wild trail

Chapter 274
Mu Feng knew that Wang Lang was going out this time because he had something very important to do. After the second expedition came back last time, they also chose to keep silent, and no matter how they asked, they didn't reveal anything about that expedition.

Just when he was wondering whether it was because of this incident that he left himself, Wang Lang said: "I think you also know that I have something important to go out before!"

Woodwind nodded.

"The carpenters from the Ministry of Industry brought back some weapons and a picture. You need to study these things clearly, especially the bed crossbow and boat pictures, and make them as soon as possible." Wang Lang said seriously.

Mu Feng hadn't seen the things he brought back yet, but he didn't ask too much. As the department in charge of technology, there were requirements from above, so he could do his best to do it well.

"I obey!" Mu Feng replied respectfully.

Wang Lang nodded and said: "The construction of the supply station cannot be stopped, and the road must also be built. Within a year, I will see a road leading to the sea. The task is very difficult, but it is a matter of human life and death. You must not slack off."

Mu Feng was startled when he heard the words, he didn't expect the matter he took over to be so serious, he hurriedly asked: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what happened?"

"There is no need to ask too much about this matter, as long as I do it well according to my requirements." Wang Lang said without doubt.

"Yes!"

Mu Feng replied respectfully, but he became more puzzled in his heart.

"How has the Ministry of Industry improved its weapons recently?" Wang Lang asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has recently completed the miniaturization of the bed crossbow. After testing, this weapon is less labor-intensive than the bow and arrow, and its power is almost the same." Mu Feng said proudly.

"Well, you did a good job, but when you go back and see that new bed crossbow, see if there is any value for reference, and try to make the power of the crossbow even further." Wang Lang said slowly.

Hearing this, Mu Feng became even more curious about the weapons he brought back.

"There are so many things for the time being. If you don't have enough manpower, you can go to the household department to ask for important people. You must go all out to do the things I just explained." Wang Lang instructed.

"Sir, obey!" Mu Feng replied respectfully.

"Go down!" Wang Lang waved his hand.

"Yes!"

After Mu Feng left, Wang Lang fell into deep thought.

The threat of alien civilizations is like a sharp sword hanging above the head, threatening the life of this newborn human country at all times.

As a young country that has just been established with a population of less than [-], it is extremely difficult to fight against a heterogeneous civilization with an extremely developed civilization, but it is impossible for Wang Lang to sit still and wait for death.

On that ship, he did not find any gunpowder weapons, which meant that the unknown civilization did not master this technology.

If he wanted to fight against an opponent of this level, he had to think about getting the gunpowder out. Even if he couldn't make a bronze cannon, even throwing gunpowder packs with a trebuchet could play a certain role.

Nowadays, many toilets have been built in Xia Dynasty, and a large amount of excrement has been accumulated, which also provides the possibility for scraping nitrate.

Nitrate and charcoal are easy to solve, and the rest is sulfur.

Wang Lang came to the desk, took out the simple map of Xia Guo, and lightly clicked on the high mountain behind the deep forest with his fingers.

He suspects that this high mountain is probably a volcano. If it is a volcano, then the problem of sulfur will be easily solved.

The sudden threat shattered his dream of being a Taiping Emperor. In the next period of time, Wang Lang couldn't wait to improve the overall strength of Xia Kingdom.

Send all the troops out to plunder the population, and capture giant deer and horned dragons.

Four more expedition teams were sent to that high mountain to search for sulfur, and the entire Xia Kingdom was shrouded in a tense atmosphere of imminent rain.

In terms of culture, Wang Lang completely gave up the idea of ​​letting Chinese people invent their own characters. Except for the hundreds of pictographs created before, Wang Lang wrote down all the men he remembered.

During this period, Wang Lang built a school in Yancheng, named it Daxia Xuegong, gathered officials from the six departments, and taught in person every two days.

And let the Ministry of Industry use wood chips to make a large number of wooden slips, and at the same time start to study how to make paper.

If he wants the country to progress faster, Wang Lang must force-feed them scientific knowledge. Only in this way can he ensure that he will not be taken away by a wave in the future confrontation with alien races.

For the officials of the Sixth Ministry, Wang Lang only asked them to know how to write, and did not require them to write beautifully. After three months of indoctrination, these officials basically mastered hundreds of commonly used Chinese characters. Counting pictographs, I know more than 1000 characters. Although I am still not proficient, as long as I have the foundation, the rest of the learning will be much easier.

To teach these officials to read, Wang Lang immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to organize all the boys in Yancheng, ordering these children to go to the Daxia Academy every day to learn to read.

After doing this, I shut myself in the room every day and devoted myself to compiling textbooks on natural science.

After coming to this world for so long, although he has forgotten many things, his knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry at the junior high school level is still no problem for him.

Stacks of animal skins were filled with densely packed words, and one of the books bound with twine had two large characters of mathematics written on it.

Mathematics is the foundation of natural science, and Wang Lang has spent a lot of energy on it. Although natural science is much more difficult than writing, he would rather spend ten years teaching Chinese people this knowledge.

If you don't want human beings to completely disappear in this world, you can't tolerate any slack in yourself.

The expedition team looking for sulfur returned to Yancheng after four months.

The samples they brought back completely confirmed Wang Lang's idea. The high mountain was undoubtedly a volcano, but the expedition team did not see the existence of magma. This is undoubtedly good news. As long as it is not an active volcano, then Yancheng is safe. .

With these dozens of catties of sulfur, Wang Lang immediately asked the Ministry of Industry to organize people to collect nitrate at the cesspit. This job is extremely disgusting, and no one wants to do this kind of work. In desperation, he had to increase the reward. Emotions subside.

The progress of scraping the nitrate was extremely slow, and it took more than a week to get seven or eight catties of nitrate powder.

Although there are very few, it is enough for Wang Lang to use for experiments.

In order to experiment with gunpowder, he ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a secret place outside Yancheng, and sent a large number of soldiers to station here, and no one else was allowed to approach.

(End of this chapter)