Pirate Song

Gao Huaiyuan led a group of disgraced guys back to Crouching Tiger Village. The experiment just now was successful, but he still misestimated the power of the gunpowder. Although the porcelain bottle was small, after filling it with gunpowder, it weighed at least half a catty.

The power of such an explosion is definitely not small.

The washbasin-sized stone used for the test was blown up into the air on the spot and cracked into several pieces. No one expected that the gunpowder made by Gao Huaiyuan would be so powerful, so they all hid a little too close.

After a while, the result was that the gravel and soil falling from the sky smashed them all into disgrace. Some people even had pebbles on their heads, causing bumps, and they all looked miserable.

Only Gao Huaiyuan and Liu'er hid farther away and were less affected. However, even so, they were all stained with some mud, but their appearance was much better than that of the other people.

Although they were shocked, everyone was in high spirits. They were chattering and arguing along the way, asking how Gao Huaiyuan could come up with such a powerful thing. Zhou Hao and Jia Qi were both in the battle of Zaoyang.

We have seen the Thunderbolt Cannon of the Song Army, but the Thunderbolt Cannon of the Song Army at that time was not as powerful as Gao Huaiyuan's gunpowder bottle, so everyone was very curious.

Gao Huaiyuan naturally couldn't tell them that this was what he learned in his previous life, so he avoided the question and said with a smile: "After we have this kind of thing in the future, mining will be much easier. Use this

Exploding the stone with something and then excavating it is definitely faster than chiseling bit by bit, but everyone remember, we must not say that we can make these gunpowder ourselves, we can only say that we bought it from outside, otherwise

If you do, you will inevitably get into trouble!"

Zhou Hao and others nodded repeatedly. Jiang Peng covered the bag on his head and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "My mother! I didn't expect this thing to explode so powerfully. Fortunately, the young master lit the fire yourself. Otherwise, the little

I will definitely be blown up into the sky today!" Until this moment, Jiang Peng still had lingering fears and was afraid when he thought about it.

Everyone returned to Zhuangzi talking and laughing. Everyone was still talking about the roar they just heard. Some people were looking at the sky and still complaining: "This damn weather, it's obviously a sunny day, but there will be thunder on the ground. It's scary."

I jump!"

As soon as they saw Gao Huaiyuan and the others coming back, the two servants who were cleaning the front yard quickly bowed their heads and gave Gao Huaiyuan a gift. However, from the corner of their eyes, they saw that when Gao Huaiyuan and the others came back, they all had a lot of dirt on their bodies. I really don’t know.

Not long after they left, they developed this kind of behavior.

Regarding this incident, everyone is tight-lipped and never talks about it. Naturally, no one knows. Since then, Crouching Tiger Village has possessed an absolute killer weapon of this era. Even if someone knows about it in the future, they will never think of such a thing.

It actually comes from Crouching Tiger Village.

However, after Gao Huaiyuan passed this test, he was a little scared. After all, this kind of thing is different, and many people in this era don't know how powerful this thing is. Moreover, if he is currently manufacturing it in large quantities, the process still needs to be improved. If it is being manufactured,

If an accident occurs, Wohu Village will be razed to the ground, and his hard work over the past few years will be completely over.

So when Gao Huaiyuan thought of this, he immediately sent Zhou Laowu and a group of carpenters to build a smaller courtyard in a mountain depression north of Zhuangzi, specializing in the production of gunpowder, and from

A dozen of them were selected from among the teenagers and personally trained them. They were repeatedly told to pay attention to safety and not to cause any accidents. This was a matter of life and death.

Jiang Peng also participated in the training of these teenagers and personally mastered the formula and process of gunpowder. For safety reasons, Gao Huaiyuan also asked craftsmen to make special tools such as copper mills, copper pots, and copper mortars for them to grind and crush saltpeter.

Use it to avoid fire caused by static electricity and avoid accidents as much as possible.

