"No one is here?" Zhu Youcong peeked out his little head at the door of his courtyard.
"There is no one. General, please feel free to come in!" If Zhu Youcong hadn't said that something important was placed in his yard, Sun Yuanhua would never have agreed to come to explore the way. Touching his forehead, this
What kind of monster is he? He acts like a thief even when he goes back to his own home.
"Hey, it's good if there's no one around. Let's go, take that thing and make new gunpowder!" Zhu Youcong, who was relieved, returned to his usual coolness and pulled on his clothes.
"New gunpowder? You must have these things?" Sun Yuanhua is a firearms master. I have never heard of any gunpowder that must be made in the winter. Isn't it just mononitrate, carbon, and sulfur? The emperor asked us to bring those things this time.
I've spent quite a lot of money, but what good stuff can I find from you?
"Yes, I have been preparing for that for a long time!" Of course Zhu Youcong, the bad fat man, is not making black powder. The thing he is making is too dangerous. If the temperature is even slightly higher, it will explode! There is no such thing as black powder these days.
You can only experiment with cold storage and other things until winter. Pointing to a big withered tree: "Dig, just down there!"
"Just these few?" Sun Yuanhua, who was covered in mud, looked at the few small jars in front of him. He shook them slightly just now. They seemed to be filled with water. How could they be related to making gunpowder?
"That's it!" Zhu Youcong's face was full of frustration. He had no choice. He couldn't find anyone to help him. It took him a lot of effort to get these jars of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. After he made them, he was afraid of wasting them.
Buried in the ground. "Be gentle, this stuff will be fatal if it spills out!" Seeing the several firearms craftsmen who came with him holding the jars carelessly, Zhu Youcong's heart was frightened.
.The jars he has are filled with concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid that have been dehydrated using the zeolite method. The skin will peel off if they get even a little bit of it.
"Mr. Sun, let's go to the second brother's place to get some scraps!" Acid alone is not enough. Fortunately, Zhu Youcong was stingy enough to keep the top layer of scraps when he made soap, and repeatedly warned Zhu Youqu not to waste a drop of it.
We can't waste it on him.
"Scrap?" What does this mean? A few jars of water and some scraps can become a new explosive? I heard that this new explosive is very powerful, but Sun Yuanhua really couldn't believe it.
"I have seen the general!" Before Zhu Youcong could continue to show off, Zhang Yan, who was attracted by his roar, came out and bowed formally.
"Sister-in-law...sister-in-law?" Zhu Youcong glared at Sun Yuanhua fiercely, didn't he tell you to look carefully? Why is the person I'm most afraid of seeing running out now?
"A slave cannot be called a general like that!" Zhang Yan still played the role of a slave very well. She shook her head slightly, wondering why this little general looked like a mud monkey.
"That's right, that's right! I still have important matters at home, so I'll leave first!" After saying that, Zhu Youcong took Sun Yuanhua and ran away without looking back. I can't afford to offend, and I can't afford to hide? Hum,
I will definitely let the dog out in the yard next time, so that you won’t even dare to show your face!
"Sister, isn't this the palace? The general still has a family outside?" Ning Meng looked at her future husband who had fled and was very dissatisfied. How could he still have an outhouse at such a young age?
Zhang Yan gave a helpless smile and stroked her sister's head tenderly. What was this little general thinking about all day long? When he first came here, he actually wanted to run a girls' school and asked himself to be responsible. Recently
He even refused to go home and ran away even when we saw each other. Are our sisters really so scary? In the palace, the emperor was like this to himself; when he came to Luoyang, the young general was even more afraid of his sister.
It's like a tiger.
In fact, Zhu Youcong has no special ideas. He just hasn't figured out how to get along with them yet. After all, one is the former queen and the other is his default wife. He has never been in love in later generations, and he has recently wanted to marry her.
There were too many things to prepare for, so I wisely chose to escape...
On an unknown small slope outside Luoyang City, a special house was recently built. The reason why it is special is because this shabby house has no doors or windows, and it is guarded by people all day long. Today, the surrounding area of warning is even wider.
No one is allowed to enter or leave within five miles of the foot of the slope. The young prince Zhu Youcong just walked up with a few people dressed like bears.
"General, shall we start now?" Sun Yuanhua was very anxious. He had just seen that the waste was just some grease. Of course, he had never eaten gutter oil and had no special resistance, so he did not dare to taste it himself.
"Well, you must see clearly how I do it. This thing is so powerful!" Zhu Youcong is not because he is brave, but because he really has no choice. In his opinion, he is the only one in the world who knows this.
How to make things. I deliberately chose to build such a house with ventilation on all sides in winter, firstly for the safety of the experiment, and secondly to facilitate the separation of finished products.
"This is sulfuric acid!" Sun Yuanhua was surprised when Zhu Youcong accidentally dropped a drop of liquid on the table because his hands were a little stiff due to the cold weather. He knew this thing as early as Hu Gangzi, an alchemist in the Tang Dynasty
Yu produced the first sulfuric acid in human history through the burning method. How could he, a great chemist, not know this? But I have never heard that this is used in making gunpowder!
