Chapter 362: Cheese and cannons must not be left behind

Chapter 362: Cheese and cannons must not be left behind

Oh, according to the popular saying on the modern Internet: "Heroes" in Liangshan are just such a group of people who do not take the lives of the people seriously. When they gain power, they will never take the people as anything other than "far" - so they always ask the people to love their robbery.

The idea of ​​Liu Taigong fighting with the heroes of Liangshan may be due to the evil intention of landlords to protect their legal income, but now, about half of the farmers in Haizhou are resenting them for disrupting their lives.

Shi Chuan thought about it and replied: "A hero from Liangshan, I have been traveling across the east and west roads of Beijing for many years. I am afraid I can't make sense to them with swords... I brought 1,300 thunderbolt bullets this time, and I'll leave them all for you."

Liu Taigong stomped his crutches and responded like this: "Leave the recipe and I will give you another thousand acres of fertile land by the river."

A big pie fell from the sky, and Shizhan was smashed by the pie and shook her body. This time, even Eleventh Lady felt that it was too generous. One thousand acres of fertile land by the Shuyang River can be sold for more than two or three thousand guan every year. She hurriedly shouted: "Father-in-law..."

Mr. Liu waved his hand: "What is land in troubled times? Look, today, there are only a few bandits wandering outside my village. I have thousands of hectares of land and tens of thousands of farmers, but they only dare to squat at home, and even go to the ground to manage their own land.

In troubled times, watching and helping each other is more valuable than a thousand hectares of land. I, Liu Bancheng, just want people to know that I have money and land, and I can afford to spend money to hire warriors. In times of crisis, if anyone comes to help me, Liu, I will definitely not treat him badly. In this way, my in-laws and nephews are such role models. Others are afraid of the bandits, and everyone only cares about keeping their own doors, but only my in-laws and nephews come to help thousands of miles away.

It's great, I want everyone in the world to know: I spit it out after eating mine, and I will give it a thousand times the reward for what I have given me. What is a thousand acres of land? As long as my Liu family is still standing, we can earn ten more "one thousand acres" sooner or later, and one hundred "one thousand acres"... There is no need to refuse. Old 2, take out a thousand acres of land and you will have to connect with the Fennel Castle. This time, my nephew went to the county and passed by the county - I know it's easy for you to do such a thing."

Shi Chuan shook his head: "Mr. Liu Taigong refused to treat others badly. I, Shi Changqing, are not the ones who cheated me. One thousand three hundred thunderbolt bullets were exchanged for you one thousand acres of land. When the people of Haizhou City heard it, they couldn't help but say that I'm sucking money. How can I be a human being in the future? Mr. Liu, I will accept one thousand acres of land, but I will pay you three thousand thunderbolt bullets. Is that good?"

Mr. Liu smiled proudly: "My eldest son is an official at least. I believe that your magistrate and father-in-law would not blame him. You said that you gave me three thousand thunderbolts, which is not enough. I, Liu Bancheng, suffered a loss once, and I would never fall into a second chance.

If you take people to the county, you will tell your father-in-law directly that there is no shortage of craftsmen in Liubancheng. From now on, I will start forging bows and arrows here. In the future, the government will not protect me. Then don’t blame me for picking up the swords myself... Nephew, I heard that the swords made by Duan’s family in your village are very sharp. I will send a housekeeper to go back to buy him several thousand. How much should I spend? I paid for the merchant’s house.”

Shi Zhun's eyes turned and thought: Now that chaos is coming, there must be many people in Shuyang County who are as thoughtful as Liu Taigong. To be honest, the Song Dynasty did not control weapons like the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although the official prohibited the people from having long-range attack weapons such as crossbows, all the bans slightly opened a back door - for example, if you are a general, a group training, etc., then the government does not care what kind of weapons you have.

