Waiting for two more sticks of incense in the bedroom
Sima Zhou shouted outside the palace gate: "Young master, Liu Wenmao and Wang Nian met outside the gate and said that they have found two stones: stone and sulfur!"
Ying Jingyu jumped up from his chair after hearing this: "Oh?"
Then he quickly walked out of the palace and saw Liu Wenmao and Liu Wenmao kneeling on their knees. In front of them were two baskets, both containing one pale white and one yellow stone. The unpleasant and pungent smell hit their faces.
"My subordinates are paying homage to the Young Master. Sir, please see if these two stones are what you need?"
Ying Jingyu went to the basket and knelt down: "Get up, they are quite similar in appearance and color. The stone and sulfur are right, but this saltpeter..."
As he spoke, Jingyu stretched out his right hand and took out a large irregular pale white and shiny stone. He brought it to his nose and smelled it. He closed his eyes and felt the smell.
"Bitter, cold... I can't smell it. It seems to be something but not there. I can't tell it is saltpeter from this."
"Sima Zhou, go get a basin of water."
"Yes, sir!"
Just as Ying Jingyu was holding a pale white stone and looking at it repeatedly for a while, he saw Sima Zhou walking over with a bronze basin in both hands.
Ying Jingyu drew out his fish intestine sword, cut off a small piece from the pale white stone, chopped it into pieces on the ground, and asked everyone to step back.
Then he picked up some stone chips and threw them into the green water in the bronze basin
I saw that the stone debris disappeared in a moment, as if it had never happened. The water surface was calm and waveless, and the basin bottom was visible.
Ying Jingyu chuckled, put away the 'Fish Gut Sword', and stood up: "Yes, this is saltpeter."
"Liu Wenmao, Wang Nian. You two have made great contributions, and your names will be left in the history books in the future. I plan to establish a 'Stone Mines Department' immediately, and you two will be in charge of the 'Stone Mines Department'."
"The 'Stone Mines Department' is temporarily under the control of the imperial court. You can recruit talents who are familiar with various stone materials to be used by the 'Stone Mines Department' to dig mountains and stones to find copper, iron, aluminum, stone sulfur, saltpeter, kerosene, coal, etc."
Wait for various ores to be refined and purified through in-depth research. Can you do it?"
After hearing this, the two of them were both happy and worried. They immediately knelt down and said, "Young Master..."
Ying Jingyu looked at the two people who didn't agree immediately: "Are you having any difficulties?"
Wang Nian said: "My subordinates dare not disobey the master's order. It's just..."
"Just what? If you have something to say, just say it. The court can fully support all issues."
"Young Master, it's not that it can't be completed. But such a huge project requires a huge amount of manpower and resources, there is a shortage of all kinds of talents, and the refining technology is rough. I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet the Young Master's requirements in a short time."
Ying Jingyu frowned, pacing back and forth in front of the two of them with his hands behind his back, thinking.
I think I am a little impatient, but if I want to develop quickly, the development and refining of various raw materials or ores must not be delayed. But this matter is indeed not a day's work.
After thinking about it, Jingyu stopped being persistent and said, "Well, I can understand the difficulties you mentioned. But it is a matter of great importance to the Qin Dynasty for thousands of years. Only when we start to do it, will the problem be solved slowly."
"I don't expect to meet my requirements in a short time, but the main task of the 'Stone Mine Department' is to find the various ores I just mentioned. This is a top priority. If there is a shortage of manpower, resources, and talents, I can issue an order to my father to solve it.
This problem."
"There is no need to rush the refining matter. I have already planned to build a new 'Science Department' and a 'Gunpowder Department'. In the future, if you combine multiple departments, you may not be able to complete what I ask for faster."
The two of them listened in confusion, and it was difficult to understand what Gong Ziyu meant. However, it would be easier if they only looked for stone mines.
Wang Nian cupped his hands and said, "Yes, Young Master! I will never give up even if I die!"
"Well, I will immediately inform my father that the 'Stone Mine Department' will be established tomorrow. First prepare more saltpeter, stone and sulfur with me. You can go down and make arrangements as soon as possible."
"Here, sir!"
After the two stood up, they did not dare to delay. They bowed and then left.
"Sima Zhou, how many of you can find a way to grind this stone, sulfur and saltpeter, into powder, the finer the better."
"Here, sir!"
I saw Sima Zhou whispering to two of the palace guards, and the two palace guards went down to get tools.
And Sima Zhou walked to the two baskets, knelt down, picked up the two stones and looked at them: "Sir, what is the use of this thing, why do you spend so much money to find its stone mine?"
