On the Qing Dynasty, the Three Feudal Powers and the Qing court were playing games around the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhu.

Zhu San’s grandson Zhu Hesheng is busy... starting a business!

That's right, he's starting a business again!

Although his son Zhu Jushan was surrounded by Deng Guangming and Liu Jinzhong's troops in the capital of Guiyu, Zhu Hesheng was not in a hurry to save him, but was busy building the real economy and pursuing industry to save the country.

Compared to commanding a large army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hesheng knew better about opening factories and doing business.

Although he has not been in Chaozhou for ten years of Kangxi, he has found a "blue ocean" to make a fortune. Of course, he does not produce high-quality Martelling and French perfumes - because there are no authentic Martelling and French perfumes yet, Zhu Hesheng can't imitate it even if he wants to imitate it. If he can make it, it will be original!

After that, Chaozhou Martell, Chaozhou Hennessy, Chaozhou Lafite, Chaozhou Saint Laurent, Chaozhou Lancome all became genuine...

However, Zhu Hesheng's choice of entrepreneurial projects was not genuine Chaozhou wine and Chaozhou perfume, but a very high-end arms industry! And he also directly entered the core, most critical and most choke-free industries in the 17th century - piled up and made nitrogen!

As we all know, the 170s and 1980s were already an era when gunpowder weapons dominated war!

Whether it is gunpowder weapons or thunder bombing, they will consume a lot of gunpowder during use.

Taking the turtledove-footed muskets that are very common in Guangdong as an example, this heavy musket consumes about one tael (Ming liang) of black gunpowder once... and one pound (Ming jin) of black gunpowder is only enough for one turtledove-footed musket to fire sixteen times.

Without black gunpowder, the powerful turtle dove-footed heavy musket is worse than the fire stick!

And fire and salt are the most important ingredient of black gunpowder!

For all forces in Guangdong and Fujian, sulphurs are a treasure that is difficult to obtain. They will always be in short supply and will always be choked. The Qing court was stuck on the road, while the British and Dutch East India companies were stuck on the sea.

So in the north, only five or six cents of silver per kilogram of hot salt was sold, and in Dahao Commercial Port, I bought two or three taels of silver per kilogram!

Moreover, if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. The boss Hui also has to nod in order to "even out" a little bit of fire or gunpowder for various buyers - Qiu Hui himself is not enough, and he also has to use fire and gunpowder to block the necks of the dependent forces below.

These buyers are actually all dependent on the power of the boss Hui, mainly relying on Qiu Hui's strong clans in hundreds of townships that relocated to the relocation.

The three that Qiu Hui gave to Zhu Hesheng are this kind of township that depend on him. Whether Zhu Hesheng can firmly control them depends on his ability. And this ability...of course, it also includes the ability to get the thorny and gunpowder that gets stuck in people's neck.

With tinder or gunpowder, these Chaozhou clans can use the turtledove-footed muskets handed down from the Ming Dynasty to guard their enclosures to resist the "forced move" of the Qing government!

Only by guarding the surrounding building can you protect the surrounding land, and only by having land can you give birth to children and pass on the family line... These fire and gunpowder are equivalent to real estate certificates and marriage certificates outside the Chaozhou territory of the tenth year of Kangxi!

That is a need for being so tough that it can’t be more tough!

So Zhu Hesheng, who returned to Gucheng Village from Dahao, sent brave Su to lead hundreds of "army" to "recover" Tianwang Village in Danan Mountain (in fact, Tianwang Village was not lost); while he began to build a "pig pen without pigs" with all his might - the salt-pit pool!

The first nitrocellulose built by Zhu Hesheng in Gucheng Village is almost at a "harvest". On the surface of the nitrocellulose, a large area of ​​pale yellow nitrocellulose that can be seen in the naked eye has appeared. Zhu Hesheng took some nitrocellulose and placed it on red charcoal for testing, and found that sparks can burst out, which shows that the purity of the nitrocellulose is satisfactory.

According to his knowledge, a nitro pool that can distribute 2,000 kilograms of sand, wood ash, plus 300 kilograms of stinky fish and shrimp (you can also use feces and urine). If there is a suitable temperature, humidity, and good ventilation, it can also avoid sunlight. After more than 20 days of fermentation, the produced nitroso soil can be purified to 30 kilograms of high-purity siphon.