For example, in the area of ​​Hebei, Shaanxi, due to frequent wars, the people spontaneously organized various bows and archery clubs, boxing shops, gun shops, etc. to protect their families and villages. The government simply regarded this kind of civilian armed forces as a way to save military expenditure in the imperial court. They did not pay them salaries in normal times, but organized officers to train. When encountering wars against the Western Xia, Shaanxi archers and gunmen were temporarily transferred to battle. These gunmen and archers once left a strong mark in the anti-aggression war in the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was a clan society... Well, the meaning of this sentence is used in the countryside, which means: this is an era of landlords' armed forces.

The late Song Dynasty, the more powerful the landlords in various places became. In real history, the so-called four major gangs of the Song Dynasty were basically destroyed by the landlords. Now the invasion of the heroes of Liangshanpo awakened the landlords in Haizhou. These landlords opened their sleepy eyes, shook their bodies, and were gradually getting up and preparing to arm themselves... But this level of armed forces seemed far from enough in Shitong.

During the turmoil at the end of the Song Dynasty, Haizhou City fell into the hands of the Jin people three times. This repetition actually showed the unyielding people of Haizhou on the one hand, and of course, it also showed the fragility of the local landlords' armed forces - they were far from armed to the teeth.

If we can take this opportunity to arm the entire Haizhou - not only Haizhou County, but also Shuyang, Huairen and Donghai County, so we are willing to do it even if we bring our own dry food.

"Taigong asked about the recipe for palm thunder - if it is just produced and used by itself, it would be really not worth the effort to maintain such a production workshop. Salter is very complicated to refine, and gunpowder also has an expiration date. After storage for a long time, even the configured gunpowder will fail...

Let's do this... Taigong plans to raise cattle? Taigong's name has a lot of land, and it must be no problem to raise cattle. Now the court has a horse protection law, and there are many restrictions on horse raising, but it is strongly encouraged... Of course, the raising of cattle I am talking about is not raising plowing cows, but dairy cows. Milk is a good thing. Not only can it replace human milk to nourish children, but the excess milk can also be made into cheese.

In troubled times, storing grain is a headache. If you store grain for up to two or three years, it will become moldy and not eat it. However, storing cheese for 100 years is not a problem. The longer you store it, the unique taste is... Taigong, this cow dung is also a good thing, and it can be used as firewood when dried. It is cold in winter, and bandits are rampant outside, and the people dare not go out to collect firewood, but there is a cow, and squatting at home and everything is solved."

Liu Taigong laughed awkwardly: "Nephew, you are so funny. I will tell you the firearm, the recipe of Pili Fire, you tell me milk, cow dung..."

"There are connections, the two are connections." Shi Chuan smiled and didn't feel that he was talking about it at all: "There are three kinds of gunpowder formulas: sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. Among them, sulfur can be purchased from Japan, saltpeter. Today's saltpeter in Haizhou is purchased from Xiao Liuqiu, and then extracted saltpeter from the bird droppings. I heard that there are pure saltpeter mines in Tianzhu. I have sent a ship to Tianzhu to search. Once we find it, our saltpeter source will be richer?"

When Shi Chuan was speaking, Liu Taigong tilted his head and thought about it again and again. He couldn't think of the connection between saltpeter and milk. He had to ask: "There is saltpeter in Tianzhu?... Hehe, just when you hear a message, you will send someone to find it. Can you find it? Then Tianzhu treats saltpeter as a kind of goods?"

"That's right, six thousand years ago, a method of reducing heat was popular in Shipandi (Dumyat Port in Egypt), Moga (now Morocco), and Besri (homophony of Muslim countries, that is, today Egypt) - using saltpeter to make ice cubes..."

Liu Taigong was shocked: "What, six thousand years ago? Six thousand years ago, the country of Besri knew how to extract saltpeter... Then, the people of Besri also knew how to use gunpowder?"

Shi Chuan grinned: "No - the Kingdom of Besri is a very traditional country. When their ancestors used saltpeter to make ice, they would never use saltpeter to do other things. Whoever dared to violate the tradition of the ancestors and did other things with saltpeter would have to be scolded by all their partners. So six thousand years ago they discovered the saltpeter refining technology and painted the process into pictures and painted it in the king's tomb, the pyramid. But six thousand years have passed, they are still using saltpeter to make ice, but they have not made it into gunpowder."

