Chapter 17 Development of gunpowder

Li Ruoshui was choked by Zhao Huan's words, he opened his mouth, and said helplessly: "How can the law of the ancestors be changed casually?" ”

Zhao Huan rolled his eyes and said: "Wrong, I don't change it casually, we must take the essence of our tradition and remove its dross, so that our Great Song Dynasty can prosper forever, and I can create great achievements like the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty." ”

The Song Dynasty began with Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, emphasizing literature over military force, which had the advantage of suppressing the rebellion in the Song Dynasty to a large extent, but it also caused the Song Dynasty's military strength to be weak, and the territory area was the smallest in all dynasties.

Hearing Zhao Huan's words at this time, all the generals present were enthusiastic, but many Wenchen showed a faint worry.

"Your Majesty......" Li Ruoshui wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhao Huan.

"Zong Ze, this matter is still left to you to be responsible, now you will be the minister of the Ordnance Department first, and start to prepare, I will give you a month, and after a month, I must see this thing equipped in the hands of the army." Zhao Huan said to Zong Ze.

Zong Ze turned out that Zhao Huan handed over the silk book, and glanced at it roughly, different from the drawings Zhao Huan gave him last time, this time Zhao Huan gave the ingredients, Zong Ze felt more like the ingredients of a medicine, sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal......

"Your Majesty, I don't know what these things are for?" Zong Ze asked with some confusion.

"To make explosives, I only know that explosives are synthesized from these three things, and you still need to find someone to test what ratio is, remember, this thing will explode violently after encountering fire, when you find someone to experiment, you must be very careful, and you must not act recklessly and hurt people's lives." Zhao Huan admonished.

Zong Ze had heard of saltpeter, and he often used this thing when he was refining the pill, but he didn't expect this thing to have such power, no wonder he heard that some old ways would explode in the copper furnace during alchemy, thinking of this, Zong Ze couldn't help but be afraid for a while.

"By the way, you can grab some Taoist priests to come over and help develop it, this group of people is good at this, now is the time when the country needs them, and it's time for them to make some efforts." Zhao Huan said to Zong Ze, Zhao Huan is very clear, Taoism was prevalent in the Song Dynasty, but this Taoism did not bring any benefits to the Song Dynasty, but because of feudal superstition, it directly led to Zhao Huan's delusional attempt to use Liujia soldiers to break the Jin Army in history, which led to the capture of Chengpo.

Although this kind of thing will not happen again now, Zhao Huan is still worried about this matter, and now that he has the opportunity to clean up these bull-nosed old ways, he will naturally not let it go.

Zong Ze is a smart person, and he understood the meaning of Zhao Huan from a scratch word, although he didn't know how these bull-nosed old ways offended Zhao Huan, but Zong Ze understood that this group of people had no good fruit to eat.

By the time the deliberations were over, it was already afternoon, and after coming out of the imperial study, Zhao Huan couldn't help but shiver when he was blown by the cold wind of the first month, it was really cold this day.

Wang Shuo, the personal eunuch next to him, hurriedly draped a blanket on Zhao Huan's body, and asked in a sharp voice, "Sage, where are we going tonight?" ”

Zhao Huan realized that he was now a family man, and his wife was the Queen Zhu Lian who wanted to run away from the beginning.

"Let's go to the queen's place for the night." Zhao Huan stayed in the camp of the Imperial Forest Army all night last night in order to meet the Jin Army, and now he realizes that he is the emperor, and he can have seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards.

drove to Zhu Lian's Ziwei Palace, and Zhu Lian was very happy to greet him from the door.

"Your Majesty, you are tired, I cooked you white fungus lotus seed soup, you hurry up and drink it while it is hot, you can relieve your fatigue." Zhu Lian smiled and brought a bowl of lotus seed soup to Zhao Huan, at this time, she even gave up her maid and wanted to serve Zhao Huan in person.

Zhao Huan looked at the delicate queen in front of him, thinking of the changes in Jingkang back then, she also followed her and was taken away by the Jin army, and hanged herself halfway because she couldn't stand the insults of the Jin army generals, Zhao Huan's heart was a pain, he reached out and took the lotus seed soup in Zhu Lian's hand, but he didn't drink it, but put it aside.

Zhu Lian saw that Zhao Huan took the lotus seed soup, and he was happy at first, but he found that Zhao Huan put down the lotus seed soup again, and his heart became nervous, but at this time, Zhao Huan held his hands.

"Follow me all these years, and I've suffered you!" Zhao Huan was touched and said to Zhu Lian.

Zhu Lian didn't expect Zhao Huan to suddenly say such a thing, she was a little overwhelmed, tears began to fall down, she hurriedly knelt down, and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty forgives me, the concubine was also confused yesterday, worried that our Bianjing City will be lost, so that the little eunuch will go to deliver the message, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive you......"

Zhao Huan's actions made Zhu Lian scared, the so-called nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief, Zhu Lian heard that the little eunuch who passed the word yesterday had been beheaded by Zhao Huan to show the public, is it now that Zhao Huan is coming to abolish himself? Zhu Lian was a little frightened.

"Hey, get up and speak!" Zhao Huan didn't expect Zhu Lian to react like this, and he was a little surprised.

"The concubine has sinned Your Majesty, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me!" Zhu Lian knelt more firmly.

Zhao Huan walked over, pulled Zhu Lian up, and said: "I don't blame you for yesterday's incident, but I feel guilty in my heart, I actually have no ability to protect my people and women, and let people hit the door." ”

When Zhu Lian heard Zhao Huan say this, he quietly observed the expression on Zhao Huan's face, and made sure that Zhao Huan was not joking, only then did he know that he was really not blaming himself, so he put his mind at ease, and turned to comfort Zhao Huan and said: "Your Majesty, you have done a good job, and now the Jin army has been repelled by Your Majesty, and now the people in the palace have spread it all over, saying that Your Majesty You are the emperor of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty." ”

Zhao Huan couldn't help but shake his head, it seems that there are no secrets in this deep palace, what he just said in the morning, the queen will already know it in the evening, it seems that this secrecy discipline should be strengthened.

This thought flashed, and Zhao Huan turned to Zhu Lian and said: "Leave the front matter to me to deal with, but in this big rear, as the mother of a country, I will leave it to you." ”