The two quarreled for a while, but stopped before Chang San came over.
If Chang San saw her, Yueyao would be even more embarrassed.
"Sir! Madam-in-law!"
After Chang San came over, he immediately clasped his fists and saluted, as respectful as ever.
"Haha, Chang San, sit down."
Lin Xu stretched out his hand to signal, and Yueyao picked up the teapot and poured him a cup of tea.
"Thank you, sir! Thank you, madam!"
In order to show respect to Yue Yao, Chang San picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, and then said: "Sir, last time you asked me to find a way to buy some black gunpowder. I have already done it. The first batch was about one
Thousands of pounds!"
"Ten thousand catties? That much?"
Lin Xulu is happy!
The reason why he wanted to buy so much black powder was naturally to make thermal weapons.
A few days ago, Zhang Lie and Gensheng led the team and after unremitting efforts, finally built Daning's first simple lathe!
Although the process that this lathe can produce is relatively simple, and it cannot do many more complex tasks, such as the rifling of gun barrels, this lathe cannot yet meet the process requirements, but after all, this is an industrial product that spans the ages.
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Now that there are simple lathes, can upgraded lathes be far behind?
In addition, although this simple version of the lathe cannot produce muskets for the time being, some thermal weapons with relatively simple process requirements, such as grenades, landmines and other thermal weapons, can be manufactured.
The key is the lack of black powder.
In the Daning Dynasty, black powder was an officially controlled item, because although thermal weapons such as guns had not yet appeared in the Daning Dynasty, simple explosives had already appeared, and black powder was the main raw material of explosives.
However, although black powder is a controlled item, the control is not so strict, because in this era, the main use of black powder is not to make explosives, but to make fireworks and firecrackers.
The reason why the authorities control black powder is not because they are afraid that someone will buy the black powder and then destroy it, but because they are afraid that someone will buy the black powder and store it carelessly, or secretly make fireworks. If they accidentally cause an explosion, it will
May cause a large number of casualties.
In order to be able to purchase black powder legally, Lin Xu also added a business of manufacturing and selling fireworks and firecrackers to Linshan Trading Company. In fact, this business is also strictly controlled by the government, and it is difficult for ordinary people to approve it. However, with his
The special relationship with Zhou Changmin, once this matter is settled, there will be no more talk!
Zhou Changmin didn't even need to speak in person, just a brief hint from Zhou Changmin's housekeeper Zhou Kui, and the official responsible for approving the matter immediately handled it quickly!
When he got the approval for the production and sale of fireworks and firecrackers, he couldn't help but think of what Mr. Lu Xun said: After the invention of gunpowder, foreigners used gunpowder to make weapons, but our Chinese used gunpowder to make firecrackers to worship gods!
Lin Xu thought to himself, since God has brought me to this time and space, I will not just make gunpowder into firecrackers to worship God, but I will make gunpowder into weapons to defeat foreign enemies and protect my country!
It is useless to reason with those barbarians. They must be completely defeated and violence must be met with violence!