While Gao Huaiyuan was busy preparing to build a gunpowder workshop, various matters at the mine site were also gradually advancing. After a rush of work, Ma Lian and many migrant workers built a gunpowder workshop near the mine site in a short period of time.

A house was built, and the nearby woods were cleared to expose the working surface and prepare for the next step of mining.

Before Gao Huaiyuan could apply gunpowder to the mining, Ma Lian started a fire at the mining site and began to burn away the stones on the surface. The fire ignited by the wood piled on the surface of the stones burned for two days before gradually extinguishing.

The stones were already burning red and hot, and then Ma Lian ordered the miners to pour the prepared stream water down the mountain. When the cold water met the hot stones, there was an explosion sound, and a large amount of steam immediately filled the entire valley.

In the middle, a dense artificial fog formed.

After the ground had completely cooled down, Ma Lian and others cleaned up the charcoal residue on the surface, revealing the stones below. Looking at the boulders on the ground, after such tossing, they were all broken into gravel, which was greatly reduced.

The amount of excavation work.

The seemingly difficult operation suddenly became much simpler. The rubble after the fire only needs to be removed manually and that's it!

In this way, manpower and material resources were greatly saved, Gao Huaiyuan also saved a lot of expenses, and the progress of the project was greatly advanced.

After the rubble was removed, huge boulders were exposed below again. After his first successful experience, Ma Lian immediately repeated his old trick, continued to get firewood, piled it on the rocks and set them on fire, and so on.

After several times, it took a month to completely excavate the stone layer on the surface, exposing the mineral layer below.

After the news reached Wohu Village, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ran to the mine in person and watched the baskets of ore being transported out of the pit by the miners. He couldn't help but smile crookedly.

"Master, the quality of this vein is quite good. The reserves should be enough for us to mine for a long time. I have looked at it in the past two days. This vein goes downwards and goes north along the ditch. When the mining is completed,

After the mine here, we have to dig downwards, but we only have a year or two, so we don't have to think about it for the time being!" Ma Lian walked to Gao Huaiyuan with a smile and introduced him.

Of course Gao Huaiyuan knew that with the reserves of the Daye ore layer, there would be no problem even if it were mined for several hundred more years, so he nodded and said: "Of course I don't have to worry about this, but now that we have produced ore, we should consider the next step.

It’s a matter of smelting. I don’t know if you have any plans. If we sell these ores to other smelters, it seems a bit uneconomical for us!”

Ma Lian nodded repeatedly and said: "The young master is right! If the mine wants to make money, mining alone is not very cost-effective. It can only be regarded as making hard money. But having said that, the young master has just opened the mine and is now planning to build a furnace.

If so, the cost will probably be quite large, and we have copper and iron mines here. If we refine it ourselves, we will need to build two smelting furnaces. With our current output, it is obviously not cost-effective to make iron and copper ourselves.

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If the young master wants to open a smelting furnace by himself, that's fine. Our place is just a pit, not a mine. If you're a small one, find a few more sites and open two or three mines. In this case, you can supply the ore you produce.

It is necessary to obtain the furnace smelting requirements, but this will take some time. We can mine and build the smelting furnace at the same time. Using minerals to support the furnace is also a way, without investing too much resources.

There is also a lot of gallbladder in the mine, so we can first use the gallbladder method for wet refining. Young Master Zhuangzi has his own blacksmith workshop. We only need to make some thin iron sheets and soak them in the gallbladder water.

Now that we have obtained red copper, from a small perspective, we can use this method to smelt copper first, what do you think, young master?"

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan somewhat understood what Ma Lian meant. It seemed that it would be a bit difficult to build his own smelting operation overnight! Ma Lian's meaning was very clear, that is, sell the ore first, and then open two or three mines.

After that, he built a smelting furnace while mining. As for the wet smelting of red copper he mentioned, Gao Huaiyuan had also heard of it, which was what later generations called the wet copper smelting process.

In terms of metal smelting technology, it can be said that China has always been at the forefront of the world in ancient history. In particular, this hydrometallurgical copper smelting technology can be said to occupy a very important position in the history of world chemistry. It can be said to be the world's largest hydrometallurgical smelting technology.

