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Chapter 220 The Forgotten Tech Talent
"Gu Zi said hello to Bai Shoumin and sent someone to watch over Fan Yongfa. They will transport food from other places this time. They have a big order this time."

Li Chaosheng said with gloomy eyes.

From the moment Fan Yongfa entered the house, Li Chaosheng made a general prediction, which was mainly based on some historical data he possessed.

Now Fan Yongfa buys grain on behalf of the Fan family, most likely to provide grain and grass for the Manchus.

It has been said since ancient times that before the soldiers and horses moved, the grain and grass went first, and the Manchus invaded the Central Plains. The eight Jin merchants made great contributions to the grain, grass and supplies, and the eight Shanxi merchants could not afford to pay.

They are now selling grain to Man Qing, and Man Qing will not only reuse it for them, but also give them a satisfactory price in the future, but Man Qing will not take money from their own pockets, they prefer to rob.

The strategy of the Qing Dynasty was to first let the eight major merchants of Shanxi prepare food and grass supplies, and then they led troops to attack the border. As long as they were defeated, they would pick up the grain and grass along the way.

This is a no-cost business, and every time the Manchu clears money, that's why they are so keen on robbing Daming.

To be honest, the Manchus had always just wanted to rob Daming, until they reached BJ, they didn't think they could firmly control the country.

So they have always had a strong sense of urgency, the most important of which is to implement a closed-door policy in the three eastern provinces to prevent a large number of Han people from flowing into the three eastern provinces. Why?
The purpose is to leave a way for the Manchus to prevent the Han people from taking over the capital again in the future and driving themselves away without a place to stay.

In this era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they were actually bandits. They never thought of being able to occupy Ming Dynasty. Although their military strength was mighty, they were afraid of the giant Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts.

Daming was actually festered by himself, not by the Man Qing.

Li Chaosheng knew that the Manchus would definitely invade the Central Plains this winter, so it was easy to judge the process from the results. Although [-] dans of grain was a lot, it definitely couldn't satisfy the Manchus' consumption.

And they didn't take the food directly, he said he had other things, what would he do?
Based on this inference, Li Chaosheng could almost guess Fan Yongfa's next move.

Li Chaosheng asked Bai Shoumin to send people to follow Fan Yongfa to see what he was going to do. Immediately afterwards, he sent Shi Xiaolei, Li Chaolong to carry the firearm battalion, and more than 1000 people from the first regiment to move from Qinling to Luliang, Shaanxi. After arriving in Luliang, He quickly took down a powerful bandit den near the grain road, and hibernated quietly, waiting for Li Chaosheng's order.

At the same time, Li Chaosheng asked Liu Airen to prepare [-] militiamen, each with a wheelbarrow, ready to transport the looted grain to Lantian County from the mountain road secretly developed in Qinling at any time.

Hearing Li Chaosheng's order, Gu Zi immediately prepared to do it, but at this moment Gu Zi stopped suddenly, then took out his pocket, and took out an ingot of five taels of silver, at this time he smiled at Li Chaosheng. Chao Sheng said: "Brigade Commander, I almost forgot, that Fan Yongfa stuffed me with five liang of silver just now, and I handed it over."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Zi and said, "I'll keep it for you, and save it to marry a wife in the future."

Li Chaosheng laughed, and after hearing this, Guzi said: "Forget it, I have military pay every month, I don't feel comfortable holding this money, and it's even more uncomfortable to use it. Besides, I'm still young, who girls like me what!"

Guzi said, turned to look for Shi Xiaolei, Bai Shoumin and the others, Li Chaosheng looked at the five taels of silver on the table, turned to Guo Bao and said: "No, take the silver to buy some wine and meat, and improve your food. It's not easy for you recently. , By the way, I told people that it was Gu Zi who invited you to dinner."

"Got it."

At this time, Guo Bao took the money away, and then went to work happily. In fact, Guo Bao is not stupid. The five taels of silver is nothing to worry about. The main thing is his attitude. Gu Zi doesn't know if he is really loyal. She is still smart, knowing that the money cannot be taken, and she must explain it clearly to Li Chaosheng. If Li Chaosheng finds out in the future, it will be easy to lose trust.

This is the gain outweighs the loss. After he took out the silver, whether Li Chaosheng gave him the silver or not, it doesn’t really matter whether he took it or not. What is five taels of silver? It really doesn’t matter in Lantian After all, Li Chaosheng still has a 5 tael bank note on the table now.