If labor, depreciation of fixed assets, capital costs, the cost of obtaining sand and wood ash, and the cost of refining consumables, that is, ten kilograms of stinky fish and rotten shrimp produce one kilogram of stinky salt.

Gucheng Village itself is a fishing village, and the Haimen Port opposite is the largest fishing port in Chaozhou Prefecture. The price of stinky fish and rotten shrimp is very low. There is absolutely no problem with a few copper plates per pound. Ten kilograms of stinky fish and rotten shrimp are only twenty to fifty copper plates... plus various other costs, the cost of producing stinky by using the stacking method of stinky in Gucheng Village will not exceed one hundred coins per pound.

If a pound of hot salt is sold directly to Qiu Hui and Chen Jinnan, it will not be less than one tael of silver!

That's more than ten times the profit!

And you don’t have to pay value-added tax, income tax, and all surcharges, so you don’t have to worry about sales. Of course, there is no account period. You can even prepay for the payment to take up the next company’s funds... You can make money quickly without making high-quality wines and French perfumes!

If Zhu Hesheng could go further and use his own high-purity hot nitrate to produce granular gunpowder... the profit would be even higher.

However, Zhu Hesheng has not yet opened a gunpowder workshop, and has no time to train technicians who make gunpowder. All his energy is spent on expanding the snit pool.

The idle labor force in the entire Longjingdu was hired by Zhu Hesheng for money, and the "Dananshan Rebel Army" under him was temporarily turned into a labor army. Together with the hired Longjingdu farmers, they built a pile of nitrocellulose under Zhu Hesheng's personal command.

In order to facilitate future management, Zhu Hesheng also found two "managers" for himself. One was Mr. Yu's son-in-law Swenbai. Zhu Da Capitalist wanted to train him to become a manager of the Nitrogen Pool - Swenbai turned into a pigpen.

One is the young master Pang Siming. Zhu Hesheng has accepted him as his disciple and is preparing to pass on the skills of boiling salt to him, and then let him be the manager of the nitrite. If Zhu Hesheng teaches him to make granular gunpowder in the future, he will be the factory of the gunpowder factory!

Early this morning, Zhu Hesheng led them to inspect the construction site of the dirt pool outside the Pangjiawei Building. The construction site of the dirt pool is next to the "House River" outside the Pangjiawei Building. Zhu Hesheng plans to build another twenty-nine, and now one can be completed every day. In addition to the previous "pig pen", when all these pools are completed, Zhu Hesheng will have thirty dirt pools.

If you can straighten out the production, you can harvest a pool of nitrate soil every day and "plant" a pool of nitrate soil at the same time.

Take a pool of nitrite to extract twenty kilograms of high-quality hot salt. If you sell them all, you can get at least twenty taels of silver. If you can produce and sell them continuously for a month, it will be six hundred taels of silver, and seven thousand two hundred taels a year. If the amount of the nitr pool can be ten times more... it is better to be a bandit, no, it will be faster than to be a rebel!

To "plant" a pond of nitrification, you need to add 300 kilograms of stinky fish and rotten shrimps - this is nothing to Haimen Port and Gucheng Village, and it will be ten times more!

So the military industry in Gucheng Village is really promising!

When Zhu Hesheng was looking forward to a happy life of earning him one or two thousand taels of silver in the future, he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horse hooves. Zhu Hesheng looked back in the voice and found that his good aunt Daboling was leading several men of the Su family and a bald monk to ride a horse.

My aunt finally couldn't help but come to see me!

Zhu Hesheng saw Daboling from afar and felt a little surprised. Since Zhu Hesheng and Qiu Shuzhen got engaged, this good aunt moved to the old Su family house in Haimen Port, and then ignored Zhu Hesheng.

This made Zhu Hesheng miss him badly, but he was busy starting a business and had no time to "suck up his aunt"... I finally saw him again today, so it's better for him to take the initiative!

It seems there is a chance!

Thinking of this, Zhu Hesheng strode towards Daboling who was riding his horse, and waved to Daboling with a smile: "Aunt, I haven't seen you for many days, but I miss you so much!"
Chapter completed!