Liu Taigong said oh, Shi Chuan paused for a moment, and said, "I know a special method of milk called 'ice cream'. If Taigong raises cattle, then we can turn the firearm workshop into a one-stop production and sales-for example: I bought bird droppings from Xiao Liuqiu and extracted saltpeter from them. The remaining bird droppings were applied to the fields as fertilizer to increase production.

The saltpeter extracted from bird droppings is a primary product and is not very purity. When saltpeter is redissolved, it can absorb a lot of heat, resulting in cooling. It is precisely for this reason that all countries in Africa want to purchase saltpeter in India to make ice in summer. Therefore, the saltpeter mine in India began to be mined more than a thousand years ago. We can use this process to make ice cream for sale during the secondary refining of saltpeter to reduce production costs.

Taigong, ice cream is very delicious. It is the best food to relieve heat in summer. I promise that the money you earn from raising cattle like this is much stronger than farming. In the industry chain of nitrogen, you only need to raise enough cattle to get alive. In the summer, we sell ice cream, and by the way, I will take away the ice cubes made from nitrogen. What, you also want, okay, let's divide it in half. Purified saltpeter, you can make firearms and sell it to nearby landlords. If you can't buy it, I will continue to wrap it around..."

Liu Taigong interrupted: "This, can you make ice at the same time when purifying nitrogen. Can this process be repeated?"

"Yes - dissolving, condensation... the more you repeat it multiple times, the higher the purity."

"Then there will be no more saltpeter than," Liu Taigong smiled very kindly: "Even the ice made in the winter, there are places to sell. Nowadays, no large households dig an ice cellar. Those large households ask the farmhouses to go to the river to get ice in the winter, and then store it in the cellar, and use it in the summer. If our ice cubes are sold cheaply, the large households will not lack that much money."

"Yes, ice cream may not be sold in winter, but we can make milk into cheese and store it in the cellar for a long time. When the war breaks out, hide in the cellar to eat cheese. As long as there is water in the cellar, it will be no problem for a family to hide for a year. Besides, this cheese can also be sold. The cheese stored for several years is both milky and hungry. I also know several kinds of vegetables, which can be seasoned with cheese or side dishes..."

Liu Taigong was already ready to move, but he thought about it and asked again: "This cow... I often produce milk for cows, and only produce milk for a few months when they give birth to calves. But what you mean, it seems that this 'cow' is also a breed of cow?"

"It cannot be considered a special breed. However, after giving birth to calves, this kind of cow produces a large milk production volume and a very long milk production period, so it is specially raised for making cheese." After a pause, he decided to say it thoroughly: "Ches are easy to carry and store, and they are very hungry after eating them. Therefore, it is not only a reserve for the preparation of wasteland during the famine, but also the best marching rations."

"It's reasonable. Newborn babies can survive by drinking only mother's milk. The same is true for calf. Then, when the military men are hungry, they will probably be able to keep hungry for a day when they chew a few pieces of cheese... Haha, I often heard that Shi Dalang can make money, and it turns out that's true. I just want a firearm recipe. Dalang even thought of "marching rations" for me. And tell me the way to make money from it - very good."

After a moment of pause, Liu Taigong pointed to the new wife next to him and asked tentatively: "This, does your girl know this skill?"

Just now, when Liu Taigong was talking to Shi Tuan, Eleventh Lady was so ashamed that she wanted to hide from the words. At this time, when she heard Liu Taigong's inquiry, she shook her head frequently, and couldn't help but want to get up and walk out. Shi Tuan quickly rescued her: "Taigong, gunpowder formula is nothing. "The General Yao of Wu Jing" records a variety of gunpowder formulas, but our gunpowder formula has been specially screened and has greater power than those recorded in the book. If you fiddling with this thing, you not only need to prevent the formula from leaking out, but also extremely dangerous.

In addition, raising cattle requires dealing with feces... Hehe, my girl is pretty fond of it. She is good at housekeepers and running the house business, but this kind of thing..."

