Wang Hou's "last wish" was not achieved. On the one hand, Cao Cao really didn't know where the human chrysanthemum is. On the other hand, chili is still comfortable lying in the jungle of South America! This idea is a fantasy to eat spicy hot pot, let alone find chili to stuff chrysanthemums.

Especially now, not only can Wang Hou's gunpowder craftsmen not be punished, they also have to provide them like treasures, because the river blowing was so good that four thousand kilograms of gunpowder were consumed, all the gunpowder stocks in Xu Du and Puyang were consumed. Cao's army urgently needed to create another batch of such strategic weapons.

But in this effort, Pudong's salt brine well was lost, and the way to make salt brine from the ash was not feasible by pouring salt brine well water into the wood ash was not feasible. Fortunately, Wang Hou still had a hand in front of the prefect of Dongjun, that is, after Quan Xuchang's night incense collection order, he ordered that the chamber pots and urine barrels of Quan Xuchang and several nearby counties must be kept separately, poured into the incense collection cart sent by the government every day, and then pulled outside the city.

He became addicted to shooting dirt guns and knew the importance of this thing. Cao Cao pinched his nose and signed this smelly law, and strictly enforced it. No matter high-ranking or small households who did not pour urine buckets according to the law, they would be punished with fines! The entire Xu had a population of 100,000, and the population of nearby counties increased by nearly 150,000 yuan. Under strict supervision, the accumulated urine reached a considerable amount in most of 199 AD.

Of course, Wang Hou could not transport these coquettish liquids directly to the battlefield. Not to mention how to preserve them, just smoked is enough to smoke people. After collecting these yellow liquids, under Wang Fu's miserable command, he poured them directly into the fine soil dug out of the mountain and threw them into the shed shelter for more than 20 days. After waiting for a layer of white salt frost on the soil, he collected them with wood ash. In the summer, he collected a lot.

After experiencing the battle between the snow-capped mountains and the ice, the military struggle between the Cao army and the Yuan army eased again.

More than 6,000 soldiers fell into the water. Although only a few dozen people were drowned and washed away, in the severe cold of the small ice age, especially in the Yuan Jun camp, which lacked heating equipment and facilities, it was soaked in the cold river water. The Yuan army cavalry whose body temperature dropped sharply died of temperature deterioration within a few hours.

The Hebei archers who attacked Guandu camp head-on, shot against the ice buckets all over the sky, and Gao Lan's elite soldiers who were attacking with his flesh and blood were killed and injured, and the Yuan army had a combat power of less than 10,000 yuan. Even if Yuan Shao held many soldiers and widespread generals, he could not afford such consumption.

As a result, the showdown became a boring stalemate. Every morning, Yuan Jun, who was holding a earth basket and holding a snowy and blocks, flipped up the earth mountain like a thief, then fell down the snow basket, and pushed Yuan Jun's snowy mountain fortifications step by step towards Cao Jundu camp.

However, this process was extremely slow. After all, the 150 giant Hui cannons that Cao Cao had added were not vegetarians. In order to deal with Yuan Shao's towering snow-capped mountains, Cao Cao ordered the removal of several well railings that captured Yuan Jun from Hebei to create three watchtowers that were fifteen meters high. Twenty-four hours a day, there were special sentries staring at the three camps on the left, middle and right. Once there were more than a thousand strong men from Hebei who made snow. As soon as there were a little dense, the river ice immediately called him over and smashed you into blood.

Who is not afraid of death? Every day, the process is interrupted by a super catapult. The speed of the fortifications of Yuan Jun’s snow mountain in Hebei is less than half a meter a day. Wang Hou can’t say that this process can be piled up at the gate of Guandu camp before the ice and snow melts.

In fact, Yuan Shao was not unable to win. According to the strategy provided by Tian Feng before, he assembled all the cavalry, forced the frozen Ji River to cross the river, went south to attack Xuchang, seized the Han court and Cao Cao's lair, and attacked him from front to back. Once Cao Cao, who could not care about the beginning and the end, was really powerless to turn the situation back and forth!

However, this suggestion was mercilessly shelved in the collective rejection of the Yingchuan faction and Yuan Shao's arrogance. The Battle of Guandu was dragged into a confrontation that consumed both sides' national strength and a long tug-of-war.

However, this slow and arduous rhythm of war gave Wang Hou a big stage for performance and a lot of room for performance.

In addition to building the wood from the watchtower, all the remaining well railings and slings were returned to Wang Hou, and he was also dismantled into a large pile of wood by him. Then he built a series of wooden sheds next to the Guandu Ferry.

