The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 263 Double the Range

Song Qingyue came to the Nursing Home to visit the children. After a cruel winter, there were more than 12 children in the Nursing Home. The youngest of these children was only a few months old, and the oldest was [-] years old. The little boy in a disaster-stricken family in the Zhili area originally only depended on his mother for life. As a result, his mother died of cold and sickness due to a heavy snowfall, and he was left alone in the family.

The boy's name is Liu Da, and he is very sensible and capable. Since he came to this yard, he has been busy and can do all kinds of work. In addition to carrying water and firewood, washing and cooking, he even helps the mothers-in-law to feed his younger brothers and sisters. They sew diapers.

Yujing Yuxiang likes him so much that she often spends money to buy big meat buns for him as an extra meal.

When Song Qingyue came to this area, she was treated like a star.

"Look! The Empress Dowager is here!"

"Are you finally free to come today?"

"Crown Concubine Wanan!"

The neighbors in the neighborhood all know her.

Yujing Yuxiang greeted her respectfully, and the women were also very happy to see her, only Wu Guanshi was full of displeasure.

Since Yujing Yuxiang came, he can no longer manage accounts.He reserved the right to purchase in a stern manner, but Yujing, a dead girl, is a dead girl, who is stingy every time she gives money, and always threatens him that if he continues to play tricks to deceive people for money, he will tell the concubine Shizi, Tell him to fuck off.

But now he can't wait to go back to Zhuangzi and be his little steward.

He had already heard that the eldest son was gone, and the imperial concubine had become a nun, and he could not earn anything here. He really had no future, no money, it was so boring!

Song Qingyue pretended not to see Guanshi Wu's lazy face, and when Feng Qi and Feng Jiu came back, she would definitely tell him to leave immediately, and she couldn't help but blame Eunuch Wang for finding such a guy.

In fact, I can't blame Eunuch Wang for this matter, because what Song Qingyue told me at the beginning was to have a bit of brains, to save money and settle accounts, and not to be easily deceived.In the eyes of Eunuch Wang, Guanshi Wu is a very capable person. Although he is a bit greedy, he is only a small greedy person. It's just that he didn't expect that the concubine, who has always been generous, would be so stingy about the expenses of the nursing home.

He didn't know that Song Qingyue's establishment of this nursing home was not just for fun. She planned to promote this nursing home to the whole country in the future. This is only the first pilot project in Beijing, so that's why Budget carefully.

In the beginning, Guanshi Wu came to help Shizi Concubine with great expectations, but the reality disappointed him.

No matter what, with Yujing and Yuxiang joining, Song Qingyue finally felt more at ease.

The Nursing Home also expanded from the original three small courtyards to five small courtyards, but the other two collapsed to the point where there was only one piece of land left when they were sold to her, so Song Qingyue asked people to use bricks, cement, and the previous ones. A small two-story building was built with the remaining logs and boards, and the walls were plastered with cement outside.

Since the roof does not have a good waterproof material, the traditional gable roof is still adopted, and a layer of tiles is covered on it.

Yuxiang is very good at drawing, so she drew some flowers, birds, fish and insects on the wall, while Yujing bought some flowers and plants to arrange in the yard, and sprinkled a row of morning glory seeds by the wall. The soil came out and began to climb along the wall.

After all, they stayed by Li Zhao's side, and they have a very high standard of aesthetics. The simple and simple courtyard was arranged by them casually, and it immediately became elegant, and it became a standout among the bungalows in this area.

Now everyone knows that the concubine Shizi is approachable, and people often come to visit the small building after it is built. The family has a little savings and even entrusts the aunt who helps with chores in the yard to inquire about the price of building such a small building.

In fact, my aunt also wanted to inquire about it. They now have an extra [-] cash per month. If the small building is not too expensive, they will work hard to save money and build one for themselves.

With two floors, there can be several more rooms for no reason!

Song Qingyue was instructing Zeng Maozhi and his men to install swings, seesaws, and small wooden horses in the yard.

Seeing her aunt inquiring enviously, she joked, "Aunts, if you really want to build it, but if you don't have enough money, how about I lend you money to build it first? The money can be returned to me in installments slowly." .”

