When Zhu Houzhao said this, Liu Jin couldn't help but shudder in his heart, he had never thought of murdering a patriarch of the Four Dynasties.

But because of this, Liu Jincai began to have a trace of strangeness and fear for his majesty, but at the same time, he also knew that being ruthless was also something he had to have, so he nodded and said: "What the emperor said is true!" ”

At this time, Qiu Ju ran over: "Emperor, according to your instructions, after the slave maid catalyzed the reaction with concentrated nitric acid and glycerin and concentrated sulfuric acid, now there is finally a new liquid produced, and the slave maid doesn't know if it is nitroglycerin." ”

Zhu Houzhao hurriedly asked Qiu Ju to take him to take a look, and then saw an Erlenmeyer flask containing the liquid after the reaction.

Zhu Houzhao only asked Qiu Ju to take ten milliliters of liquid, and specially instructed him to be gentle, and then asked him to put ten milliliters of liquid in the forest by the Taiye Pond, which was five miles away from the leopard room, and then asked Qiu Ju to hang a large stone slab from a tree next to the Erlenmeyer flask.

"Now, you stand five hundred paces away and pull this rope, and then look at my gestures, and when the time comes, I wave your hand and let you loosen the rope, understand?"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, he handed the rope to Qiu Ju, and then he and Liu Jin ran frantically for more than five hundred steps, and only stopped after they were out of breath, hid under a big tree, and waved their hands at Qiu Ju.

After all, nitroglycerin is a high explosive, and basically a small amount of it can explode when hit with a hammer, so he can't guarantee that he will not be blown up when he is experimenting, so he can only let Qiu Ju do this experiment and hide from a distance to watch.

Liu Jin, who followed Zhu Houzhao, also looked at Zhu Houzhao with some curiosity, he didn't understand the horror and anxiety on his emperor's face.

At this time, Qiu Ju let go of the rope, and he didn't understand why his emperor was in a hurry to run so far.

However, at this very moment, the stone had already fallen sharply, and it smashed into the beaker with the glass lid at a rapid speed under the influence of gravity.

Rumble!

Immediately, a violent explosion sounded, and a tree in the place where the beaker was placed was blown apart, and the stone burst open, and the dust flew everywhere, and when the smoke cleared, only a large pit was left.

In addition, Qiu Ju was also swept out by the qi wave, and fell directly in front of Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao had never seen the explosive power of nitroglycerin in his previous life, but he knew that the explosive power of nitroglycerin was sixteen times that of black powder, and TNT was only fourteen times that of black powder, and now it only took ten milliliters or more than ten grams to blow up a big crater and lift Qiu Ju 500 steps away.

But Zhu Houzhao was also a little scared at this time, only to feel numb all over his body, thinking that if he added dozens of milliliters, he was afraid that he would die at this moment, but then he felt a little surprised, because he now has this nitroglycerin, which is equivalent to having an explosive that is more powerful than black powder, but this nitroglycerin is really a bit dangerous, and it will be detonated by violent collisions and high temperatures, and the development of gunpowder in the future of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be satisfied with this.

Qiu Ju looked at Zhu Houzhao with a bloody face at this time: "Emperor, didn't you say that this nitroglycerin is medicine, why is it more fierce than Wang Gongchang's gunpowder, and the slave almost died." ”

Qiu Ju didn't dare to complain about Zhu Houzhao, but he was more afraid than Zhu Houzhao, because he stayed in the same room with hundreds of milliliters of nitroglycerin for several days.

"Gunpowder is medicine! You go back and keep your experiment records, this is our top secret, understand", Zhu Hou, patted Qiu Ju's shoulder, and said to Liu Jin on the side: "I give you fifty milliliters of nitroglycerin, you find a chance to blow up Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department!" I'm only giving you three days! ”

Liu Jin, who looked confused, nodded hurriedly: "The slave obeys the order!" ”

That night, Zhu Houzhao asked Qiu Ju to take only two drops of nitroglycerin and put them in a sealed brown bottle, ready to be esterified into nitroglycerin, a medicine for heart disease.

Except for fifty milliliters for Liu Jin to prepare to blow up Liu Daxia, the rest were secretly taken out of the capital to find a place where no one was buried first, after all, the chemical laboratory was too close to the leopard room, and Zhu Youzhen was afraid that this thing would explode accidentally.