The shed was covered with straw mats, temporarily isolated under the large snow shed that fell from the sky, and there was a busy scene.

The heat is really not a meaningless adjective. War requires a lot of steel to support it. At most, under the shed, there is a railway with high-quality coke and heat. The damaged swords, guns, swords and halberds on the battlefield are rebuilt here, and the steel transported by Xu Du has to be built into new weapons, arrows and stirrups, which account for more than 5,000 strong men.

Then there is what Wang Hou urgently needs! Cement!

The iron slag was ground to pieces after being cut back and forth by the stone mill, and was fired together with clay, which had been widely developed in this era, and became unqualified cement of various labels.

Next to the other side are brick burning fields. It is said that even Wang Hou could not completely replicate the firing process of Han bricks before the time traveled through time in later generations. Even Wang Hou didn't know what kind of craftsmanship was. The high-quality large blue bricks were pulled out by furnaces in the hands of these local craftsmen who were slag.

Previously, the steel bars made from Funiushan Iron Mine were transported to Zhongmu County in bundles.

What are you doing to build these? Build a house!

In the future, the Mi army must first build a military base! Having a permanent military fortress is very important for war! And even if it is a military defense function, it is good to allow the Cao army soldiers living in the wild to keep warm and maintain combat effectiveness as a military camp. Compared to Yuan Jun, who lives in the wild, who burns some pitiful firewood and is trembling with cold, sleeps with straw kangs, and warms and comfortable every day, which one has a higher combat effectiveness!

More importantly, Wang Hou, the chief manager of the rear camp, had the final say, but there was no such group of gentry merchants in Puyang who debated aesthetic views with him! He could cover whatever he wanted!

He had nearly 70,000 strong men on hand. Even if 30,000 people were placed in the back camp to build and produce, Wang Hou could mobilize more than 40,000 people. He was considered the largest contractor of this era. In the second half of the Guandu camp, under his proud command, tens of thousands of people took turns to hoes and digged hard frozen soil on the ground, and pushed bricks and cement to build the house.

The large number of people means the power, and there is no ice bucket challenge that can be seen at any time. The back camp project was able to move forward at full speed, and more than 20,000 strong men took action. By January 15, 200 AD, 32 days, the first batch of more than 20 small military camp buildings were completed and ready to move in.

I really have no confidence in the cement produced by my home, and Wang Hou dared not build high. Twenty two-story buildings with clear Yishui in the military camp, but the building is wide. One small building has three corridors and a four-row corridor on the second floor, with a total of forty rooms. At this time, I can't talk about privacy and comfort. A room of about 20 square meters is surrounded by a row of large kangs, which is enough to sleep with a group of ten Cao soldiers, and one military camp can station four hundred infantry soldiers, and twenty buildings have seven thousand six hundred people.

Well..., after all, this is still an era of class privileges, and some rooms must be provided separately to senior officers.

Compared with the small rooms on the second floor, the room on the first floor is much larger. The first half of the columns is divided into four restaurants, two large kitchens, and two public bathrooms. Wang Hou even built a luxurious bath. The coal stove burning in the kitchen can provide heating of the entire military camp kang along the flue. The hot water that keeps burning can also provide drinking and bathing water for the sergeant, which can be said to be full of functions!

"Please look at the Prime Minister's Mansion. This is the kitchen, this is the restaurant, this is the bathroom, this is the bath, and a warehouse, which has all the functions!"

He led Cao Cao to visit, while introducing the unfinished houses that were covered with cement walls on the first floor, which was not very flat. Wang Hou was also introducing it with a roar, without the awareness of a bad developer. However, after following him, Mr. Cao's old bearded face was always tense and his brows were tight, because in his opinion, Wang Hou's house could not be separated from a big word, that was ugly!

Why don’t you know how Hongjie likes this kid? Her aesthetic views are extremely different. If Cao is lucky enough to win this battle with Yuan Thief and return to Xudu, he must cultivate the aesthetics of this kid. If he makes such an ugly building, it will be too shameful to me, Cao!

While walking, Cao Cao thought to himself.

After visiting the lower floor, Wang Hou was still excited to pull Cao Cao to visit the lower and upper floor military dormitories. Unfortunately, he really couldn't stand his postmodern aesthetic, so Cao always pulled him helplessly.

"The way is to ask, I still have military affairs to deal with! Let's visit another day! The most important thing is solved first. Have the nitrate soil transported by Xu Du started to be refined?"

"Return to the Prime Minister, it has already begun! Please come here!"

