The capital in June has slowly become hot, and Zhu Cijiong's heart is getting hotter and hotter.

Zheng Chenggong has already gone to Nandaying to form the Navy Praetorian Guard Corps, and as soon as the ironclad battleship comes out, who can be the enemy!

There is still a month, and there is still a month, Zheng Chenggong will lead the naval janissary corps composed entirely of ironclad warships to the European continent to kick off the decisive battle, and the anti-Habsburg alliance is scheduled this time!

For this moment, he has endured it for nearly a year, and he can't help but get excited when he sees victory in sight.

It's going to be over, it's going to be over, the war for more than ten years is finally coming to an end, and Daming is about to dominate the whole world!

Just as he was getting excited, someone more excited came to the door.

This is none other than the Deputy Prime Minister of the Ming Cabinet and Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

The reason why he was so excited was because the new gunpowder was successfully developed!

When Zhu Cijiong heard the news, he was a little stunned, at this time, the new type of gunpowder was successfully developed, it seems a little late, right?

After all, gunpowder cannot be used directly to kill the enemy, and the corresponding bullets and shells must be developed in combination with the characteristics of gunpowder, and the corresponding guns can be used on the battlefield.

If it's light gunpowder, if it's on the battlefield, it can also explode and make a sound, and of course, if the detonation position is good, the air wave can also overturn some enemies.

If the new gunpowder could have been developed a few months earlier, it might have been able to catch up with this decisive battle, but now, Zheng Chenggong is about to set off, and it is obviously too late.

However, Zhu Cijiong is still very interested in the new gunpowder, after all, the characteristics of the new gunpowder are close to the gunpowder of later generations, and only by applying the new gunpowder can he be useful in the familiar guns of later generations.

After listening to Mao Kang's report, he still couldn't help but want to see for himself what the new gunpowder looked like, and whether there was any difference in performance from the gunpowder of later generations.

So, he ordered Cao Huachun to recruit a team of Dongchang masters, changed into civilian clothes, and followed Bi Maokang to the gunpowder experimental field in the northwest corner of the capital to see what was going on.

There was no word all the way, and soon everyone came to the gunpowder test field.

With the construction of the Daming Army Military Academy, it has also undergone a large-scale expansion, and the originally isolated row of reinforced concrete laboratories has become a closed small town.

The buildings inside are still mainly reinforced concrete, but they are no longer just laboratories, but there are many supporting facilities such as dormitories, canteens, first-aid places, office spaces, and processing workshops.

Obviously, this has become a large-scale experimental base with full function.

Bi Maokang did not inform anyone, the emperor came, but when he entered the first laboratory, someone recognized the emperor, after all, these people are the elite of the Ming Empire, and there are not a few who have seen the emperor.

No, as soon as Zhu Cijiong walked into the laboratory, those experimenters were stunned for a moment, and then knelt on the ground, shouting long live.

In that way, I was so moved that I almost cried.

The emperor actually came to see them in person, what an honor!

Zhu Cijiong was also very moved, because he found that many of the experimenters had obvious physical injuries.

The better ones are just missing a few fingers, or a little scar on the face, and in the worst case, either the arms or the eyes are missing!

These were all blown up by gunpowder during the experiment, and looking at their appearance, there were no complaints, nor any fear, but only enthusiasm.

Knowing that the experiment is extremely dangerous, he still does it without hesitation, what kind of sacrifice and forgetfulness of death!

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but step forward, starting from the most seriously injured, helping them up one by one, and then solemnly thanked: "Everyone has worked hard, Daming will not forget your contributions, I thank you." “

At this moment, everyone almost cried with excitement.

Zhu Cijiong was relieved a few more words, and then carefully examined their experiments.

It seemed to be just a place to mix gunpowder, the whole room was neat, there was no sign of smoke and explosion, and the table was full of glasses and glass bottles, and the contents were obviously new gunpowder.

Under the introduction of a one-sided middle-aged researcher, Zhu Cijiong picked up a glass bottle, which, according to him, was a new type of high-explosive gunpowder.

He carefully took the cup, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, this gunpowder, how to say.

It's a bit like the yellow gunpowder of later generations, and it's a bit like the smokeless gunpowder of later generations, there are yellow powders and gray-black powders, and it is obvious that this is a mixture of ingredients.

Zhu Cijiong didn't have any research on the composition of high-explosive gunpowder, and he was just able to look at the appearance and satisfy his curiosity.

Immediately afterwards, the one-eyed man introduced him to another gunpowder, which was said to have been detonated by impact, and the gunpowder was detonated.

This time it was an open glass, and Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but pick it up and look at it.

Of course, this time he was more careful, this thing was detonated by impact, and if he accidentally fell to the ground, the gunpowder in the entire laboratory might be ignited!

He looked at it for a while, but he still couldn't see a reason, it seemed that the two kinds of gunpowder were blended, but the ingredients were slightly different.

Although the appearance looks a little different from the gunpowder of later generations, he still believes in these experimenters, after all, the injuries on their bodies are all there, proving that these things have been verified by experiments, besides, there is no hot and blatant bullying at this time, they say that it is successful, it is definitely a success.

The next thing is to watch the experiment, Bi Maokang heard that the emperor wanted to see the experiment, so he hurriedly called a few experimenters and took him to another laboratory.

This time the laboratory is a bit strange, the overall look is a bit like a shooting range in the future, with an open room in the back and an open space in front.

However, there are no targets or guns here, only a pile of wooden planks and wooden pillars piled up outside, and there are two walls outside, one high and one low, the short one is only half a person high, just in front of the open room, the high one is afraid of two people high, standing directly at the front of the experimental field.

Zhu Cijiong was a little confused by this arrangement, it seems that he hasn't made a matching musket yet, why build a shooting range?

He didn't ask a question right away, but followed the group into the experimental field, wanting to see what was inside.

When he entered the experimental field, he was a little confused, there were only two things in it, and he still knew them.

The same is a grenade, from the appearance, it is an ordinary grenade used by the Ming army, but at this time, it is placed separately in the wooden groove of a large wooden table, as if it is afraid of rolling or falling.

Obviously, this is no ordinary grenade.

The other was a four-inch shipboard gun, but it was fixed to the turret at this time, and the flintlock at the back was obviously modified, which looked very different from the flintlock on the battleship.