Pirate Song

After the news spread, it caused quite a stir in Daye County. Many mine owners doing business in this area heard about it and came to inquire about the news. They soon determined that there was indeed copper and iron mines here, so they immediately

There was an uproar. Some people tried to seize this land. They went to the county government office and wanted to take over this mountain. However, after asking, they found out that this mountainous land had been taken over by the Gao family two years ago. So everyone beat their chests and stamped their feet, only to

It can be said that the Gao family is so lucky that they can find a copper and iron mine even if they buy a barren mountain.

So these people didn't give up and wanted to cooperate with the Gao family, but they were all politely declined by Gao Huaiyuan, which made it clear that the Gao family would be on their own this time. Some people still didn't give up, seeing that the Gao family was a layman in mining and metallurgy, so they

They joined forces privately to ban the miners in their own fields and pits from switching jobs to work for the Gao family, in an attempt to block the Gao family technically.

It is a pity that Gao Huaiyuan was prepared in advance. In addition to the few miners he recruited before joining the army, he also recruited ten or twenty old miners from several mines before taking action. When the mine owners in the Daye area jointly planned

When it was time to block him, he had already prepared his manpower.

After the news reached the ears of Liu Zhixian, Liu Zhixian also shook his head and smiled bitterly. He thought that Gao Huaiyuan was really a capable person. He actually made the move in advance without saying a word and bought such a piece of land from the government at such a low price.

Feng Shui treasure land, at first he didn't understand why Gao Huaiyuan wanted to take over this barren mountain, but now he finally understood it. It turned out that Gao Huaiyuan had long known that there was a mine in the mountain, but he just didn't make the news public!

If it were another wealthy family, Mr. Liu Zhi County would have to turn around and give him a stroke, but for Gao Huaiyuan, he still did not dare to do so. Some time ago, because Gao Huaiyuan was sent to serve in the army, Gao Huaiyuan's

His father often caused trouble for him, and even secretly moved him to drag him down from his position as county magistrate. If he goes to blackmail Gao Huaiyuan now, wouldn't he be asking for trouble? Not to mention Gao Huaiyuan.

In his eyes, people are now untouchable. From the mouths of those returning home, he heard a lot about Gao Huaiyuan killing people in front of the battle. When he thought of these, give him the courage, and he also

They didn't dare to cause trouble for Gao Huaiyuan, so the government kept silent on the matter. After asking about it, other wealthy households in the copper and iron ore business also stopped and did not dare to take the initiative to provoke the Gao family.

, so after a period of time, the matter calmed down. Anyway, there are too many copper and iron mines in Daye County, and we don’t care if there are more Gao families.

Since Gao Huaiyuan made up his mind to open a mine, he privately purchased a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur and other materials, and selected the best wood in the mountains to burn charcoal. He specially circled an idler in a secluded place at the back of the compound.

At Mo Jin's place, Zhou Laowu was ordered to build a special workshop, and then transport soil salt, sulfur and other materials into it for storage. He only took Jiang Peng in and worked hard until dark every day.

I'm so mysterious that I don't know what I'm doing.

Anyway, Gao Huaiyuan's evil ideas kept popping up, and people gradually got used to it. However, this time Gao Huaiyuan seemed to take this matter particularly seriously. He strictly prohibited anyone from entering the village, and also sent out young villagers to be on duty in shifts, even within ten feet of the nearby village.

No open flames are allowed to enter.

Gao Huaiyuan was so busy during these days that he even forgot to ask about things in front of the army. Fortunately, Huang Zhen still sent some news back from outside from time to time. According to the news Huang Zhen inquired about, Zaoyang

The battle is now over. Meng Zongzheng led his army to garrison Zaoyang County. Hu Zaixing led his army to join forces with Meng Zongzheng, which greatly strengthened the strength of the Zaoyang Song army and firmly dragged the Jin army outside the city.

Take half a step forward.

In this way, the Jin army was delayed for three months, and the Jin army was depleted of men and horses. It also paid a heavy price of casualties under Zaoyang City. At this time, Liu Shiguang suddenly led his army to march from Suizhou and stabbed the Jin army in the back.

