There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 924

[Chapter 924 Chapter 924, exchange]

After Xiao Yeyang came back from Xintunwei, Daohua mentioned the matter of oil to him.

Xiao Yeyang looked surprised: “Petroleum? You mean stone lacquer, right? I’ve read about this thing in books. It’s a kind of oil and water, which can be ignited for lighting. Xiliang also has this thing?”

Daohua nodded quickly : “Lifu knows where it is, let him take us to see it.”

Xiao Yeyang still attaches great importance to oil, because he has seen from military books that someone used oil to attack the enemy with fire. If oil is really so useful, Then Xiliang’s defense ability can be improved a bit.

However, he disagreed with Daohua going with her.

Daohua shook Xiao Yeyang’s arm: “There’s nothing to do at home now, I’m too boring to stay at home all the time, so you take me with you.”

Xiao Yeyang went to ask Gu Jian, and heard Gu Jian say that Daohua She is in good health and can go out for a walk properly, so she agrees to take her there.

Afterwards, Xiao Yeyang called Wang Lifu to the Xiao Mansion, carefully inquired about the place where he encountered the oil, and learned that it was a little far away from Ganzhou City, so he made some preparations before going out with Daohua.

In late October, the temperature in Xiliang is already very low.

In the carriage, Dao Hua curled up in Xiao Yeyang’s arms, holding a hand warmer in her hand.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Yeyang couldn’t help but said: “Aren’t you asking for trouble if you come out so afraid of the cold?”

Dao Hua buried most of her face in the fox fur scarf: “I just want to come out for a walk. ”

After a day’s journey, when it was getting dark, Daohua and his party came to the black water ditch that Wang Lifu said.

“It’s really a black water ditch!”

In a gully less than one meter wide, it is full of black and thick oil. The pungent oil level prevents Daohua from getting too close, so he can only watch from a distance.

Xiao Yeyang put the torch head into the oil and stirred it for a while, then let someone ignite it.

“Boom~”

A huge flame suddenly burst out.

Seeing you, I was blessed and said excitedly: “The torches stained with oil can provide much stronger illumination.”

Daohua took over the words: “Oil and water can’t be extinguished, not only can be used for lighting, but also can be used to lubricate the axle. It will be of great use to reduce the delay.”

This time Master Wang also came and was standing not far away, hearing Dao Hua’s words, he thought to himself, this Mrs. Xiao is really knowledgeable and talented.

She was the one who discovered the cement, and she was the one who discovered the oil. She is really Master Xiao’s virtuous wife.

Xiao Yeyang looked at the black water ditch, and he was already thinking about how to use oil fire to attack the enemy.

“Bring over the oil barrels you brought and see how much oil you can pump out.”

Daohua said again: “The oil here has already emerged, and there must be a large amount of storage underground.”

Xiao Yeyang saw Daohua Hua covered her nose, ordered Bu Gandang to pump oil, and asked Defu to send people to look around, and then walked towards the tent with Dao Hua.

“Huh~”

Daohua took a few deep breaths immediately after staying away from the black water ditch.

After she was pregnant, she didn’t have any adverse reactions, but she was quite sensitive to smells. A little bad smell could make her nauseous.

Mei Lan and Mei Ju have already led people to tidy up the tent, and the charcoal basin has also been lit.

Daohua entered the tent, took off her cloak, and sat in front of the charcoal basin to drink the hot tea Xiao Yeyang handed over. Seeing that Mei Lan and Meiju were starting to prepare dinner, she said,

“Prepare more, it is thanks to Lifu that we can find oil.” That little guy, send him and Master Wang a copy later.”

When Mei Lan handed the food box to Master Wang and explained the reason, Master Wang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and patted Wang Lifu’s head : “You little guy is really lucky.”

Looking at the raging fire ignited by the oil in the distance, he can also think of the role of this oil in the battlefield.

After dinner, Xiao Yeyang walked outside the tent with Daohua for a while.

At this time, Defu happily ran over.

