The husband is the future chief [infrastructure]

After digging for a quarter of an hour, there was still nothing unusual.

Wang Mazi scratched his head and said, "My lord, there is nothing to grow on this mountain, so it's not because there are evil spirits in the mountain, right?"

He whispered, "Are you going to dig out the evil spirit to kill everyone?"

Lin Zhao glanced at him, wondering why he had such a strange idea.

He didn't answer his words, but said: "Keep digging, digging deeper."

After digging for another quarter of an hour, Wang Mazi suddenly said, "My lord, there is something under here, it's too hard to dig out."

Hearing this, Lin Zhao's heart was moved, and he said, "Dig up the soil next to it, and I'll see what it is."

Wang Mazi dug up the surrounding soil with a hoe, "My lord, it's a stone."

Lin Zhao took a closer look, stretched out his hand to take the small stone next to it and scratched it a few times, and could vaguely see that the inside was gray and white.

Wang Mazi understood it now, and he said why the land can't grow because of the rocks under the soil, so it's no wonder that the crops can grow.

The land he excavated is considered useless, and there may be many rocks under it, so he should change the top of the hill.

Wang Mazi was thinking about which mountain still had room for digging, when he heard Lin Zhao say, "Don't come here to grow things in the future, the bottom of this mountain is all limestone, and nothing can grow."

Lin Zhao originally wanted to find out if there was any iron ore in it, but he couldn't find it, but by accident, he found a limestone mountain.

Wang Mazi nodded and bowed in response, "Oh, okay, let's all listen to you, my lord."

Lin Zhao had an idea in mind, and he would discuss it with Jiang Ziyan when he went back, and then make plans.

Coming down from the mountain, Lin Zhao didn't stop, and went back to Lin'an City in a carriage.

When the carriage goes back, it goes up much faster than when it came, and many of them are downhill, which is easier to walk.

Hurry up and hurry up, and enter the city when it is dark.

When Lin Zhao arrived in the city, he went straight to his place of residence.When he first came here, he, Jiang Ziyan and Chen He had been living in the backyard of the county government.

Later, the country gentry and wealthy households scrambled to give him jewelry and a house, but he refused them all.

The place they live in was chosen by Jiang Ziyan himself at the dental shop. The place is not big, but it has everything that should be there.And the most important thing is that it is close to the yamen, which is convenient for Lin Zhao to go to the yamen to work every day.

After arriving home, Jiang Ziyan poked his head out from the kitchen and said, "Are you back? I guess you'll be back at this time, so today's dinner is late, so you go take a shower first, and you can eat in a while."

Lin Zhao was stunned for a moment, at this moment he suddenly felt the warmth of home.It's such a wonderful feeling to be away from home for several days, and someone has cooked a table of hot meals waiting for me at home with a light on.

He nodded and said, "Well, then I'll take a shower first." After coming down from the mountain during the day, he was covered in sweat after another day of driving.

When he came out of the shower, Jiang Ziyan had finished the meal and brought it to the small hall.

"I haven't cooked for a long time. I don't know if my cooking skills have deteriorated. You should try it."

Jiang Ziyan picked up some vegetables for Lin Zhao and put them in a bowl. Just as Chen He came out of the shower, he said, "Chen He, come and eat together. There are few people in the family, so you're welcome."

Chen He refused, "Thank you, my lord, for your kindness. I'll just go to the kitchen and eat."

Lin Zhao came to An to take up his post this time, but the old prince Rong was so distressed that he prepared a lot of wives, servant girls and servants for him, but Lin Zhao rejected them all.

But he had to bring servants with him, so Lin Zhao chose two servants to do sweeping and a woman who cooks with him, and Chen He was also there to protect his safety.

Chen He didn't want to go to them to join in the fun, he knew the relationship between these two people well, the young couple had been separated for a few days now, so he wouldn't be so ignorant to join in, and offend the master for nothing.

At the dinner table, Lin Zhao talked about his discoveries in the past few days, but he didn't say anything else, only mentioning the limestone mountain.

Jiang Ziyan was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect to find limestone instead of iron ore.One thing is the same, the iron ore powder can wait until later to find a way, first dig the limestone and then talk about it.

He asked Lin Zhao, "What do you think?"

Lin Zhaodao: "It would be too slow to chisel by manpower alone. Moreover, many people may not be able to chisel a piece after a long time. This kind of work is also skillful. If there is a once-and-for-all method, all of them will be cut. Just turn it into a piece of rubble."

This idea coincided with Jiang Ziyan's. He thought that the easiest way was to blow up the mountain.

When Jiang Ziyan was in Qingping Town before, he asked someone to get limestone, and he bought it from the boy named Han Hao.At that time, the paper mill was relatively small, and the limestone needed was not much, so it could be supplied temporarily.

If it is to make cement, it will definitely require a lot of limestone, and mountain collapse is the best way at this time.

Jiang Ziyan thought for a while, and said, "I have a way to blow up mountains. It's not to bomb a whole mountain, but to bomb a small area."

Lin Zhao was surprised, but he also understood Jiang Ziyan's meaning, "Do you mean that there is a way to blow up mountain rocks into rubble?"

