At this moment, the image of the two elders was a little taller in Chen Wuren's mind. The concept of clan was prevalent in the Ming Dynasty, and the yamen could only manage the county level. The so-called imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the order in the countryside was mainly maintained by clan rules, even if it was
Reporting to the official and the county magistrate will not take care of "household affairs".
But Chen Wuren still kindly reminded him: "The chief is kind-hearted, but my subordinates have something they don't know whether to say or not."
"But it doesn't matter."
"Since ancient times, it has been difficult for upright officials to deal with household affairs. If this decision is made improperly, it may damage the reputation of the Senate."
Zhang Xiao understood Chen Wuren's worries and turned to Zhang Jiayu, ready to give him a try, and asked: "Jiayu, what do you think?"
Zhang Jiayu said: "Students accompanied He Ning to the countryside. They were present at the scene at that time. Huang's mother and son were really pitiful, and those who heard it shed tears. However, as Section Chief Chen said, it is difficult for upright officials to interrupt family affairs, and the students thought it was inappropriate for the two leaders to do this.
Intervene.”
"Oh? Does that mean you don't care?" Zhang Xiao asked.
"No, no," Zhang Jiayu explained: "The student thought it would be better to let He Ning take care of this matter."
"Hey, that's a good idea, let me think about it," Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "He Ning, now you are a member of the Women's Federation. First, I will give you the title of special commissioner of the Guangzhou Women's Federation. Later I will ask Liu Dafu to give it to you.
You issue a letter of appointment with an official seal. Not only do we have to take care of it, but we also have to take care of it legitimately!"
Zhao Hening couldn't hide his excitement on his face, but he said: "For the sake of justice, I will feel aggrieved."
"We have the athletes, but we still need referees," Li Yao'er said. "The people from the Guangzhou Circuit Court are now at Dagang Market, Longshan, not far from here. A courier will be sent to Dagang Market early tomorrow morning to ask Yuchi from the Circuit Court to
Gang and Wu Yixuan rushed to Jiujiang immediately."
Jiujiang Qiaonan Village is located about two kilometers northwest of Jiujiang Daxu. Jiujiang Zhu family lived here. During the Xianchun period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanlong, the ancestor of the Zhu family, migrated here from Nanxiong with his people through mountains and rivers. It has been more than 300 years.
The local area is deeply rooted, and there are many talented people in the clan. Chen Zizhuang's maternal grandfather, Zhu Rangguan, went to the prefect of Kuizhou and was awarded the title of "Doctor of Zhongxian". He also left a "Liang Erqian Stone Archway" in the countryside.
Surrounded by fish ponds outside the village, a large area of land is enclosed behind a property belonging to the Zhu family in the village. Many of the dried fish and flower ponds are divided into smaller pits by the newly built pond foundations, and there is a tall wall around the outside.
, there is a busy scene inside the wall. All the people working are Zhu's children. Some people are pouring water and lime into the pit. The heat generated by quicklime and water keeps the soil at a certain temperature; some people are pouring water and lime into the pit that has matured.
Pour human and livestock urine, silkworm sand and other filthy things into the pit, and wait quietly for the harvest period to arrive; others are digging out mature soil from the old pit, mixing it with plant ash and sending it to the processing room.
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If any European arms dealers of the same period had seen this scene, they would have been surprised that there were people in the far East who had learned the "nitrate-making method in the field" invented by the French. The earliest record of the method of making saltpeter in the field appeared in the 14th century.
By the middle of the 15th century, Europe was in great shape, becoming the most important source of potassium nitrate in Europe. Not only did Europeans no longer rely on saltpeter ore to obtain potassium nitrate, but it also greatly improved the purity of potassium nitrate.
The principle of this "nitrate field method" is actually to summarize the phenomenon of potassium nitrate condensing on the soil walls of pig pens in toilets, and then replicate the deep environment on a large scale for mass production.
This technology is not complicated, but it has not been developed in China. For no other reason than it takes up a lot of farmyard manure. Compared with European agriculture, which has developed animal husbandry, China's traditional agricultural planting industry is highly developed and takes up a lot of land.
Almost all arable land makes the livestock breeding rate extremely low. Naturally, such nitrate fields, which require a large amount of livestock fertilizer, cannot be developed.
When the Senate was in Hainan, they also considered using the nitrate field method to produce potassium nitrate themselves. However, after calculating the input-output ratio, they found that they could not collect enough raw materials to maintain operation. After obtaining natural materials from India through the Portuguese,
After the saltpeter, it was over.
Who would have thought that such a large-scale saltpeter field has been quietly built here. As for the Portuguese who taught this method to the Zhu family, they should have been integrated with this saltpeter field long ago, and were handled without anyone noticing.
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The courtyard of Zhu's house is deep, with winding corridors, bypassing the rockery in the courtyard, and then arriving at the study. Zhu Shilian put down a roll of thread-bound books in his hand, and said to the guests with some emotion: "He Zhen (He Rubin) is a hero of the generation, and he is strict in running the army."
Well, without seeking any personal gain, I compiled a group of books and summarized their essentials to form the "Military Record". It has an incisive discussion on gunpowder and firearms, and is also unique in firearm warfare. It's a pity... If there was a stone back then...
Brothers of the people, please help each other and work together to wipe out the Lingao Kun bandits, so that today's disaster will not happen."
Zhu Shilian is nearly forty years old. He is the grandson of Zhu Rang, the younger brother of Zhu Bolian, and the cousin of Chen Zizhuang. Chen Zizhuang grew up in Zhu's family in Jiujiang. Zhu Shilian is similar in age to him. The two studied and grew up together, and their friendship is extraordinary. What Zhu Shilian said
"Bing Lu" was written by He Rubin. It was written in the 34th year of Wanli. Five people, including Chen Zizhuang and Liu Feng, wrote the preface to "Bing Lu". Naturally, the Zhu family also had a collection of books.
