Zhao Gongzi actually deliberately challenged the so-called taboo.

The moment he stepped into this four-legged village, he could feel countless pairs of eyes looking directly at him in the low thatched huts.

Zhao Gongzi didn't care, he walked to the sulfur making shed at the head of the village with a relaxed expression. A dozen or so untouchables who were busy with their work quickly knelt on the ground in fear, they were only ordered not to go out today, but they did not say that they could not work in the house.

Zhao Hao didn't pay attention to them, his eyes were attracted by the basket of yellow things in the shed.

"This is the sulphur mine that was brought down from the volcano?" Zhao Gongzi asked.

The Tang interpreter hurriedly gave the translator over, and the untouchables in the lead nodded timidly.

"Ask him, and then what to do?" Zhao Gongzi said to Tongyi.

The interpreter hurriedly translated and urged him a few more times, and then the untouchable man shrank and stood up, but he saw the old man of Tanegashima standing outside with a tangled expression, and he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground.

Zhao Hao looked back and said unhappily: "What are you doing following up?" Get out on your knees. ”

Tanegashima Shiyao and the others still didn't want to kneel. It's not that they're untamed again, it's that this is a pariah's village. How dirty!

The guards in black leather boots kicked them one by one behind their buttocks. These guys are honestly on their knees.

"They're on their knees, you stand up." Zhao Hao said to the old man: "This is an order. ”

The old man quickly stood up obediently, hunched over and led them inside, while introducing the process of making sulfur. It is nothing more than using a sieve to remove impurities, and then using a mill to crush the sulfur ore and grind it into sulfur powder with a small mill. Then add five or six bowls of water to thirty or forty catties of sulfur powder, put it in a large pot and boil, and the air will soon be filled with the smell of rotten eggs.

"Hydrogen sulfide, wear a mask." Zhao Hao covered his nose.

When Secretary Ma heard this, he hurriedly took out a black cotton mask and put it on Zhao Gongzi. I also wore a blue one.

Wang Rulong and others also hurriedly took out their masks and put them on, which was ordered by Zhao Gongzi before he came.

Zhao Hao explained to everyone in a muffled voice that boiling was to remove impurities such as acid and ash powder in the sulfur powder. During the heating process, a large amount of water can be evaporated with the acid, and when the water has evaporated, the acid is removed. Then the temperature inside the pot can continue to rise to the melting point of the sulfur.

I also saw a few untouchables lift an iron pot and pour the melted sulphur into a porcelain basin to let it cool slowly.

Because the specific gravity of ash is higher than that of sulfur, it sinks to the bottom, so the higher the sulfur purity, the higher the purity. The top part is called 'Huangxiao', and its color is very pure, and it is the best material used to make black powder.

The rest of the base has to be boiled again to extract more sulfur powder. In this way, about five catties of ore can produce one catty of 'Huangxiao', and the efficiency is more than ten times higher than that of sulfur made from sulfide.

"Okay, that's good." Zhao Hao opened a jar of cornmeal-like sulfur powder they had made, and couldn't help but praise it. I have to admit that the Japanese are careful and meticulous in doing things, and the sulfur powder they prepare is purer than the Ming Dynasty with the naked eye.

"Take it back and mix gunpowder and see how it works." With a wave of his hand, he laughed at Curry's dozens of jars of sulfur. There are sixty catties in one jar, a total of two or three thousand catties.

He asked the foreman, "How long has this been the result?" ”

"I come to receive the goods on the 10th of every month, which is the result of more than 20 days." The foreman replied.

"How many of you are there?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"There are two hundred people who can do the work."

"It's still highly efficient to purify with sulfur ore!" Zhao Gongzi couldn't help but be speechless. In Jiangnan, there are 2,000 workers who make sulfur for the group, and in a month, they can only make 4,000 catties.

Hearing that the speed of making sulfur in this way can be increased by ten times, Wang Rulong and the others were also excited, as if they saw a better tomorrow with infinite gunpowder!

What, more nitrate is needed? In this era when toilets are combat effectiveness, do you know how many people and how many toilets there are in Jiangnan? Tell you, six million toilets! So Daming's nitrate itself is an infinite supply!

Defecation as fertilizer, urine as explosives, more people and more discharges are king!

Don't underestimate this smelly boiling method, this is the biggest military secret of the Middle Ages. Even the Ming Dynasty has always kept it strictly secret from the outside world, even to the loyal North Korea. On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty deceived the Li Dynasty people into 'nitrate extracted from seawater' to cut off the possibility of Li Dynasty's own gunpowder. On the other hand, the North Korean military was controlled by a very small amount of gunpowder trade.

So the father will also keep a hand for his son.

In addition, it was precisely because Oda Nobunaga mastered this method that he monopolized the supply of gunpowder in Japan for a long time. It wasn't until later, at a great cost, that Honganji Xianru learned from the oral information of his disciples that urinating on the roots of Artemisia Kui would ferment 'salt nitrate', and it seemed that urinating on bird, pig, and horse manure seemed to be more effective.

And it seems that the old monk found that after purification, there is no taste...... Well, serious face. Don't ask how he knows, just don't ask him if he hasn't tasted it.

~~

Zhao Gongzi worked tirelessly and personally climbed the volcano that was constantly spewing white gas along the mountain road, and witnessed the spectacular scene of sulfur ore all over the mountain.

