred households let us..."

"Let's go back to Yukou?"

Chen Mu frowned, he really didn't expect this to happen, but after he finished speaking, Fu Yuan waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's almost winter, even if the pirates come to Guangdong, they can't come to our Qingyuan , Baihu is worried about harvesting the fields, and I want Xiaoqi to take one person back. Xiaoqi, you know, there are only fifty or sixty Zhengding in Baihu. Xiaoqi, how can we finish harvesting fifty hectares of military land! Baihu even asked me to ask you to see if you can come up with a solution."

"Ask me?" It was Chen Mu's turn to be stunned. Even if Bai Yuanjie regarded him as a confidant, he was at best a thug. How could he find a solution for such a thing, "What about the general flag? Why don't Baihu ask the general manager?" Qi asked me?"

"Wang Zongqi got tuberculosis and half of his body was buried in the ground. He didn't care about anything all day long, and he didn't know when he would let go. What can compare to Xiaoqi who can relieve the worries of hundreds of households!"

On top of the small flags there is the General Banner in charge of the five small flags, and then the Hundred Households.Although Chen Mu was surprised that Bai Yuanjie could directly ask him about such a thing, but he had to say that Bai Yuanjie found the right person.

Not to mention the big ones, there are more than 3000 Zhengding military households in Qingyuanwei, who can solve this trouble for Bai Yuanjie?
Chen Mu patted his chest lightly, and said to Fu Yuan: "Don't talk about going back alone, even if all six of Xiaoqi go back to harvest the fields, how useful will it be? If a hundred households can transfer one or two to Chen Xiaoqi Craftsmen, send things to hundreds of households in two days, at most two days. Maybe they can finish harvesting rice within five days. Even if they can’t, they can collect as much as possible. , Chen sent three Zheng Ding to go back—how about it, let’s make another trip?”

At this time, Chen Mu was very thankful that he had devoted himself to an officer, even the lowest-level officer in the guard, was better than ordinary military households like them who were called around.In the past few days, Fu Yuan has traveled back and forth for dozens of miles from Baihusuo to Anyuan Station.This matter should be replaced by Chen Mu being used by the Shangguan like this, with a low status and no salary, I am afraid he will follow suit as a fugitive!
But Fu Yuan didn't have such awareness at all, even he was very happy to do so, nodded in agreement and had some dinner in the posthouse, greeted Chen Mu and others who were out to weigh the gunpowder, and rode away very briskly.

Ordinary military households, how many of the thousands of people cutting rice in Qingyuanwei can ride horses?He pays one dollar!In the past few days, from the beginning leading the stage horse to the Feishui Bridge, and then walking for a while, sitting on the horse and walking slowly for a while, until now he can ride slowly, and run hundreds of steps fast from time to time, Fu Yuan is very happy what!

What's more, looking at what Chen Xiaoqi meant at the moment, he was going to be responsible for going to Qingyuan City and Baihusuo in the next winter, which was the treatment only a confidant could have.After running a few errands, it's too late for Fu Yuan to be happy, so why would he complain!
In the past few days, every time Fu Yuan went out from the guard, he was arrogant, and the feeling was different.In the past, not many people in the guards looked up to him, but because of Chen Mu, because of Chen Mu's horse, those military households who used to look down on him had to look up to him.why?Because he came to the Baihu Office to find Bai Baihu directly, and he went to Anyuan Station to work easily, and he can ride a tall nine-sided war horse!
Not to mention that ordinary people can't tell the age of a war horse, most of them have never been close to touching a horse, even if Fu Yuan himself hadn't told him that Huoshaoyun was a teenage horse, he wouldn't have known .

Chen Mu didn't know this. He was sitting on the root of a tree in the forest east of the post station, writing and drawing on a wooden board with a charcoal pencil, thinking about a big issue that might be a matter of life and death in his mind.

Shouldn’t the amount of gunpowder weighed out according to the optimal ratio be less when used on the bird’s blunderbuss?
What Chen Mu is most afraid of is that in this era, the blunderbuss cannot withstand the power of the gunpowder explosion. If the lead pellets are not shot out, the chamber will explode again!

Note: The word "adult" has the meaning of father a long time ago, but it does not absolutely refer to father, it can also refer to adults, elders or respect.

As far as I know, the earliest determination of this multiple usage was in the Han Dynasty, maybe earlier.

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