The person Zhu Shilian called "Brother Shimin" was none other than Mao Yuanyi. He once followed Sun Chengzong to oversee Liaodong, and together with Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Yuanhua and others, they fought against the later Jin Dynasty on the battlefield of Liaodong. The "Military Bei Zhi" was engraved in the first year of Tianqi.
He studied the military books of the past dynasties for many years and collected information to compile it. Later, he was excluded by the eunuch party and experienced ups and downs in the officialdom. In the second year of Chongzhen, when Hou Jin attacked the capital, he escorted Sun Chengzong to break through from Dongbianmen to Tongzhou, repelled Hou Jin's attack, and was promoted to deputy
The commander-in-chief of the Juehua Island Navy was later dismissed by Liang Tingdong, Minister of the Ministry of War. He was also tired of the military uprising in Liaodong and was sent to garrison Zhangpu, Fujian. After that, the situation in Liaodong became even more serious. Even though he requested King Qin many times, he was rejected.
When his political enemies obstructed him, he had no choice but to drink in sorrow and anger all day long.
Mao Yuanyi covered his mouth with his hand and coughed a few times, and said: "After He Zhenjiangmen, Wen Tao and military strategy were first described in the "Bing Lu". I wrote "Wu Bei Zhi·Firearms Method" and also studied the "Bing Lu"
I have also heard about the results of the Chengmai Battle in the past. The division under the command of He Zhen was able to fight fiercely with the Kun thieves for several days without defeat. It has been worthy of the name of the Iron Army, and is no less than the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry. However, the Kun thieves
His superior military skills are unexpected."
Zhu Shilian said: "Now that Governor Xiong has been defeated, there is no government official in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the building is about to collapse. Brother Shi Min is still ill and still ventures into the tiger's den. He can really be called the lonely loyal man of the Ming Dynasty. He is called brother 'Nian Shaoxi'
When Wu came out, he was named Bei Que Wen. He lowered the curtain and called him a scholar, mounted his horse and was about to enter the army. With the help of his elder brother, this matter has a better chance of success."
Mao Yuanyi said: "I dare not take it seriously. I sincerely admire the Zijie (Zhu Shilian's) family for their efforts to save the country and the country.
The days are numbered. Fortunately, thanks to the help of the nobles in the court, I am able to join the army in Guangdong and serve the country. I will die without regrets. However, the bandits are powerful and cannot be defeated. We still need to wait for the opportunity to raise an army."
After years of drinking and drinking, Mao Yuanyi died in the 13th year of Chongzhen at the age of 46. Not only that, he spent fifteen years of hard work collecting military books from various generations and writing and compiling the "Wu Bei Zhi" in the Qing Dynasty.
It was banned for a time and was not published again until Daoguang's reign.
Zhu Shilian nodded knowingly, "The troops and horses are not moving yet, the food and grass are going first. Please take care of the preparation of gunpowder, brother."
After the two chatted for a while, they went to the workshop together.
The production technology of black powder was very mature by the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the court had very strict control over the production of gunpowder and firearms, and had strict confidentiality measures. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the tight Liao affairs and the large number of talkers in the government and the opposition, the confidentiality measures were relaxed.
Therefore, the number of fire attack books was the largest in history, which helped popularize gunpowder knowledge among the scholar class. Since Foshan's iron-frying industry was developed and it was an important artillery production place for the imperial court, there were also many people in the Pearl River Delta who were familiar with gunpowder and had firearms knowledge.
craftsmen. Now with the expert Mao Yuanyi and the servants he brought, it can be regarded as even more powerful.
The theory of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was still based on the "monarch, minister and left envoy" of traditional Chinese medicine. Black gunpowder used saltpeter as the king drug. The long-circulated simple formula is "one saltpeter, two yellows and three charcoal". The combined ratio of sulfur and charcoal does not exceed one quarter.
For the Jiujiang area, it is not difficult to obtain sulfur and charcoal. The local silkworm industry is developed and requires a lot of sulfur. Lime can repel insects and ants. Due to the humid climate in the Pearl River Delta, silkworms need to bake cocoons after spinning cocoons than in Jiangnan.
Therefore, charcoal is also a common and easy-to-purchase item. Only saltpeter is difficult to obtain and has always been strictly controlled by the imperial court.
Natural saltpeter mines are rare in the wild. Most of China's saltpeter is produced in three places. The one produced in Sichuan is called Sichuan saltpeter, the one produced in Shanxi is called saltpetre, and the one produced in Shandong is called soil saltpeter. These three production areas are currently not in the Senate.
In the controlled area, combined with the war, there was less saltpeter import from other places. After the Senate occupied Guangdong and Guangxi, it also strictly controlled the purchase and sale of saltpeter due to military needs.
In order to obtain a large amount of saltpeter without attracting the attention of outsiders, the Zhu family worked very hard, and finally learned the European "nitrate production method" from a Portuguese from Macao. Because it takes eight months for the saltpeter field to mature.
, so a large number of fish ponds were needed to be converted into saltpeter fields, and there were more than one. Thanks to the deep-rooted Zhu family and huge industry, as well as the funding from the local gentry headed by Chen Zizhuang and the Taoist priests of Mu and Shi, it was managed with difficulty.
Gunpowder production is a dangerous and high-tech job. After Mao Yuanyi arrived, he established an operating system in accordance with the official gunpowder factory standards of the Ming Dynasty, with clear rewards and punishments. Compared with the previous operations that Zhu took for granted, it was upgraded to a higher level and reduced in costs.
Production accidents and avoid exposure.
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