"How can you not make money?"

My father-in-law frowned slightly, thinking that there was a possibility that he had offended so many people in Jiangnan, and there were many nobles in Nandu. Even if he was promoted to Jiangnan Guard, the sign of this guard may not be able to enjoy it in Nandu.

After all, there is also a guardian in the south of the capital, who is the real boss in the southeast. Even Eunuch Wei has tried his best to join the guardian in the inner world, and asked someone to help take care of him because he is a backward employee of a company.

Otherwise, Old Master Liu would be unhappy, and the number of soldiers and horses on his father-in-law would not be enough to see the number one military and political person in Southeast China.

The people in Jinyiwei Nanzhen made a living in Nandu. If anyone really wanted to offend a nobleman from Eunuch Wei to make a message behind the scenes, these people might really be rich and not profitable.

It’s better to be in charge of the county magistrate now.

"Then you make it yourself, there are prescriptions..."

It is better to make it than to buy it. My father-in-law decides his words. Gunpowder is the foundation of the army and must not control the hands of others. If you spend money to buy from others, you have to worry about whether you will be stuck. It is better to be self-reliant than to spend money on it.

This is a good idea, a one-time and all-out idea.

However, the reality is that even if there is a formula for medicine, the General Administration of Saltpeter Manufacturing, which is needed for gunpowder, cannot get it. The current gunpowder formula used by the army mainly comes from saltpeter mines in the north, such as the Laojun Mountain Mine in Luoyang. There are very few nitric mines in the south, even if they are there, they have not been developed.

The Ming Dynasty had a great demand for gunpowder. Liangchen remembered that he had read a material from the Ministry of War in his previous life, which said that the gunpowder needed by the nine borders and local garrisons each year was about one million kilograms. This figure was credible. In the five years of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty's quarrels, the amount consumed was more than four and two million kilograms of gunpowder.

With a million kilograms, the amount of gunpowder Wei’s hand is really not enough. If the current gunpowder needs of the Imperial Army are met with the highest standards, it will cost 100,000 kilograms a year.

This is based on the current scale of the general soldier of only about 7,000. If the army is expanded, it will have to be repeated a few times.

With such a large amount of medicine demand, even if Rennan Town is willing to sell you, Eunuch Wei can't buy it. According to his drug expenses and the great plan to conquer Asia, it would not be enough to stop the gunpowder from Jiubian to him.

There is no doubt that self-produced gunpowder is produced, but how to do this salt?

The nitrate mines in various places are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and the quota for nitrate is also fixed. Eunuch Wei can have money to make the devil push the mill, but it is impossible to purchase enough saltpeter.

Li Yanzhao couldn't think of a good idea this time, but his father-in-law had a flash of inspiration and gave him an idea.

He said: "When we were in the palace, we heard from the Military Staff Bureau that boiling manure can make salt. You can start to verify whether this method is feasible."

Boil manure to make salt?

Zheng Duo, Li Yanzhao and others looked at each other: Can manure be used to make salt?

My father-in-law nodded: "We have not verified this method, but since the people from the Military Staff Bureau have said it, it can be done. In addition, according to them, this nitrogen soil is mostly stored in thatched cottages, pig and cow houses, corners of old houses, etc. are not easy to be washed by water. If it contains nitrogen, it will have bitter, spicy and salty flavors, and the particularly spicy one is good nitrogen soil. You can also mobilize people to scrape the nitrogen soil, and boil it a little to make it good... In short, the gunpowder factory must be built for us immediately, whether it is spent on money or done by yourself, everyone will think about it. No matter what method is used, this medicine must be missing!"

My father-in-law made the decision, and he started all aspects, invested manpower and focused on it. I believe that the problem of gunpowder shortage will be successfully solved in the near future.

"There are methods to make nitrate in detail. I heard from the Military Staff Bureau that if you put nitrate soil on mahogany, see if it can explode, it will be good nitrate soil, otherwise it will not. In addition, the wood ash used to boil nitrate must be used in the shell and raising wheat straw, so that the quality of nitrate is the best."

Li Yanzhao didn't know when he brought the pen and paper, but his father-in-law said he would remember one.

"Our family once read a book by a Westerner. It said that if the nitride is dissolved in water, the quality of the nitride will be better, but I don't know if this is the case."

Li Yanzhao hesitated and said, "The method my father-in-law said is the one who will start to experiment with this matter, and will report it to my father-in-law after the results are obtained."

Wei Liangchen nodded. How to extract the higher purity of the nitrogen must be tested continuously, and it cannot be done by just opening his mouth.

Thinking of something, he reminded Li Yanzhao and Zheng Duo, "You should use this method of boiling manure and making nitrogen. You should make a special manure store, and ask this manure store to collect it. Not only should the manure from the special zone be collected, but the manure from other places be collected. The price is higher, but the incense head is asked to transport the manure. The manure produced cannot be wasted, and asked the people to take it to the fat field to see it. Westerners say that this manure is stronger than ordinary manure and can increase the yield. When this is true, we can still sell manure to the people."

The left and right heard it all the time. They had never heard that the manure they had been thriving would be more fertile than the manure they had not been thriving. But since Eunuch Wei said that, it seems to be true. If the harvest can really be increased, it would undoubtedly be a great thing. Food is the most important thing for the people, and only the grain output is 20% or 30% more, that is a great virtue.

As for my father-in-law who wants to make money by selling manure, he subconsciously ignores it.

The father-in-law finally made a decision and ordered Zheng Duo to allocate 8,000 taels for testing manure and making nitrate and scraping off nitrate soil. Once the verification effect is obvious, 10,000 taels will be allocated to establish a special zone manure shop, which is specialized in the acquisition and resale of feces in Susong and other places.

After deciding on these things, Guo Jujing also drew the self-generated gun graphics based on his memory.

Seeing this figure, my father-in-law was stunned at first because the self-produced gun was not the machine gun he thought was Maxim. But he was not disappointed, but was equally excited because the structure of the self-produced gun was clearly a flintlock rifle.

Guo Jujing was afraid that Eunuch Wei would not understand it very well, so he specifically talked about the principle of self-generating guns.

The principle of this self-generated gun is actually very simple. It is to improve the device for ignition of the bird gun with flint to use flint as a fire device, thereby overcoming the weakness of the flint being afraid of wind and rain.

Flint is flint, and this thing is not uncommon.

When the flintlock rifle is placed on the firing device to fire, the shooter pulls the trigger, and the faucet placed on the trigger hits the flint and rubs against the flint to create fire. Mars falls into the charging room, causing the gunpowder to burn, generate gas thrust, and shoots the projectile out.

This kind of gun can be fired as long as it continuously pulls the bolt and striking flint, which simplifies the firing procedures and increases the firing rate.

If combined with granular gunpowder and fixed gunpowder, to a certain extent, the flintlock rifle already has the concept of "gun". In the future, as long as the front-loaded gunpowder projectile is changed to the rear-load, it will be truly true.

This gun was produced and was definitely ahead of Western countries at least thirty years.

My father-in-law is sure that Western countries are still using combroach guns.
Chapter completed!