My life skills in Daming Liver

"study!"

Lv1 exploration skills only have the knowledge of simply distinguishing ore, but these are enough.

Su Ze took the Caojie lead ore handed over by Eunuch Hu, only to see metallic luster crystals on the stone, which turned out to be galena.

Galena is a common lead ore, and metals such as silver and lead are often associated, and silver can also be extracted from some galena.

Although there is not much silver in this silver mine, lead can be smelted from this galena!

Su Ze immediately asked, "Eunuch Hu, how to deal with the lead extracted from this ore?"

"Lead? Zajia's mine only needs to supply silver, and the smelted lead can be disposed of by itself, but Fujian's lead is not used much, and the smelted lead is piled up in the warehouse."

Su Ze's eyes lit up. After fighting two battles, Changning Guard didn't have much lead bullets, nor did it have much reserve of lead pellets. Eunuch Hu really dozed off and gave him a pillow.

Su Ze took out a lead pellet from his ammunition bag, handed it to Eunuch Hu and asked:

"Eunuch Hu, can such lead pellets be made?"

"Is this the lead shot of a bird's gun?"

Su Ze was even more pleasantly surprised that this Eunuch Hu actually knew Bird Gun.

Eunuch Hu said: "This miscellaneous bird gun has been seen in the palace before, and His Majesty also ordered the Ministry of War to imitate the bird gun."

Eunuch Hu looked at the lead pellets and said: "It's easy to make lead pellets. The lead is soft and dense, and can be melted with a little heating. Then, the lead water is squeezed out with round iron clips, and the lead pellets can be made after the lead liquid fades red." gone."

Su Ze suddenly understood, no wonder his "blacksmith" skill could not produce lead shot. It turned out that lead shot was cast, not forged.

Eunuch Hu continued: "However, lead is poisonous to lead, and the people who do this job must be rotated frequently."

Su Ze admired him even more. This Eunuch Hu is not only an expert in exploration and smelting, but also a qualified technical manager!

It is a waste of talent that such a talent is assigned to mine silver mines!

In fact, the palace is also very crowded these days. The eunuchs in the weaving office are all weaving experts, and the construction office is all civil engineering project managers, as well as specialized goldsmiths and porcelain craftsmen. Many eunuchs are technical talents.

Not only technology, but also knowledge are required. Eunuchs who do not study will not have a bright future.

This Eunuch Hu came out of such a Holy Land of Juan Wang. After he arrived in Ren Nanping, he has been researching and improving mining and smelting methods, striving to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and hand over more silver to the palace.

It's just that this silver mine is too barren, and Eunuch Hu is still short of money no matter what he does, and he can only lie flat in the end.

Su Ze was even more determined to tie Eunuch Hu to the Changning Guard chariot.

Immediately afterwards, Su Ze and Eunuch Hu visited his collection together.

The hematite mentioned before is hematite, that is, iron oxide ore, also called ocher, but it seems that the abundance is not high, and it is really not cost-effective to use it for ironmaking.

But Eunuch Hu took out another porcelain bottle and said:

"Although the ocher in this mountain cannot be used for ironmaking, it is excellent for making pigments."

After speaking, Eunuch Hu showed Su Ze, his new "confidant", the paint he made with ground ocher.

Su Ze looked at the bright ocher paint and asked in surprise:

"Eunuch Hu is still proficient in the way of Danqing?"

Ocher is an ancient pigment, and ancient Chinese painters began to use mineral pigments for coloring very early.

The famous "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is painted with azurite and stone green (that is, malachite) as green, and ocher as the brown color of the mountain. It is now a treasure of the royal family.

Eunuch Hu shook his head quickly and said: "The handicapped people don't know such elegant things as Danqing. The miscellaneous family came from the dyeing and weaving industry. They are very interested in the art of printing and dyeing. The purpose of collecting these pigments is also for printing and dyeing."

printing and dyeing!

Now Su Ze is even more excited. Printing and dyeing technology is also an industry he planned for Changning Guard. This time meeting Eunuch Hu is really a treasure!

It was only then that Su Ze remembered that before the advent of chemically synthesized dyes, mineral dyes and plant dyes had always been the source of color for clothes.

Eunuch Hu didn't understand why Su Ze, a scholar, was so interested in seeing ores and pigments.

However, he has always been discriminated against. Although others dare not offend him as a palace man face to face, the way Nanping scholars look at him makes Eunuch Hu, who is proficient in observing words and demeanor, understand that Nanping scholars look down on him.

But Su Ze didn't mean to discriminate against him, and he really appreciated his research, which moved Eunuch Hu very much.

"Su Xianggong likes the art of painting, so I will give you this bottle of ocher powder."

Su Ze quickly waved his hand and said, "Su is not good at painting, but only interested in printing and dyeing."

Eunuch Hu said in surprise: "Mr. Su also likes to study the art of printing and dyeing?"

This made Eunuch Hu feel that Su Ze was his bosom friend. If he hadn't been a eunuch, he might have dragged Su Ze into sworn marriage.