Hearing that the concubine could lend money to build a house for herself, the mothers-in-law and aunts all opened their eyes wide.

Song Qingyue smiled and said: "Well, you go to the alley and ask, if anyone else wants to build a house like this, they will all come to the meeting. But it's agreed, it's only in our alley, and I don't care about people in other alleys. !"

"Okay, okay!" Aunt Zhang promised to call the big guy to Song Qingyue's yard for a meeting.

Song Qingyue showed them the cost of building this kind of two-story small building one by one.

Because each house is about the same size, and they are all small courtyard houses made of wood, so the construction costs are similar.

"The cost of materials, plus the cost of the mason, is about 500 yuan to plaster the cement wall. If you don't wipe it, you can save [-] yuan. In fact, it is cheaper than using wood." Song Qingyue said: "If you have more people , if you buy cement and bricks together, you may be able to negotiate the price with the manufacturer.”

Having said that, the big guy was even more excited.

"Concubine Shizi, how can I borrow money?" An anxious aunt asked.

Song Qingyue said: "Simple, see how much you need, and I will borrow as much. For example, if you are short of 120 wen, I will borrow [-] wen, and then you will pay me back some every month until the repayment is over. But since it is a loan Money, I want to calculate the interest, and I won’t charge you too much. I will collect half of the interest every year. For example, if I pay back one hundred Wen every month, it will take two and a half years to pay back the three thousand Wen. The charge is [-] five cents. But it has been agreed in advance, if any of you are dissatisfied with the half-percent interest every year, you don’t have to borrow it, and don’t borrow money and say something bad. I won’t accompany you!”

The aunt immediately waved her hand: "No, no! The profit is only half a year, which is much better than those loan sharks outside! Let's supervise each other, and if anyone speaks something dirty, don't blame us for being rude! "

"Yes, yes! Don't mention you, the Crown Princess, we are the first to disagree!"

"Don't worry, Princess Concubine, it's too late for us to thank you!"

Everyone scrambled to express their opinions.

Song Qingyue smiled and said: "That's it. You all go home and calculate how much you need to borrow, and then calculate how much you can repay each month. Don't worry, wait for your masters to come back at night, and discuss it carefully. Seven days later, I I will come again, and when the time comes, you will come over, and we will get the money with paperwork."

"Hey, concubine Shizi, you are really a female Bodhisattva! For a kind-hearted person like you, God will surely bless His Highness Shizi safe and sound!"

said a fast-talking woman.

The rest of the people stared at her blamingly. It was true that which pot was not opened and which pot was lifted. Song Qingyue only smiled gently, without any intention of blaming her: "By your good words, my Highness is blessed with great fortune and will be safe and sound."

Next, Song Qingyue will go to the cave.

While on the way, she suddenly thought about opening a bank, but she quickly shook her head, thinking that the time had not come, and she had no experience, so she didn't know what problems she would encounter, so she should start from here Let's start with a small amount and small-scale loan.

As for the mortgage issue, she also thought about it, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was unnecessary.

One is that the household registration management system in this era is very strict. If you really don’t have enough money to run away, then you probably have nothing to do. For such a small amount of money, there is really no need to force people to die; With the status of the concubine of the prince's mansion here, most people probably wouldn't dare to trust her.

But these are just her own conjectures and guesses, and she has to implement it for a while before seeing what kind of problems and troubles will actually arise.

While Song Qingyue was sitting in the car thinking about these things, Zeng Maozhi discovered that someone was secretly following behind the car.

However, they did not startle the snake. The carriage Song Qingyue was riding in could not go directly to the villa. When she got to a lively place, she would go to a cloth shop, and someone would wear the exact same clothes as Song Qingyue, pretending to be Song Qingyue and sitting here again. Take a carriage back to En Temple.

How could Song Qingyue disguise herself into a convenient calligraphy and painting shop from the cloth village, and then come out from the back door of the painting and calligraphy shop.

"Shi Zifei, someone followed you just now, but they have already left with our carriage." Zeng Maozhi said in a low voice.