With one blow, Meng Zongzheng seized the opportunity, sent his army out of the city, and attacked from the front. Under the attack from both sides, the Jin army suffered a huge defeat. They once again retreated to Tanghe with their tail between their legs. They could not even leave Xinyang. Tens of thousands of

The Jin army was chased by the Song army. The Jin army lost more than 10,000 yuan and ran all the way back to their controlled area, thus ending the Second Battle of Zaoyang.

And what makes Gao Huaiyuan happy is that although he was not able to participate in this battle, Huang Yan and more than a dozen of his subordinates did participate in the battle in Meng Gong's army. No one died in the battle, and each of them made considerable military exploits.

Immediately after the war, he sent a letter to Gao Huaiyuan to report that he was safe. Although Gao Huaiyuan did not know the entire process of the war, he knew that the matter was far from over at this point. The Jin Kingdom would not stop here. I am afraid that it will not be long before

We still have to attack Zaoyang and Xiangyang.

However, he also expected that the Jin army would not be able to cross the Yangtze River and go south, and Daye County would at least have a long period of peace and stability, so he wrote back to Huang Yan, asking him and his brothers to be extremely careful and not to act like a mere man.

To perform meritorious service, one must train oneself through the battlefield. Preserving life is the first priority. These people are his seeds. Losing anyone to Gao Huaiyuan will hurt him to death!

News of the Song Army's victory over the Jin Army soon spread to Daye, and a group of rural warriors who accompanied Gao Huaiyuan on his first expedition also returned to Daye County. The magistrate Liu in the county could not be regarded as an absolutely upright official, but he was

As a good official, Gao Huaiyuan paid the pensions to the families of those who died in the battle as promised and did not withhold money from the dead. After learning about this, Gao Huaiyuan was very pleased and immediately sent someone to send a generous gift to Liu Zhixian on behalf of those who died in the battle.

The family members of those who died in the battle thanked Liu Zhixian, and the other county officials also received a gift from Gao Huaiyuan as a reward for their courage in the countryside.

As time passed day by day, various projects in Wohu Village were carried out step by step. With the efforts of everyone, the three dams were finally built, and the waterwheel was also built by a group of carpenters headed by Zhou Laowu.

, everyone worked together to install three large waterwheels on the dam. After the water was stored, the water flow pushed the waterwheels to start spinning. It was really easy for someone to do something. This time they built it together.

The performance of these three waterwheels is quite good. Although they have not yet been able to use bearings, they all use bronze bearings made by Zhuangzi, which greatly reduces the friction of the waterwheels and makes the waterwheels run quite smoothly.

The blacksmiths such as Zhou Botong also built the transmission part on time and began to connect with the waterwheel. The first waterwheel was installed with a large stone mill chiseled by the masons, and it was put into operation with squeaking noises all day long.

He began to invest in crushing various raw materials.

The blacksmith shop also began to make water-powered pestle hammers, and gradually began to take shape and be assembled. Gao Huaiyuan watched the progress of these projects every day, and saw that the pestle hammers were also starting to be put into place under the efforts of everyone.

And finally connected to the waterwheel.

That afternoon, a group of people happily gathered around the blacksmith's shed. Everyone looked expectantly. They looked at the strange-looking large machine in front of them. They saw that this guy had eight hammers, and there was an iron hammer placed under each hammer.

The anvil stopped quietly in mid-air. The waterwheel temporarily lowered the baffle and stopped rotating. A log was connected to the pestle as a transmission rod. Just waiting to open the water door, this new pestle

The hammer can then be operated experimentally.

Gao Huaiyuan also looked at the big guy in front of him with excitement. This thing also condensed a lot of his efforts. Although he had never seen what a real water-powered pestle looked like, with the help of his previous life

Despite the mechanical knowledge he learned, he still worked hard to design this Gao's pestle hammer, and built it with the joint efforts of many craftsmen.

As for whether it would work, although he had a certain foundation in his mind, he was still a little uneasy before seeing it actually work. If it failed, it would be a huge loss.