“Master, madam, just now our people discovered that there is also oil emerging from the other side of the mountain.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yeyang and Daohua were very happy.

Daohua smiled and said: “It seems that there are quite a lot of oil reserves in this place. We can drill a few more oil wells to exploit oil.”

Xiao Yeyang: “I will discuss this matter with Master Wang, so don’t worry about it. I’ll go back to rest with you.”

The next day, Dao Hua woke up from the warm bed, and heard Bu Gandang outside the tent reporting to Xiao Yeyang.

“Master, the oil barrels we brought are all full. As soon as the oil in the black ditch is pumped out, new oil will automatically emerge.”

“However, the speed of oil output is a bit slow.”

“Look, Master Wang After that, he said that we can drill a few oil wells like drilling salt wells, and take the initiative to exploit the underground oil.”

Xiao Yeyang nodded: “I will leave the well drilling to Mr. Wang, and now you go back to Ganzhou Send a thousand soldiers over here to garrison here.” When

Xiao Yeyang returned to the tent after explaining the matter, Daohua had already gotten up and washed up.

After breakfast, Xiao Yeyang thought it was rare to come out, so he took Daohua around.

Daohua was sitting on the horseback, and Xiao Yeyang was leading the horse. Although the scenery was not very good, both of them were very happy.

After a thousand soldiers came and set up camp, Xiao Yeyang ordered everything, leaving Master Wang to watch, and he took Daohua back to Ganzhou City.

As soon as the two of them returned home, the dark guard came over with a letter from Feige: “Master, this is a message from Xintunwei just now.”

Seeing Xiao Yeyang read the note, Daohua’s expression suddenly changed. He sank down, and couldn’t help asking: “What’s the matter?”

Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua: “Brother learned from the drunk Hong Zhong that after Wei Hongcai took over as the commander of the capital, he has been out of money.”

“There are nine guards in Xiliang, and each guard has frontier troops stationed there. But as far as I know, the number of frontier troops in each guard has not reached the standard. Only Ganzhou Guard is short of 10,000 people. But the court The annual military salary is in full.”

He said with a snort.

“Over the years, Wei Hongcai has embezzled a lot of money, amounting to hundreds of thousands of taels.”

Daohua is not very surprised about this, but she is a little worried about Yan Wenxiu’s safety: “Brother just went to Xintunwei not long ago, and this is the beginning Cha Wei Hongcai, isn’t it a bit risky?”

Xiao Yeyang thought for a while and said, “I’ll write back to my elder brother later and ask him to pay attention.”

In November, after five oil wells were built, Master Wang returned Ganzhou City.

Knowing that dozens of barrels of oil can be extracted every day, Xiao Yeyang first gave in and dared to transport a batch to Ganzhou City for storage, and the rest were sent to twelve military towns.

At the same time, Xiao Yeyang gave the emperor another instruction, planning to exchange a batch of ordnance with oil and the five-army governor’s mansion.

royal palace.

The emperor handed Xiao Yeyang’s notebook to Wu Jingyi.

Wu Jingyi was very surprised to see oil in Xiliang.

As the commander in charge of the army and horses of the whole country, he has a good understanding of military equipment and materials. He has long known and used the method of attacking the enemy with oil and fire.

It’s a pity that there are very few places that produce oil, and he sent people to look for it, but they couldn’t find it.

Thinking of the financial strain of the Protectorate of the Five Armies these years, Wu Jingyi immediately prepared to appeal and bargain to the emperor, wanting to see if Xiao Yeyang could provide oil for free, but before he opened his mouth, the emperor spoke first.

“In Xiliang, the imperial court didn’t give much support. Originally, the replacement of ordnance should be a matter of the imperial court. Now that Yeyang is willing to exchange oil, you can transfer a batch to him as appropriate.

” Extinguished, the exchanged oil was just used for the navy.”

The emperor had already spoken, so Wu Jingyi naturally didn’t want to say more, he could only sigh in his heart that Xiao Yeyang’s luck was so good that oil could be found in that barren land of Xiliang.

(end of this chapter)