Pioneer of metal.

Hydrometallurgical copper smelting in the Song Dynasty had reached a very high level. Most of the copper mine producing areas used this method to smelt copper, and this is exactly what Ma Lian was talking about.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately nodded and agreed to Ma Lian's suggestion, and decided to sell the ore first to support the furnace. After the mine reached a certain output, he would then build a smelting furnace. But now he can use the wet copper smelting method to do it.

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Gao Huaiyuan had only heard of hydrometallurgical copper smelting, but never knew how to operate it. He was also very interested in this process, so he took Ma Lian aside to inquire in detail about some technical issues related to hydrometallurgical copper smelting.

After Ma Lian explained it to him, Gao Huaiyuan finally understood what the gall copper method was. It turned out that the ancients used iron to immerse themselves in the so-called gall water (that is, copper sulfate solution) to replace the copper.

Obtaining it is even simpler, just pour water on the bile soil, precipitate and then boil it into bile water with a relatively high concentration. Beat the iron into thin iron sheets and place them in the bile tank. After copper is formed on the iron sheets,

Take out the iron piece and scrape off the copper powder on it to get red copper!

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly became enlightened. He had to praise the wisdom of his ancestors. They could come up with such a method. Even he, who had studied chemistry, had never thought of it! It was really amazing.

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The mine has just been put into operation and has not yet completely stabilized. The ore output is not too large, so if you want to increase the output, you can only continue to increase the manpower. Among the people who came here to help in the early stage, most of them are farmers.

You can come here to help, but once the busy farming season comes, you still have to go back to take care of their fields, so there are certain seasonal issues in the production of the mines.

However, this did not have much impact on Gao Huaiyuan. After all, he did not expect to make money from the mine. He just needed the resources here. He secretly obtained a large amount of copper and iron to help him make some things, and he heard that the Gaojia Mine had started

After the ore was mined, some smelters in Daye sent people here to inquire about prices in an attempt to purchase the ore here.

Gao Huaiyuan doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing. He now has Huang Zhen, an old man, who can handle this kind of thing. As expected, Huang Zhen quickly finalized the deal with a furnace surnamed Li, temporarily leaving Gao Huaiyuan with him.

The ore from the family mine is sold to the Li family for smelting at a very reasonable price.

As for the mine, with the help of the iron workers, the hydrometallurgical copper smelting workshop was quickly put into production. There was plenty of stone and fuel. The masons used the inherent resources here to quickly dig out the bile trough, and in

Under the command of Ma Lian, the bile water was obtained by soaking the bile soil. The iron maker used ready-made iron materials to make many iron pieces, placed them in the bile tank, and replaced the copper powder from the bile water.

In this way, several major events in Crouching Tiger Village have basically been arranged. As long as various matters are gradually advanced, it is estimated that in another half a year, Gao Huaiyuan's business will develop explosively again.

In the blink of an eye, Gao Huaiyuan returned to Daye County for a few months, and the summer grain was harvested again. A huge industrial group has been formed in Crouching Village, in addition to the original soap workshop and Liulifang.

, Gao Huaiyuan now owns another mine, an ironworks, and a gunpowder workshop. In addition, he purchased another piece of land downstream of the river, built a large water mill, and built a large-scale water mill in Daye.

Rice mill.

After Gao Jian received Gao Huaiyuan's letter a few months ago, he was completely relieved and wrote back to Gao Huaiyuan, telling him not to make decisions on his own or do such risky things anymore, and to just stay in the old house and be fine.

He read books and practiced martial arts, and even threatened Gao Huaiyuan, claiming that if he dared to disobey again, he would not recognize him as his son! Gao Huaiyuan naturally laughed it off and continued to work on his own affairs.

