It took Yang Hao more than ten days to finally find the best ratio of gunpowder after continuous experiments.

In order to save materials, what he made was basically no different from firecrackers.

That's it, in the past ten days, dozens of catties of raw materials have also been consumed, which shows that even if you know the general direction, the consumption of really putting it into practice is amazing.

This is just the case with a native grenade, and if you really want to find a firearm, you don't know how much material you need to use.

Whether it is bronze or gunpowder, with the current ability of Qi State, even if Yang Hao wants to study, he has the heart but is powerless.

Looking at the bowl that was blown to pieces by a small artillery battle, Yang Hao was very satisfied with the crisis of making a grenade.

As long as the things contained in gunpowder are improved to make the kind of wooden-handled grenades that will be used in later generations, the power will be multiplied.

Now that gunpowder has a clue, the next thing to do is to produce it on a large scale.

According to his estimates, if nothing else, at the current rate of material collection, 1,000 native grenades should be produced within half a year.

Thinking that it would be possible to throw out the hard-earned work in a battle and listen to the sound, Yang Hao felt a pain in his flesh.

Fighting a war is a money-burning business, especially for a settled agricultural country like Qi State, in addition to fighting for the courage of soldiers, war is more about money.

Whether it is the armor and swords of the soldiers, or the consumption of grain and grass, as long as there is a battle, the money will be spent like flowing water.

But these poor clans around them have no value for Yang Hao to plunder at all, this feeling is like the war of ancient China against those barbarians, fighting a foreign war, spending a lot of manpower and material resources, fighting with a group of Huazi for a long time, winning except for winning some prestige, Mao's interests are not there.

But if they lose, those barbarians will stick to their bodies like blood-sucking locusts, making people annoying.

Although the current state of Qi is not to that extent, compared to these poor neighbors around it, Qi is quite a wealthy one among a group of beggars.

Although the war burns money, Yang Hao knows that he must fight this battle, not because he likes to fight with force, but because Qi has to do it if he wants to survive.

The reason for the war may be for the land, for the population, for whatever it is, to start in the interests of the Qi country.

Although Yang Hao wants to become the first emperor of the ages and the first emperor of this time and space, he knows better than anyone in this era about the fate of quick success.

The gunpowder was sorted out, recorded on the Tiangong Kaiwu, and then copied a copy, and marked this match as top secret, so that people called the Ministry of Works.

Yang Hao came up with the surname Wei in the hundred family names, in order to be one of the high-level people of Qi State, he naturally saw the surname of the hundred families, and when he saw a surname with the same name as himself, he naturally applied to Yang Hao, and took it as the surname, combined with his own occupation, and became the name Wei Gong.

As for the rest of the Shangshu, they are not too enthusiastic about the surname thing, as long as they mention it to Yang Hao in their identity, Yang Hao will definitely agree, but for them, the surname is a dispensable thing.

Wei Gong knew that Yang Hao called himself over because something extraordinary had been invented, so after greeting Yang Hao, he couldn't wait to ask: "The king called his ministers over this time, but he made something amazing." ”

Yang Hao smiled when he heard this: "Wei Qing guessed accurately, there are indeed good things, and I want you to produce them." ”

Wei Wenyan's eyes lit up, and he looked around, but he didn't see anything special around him, and he became even more curious.

Yang Hao mysteriously took out the scroll of animal skin with the formula of gunpowder written on it and handed it to Wei Gong.

Seeing this, Wei Gong hurriedly took it respectfully and hurriedly checked it.

Yang Hao saw that his expression was puzzled at first, then became a little dignified, and finally showed an extremely surprised expression.

"My lord, this thing of gunpowder is really extremely powerful, but can it be thunder on dry land? What kind of divine means? ”

Yang Hao nodded solemnly and said: "I have experimented on this thing in detail, and the power is naturally good, I called you here to let you strictly supervise the manufacture of this thing, and the craftsmen who make this thing must be selected strictly, except for relevant personnel, half a point is not allowed to be leaked, and the offender will be punished according to treason." ”

Wei Gong's heart sank when he heard this, and he nodded solemnly and said: "If you really have such power, no matter how strict it is, it should be, the king can rest assured, this matter is foolproof to the minister." ”

Yang Hao nodded, repeatedly explained the importance of this thing to Wei You, and then inquired about the recent progress of the Prospecting Division.

It has been more than a month since the first batch of southbound prospecting divisions left, and there has been no news of it so far, so it is impossible for Yang Hao not to be in a hurry.

Wei Gong also sighed and said: "The people sent by the minister to the south to answer have never reported their movements, and the minister doesn't know where those people are now, but according to the news from the spies in the south, they should not have been caught by the Xin clan, which is reassuring to the king." ”

Yang Hao frowned slightly when he heard this, the Prospecting Division and those soldiers did not know whether they were alive or dead, which cast a haze over the plan to find new ore veins, in addition to these hostile forces in this era, the beasts roaming in the wild were also a great threat to humans.

If they don't hear from them again, Yang Hao can only plan for the worst, no matter what the outcome, he will have to expand to the south or west this winter.

He originally wanted to attack a certain force in a targeted manner, but now it seems that he can only hit his neighbors with or without dates, and everything depends on luck.

As for which direction to attack, he hasn't made up his mind yet, Yang Hao doesn't have the same way to implement this uncertain alternative, everything can only wait for a while, if there is no news, Yang Hao can only think that these people have had an accident.

The two had some conversation on official business, and the guard left the palace with the formula for gunpowder.

"Alas! It seems that everything is not going well, and it is time to make some preparations. ”

There is still in the East.

With the increasingly close contacts between Qi and Youyou, under the strong influence of this emerging civilization from the West, the living habits of Youyou's still clan are also changing subtly.

The change in the upper echelons of the Youyi clan is not obvious, and the living habits of those tribes closest to the new city are slowly moving closer to the Qi country.

From food and clothing to clothing styles, these small tribes are consciously imitating the Qi people, and even some people follow the example of the Qi people to tie up their scattered hair, and sell the prey they hunt to the Qi merchants in the new city to exchange for the common currency of the Qi country.

If you want to use the things of the Qi country, you can only buy it with copper money, although there are many tribes who have a lot of complaints about this, but the things they urgently need are only the Qi country, and they dare not fight, and they can't grab the wilderness, so they can only honestly follow the rules of the Qi country, and over time, the culture of the Qi country has slowly penetrated into their lives.