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The most mysterious and hidden place in Shuibo Liangshan - Gunpowder Bureau.

Seeing Li Yan helping Liu Huiniang come in from outside, Ling Zhen hurriedly greeted him and said, "Brother, sister-in-law!" Then asked someone to move a chair for Liu Huiniang!

After Liu Huiniang sat down, Li Yan asked, "According to the ratio I said, how powerful is the gunpowder?" ”

Ling Zhen sincerely admired: "Brother is really a god, and the gunpowder configured according to the proportion that my brother said is more than ten times more powerful!" ”

Later generations estimated that even primary school students knew that one sulfur, two nitrate, and three charcoal could make black powder.

But those who really understand black powder know that the power of black powder in this ratio is really average.

After hundreds of years of experiments and practice, human beings have found that the composition ratio of black powder is about 10% for sulfur, about 15% for charcoal, and about 75% for saltpeter, which is the most suitable ratio of black powder.

At this time, although the people had mastered the main components of gunpowder, they were still very immature in terms of composition ratio, in addition to the three components of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, they also mixed ten ingredients such as clear oil and hemp - these components were mainly flammable substances, and people at this time felt that this could increase the power of black powder.

In fact, it was the opposite, because after adding all that mess, the gunpowder became impure and became much less powerful.

As a soldier and an excellent soldier, Li Yan learned explosives and understood the production of explosives when he was in the army.

Moreover, Li Yan not only understands the production of black powder, but also the production of nitrocotton and nitroglycerin.

If it was in the later life, Li Yan would be able to make nitrocotton by himself when he went to the pharmacy, and even as long as he gave Li Yan a bag of fertilizer, Li Yan could make powerful explosives.

It's a pity that this is in ancient times, when science and technology were seriously backward, and at present, Li Yan can't even get nitric acid, how can he make nitrocotton and nitroglycerin?

Therefore, whether Li Yan wants it or not, Li Yan can only develop black powder at present.

Li Yan personally experimented with the black powder that Ling Zhen and the others had made, and after confirming that its power had indeed reached the limit of the black powder, he said, "Bring some wine." ”

Ling Zhen was puzzled, "What are you doing with the medicine, do you want to celebrate?" ”

However, because Li Yan had changed the formula of black powder before, increasing the power of black powder by more than ten times, Ling Zhen had already obeyed Li Yan's words.

Therefore, after reacting, Ling Zhen immediately ran out and brought over an urn of rice wine after a while.

Li Yan looked at this rice wine, which was lower than the degree of beer, and said in his heart: "It's time to teach them to do distillation to make alcohol." ”

The degree of rice wine is low, and the effect is undoubtedly worse, but fortunately, it is just worse, and it is not that it cannot be used.

Li Yan took a shovel of gunpowder, then poured rice wine on top of the gunpowder, then poured it on the copper sieve he had brought, and then shook it evenly to turn the black powder into small particles the size of uniform rice grains.

After all this was done, Li Yan said to Ling Zhen: "Let your people follow what I did just now, make all the black powder into this granule, then dry it, and then put it in a dry place and keep it carefully." ”

In the field of gunpowder, moisture prevention has always been the top priority, and once gunpowder is damp and becomes a block, not to mention increasing its power, it may be difficult to even ignite, so no one has ever thought of wetting gunpowder.

It was precisely because of this that Ling Zhen's face was full of shock and incredible!

But Ling Zhen didn't raise any objections - it was still for that reason, Li Yan had already proved that in the field of gunpowder, he was far superior to Ling Zhen, so Ling Zhen only had respect for Li Yan, and even blindly obeyed, without suspicion.

Li Yan didn't explain anything to Ling Zhen either.

First of all, it takes too much time to explain something, and what Li Yan lacks most now is time.

Secondly, it is meaningless to explain or not, granular black powder with the best ratio is already the limit of black powder, and there is no greater room for development.

Again, Li Yan, who didn't finish junior high school, only knew that the power of granular black powder was several times the power of powdered black powder, and it was not as easy to get damp as powdered black powder, and it was more convenient to load.

Again, to remain mysterious, it contributes to Li Yan's rule.

After Li Yan finished talking to Ling Zhen about the precautions, Liu Huiniang unfolded the drawings she brought, and said: "This is the waterwheel stone mill and waterwheel copper sieve I developed, the real thing is in my studio, you send someone to move it back, with them, you should be able to save a lot of effort, but you must pay attention to moisture-proof, this waterwheel stone mill and waterwheel copper sieve can not be far from water, and gunpowder is afraid of water." ”

Ling Zhen took the drawings and said, "Okay, sister-in-law, I'll send someone to move it in a while, and then produce as much gunpowder as possible." ”

Li Yan said: "Don't ignore quality because of quantity. ”

Ling Zhen said: "I have set off fireworks for the official family for ten years, and I know the importance of the quality of gunpowder. ”

Li Yan nodded, and said: "After the granular black powder is dried, the thunder and explosives package I told you last time will start to be made, I have already told Master Wen that he will organize a thousand people to help you make these two firearms, but those of them are all old and young, women and children, and they don't understand the horror of these two things, you must pay attention to safety at that time, I don't want to die on our side before the war starts." ”

Ling Zhen said solemnly: "Brother, don't worry, I have seen my friend blown up with my own eyes, and I will never let this kind of thing happen in front of my eyes again!" ”

Li Yan nodded, and then asked, "The gunner I asked you to train, how are you training?" ”

Ling Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, it's not the younger brother who is prevaricating, we don't have guns, we don't have gunpowder, how can the younger brother train?" ”

Li Yan also knew that Ling Zhen was a little embarrassed about this, after all, there was nothing to ask for now, and it was indeed difficult to train.

Li Yan retreated and said: "You take the time to go to the reserve to pick the clever people of the two capitals to set up the framework of the artillery battalion first, and then teach them the precautions of the gunners, I will definitely let you have the artillery before the big war, and then you will take them to assault for a few days...... Brother, in this battle, you and your artillery battalion will be the key to victory or defeat, and Liangshanbo's eight or nine thousand lives are all tied to you! ”

Ling Zhen straightened his back and said, "Brother, rest assured, Ling Zhen promises to live up to his brother!" ”

Li Yan patted Ling Zhen on the shoulder, and said: "When picking people, tell them that artillery is dangerous, let them join voluntarily, and then tell them that their monthly money is twice that of Ma Jun." ”

The power of this cannon that Li Yan made was okay, but it was easy to blow up, especially when he had no experience at the beginning of the formation, he was completely risking his life to fire the cannon, so if he didn't give them a higher treatment, Li Yan couldn't help it.

Ling Zhen said: "How can there be no danger in being a soldier...... Brother, what is our cannon like? ”

It was also time for Ling Zhen to meet his closest partner in the future, so Li Yan said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see our cannon." ”

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