Liu Taigong pondered and said: "There are also craftsmen in the folk who make firecrackers. I heard that they used egg whites to purify saltpeter, and what else..."

Shizhuan immediately followed up: "So they can't make ice cream, and this refining method is very expensive."

"My family did it." Now it was Liu Taigong's turn to cut off the words: "Huang Magistrate built a mountain road, winding through Baihu Mountain from Hanshan Mountain, and finally arrived in Haizhou - near Hanshan Pass is your Fennel Castle, and at the other end is Baihu Villa. At the two ends, no one can enter or exit. That's right, just make ice nitroz in your Fennel Castle, and bird droppings come ashore from Haizhou, and enter the Fennel Castle from Baihu Mountain. It is hidden and safe. My family took out a thousand acres near Hanshan, no, two thousand acres of land, specializing in planting grass to raise cattle.

Just near Hanshan, do a cave digging from your fennel burger to store that... Cheese, yes, cheese. We can also hollow the mountain and make it into an ice cellar to store ice cubes. At that time, no one can tell what is pulled out of the fennel burger and what the raw materials are... Second wife, this matter will be left to you. Among the six housekeepers, Cheng is meticulous in doing things and is suitable for handling fine work, so he is responsible for managing... Then, 'One-stop raising cattle and making salt'... The nephew of the Shi family, please ask you to grow cows, you and I will share the bird guano, I will use your fennel burger, and we will share the profits with half, how about?"

Shi Chuan thought deliberately, and Shi Taigong took a lot of advantage, and replied in a very embarrassing way: "Okay, I am responsible for providing bird droppings, Taigong is responsible for providing milk; I am responsible for providing venues... and related technologies, cow species; Taigong is responsible for providing manpower, we are half the product, and the industrial management is under the responsibility of Eleventh Niang."

Oh, in order to buy the opportunity to cooperate with Shipeng, Liu Taigong had previously paid 1,000 acres of the most fertile land by the Shuyang River... Let's not mention this.

What the war needs is iron and fire. In terms of steel, now there are Duan's Blacksmith's workshop and overseas Li Dalang's steel factory; in terms of gunpowder, now Liu Taigong voluntarily boarded the pirate ship... But this is not enough, iron and fire are not enough. Moreover, now the shortcomings are manpower. Through the previous bandit suppression and the battle with the heroes of Liangshan, many problems arise in group training. At the same time, the ironwork workshop needs to reserve more productivity.

"As for swords, bows and crossbows... Taigong, my Duan's Blacksmith House recently developed the Han Dynasty's hemp steel. This is a kind of high elastic steel, which is most suitable for iron-arm crossbows. The disassembly of iron-arm crossbows is also extremely simple. Usually there are only a few iron parts. Once they are assembled in critical moments, it will be a killing weapon. However, this time, the heroes of Liangshan..."

"Shui bandits", Liu Taigong sternly corrected: "Who treats them as heroes - the ones who were robbed by them?"

Well, even if their robbery does not represent the interests of the vast majority of robbed people... In this way, it is not too much to call them "gangs".

"This time, the Liangshan gangsters came, and the reason why people could not be controlled in the countryside was because no one was armed... Taigong and Liu's family were armed, but they were trapped at home. Others did not come to rob, but they could not leave the door. Let's tell the people of the four towns a truth: Who is the robbers robbed? If your family has no money, will the robbers visit? But who doesn't earn it, save it, save it? Who is willing to use their own money to achieve the robber's "wiseness"?

Did the robbery in Liangshan announce the robbery standards? They said that there is more than robbery in the house and less than robbery in the house. No, they believe that "thieves will not leave empty." Since they come, they cannot leave empty-handed. No matter how your money comes, they will never let it go.

