Zhu Hongsan didn't know that he had made some contribution to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. After entering the city, he separated from Zhao Goudan. Zhao Goudan wanted to go home to see his father, and Zhu Hongsan went home to get gunpowder.

After returning home, I went to the front yard to meet my mother. My mother had a good improvement today. She sat up and chatted with Zhu Hongsan for a few words. Ask him what he is busy with now? Of course, Zhu Hongsan could not tell his mother about his legendary experiences these days. She just picked a few interesting stories about the farm and told her mother, which made her laugh.

Zhu Hongsan said a few words to his mother. Seeing that his mother was tired, he waited for her to lie down. He arranged for the maid Xiaocui to take care of her mother. He returned to the house and carried out the gunpowder jar from the cellar of the laboratory behind the room. Zhu Hongsan knew that gunpowder was prone to moisture, so he didn't do too much. After making about ten kilograms, he put it in a ceramic jar and sealed the mouth with wax.

After opening the seal, I saw that the gunpowder particles were very good and were not damp at all. I used a small pound to weigh eight liang, took an iron can, and put it inside. I compacted it with my hands, and saw that it could still be filled with one liang, and then one liang to the inside. There were nine liang in total. The jar was big and small, and the seal was only the size of a copper coin. Zhu Hongsan found a wooden stick one foot long in the yard and sharpened it with a knife.

Use a hammer to seal it, and it is OK to look at it. In the future, it can be produced in batches using a processed wooden handle. There is a small eye at the bottom of the tank, which is a guide cable. I set a few meters of lead wire in the firecracker shop in the city, cut out a small hole, and sealed it with wax. A hand grenade from the Ming Dynasty was completed.

Looking at the thick hand grenade in his hand, it looks like a toilet squeezing. Now the iron cow can't produce slender jars, so he just put it in with a small hammer and knocked it out bit by bit. Now that the cast iron stove is ready, the iron cow should be asked to study casting shells. This is OK by tapping one or two by hand, but mass production is not possible at all. Hand grenades are consumables, and Zhu Hongsan remembers that the hand grenades in later generations were cast.

Zhu Hongsan filled all the three jars he had retrieved with gunpowder according to this, and then cleaned them up. Look at the three small leather sashes, put two at home, and put them in his arms and prepared to go out to find a place to experiment.

It was almost noon and there were many people on the street. Zhu Hongsan turned around and saw that there were people everywhere. There was really no place to experiment, so why would he go out of the city?

Zhu Hongsan didn't know that two people in the restaurant opposite him had seen him while he was strolling on the street. He was not an outsider at that time, but Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong.

This morning, Ma Mingyuan came to Feng Ziyong to talk about the mountains, no, it was talking about the past and present. It was just noon, and County Magistrate Feng wanted to arrange for his cousin to have a meal, so he came to this most popular restaurant in the county to eat.

A few years ago, Zhu Hongsan's MSG soy sauce immediately caused a sensation as soon as it was launched. The shopkeeper of Shiweitian immediately signed a three-year supply agreement with Zhujia Soy Sauce Shop. The MSG soy sauce plus the chef from Nanzhili invited by Shiweitian immediately became popular all over the city. If you want to have a meal, you must book a seat three days ago. Of course, this is an ordinary person. Can the county magistrate wait for three days if you want to have a meal?

The two brothers went upstairs to sit in the Tianzi box. After ordering the dishes, they stood at the window and looked at the scenery outside. The Tianzi box was indeed in a good seat, adjacent to the main street. You can see Liangzi Lake outside the city by looking away, and you can vaguely see the city walls of Wuchang Mansion a little further away.

Standing by the window, I saw the white sails on Liangzi Lake, and I felt particularly comfortable listening to the crowded voices coming from the main street downstairs.

Feng Ziyong said, "Zhongming (Ma Mingyuan's word), looking at the blue sky and white clouds, listening to the hawking voices, those who don't know really think it's a peaceful and prosperous era. Who would have thought that passing the Yangtze River would be another scene."

Ma Mingyuan sighed: "There are many short-sighted people in this world who only see the infinite scenery in front of you. Without long-term thinking, there will be immediate worries."

Feng Ziyong asked: "Didn't your brother Ziqing (Ma Jiyuan's name) send me a letter recently? How is it happening there?"

"The elder brother came to Feng's letter half a month ago. When it comes to Xinyang leaning against the Yangtze River, it is OK. In addition to several big cities in the north, there are already a city that has fallen in the hands of the government troops. By the way, what do you think of the future?"

Feng Ziyong said: "I can't see clearly this world. I hope that the country can produce a minister who can quickly quash the bandits."

"Does the second brother still feel that this world is saved?"

Feng Ziyong frowned: "Why is the second brother so pessimistic? The north is in corruption. Isn't the Ming Dynasty still retaining half of the country now?"

Ma Mingyuan said sadly: "My second brother came from Nanzhili, and of course he saw singing and dancing. Didn't he go to the shack outside the county town to see it? It's happening every day when selling children and daughters, and Yizi is eating. But what are the people in Jiangnan doing? They are drunk and dreaming every day. There is someone who cares about the Ming Dynasty."

Feng Ziyong sighed, he knew that Ma Mingyuan was very correct.

