The Ninth Princess also said that Chen Xiucai's head was squeezed by the door because of his weird idea.
Jin Feng was also a little bit dumbfounded.
Not to mention him, even the original owner didn't have much impression of this Chen Xiucai.
Jin Feng didn't even know that he came to work in Xihewan, let alone suppress a mere scholar.
In fact, Chen Xiucai was not so sentimental at the beginning. Everything stemmed from being a businessman.
It was a merchant he met in the village selling jujube cakes when he returned from visiting relatives last year. The two met in the village. The merchant saw that Chen Xiucai didn't talk like ordinary people, so he chatted a little more with Chen Xiucai.
Later, I learned that Chen Xiucai had the reputation of being a scholar and was a civil servant in the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau. I was so impressed that he kept saying that he must thank the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau for its active efforts in suppressing bandits, so that he dared to go out for business.
Finally, I had to drag Chen Xiucai to the town for dinner.
Chen Xiucai couldn't resist, so he followed Xing Shang.
At the dinner, Hong Shang praised Chen Xiucai again.
Chen Xiucai was so flattered by the praise that he couldn't hold back for a moment and told him about his work in an explosives factory.
The merchant didn't ask much at that time, but said that he would be selling jujube cakes near Chenjia Village recently and wanted to stay at Chen Xiucai's house for a few days.
Scholars are thin-skinned, Chen Xiucai had just eaten another meal, and the other party showed great admiration for him, so Chen Xiucai did not refuse the other party and let him live in the side room of his house.
In the next few days, Hong Shang came back every mid-afternoon and chatted with Chen Xiucai.
Slowly, the topic of the explosives factory was mentioned again.
So Xing Shang said that it was because Chen Xiucai passed the examination and Jin Feng did not, so he was jealous of Chen Xiucai and deliberately transferred him to the explosives factory to prevent him from being promoted.
At that time, the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau was in a period of large-scale expansion. Many veteran escorts who joined the army with Chen Xiucai were promoted to squad leader and platoon leader in just a few months, and some were even promoted to company commander.
Chen Xiucai went to the explosives factory and was not promoted even once.
Under Hong Shang's "analysis", Chen Xiucai forgot that it was his choice to go to the explosives factory, and slowly agreed with Hong Shang's point of view, thinking that Jin Feng was suppressing him.
On the night before the family leave ended, Hong Shang got a jar of fruit wine from nowhere and made Chen Xiucai drunk.
Under the guidance of Hong Shang, Chen Xiucai, who had drunk too much, told a lot of secrets about the explosives factory.
The next morning, Hong Shang finally showed his fangs and threatened Chen Xiucai with these secrets.
After restraining Chen Xiucai, Hong Shang promised him incredible wealth and asked Chen Xiucai to steal some grenades or detonators.
At that time, Chen Xiucai felt that he was standing at a fork in his life. If Hong Shang revealed that he had leaked the secret of the explosive factory, he would be doomed.
Coupled with the temptation of Hongshang's interests, Chen Xiucai finally chose to give in.
The explosives factory will clean up a batch of defective products every month. Those that can be reworked will be reworked, and those that cannot be reworked will be detonated.
The factory has limited space, so naturally it cannot be detonated in the factory. Usually, a ravine more than ten miles away from the factory is chosen for the explosion.
Chen Xiucai is in charge of the warehouse and will follow and count every time defective products are handled.
So he took advantage of his work, sent other workers away, and hid the detonator in the place agreed with the merchant.
When Chen Xiucai went to deal with the defective products for the second time, he found that the detonator hidden last time was gone, but there were two more large gold ingots in the grass.
Although Chen Xiucai's wages were not low, those two large gold ingots were still worth his decades of wages.
A single adventure can earn decades of wages, something Chen Xiucai never dared to imagine before.
If it was forced before, then after tasting the sweetness this time, Chen Xiucai did it voluntarily.
And after collecting gold ingots several times, Chen Xiucai became even more greedy.
Hong Shang told him that as long as he gets the formula for the explosives, he will have as many gold, silver, treasures, wives, and concubines as he wants! If the power behind Hong Shang conquers the world with heavy crossbows, at least give him the official title of a second-grade official.
Chen Xiucai had no idea what it meant to be a second-grade official, but he was really moved.
So he began to inquire into the production process of explosives, and used materials in the warehouse to try to study grenades and detonators, hoping to reversely deduce the formula of explosives.
Unfortunately, before he could complete these tasks, he suddenly discovered that the inspector of the Military Court had moved into the explosives factory.
Whether it was due to a guilty conscience or keen observation, Chen Xiucai immediately realized that something might have happened to the detonator he had removed.
Later, the inspector talked to him. Although he didn't directly talk about Donghai, Chen Xiucai judged from what the inspector revealed that he guessed correctly.
For the next period of time, Chen Xiucai lived in fear.
He was in charge of the warehouse and was one of the few people who had access to the detonator. He was a key observation target of the inspector. Soon after, the inspector came to him for a second round of interviews.
During this conversation, the inspector "inadvertently" revealed what happened in the East China Sea, and said that Jin Feng suspected that the explosion was caused by a detonator, and sent Iron Hammer, a blasting expert, to the East China Sea to confirm, and that he would be able to follow the clues and find clues when he came back.
After all, Chen Xiucai was not a professional craftsman. Even though he realized that the inspector might be trying to scare him by saying this, he was still calmed down.
After several days of fear, Chen Xiucai finally chose to flee.
Although he did not obtain the formula for the explosives, the gold ingots left to him by the merchants alone were enough for him to live happily for a lifetime.
It's a pity that the inspector has already laid a dragnet around the explosives factory.
Chen Xiucai was discovered before he even reached the riverside. In desperation, he kidnapped Brother Guan Qi and was eventually captured by the monkey.
After Jin Feng read it, he didn't know how to evaluate Chen Xiucai.
He sighed and looked at Xiaoyu: "Have you found the merchant?"
"No," Xiaoyu replied: "Either the dental plaque used by the merchants is fake or stolen from others, what we found based on the dental plaque is a veteran with a broken arm, which is completely inconsistent with the merchants described by Chen Xiucai."
"How many links in the production of explosives did Chen Xiucai find out?" Ninth Princess asked.
"According to his explanation, we found three, but they are all in the later stages of assembly, not in the front stage." Xiaoyu answered.
"That's good," Ninth Princess was relieved.
In the explosive production process, the previous dispensing link is more important and is completed by those on death row.
The main work of the second half of the production line, which ordinary workers are responsible for, is to fill the prepared explosives into the grenade shell and install the fuse safety bolt.
Those death row prisoners worked and lived separately from ordinary workers, and Chen Xiucai had no access to them.
"Then how far has his research gone?" Jin Feng asked.