This small river crossing Crouching Tiger Village has now become Gao Huaiyuan's never-ending source of motivation, and he has not missed any opportunity to make money. In order to consolidate his position in Daye's old house, Gao Huaiyuan simply used this

The water mill was registered in the name of the old house and was counted as the property of the old house. After it was put into operation, the money earned was also counted in the accounts of the old house. This matter was reported to Shaoxing's father Gao Jian and asked him to

Gao Jian was overjoyed again, thinking that his third son seemed to be not only good at literature and martial arts, but he could also do business. Rice was the main food in the south, so it was a good business for him to open this rice mill.

Now he no longer worried about Gao Huaiyuan for the rest of his life. Even if he could not become an official, at least he would have hundreds of acres of farmland in his old house and this rice mill, so his life would be quite comfortable.

But when I think about Gao Huaiyuan, he is also a ninth-grade Baoyi Lang in name. Wouldn't it be a bit of a loss if he couldn't find a way to use his identity? So Gao Jian himself in Shaoxing began to think about Gao Huaiyuan's future path.

Thinking about it...

After Gao Huaiyuan finished all these things, he did not stop. While asking Huang Zhen to start planning to build their own shop in Wohu Village, and working hard to build a business kingdom of his own, he and Jiang Peng started to build the original gunpowder in the backyard.

New gadgets are being tinkered with in the workshop.

During this period, Crouching Tiger Village relied on its increasingly strong financial resources to continuously add more children, and also collected many orphans from the surrounding areas. With the current property in his name, feeding these orphans was nothing at all, and it would not be possible.

To attract anyone's attention, after all, Crouching Tiger Village has become a new big village now, and Gao Huaiyuan is the only owner of Crouching Tiger Village. It's really nothing to have hundreds of people living in one village. Plus,

Gao Huaiyuan is still the elder in this area, and no one dares to come here to trouble him, so now that he takes in a large number of orphans, he will no longer arouse suspicion!

Liu'er curiously stood next to a big table, staring at her beautiful eyes, watching Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng tinkering with the bottles and cans on the table. She saw Gao Huaiyuan constantly directing Jiang Peng not to put this

Pour the liquid into the bottle and put the contents in the bottle on the fire to bake. In short, everything is so magical in her eyes.

She really couldn't see what Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng were tinkering with, but she didn't ask, and helped Gao Huaiyuan pass this and that. She was equally busy and happy. Now Liu'er is very satisfied, as long as she wakes up every day

, she can see Gao Huaiyuan, which is the best time for her.

She didn't ask for anything else. She just wanted to be by Gao Huaiyuan's side forever. As for what Gao Huaiyuan did, she didn't want to ask, but she knew that Gao Huaiyuan would never do anything boring these days.

She watched Gao Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng all day long pounding and squeezing various flowers and plants, making the room smell like everything, but Gao Huaiyuan didn't say what they were doing.

Seeing Gao Huaiyuan blending several liquids together, Liu'er suddenly smelled a strong jasmine fragrance, so she immediately exclaimed softly: "Oh! It smells so good! What a strong jasmine fragrance!"

Gao Huaiyuan held the translucent glass bottle with his big mouth grinning almost to his ears, with a proud look on his face. He handed the bottle to Liu'er and said: "Liu'er, smell it quickly, feel it."

How about this scent!"

Liu'er carefully took the small bottle from Gao Huaiyuan's hand, put it under her nose and sniffed slightly. A strong jasmine fragrance immediately rushed into her nose. After sniffing it, her head seemed to feel dizzy.

So he quickly took it away and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "It smells so good, a very strong jasmine fragrance! It's just that the fragrance is a bit too strong, and it's even a little bit pungent! What is this?"

After Gao Huaiyuan took the bottle back from Liu'er, he replied proudly: "This is the first jasmine essence in the world. It is purely natural extraction. It is the treasure among treasures! Haha! With this thing, we will use it in the future

I want to make a fortune again! You do smell a bit too strong now, because these are raw solutions. If you use them, you have to use wine to dilute them! Just wait a moment, and I will blend you with a bottle of the best jasmine perfume in the world right away.

!I want you to be the first in this world to wear real perfume! Haha!”dd