Song Qingyue sprinkled a handful of incense ash on her head. She was wearing a dusty and dirty padded jacket and a rag scarf wrapped around her head. Although she was a little scared, she was more excited, as if she had seen it before. Like a spy movie!

She put her hands in her sleeves and walked slowly with the dog's arms around her back. At first glance she looked like a little old lady, but she couldn't tell she was a peerless beauty unless she looked carefully.She asked in a low voice, "Do you know where they were sent?"

Zeng Maozhi said: "It is probably His Royal Highness the eldest grandson."

Song Qingyue clicked her tongue: "Can you send a message to the prince and ask him to cause some trouble for that eldest grandson? It's like a fly! I hate it!"

Zeng Maozhi said: "Eunuch Yang has already started to do it."

In fact, Eunuch Yang didn't need to make any effort, since Song Jianming was beaten up in court, he went home in a temper tantrum.

Song Qingyue rode slowly out of the city on a skinny donkey, and Zeng Maozhi took the opportunity to report to her about the recent situation of the emperor's eldest grandson, Li Sheng.

"Ever since Mr. Song was punished, he didn't go to the court anymore. The emperor directly let the emperor's grandson Li Sheng take over the household department."

"How? How is His Royal Highness doing?"

Zeng Maozhi sneered disdainfully: "Your highness, the eldest grandson, spoke nicely. When he was a child, he was praised by the Taifu, saying that he could compose poems at the age of four and write literature at the age of seven. It's because of the stars coming down to earth. The subordinates looked at him as smart as hell." It’s used to gossip and write to gain fame. As soon as His Royal Highness took over the household department, he began to replace a large number of people, and also changed a series of rules and regulations originally formulated by Mr. Song. Re-wrote it myself."

Hearing this, Song Qingyue seemed to have met the result, she also laughed and asked, "How is the result?"

"His Royal Highness Changsun is so busy that he sleeps in the yamen of the household department almost every day, but the household department is getting worse and worse by him, and the supply of food and grass for the frontier troops is also in chaos during the Spring Festival! Lack of food and money, the eldest grandson only goes to the Xu family in the northwest Sufficient food and grass, good armor and weapons. The second-class ones were supplied to Lord Liu in Shandong. As for the Northeast, they were simply left alone. I don’t know if it was intentional. A few days ago, Lord Ning came to the place. Feng Zhezi said that the food and grass provided by the Ministry of Households was only one-third of what it used to be in previous years, and that the new armor provided was made of paper, which would break if poked. Strict investigation."

Song Qingyue burst out laughing out loud, thinking that Lord Ninghou is also a genius!
"The emperor's face turned green when he saw Lord Ninghou's memorial?"

Zeng Maozhi shook his head: "The book should be withheld by the cabinet, and the emperor will definitely not see it."

Song Qingyue shook her head and sighed, thinking that the emperor's eldest grandson still cared about her, his cousin's woman, after his job was so bad.

Really should kill!

But Song Qingyue didn't need to worry about this kind of thing, as long as King Su came to power, the crown prince and Li Sheng would definitely not be able to survive.

~
After she came to the cave this time, the masters gave Song Qingyue a gift: a homemade mercury mirror!

Song Qingyue was very pleasantly surprised, she really had no idea how to make this mirror!

A master who specializes in glass said: "I knew you would like it, Shi Zifei. It's been more than two months and I haven't seen you here. I'm so impatient!"

Song Qingyue laughed, her eyes were curved, she looked like a Jade Bodhisattva with her turban and nun clothes, very pretty.

"It's actually quite simple, that is, melt tin into mercury, then brush it on the glass, heat it slightly, and after the mercury evaporates completely, the tin will adhere to the surface of the glass."

The glass master said cheerfully.

For this reason, he also specially made an evaporation collector, and the mercury can be reused.

Song Qingyue frowned slightly after hearing this, and stood in the distance, thinking with fear that the mirrors of this era are really made of mercury!
Who knows if the mercury evaporates cleanly!

so horrible!

She blinked her eyes and said: "Then master, you should also pay attention, mercury is poisonous, you must do it in a ventilated place."

