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Chapter 1308 Jin Zhong
In the lobby of Puli County Yamen, Ying Ming sat in the middle.

It was originally the residence of Earl Charles, and it was magnificently built, but the layout did not conform to the aesthetics of the Ming people. The entire ground floor of the three-story building was the lobby. house.

Although Daoist Cao was not a Taoist at the Taoist Temple of Dragon and Tiger for a long time, he occasionally got a lot of money from the seizure of the city. He took many ancient books from the barbarians, especially the alchemy that was prevalent in Europa at this time, which fascinated the Taoist priest deeply, so he was on the top floor. Let's do it.

By the way, these days, people don't care whether these things are called alchemy or practices, they are called experiments.

Failure to refine is called experiment failure, and success is called experiment result.

Now Taoist Cao is in the attic using the ancient method of the Tang Dynasty to dry distill natural vitriol, that is, copper sulfate, to obtain stone bile essence, which is sulfuric acid, and the method of dry distilling natural green vitriol, which is iron sulfate, to obtain vitriol oil, which is also the method of sulfuric acid confirm each other.

He suspects that different stone gallbladders contain the same thing in order to make the same stone gallbladder essence.

Stone gallbladder essence is a very important thing. It is said in ancient books that it is used in all medicines, and all medicines are gods. The ancestors have realized that sulfuric acid is easy to react with all things.

These conjectures and new discoveries attracted Daoist Cao to ask the merchants in the Daming Guild Hall to collect more ancient books on alchemy in Europe for him. Of course, he not only asked the merchants to collect books about Europe, but also asked people to return to Asia and return to China by ship. Gather this part of the data for him.

It doesn't matter which country or place the things come from, anyway, Cao Daochang's knowledge of these things is close to blank.

But the good thing is that knowledge is something that is easy to inherit. As long as there are books and words, as long as books and words can be obtained, it is easy to inherit even if you are separated by mountains and seas.

Just like Europe got this knowledge from the Arabs, if you don’t believe me, look up, who will God spare?

The yamen was being rebuilt, and the merchants invited local craftsmen from Puli County to add a few walls to separate compartments for the room on the lower floor that used to be used as a restaurant. At the same time, they drew drawings and ordered some simple furniture to decorate the hall.

However, the furniture hasn't been done well recently, and there aren't many carpenters in Puli County, and they are all busy making coffins for the soldiers who died in the Muye Army.

Li Yuxi did not believe in the craftsmanship of the English earthworkers, and he only wanted to make a tightly sealed coffin, so he did not hesitate to pay [-]% higher than the market price.

No one expected that Li Yuxi's ordering of coffins for the fallen soldiers would break the hearts of the citizens in the city who were originally agitated by the siege.

After the battle outside the city, the citizens who ran out with the nobles had nowhere to go, some of them returned to the city, their houses were occupied, and their belongings were lost. The county arranged housing for them. But it is often unsatisfactory.

Dissatisfied, many people died in the war, and many soldiers who died in battle were related to the citizens who survived. There is already hatred in people's hearts, but individuals who are not linked together cannot make waves.

Many small groups in the city were connecting together intentionally or unintentionally. As a result, Li Yuxi ordered the coffin, and most of the people who planned to rebel died down.

What are you kidding, my God, every one of them died with a coffin!
Humans are very tough animals, only afraid of comparison.

It's as if Spanish soldiers in the New World didn't think it was bad to have Spanish disease or French disease, because at least it meant that the person had sex.

The same goes for the citizens of Plymouth, who died without coffins.

When people die, they can just bury them in the church cemetery. A plague broke out in the city a while ago, and the cemetery was full. The courtyard wall was crushed by corpses. The corpses of decades and hundreds of years poured into the rich mansion next to the church along the wall. In the household, the children playing under the wall were crushed to death, and the housewife was crushed. Within a few days, the owner's wife died of the plague.

What kind of coffin do you want? That's something only the lord has.

Of course, this is not rigorous. In this era of materialistic desires, coffins are no longer the privilege of nobles. Usually, rich people with an annual income of more than [-] pounds will prepare coffins when their family members pass away, but most citizens cannot reach this income. European social turmoil caused by rising prices, people's wages have not been raised for a long time, most of the proletarians cannot maintain a decent life.

No decent living, let alone a decent death.

There are only two places in Europe where wages are rising, London and Amsterdam, because the best workers are there, because that is now the center of the woolen and shipbuilding industries in Europe.

Even in Poole County, all the citizens know where the problems of the whole of England are, but no one can solve them—as long as they have money, the English can buy everything they want, except that they lack food.

This answer may not be so clear in the eyes of individuals. They will attribute the problem to their own lack of money or too expensive food. Only a few people know the fact that their land does not grow food. The lords and rich businessmen are busy raising sheep and opening factories. Where Free time to grow food.

People who can't solve problems are full of fantasy, but in the minds of people who can solve problems, this kind of thing is not a problem.

If there is no place to grow food, you can buy it outside, and if it is expensive outside, you can find new land... Everything is a spontaneous individual behavior of the businessman. If you find a cheaper food production place, can you make a lot of money by transporting it back?And if more people find cheap food producing areas, won't the price of food drop?

very natural.

Therefore, the British royal family vigorously promotes the cause of Irish colonization, so there is such a sentence in "History of the Palace of Ireland": In the spring of ten years, the sea barbarians came from afar, and Tai Longwei was violated. , Violent Corpse Reef.

Therefore, English merchants tried their best to explore the unknown land in the north of the New World. Therefore, there is such a sentence in "Muye County Chronicles": In the summer of ten years, there were barbarians who came to support the board, and they despised the people. To provide food and clothing for him to make a living, not two months later, he tried to abduct a local woman and went to Changdao to cross the track. The woman picked up pebbles and hit the top of her, and she died.

So the question remains unresolved.

Although the citizens feel uncomfortable seeing these foreigners occupying the city, they can afford coffins for every soldier who died in battle, which is obviously very rich!

So everyone's desire to rob the prison and release Earl Charles has also turned to the new lord, oh no, now they are called the magistrate and the general. They want to petition the magistrate and the general to see if they can find a way to reduce the price of food. One drop.

This question is very interesting to Ming Ying. According to his thinking—what kind of sheep should be raised, and all go back to farming?What, you said no land?It's too easy to deal with no land, let's divide it.

However, at this very moment, when he had the idea of ​​recruiting the general manager of Muye Zhongying and entrusting him with important tasks, he encountered a problem.

The general of the middle battalion was called Song Yang, and before Ying Ming could figure out how to praise him, he had already said that it was not his idea to use the enemy's words on the battlefield to yell that the earl was dead, but his adopted son's idea, and he planned to do this His son recommended him to Ying Ming.

His adopted son and Ying Ming are half fellow villagers, from Suning, North Zhili.

His name is Wei Jinzhong.

　Good morning, I checked a few articles, Chapter 2 is a little later.

　　
　
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