After some inspection and confirmation that all components had been installed correctly, Gao Huaiyuan took a deep breath and shouted: "Lift the water gate! Release the water!"

The two blacksmiths stood on the dam, their muscles rising, and they immediately pushed the winch slowly and slowly lifted up the sluice gate that blocked the water. The crystal clear stream immediately gushes out from the sluice gate and slapped on the water gate.

On the waterwheel flap, I could hear the waterwheel making a squeaking sound, and then it began to rotate slowly.

The eight hammers mounted on the rotating shafts began to operate driven by cams as the waterwheel rotated, and they struck the anvils below each one after another, making a roaring sound.

After everyone saw the magical pestle hammer starting to operate, they immediately burst into cheers. As the water wheel rotated faster, the speed of the pestle hammer also increased. Several young blacksmiths pulled out the burning charcoal from the charcoal furnace next to the anvil.

The red iron bar was clamped with large pliers and placed on the anvil. The hammer on the pestle struck the iron bar heavily, and sparks suddenly flew...

Zhou Botong's lips trembled with excitement. Although he had heard of such a new object, when he actually saw it, he still felt full of shock. After a long time, he trembled and said: "Great! It's really a treasure! ...

…”

With the operation of the pestle and hammer, the work in the blacksmith workshop has become much smoother. The iron materials that used to be forged by manual labor are now being forged with the pestle and hammer. Both the strength and the speed are better than that of manual labor.

Quite a few, and now the blacksmiths only need to control the iron on the anvil, and they can easily strike iron, which makes these blacksmiths smile from ear to ear.

Just after finishing his work with the pestle and hammer, Gao Huaiyuan plunged into the small courtyard in the corner of the backyard and continued tinkering with Jiang Peng.

When he came to the open space outside the courtyard with a handful of black powder, Jiang Peng carefully handed over a fire seal. Gao Huaiyuan stretched out his hand to the small pile of black medicine scattered on the stone slab.

With just a chirping sound, the pile of black medicinal noodles burned, but the burning speed was not very fast.

"Damn it! It still doesn't work!" Gao Huaiyuan blew out the fire stick angrily, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it vigorously. Sparks were all over his head. He didn't know who to turn to to relieve the fire!

These days, he has been preparing gunpowder with Jiang Peng. As a person with a lot of knowledge from later generations, he originally thought that preparing black gunpowder would be an easy task. Besides, he used to be a policeman and had a lot of contact with gunpowder.

Such things, he didn't pay attention to this matter at all.

But what he thought was the simplest thing turned out to be troublesome. No matter how he adjusted the ratio, the black gunpowder he prepared burned unstable. The results of several tests were not ideal. Not only did the gunpowder not burn fully, it even failed.

Detonates normally.

Gao Huaiyuan sat on the ground, wondering what went wrong. Anyway, it seemed that even ordinary black powder, which could no longer be ordinary, was not as simple to make as he thought. He had already configured it according to the agreed proportions.

, but it was so unsatisfactory, it really gave him a headache!

Rushing was not the solution. After Gao Huaiyuan thought about it for a while, he walked back into the small courtyard, grabbed a handful of saltpeter, and rubbed it in his hands. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he almost hit him to death with a piece of tofu.

"Damn it! There's something wrong with the purity of the raw materials! Look at my pig brain! The purity of saltpetre is not high to begin with. It would be damned if we could prepare gunpowder that is suitable for use!" Gao Huaiyuan slapped his head with a face.

He said with a wry smile to Jiang Peng beside him.

Jiang Peng looked at Gao Huaiyuan in confusion, but seemed to understand something vaguely, so he asked: "Young master, is this kind of soil saltpeter not used to prepare gunpowder?"

"Well! Yes, the ingredients in soil salt are relatively complex. If used without purification, it will not have good effects at all. I forgot about this before, so I failed so many times in a row! It seems that we need to solve it first.

It's a matter of purifying soil and saltpeter. Otherwise, relying on this kind of thing, we won't be able to make useful gunpowder for another hundred years!" After Gao Huaiyuan found the problem, his mood suddenly improved a lot, and he stood up and explained to Jiang Peng.