"Well, this jar is made of nitric acid!" Zhu Youcong carefully used a ceramic straw. Yes, it was made of ceramic. It took a lot of effort to get these few straws that looked like syringes in later generations.
It was fired by the best porcelain master. Before glass was produced, this was the only substitute. Take out another jar of nitric acid and say, "You must strictly follow the method I am doing now and use my current ratio."
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"Yes!" The craftsmen around them have all been carefully selected. They can all read and write, and they have been gunpowder craftsmen for at least ten years. They all took out the carbon strips, but they had no choice but to use ink because it was too cold.
It was too troublesome, so Zhu Youcong asked them all to use carbon strips to start recording on paper. Although the explosives the young general made this time were different from the past, everyone had known the dangers of explosives for so many years and did not even dare to get angry.
Big.
One drop, two drops... Zhu Youcong worked hard to control his heartbeat, adjust his breathing, and slowly dripped the prepared acid into the glycerin in another bottle. Everyone saw that the acid gradually appeared inside.
The thick, light yellow liquid slowly precipitated due to the weather. After the acid solution prepared in proportion was added, Zhu Youcong gently took out another straw and removed the clear liquid on the surface.
"Is this good?" Sun Yuanhua saw that Zhu Youcong finally stopped. He couldn't believe that these greasy things in front of him were new explosives. He had been making firearms for so many years. Who didn't know that gunpowder was afraid of moisture?
ah.
"Don't move!" Seeing Sun Yuanhua reaching for the bottle, Zhu Youcong was startled and hurriedly growled. This old guy is really fearless. If he shakes it twice, I won't disappear in advance.
In the winter of the Ming Dynasty? Gently cover the lid and hook the bottle with the rope that has been prepared and led hundreds of meters outside the room. Zhu Youcong greets everyone: "Now everyone squats down gently and goes out.
Don’t make too much noise!”
Under the leadership of Zhu Youcong, a group of people crawled outside the house almost close to the ground, and moved gently for a long time before they dared to run quickly. Fortunately, there was no wind today, otherwise Zhu Youcong would have been really afraid that he would not have reached the safe place in the house.
It exploded.
"Is that enough?" Sun Yuanhua wanted to reach out and touch the rope beside him several times, but he went to the hut and checked several times, and he was very sure that the end of the rope was the magical little bottle.
"Well, Mr. Sun can do it now." Zhu Youcong decided to be a good boy and listen to his mother and never do dangerous things. So to detonate this kind of work, it was natural for him to hand over the bad old man Sun Yuanhua...
"boom--"
As Sun Yuanhua gently pulled, there was a loud noise on the top of the slope. When they saw that the small house that was still standing there just now was gone, even they who were a mile or two away felt the earth shake.
of trembling.
"This..." A group of people who participated in the experiment just opened their mouths. No wonder the young general had to be so careful just now. He saw it with his own eyes. The content in the bottle just now was not even half a liter. I was scared just thinking about it. What if it had just been
If you're not careful, with this power... I'm afraid it will go to heaven.
"Hey, Mr. Sun, how are you?" Zhu Youcong looked proud, and at the same time he felt a chill on the back of his neck. He said he would not play by himself next time.
"Awesome, awesome!" Sun Yuanhua didn't expect this thing to be so powerful. It seems that the legendary little general got the guidance of the immortal is true. "However, this transportation..." He also saw it just now, and the bottle was placed on the
On a tabletop that is at most five feet above the ground, it will explode if dropped from such a height. It is too dangerous to carry. But if it is not transported to the battlefield, what is the use of a powerful thing? You can't have both sides setting up a battle array.
Run and ask the enemy to wait while you prepare the explosives before starting the fight!
"Take it!" Zhu Youcong has thought of this problem a long time ago. He can't make nitroglycerin by himself every time, so he must let them see the entire production process. Relatively speaking, the subsequent work will be much simpler. Isn't it?
Add wood powder, saltpeter, and limestone in proportion? I've already written it down.
"Then my subordinates are going to arrange manpower now?" Sun Yuanhua pondered, the little general's method of making those jars of sour must be learned by someone. What's more, he must supervise the whole process and find experienced people to do it, otherwise something will happen.
This is incredible.
"Don't be busy. Mr. Chu Yang will first go and carefully examine all the craftsmen he brought. If there are any doubts and those who are unwilling to stay, return them, and then gather them together. I will go to meet you in person in ten days!" Turning around!
He also said to all the craftsmen around him who had seen him arranging explosives: "Masters, I'm sorry! From now on, you all must enter the institute. What you saw today should not be reported to your parents or to your wife.
Son! If anything is leaked, the clan will be destroyed!" The last two words were extremely cold-blooded, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
"No!" All the craftsmen who participated in the experiment had no objections. Who in the military doesn't feel like this?