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Chapter 89 Is this magic, or science? Seek science)

"Consul, Scar will ask us to meet with Prince Zhu San and Prince Zhu San next month with his bride-sending fleet. He also asked us to bring a batch of good guns, cannons and silver, saying that there is a good deal to do."

Class 2 Ji Dabao of the British East India Company's Anping Store was standing respectfully in front of Charlie Goff, a senior class.

These two people came to Hao with Chen Yonghua and Liu Guoxuan. They thought they had many "century-year-old cannons" and "middle-aged muskets in their forties and fifties", as well as many black gunpowder made from India, so they would definitely be regarded as guests of honor by Qiu Hui and Zhu San Taisun, so they would have whatever they wanted.

But beyond their expectations, Qiu Hui and Zhu San Taisun had no time to pay attention to them, and they didn't ask them for any old guns and guns, so they sent troops to start a war with the powerful Qing army.

It's simply a tragic death!

What they didn't expect was the Qing army who was trying to die!

The army of Qiu Hui and Zhu San Taisun achieved an epic victory. According to the reliable news they heard in Dahao, the grandson of the unlucky Emperor Chongzhen turned out to be a great knight. He actually put on the enemy's yellow jacket and led three hundred cavalrymen who were dressed in the Eight Banners soldiers to suddenly attack a fortress garrisoned by four or five thousand people. He also used a "magical thunder bomb" inherited from the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty to kill and injure thousands of Qing soldiers.

When we first received this news, Charlie Goff and Ji Dabao didn’t believe it. What era did the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty? During the crisis of the Roman Empire in the third century, if Shu Han had magic gunpowder several times stronger than black gunpowder, then Liu Adu would not have been able to conquer the world and become the king of all kings and the great Emperor Adu!

But later, more and more news about this, and more and more real news came later that Liu Guoxuan and Qiu Rong used magic to thunder to break Huilai and Chaoyang county towns!

As far as Charlie Goff and Ji Dabao know, the so-called Ming army, which were born into pirates under the Yanping Palace, were not very good at fighting land wars, and siegeing the city was not their strength. Although Zheng Chenggong had conquered the Dutch bastion back then, it was the result of a long siege.

Zheng Chenggong's castle to defeat Qing soldiers on the mainland was not very good. Because he did not have enough troops to siege, he rarely succeeded and was often defeated in a very ugly way.

But this time the coalition of Zheng Ming and Prince Zhu became awesome and broke the three counties of Jieyang, Chaoyang and Huilai. Moreover, these three siege battles were completely clean and neat, and the time it was used for siege was not more than one day.

Moreover, Jieyang, Chaoyang and Huilai were all front-line fortresses of the Qing army. At least there was a city guard camp station, and the city defense was relatively strong.

Now, let Prince Zhu San and Zheng Jing and Qiu Hui's army easily take this "magic gunpowder"!

So Charlie Goff and Ji Dabao both felt that they had to take it seriously!

If this magical gunpowder is as powerful as the legendary one, it is several times more powerful than black gunpowder, then it must not be monopolized by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it will greatly threaten the existing international order and power-based rules.

So Charlie Goff and Ji Dabao decided to figure out the secret of magic gunpowder for the British East India Company at all costs.

If this secret is science, then they have to get the recipe for magic gunpowder!

If this secret is magic, they must also submit a report to the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Episcopal Church, which is his obligation as a devout Anglican believer.

"Consul, I also bought this from a personal soldier of Qiu Rong, and it cost me twenty taels of silver!" Ji Dabao said, and then secretly took out a talisman, opened it carefully, and handed it to Charlie Goff with both hands.

"What is this?" Charlie Goff took the yellow paper (talisman), glanced at Ji Dabao with surprise, "Nicholas, did you really buy this paper with twenty taels of silver? Are you drunk?"

"I'm not drunk," Ji Dabao smiled, "Consul, this is one"

Should the talisman paper be said in the old English of the seventeenth century?

Ji Dabao thought for a while and finally thought about it: "This is a magic paper made by a Chinese wizard, which is specially used to ignite magic gunpowder."

"This is made by the wizard? God." Charlie Goff is a devout believer, and of course he is extremely opposed to wizards and witches! So he quickly drew a cross on his chest and asked, "Is this true?"

"Extremely credible!" Ji Dabao said, "Because I saw him take it off a bomb that looked like a small hammer, and when he just took it off, there was a lot of gunpowder on the magic paper rolled into strips."

Ji Dabao is a very smart comprador, and of course he would not take out the twenty taels of silver to buy a piece of paper casually.

He watched Chen Yonghua's personal soldiers pull out the rolled talisman paper from a wooden grenade hammer!

"Where is that gunpowder?" Charlie Goff asked immediately.

"Here!" Ji Dabao immediately took out a square paper bag, and then opened it in front of Charlie Goff's face, and there was a small pinch of black granular gunpowder inside.

"It's all on paper?" Charlie Goff asked.

"No," said Ji Dabao, "I also asked the personal soldier to pour out a little gunpowder from the copper hammer."

Charlie Goff took the opened paper bag and looked at it confidently for a while, "It looks like black gunpowder is of good quality, not like it is made from India, it should be from Europe!"

What he saw was indeed black gunpowder, but it did not come from Europe, but from Zhu San Taisun’s inner gunpowder factory!

This inner gunpowder factory moved over immediately after Zhu Heying occupied Jieyang County. It not only established a pharmacist school, but also a black gunpowder workshop. It has now formed a production capacity of 40 to 50 kilograms of black gunpowder per day.

The reason why the black gunpowder produced in the inner gunpowder factory is filled with a grenade hammer is because sweet gunpowder is particularly prone to moisture and has a short storage time, so it can only be allocated by the "Divine Thunder Apprentice" in front of the formation.

So the "Hammer Soldier" sent to the "Hammer Soldier" below are filled with black gunpowder that is not so easy to get damp.

In order to ensure that the black gunpowder grenade hammer can explode, the black gunpowder filled in it is all top-grade granular gunpowder produced by the internal factory. Otherwise, in case of an emergency, you can only use a hammer to knock people.

Ji Dabao asked around these days and found out that the internal gunpowder factory existed. So he shook his head and said, "Sir, I asked the personal soldier. These gunpowders come from the internal gunpowder factory of Zhu Sansun!"

"What?" Charlie Goff was surprised, "Hurry, give me a bowl, and whether the flames and gunpowder are good, I will know if it is ignited!"

The gunpowder was ignited, and a red flame ignited, releasing white smoke, and it burned quickly and thoroughly. When the gunpowder burned out, there were almost no impurities in the porcelain bowl.

"This" Charlie Goff took a breath, "This gunpowder is of excellent quality, even better than the gunpowder produced in England and the Netherlands!" He frowned deeply, "But how did they do it? Did they steal the advanced technology that our England is still developing, or did they use evil black magic to purify tinaceous and sulfur?"
Chapter completed!
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