Driven by curiosity, Zheng Fei curled the corners of his mouth wickedly, and quietly raised his eyebrows at Duke Tukman who was silent on the side. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The duke understood, coughed dryly, and his face sank and became serious.

"General, I suppose you have to tell me, what are they doing?"

"Hey Duke, it's really nothing, they're just ......" hesitated for a few seconds, the general didn't come up with a good excuse, his expression became more and more anxious, and he cursed in his heart: Damn, how did you forget this!

"I counted to three. The Duke cocked up his finger.

"Well, I'll be honest, they're digging for gold!"

"Hmm, where did the gold mine come from?"

"About twenty days ago, a soldier picked up a thumb-sized piece of gold here, so I recruited a group of farmers from a nearby village to mine and dig in the naval port. The general secretly clenched his fists and looked at the sweaty miners.

"The first thing you need to report to the royal family when you discover a gold mine is that you don't even know this rule, do you?"

"I'm sorry, I haven't had time to send someone to inform me. ”

"Hmph, who knows what the hell you're up to...... How much have you dug up so far?"

"Not even a single piece of gold was dug up, and I even wondered if the piece that the soldier had picked up had been lost. ”

"Oh~" The duke sneered, stared at his eyes for a while, and suddenly beckoned to a miner not far away: "That person, come here!"

The miner did not dare to slack off, hurriedly threw down his shovel and ran over, respectfully obeying the order.

"Tell me, how much gold have you dug up these days?"

"Not a single grain of gold... Lord Duke, could you please tell the general to let us go home?" the miner rubbed the hem of his shirt timidly.

"Don't think about Nobel, you took the initiative to come to the mine at the beginning, get out of the way!" the general glared at him scoldingly.

The miner pursed his lips, knowing that he could not afford to mess with the uncle, so he ran back to pick up the shovel and continued to shovel the earth day after day.

At this time, Zheng Fei couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, because he heard the name Nobel, which was too familiar.

For some reason, he walked a few steps to the edge of the mine, squatted down and picked up a clod of soil, looked at it carefully, pinched it into powder and sniffed it on the tip of his nose.

Cold, a little consternation appeared on his face, which was quickly replaced by unstoppable joy.

"Good stuff. He whispered to himself, too low that no one could hear him.

To him, these seemingly inconspicuous clods of earth are worth much more than gold!

Diatomaceous earth, mainly distributed in China, the United States, France and Denmark, is formed by the deposition of diatom remains tens of thousands of years ago.

In terms of rarity alone, it is nowhere near gold, but its true value lies in its use.

It was precisely because of the name Nobel miner that Zheng Fei was inspired by diatomaceous earth.

Alfred Bernard Nobel, born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833, was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, manufacturer of military equipment and inventor of explosives.

Influenced by his father, who liked to study explosives, Nobel showed a tenacious and courageous character from an early age, and he often went to experiment with explosives with his father, and spent his childhood almost at the sound of explosions.

It was out of his strong interest in explosives that led Nobel to invent the powerful and stable explosive, which combines nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth.

Nitroglycerin is obtained by treating glycerin with sulfuric acid and nitric acid, which were discovered by Arab alchemists as early as the eighth century AD and can be mass-produced by crude means by the fifteenth century.

Imagine, if nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth were used, through experiments by chemists again and again, and finally a fierce explosive that was 400 years ahead of the times was finally created, how many times would the range and power of artillery be increased?

It's a little exciting to think about.

The idea of being inadvertently ignited was out of control, and Zheng Fei had to find a way to take away this batch of diatomaceous earth, after all, this thing is not available everywhere, and it is impossible to find it.

Rolling his eyes in thought for a moment, he whispered to the duke.

After listening to his instructions, the duke spread his hands to the general: "Send thousands of soldiers to bring this mud to the berthing area and load it into the hold of the important warship. ”

"Uh, why?"

"This friend of mine said that this kind of mud can effectively stop the explosion of gunpowder and better protect important warships. ”

"But..."

"Mr. General, I think the King would be very angry if you let the King know about your secret gold mining in the Naval Harbor. The duke's tone was full of coercion.

There was little stalemate.

"Okay, I'll go and transfer troops now. The general exhaled helplessly, turned on his horse and galloped away.

The sound of horses' hooves is fading away.

The general was gone, and the miners could finally catch their breath and be lazy, and they sat on the ground, took out their water bottles, and poured their breath into each other, telling each other about their inner grievances and anguish.

"I knew I wouldn't come to this ghost place, I haven't even seen a single gold hair for twenty days, and I won't let me go back if I want to go home!"

"That bastard general, I wish he was the first to die in the expeditionary force!"

Amid the chattering curses, Duke Tuckerman's expression was no longer as pretentious as when the general was present, he slowly exhaled, furrowed his brows, looked at Zheng Fei in confusion, and asked the doubts that had been held in his heart for a long time.

"I said, what the hell are you asking me to take you to Navy Harbor for?"

"Didn't you see it all?"

"But you went to such great lengths to get gunpowder from Copenhagen here just to help the army get it onto ships?"

"Of course not, as for what I think you'll soon know. ”

"Well, it looks like you're not going to tell me. The Duke furrowed his brows and asked no more, he didn't care about the purpose of Zheng Fei's trip, only whether his family could reach London safely.

In the silence of the night, the moonlight sprinkled the land, Zheng Fei left everyone behind and led Brad to a secluded clearing.

"Look there, there are two large turrets in the very center of the Naval Harbor, and they are all equipped with giant cannons, and the shells can hit any part of the Naval Harbor, which will pose a great threat to our operations. ”

"Need me to get rid of it, don't you?" Brad looked at him.

"Yes, you must take out the soldiers in the turret before the operation begins, and I will get the natives to cooperate with you. ”

"Okay, but you'll have to give me a little more money, I've been so poor lately that I can't afford to buy alcohol. ”

"I'll buy you a winery. Zheng Fei joked, and then returned to normal: "Do you remember the batch of cannons found in the warehouse when you first came here?"

"Of course. ”

"Find a way to get them out, all. (To be continued.) )