The man named Fan then picked up the tea and took a sip.

Just he frowned.

Tea is of course a good tea, and people who cook tea are also carefully selected.

But the tea tasted different from the taste when I first drank tea.

So he looked around and saw the cowhide tent, with a wolf-skin blanket under his feet, and his brows frowned unconsciously.

It’s not the problem of tea, but the change in the environment, no false stones, no gurgling water, no corridors, and no painting walls. From the prosperous place to the bleak world, only this person with the surname Fan can deeply understand this feeling.

This man with the surname Fan was Fan Yongdou, a native of Datong Prefecture. He was passed down for six generations. He all took advantage of the Ming Dynasty to ban the trade routes outside the pass and accumulated wealth through smuggling.

Especially after Jiannu grew up, the demand for weapons, pig iron, gunpowder and medicines outside the pass became increasingly large. By the time of Fan Yongdou's generation, the transactions of the Fan family can be described as daily gold dou.

But... all the beauty of this was finally broken.

Although Fan Yongdou is still rich in clothing and food, he has long lost his original glory.

He was kneeling here, but he seemed out of place.

Outside this pass, the cowhide tent still uses the Han people's living habits, which is quite funny.

At this time, Fan Yongdou said: "Are you ready for entry into the pass?"

He said, looking at the person sitting opposite him. His name was Wang Dengku, who was the Wang family of the eight major merchants.

These eight major merchants support each other and share honor and disgrace, which is actually to prevent the risks brought by smuggling.

Wang Dengku glanced at Fan Yongdou, but looked embarrassed: "Are you really going to enter the pass? Maybe someone was sharpening his knife in this pass?"

"Do you think no one sharpens the knife outside the pass? Huang Taiji has already talked with Dorgon. Although what we know now is correspondence and has not started meeting yet, it is a matter of time! North Korea has just surrendered to Jiannu, and after the war, the Jiannu people also need to take a breath for a while!"

"What's more, now our trade route is broken, and the Jiannu people urgently need a large amount of supplies. If there is no trade between them, how can they maintain it? And how polite the Mongolians were to us at first, but now... what is their attitude? The despaired dog was wandering outside the pass and was eventually killed by others, which is only a matter of time."

He stared at Wang Dengku and continued, "Now, the left is dead, the right is dead, you see... the weather in the desert is getting colder and colder, and natural disasters are frequent in the pass, and aren't there also frequent natural disasters in this desert? This winter, countless livestock of Mongolian and Jiannu people are about to die..."

Speaking of this, a trace of fear flashed through Fan Yongdou's eyes and said, "Do you know that when the animals in this desert die, a large number of herders will starve and freeze to death? If we can't give them the food they need urgently, what will it mean? If the rabbit dies and dogs cook, and the donkeys are unloaded, our tribe members will sooner or later become ghosts under the knife. We can no longer stay here..."

Wang Dengku was still scared, and he obviously felt that the Korqin people were becoming more and more cold in their attitude towards them.

At first, I took good care of myself, but slowly, I began to get carelessly.

"Just back to the gate..."

"Don't worry, I've already made plans..." Fan Yong said with his eyes shining: "It's just a makeover..."

As he said that, Fan Yongdou picked up the teacup again and continued to drink tea.

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In the capital, the military academy's enrollment examination finally began.

The whole capital suddenly became lively.

A large number of ragged people began to enter the city.

This capital city has an imperial examination every three years, so I have long been used to scholars coming to Beijing.

But suddenly, a group of people wearing cloth clothes, short clothes and straw sandals popped up and came to the capital, and one by one in the name of exams was unprecedented.

Many people cannot afford to stay in inns, so the inn business at this time was not full because of this exam.

These people would rather hide in the alley and be surrounded by a group of people, and sleep for a night, than spend money to stay in the expensive inn.

However, some venues have been opened in Xinxian County, so that everyone can deal with them at will.

Some inns also began to seize business opportunities slowly, simply changing their guest rooms into beds where twenty people can sleep, and then using the lowest price to attract these candidates.

Of course, for most people, what they see today is ridiculous after all.

But it's ridiculous, but the candidates who came from various prefectures and counties were very serious.

They even came with the free orders they had before, and found a place to settle down, then took the branches and wrote and painted on the ground and reviewed their homework.

When the exam starts, the candidates each took their own license plates and were led into different examination rooms according to their hometowns.

This examination room not only prepared the test papers for the candidates, but also prepared charcoal pens for them very thoughtfully.