Afterwards, the old master Yan who made the gun pushed the guy who made the glass away, and eagerly showed his proud work to Song Qingyue.

Clang!

Brand new hand-made rifled flintlock gun!

He has adjusted the thread angle, the length of the barrel, the shape of the bullet, and even the caliber countless times. In the past few months, he has brought a few apprentices to work day and night, making hundreds of rifled muskets , this one is currently the longest shooting distance!

"This gun can shoot up to [-] paces in a flat shot! The effective range can reach [-] paces, and the accuracy is much higher than before!" Old Master Yan was so proud that his nostrils were going to fly into the sky.

This was far beyond Song Qingyue's expectations. The effective range of two hundred steps is more than 300 meters!Its range is several times higher than that of the most cutting-edge firecrackers in the Zhou Dynasty and even in the whole world.

Unexpectedly, just adding a rifling and changing the shape of the bullet can have such great power!

Song Qingyue was a little moved and asked, "Can I try it?"

"no problem!"

Master Yan told her how to put lard on the rifle and how to fill the gunpowder.

"There is skill in filling this black powder. It cannot be packed too tightly, and it cannot explode without air."

Too much filling and no air to explode?

Song Qingyue silently kept it in her heart, so she can think about this question later.

Seeing that Song Qingyue wanted to try the firecracker, Zeng Maozhi was a little worried, and stepped forward to stop him: "Concubine Shizi, this is not right, what if the chamber explodes?"

Old Master Yan immediately said unhappily: "No! The barrel of this gun has been heat-treated, and we have tried it with four times the gunpowder! It will never explode!"

"That's still inappropriate. Why don't you ask your subordinates to support you and shoot? Your subordinates are afraid that you won't be able to hold the gun." Zeng Maozhi looked at Song Qingyue's slender body, and was really afraid that she would knock him over with a single shot. That recoil is no joke.

Song Qingyue nodded in agreement, Zeng Maozhi's ears were slightly red, and her heart was beating wildly when she approached the princess. Song Qingyue didn't feel anything at first, but when Zeng Maozhi hugged her from behind, she also felt something was wrong, and immediately put down the gun and said: "Forget it, let's see if you guys shoot."

Zeng Maozhi backed away blushing, watching Mr. Yan's apprentice test the gun.

After a few shots, the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke.

Master Yan proudly displayed the smashed armor and pork to Song Qingyue.

"Look, lead bullets of this shape are shot with rotation and strong penetrating power. Ordinary leather armor, cloth armor, and even chain mail can't defend against it!"

"Indeed!" Song Qingyue took a closer look at the fine iron chain mail that had been punched out.

"After the bullet pierced into the human body, its destructive power was many times higher than before! Look here, the flesh has been smashed."

Gee!

Really are!
After trying the gun, Song Qingyue was amazed, and said to Old Master Yan: "Actually, it can also be used to make shotguns."

Old Master Yan asked, "What are shotguns?"

Song Qingyue simply drew the structure of the shotgun: "It can also be called a shotgun. The bullet is empty, filled with gunpowder and small lead balls, and can hit a large area with one shot. But this kind of bullet needs to be made more It needs to be larger, and the barrel caliber needs to be thicker. You can try it, but the shotgun is definitely not as good as this tapered solid bullet in terms of range.”

The eyes of several gun-making masters lit up after hearing this. This is really a new development idea!

On the way back to Ensi, Song Qingyue kept thinking about gunpowder.

If the oxygen is not enough to explode, then add an oxidant.

Potassium chlorate?No no, sodium chlorate is easier to make...

But is sodium chlorate in black powder unsafe?
Sodium chlorate is not very stable.

If the gunpowder barrel blew itself up, she would be a sinner through the ages.

Wait, according to this idea, wouldn't it be possible to make explosives by mixing sodium chlorate, black powder and red phosphorus together?
Thoughts were racing through her head.

When returning to Baoen Temple, someone rushed over suddenly. Tong Tong knelt down, hugged Song Qingyue's leg, and cried loudly: "Concubine Shizi! The maidservant came back late, you have suffered!"

(End of this chapter)