Zhu Hongsan looked up and saw that the forest with an acre of land in front was filled with smoke. The wind had already blown the smoke, which made the four of them cough. After waiting for a while, the wind blew away the smoke. Looking at the forest, Zhao Goudan and Qian Lide and Ma Xiaofang were shocked to their chins. Just look at the forest with about acre of land, a small half of them were blown away.

The four of them ran forward and saw that there were one small, two large and three large pits on the ground. The small one must have been made of traditional gunpowder. It was said that the pit was basically shallow pit, with a diameter of less than a palm-deep, and the jar was still on one side and was blown into two halves. The other two pits were amazing.

It is one meter deep and the radius is three meters. The surrounding trees are also blown by the air waves, and the iron cans on the ground are gone without a trace. The radius of the explosion is about six meters, and the radius of the damage is unknown.

Zhu Hongsan asked Zhao Goudan to walk around and look for the fragments. After a while, Zhao Goudan retrieved five fragments. The farthest one was found more than 20 meters away, and nailed to a tree. Zhu Hongsan looked at the fragments. The size was uneven, the size was half a palm, and the small one was as big as a copper coin. Zhu Hongsan looked at them and thought: "This is because there was no prefabricated groove on the jar."

Qian Lide stammered: "Brother, did you make this gunpowder? This is even more powerful than the Wuchangwei thunder."

Ma Xiaofang didn't say anything. He has been used to seeing Zhu Hongsan's differences in recent years, and he feels that the man he likes should be like this.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "This is what I did. Don't go home and talk nonsense. Everyone knows my identity. Just say it." Zhu Hongsan looked at Qian Lide. Zhao Goudan was fine. Ma Xiaofang admired her so much that she could do anything. She could rest assured that the most important thing was Fatty Qian.

Zhu Hongsan regretted this. If he had known that the black* gunpowder was so powerful, he would have led Zhao Goudan to come. Now there is an unstable fat man with Qian. If Fatty Qian had no use in the future, he would have been silenced.

Fatty Qian looked around and immediately realized that Zhu Hongsan was not at ease with him. He immediately said, "Don't worry, brother, I will never talk nonsense. I will say that my whole family will not die well, and it will be punished by heaven and earth." Zhu Hongsan knew that this fat man valued his family quite seriously, and this time he used his family's swearing that it should not be fake.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Let's go back quickly. The sound is so loud. The soldiers in the city are coming to check it out later." After saying that, the four of them returned to the city and did not mention it.

Zhu Hongsan was right. Half an hour later, two fast horses came from Wuchang County, which was the inspection department of Wuchang County. After checking, he did not find any suspicious situations and reported them accordingly. Wuchang County Magistrate did not report them because he could not find any reason.

The four of them separated at the city gate. Qian Fatty came home, and Zhao Goudan also said he wanted to go out. Ma Xiaofang insisted on going home with Zhu Hongsan and let him tell stories. Zhu Hongsan was in a lot of thoughts and was in a state of mind. He coaxed and deceived her and asked her to go home, and agreed to tell him tomorrow.

After returning home, Zhu Hongsan sat in his room and thought that today he didn't expect that the gunpowder was so powerful. It seemed that it was almost as powerful as the fireworks in later generations.

You should know that those fireworks are products of industrialization in later generations. The raw materials used are all high-purity materials. Some unscrupulous manufacturers have added aluminum powder to them in order to increase their power. It seems that the gunpowder they make is so powerful because it purifies the effect of saltpeter.

After the experiment just now, Zhu Hongsan found that black* gunpowder is not very effective now. Polishing is more powerful than non-polishing, but it is limited. In the future, when the base is largely industrialized, polishing can be done. Now the cost of small-scale polishing is too high.

Just now, more than eight liang of gunpowder was filled in the jar, almost one pound, and it was really inconvenient to carry a jar weighing three pounds. The explosion radius of eight liang black* gunpowder was ten meters. The German army's m24 long-handled hand-grenade loading was 200 grams, which is four liang, while the m24 charge was ammonium nitrate fertilizer explosive, which was about twice the power of black* gunpowder. The explosion radius was eight meters and the radius of the fragment was 30-50 meters.

The explosion radius of the nine-liang of black powder I made myself is six meters, and the power is similar, mainly because the jar is too heavy. Tomorrow, I will look for Tie Niu to see if I can make a thin jar.

Zhu Hongsan went out to see how much gunpowder was left. After a look, he had more than five kilograms left, which means he could make five more. This is his last way to save his life.

I had nothing to say all night, and the next day I came to find Tie Niu. I saw Tie Niu at the Tie Family Blacksmith Shop and found a secluded place and asked: "Tie Niu, can your house be as thin as a kettle? It is best to be as thin as a kettle. The jar a few days ago was a bit big, and can it be made half smaller than it?"

Tien Niu said: "The copper should be as thin as possible, but the iron should not be good. The jar you made weighs three pounds, and it can be made at most two pounds. It will not be made if it is too young."

