Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 272
During the winter solstice, the weather was already very cold, so Sun Xin got up and put on a thick fur, and then went out in the wind and snow.

The crops on the fields have been harvested, and the winter wheat that has been overwintering is pressed under the snow, and will not continue to grow until the spring snow thaws.

Walking through the ridge road of Sunjiazhuang along the way, the farmers on both sides saluted Sun Xin enthusiastically when they saw Sun Xin.

If in the past, after the beginning of winter, it would be the slack time for farming, and the farmers would either stay indoors, or go to Dengzhou City to find work or be dragged into corvee by the government.

But in today's Sunjiazhuang, everyone's life has quietly changed.

Even though it's already winter, the faces of the dealers still show a busy atmosphere.

Their target was not the farmland, but the roaring hemp yarn and medicinal material factories, or the noisy shops of the Sun family.

The harvest on the fields now only accounts for about [-]% of the income of Sunjiazhuang farmers. More farmers choose to enter various factories in Sunjiazhuang to make a living, and many people do small businesses in Sunjiazhuang. .

In the past, Sunjiaji was just an ordinary small market within a radius of more than ten miles, but with the emergence of buyers, the business of Sunjiaji has now expanded many times.

Although new bazaars have appeared in many Zhuangzi, Sunjiaji, which was established a few years earlier, is still the largest among them, and the location advantage of Shili Pai continues to exert its effect, leading from several nearby Zhuangzi to The roads to Sunjiaji are very convenient, and many people would like to come to Sunjiaji to go to the market when they have time.

Sun Xin didn't ride a horse for convenience when he went out today, but he regretted it after walking two steps.

Although winter started early this year, the temperature was not too low. The snow on the roadside melted and then froze, and at this time, they all formed black lumps of crushed ice.

When I stepped on it, I thought I was stepping on an ice cube, but soon I fell into the unfrozen ice water. After walking a few steps, Sun Xin's shoes got water, and both feet quickly disappeared. Chilled by that ice-water mixture.

But now he didn't bother to go back to ride the horse, so he walked quickly to the factory area of ​​Sunjiazhuang.

Li Zhi and his two sons had been waiting in the factory for a long time. When they saw Sun Xin coming, they hurried up to greet him, and walked in with him while talking to him about the technical problems they encountered today.

Now Sunji's pharmaceutical scale has been greatly expanded, and a large part of the production of conventional medicines has been handed over to the pharmaceutical factory in Dulonggang. Only some complex medicines are still produced in the headquarters of Sunjiazhuang, but with the booming sales of Sunji, this Some high-end products are also enough to use a lot of manpower.

In addition, another important industry of Sun Kee's factory at this time is actually the production of chemicals.

The chemical factory here produces the sulfuric acid and caustic soda that are used throughout the Dengzhou hemp spinning mill.

Jenny machine spinning has a large demand for raw materials, which cannot be supplied by traditional retting methods. All new hemp mills use caustic soda corrosion to produce raw materials.

With the increase in the production of hemp yarn, the demand for sulfuric acid and caustic soda also drove the original sulfuric acid and caustic soda workshop in Sunji's workshop to become independent and become the raw material factory of Sunji today. In October, the income of the raw material factory has exceeded that of Sunji. Record the income of the pharmaceutical factory.

While listening to Li Zhi's report, Sun Xin came to the factory workshop with him.

In the experimental workshop, a huge reactor was placed in the center of the workshop, and next to it were all kinds of strange industrial equipment researched under the specific technology of these years.

Sun Xin put on protective equipment and climbed to the top of the reactor to have a look, and soon found that the entire feeding pipeline was blocked, no wonder the raw materials could not be pumped through, so he quickly asked the technical workers to drain the raw materials and start dismantling.

As soon as the pipe was disassembled, the experimental workshop was filled with a pungent smell, which made people unable to open their eyes. Everyone could only run out and wait for the ventilation inside.

The finished products of the caustic soda workshop with mature technology are sulfuric acid and caustic soda, but since the chemical industry is to be engaged in, three acids and two alkalis are necessary, and the preparation of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid has also been put on the agenda.

Making these kinds of acids is more difficult than making sulfuric acid. Sun Xin had never worked in a chemical factory in his previous life, so he only had some basic chemical knowledge in his mind, so he could only experiment slowly.

After staring at the hydrochloric acid workshop all morning, another batch of raw materials was added to improve the heating process and discharge time. The experimental results will not come out until two days later.

Sun Xin was already dirty, but he didn't have time to rest. After leaving the workshop, he first went to the canteen of Sunjiaji to grab a few bites of food, and then rode to Dulonggang with his farmer.

It was already night when we arrived at Dulonggang.

From a distance, Sun Xin saw a delicate figure on the watchtower in front of the post looking around anxiously holding a small lantern. Seeing his horse approaching, the small lantern quickly moved down from the upstairs.

Seeing Sun Xin getting off the horse in a muddy suit, Hu Sanniang hurriedly asked the farmer to take the whip.

"Wait in a hurry, the villager has delayed some matters to arrive so late."

Hu Sanniang shook her head to express that she was fine, and walked slowly up the post with her husband.

