My life skills in Daming Liver

Pan Yazi brought five dirty middle-aged men. They were all extremely weak and looked at Su Ze with dull eyes.

They were not tied with ropes or shackles as imagined, and there were no cages to hold slaves. The five men lined up and let Su Ze choose like animals.

As a modern person, Su Ze was still shocked by this scene.

He looked at the five people, and there was no trace of torture on them. Pan Yazi didn't even restrain them, but they didn't show any resistance. In the end, the man made a flattering expression to Su Ze, desperately hoping that Su Ze would He bought it.

"One by one, explain it clearly to the husbands!"

Pan Yazi shouted sternly, and the five middle-aged men began to talk about their own situation in order.

They were all refugees fleeing from Jianyang. All four family members starved to death while fleeing. Only the man with the most obsequious expression and his wife were still alive.

All five of them had worked in the book printing workshop in Jianyang, and they were all engaged in engraving and printing.

The first four men all agreed to send their nationality, that is, to be sold to Su Ze as slaves for life, and only the fifth man only agreed to be a servant for ten years.

Su Ze looked around, and unexpectedly chose the man whose wife was still alive.

Next came Chen Chaoyuan to bargain. In the end, the servant surnamed Yao who knew how to print offered thirty taels of silver, and his sick wife also offered ten taels of silver, a total of forty taels of silver. The two of them worked for Su Ze for ten years.

After signing the red deed, Su Ze handed the silver to Pan Yazi. Pan Yazi inspected the fineness of the silver with his cracked teeth with a smile, then called the servant named Yao aside with a smile, and finally took most of the selling money , Only took out a dozen taels of silver and sent him away.

The servant surnamed Yao supported his skinny wife, followed Su Ze silently, and walked out of Yashi.

After leaving Yashi, Su Ze said to the newly bought servant: "What's your name?"

"Back to the master, the villain has no name. When I was in the printing workshop, everyone called me Yao Chun."

Su Ze looked at Yao Chun's dying wife, took out half a tael of silver and said, "Go to the city and rent a cart, put it on my horse, and drag your wife to Changningwei with me."

Yao Chun knelt down and kowtowed with tears in his eyes, "Thank you for your mercy, Master!"

Yao Chun said timidly again: "Master, I want to get some medicine for my wife back."

Su Ze waved his hand and said, "Is there a prescription?"

Yao Chun quickly took out a carefully preserved prescription from his clothes. Su Ze saw that the prescriptions were all cheap tonics.

Su Ze used the [Medical Skills] skill to give Yao Chun's wife a pulse. Although Yao Chun's wife was weak, she was not seriously ill due to malnutrition.

Su Ze comforted Yao Chun, and Yao Chun knelt down gratefully.

Yao Chun was quite quick in his work. He quickly grabbed all the medicines and rented a cart that could be harnessed to a horse. He carried his wife onto the cart, and quickly put Su Ze's luggage on the cart.

Su Ze was still a little unaccustomed to Yao Chun kneeling down at every turn, so he sent him to drive the carriage.

Chen Chaoyuan was also a little moved when he saw Yao Chun's perseverance for his wife, but he still said to Su Ze: "This Yao Chun has to take care of his wife, so I'm afraid he can't do his best."

But Su Ze said: "Those who have permanent property have perseverance, and it is good to save one more person."

Chen Chaoyuan sighed and said: "A few years ago, the dental market was not so big. A few years ago, it was sold secretly. These years, the world has really gotten worse and worse!"

Su Ze didn't answer. This year's world is bad, but this year may be the best world in the next few decades.

A craftsman who knows how to engrave and print only sells for thirty taels of silver in the tooth market.

And Su Ze heard that Mr. Tuohu trained a singing girl. It is said that an official from the capital offered a thousand taels, and Mr. Tuohu was reluctant to sell it.

A theatrical troupe in Yange's hometown in the Dang Dynasty was purchased from Suzhou Mansion for one hundred thousand taels of silver.

Su Ze could only swear, "This is the way of the world!"

Su Ze said goodbye to Chen Chaoyuan, and returned to Changning Guard with a carriage.

This trip to the city was quite rewarding, but unfortunately, Yu Zongyuan hadn't returned from the provincial capital yet, so Su Ze's idea of ​​taking advantage of the fire to rob him fell through.

The rock candy brought into the city was also sold before leaving the city. Huang Tiju from Huimin Pharmacy rushed to the city gate and bought all of Su Ze's rock sugar on behalf of Mr. Fang.

Su Ze couldn't help feeling that this Mr. Fang was really a rich woman, and she bought dozens of catties of rock candy as she said, without bargaining at all.

