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Chapter 90

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    Perhaps Fatty Lu was born with a busy life. In Qujing, he organized people to open up wasteland and spring plowing, and fought with Li Suzu for power and profit. When he came to Kunming, Fatty Lu was still as busy as ever.  On the morning of the second day after returning to Kunming, Fatty Lu first went to Kunming City to attend Lin Tianqing's ceremony of accepting the seal, and then thanked Lin Tianqing for his kind invitation to the banquet. He didn't even bother to take a sip of water, and immediately rushed back to Wuhua Mountain  , and dragged Wu Yingqi who was taking a nap in the study with her beautiful concubine in her arms, out of the bed.

    "Yifeng, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?" Seeing that Fatty Lu has won him a lot of glory in the past six months, Wu Yingqi, who was bleary-eyed and pulled out of the bed, didn't get angry. He just rubbed his eyes and said, "If  It's about your marriage, then you go to Yang Shanzi, I remember the father told him to arrange it."

    "Second prince, if you arrange such a trivial matter for your marriage, will I come to trouble you?" Fatty Lu smiled wryly, and asked again: "Second prince, I dare to ask, do you prepare the gunpowder used by the army of the palace yourself or ask the merchants?"  buy?"

    "Both of them." Wu Yingqi yawned and said, "Both self-made and purchased from merchants, but more self-made. Why do you ask this?"

    "Second prince, let me ask you again, we Pingxi Palace prepares gunpowder ourselves, where does the soil salt come from?" Fatty Lu asked: "Is it mined locally in Yunnan? Or buy it from a merchant?"

    "Are you stupid? South acid and north alkali, nitrate soil from Yunnan?" Wu Yingqi said angrily: "Even if there is some nitrate soil in the deep mountains and old forests, you have to dig mountains and drill holes to mine it. Who would go to such great effort?  ?¡±¡ªBy the way, there are actually nitrate mines in Yunnan, but the technology of this era cannot be exploited in large quantities.

    "So, all the soil salt in Yunnan is purchased from the north." Fatty Lu continued to ask: "Is the price expensive?"

    "Why not expensive?" Wu Yingqi became angrier the more he heard it, "One tael of soil salt is one tael of silver, and it is more expensive to bring it from the north. Our Pingxi Palace spends two to three hundred thousand taels of silver every year to buy soil salt!  What on earth do you want to do? I have nothing else to do and I have to go back to take a nap!"

    "Second Prince, if you skip this afternoon nap, you can save two or three hundred thousand taels of silver every year, are you happy?" Fatty Lu asked mysteriously.

    "What do you mean?" Wu Yingqi finally became interested.

    "It's like this." Fatty Lu said mysteriously: "During my humble mission to Guangdong, I saw that merchants and soldiers in foreign domains in the West liked to use firearms, and the gunpowder cost a lot, so I tried to find out the source of their gunpowder.  The Western army has a very magical method that can produce soil salt, regardless of season and region, as long as there are people with livestock, they can produce a large amount of soil salt, and the quality is better than that of our Qing Dynasty. I feel that this  The method may be applicable to the second prince, so I spent a lot of effort studying the Western books bought from them, found out this Western method of making nitrate, and prepared to dedicate it to the second prince."

    "What else?" Wu Yingqi's eyes lit up, and he asked nervously, "Really or not? Are you bragging?"

    "Second prince, don't worry, I have already tried my humble job, and I will definitely be able to make soil salt." Fatty Lu pulled out a few pages from his sleeve, held them in front of Wu Yingqi with both hands, and said with a flattering face: "The methods of making soil salt in the West are all complete."  Write it on it, please take a look at it, the second prince, although the raw materials are a bit stinky, they are everywhere in Yunnan and Guizhou, as long as we use this method to make soil nitrate, our Pingxi Palace will no longer have to worry about the lack of gunpowder, and buy soil nitrate for use every year  The hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, can all be saved"

    Before Fatty Lu finished speaking, Wu Yingqi snatched those pages, and what was written on them was actually the method of making nitrate from the toilet soil that Fatty Lu taught Chen Jinnan at the beginning, using the toilet soil rich in calcium nitrate  Its characteristics are that calcium nitrate is dissolved in water, then plant ash rich in potassium carbonate is added, heated to make water nitrate, and then boiled into soil nitrate.  The only difference is that Fatty Lu has added a method to further purify soil nitrate into high-purity potassium nitrate in these pages. Fatty Lu is not partial to the old traitor Wu, the key is that the Taiwanese army controlled by Zheng Jing and the Japanese  There are too many contacts, Fatty Lu doesn't want to spread this method to the Japanese pirates.

    "Is it really useful?" Wu Yingqi was both delighted and amazed, "If you make soil nitrate in this way, doesn't it mean that a lot of nitrate can be produced in my small yard?"

    "It's absolutely true." Fatty Lu patted his chest and said: "The humble officer has already tested it with his own hands. If the second prince wants to see it with his own eyes, he can immediately find a few gunpowder craftsmen in the army. The humble officer will teach them this method and let them  Act according to the law, and then at night at most, the first batch of good soil nitrate will be produced."

