open sea

Chapter 37 Distant
Chen Mu made a big deal.

Fighting against Japanese pirates to buy more than 100 taels of silver before warming it in his arms, he was very capriciously thrown out by Chen Junye to buy a few small things in Guangdong Mansion.When he first found out that Chen Mu wanted him to do this, Shao Tingda thought that Chen Mu had been shot in the head by a Japanese pirate's bow and arrow, and he just wanted to go to Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau of Guangzhou Prefecture to invite Cheng Hongda to show Chen Zongqi the injury.

Of course, keeping warm in his arms is just an adjective. Chen Mu wouldn't be so stupid as to carry nearly eight catties of silver in his arms.

"Guan Jiang, you said you could grind it out, but Mr. Chen got the stuff, take a look."

Now the Guan family and his son have their own workshop, which is located next to a small stream near the future village construction site.Including the blacksmith's house and the carpenter's house, together with the houses and small warehouses of their family of seven, they enclose a land with a radius of six feet, and the [-] mu of land on the other side of the stream is Chen Mu's private field.

But now the workshop is still in its infancy, only a few simple huts built by Guan's father and son, and the iron stove and woodworking house have already been built.Chen Mu's "Zongqi Yamen" has not been built yet, so there is no spare labor to build the workshop.However, in terms of planning, Chen Mu wanted to make the surrounding forest land at least fifteen feet wide into workshops—craftsmen were very important, and he had to find a way to recruit more craftsmen.

Now three craftsmen are just enough, and he can't afford to support more, let alone use them.But it will not be certain in the future. Chen Mu estimates that he will have at least ten craftsmen of various types in his hands in the future to supply his various needs. No matter how many more, he will not be able to surround his own [-] mu of land, but will move the workshop to Only on the banks of the Beijiang River.

Water power is sometimes better than human power.

In the palm of Chen Mu's outstretched hands, there are two flaky white crystals the size of a baby's palm, smooth and transparent.

For crystal chips like this, he asked Shao Tingda to carry a hundred taels of silver ingots with him, and led the flag army to Guangcheng to spend more than seventy taels to buy five pieces, and drove all the way back to Qingyuan.Sometimes there are too many small inventions in the mind, but it is easier to make people hesitate. Burning sand to make glass does not sound difficult, but Chen Mu knows nothing about it. After thinking about it, he thinks that it will inevitably take a lot of time, energy and money.

However, in the spring of the first year of Longqing, Chen Mu found that what he lacked most was time.

Like a novice hunter, he aimed at his second prey after Bai Yuanjie-Tan Lun, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, a civil official who was good at military affairs and was later called the dry city of the country during the Wanli period.Chen Mu's limited understanding of this era in his memory and what he has seen in this life corroborate each other. Qi Jiguang, Tan Lun, and Zhang Juzheng, a new faction of the Ming Dynasty, saw the details in the eyes of Qingyuan Wei Zongqi, among the five mountains in the southwest of the great country.

An important part of this is Tan Lun, who is currently sitting in the governor's yamen of Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong and Guangxi, across the river from Qingyuan, and will soon go north to prepare for the frontier.

This is the first time Chen Mu has seen the opportunity to go straight to the sky. If he fails to grasp it, it may be his last chance in this life.And to seize this opportunity lies in the two crystals in Chen Mu's palm.

This is the same thing as the lens he saw in the optical shop in Guangcheng, but the price is slightly cheaper. The price of an unprocessed crystal chip is 12 taels. If everything goes well, only one and a half can achieve his goal, but I am afraid Fearing that it would not go well, he taught Shao Tingda to buy back five yuan for later use.

On the paper handed to Guan Yuangu, there were three convex lenses, one large, two small, and three convex lenses drawn with charcoal pencils. It just used up two crystal chips and left some scraps.Even though I had thought clearly that this would probably fail, I still couldn't help but feel distressed when I came here, and I repeatedly told Guan Yuangu: "It must be polished and transparent, and there must be no mistakes at all!"

He wanted Guan Yuangu to polish three lenses to make a monocular telescopic telescope with positive imaging, and dedicated it to Tan Lun who was about to go north to prepare for the border.

Although he hasn't figured out how to present the telescope after it's finished, or even if he can do it well, he already has an expectation in his heart about the return of donating the strange object, and the expectation is that there will be no return in the short term—— 70 taels Does it cost too much to look familiar?

Chen Mu thinks it's totally worth it, at least for now, he's not that short of money.

Guan Yuangu once helped the high-ranking official of Qingyuan Guard to polish the glass cup, but he himself didn't know whether he could complete the mission Chen Mu entrusted to him to make lenses, or even what "lenses" were?He couldn't figure it out.

"Don't worry, Zongqi, the little old man will do his best. Even if he can't polish it, he can try to carve other things. Selling it as a pendant may raise the price." Guan Yuangu was trying his best to think about how to save Chen Mu Qian, after all, he is a full-time blacksmith and carpenter, not a glazer, so he doesn't have much confidence in his heart.Chen Mu was very relieved of him, waved his hand and said: "It's okay, you try your best to polish, those things will not be discussed until the end."

Then Chen Mu asked Guan Zunban about making the cow-pulled hand-cranked planter, and was told that one could be completed within seven days at most, without delaying the farming work, so he was relieved and prepared to leave.On the small road leading to Anyuan post station at Tianlong, Fu Yuan, who had just recovered from his wounds, drove a few bullock carts and yelled towards the [-]-acre private field. In other words, seeing Chen Mu here, he took off his boots, stepped on stones, waded across the stream and trotted over.

"Hey, General Banner, twelve, no, fourteen tanks of waste water have already been brought in." Fu Yuan took off his iron helmet and scratched his hair under the net towel, apparently counting to numbers above ten was extremely difficult for him Task.Turning around with a distressed expression, he was driven away by curious scratches, and said: "General Banner, can the rice grow big after eating that deadly salty waste water?"

What dead salty wastewater is called potash fertilizer!
No, how did Fu Yuan know it was salty?
"Did you drink?"

Potassium nitrate with a low content is also potassium nitrate. Can the chemical solution be drunk casually?

As soon as Fu Yuan nodded, Chen Mu pushed his head into the stream, gulped down his stomach with raw water, and continued to bark his teeth and claws, howling: "Just, just drink, a little!"

Later, Cheng Su Fuyuan suffered from diarrhea.

"Tell everyone that you are not allowed to drink that thing, and those two bald men in the cave are not allowed to eat nitrate powder. Yes, and this stream water is also not allowed to drink. Guan Jiang built a few stoves by the stream, and I will give you two more Xiaowa boils water here every day, and pours it into a big vat, and anyone who is thirsty will come here to pick it up."

In the red sunset, the busy farmers in the fields raised their heads and wiped their sweat. In the distance, Shi Qi waved a small flag and the bird gun team exploded with gunpowder smoke again. Giant trees in the forest fell to the ground, forming row upon row of prototype houses. ... The smoke from the kitchen also rises from the Anyuan station when the dusk falls.

Chen Mu stretched contentedly, and got on the horse.

The picture in front of him brought him an unparalleled sense of accomplishment, this is what Wei should look like in his heart.Perhaps in the future, the people living here will have enough food and clothing, and the flag army will practice rigorously and have high combat effectiveness, and they will no longer be scared to hide in the city shivering because of dozens of Japanese pirates.

Chen Mu knew that such a day would not be far away.

　good morning friends!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)