Since no one can guarantee that he will not be robbed, it is not just the responsibility of the wealthy family to arm himself and defend his property. In the world, the ultimate goal of every commoner who struggles to change his destiny. The ultimate ideal of hard-working money is to become a wealthy family, and not worry about tomorrow's meal today. No one is born to want to suffer. It is the natural power of human beings - no matter how much money he has

Therefore, when armed, it is not only the responsibility of the Liu family, but also the responsibility of the Liujiazhuang households, and the responsibility of all the "producers" in Shuyang - those with constant property have perseverance. As long as there is a family, as long as there is food at home, as long as we come forward to organize them, the scope of activities of the Liangshan River gangsters will become smaller and smaller. Therefore, on this land that belongs to us, we can freely go to the land to farm, sow seeds, and harvest...

Taigong, everyone assumes the responsibility of protecting their own family. No matter whether the Liangshan gangsters are coming or other foreign gangsters, they cannot take away the seeds we sow."

Liu Taigong had just decided on an industry that could bring huge profits. He was excited and was bewitched by Shizhang's incitement words. After pondering for a moment, he immediately decided: "It makes sense - my Liu family held the wedding of the second son, and he actually wanted to hold it behind closed doors. It's a shame and humiliation... It just so happened that the wedding was not over yet, so how could there be no He Ke? Kuang'er, hurry up and invite relatives and friends around me. My Liu family is going to take on this burden today."

In ancient times, weddings were emphasized to "return to the door in three dynasties". Eleventh ladies were married far away and could not return to the door after three days. Then the wedding would have to be postponed for three days, and they would have to wait three days before they could see off the wedding team. This is what Liu Taigong said, "The wedding has not ended yet."

Liujiazhuang is located in the outskirts of Shuyang, and many large and small landlords live nearby. Liu Taigong began to send invitations and invite these people to the door. With the help of time, Shi Chuan sent a message to Shuyang City, telling Huang's father that he had arrived at Shuyang City and would bring people into the city in three days. After Huang's father asked in detail about the people who had worn out in the past, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The entire Shuyang City also relaxed with Huang's father's relaxation, but Huang's father still did not dare to leave the city. He sent his secretary to congratulate him, and he was still waiting in the city to see him.

Liu Taigong himself was one of the best landlords in Shuyang. Now that his eldest son has become a county magistrate, the Liu family has become a gentry class. He ordered not only landlords of Shuyang County, but also many officials who retired also came to congratulate him. Shuyang is the "Shang County". Because of the fertile land, many officials chose to settle here after resigning. Originally, according to the unspoken rules of the officialdom, Liu Taigong's eldest son Liu Xu was only a 19th magistrate, and those who were older than him only needed to send a housekeeper to the door. But now it is an extraordinary period. At this moment, the Liu family has the most force on the territory of Shuyang County. So, the officials did not care about official etiquette and wanted to bring the whole family to congratulate him... By the way, they lived in the Liu family and refused to leave.

So, the wedding banquet in Liujiazhuang that night became a gathering of local landlord armed leaders and retired officials.

After thirty years of drinking and five flavors, Liu Taigong began to get busy. He first withdrew from the table, changed clothes according to the etiquette, handed over the dominance of the banquet to the groom, and then hid behind the scenes, constantly calling three or two people to come in for a secret conversation. The content of the conversation was probably the inciting sentences of Shideng, which seemed to be good-all the landlords who were big and small, all looked excited, and they wanted to wield swords and guns in the venue to show their courage.

Liu Kuang gave a round of wine on behalf of the Liu family. It was time to put on the stage. He stood up with a smile, raised his glass to toast the landlords present. He was together, and the whispers at the scene stopped. Shi Chuan coughed and said loudly: "Someone, Shi Chuan Shi Shi from Haizhou City, I wish everyone... I wish this new couple..."

In ancient times, there were special prayers. After a few praises, they raised their glasses to drink. But it seemed that the people at the scene were not in this way. A neighbor who came to congratulate asked in a low voice: "Chen Xinlang, I heard that you came from Haizhou and met Liangshan gangsters on the way. Since you met them, this group of people suddenly stopped robbing their families and seemed to have disappeared from the ground in Shuyang. But the more this is, the more terrifying. Who knows where they are going to rob next? Dalang, do you guess where they are hiding now?"

Chapter 362: Cheese and cannons must not be left behind.
Chapter completed!