Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 299
With the new year and new weather, Xu Qing's mind was wide open, and he suddenly figured out the principle of making breech-loading guns.Compared with the original gun used by Xu Qing, the main parts of the breech-loading gun are "spring" and "priming charge".

After thinking about this clearly, Xu Qing can basically draw mechanical drawings.First create a bullet that can be carried around one round at a time. This Xu Qing plans to make with a cylindrical paper shell.This kind of bullet uses sharpened metal for the warhead. Xu Qing has not yet figured out what metal to use. The gun and powder are placed in the middle, and a small round iron plate is placed at the end, and then the primer is placed.

Regarding the priming powder, Xu Qing also opened his mind and thought of something——white phosphorus, which has a relatively low burning point. It seems to be something used to make "smashing guns". Hot enough to ignite the black fire.powder.

This is a bullet, and there must be a firing device.

Xu Qing planned to make the spring, he thought, isn't the spring just wires wound together, it's easy.But when I found a blacksmith, I found out that he can't even make wires, and he can nail them to the size of needles at most.Xu Qing took it for a try, and spent a lot of effort to wind it into a spiral, but found that when he pressed it down, he couldn't play it, which was very boring.

After all, it was the first day of junior high school, and Xu Qing had already drawn the blueprints, so he was short of making the springs.

At noon, Xun Xiaoer took Uncle Xun, Old Uncle Zheng, and Liu San to drive to Luo Nanbo's mansion to pay New Year's greetings. After exchanging pleasantries, Yang Wen also arrived.Niu Checao, Wang Shan, and Zhang Linye were naturally there, and Yang Cheng was sent by Xu Qing to pay New Year greetings to Yang Xin.

Everyone gathered in the county magistrate's mansion and finally reunited.The servants of the county magistrate's mansion got busy. Fortunately, they had prepared things a few years ago, cut the vegetables, and chopped the firewood. Now they only need to process them into vegetables.The county magistrate's mansion opened a banquet again, and then all the villagers also came to pay New Year's greetings.Xu Qing sent old man Ni Bai, who was dressed in bright red, to stand at the door to pick up the guests, who came to give some rice and meat, and some copper coins, just for auspiciousness, who lives on lucky money and red envelopes for New Year greetings?

Of course, taking advantage of the presence of some elders and managers in the family, Xu Qing followed suit and made a decision on the personnel arrangements for the new year.According to what I have thought about before, the family is dominated by Yang Wen, who is in charge of the overall situation, Zhang Linye and Xun Xiaoer, one Wen and one Wu, also participate in management, and the other three elders play a supervisory role and participate in decision-making on major issues.Yang Xin, who hadn't come yet, was looking for a hidden place to plant potatoes in Luonan, and led a team of dark rivers to secretly guard Hongshan Town to prevent some people from Chang'an from spying.

In addition to these people from my own family, it is inevitable that the nearby residents and officials from Luonan County will come to pay their respects.The cooks in the county magistrate's mansion didn't stop all day long, copying one pot immediately after another, and the banquet outside was not cancelled.Just like a flowing water mat, after one meal is finished, the next meal will continue.

As for Xu Qing, leaving Yang Wen and old man Ni to greet them, he and the other girls went to Xuzhuang with ease.

No matter how you say it, in Xu Qing's heart, Xu Zhuang has always been his spiritual hometown. The unique tranquility of Xu Zhuang, the unique freedom from outside disturbances, keeps Xu Qing intoxicated like fine wine.

Compared with the villagers in Hongshan Town, Xu Qing is closer to the villagers in Xuzhuang.In Hongshan Town, most of the villagers are grateful for Xu Qing's gifts and the affluent life Xu Qing has brought them.The villagers in Xuzhuang, on the other hand, regard Xu Qing as an ordinary neighbor, but this neighbor has flourished.The feeling is: Hey, the guy next door has a company now!The people of Hongshan Town are proud of Xu Qing, and the villagers of Xuzhuang are proud of Xu Qing.

When Xu Qing returned home before, the villagers didn't know, but this time when he came back, Xu Qing asked Liu San to tell the truth.Soon, the aunt of the Dong family and the aunt of the Xi family came to enjoy the fire.They didn't look at Xu Qing, they just chatted about Xun Xueer's daily life, and the bolder ones even patted Xun Xueer's hips and said, this girl has such a small butt, it's hard to give birth.

But for Huang Shimei and others, the village women disdain to talk to each other. Who would dare to take a second wife in a common people's house?Even if they can afford it, the farming girls who go to work in the fields are not white farmers. They are so strong that they can tear each other with calves when they are angry.They just dragged Xun Xueer over, muttering softly, telling Xun Xueer to be wary of those who came later, talking about where there is a landlord's house, or whatever happens to the concubine, the housewife is finished.Xun Xueer had no choice but to nod repeatedly, thanking her senior for her guidance.

Men from various families also visited Xu Qing's house, and when they saw their mother-in-law here, they put on a posture and rushed back.Then I went to Xu Qing and asked him for advice on how to control the wife, how to marry the second one.Today's Xuzhuang is much richer than before, and the income from farming only accounts for less than [-]% of the income. There used to be more than a dozen households of villagers, but now they are all landlords. Xuzhuang has become a real village of landlords.

When asked how to control his mother-in-law, Xu Qing had no choice but to say perfunctorily that he still had to be good in bed, saying that if he wanted to conquer his mother-in-law's heart, he had to conquer her paddy field first.When the male villagers heard this, they quietly pulled Xu Qing aside and asked Xu Qing if he had any secret recipe.With a wry smile, Xu Qing roughly explained the medicinal diet and tonic that Xun Xueer stewed for him on weekdays. All the villagers laughed and left after hearing the words as if they had a wonderful recipe.

Xu Zhuang was once again sealed by the non-stop snow.

Xu Qing felt relieved and took Xu Wen to think about how to make springs.

Two days passed in a flash, and it was the third day of the Lunar New Year.Xu Qing spent his peaceful life in Xuzhuang, but Luonan County and Hongshan Town were in a hurry.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the county magistrate of Luonan stayed at home and prepared to accept the New Year's greetings from his subordinates. He waited and waited, but he never expected to receive an imperial decree.In a panic, he accepted the imperial decree with a hint of surprise, but the eunuch who delivered the decree said it was for the Luonan county uncle, and hurriedly took us there.

The county magistrate sweated profusely. He thought that the emperor had seen him in the vast list of officials, but he didn't expect it to be for the county uncle.There is no way, the first day of the new year is difficult, the county magistrate brought the eunuch to Hongshan Town.

Xu Qing was not in Hongshan Town, and went to Bo's Mansion in Luonan County, and Xu Qing was not there again.It was getting late, so the county magistrate had to take the eunuch back to the county government office, arranged to stay there, and was scolded a lot by the eunuch.On the second day, the wind and snow were so heavy that they couldn't even get out the door, and it was delayed for another day.

At this time, Hongshan Town was also turned upside down, and Luonan County Bo's Mansion was also turned upside down, just because the imperial decree was closed.At that time, there was no master in the family, only old man Ni Bai and Yang Wen, the housekeeper received the imperial edict, how fresh.They had no choice but to send someone to contact Xu Qing. It was still too windy and snowy, not to say that they didn't want to go out, but because of the heavy snow, even if they went out, they might get lost and would be useless.

On the third day of the junior high school, the snow was finally small, and the county magistrate sent Che Long to send the eunuch to Xuzhuang to announce the decree, and when he returned to the county government office, thinking that he could finally rest, the government servants outside reported again, and the imperial decree came again.

(End of this chapter)