The army in the capital has been divided into 12 regiments and battalions and forbidden soldiers since Tumubao, of which the 12 regiments and battalions are jointly led by the admiral eunuch and the military department Shangshu, and Zhu Houzhao has to control these two official positions if he wants to control the army, which is also the reason why Zhu Houzhao wants to get rid of Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department.

Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, didn't know that he had been targeted by Emperor Zhu Houzhao, but Zhu Houzhao's dissatisfaction with the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty he noticed, and couldn't help but go to the cabinet for a while, and said to Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet: "Shouhua, Your Majesty seems to be dissatisfied with the Ministry of War, and he is very keen on martial arts between words!" It's not a good thing to go on like this! ”

Liu Jian snorted: "It's not Liu Jin, the eunuch and instigated Your Majesty!" It is said that this Liu Jin not only lured His Majesty to play games all day long, but also secretly befriended Wenchen to cultivate power for himself, and also got very close to Zhang Cai of the Ministry of Officials, and now he also asked His Majesty to promote him, and he had to go to Wang Yue, His Majesty asked in person, and Wang Yue had to let him take charge of the Bell and Drum Division first. ”

"I'm afraid that it is also his idea to deceive His Majesty out of the palace, this eunuch wants to be the second Wang Zhen, it must be he who instigated His Majesty to use military force, otherwise how could His Majesty suddenly care about martial affairs, when looking for someone to demote this eunuch to Nanjing, let him stay in His Majesty is not a good thing after all!" Liu Daxia also said approvingly.

"Now is not the time to move him, as long as the military department is in your hands, and the imperial horse supervisor is the prince's person, he Liu Jin can't make much waves, and now the most important thing to guard against is that this eunuch and Ma Wensheng and the party join forces, it will be more troublesome! It has never been emasculated that will not become the climate, but the eunuch party will become the climate! Liu Jian said.

Liu Daxia thought so, and then thought that Ma Wensheng did not resign and still occupied the position of the secretary of the ministry, and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "Ma Wensheng, an old horseman, is a vegetarian person, why don't you die!" ”

Liu Daxia said goodbye to Liu Jian and returned to the military department, and it happened that Xu Jin, the left attendant of the military department, came to him: "Lord Liu, just now Shaanxi Governor Yang Yiqing came to report, please report 400,000 taels to repair the border wall, the border wall in Yansui has not been repaired for several years, and it is afraid that it will be invaded by the enemy in the future." ”

"How can this official have silver, the Tartar will naturally leave when he comes, the military department can't always ask the cabinet and the household department for silver, the first minister has to reserve the silver for disaster relief, and it can't be difficult for the first to do at this time!" Liu Daxia said.

Xu Jin knew that Liu Daxia had always been reluctant to ask for money from Shangguan, and basically liked to brag to Shangguan about how good he had done, but now he had to agree to retreat and refuse the request of Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, to repair the border wall.

"By the way, Xu Shilang, did you ask people to find the drawings of the eunuchs who went to the West back then?" Liu Daxia suddenly remembered something and asked.

"Xia Guan hasn't been found yet," Xu Jin replied.

"I found it for this official, this official can't let His Majesty see this drawing, who knows if Liu Jin, who is with him, will instigate him to go to the West!" Liu Daxia said.

"Xia Guan understands, I don't know when the lord will leave the ya, I heard that there is rain tonight, the lord should go home early, and he can't help but snub Mrs. Ru of Xinna", Xu Jin said with a smile.

Liu Daxia's recent acceptance of a sixteen-year-old concubine has become an officialdom, and when he saw Xu Jin mention it, he smiled slightly: "Thank you Xu Shilang for reminding me, I will leave the government early today, and you should go back to rest early." ”

Xu Jin nodded yes, and then left the yamen of the military department first with a headache, and then asked someone to give the news to Liu Jin.

When it was time to unite, the sun had set, and the officials of the six yamen had not left, and Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department, had left the yamen first because of Xu Jin's reminder, but when he had just left the yamen of the military department, he saw a bride sitting in a large sedan chair outside the yamen, covered with red cloth, which looked very festive.

Liu Daxia couldn't help but be furious: "Who is this who got married and came to the Yamen of the Six Ministries to pick it up!" It's ridiculous! Who did this to you! ”

As soon as Liu Daxia finished drinking, two cows rushed over and crashed directly into the red sedan chair.

Rumble!

A violent explosion sounded.