My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 786 Developing new gunpowder

"Master, are you sure?"

Xu Yue asked Duzhu excitedly and a little nervously.

"I can't say for sure, but at least I have the experience from last time, and the alchemy records are still there. As long as you follow the records, you should be able to come up with something similar!"

Duzhu twirled his beard and whispered.

But now his mind is not thinking about developing new gunpowder at all, but thinking about the earl title promised by His Highness the Prince of Han Dynasty. If he can get the title, won't he be able to reach the sky in one step?

Thinking of this, Duzhu couldn't help but smile a little silly on his ugly face.

"Master, don't just think about good things. If you want a title, you must develop new gunpowder, so you should focus on gunpowder!"

Seeing the lewd smile on Master's face, Xu Yue immediately guessed what he was thinking and reminded him immediately.

"Nonsense, of course my teacher knows these things, why do I need you to remind me?"

Duzhu was interrupted from his fantasy by his apprentice, and immediately glared at him angrily, but then he showed a serious expression, and was about to rummage through the luggage he had brought, and soon found the record of his alchemy.

That night, Duzhu had been studying his alchemy records, because he had learned from Wuweizi that everyone in the Qiren Courtyard was now working hard to develop new gunpowder, and some people had already made some progress. .

Especially the Alchemy Department, which is opposite to the Alchemy Department. Although these alchemists are relatively small in number, they know many strange things. They are also one step ahead of the Alchemy Department in developing new gunpowder, such as the previous one. The explosion was when an alchemist accidentally caused the gunpowder to explode while developing new gunpowder. The power was quite astonishing. It is said that the entire alchemy room was blown up.

However, this also caused the alchemist to be seriously injured by the explosion, and he would definitely be unable to develop gunpowder in a short period of time. In addition, the more powerful the gunpowder, the better. The most important thing is stability. After all, the gunpowder must be delivered to the soldiers for use. If If it is too unstable, it may not be able to blow up the enemy, but it may injure one's own soldiers.

So Duzhu didn't rest, and took Xu Yue to the alchemy room the next day. In fact, both the alchemy room and the alchemy room can be called laboratories. They are equipped with various materials, allowing Duzhu and the others to do whatever they want. Do experiments.

Even though Duzhu is usually a bit out of tune, as soon as he enters the alchemy room, he immediately becomes very serious. Even Xu Yue dare not joke with him at this time.

The master and apprentice first checked the materials and selected what they needed. There were a few missing items. Duzhu sent Xu Yue to find Wuweizi to ask for them, and the other party quickly sent someone to deliver them to them.

After all the materials were prepared, Duzhu immediately started the furnace and sent the carefully selected materials to the alchemy furnace.

As a result, only an hour later, there was a loud "bang", and the alchemy room where Master Duzhu and his disciples were bombed was emitting black smoke. Although the master and disciples had been prepared and tried their best to protect themselves, they were unable to do so. Yue was still injured by the explosion, and the pain made him cry for father and mother.

Fortunately, the Strange Hospital is equipped with the best doctors. After all, it is too common for strange people to be injured here, so a doctor immediately came to treat Xu Yue's wounds.

Xu Yue's wounds were mainly burns, but not serious, so after being bandaged, there was no problem.

"Fellow Taoist Duzhu, you have made such a big fuss when you first arrived. It seems that you have a lot of experience in the development of new gunpowder, right?"

Wuweizi also rushed over at this time, and his eyes lit up when he saw Duzhu. After all, he had recruited so many people, and Duzhu was the first to cause an explosion so quickly.

"To be honest, fellow Taoist Wuwei, I do have some insights. I just made an unknown thing, and it exploded."

Duzhu replied with a serious expression. He was not injured at all, but his clothes were burned in several places and his face was covered in black ash. He looked very embarrassed.

"Fellow Taoist Duzhu, can you collect those explosive things safely?" Wuweizi asked eagerly. Anything that can explode is a potential new gunpowder in his opinion.

"This... I need to give it a try, but before that, I need a set of things that can protect myself, such as armor!"

Duzhu asked again.

The explosion just now was expected by Duzhu, and he had reduced the amount of materials put in beforehand, so that the amount of things produced was not large, but even so, the power of the explosion was still astonishing.

This time Xu Yue was injured, and next time it might be Du Zhu's turn, so he was also worried that he would be killed, so he thought of getting a set of armor for self-defense.

"No problem. Our Qijin Academy actually has special protective gear, which is stronger than the armor in the army. I'll have someone send you a set later!"

Wuweizi immediately agreed.

Everyone in Qi Renyuan was developing gunpowder. In order to ensure safety, a lot of special protective gear was prepared in the warehouse. However, Wuweizi did not expect that Duzhu would make such a big fuss on his first day of alchemy, so he did not give it to him. Give him the armor.

The armor was delivered quickly, and Wuweizi arranged a new alchemy room for Duzhu and his disciples, and doubled the raw materials consumed before and sent them to the alchemy room.

After Wuweizi left, Xuyue held her injured arm and said to Duzhu with a grimace: "Master, it is too dangerous to develop new gunpowder. Why don't we stop doing it?"

"Don't do it? Don't you want the title of earl?"

Duzhu glared at his disciple and said.

"What does the title have to do with me? Even if new gunpowder is developed, the title will still be yours!"

Xu Yue told the truth directly.

"Idiot, my master is not married yet and has no children. You are the only disciple around me. If I really have a title in the future, when I die, I will definitely pass it on to you!"

Duzhu rolled his eyes and said again with a serious expression.

"Don't lie to me with such nonsense. You didn't marry a wife before because you were too poor and no woman was willing to marry you. When you really become an earl, you will definitely marry me ten or eight mistresses, and then you will have another one." There are so many junior brothers and sisters, where is my turn for the title?"

Xu Yue was not easy to fool, so she immediately exposed Du Zhu's lies.

"You stinky boy, we are in the Qi Ren Yuan, where we have good food, drink, and housing. You don't really think we don't need money. If we can't make some achievements, believe it or not, we will be kicked out sooner or later." ? Do you really want to get a few acres of land for farming?"

Duzhu was also annoyed and immediately pointed at his apprentice and cursed.

Xu Yue suddenly became mute when he heard that he might be kicked out of the Strange People's Courtyard. He was not stupid. If he was kicked out of the Strange People's Courtyard, then their master and disciple would have to go back to their original days of living without tomorrow. .

(End of this chapter)