.

"Then how to purify it?" Jiang Peng scratched his head and asked again.

"If this doesn't trouble us, go and get a pot. Let's clear a place in the yard and boil the saltpeter..." Gao Huaiyuan began to greet Jiang Peng again and get busy. (There is no information about the manufacturing method of black powder here.

To elaborate further, I was invited by the Bureau to have an electric baton before I finished writing the provincial book "Han Feng"!)

After another few days of busy work, the first batch of usable gunpowder in Crouching Tiger Village was finally produced in the hands of Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng. This gunpowder was prepared according to the mature black powder formula of later generations. What is needed is its

With such explosive power, after a dazzling flash, a puff of green smoke rose into the sky on the stone slabs, and Gao Huaiyuan's loud laughter finally rang out in the backyard.

"Haha! This is the real black powder! Let's go test its power now!" Gao Huaiyuan laughed while holding a wooden barrel full of gunpowder, found a few small porcelain bottles, and called Jiang Peng outside.

Go.

Jiang Peng also followed Gao Huaiyuan out of the yard in a hurry, but not long after, Gao Huaiyuan ran back with a frustrated look on his face, muttering in his mouth: "Damn it! I'm so happy! I'm so happy!"

I didn’t make a lead, so if I try to touch it with my hands, I won’t blow myself up! I’ve been so busy these days! It seems like I need to take a rest!”

He said this, but he still couldn't restrain his excitement. He immediately found some light tissue paper, sprinkled some gunpowder, rolled it into a cannon twist, and used rice milk water to stick the gunpowder to the twist.

After drying it started tinkering.

In the afternoon, they made a few big firecrackers in porcelain bottles and inserted leads into them. Then they called Zhou Hao and other close people to run to the back mountain outside Zhuangzi and found a small, inaccessible hillside to experiment here.

his results.

Although this group of people have heard of gunpowder, and some have seen firecrackers. Zhou Hao even saw fireworks once when he was in Shaoxing, but in their eyes, this explosive thing is full of mystery.

I was so excited that this time I heard that Gao Huaiyuan actually made this kind of gunpowder by himself, so one and two of them came to watch with great interest.

When Gao Huaiyuan dug a nest under a rock, he put a small porcelain bottle filled with gunpowder under the rock, then exposed the lead wire to the rock, reached for the fire breakers, and turned around to see a few guys with their heads close to each other.

They all gathered around him and stretched their necks to watch, and were shocked on the spot.

"Are you looking for death? Why don't you stay away from me and find a place to hide? If this thing explodes, it can blow us all up into the sky! Go and find a place to hide, I'm going to set it on fire!" Gao Huaiyuan!

He reprimanded a group of guys who were seriously overly curious.

Several boys hurriedly followed Gao Huaiyuan's instructions and ran to the distance to find a place to hide, but they still stretched their necks so long that even the timid Liu'er couldn't help but pick up the hem of her skirt and run after them.

, standing behind a small tree and looking towards Gao Huaiyuan.

After Gao Huaiyuan saw that there was almost no danger from the distance between everyone, he reached out and lit the gunpowder with a fire stick. The gunpowder wrapped in the gunpowder immediately hissed and a puff of green smoke came out. Gao Huaiyuan and the rabbit

On one side, he turned around and stuck his butt out and ran towards where Liu'er was standing. As he ran, he shouted: "Liu'er, get down quickly, don't hurt you!"

Soon enough, Gao Huaiyuan jumped to Liu'er's side, grabbed Liu'er's arm, and threw him down behind a big tree.

At this time, the medicine had just burned out, and everyone first saw a flash of white light under the stone, and then felt a sudden shock under their feet, and then there was a loud sound in their ears.

After a loud bang, a stone the size of a washbasin immediately flew into the sky. A thick smoke enveloped the place where the explosion occurred. Sand, gravel and soil immediately flew into the sky. Soon it was like rain.

Scattered down.

A group of people were so frightened that they fell to the ground... dd