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"My minister, Chu Chaohui, sees you, Young Master." When Chu Chaohui saw Young Master Guang salute, his expression was not hesitant.

"Chu Qing, don't be too polite. Zheng Qing said that Chu Qing went to help the natives on the other side to resolve the dispute. Has the matter been resolved?"

"My Great Wu is famous far and wide, and the aborigines took the initiative to stop the dispute when they saw the Ulsan flag. After they reconciled, they even thanked the minister for sending farm cattle." Chu Zhaohui replied lightly.

"Qing has done a good job. We should promote harmony with the Nanban." Gongzi Guang was very happy that Chu Chaohui held up the Ulsan flag to the aborigines.Little did he know that Chu Chaohui only asked the soldiers to raise the banner of Lord Ulsan when he forcibly relocated the tribesmen who were allied with the Tiger tribe.

Chu Chaohui didn't wait for the young master's smile to disappear from his face, he took a step forward and saluted solemnly, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please don't take yourself lightly!"

Young Master Guang was taken aback: "Where did Chu Qing start?"

After Zheng Yuming came in from Chu Chaohui, his mood became more relaxed, but seeing Chu Zhaohui's face and actions, he felt uneasy again. He was afraid that Chu Chaohui would act disrespectfully in front of Young Master Guang, which would make Young Master Guang unable to let him down. tower.

Chu Chaohui bowed to Young Master Guang with both hands, with a stern expression: "Young Master is the lord of a mansion, and he is extremely honorable. The natives on the south bank of the Yangtze River are willing to let go of their disputes only when they see the banner of the King. It can be seen that Young Master is not only a high mountain among the people in Ulsan, It is also a mountain in the hearts of uncivilized natives. How can such a monarch be humbler than a minister of the earth? Just now when the minister was waiting outside, when he heard the words of the young master, he was shocked, and his heart was twisted like a knife!"

"That's just a private joke." The young master's face turned red, as if he was caught on the spot for adultery.

Zheng Yuming was very embarrassed standing beside him. From his point of view, what Chu Chaohui said was not righteous, and he was clearly teaching him a lesson through Mr. Guang's inappropriate words. This kind of lesson is well-founded, but the last sentence is like a knife. thing?Could it be that Chu Zhaohui was tortured to death when he heard Young Master Guang pour out his love for him?

Chu Chaohui suddenly knelt down in front of Young Master Guang with a 'plop': "Young Master, Wei Chen and Brother Zheng grew up together and have deep feelings. I can't lose anyone. If the young master's whispers are spread, where will I put my younger brother Zheng? If the king knows to blame, my younger brother will only die. Thank you for your kindness! If my younger brother is unlucky, how can I live? Please, my son Take pity on my two brothers!" Young Master Guang's words just now, don't say that Wu Wang will be angry when he hears it, Wei Shen will also have a problem with Zheng Yuming if he knows it, the rule of the Great Qin depends on status.The ruler of Daqin would severely punish the courtiers who reversed their identities.

Seeing Chu Chaohui's performance, Zheng Yuming immediately understood Chu Chaohui's intentions. Today, Chu Chaohui was catching on to Young Master Guang's gaffe and forcing him to stay away from him in the future.

"Yu Ming also asks the young master to take back the joke just now, no one in Ulsan is more noble than the young master! No one in Wu is more noble than the king!" Zheng Yuming ruthlessly followed Chu Chaohui and knelt down in front of Young Master Guang.

Young Master Guang's face was ashen, and he looked at Zheng Yuming who was kneeling beside Chu Chaohui, and felt that he was the one who was heartbroken: "Please, please, just joking just now is very inappropriate, and Guang will not do it again in the future." Gaffe."

After Young Master Guang finished speaking, he turned around and warned the waiter outside the door: "If there are only a few words from the Council's office today, if it is spread outside, I will give you the death penalty first."

The two waiters at the door were both dumb, and when they heard Young Master Guang's warning, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees and babbled, trembling all over.

After Young Master Guang warned his personal attendant, he got up and drove back to Dacheng in a carriage. Chu Chaohui thoughtfully sent Ma Ren, who was stationed at the Nanbu Barracks, to lead three hundred soldiers to escort Young Master Guang into Dacheng before returning.Since then, Young Master Guang has not visited Nanbu again.

"Are we bullying children like this?" Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui stood at the entrance of Nanbu Village and watched the car drive away, "Cut! Are there children in their early twenties?" Chu Zhaohui pouted, but luckily Young Master Guang pays attention to self-cultivation , not as unbearable as Prince Zhao, if Young Master Guang was as good as Prince Zhao, he would not cooperate with Wei Shen, and would probably take Zheng Yuming to find another paradise, such as the Eagle Tribe on the south bank of the Changhe River.

"Hey, don't push people too much in the future, you are a good young master."

Young Master Guang is really a junior in Zheng Yuming's eyes, who told him that he was nearly thirty years old before he was teleported.

"Don't talk about others." Chu Zhaohui didn't want to talk about Young Master Guang any more. "I have good news for you."

"What good news?" Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were walking back to the council mansion from the entrance of the village. When they heard Chu Chaohui's excited tone, they couldn't help but stop. The two spoke Mandarin in the 21st century. There were only guards beside them. They can understand.However, the Huo brothers and sisters, Wei Qing, and Mrs. Su have heard a lot of their Mandarin in the villa, and they can already understand a little bit.

"I found brimstone today."

"Ha! That's right, there will be gunpowder in the future. Where did you find the sulfur?" Zheng Yuming's eyes lit up. With powerful gunpowder to equip the army, Nanport and the valley will be safer in the future.