One exam is only one hour.

In fact, the question is very simple. After the paper was collected, the candidates could only stay in the capital for another day, waiting for the results to be released.

This means that it is extremely difficult to finish 40,000 to 50,000 test papers in one day.

But it won’t be done for a day. So many people are waiting for the list in the capital. If they delay for a few days, they don’t know how much burden they will add to people.

Therefore, hundreds of examiners acted together, fortunately, the questions were simple and they all had standard answers, such as filling in the blanks of new words, some simple arithmetics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, or some multiple-choice questions about 100,000 whys.

This is much easier than reading the papers of eight-legged essays.

Hundreds of people did not sleep all night, and in the early morning, they began to draw up the list of examinations based on their different test scores.

At noon, the lists were issued in various places.

There are people everywhere in the Xin County, and many people shook their heads sadly, packed their luggage, and prepared to return home.

Of course, people who return home will have to encourage you. Many walls in Xinxian County have slogans that welcome the next exam, while those on the list will directly take their own yellow book and go to the military academy to report.

Zhang Jingyi was very nervous because it was the first time in Beijing for such a large-scale exam, and he was afraid of causing some chaos.

Fortunately, things went smoothly.

Although there were some minor chaos, it was still in order.

But at this moment, good news came.

The person who came to report the good news was a man named Liu Wu. He excitedly said to Zhang Jing: "Marty, what you want has been made."

When Zhang Jing heard this, she was immediately excited and her eyes were filled with light and said, "Seriously? Could it be that I lied to me, right?"

"How the villain cheated the marquis, the marquis will know when he goes to see it."

Zhang Jing also became excited and quickly arrived at the suburbs of the city.

This is the outskirts of Xinxian New District. There is a hill in the distance and there is no people nearby.

But here, some lonely buildings are distributed here scattered.

And here, Zhang Jingyi asked someone to sign the Military Academy Research Institute.

The other parties who are mainly studying are all kinds of firearms.

Zhang Jing was a human being for one or two years, so he naturally knew that firearms were the future of military development.

Since that's the case, of course I'm determined to go to the dark side of this road.

And this is the main thing that the group of people he has gathered with sincerity.

There is a specialized chemistry institute in the institute.

Zhang Jingyi recruited a lot of people and taught them some basic chemistry knowledge. At first, he used beakers and alcohol to do a production and cultivation experiment for them. Of course... they even used this set to brew distilled white wine.

After roughly telling them some basic methods, these people seemed to have opened a new door.

At this time, there was only one direction they were mainly focused on...

The rumored...yellow gunpowder.

The manufacturing of yellow gunpowder, at least on a small scale, actually only requires mastering a primary chemical system. Of course, large-scale manufacturing is not necessary.

Even small-scale extraction is extremely dangerous and extremely difficult.

In fact, Zhang Jingyi only knew some superficial processes, and as for the others, he had to let these people conduct repeated experiments in person.

Of course, this process is so dangerous that Zhang Jingyi paid them more than fifty taels of salary almost every month for the staff here.

When Zhang Jing arrived outside a house, through the glass window, he saw various experimental utensils inside.

The expressions of the group of people were very relaxed, and they were tiny and fiddling with glasses. Zhang Jing was frightened and couldn't help but tremble.

Damn...it's just such a safety standard?

What are you guys who make yellow gunpowder like this?

At this time, Liu Wu, who came with Zhang Jing, said excitedly: "We followed the Marquis' method and tried more than a hundred times, and finally we had a good idea. Marquis... Marquis..."

He turned around and saw Zhang Jingyi following him just now. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Jingyi had already run away more than ten feet.

Liu Wu was stunned and rushed up, and said inexplicably: "Mr. Marquis, please come in, why don't you leave?"

Zhang Jingyi was fighting two times at this time, and for the first time he felt that he was so close to death.

These guys are really a group of lunatics. The things they want to make are very likely to be gone if they are not careful!

Although he has warned many times, be careful.

But judging from Liu Wu's cheerful expression, it seems that they did not take it seriously.

At this moment, Liu Wu looked anxious to offer treasure and kept urging Zhang Jing: "Marty... go, go and see, that baby..."

Zhang Jingyi couldn't control so much at this time. He was full of desire to survive. He shook his head without thinking: "I... I won't go in. I can't stand the things that are fighting and killing. If there is anything, just talk about it outside."

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Chapter completed!