"Yes, just like firecrackers, but they are many times more powerful than firecrackers, and can break stones into stones."

"Is what you're talking about?"

"□□?" Jiang Ziyan was puzzled. In his impression, there was no such thing as explosives in this dynasty. Could it be that this □□ was?

Lin Zhao explained: "I heard from my grandfather that the Ministry of Industry has been developing a secret weapon that has the ability to split mountains and land. It's just that it hasn't been developed yet for some unknown reason."

After listening to his description, Jiang Ziyan knew that the gunpowder he was talking about should refer to the embryonic form of explosives in later generations. Its power was much smaller than that of explosives, but it was enough to dig mines.

Jiang Ziyan said: "I have a ratio of materials for making scorpions here. Let's do some experiments first to see if it works. If it works, you can copy this recipe and pass it to the Ministry of Industry. It can be used in digging. above the mine."

Nowadays, in the several mines in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty, the mining is all manual, and it is tiring and hard. Few people volunteer to work as miners. Many of them committed crimes and were sent to the mines to work with shackles. .

If the Ministry of Industry can develop explosives, digging mines will save a lot of effort and improve efficiency a lot.

Lin Zhao nodded and said, "Okay, just do your best, don't be too tired, or I will feel bad."

"Understood, when did you still say such nasty things?" Jiang Ziyan looked at him, his eyes sparkled like broken stars.

The two of them entered the house after eating, Lin Zhao had already taken a shower, Jiang Ziyan took his clothes to take a shower, and someone cleaned up the dishes.

Not only did the two of them live in the same house, but Lin Zhao no longer had to sneak around to find Jiang Ziyan. He moved into Jiang Ziyan's room openly and aboveboard, saying that they were a husband and wife, and they should have slept together in the same bed.

Jiang Ziyan saw that he was very tired from busying with official business every day, and the frequency of doing that was much less, so he let him go.

In the early morning of the second day, Lin Zhao went to work in the Yamen as usual, while Jiang Ziyan went out with his servant. He was going to buy some materials for making explosives today.

They all say one sulfur, two nitrates, and three charcoals. The sulfur here refers to sulfur, and the nitrate refers to saltpeter, which is the ground frost he used when making ice.

These things can be bought, but if the ratio is different, it is impossible to make explosives.

After Jiang Ziyan bought all the materials, he started tinkering in the room.What he makes are all small doses, which have the power to blast a small piece of rock.

The yamen was not busy on weekdays, so Lin Zhao just looked at the official affairs to learn about the basic conditions of the people in Lin'an City.Occasionally, a few ordinary people came to ask him to settle the lawsuit, and they were all small things like petty theft or disputes between neighbors.

There was only one big case that stood out, and it wasn't really a big case, mainly because one of the parties involved in this case was the most favored son of a well-known rich family in the city.

In the past, if there were cases involving rich households and squires, and the other side was ordinary people, then there was basically no suspense in this case, and the rich households and squires must have won. Word.

But every time something happens, they don't report it to the court, and they don't give up. What if one day the county master opens his eyes and upholds justice for the common people!

Lin Zhao just ran into this incident today.

The reason was that an elderly couple beat the drums in front of the Yamen to appeal for their grievances, and wanted to sue the youngest son of the old man surnamed Cui for robbing a civilian daughter, resulting in the death of their daughter.

The couple seemed to be in their fifties, and they were crying pitifully in the hall. They said that the county magistrate would not uphold justice for the common people, but they had nowhere to appeal except the county government. They could only hope for good luck. Come down to seek justice for their daughter.

Lin Zhao didn't delay at all, and the trial was held in court, and asked the Yacha to call the defendant, Young Master Cui, to the court.

The couple came here carrying their daughter's body. Lin Zhao didn't ask someone to do it. He went down the hall and lifted the white cloth to check it.

Before Young Master Cui came over, someone from the Cui family came, and they came directly from the small gate in the backyard, bringing a lot of bank notes.

No matter how things are, things that can be settled with money are not serious.This is the truth that most wealthy households take for granted.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhao didn't appreciate it, and this method won't work for him, so he threatened to invite Young Master Cui to the court to confront him, and if he didn't come, he would send the yamen to Cui's house to find someone.

In this way, it took half an hour to invite Young Master Cui.

This Young Master Cui was pampered at home, so he denied it arrogantly and rudely when he came up: "My lord, I have nothing to do with this widow. You even lost your life, so don't try to rely on me for this matter!"

There was a lot of insult between these words, Lin Zhao said: "The matter has not been investigated clearly, and it is still unclear whether you killed the person. But the dead is a big one, you shouldn't humiliate and punish you with five boards before questioning. "

This young master Cui is used to being domineering in Lin'an City on weekdays, his family sends money to the county government every year, and none of the county magistrates in the past gave him three points of courtesy.

This was the first time he met someone who didn't give him face so much.

He was out of breath and said, "You, you dare to hit me?"

Lin Zhao said coldly, "I am the parent officer here. You made a mistake. Why don't you dare to beat you?"

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