Holding the banknote, Li Chaosheng thought for a while, the money had to be spent, and the money on his body was just a number, but if it was used, it would actually increase his strength.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng pondered for a while. At present, the development of Lantian County is on the right track. As long as it continues to open up wasteland and cultivate land, build water conservancy, and give benevolent policies to the people, it can continue to expand the territory.

Therefore, people's livelihood is not in a hurry to improve. Apart from people's livelihood, there are only two that Li Chaosheng cares about at present. The first is the espionage organization, which is currently being formed by Bai Shoumin. This needs to expand its influence, so we must try to use money to open the way , This is very expensive, but I just allocated a sum of money to them, so I don't need to allocate too much.

Apart from the espionage organization, what Li Chaosheng cared more about was the arsenal workshop. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng looked at the 5 taels of silver on the table, then got up and led the guards to the arsenal workshop in the firearms camp.

At this time, the Firearms Battalion was ready to set off under the integration of Shi Xiaolei. Li Chaosheng encouraged Shi Xiaolei a few words, Shi Xiaolei was a little excited, and said that he was tired of shooting targets every day, and he just wanted to find a living person to try.

Seeing Shi Xiaolei's excitement, Li Chaosheng didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm, so after a few words of encouragement, he came to the Arsenal. Old Suntou was studying artillery. A cannon that is more powerful than the red cannon, has a longer range, and has the ability to shoot quickly from the Franco machine gun.

The focus is no longer on the cannon itself, because the biggest problem with the cannon body is its hardness, and the immortal material provided by Li Chaosheng completely surpassed the understanding of steel in this era, and it met the requirements very well.

So now if you want to fulfill the above requirements, the only difference is gunpowder.

"Xianzun, we guys have been researching here for several days, and found that the only thing that can improve the performance of cannons is gunpowder. At present, the gunpowder formula we use in Ming Dynasty is according to the records in "Wu Bei Zhi". The ratio of gunpowder for large artillery is Seventy percent saltpeter, one and a half percent sulfur, and one and a half percent charcoal."

"For firearms, [-]% of saltpeter, [-]% of sulfur, and [-]% of charcoal. Recently, we are researching this problem, but we have no way to start, and we don't know how to improve it."

Old Suntou said to Li Chaosheng, after hearing what Old Suntou said, Li Chaosheng remembered, as if he had heard someone say that there was a problem with the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty.

After the normal gunpowder is ignited, the smoke should be white, but the firearms used by Li Chaosheng and the others, the smoke is all brownish yellow. This must be a mistake in the formula. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng said: "Okay, I see, you keep busy, I'll find a way for you."

Li Chaosheng stood up after speaking. He couldn't solve this kind of problem. Professional things still need professional people to complete.

Li Chaosheng thought that nothing was going on, so he opened the door of time and space, and returned to the modern age. Once he arrived in the modern age, Li Chaosheng immediately used his identity and money to make a way, and made an appointment with an associate professor who taught chemistry.

Li Chaosheng invited the professor to have a meal. During the meeting, the two chatted. Li Chaosheng said that he liked chemistry more. He had a question to ask the professor. The professor agreed. After all, Li Chaosheng promised to donate 50 yuan to his laboratory The fund, such a big funder, will definitely help solve problems.

Li Chaosheng asked a question: "Professor, I went online a few days ago and saw a very strange question. In the Ming Dynasty, they already had muskets?"

The old professor nodded and said, "Yes, and very early on, Zhu Yuanzhang used firearms when he founded the country."

"The professor would like to ask you a question. After firing the muskets used by people in the Ming Dynasty, why would there be yellow smoke? I think when we set off gunpowder during Chinese New Year, the gunpowder seems to emit white smoke."

After hearing Li Chaosheng's question, the old professor smiled: "You have observed very carefully, oh, this is the case, there is a problem with the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty..."

The old professor talked about the Huaxu knowledge in it, and Li Chaosheng was a little confused. The old professor smiled, asked the waiter to bring a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote a gunpowder ratio casually: "If you If you are interested, you can study it, this is the granule black powder that we improved later."

Li Chaosheng looked at the formula given by the old professor, and immediately felt like a treasure, and put it in his pocket with a smile, followed by Li Chaosheng, who looked at the old professor and said: "Professor, can you tell me if it is possible for Chao to invent yellow rice?" Gunpowder?"