Ma Mingyuan continued: "Now the north is destroyed, and all provinces along the Yangtze River are ordered to transfer local garrison troops to the north to quell the chaos. Huguang, SSC, Zhili are empty everywhere. Just look at our Wuchang. Wuchang Guard, Changsha Guard, and Changde Guard are all transferred to the north. The Yangtze River defense line is empty. The northern bandits are mobile, like mercury pouring the ground. If there is weak defense, it will definitely go to that place. I see that the peaceful days of Huguang are almost over."

Feng Ziyong was surprised and said, "No, can the bandits cross the Yangtze River?"

"When Huang Chao fought to Guangzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Just look at the bandits in the north, you will know that Chongzhen saw the government army three years ago and wanted to hide and run away. Now? The government army did not dare to leave the city without tens of thousands of people. Is it still far from fighting the Yangtze River?"

After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he looked at Feng Ziyong and saw him lowering his head and pondering. He then said, "Second brother, we are our own family. If we don't speak two families, look at this..." He pointed at the sky and said, "Is it going to change?"

Feng Ziyong was shocked, looked around and looked at Wu Ren, and whispered: "Second brother, don't have his life. How can we say such a thing by all the court?"

Ma Mingyuan said: "Does the second brother and uncle have no ideas?"

Feng Zi used his face to think: "I have thought about Ma Mingyuan's words and my father long ago. But seeing that the peasant army could not achieve great things, it also stopped this trouble. It seems that their Ma family has become more concerned."

Feng Ziyong asked: "Have you discussed with my uncle? Does Xinyang's elder brother know?"

Ma Mingyuan said: "They don't know yet. You know the elder brother's temperament. When I say it, he will catch me and send it to BJ. How dare I tell him?"

It seems that Ma Lao Er had thought about it. No, I would like to dissuade him for public and private purposes. Thinking of this, Feng Ziyong said: "Second brother, it is normal for young people to achieve great things, but Gao Li and others in the north are not people who achieve great things. Look at them, they kill scholars and rob landlords when they go to a place. Without a stable base, they will not last long. We all have a family and must not have such an idea."

Ma Mingyuan nodded. It seemed that Feng Ziyong could not fight for it yet, and the time was not yet here.

While the two brothers were talking, they suddenly saw Zhu Hongsan, who was sneaky across the street. When they saw him, Feng Ziyong was angry. He had never suffered such a big loss in anyone. He couldn't help but say angrily: "Second brother, have you seen your good brother-in-law?"

Ma Mingyuan knew that Feng Ziyong was still angry and smiled and said, "I saw it. It seems that my second brother was very angry with him."

Feng Ziyong snorted and said, "If it weren't for Xiaofang's sake, I wouldn't have spared him."

Ma Mingyuan said: "He just knows that you can't do anything to you. If there is no such relationship, he will change to other ways."

Feng Ziyong asked, "It seems that my second brother has suffered from him."

Ma Mingyuan cursed in his heart: Not only have he suffered a loss, but he has to work hard for him.

But he couldn't tell Feng Ziyong these things. Ma Mingyuan told him that he wanted to punish him for using Zhu Hongsan to learn to read.

Feng Ziyong said: "What about later?"

Ma Mingyuan sighed and said, "He found me after coming out of the county government and told me to let him go. Otherwise, he would let his uncle, who was in the county government, hide a one-eyed stone man who died of the Ming Dynasty in my backyard. Second brother, you know that it was the sixth year of the Tianqi period, and Wei Yi was at the peak of his life. Our family was demoted and demoted and removed from office. I dared to act rashly, so I reconciled with him."

Feng Ziyongqi said: "Then Zhu Hongsan was only five or six years old at that time. He actually had such an idea? Didn't it be taught by someone else?"

"I thought so at the time, but afterwards I found out that his mother was just the daughter of a clerk, one of whom was a troupe and the other was a businessman, and she was not a quick-witted person at all. It seems that he was born like this."

Feng Ziyong nodded. In the Ming Dynasty, there were very marketable children, and there were really a few who could recite poems at the age of five or six. So Feng Ziyong didn't doubt anything.

At this time, when they saw the guy put the wine and food on the table, the two of them didn't talk about anything else. They talked about some romantic things.

Not to mention the two of them, let’s talk about our protagonist Zhu Hongsan.

After walking around the street for a long time, I ate a bowl of wontons. I haven't found a good place to experiment with the hand-grenade. Zhu Hongsan wanted to try it if he didn't go to the refugees outside the city? It happened that there were many people, so I saw the lethality. But this method was rejected by himself. This was too harmful to the world. After all, he was only fifteen years old and could not be too dark.

After wandering around the city for a while, he moved to Xicheng. There were workshops in Xicheng. When I came here, I remembered that the soy sauce recipe I used to sell to Zhujia Soy Sauce Shop. The price was pretty good at that time. In recent years, Zhu Hongsan really regretted it. Now he lacked money, and he made money in the past few years and spent almost the same amount in the past few years. So now Zhu Hongsan couldn't see the rich. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan had a solution, "I'm so angry when you make money. Today I'll let you take a knife to pull your butt - open your eyes."

I made up my mind and moved a few alleys to the front of Zhu's soy sauce shop. I saw that the business was so booming, even people from Changsha, Xiangyang came to buy his soy sauce.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the door and turned along the courtyard wall to the back of his house. He saw that the wall was about two meters high, and he looked away from the distance and saw a shed against the wall. There were rows of large wooden barrels, probably this was the warehouse.
Chapter completed!