Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 364 The specific steps of making gunpowder

The appearance of gunpowder has a long history. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people had already produced gunpowder in the hands of alchemists.

However, at the beginning, gunpowder was used as medicine to treat various diseases such as stomach pain, scabies, and unknown swelling and pain.

The term gunpowder first appeared during the time of Song Renzong. In the "Wu Jing Zongyao" compiled by Zeng Gongshun, the term gunpowder appeared for the first time, and the formulas of three military gunpowders were publicly recorded.

Unfortunately, this did not attract the attention of most people.

The old-fashioned method is Song Renzong's method called the fire and sulfur method to burn gunpowder.

In fact, the invention of gunpowder began in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Jin Dynasty, gunpowder had already been used on a large scale. By the prosperous Tang Dynasty, gunpowder had been mastered by almost most alchemists.

And an industrial chain has been formed among the people, and the fireworks in Bianjing are extremely bright.

However, these three gunpowder formulas were not officially paid attention to by the Song Dynasty until the iron cannon was invented in the Kingdom of Jin.

It turns out that gunpowder can still play like this.

Taoist alchemy led to the invention of gunpowder. Of course, Taoists alchemy, alchemists in order to live forever.Therefore, the military use of this gunpowder has not been taken seriously.

Taoism has extensive influence on folk sacrifices, spells and social atmosphere.

Zhao Huan once read a saying that people often hate monks, nuns, Muslims, and Christians, but not Taoists.Those who understand this principle understand most of China.

Therefore, gunpowder has been advancing with China.It didn't stop.

What was gunpowder mainly used for in the Song Dynasty?
It is used in the acrobatic performances of the army circuses, and the pyrotechnic acrobatics in the puppet show - medicine hair puppet.This is the main use of gunpowder.

Acrobatic programs such as "Bao Gong", "Hard Ghost" and "Mute Show" all use newly emerging gunpowder products such as "firecrackers" and "spit fire" to create a mysterious atmosphere.

At the same time, the Song people also used gunpowder to perform illusions, such as spraying out fireworks and clouds to escape people and change things, etc., to achieve magical and blurred effects.

Great changes and living people existed in the Song Dynasty, but unfortunately, gunpowder has been unusable in military affairs.

The old-fashioned gunpowder has been further modified on the basis of the fire and sulfur method, and the formula has been further improved.

No technology can be achieved overnight, even Newton needs to stand on the shoulders of giants.

And because of this, Zhao Huan couldn't take out the production method of TNT and use it directly.

After all, if you hold a high-level math book and don't go to class, don't you still have to make up the exam?

Of course, as far as high mathematics is concerned, after attending class and listening carefully, it is not necessarily unnecessary to make up the exam.

Just like high numbers, making gunpowder has a great relationship with personal aptitude.

Therefore, Zhao Huan had to find someone to find the gunpowder foundation of Song Dynasty, so as to further enhance the power of gunpowder.

Only by building a house on the foundation can the house be built higher.

"You groped for gunpowder by yourself?" Zhao Huan asked with gunpowder in his hand.

This kind of gunpowder obviously cannot be used as the percussion powder for muskets, but it is obviously not enough gunpowder to make explosive packs.

"Officials, in the original Guangbei siege project, there were [-] gunpowder arrows for crossbows at sunrise, [-] gunpowder arrows for bows, [-] thorn cannons, and [-] leather cannons. Then the emperor ordered to supervise the construction of long soldiers. , I stopped the gunpowder production." Li Gang said in a low voice, reminding the officials of the production of gunpowder.

Zhao Huan didn't complain too much about Song Huizong Zhao Ji's decision, because if it was Zhao Huan, he would have stopped this unreliable gunpowder operation.

The Tribulus Cannon is not a cannon, it is the same as the explosive pack that Zhao Huan is going to make, it is a gunpowder pack with barbed iron pieces inside. 【Note 1】

But all of this is based on the quality of the gunpowder. For example, more than half of the gunpowder in front of you is misfired. Isn’t it a joke to go to the battlefield?
Expect the Jinren to be as mentally handicapped as the bandits?Scared by the sound and light of gunpowder?

