Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 384
An open place on the bank of the Xiangshui River outside Lingling City has been guarded by soldiers from the inner third floor and the outer third floor.

The sergeants who can be selected, each family background has been investigated in advance, and they are absolutely good citizens.

Some simple houses were also built rapidly.

"Bang, bang, bang..." There were bursts of sound coming from the core, and as far as the eye could see, there were some thick-backed sergeants pounding on the edge of a row of huge wooden troughs.

In these wooden troughs, some hold yellow powder, some are black, and some are white.

The white one is purified potassium nitrate, the yellow one is high-quality sulfur, and the black one is charcoal.

Naturally, the preparation of gunpowder would not be in one's own residence. It would be fun to blow up one's mansion in case of fire.

"Be careful, the King of Qin has ordered that no foreign matter be brought in, not even a gravel." At this moment, Jiang Da has successfully stepped back from the "heavy task" of digging out the five hundred masters, and started a new task. .

As for the heavy responsibility of collecting nitrate, it has been handed over to his deputy.

"Five hundred masters, can you cut down a few times, I think one or two thousand strokes is enough for the things inside to be broken." A sergeant moved away from the wooden trough and wiped his sweat profusely to plead.

"Ten thousand blows, not less!" Jiang Da insisted.

Although I don't know why the King of Qin must crush it ten thousand times, but his task today is to keep an eye on each wooden trough to ensure that each of them has been crushed to the count.

Thinking of the words left by King Qin before leaving, Jiang Dao trembled. If King Qin knew that he was cutting corners, he would have to continue to fight on the dung mountain.

"Pi Er, you have pounded 450 times, and you can replace it with more than 500 more." Although Jiang Da dared not agree to cut corners, but let one person keep hitting [-] times, then It's not impossible, so Jiang Dao made a rule that it can be replaced within two thousand strokes.

With Jiang Da walking around here non-stop, and everyone Jiang Da has assigned special personnel to count, it is impossible to talk about being lazy.

Near noon, Ziying also came here from the canal digging site.

On the excavation route of Lingqu, there are several hidden rock belts. At present, they can only be treated layer by layer by relying on the most primitive method to burn through the fire, and then pour cold water.

Ziying watched it for a while, and the efficiency was really low.If the gunpowder can be prepared as soon as possible, it will be settled if one sound is heard, and two if one fails, it will be much faster than this.

"His Royal Highness Qin Wang, these are the powders that have been prepared." Ziying poured out the ginger and pooped, as if presenting treasures, and presented the powders from the three wooden troughs. "Each of these has been smashed ten thousand times, no more, no less."

Although Ziying has never made such a "contraband" in his previous life, it seems that it is indeed too fine.

One sulfur, two nitrates and three charcoals is basically a formula that every Chinese knows. However, this is the quantity ratio of the substances in the preparation, not the mass ratio. The mass ratio of black powder should be potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal [-]: [-]:[-].

According to this ratio, Ziying took a certain amount of three things, mixed them together, poured some distilled water prepared by himself in advance, and stirred evenly.

"Keep pounding, pounding a thousand times!" Ziying ordered.

Immediately, a warrior took over the wooden stick and started pounding it continuously.

At this last moment, Ziying didn't leave either, but counted down by himself, every movement of the sergeant.

Not long after, a thousand strokes were full.

"Get these things out." Ziying got down on the ground and looked at it, and it should have been completely mixed together. "Mix it into small grains, and the corn can be used for defecation."

Today's weather is fine, and the gunpowder mixed into small grains will dry out completely in a short time.

Although gunpowder was first invented by the Chinese, the most correct ratio for preparing gunpowder was not close to the most standard ratio in modern times until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

As for the granulation of gunpowder, that is a further technology.

Ziying's move not only made gunpowder, a sharp weapon, available thousands of years earlier, but also pushed the preparation technology of gunpowder to the limit that can be achieved now.

You must know that the proportion of gunpowder is different, and the number of purified raw materials is not enough. The discount on the power of gunpowder is not 01:30.

This time, Ziying wanted to use the gunpowder to open mountains and explode rocks. He could only do his best to make the gunpowder more powerful.

Ziying took some dry gunpowder, and in a blink of an eye saw Jiang Da standing stupidly beside him, and suddenly showed a somewhat evil smile.

"Stretch out your hand." Ziying said to Jiang Da.

Not knowing why, Jiang Da obeyed and stretched out his hand, and Ziying smiled and put the gunpowder particles on Jiang Da's hand.

"King Qin, what is this?" Jiang Da asked blankly.Although these dark things were made under his supervision, he didn't know what they were.

"Hold your hand and don't move," Ziying ordered.

However, Ziying's next move made Jiang Da, a big man in Guanzhong, tremble a little, and said with a crying voice: "King Qin, I am loyal to you, or...or...I will go to the dung mountain to sweep the soil It's all right."

King Qin kept himself still, and then he took a torch and walked towards him.

"It can't be that there is something wrong with this thing, King Qin is going to light it himself." Jiang Da thought in horror.

"Don't move around." Ziying looked at Jiang Da who was trembling with fear, and said helplessly: "If you move around again, Gu can't guarantee that you won't click the wrong place."

With Ziying's threat, Jiang Da finally resisted and became honest.

Ziying took a small wooden stick, ignited it close to the torch, and blew it out. Before he could react, Ziying quickly touched the gunpowder in Jiang Da's palm with the red-hot section.

A burst of violent deflagration ignited in the palm of Jiang Da's hand, subconsciously Jiang Shie wanted to throw out the gunpowder sample in his hand, but before he could react, the gunpowder in his palm had completely burned through, as if the burst of fire just now was not Like the one burning in the palm of his hand.

Jiang Da looked at his palm in surprise, he could see the fire light just now clearly, it was definitely not a hallucination.

However, it stands to reason that with such a big movement, I am afraid that my hands will be half-baked.

However, at this moment, the palm of his hand really didn't feel much heat at all, as if the burst of fire just now wasn't burning in the palm of his hand.

"How does it feel?" Ziying asked with a smile.

"I don't feel anything. What kind of fire is this, King Qin? Why can't you feel the heat?" Jiang Da asked stupidly.

At this moment, his admiration for Ziying can be said to be overwhelming, and it is not enough to say one or two.

To be able to create a fire that is not hot is simply a god-like means.

(End of this chapter)