Su Ze suddenly thought of the blue paint he had prepared when he was in the printing club of the university, and he said to Eunuch Hu:

"Eunuch Hu, I have a prescription, do you want to try to extract the dye?"

Su Ze finished writing the preparation method on the paper and handed it to Eunuch Hu.

Eunuch Hu looked at the formula, calcination of ox blood and plant ash? Then mixed with vitriol, you can get a blue dye that is resistant to sun and wash.

Eunuch Hu looked at Fang Zi with some fascination. He came from the Weaving and Dyeing Institute in the palace and knew a lot about dyes.

Dyes appeared very early, and the weaving and dyeing institutes in the palace were able to dye a variety of colors.

But the clothes of ordinary people are generally gray and white. The main reason is that dyes are easy to fade.

Whether vegetable dyes or mineral dyes, natural dyes are easily faded by sunlight and daily washing.

The emperor's clothes are generally rarely washed, because the color will fade after a few washes.

Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty wore washed and faded clothes, which were said to be frugal by the ministers.

Hearing that it is an anti-sun and anti-wash dye, Eunuch Hu immediately became interested, and he could not wait to start researching it immediately.

Seeing that Eunuch Hu took the bait, Su Ze said again:

"Eunuch Hu, my Changning Guard relies on firearms to defeat the enemy. Now the guard can't prepare lead pellets. Can I ask Eunuch Hu to help?"

Eunuch Hu said without any hesitation: "Changningwei saved the life of the miscellaneous family. How difficult is it to make lead pellets? I will open the furnace to refine lead pellets tomorrow!"

Su Ze was overjoyed, and the two discussed for a long time about prospecting and weaving and dyeing.

Su Ze continued: "The daily use of the people is the way. Although Eunuch Hu mined and smelted silver in the mountains, it was for His Majesty and Ming Dynasty. This method of silver smelting sounds simple, and it also contains the principles of heaven and earth. It can be studied thoroughly. Reasonable, Mr. Hu's merits are in the future!"

Eunuch Hu has never been praised so much by scholars. His improvement of silver smelting method was originally just for business, and his research on printing and dyeing was also for interest.

But speaking of Su Ze, he has been compared to Cai Lun of the Han Dynasty.

Eunuch Hu also studied in the Supervisor of Rites, and he felt so comfortable after being praised by Su Ze.

He hastily said:

"Su Xianggong said that the people's daily use is the way, it is really a holy saying!"

"The Zajia only realized today that these small things that the Zajia did are also beneficial to the court and the common people."

Su Ze flattered again, and Eunuch Hu even stated that if Su Ze could produce the non-fading dye that Su Ze said, he must attach Su Ze's name and dedicate the non-fading dye to the emperor!

When Su Ze came out of Eunuch Hu's collection room, it was already dark, Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze suspiciously, why did this guy talk so happily with the eunuch? Could it be that Su Ze has a special hobby?

But that Eunuch Hu is so old!

Seeing Lin Mojun, Su Ze said happily, "Baihu, I didn't expect that eunuch Hu is also proficient in smelting. Our Changning Guard's lead pellets have been found!"

It turned out that Lin Mojun understood why Su Ze and Eunuch Hu had such a happy conversation.

After seeing the power of the blunderbuss and the Franco cannon, Lin Mojun paid more attention to the power of firearms.

On the way back, the two talked about artillery again, and Lin Mojun asked, "You said that the naval battle in Xiyi was decided by artillery?"

In today's maritime battles, the main ways to win are still fire attack, jumping ship and hand-to-hand combat and ramming.

The method of fire attack is to use a small boat full of inflammable materials to ram other people's large ships. During the Tuen Mun naval battle, the Ming army used this method to defeat the Portuguese navy.

Jumping off the ship means hand-to-hand combat. In Qi Jiguang's naval battle outline, hand-to-hand combat is still the main way to calculate military merit.

The final collision angle is to use a hard bow to wrap metal, hit the center of the enemy's ship, and destroy the enemy's ship through physical impact.

But hearing Su Ze say that the Xiyi naval battle has begun to rely on cannons, it is still difficult for Lin Mojun to imagine how to rely on cannons to fight at sea.

The Western naval battle that Su Ze mentioned is naturally not the Western naval battle of this era.

In fact, in this era, the ships of the West were not much larger than the ships of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the Spanish galleons used by the Spaniards now have a draft of no more than 400 tons, which is about the size of the Manila galleons.

At this time, some guards in the Guangzhou area of ​​the Ming Dynasty also had 300-ton Guangzhou ships, and Western ships still had no advantage in terms of tonnage.

It was already in the seventeenth century when the Spaniards really dominated the sea, and the Spanish galleons had reached 800 tons or even 1,000 tons.

Su Ze used the West to instill the concept of modern naval warfare in Lin Mojun. Su Ze said:

"If it is twice the size of the New World, and each side of the ship is equipped with more than a dozen cannons that are more powerful than the Frang machine guns, what kind of power are these cannons firing in unison?"