The corner of Ying Jingyu's mouth raised: "Haha, it is better to know less about the secrets of the country. You will see it later."
After hearing this, Sima Zhou was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder split. He thought that Gongziyu was kind to his subordinates and wanted to take the opportunity to get closer to him, but he unexpectedly hit a snag with his casual remark.
He quickly knelt down and trembled: "Young Master... Young Master, I don't know that this is a secret matter of the country, please forgive me!"
Ying Jingyu stepped forward to help Sima Zhou up and said with a careless smile: "Hahaha... I don't mean to blame you. I just have some words and things that you need to think about before speaking."
"If you want to participate in the important affairs of the temple, then prove yourself with your talents and military exploits. Then you will be qualified to discuss state affairs. Do you understand?"
Sima Zhou was so frightened by Ying Jingyu's insinuating and subtle order that he broke into a cold sweat. He didn't have a deep conversation on weekdays, but today's conversation made him more profound about Gongzi Yu's character and unfathomable...
"Yes, Young Master! My subordinates will live up to the expectations of Young Master!"
Ying Jingyu nodded and stopped talking. He put his hands behind his back and looked at the endless palaces in the distance.
Leaning slightly, the second palace guard came to the palace gate holding wooden boards, kitchen knives, hammers, smooth wooden sticks and other objects.
Sima Zhou also ordered everyone to put the stones on the wooden board, cut them into small pieces, then use hammers to break them into pieces, and finally use wooden sticks to crush the pieces back and forth...
After a while, the saltpeter and stone sulfur that were just stones turned into powders of two distinct colors.
After finishing, Ying Jingyu leaned over and stretched out his right hand to pinch a little powder and slide it between his two fingers. It was still a little rough.
"Grind it a little more finely."
After listening to the order, several palace guards continued to crush. When Ying Jingyu nodded with satisfaction, everyone stopped.
"Sima Zhou, put the saltpeter powder and sulfur powder in clay pots, take the charcoal ash, and follow me to my father."
"Here, sir!"
The place where the King of Qin handles government affairs on a daily basis is called the Chengming Palace. The monarch handles government affairs on a daily basis, and every decision is of great importance, so government affairs must be handled in a quiet place.
When Ying Jingyu led several palace guards to the gate of Chengming Palace, he raised his left hand and motioned to the palace guards holding the clay pots to stop at the door.
After Ying Jingyu entered the palace, he told King Qin who was reading the memorials from various places in Guanzhong that the "Gunpowder" had been completed.
King Qin was shocked. He never expected that Jingyu could complete something so difficult to grasp in one day?
Out of curiosity, they followed Jingyu out of the palace gate and came to the square in front of the palace.
Ying Jingyu signaled the palace guards to place the three pots on the ground, took the weights, and after calculating the proportions, took out some of the contents of the three pots and weighed them one by one.
Then put the three ingredients in good proportions on the stone floor, mix thoroughly, and a small black powder mixture will be formed.
Everyone is puzzled, what is the beauty of this thing?
King Qin stepped forward and asked: "Yu'er, this thing is what you call 'gunpowder'? Can it really produce huge power?"
Ying Jingyu wiped the sweat with his sleeve and said with a bright smile: "Of course, father will know later."
After that, he asked Sima Zhou to bring the kerosene prepared in advance and pour it into a line of kerosene two meters away in front of the small pile of gunpowder.
Then Jingyu took out a cowhide-wrapped fire dumpling, and after blowing on it quickly, the small flames on the fire dumpling jumped up and down.
"Father, you and the palace guards should stay away from each other."
King Qin was shocked and said: "Yu'er, you don't want to light this explosive yourself. You must not!"
Jingyu was startled, King Qin was still worried about something unexpected happening: "Father, don't worry, everything is under my control."
"Yu'er! You can light the fire and let others take over, but you can't try it yourself. Come back quickly."
But Ying Jingyu smiled, holding the fire stick and moving it towards the kerosene below: "Everyone, stay back!"
Then without hesitation, put the flame into close contact with the kerosene on the ground
"call"
A blue glowing flame formed on the ground and flew along the kerosene line towards the small pile of gunpowder.
"Yu'er!"
And Ying Jingyu stopped staying and quickly got up and left this place.
"Wow..."
The explosion scene that everyone imagined did not appear. Only a thick black smoke was seen rising from the gunpowder, which made everyone feel relieved immediately.
Ying Jingyu jumped up excitedly, "Success! Hahahaha."