Along the way, Sun Xin watched Dulonggang's defense very carefully.Now the three Zhuangzi in Dulonggang have become a game of chess after they unified and built farmers and soldiers. There will never be a situation in the Water Margin that can be divided and disintegrated by Liangshan.

The peasants and soldiers from Dulonggang, the reinforcements from Zengtou City, and all the officers of a regiment from Sunjiazhuang were waiting for him.

Although the three villages of Dulonggang had opinions on Sun Xin's idea of ​​expanding the farmers and soldiers, they quickly adjusted their deployment after the matter was settled.

Now the peasants and soldiers in Dulonggang have been pulled up, with a force of 5000. The three heroes of the Zhu family, Hu Cheng, Hucai, and several nephews from Lijiazhuang have all become the leaders of the peasants and soldiers in Dulonggang. At first glance, the peasants and soldiers selected by the supervisory committee seemed to be the private soldiers of Sanzhuang.

Sun Xin naturally knew that the three Zhuangzi had played tricks in the supervisory committee, but he couldn't be too hasty with their attitude, so he took a look and didn't express any opinion.

After getting dressed, I immediately went into the flower hall for a meeting.

When everyone was together, my uncle told everyone about the developments in Liangshan in the past ten days.

After listening to everyone, everyone was silent. When Sun Xin said that Liangshan would definitely attack Dulonggang, some people would have objections in their hearts. However, Liangshan's mobilization of Dulonggang has become more and more frequent these days. on the face.

After the report, Luan Tingyu pulled out the situation of Liangshan's defense at this time.

Sun Xin also suggested that everyone arrange two exercises before Liangshan came, so that the peasants and soldiers could familiarize themselves with their position first, especially the artillery should conduct exercises specifically for mountain warfare, and try to get the local shooting table out , Dulonggang is full of mountains, the shooting distance of artillery is not easy to calculate, the angle of slope, and the direction of shooting are all issues that need to be considered in advance.

A meeting lasted until early in the morning, and Sun Xin got up and walked to the courtyard where Hu Sanniang was.

Xiaopang has been coaxed to sleep by Ya'er, but Hu Sanniang is still sitting in the room with the light on waiting for him.

When she entered the room, she saw that Mrs. Hu Chen was also there with her. She was probably talking to Hu Sanniang, but she was already drowsy at this time, and only Hu Sanniang was still waiting for her husband with her eyes wide open.

Seeing Sun Xin coming in, Hu Sanniang got up quickly.

Sun Xin took off the thick clothes outside and said to Hu Sanniang, "Get me something to eat."

"You haven't eaten yet?"

"It was too late on the way, so I took two mouthfuls of dry food."

Mrs. Hu Chen was also woken up, listening to the two talking with sleepy eyes, she said, "Sanniang didn't sleep well all night, please sit down, I'll get it for you."

While Sun Xin was washing his hands and face, Hu Chen came in with a bowl of noodle soup.

Sun Xin picked up the noodle bowl and ate the noodles like a storm.

Hu Sanniang hurriedly asked him: "Do you want to take a bath? I have already put down the hot water."

"I don't have time to wash. I'll sleep tonight and go to Zengtou City tomorrow morning. It's been snowing for the past few days and the road is not easy to walk. I need to start early."

Hu Sanniang asked in surprise, "Going to Zengtou City?"

Sun Xin nodded and said to his daughter-in-law: "My body is full of mud spots, so I'll just lay on the edge of the kang, since it's not cold in the house anyway."

Hu Sanniang's face was already slumped, and tears were rolling in her eyes: "Go to bed on the kang, hurry up, I don't think it's dirty."

"It's really not necessary."

"Go!"

Sun Xin had no choice but to obey. After entering the room, he rolled up the quilt, and soon there was a subtle and even sound of snoring.

As Hu Sanniang was tidying up the dishes, her nose felt sore, and she couldn't help but shed tears when she moved her hands and feet.

"Mom, he's really tired...I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on..."

Hu Chen glanced at the inside of the room, and also sighed.

I can only persuade my daughter: "It's not so easy for a man to do things."

Looking at the room again: "It will be fine after a while."

Early the next morning, Sun Xin was woken up by Hu Sanniang. His wife had already prepared things for him to wash up. After brushing his teeth and wiping his face, Hu Sanniang brought him a hot breakfast. The horse had already been changed for him. After running for a day, Sun Xin and the horses of the dealers were exhausted. If they continued to run, they would lose weight like crazy.

When I came to Zengtou City, I went to see Master Zeng in the courtyard.

Seeing Sun Xin's appearance, Zeng Daguan was quite surprised.

"Why have you lost weight after not seeing anyone for a few days?"

Sun Xin said with a smile: "It's nothing, there are a lot of things these days."

Senior Officer Zeng took a deep look at him, and suddenly sighed:

"You are a good young man. If you hadn't been so cruel, I wouldn't respect you as a hero. But...you should cherish your body when you are young."

Sun Xin was a little surprised when he heard this, it was completely different from what he had imagined that Senior Official Zeng would say.

"Why are you looking at me like this? Could it be that I'm really an evildoer, who only knows how to play tricks and doesn't know how to say a good word?"

"no no……"

Master Zeng smiled and shook his head: "You have to know that Fourth Sister is also my biological daughter, how can I not cherish her?"

(End of this chapter)