"Indeed, there will be no need to worry about brimstone for at least a few decades!" This made him very happy, and he ordered Tanegashima Shiyao on the spot to gather all the untouchables on the island under his jurisdiction on this island and go all out to mine sulfur!

"The Japanese who are caught in the future don't need to be sent to Tamna, they all come here to work as coolies." Zhao Hao instructed Wang Rulong in a deep voice: "Open up the forest, it's a pity not to grow crops on such fertile land." Such a large island can not only be self-sufficient, but also be supplied elsewhere. ”

"Yes." Wang Rulong hurriedly wrote it down.

"Don't be idle." Zhao Hao asked Yao again: "How many guns can you make in a month...... Oh, it's the iron cannon. ”

"Hui Gongzi, fifty branches." Shi Yao knew that the other party would not let go of their well-made iron cannons.

"Don't build whole guns in the future, just shoot the barrel." Zhao Hao commanded in a deep voice: "Is it difficult to hand over a hundred qualified barrels a month?" ”

"This, this is difficult......" Shi Yao sweated when he heard this.

"It seems that there is hope, then it is decided, and the quality and quantity must be guaranteed." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "If you don't have enough blacksmiths, you will find a way to recruit, and if you can't recruit them, you will cultivate them yourself, and next year it will rise to two hundred a month, and the year after next will be three hundred a month, and if you can't hand it over, your foreign trade qualifications will be cancelled, and Tanegashima will wait to drink the northwest wind!" ”

Forging the barrel is the most time-consuming and laborious part of the gun manufacturing process, and although Japan has not mastered the casting technology, the forging technology is close to the full point, which is the best choice for the barrel. And only let them shoot the barrel, which is not only conducive to improving their proficiency, but also allows them to gradually degrade their ability to make guns.

"Hi. I see. Tanegashima Shiyao agreed with a sad face.

~~

In the afternoon, Shi Yao sent 100 cattle and 200 sheep from the pastures of Yakushima according to the order...... These are all raised to make leather goods for the Shimazu family.

Seeing that the people of the Ming Dynasty didn't need to start with the untouchables, they directly slaughtered the cattle and sheep and bleed, Shi Yao and the others were shocked and trembled, and they recited Amitabha Buddha.

"Get out of here." Wang Rulong despised their virtue the most. Damn, the widows are so ruthless that they kill people one by one, and they are so scared to watch the slaughter of cattle and sheep, who dares to play this damn role?

Shi Yao and the others were like being amnestied, so they quickly fled and returned to the dock and got on the boat.

Looking at Iwo Jima, which was gradually moving away, they all sat down on the boat, and it felt like they were having a nightmare.

How can the people of the Ming Dynasty even dare to eat cattle and sheep? Aren't they afraid of being reincarnated as cattle in the next life?

Could it be that the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer believe in Buddhism? Have you also been bewitched by the Chezhi Dan Sect?

With fear in his heart, Shi Yao hurriedly urged his subordinates to row desperately and stay away from this devil's island.

They called the large volcano on the island the Oni Realm Volcano, and legend has it that it was the entrance to the Oni Realm, and from time to time they would open their mouths to devour the living.

And only those who are filthy and non-human will not be affected, because they are originally of the same kind.

"I really hope that all the people of the Ming Dynasty will be dragged back to the ghost realm tomorrow morning......" muttered one of the retainers.

"I hope so." Shi Yao also thought so.

~~

In the evening, the police set up barracks on the north shore of the island, where the hot springs are most dense, lit a bonfire to roast whole sheep and beef stew, and sang songs in the hot springs, venting the fatigue and pressure accumulated over the past few days.

The guards put up a curtain on the seashore far from the camp, next to a hot spring sheltered from the wind and facing the sea, for the prince and the two girls to soak in the bath.

"These guys are so careless that they don't even distinguish between male and female baths." Zhao Gongzi complained to the two sisters who came in to serve him.

"It's okay, Childe will soak first, and we'll soak again after soaking." Sister Ma bit her lip and smiled while giving him a wide coat.

"yes, yes, you can wash it yourself." Qiaoqiao placed the white bath towel on the stone, and slowly placed the water bottle and wine bottle and other things in place. "I'll cook for you first."

The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated her face red.

"It's so comfortable...... Zhao Gongzi sat in the hot spring, and suddenly proposed: "In Japan, men and women take mixed baths, and the so-called local customs, let's go together." ”

"Really? And this rule? Qiaoqiao was quite moved when he heard this, and immediately came to his senses, and immediately covered his face and said, "It's shameless!" ”

"It seems that Childe should go clubbing by himself." Sister Ma covered her mouth and smiled, put the cotton towel on his shoulders and was about to get up.

"I'm scared alone." Zhao Hao took her hand, looked at Ma Xianglan with clear eyes, and said, "And you haven't told me yet, why are you sad." ”

After listening to the first half of his sentence, Ma Xianglan wanted to make fun of him and get out of two sentences, but when she heard the second half of the sentence, Sister Ma's eyes turned red, and the whole thing softened all of a sudden.

It turns out that Childe's heart not only pretends to be the world, but also cares about me......

"Hmm." She nodded imperceptibly, like a gnat.

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