    "What else do you teach?" Wu Yingqi yelled in a very unconscionable way.The sword, the western gun that hits farther and more accurately than the bird gun, and the new western salute that is lighter and more flexible than the red cannon, but can hit farther and more accurately than the red cannon.  With these things, it will be more convenient and more majestic than before for the prince to go up the mountain to hunt a bird, and to greet that distinguished guest with some salutes.  "

    There was no sound in Yin'an Hall, and Wu Sangui's confidantes present all looked at each other, but they didn't speak. Although Wu Sangui was very moved, he also saw Lu Fatty's attainments in Western culture, and knew that Lu Fatty would never dare to use himself against him.  I believe bragging is a joke, but making these things is definitely not a joke. No matter how high and powerful Wu Sangui is, he dare not make up his mind casually.

    After a long time, Liu Xuanchu suddenly scolded: "Bold boy, what nonsense are you talking about? Privately forging firearms is not allowed in this dynasty. Do you want to have your family ransacked?"

    "My lord, this old man is incapable of teaching, and the students I teach are talking nonsense, which offends my lord, please forgive my sin." Liu Xuanchu turned to Wu Sangui and cupped his hands, and said, "However, this student likes to delve into Western knowledge, which is a good thing. Old man  I think that the prince can borrow some of his manpower to set up some western glass workshops in the area of ??Nule Peak, as well as a firecracker and firecracker workshop and several blacksmith workshops, so as to make some firecrackers for the people of Yunnan and Guizhou for Chinese New Year and plowing.  The farm tools are still completely feasible.¡±

    "Lord Lu, can the Western salute you mentioned really be made?" Gao Dejie asked Fatty Lu calmly.

    "I'm 70% to 80% sure." Fatty Lu replied seriously.

    "Then it's okay to build one or two doors." Gao Dejie smiled, then turned to Wu Sangui and said, "My lord, since Master Lu likes to study Western knowledge so much, let him try it. The general will listen to General Wu Guogui."  He said that Master Lu¡¯s glazed workshop in Qujing has already produced some high-quality glazed glazes. Such good things cannot be stolen by outsiders, which will cut off the wealth of our Yunnan, Guizhou, army and civilians. Therefore, the last general suggested  The lord can send three to five hundred troops to build a small barracks near Nule Peak, and set aside a special area for Master Lu to make colored glaze, so as to prevent others from stealing our Yunnan-Guizhou technology."

    "Also, Mr. Liu." Hu Guozhu also turned to Liu Yi and asked, "Last time, I heard from you that there seems to be some mine in the Nule Peak area. Why don't we send someone to look for it?"

    "That's right, I heard that there seems to be coal mines in that area." Liu Yi understood, cupped his hands to Wu Sangui and said, "My lord, it's time to explore the minerals in the Nule Peak area carefully. Since Lord Lu likes to study Western culture so much,  How about sending him to investigate?"

    "Yes, yes, yes." Ma Bao was not stupid, turned to Fatty Lu and said, "Yifeng, if you can find high-quality refined iron in the area around Nule Peak, why don't you give me a good saber?  Can you give me the bird gun you mentioned just now?"

    "Don't worry, General Ma, as long as you give me time, manpower and space, I will never let you down." Fatty Lu replied respectfully.

    "That's good." Ma Bao nodded in satisfaction, turned to Wu Sangui and said, "My lord, why not just lend Nule Peak to Master Lu, since it's empty anyway."

    "That's right, my lord, please lend Nule Peak to Master Lu." Fang Guangchen, Wu Guogui and the others agreed one after another, "It's a good thing to make some glazed farming tools."

    "I object." The only one who objected was Wang Shirong, but Wang Shirong did not object to Fatty Lu's making farm tools and finding coal mines. He said: "Qujing is always a little far away from Kunming.  Once he knows how to make new agricultural tools and colored glaze, it will be a big trouble. According to the students, these workshops can be moved to the edge of Dianchi Lake, and Mr. Lu will go back and forth a few more times, so that nothing will go wrong.  "

    "Mr. Wang, it's not that I'm afraid of running around." Fatty Lu said in a deep voice, "It's just that casting new agricultural tools is no more than studying how to make soil nitrate. It takes countless time and countless experiments, not the few times of running back and forth.  It can be done. Moreover, the area around Dianchi Lake has a large population, which is far less safe than Nule Peak, which is vast and sparsely populated."

    "But where is Li Suzu?" Wang Shirong asked worriedly.

    "Don't worry, Mr. Wang, please don't worry, my lord." Fatty Lu said in a deep voice, "That's what I think. When I first imitate the Western glazed mirror and sell it for a big price, then you can justifiably sell this mirror to me, my lord."  After receiving this technology, they used the excuse of keeping the technology secret and set up a military camp in the vicinity of Nule Peak to make glazed mirrors. The humble job then slowly led the craftsmen of the Pingxi Palace to produce colored glazes in exchange for capital, while making new farm tools and new tools for the prince.  Firecrackers. And by then, Beizhi and Lin Tianqing should be able to work together to drive Li Suzu out of Qujing."

    "That's how it is." Wu Sangui finally nodded, and said: "When you successfully make the western glazed mirror and Li Suzu gets out of Qujing, I will lend you Nule Peak and provide you with it.  Enough troops and manpower, let you make colored glaze and other things there.¡ªOf course, only new farm tools, Western bird guns and Western salutes are allowed.  Resolutely not!" (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log on to www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com), Li Suzu also got out of Qujing, so this king will lend you Nule Peak, and provide you with enough troops and manpower to make colored glaze and other things there.  ¡ª¡ªOf course, only new farm tools are allowed, such as Western bird guns and Western salutes.  "(To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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