Lin Mojun was silent, just imagining such power would be earth-shattering, Changningwei's 200-material lucky boat could not resist at all.

Su Ze said: "Battle at sea is different from that on the road. The comparison is whose ship is stronger and whose guns are stronger. The battle is the accumulation of sea navigation technology and shipbuilding technology."

Lin Mojun said: "I heard from my father that when Changning Guard was first established, it was able to build a large ship of 500 materials, but in the generation of the great-grandfather, it was unable to maintain the large ship, so it had to be dismantled and rebuilt."

"In my father's generation, many coastal guards can only dismantle ships and renovate small boats. If the Xiyi ships are powerful and powerful, what should I do?"

Su Ze thought for a while, then said in silence for a moment, "Then we can only believe in the wisdom of future generations."

Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and said, "Sir, let's take the imperial examination at ease."

"If Mister can become a high-ranking official, maybe he can straighten out the coastal defenses, so that I, Ming Dynasty, can also build strong ships and powerful guns!"

Su Ze was silent for a moment, he really wanted to tell Lin Mojun that there is no way to change history by learning from barbarians to control barbarians.

It is by no means that a capable minister and brave general can change the declining Ming Dynasty.

But on this day of victory today, Su Ze swallowed his words.

In Nanping County, the officials of the two yamen of the prefecture and county, and the Yanping Guard Commander's Mansion are all waiting for the military situation.

Fang Zhifu nervously paced back and forth in the hall, and Li Tongpan also rubbed his hands nervously.

At this moment, a man from the government office rushed in.

"Master Zhifu! Changning Wei wins!"

Fang Zhifu immediately pulled Min Zhuang and asked: "Really won?"

"My lord! Great victory! The leader of the mine bandits, Deng Dai, is dead! His body has been sent to the gate of the city! The Changning Guard also beheaded twelve Japanese pirates! One person was captured alive, and he and the leader of the mine bandits were escorted to the gate of the city!"

Fang Zhifu only felt that the happiness came too suddenly, he straightened his clothes and said: "Quickly escort the mine robbers to the hall, I will personally interrogate and investigate!"

Immediately afterwards, Fang Zhifu said to Li Tong: "Changningwei has made great achievements in suppressing bandits, and the government should also show it."

Li Tongpan immediately said: "The government office can issue a medal to commend the Changning Guard."

Fang Zhifu shook his head and said: "It's not enough! Changning Wei's credit for suppressing the Japanese cannot be reported."

Li Tongpan immediately understood that according to the rules of the Ministry of War over the years, whoever kills more than a dozen real Japanese can be promoted from a hundred households to a thousand households.

But if this credit is reported to the Ministry of War, the news that the three hundred households of Yanpingwei were annihilated before cannot be suppressed.

Therefore, from the government's point of view, it is necessary to withhold the news of the real Japanese, and not to make a big contribution to the matter.

This would make Chang Ningwei feel wronged.

Li Tongpan thought for a while and said:

"There are still three rooms in the mansion that have vacancies for officials, and Chang Ningwei can make up for them."

But Fang Zhifu said: "Not enough! Come up with a place for classic history!"

The history of the classics is no better than the officials. The history of the classics must be reported to the Ministry of Officials. As long as you become a history of the classics, unless you really violate the law, it is difficult for even officials to dismiss you.

After the magistrate Fang took office, he spent a lot of effort, ups and downs, and provoking infighting among the officials, and finally drove the three senior Dianshi out of the government office.

Now the government officials are all staring at these three vacant positions in the classic history, and Fang Zhifu also uses these three positions to lure the officials to work.

Fang Zhifu immediately gave Changning Wei a canon history and three vacancies for officials, and the Lin family of Changning Wei would become a new force in the government office.

Fang Zhifu said again: "Geng Xuezheng of Fujian Dao is my senior in the examination room. You inform Hai Rui to ask Su Ze to write some stereotyped essays. I will personally send a letter to Geng Xuezheng for advice!"

Li Tongpan was also envious of Su Ze. The provincial examination was presided over by the school administration of a province. Fang Zhifu was saying hello to the school administration in person, and the meaning was self-evident.

Yanpingwei and the county government also got the news, and the Baizhi County immediately called the clerk in the ceremonial room who recovered the Changning Wei Jingbiao last time, reprimanded him and removed him as a clerk on the spot, and ordered the ceremonial room to reopen. Make a watch for ordinary households and send it back to Changning Wei immediately!

Commander Yu also called his son Yu Zongyuan, and ordered him to immediately prepare the craftsmen and equipment of the Yaohuo Bureau and hand them over to Changning Wei at any time.

Commander Yu also praised his son fiercely, which made Yu Zongyuan proud at the Commander's Mansion.

Su Ze didn't know about the reward that Chang Ningwei was about to receive. At this time, he was busy with many affairs of Chang Ningwei.

Only then did Su Ze sigh with emotion, how lucky Han Gaozu was, this talent is really important!