Lu Dynasty

Chapter 471 Gunpowder
I never thought of putting Ji to death. After all, judging from the actual situation, Yu Ji did not make any serious mistakes. Even if Yu Ji killed Sun Ce in history, it was Sun Ce's own fault.Sun Ceming knew that he couldn't be angry, and he didn't cultivate his morals, and there was also the reason for Sun Ce's mother Wu Guotai. If she wasn't too superstitious, Sun Ce wouldn't be so angry that his arrows would burst.

Yu Ji's only mistake is that in the troubled times where the heroes are divided, he has no power at all as a Taoist priest, but he wants to buy people's hearts.I smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Wujiao, I'm not a cruel person. As long as Yu Ji doesn't break the law, I will never do anything to him! Propagating those superstitions in the territory! If he leads people to be good, I will never stop it!" When education is popularized, who will believe in those superstitions? Even in modern times, there are religions. Religious freedom is also a human right. I don't want to restrict people Freedom of belief, but I can't tolerate the filthy and fishy people like the Buddhism and Taoism in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties!
Hearing what I said, Zuo Ci was finally relieved. He is a sensible person, and he knows that what Yu Ji did is something that no prince can tolerate.Zuo Ci smiled and said, "Actually, Yu Ji's medical skills are very good, but he is used to turning medicines into talismans for people to take. This is the influence of his master! But his Tao skills are also very good, even better than me !"

"Brother Lu, Daoist Zuo's Taoism is really amazing! Just now he just performed a little bit, so I invited brother to come and watch Daoist Zuo's skills together!" Liu Bian is not very old, talking about these things is like meeting someone funny toys.

"Oh? Mister, why don't you perform for me too?" Since Zuo Ci and Yu Ji are brothers, they must both use their spiritual power to influence people.I remember the legend about Zuo Ci's ability to transform. I wonder if he influenced Cao with his spiritual power.

Zuo Ci smiled and said: "Since that's the case, the poor Taoist will try to entertain you all! I don't know what your Majesty and the Prime Minister want?" I looked at Zuo Ci's confident expression and said in my heart: "Well, you old Taoist Zuo, you actually Want to play me for Cao!So all I wanted from Zuo Ci were inappropriate things, Zuo Ci had no choice but to use his mental power to influence everyone, and I also pretended to be fooled.Zuo Ci got carried away with the rise of the show, he asked the guards to pick out a basket of oranges for him, all the oranges he opened up had orange flesh, while those opened by Liu Bian and others were empty.In fact, Zuo Ci influenced Liu Bian and the others with his spiritual power, but Liu Bian and the others didn't know it.

Zuo Laodao played for a long time, I picked up an orange that Liu Bian and the others had cut open and ate it, and laughed: "Zuo Laodao, do you have something new, spiritual power, your junior brother Yu Ji has performed it before! "Zuo Laodao didn't even think about it, if I didn't surpass Yu Ji's ability, how could I subdue Yu Ji!
Zuo Ci understood that I was pretending to show him, so he naturally couldn't tolerate being looked down upon by others, Zuo Ci gritted his teeth and said, "In this case, Prime Minister Lu, please look at my palm thunder! This is the orthodox way of my Taoist school. Fa!" Zuo Ci opened his palm, the light of burning gunpowder flashed in his hand, and there was a slight sound.The sound is a little lower than ordinary firecrackers, probably because other things were mixed in.Otherwise, if the firecrackers explode on the bracelet, Zuo Ci's palm will be blackened at the lightest, how could he be unscathed!

I don't know other things, how could I not know firecrackers?That thing is something we have played with since childhood!From red all over the ground to sky-rocketing cannons, from wiping cannons, smashing cannons to piercing the weather, the familiar smell of gunpowder shocked me.I stared at Zuo Ci and asked solemnly: "Mr. Yuan Fang, did you make the palm thunder yourself?"

Zuo Ci still wanted to quibble, he smiled and said: "Prime Minister, Palm Lightning is a Taoism developed by me, how can it be said that it was formulated?"

"Don't talk nonsense with me, you Taoists like alchemy, sometimes you will fry the furnace if you don't practice well! The thing in your hand should be made by accident when you were frying the furnace! It should contain sulfur, saltpetre, and charcoal! As for what else you have mixed in, I don’t know! But if you don’t add other ingredients, the power should be much greater, and its sound is like thunder!” Some scholars have said before that Chinese chemistry and Taoists are closely related, basically every Taoist and alchemist in ancient China was a chemist!

"You actually know! You really know! What else do you know, tell me quickly!" Zuo Ci seemed more excited than me. He held my hand and kept asking, looking very crazy.

I pulled Zuo Ci's hand away and said, "Daoist Zuo, you seem to have come to plead for Yu Ji, why are you asking about our army's secrets now? You don't seem to be from our army!" I saw Zuo Ci's crazy look You know, he probably doesn't know how the gunpowder is mixed.He should have put many kinds of materials together to practice, and very accidentally matched this kind of firecracker that can flash and make noise.However, since Zuo Ci doesn't know how to make this thing, I don't need to teach him, unless he follows me!

Zuo Ci stared at me for a while, he was very yearning for the refining of gunpowder.Zuo Ci asked: "Prime Minister Lu, how can you teach me the refining method of this thing? You seem to call it gunpowder, don't you?"

"It's impossible for me to teach you! The gunpowder I'm talking about was prepared according to a certain proportion of the palm mine in your hand just now! But you don't know how powerful this kind of thing is! If the palm mine is covered with an iron shell , plus a lead wire, after being ignited, there will be no living things within five steps!" The Song Dynasty already had things like bombs and grenades, which were generally used to defend the city, and the lead wire was relatively long.People in the Song Dynasty seem to call it Thunderbolt, also known as Thunderbolt Fireball!In many martial arts novels, Thunderbolt Thunder Fire Bullet is a hidden weapon invented by Tangmen, and some people say it was invented by Zhuge Liang.Zhuge Liang once used gunpowder as a fire starter when he burned Sima Yi in Shangfanggu!
Not to mention Zuo Ci, even Liu Bian was shocked when he heard me say that.Zuo Ci never thought that such a small thing could have such great power.Zuo Ci smiled and said: "The prime minister is joking! I have never shattered the cauldron furnace since I refined this kind of thing, but I have never harmed my life. The palm thunder I am using now can't even kill a chicken!"

"That's because the ratio of your preparation is wrong. If you prepare it correctly, a fortified city like Luoyang can be exploded without much effort! Even I don't know the perfect ratio of gunpowder, otherwise the gunpowder I prepared back then would not be enough." It will be difficult even to blow up a table!" When Liu Bian came to the throne, I used to mix gunpowder by myself in order to create momentum, but unfortunately the sound of the mix was not very loud, the fire was not very bright, at most the black smoke was a little bigger, It could also be that I didn't dry it completely!
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