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Okay, you'll do it thinner. In this way, you have to add a few slots outside after it is done." Zhu Hongsan took out the schematic diagram of the later m24 wooden handle grenade he drew, pointed to the warhead in front and said, "That's it, try to do it, make five first, the largest one is twice the size of this one, and try to do it as much as possible." After saying that, he took out ten taels of silver and said, "Then, this is the wage. And how did you learn the chain mail I told you last time."

Tieniu took the silver and said, "I am learning, the process is not complicated, it is just labor-intensive."

Zhu Hongsan patted Tie Niu's shoulder and said, "Study hard, you will find that you will definitely be able to use it in the future. When will the jar be made well?"

Tie Niu thought for a while and said, "Ten days, I'll take your house to you."

Zhu Hongsan nodded. On the way home, Zhu Hongsan saw snow starting to fall again. It was already February. In the past, the flowers were already blooming in February, but now it is still snowing in Huguang. It is still like this in the south and the north can be imagined. Zhu Hongsan looked up at the sky, and the weather in the Little Glacier was getting worse and worse.

I have watched it online before. On December 15, 2019, the 9th year of Chongzhen, Hainan had rain and snow for three days and nights, trees had withered, and people and animals died of frozen lying." In the Hainan tropical areas, people could be frozen to death. This time, the Little Ice River would not be relieved until the middle of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which means it would last for more than 50 years. Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but sigh secretly when he thought that he might have to go through the Little Ice River Age for his whole life.

There are many sayings in the later generations of the Little Ice Age. The most widely circulated is that the Age of Discovery in Europe was the beginning of the European Age. Europeans brought some European viruses to the Americas and killed Indians in large numbers. The Indians were still farming in slash-and-burn farming, which means igniting a forest first, burning them all before farming.

The next year, another forest was burning. After a large number of Indians died, no one burned the forest on a large scale, causing the carbon dioxide layer floating above the northern hemisphere to become thinner and unable to form a greenhouse effect, resulting in the Little Ice Age in the Northern Hemisphere.

At the same time, there was the British Irish potato crisis, which starved millions of people at one time. Based on the poor population base of Ireland, it almost destroyed the country, resulting in the occupation of the territory by England. At the same time, there was the Polish wheat crisis, which starved millions of people.

In China, due to Zhang Juzheng's reform, the country originally collected in-kind taxes, but was changed to cashiers by Zhang Juzheng. A large number of grain fields in Jiangnan and Huguang were planted with cash crops, silkworms or cotton and linen. This was nothing if the northern grain could be self-sufficient, but when the small ice river arrived, a large amount of wheat in northern China was frozen to death. Due to the poor domestic transportation routes, the southern grain transported to the north was not in the north. In addition, southern landlords planted a large number of cash crops, and saw that the northern grain yield was reduced and a large amount of grain prices were raised.

The civil rebellion first started with SX without canal transportation. Large-scale hungry people went to a place to cause devastating damage to the local fragile natural economy, and immediately created more hungry people. China's weakness in grassroots rule since ancient times has led to the central government's inability to deal with and understand local affairs in time. If something happens to SX, please wait for the emperor of BJ to understand that it will be a month later, and the daylily will be cold by then.

Various reasons have caused a vicious cycle, and the self-righteous Chongzhen has added fuel to the fire. If the emperor was as talented as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, he could still hold the situation, or Zhu Zhanji, Zhu You, Zhu Zai'er, and others, knowing that he is nothing, he will listen to the ministers. As long as the ministers don't come to steal my throne, I will do whatever I like, and I will fight crickets in the palace and play with women.

But Chongzhen thought he was an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, but in fact he did not do as good as Zhu Zaiye and others. He wanted to take care of everything and couldn't take care of everything. He was so arrogant that he asked his ministers to work, and he would kill you if he made a mistake. He would not bear any responsibility at all. It would be unreasonable for the Ming Dynasty to produce such an emperor to be destroyed.

Zhu Hongsan thought about walking home slowly. As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, he saw Ma Xiaofang standing at the door of his house, with her slender hands, white skin as jade, reflecting white snow, and her hair as black as transparent. She tied a princess bun, and a hairpin with beads of flowers on it, with tassels hanging on it. The tassels were swaying as the body shaking.

When Zhu Hongsan saw Ma Xiaofang feel excited, the displeasure just now swept away, and thought: "Since I have come to this era, at least I can make the people I love and those who love me suffer grievances. For them, I will also go on this road."

When Ma Xiaofang saw Zhu Hongsan looking at him as he couldn't come, her face turned red and she smiled and said, "Why, I'm stunned? Am I beautiful today?"

This time, Zhu Hongsan really said to himself: "Xiaofang, you are so beautiful."

Ma Xiaofang lowered her head and whispered: "Idiot."

Zhu Hongsan opened the gate of the courtyard and asked Ma Xiaofang to come in and let him go into his house. A basin of charcoal fire was lit, and the room became as warm as spring. Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Xiaofang and said, "What are you doing? You still want me to tell you a story?"
Chapter completed!