It was simply a military camp building designed by a genius designer, and Mr. Cao was not interested! Wang Hou was quite disappointed, and his long robe and sleeves in the depths made an invitation, inviting Cao Cao to come out of the last military camp and rush to the first built military camp.

Just as he approached, a bad smell came to his face with the heat. Both Cao Cao and Xu Chu couldn't help but pinch their noses.

"It's here! The Prime Minister inspects and opens the door!"

While leading the way, Wang Hou also shouted loudly to Wang Hu, the leader of the personal soldier who was in charge of the leader. The latter immediately saluted and opened the door.

The first floor of this military camp is much smaller than the others, because one-third of the space was isolated by Wang Hou.

There are sixteen small rooms in total. Among the eight small rooms, there are huge pools like wine cellars. The bottom of the pool is filled with soil, and the upper floor is constantly poured with hot water by the strong men. The unpleasant smell comes from here. There is also an empty hole under the pool. White foam is emitting from the pool, and a slightly reddish-brown dirty water comes down. Whenever a bucket of water is filled, the strong men of Cao Jun immediately take them to the six rooms next to each other.

The whole room was stinking, but Mr. Cao was relieved when he thought about the raw materials of this thing.

In the other six rooms, the heat was high. Each room was originally built with three large pots. Under the stove, the coal fire kept burning. The sulphur water filtered from the filter pool was poured directly into the pot and was boiling. The big pot was almost completely dry. At the bottom of the pot, a layer of gray-white powder was piled up at the bottom of the pot, and there was no need to worry about the hotness. Two Cao Jun strong men wiped the sweat beads on their foreheads and immediately took the pot down and put it on a new pot. Then, using a large spoon, he didn't dare to waste a gram of white powder at the bottom of the pot and put it into a wooden box.

This is saltpeter!

In the future, I went to forums when I had nothing to do. I didn’t learn much about making money, but I read a lot of useless miscellaneous learnings. This set of things was seen by Wang Hou from the Internet, in the old society, the steps of refining sulphurs in the local methods.

The nitrification pond was spread together with the wood ash transported from Xudu, and sprayed with hot water. The hot water promoted the reaction of the nitrification in the nitrification soil and the potassium carbonate in the wood ash, and then dissolved in the filter to precipitate, and then it was made into the barrel. It was rich in potassium nitrate.

Then, like boiling salt, I sent it to a large iron pot to boil it. What remains is potassium nitrate powder containing impurities. These things constitute three-quarters of the substance to make black gunpowder.

"It can produce about fifty kilograms of saltpeter a day. It can be mixed with the sulfur transported by Xu Du and the refined charcoal to get about seventy-five kilograms of black gunpowder!"

In the Ming Dynasty, when firearms were already prevalent, there was a saying that 100-day refining of nitrogen was not enough for a general to shoot. It was about the important raw material for gunpowder. It was difficult to refine saltpeter. One day, even a cylinder of bullets thrown out of the Huihui cannon could not be made. Seeing a wooden box filled with the bottom of the box, Wang Hou also reported helplessly.

Cao Cao was also dull when he heard this number, but then he looked up gloomy and looked at the window that Wang Hou had specially built very small to keep warm.

"The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will draw 500 people for you, build that ugly house, and then build nine workshops for the original actor. All craftsmen will be kept under strict supervision. Once there is a suspicion of escaping or leaking!"

Cao Cao didn't say the rest, but from his murderous and gloomy eyes, Wang Hou could already see what he was going to say! Mercy does not control the military and righteousness, but wealth! Now he is fighting for the world to the death with Yuan Shao, and he cannot tolerate any mistakes. Gunpowder is the top secret killer! Wang Hou held his fists respectfully.

"Son-in-law obeys the order!"

"I still have official duties, so I won't disturb you! Please be quick!"

He was so proud that Cao Cao didn't dare to disturb him for too long. He patted his shoulder again with Xu Chu and left. However, watching his back, Ye Ye was beating in Wang Hou's pupils.

If you have enough food for two years, the Houchang swords, guns, swords, halberds, winter clothes, shoes, socks, cement bricks, and even gunpowder can be produced continuously. Even if you cannot win the battle of Guandu by surprise attacking Wuchao, then you will be exhausted by Yuan Shao. It is your Hebei soldiers who can resist, or our Yuan soldiers in our old Cao family can resist!

Just as Wang Hou was thinking gloomy, a black shadow broke in outside the door and knelt on one knee. Zang Hong muttered in a low voice and extremely rapid manner.

"Lord, Zhongmu County Prisoner Camp, Deng Qi comes to report..."

These words made Wang Hou's originally hot eyes brighter, and he nodded heavily.

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