Thinking of how cautious I was in earning money, I finally managed to earn some money to improve the life of the guard. In the eyes of rich people, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Thinking of this, Su Ze felt even more sluggish, and even the excitement of making money a while ago faded a lot.

In the Ming Dynasty, high value-added luxury goods were also made!

Su Ze finally figured this out. The people of the Ming Dynasty were all poor ghosts, and if they wanted to make money, they had to earn money from scholars!

After understanding this, Su Ze took Yao Chun and his wife back to Changningwei, and started making movable type without stopping.

Su Ze vaguely remembered the ratio of lead movable type made by the university club, lead: tin: antimony was 80:18:2.

However, Ming's metals are naturally impure, and this ratio still needs to be tested repeatedly.

Lead is poisonous when melted, and Su Ze also took protective measures before melting the mold.

However, Su Ze was still not at ease, and finally handed over the work of pouring the lead liquid to Xiong Wu.

This guy has been imprisoned by Su Ze for a few days since he revealed his identity as the Red Sun Sect, and he finally calmed down.

Su Ze didn't turn him away to go to the government, Xiong Wu saw hope again, he was respectful to Su Ze, and stopped saying those words that encouraged Su Ze to rebel.

And Su Ze also warned Xiong Wu that as long as he spread the things of Hongyang Sect in Changningwei, Su Ze would immediately send him to the county government. Xiong Wu was so scared that he kept cursing and swore that he would never preach in Changningwei .

Xiong Wu couldn't understand what Su Ze was messing with, and just followed Su Ze's instructions to melt and pour the lead liquid.

Xiong Wu didn't understand why Su Ze had to be so careful.

Xiong Wu didn't dare to ask more questions, but just worked hard to help Su Ze make movable type.

When the movable lead type cooled down, Su Ze called Yao Chun again and asked him to carve on the movable type.

Sure enough, success is not so easy, and I don't know whether it is because of too many impurities or some other reason. The lead type in this furnace is like tofu, and it collapsed after just two strokes.

Su Ze was not discouraged, and changed the ratio again, and asked Xiong Wu to make a new batch of movable type.

After three days of continuous experimentation, I finally made a movable lead type with moderate hardness that can be used for engraving and printing.

It’s just that this experiment used up all the lead and tin that Su Ze bought. Su Ze estimates that hundreds of catties of lead and tin are needed to make a set of movable type that can print commonly used characters.

This is already the result of Su Ze’s simplification through mathematical calculations. Chinese characters are different from English. English is used as a spelling text. In fact, only a hundred or so movable type is needed for a page to be printed.

And Chinese characters have more than 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters, although a large part can be combined with radicals, there are also a large amount of individual characters.

Su Ze calculated the commonly used Chinese characters. A complete set of movable type molds needs to prepare at least 2,000 movable types. Hundreds of catties of lead and tin are quite economical.

Su Ze couldn't help feeling that scholars' money is not easy to earn!

The development of printing ink is not difficult. Just like what Su Ze thought, tung oil itself is a kind of fast-drying vegetable oil, which is a very good industrial oil.

After the ink mixed with tung oil, rosin and carbon black is heated and stirred, the ink that can be used for printing is obtained.

The only disadvantage is that the tung oil ink is toxic. If you eat something wrapped in newspaper printed with this ink, you may have diarrhea for a few days.

Buying lead has also become the top priority of Changning Wei. Lead is needed to make movable type, and lead is needed to make bird gun bullets. In addition to asking Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market, if it doesn't work, he can only go to Fuzhou to buy it.

Another major event in Changningwei is the official start of the water conservancy project to clean up Jianxi.

The Chen clan is led by the patriarch's son, Chen Haizhang, who was also the leader of the Chen clan in the last clan fight.

Chen Haizhang was very dissatisfied with his father's agreement to send someone to build the creek for Changningwei, and he had a bad face to the people of Changningwei.

However, Chen Haizhang was quick at work. He started work on June 3, and led the members of the Chen clan to dig out the reservoir on June 10.

On Changningwei's side, because Lin Xianyang sent money to Fuzhou Mansion and hadn't come back yet, the old grandfather personally brought someone to watch.

There is an old grandfather who sits in the town, and the fields occupied by digging reservoirs are all recorded by the old grandfather, and the land is redistributed.

The excavation of the reservoir took up three acres of paddy fields of my grandpa's family. With my grandpa taking the lead and setting an example, the rest of Changningwei did not dare to complain.

Su Ze can only sigh with emotion that a family with an old man is like a treasure, and with the prestige of an old grandfather sitting in the town, there is almost no obstacle to the project of building a stream to collect water and flush sand.

I have to say that the skill of "water conservancy" is easier to lose than Su Ze imagined.

Su Ze only needs to go to the construction site twice a day to solve the problems encountered in the construction and arrange the next project, and the experience will gradually increase.

