Major Hank is here, Major Hank is gone.

The negotiation between Stone Bear and William Hank went very happily. It can be seen that the British Imperial Army Major did not have a good time in Jamestown, especially after he took over the salt trade with the Gaoshu tribe. Life seems to be worse.

No way, who would let a greedy Colonel Jones press on him?

This powerful army colonel saw that he couldn't directly participate in the salt, but he couldn't deal with the people involved in the transaction. Do you think he can feel good in his heart?

Since it is impossible to deal with Major Hank and Lieutenant Ferguson directly, it is fine to wear a small shoe to Major Hank.

It is for this reason that Major Hank is completely determined to return to China for development.

Hank is a very smart person, and also a person who knows how to make choices. He knows very well that the salt trade will bring him huge profits every year, but this is the New World, and the Colonel Jones is covering the sky in Jamestown. If he can't help but tear his face, then he will never have a good life, even It's not uncommon to lose your life here.

In this era, the French and local natives are very dangerous. Even the Spanish, Germans and Dutch are not good birds. It is very common to die in the New World, and no one will seriously investigate it.

Therefore, Hank decided to return to China for development.

Returning to China will certainly make his first half of his life's struggle a vain, and the major position that he finally got mixed up will also be cancelled because of his voluntary retirement, but the prospects for the new type of textile machinery and the textile industry are really bright... ..

Major Hank left with the drawings and a large amount of refined salt. Lieutenant Ferguson did not follow him. The departure of Major Hank made him even more afraid of Jamestown.

Ferguson is not a fool. He lives in the high tree tribe with a gusto. If he returns to Jamestown and has to be oppressed by the greedy Colonel Jones, he would not want to go back.

And he has a fair reason to stay here. As long as Colonel Jones doesn't want to give up the refined salt of the High Tree Tribe, Ferguson can stay here forever.

Of course, Hank's visit this time also brought Shi Xiong a lot of things that Shi Xiong urgently needs now. For example, castor oil, for example, mercury, for example, graphite rods...

The Gaoshu tribe has also planted a lot of castor oil this year, but it must be harvested until autumn. So he asked Hank to collect hundreds of pounds of castor oil and bring it in a big wooden barrel.

Now with the application of unscrupulous guns and earthen hand grenades, the Gaoshu tribe needs to prepare a large amount of gunpowder, and castor oil, a private agent, is essential.

Although peanut oil and soybean oil can also be used as a private agent, castor oil is the most suitable and the lowest cost.

As for mercury, that is what Shixiong needs now. The main reason is that Shixiong intends to make Bill Gates try to make things like thunder/acid/mercury. Only with this thing can we make a flash hat...

Although the conditions for preparing mine/acid/mercury are not yet available, it is actually not difficult to operate.

Mixing mercury and nitric acid will produce mercury nitrate, and then mixing the mercury nitrate with excess nitric acid and ethanol, which is a high-concentration alcohol, to alcoholize the mercury nitrate to obtain thunder/acid/mercury.

Shi Xiong knew this process, but he couldn't do it specifically. And this also involves the preparation of nitric acid, so this requires brother Li to keep experimenting.

Shixiong knows the local method of preparing nitric acid, for example, dry distillation of saltpeter can obtain nitric acid, but the concentration of that nitric acid is too low.

As for the laboratory preparation method, it is necessary to use concentrated sulfuric acid and saltpeter to react together to obtain a higher concentration of concentrated nitric acid.

The preparation method of concentrated sulfuric acid is now very common. Brother Li knows the preparation method of concentrated sulfuric acid himself.

But no matter how to prepare it, the method is more complicated. Shi Xiong can't do these tasks, so he can only leave it to Brother Li to try it slowly. Of course, Shi Xiong will also give him appropriate guidance at the right time.

Nitric acid is a good thing. In the future, whether it is nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, or smokeless gunpowder, nitric acid is inseparable. Therefore, the preparation of nitric acid is now a more urgent matter.

Major Hank also brought thirty mares to the Gaoshu tribe this time. With these mares, the number of war horses in the Gaoshu tribe can be greatly increased within a few years.

In any case, with the help of Major Hank, the Gaoshu tribe can develop faster.

This is why Shixiong has to hand over the drawings of the precious mule and hydro-loom to Major Hank and let him go to Europe for development. It is very simple, so that Major Hank can send more Gaoshu tribes to the Gaoshu tribe. Something needed.

The Gaoshu tribe is only the beginning stage and needs a variety of materials and raw materials. Although Shixiong knew how to make some things, he was helpless without the raw materials. Major Hank helps collect raw materials in Europe~lightnovelpub.net~, which can greatly shorten the development time of Gaoshu tribe.

The return of Lord Guardian made the entire Gaoshu tribe lively again.

Especially when the tribesmen were listening to Bigfoot, Gaoniu and the thirty fighters telling them about their expedition to the Yuchi, the new chief just elected by the Yuchi tribe was shot and killed by the guardian before he could take office. Later, he worshipped the guardian.

Shooting a clan chieftain is a great event at any time, and their guardian has shot and killed two chieftains in a row, which is also a great achievement.

Shi Xiong didn't pay attention to these things. After attending the bonfire dinner of the Gaoshu tribe, he got together with brother Li and the alchemists.

The Conscience Cannon was extremely prominent during the expedition to the Yu Chiren. Although this thing is inconvenient to install and to carry, it is too powerful to hold it, especially when dealing with dense crowds. A harvester than a harvester.

Therefore, this thing will become a standing equipment in the future. But because this thing is inconvenient to carry, this thing is mainly used to deter the enemy. If the Gaoshu tribe wants to achieve rapid mobility in the battle against the enemy, it also needs to develop new weapons that are smaller, easier to carry, and whose power cannot be reduced.

So Shixiong decided to smash the mortar out.

Even small-caliber mortars have unparalleled power in this era. At the very least, it is much stronger than the silly, big and clumsy cannons Europeans are now using.

But now there is no smokeless gunpowder as propellant, and there is no violent gunpowder as the warhead, the power of the mortar will be much reduced.

Therefore, the research and development of smokeless gunpowder and joker is put on the agenda by Shixiong.