"I bought it from a peddler at the port. The peddler said that the alpine aborigines sold it on his behalf. I guess there are volcanic craters in the place where the alpine aborigines live. I have already sent people to guard the peddler. When we find the alpine aborigines, we will You will get a lot of sulfur."

"Is the price of the sulfur consigned by the mountain natives expensive?" Zheng Yuming silently calculated the cost of making gunpowder in his heart.

Chu Zhaohui glanced at Zheng Yuming, who was frowning and calculating, and knew that Zheng Yuming wanted to carry out normal trade with the mountain natives.

"The price is fairly moderate." If the alpine natives sold the sulfur at too high a price, Chu Chaohui would ask the army to reset the price with them.

While talking, the two walked into the council mansion, and Mrs. Su came over from the corridor: "My lord, the dinner is ready, do you want to start the dinner now?"

"Okay, let's go to the banquet." Zheng Yuming nodded to Su Fu, and after Su Fu left, he smiled and said to Chu Chaohui: "I know you will come back today, so I will send people to the pier to buy in the morning." I ordered the sturgeon you like to eat."

"Yes, you are all prepared, we will have a good meal tonight."

Chu Zhaohui's eyes narrowed. Su's wife is usually in the valley. Today, Zheng Yuming brought Su's wife to the council mansion and asked someone to buy his favorite fish. Obviously, he was sure that he would go ashore at Nanbu first. It can be seen that my lover misses me as much as myself. If it were in the 21st century, this would be a candlelight dinner for lovers who come back from a business trip.

Thinking of the romantic candlelight dinner, Chu Zhaohui was gearing up. What he said about having a good meal had two meanings, and Zheng Yuming only understood the literal meaning.But at the dinner party, Chu Zhaohui could only literally have a good dinner.Because that night, the two did not have dinner alone, but Wu Da and other stewards attended. They all had to wait in the wing room because of the arrival of Young Master Guang, and report to Zheng Yuming after Young Master Guang left. It was already evening when he left, and Zheng Yuming couldn't finish the matter in a short time, so he entertained Wu Dahe to have a working meal in the council mansion, and began to report after the working meal was finished.

After eating the so-called candlelight dinner (after arriving in Daqin, the lighting is candles and torches in addition to kerosene lamps), Chu Zhaohui went back to his room to rest alone, and Zheng Yuming went to deal with the business delayed by Gongziguang. The farm cattle transported back from the north bank have been distributed, and the sky is already light.

"Zhaohui, wake me up in three hours. I'm going to the east of the village this morning to direct the refugees to dig a canal." Zheng Yuming yawned and climbed onto the bed, not paying attention to Chu Chaohui's sad eyes.

"Why do you have to go in person?" Chu Chaohui helped Zheng Yuming take off his coat, and squeezed his waist with his hand.

"I can't help it. The few apprentices I taught are still half-hearted. I won't guide them. There are always hidden dangers in the canals they opened." Zheng Yuming took off his clothes, rolled into the bed, pulled the quilt over his body, and immediately followed The Duke of Zhou went to be a good-neighborly friend.

Chu Zhaohui raised his hands, stared blankly at his lover who was already snoring slightly on the bed, and sighed helplessly, it was another good night that he could not eat.

The guards squatting at the door of Wei Shilang arrived at the alpine aborigines five days later. These aborigines lived in Panyun Mountain on the other side of the long river in Chudi. There was a smoking volcanic crater in Panyun Alpine Mountain. The alpine aborigines obtained sulfur from the edge of the crater.

Snakes and insects avoid irritating things. There is sulfur around the volcanic crater, and the pungent smell makes the snakes and insects extinct.After discovering this phenomenon, the aborigines in the high mountains picked up strange-smelling stones and came back to drive away snakes and insects. They found that the effect was good, and they used it as a snake repellent to trade with the outside world for property.

It turns out that the people of the Gaoshan tribe traded with commoners in Chu. The commoners in Chudi were not considered wealthy, and the trading volume with the Gaoshan aborigines was not large. Even the animal skins could not be traded. The chief of the Gaoshan native tribe brought the goods to Nanbu for trading after hearing a businessman talk about the wealth of Nanbu in Wudi.

After Chu Chaohui learned that the Gaoshan aborigines were located in the south of Chu State, he gave up the idea of ​​armed seizure, once again offered a win-win stick, and made a trade agreement with the Gaoshan patriarch. It's a contract with Nanbu, and the price is slightly higher than the Chu people's bid.After the alpine natives got a fixed sales channel, the whole family was happy. In addition to hunting more actively, they didn’t think it was too hard to climb the high and steep mountains. Except for the strong men who didn’t hunt, they would go to collect sulfur, and the women would climb the mountain once a day to use it at the volcanic pit. Bamboo basket carrying sulfur ore.Soon, Chu Chaohui had enough sulfur in his hands.

After April, a strange scene appeared in the valley and Nanbu. The latrines, pig and cow stables, houses, old corners of the courtyard, and places that were not easy to be washed by water were dug clean by the soldiers, and the latrines and pigs After a period of time, soldiers would come to patronize the bullpen house. In the end, they not only dug in the valley and Nanbu, but also dug on the back slopes, and even paid for the soil in the surrounding villages.There are too many strange behaviors in Nanbu Village. This kind of buying of stinky mud has not attracted people's special attention. It is only regarded as a fertile field for the soldiers to buy.

The soil in latrines, pig and cowshed houses, houses, old corners of courtyards, and places that are not easy to be washed by water is mostly nitrate. Grind nitrate and Fumu ash separately and put them into the leaching filter, then add hot water to the leaching filter Water leaching, boiling nitrate, and recrystallization can be used to obtain relatively pure potassium nitrate. At this point, the three major components of gunpowder, potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, are complete.