"I'm looking for it. When Shaobao Zhong left last time, he wrote a letter about how he improved gunpowder. Where is it? Here!" Zhao Huan searched for a long time in his wide sleeve, and took out a This notebook.

In fact, he was just changing the manufacturing process and process of black powder.

How to kill the enemy more effectively is the question that Liu Yi, Su Xie, and Chen Gui should consider.

Of course, looking at the information on the Tribulus Cannon, Zhao Huan also believed that the Song people would not let him down, they just lacked high-quality gunpowder.

"Have Zhong Shaobao even considered this? It really is Zhong Shaobao!" Li Gang said with a frown.

There was a smile on Zhao Huan's face. Of course, this was not written by Zhong Shidao, but he redeemed it from the system's achievement points mall.

Of course, it is not as simple as memorizing the formula like mononitrate, disulfide and three charcoal. You can talk about it, how to do it?
How to deal with it, to what extent?Strict regulations are required!

"A Preliminary Exploration of Brown Gunpowder" was written by Zhao Huan, and he handed it to Chen Gui. The method was not long, and it was almost the same as Chen Gui's operation, but the specific process was regulated.

In fact, it was originally called "Hexagonal Seven Holes Chestnut Gunpowder Forming Technique I".

Chen Gui took a look at it, and the surprise in his eyes became more and more serious, and said: "Officials, wait a moment, the minister will come as soon as he goes."

Compared with the old-fashioned rough work, rough materials, and rough tools, Zhao Huan's methods include more techniques such as nitrate leaching, sulfur leaching, grinding, pressing, granulating, and drying.

Zhao Huan did not wait for a while, but followed Chen Gui into the gunpowder operation.

Liuchai is pre-processed.

After removing the pulp and quality, it was fumigated for a whole day. After taking it out, the willow wood was steamed for a whole day, peeled off the willow bark, and put it in an iron barrel to bake for a full six hours.After the sealing mud has cooled naturally, it is now the willow firewood raw material in Chen Gui's hands.

Chen Gui took out the stone mill, put the prepared willow firewood into the stone mill, and ground it into powder.

"Official, do you want to add water here?" Chen Gui stopped suddenly, glanced at "First Exploration" and asked.

Washed gunpowder?Can it still be like this?Looking at this step, Chen Gui had some doubts.

Zhao Huan nodded, and gave Chen Gui an affirmative answer. It was written like this in the letter. If he wanted to understand what was going on, he had to rely on Chen Gui to understand it.

Chen Gui began to mix the medicine and add water continuously, washing the mixture with water, and the dark brown medicine in his hand turned into granules.

After that, Chen Gui did not stop, but took out the sieve, adjusted the size of the holes in the sieve, and removed the powder.

"Graphite powder! Get me 50 taels of graphite powder!" Chen Gui shouted loudly, and soon someone brought the graphite, which was about to be polished.

After pressing the medicine, the medicine finally turned into a medicine cake about one inch thick, one inch and three cents wide, and one or two cents and two cents in weight.

At this time, the old rules did not stop, but they took out the scale and began to weigh. All the medicine cakes that did not meet the requirements were all discarded, and the weight was wrong, which proved that the ingredients were wrong.

In the end, Chen Gui got 50 yuan of medicine cakes. He carefully carried the medicine cakes and put them in the pharmacy. He said with piercing eyes, "Officials, this time we can do it!"

"Chen Shaoqing, by constantly changing the ratio of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, you can get other types of gunpowder. If you try more, you will have new discoveries." Zhao Huan said with a smile.

This is just a preliminary study. The gunpowder is only used to make the explosives for the caltrop cannon. Every medicine cake will be inserted with iron pieces. When it is detonated, the iron pieces will shoot all over the place.

This is the formula of the triggering medicine, Zhao Huan did not wait for Chen Gui to try it, and said the formula of the triggering medicine.The rest is in the initial exploration book, waiting for Chen Gui to explore slowly.

　Note 1: Tribulus Pao: Gunpowder bag with barbed iron pieces inside, which is recorded in the general summary of Wu Jing.

　　
　
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