After digging out the reservoir, Su Ze's "Water Conservancy" skill increased from Lv1, 21/100 to Lv2, 90/200.

This time, Su Ze did not change the direction of Jianxi for the Shushui sand flushing project. The main project is to excavate the reservoir and narrow the outlet of the reservoir. The reservoir has been completed in these two projects.

The project to narrow the river is also in full swing. On June 11th, Lin Xianyang finally came back from Fuzhou, bringing back the latest news.

This time, Chang Ningwei of the Qing army passed the pass smoothly, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Yanping Wei Yu's family was severely blackmailed, and it is said that tens of thousands of taels of silver had been given to Yan Maoqing, but Yan Maoqing still refused to let go.

In addition to lamenting Yan Maoqing's big appetite, Su Ze also lamented the wealth of the Yu family. It seems that this time the Yu family is about to bleed.

Another news brought by Lin Xianyang is that the Luojiao rebellion in Jiangxi has been suppressed.

Sure enough, as Su Ze expected, this rebellion was not written in the history books, indicating that it was just a small-scale local rebellion.

It is said that after this Luo Fu rebelled, he announced that he would establish an earthly kingdom in Jiangxi, calling himself the Dharma Protector Heavenly King.

This guy didn't even take down the county seat, so he started to make meritorious officials, and he made more than a dozen marshals in one go.

Then this Luo Fu started sealing off the harem again, taking in seventy-two "divine concubines" in one go, and frantically collecting virgins as concubines, which made the rebel army very dissatisfied.

Because Luo Fu became king, officials from all over the country no longer dared to lie, and reported the real situation to the court one after another.

When the imperial court heard that Luo Fu became king, they reacted very quickly.

Immediately mobilized the troops of several guards to suppress together.

After the incident, Luo Fu was busy distributing official positions and canonizing concubines, and the imperial army resisted in a hurry when they came in front of them.

As a result, Luo Fu was defeated in the first battle. He led his cronies and concubines to run up the mountain, but was betrayed by his subordinates and cut off his head.

It is said that Luo Fu's head is currently fishing in Nanchang City, and the "Marshals" he canonized are also hanging on the city wall with him.

It is impossible to claim the king rashly! Su Ze silently remembered the experience and lessons of this "rebel predecessor".

Without the Luojiao rebellion, King Lu, who was originally planning to support Jiangxi, simply stopped the fleet temporarily in the open sea.

Fujian Beiwa ordered the head office to ban the sea, requiring coastal guards to strengthen inspections of the sea.

King Deer even cut off the smuggling trade at sea for a time, and the price of foreign goods in Fuzhou City skyrocketed. I heard that there were a lot fewer smugglers in Yuegang.

There was also a lot of news in Fuzhou Mansion that King Deer attacked ships. Fuzhou City had already conscripted corvee and raised the city walls, and the entire southeast was trembling with fear of King Deer's less than a thousand Japanese pirates.

Lin Mojun also felt a sense of crisis, and stepped up to train the soldiers.

Now the gunslinger can use the two footworks of "regular step" and "quick step", and can also complete left-turn and right-turn changes under Lin Mojun's command.

The two-stage shooting is already quite proficient, and the reloading shooting action has been so proficient that it can no longer be proficient.

The results of Lin Mojun's military training have exceeded Su Ze's expectations. Being able to train soldiers to this level in such a short period of time is enough to show Lin Mojun's prestige and talent in military training in the guard.

Lin Deqing also returned from the ghost market, bringing another piece of good news.

Lin Deqing found a berth selling lead in the ghost market and found a stable supply of lead.

After the rumors of Japanese pirates dissipated, the ghost market finally reopened.

Su Ze realized that he had forgotten where he was.

Fujian itself has many mines and mines, almost every prefecture and county has mines, and lead is not a rare mineral.

Jiangxi Qianshan County, not far from Yanping Mansion, has been a well-known lead producing area in the country since the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the whole of Fujian is not short of lead.

The price of lead is not expensive. The lead and tin that Lin Deqing bought from the ghost market are enough for Su Ze to make 2,000 movable types.

But after such a toss, the money Su Ze earned a while ago was basically exhausted.

In the future, they will have to buy lead to buy gunpowder, and the Changning Guard will need to upgrade their weapons and equipment. There is no delay in making money!

Before going to the county seat, Su Ze wrote down the radicals and individual characters that needed to be carved overnight.

Su Ze ordered Xiong Wu to continue making movable type lead molds, ordered Yao Chun to carve movable type at home, and tried to open the printing workshop within this month.

On June 13th, the day when Su Ze was going to go to the county again, Su Ze's imperial examination skills finally reached Lv4, 390/400, and he could level up after another day of reading!