The old professor was taken aback when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "Yellow gunpowder is very difficult to develop under the conditions of the Ming Dynasty, because yellow gunpowder and black gunpowder are completely different things."

"Yellow powder is what we often call explosives, TNT. The main chemical component is trinitrotoluene, which is a compound."

"As for black powder, we all know that one sulfur, two nitrates and three charcoals don't need to produce chemical reactions, just mix them together. This is a mixture, which is far less simple than yellow powder."

"So the Ming Dynasty did not have the conditions to produce yellow gunpowder. You must know that Nobel experimented in an environment that far exceeded the production conditions of the Ming Dynasty, and he almost died. If the people of the Ming Dynasty experimented rashly, they would definitely die. In the North Korean environment, the purification of the compound can confuse them."

The old professor talked with Li Chaosheng for a while, and the two began to talk about the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty is a dynasty that modern people like to talk about, especially the history of the end of Ming Dynasty. Everyone will have their own opinions, whether it is unofficial history or history. official history.

It can be said that modern people talk about history. There are two hardest-hit areas, one is the Three Kingdoms, which is well-known, and it is stable and stable at the top of all dynasties, standing in the first echelon, followed by the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

Among them, the Ming Dynasty and the end of Ming Dynasty are popular among everyone.

Young people like to talk about the love triangle between Chen Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng.

Young people like the gold and iron horses of that era.

A little older, I like to discuss the political system of that era and discuss the shortcomings of the government.

Anyway, everyone has a different opinion, and today the old professor has a different opinion. He and Li Chaosheng are discussing various talents in the late Ming Dynasty.

This was definitely a great inspiration for Li Chaosheng. He seemed to have forgotten that there were many talents in the late Ming Dynasty that he did not win over. He only thought about opening up wasteland and farming and expanding the territory, but he forgot that science and technology are the primary productive forces.

If I want to change a dynasty, I can't use my own two worlds as the downfall. A dynasty without its own production base, no matter how much technology it brings, is still a flower in the mirror, like a moon in the water.

So find a way to develop your own technology in this era.

How about chatting with educated people? After chatting with the old professor for a while, Li Chaosheng memorized the names of several people, Li Shizhen, Chen Shigong, Zhang Jingyue, Xu Xiake, Xu Guangqi, and Song Yingxing, whom the old professor admired most.

When Li Chaosheng heard these names, he slapped his forehead. They were all great talents in the Ming Dynasty. Why did he forget them? Fortunately, he came here to make amends with the old professor.

Li Chaosheng was very grateful to the old professor, so he gave the old professor's laboratory an additional 20 research funds. The happy old professor toasted Li Chaosheng with two glasses of wine.

Li Chaosheng said that you are welcome, this is what he should do.

It was very comfortable for Li Chaosheng to eat a meal. After returning home, Li Chaosheng turned on his mobile phone to check the people the old professor mentioned.

First of all, Li Shizhen, who has a great reputation, Compendium of Materia Medica, a genius doctor, but Li Chaosheng was the first to rule him out, the reason is very simple, he died.

And they have been dead for almost 30 years. This year is the second year of Chongzhen, 1629. In four years, Li Shizhen will be able to celebrate the [-]th anniversary of her birthday, so this will not work.

Followed by Chen Shigong, who is also a medical scientist, and a surgical expert, from Donghai (Nantong), Jiangsu. However, it is recorded in the data that this old man died in Chongzhen five years ago, which means that there are three years before this old man will die. Passed away, and according to the information, the old man was 81 years old when he died, and now he is 78?

From the exhaustion of boats and cars in Nantong, Jiangsu, to Lantian, he may not live for three years, so let's think about it again.

As for Zhang Jingyue, this information shows that if he died in 1640, he could still live for ten years, and his medical achievements are also very high. He is called Zhang Zhongjing's regeneration, which is very good.

Moreover, according to the data, he was 78 years old when he died, which was the 13th year of Chongzhen, and he went home to write a book at the age of 57, which means that he returned to his hometown of Zhejiang in 1619, began to study medicine, and studied Write a book and say.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng smiled, okay, this person can win them over, and Li Chaosheng has already thought about the way to win them over, which is medical skills. A master of this kind of technology, in addition to money and benefits, is more advanced medical skills. Let them flock to it.

After thinking about it, Li Chaosheng wrote down the first name in his small notebook, Zhejiang Shaoxing, Zhang Jingyue, the founder of TCM warming school, can be wooed!
(End of this chapter)