Chapter 143

The young master who just said "worship ghosts and gods and stay away" two days ago became a believer in Taoism in a blink of an eye, could it be that he was sick?

After listening to Yang Shangjing's words, Uncle Zhong was shocked, and when he returned to the county office, as soon as Yang Shangjing explained, he understood, but he still frowned: "If you get some gunpowder, it's not a difficult thing, although the imperial court now explicitly prohibits the manufacture of firearms by the people, but how many of the Jiangnan scholars really take the imperial court decree in their eyes?" The artillery alone, that is, each family has privately cast and hidden in the ship, if you encounter a pirate at sea, you can take it out to deal with it, but I don't know what the young master has to do with it? ”

Shaking his head, Uncle Zhong sighed: "The young master is the official of the imperial court, and the gunpowder made here is powerful, and there is no way to use it on the surface." ”

I can't say that if there is another five years of hard work, the entire Ming Dynasty will be a mess, right? In terms of the level of productivity and the speed of material circulation in this era, not to mention that my methods still have to be transformed from theory to practice, I don't know how many things will go wrong in the middle, that is, the Taishang Laojun has blessed it all over again, and the saltpeter and sulfur used in making gunpowder also have to find someone to slowly get here, and in order to hide people's eyes, you can't get too much at one time.

So Yang Shangjing touched his chin and nodded: "What Uncle Zhong said is very true, but my recipe is still a little immature, find someone to come over earlier, and grope and explore, this gunpowder has been made, even if this Huangyan County is not needed, it is always good to give it to the family fleet at sea." ”

Uncle Zhong squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, frowned and said, "If the young master really has a recipe in his hand, why don't you just repair the book and send it home?" Don't say that there are manpower and material resources at home, even the venue, and there is no shortage. ”

The entire "Ten Thousand Wood Forest" belongs to the Yang family, and of course there is no shortage of this place, but Yang Shangjing still shook his head: "This recipe is very important, and I have to personally supervise it, not to mention, although the Yang family is big, it is a lot of people, so it is not as good as this side." ”

There are so many people up and down the Yang family, not to mention the other families who have inserted them, no one can guarantee that there is no one who turns their elbows outwards and beats them in with cannons, but they are not as happy as this Huangyan County, if this gunpowder formula flows out, he will be missing a big killing weapon, which is something he doesn't know much about military affairs as a liberal arts student.

Uncle Zhong listened to Yang Shangjing's words, and could only nod and began to discuss the feasibility of this matter with Yang Shangjing: "There are some old craftsmen who can make gunpowder, but there are some ......."

Of course, craftsmen have nothing to do with alchemy, but if craftsmen wear Taoist vests to engage in alchemy, and there are more by-products when alchemy, such as granulated gunpowder, then it is not a problem.

Although...... There are a lot of by-products, but it's a by-product.

In fact, it is not difficult to change the identity of the personnel, Jianning Mansion is next to Jiangxi, and the Heavenly Master Mansion of the Zhengyi faction is in Yingtan, Jiangxi, so next to his hometown, the Taoist priest of Zhengyi grabbed a lot of them, even if the townsmen of the Yang family of this level do not take down a few temples and ask for merit and well-being for themselves, it is also necessary to have a good relationship with the masters of several Taoist temples, so that they can raise their hands to accept a few disciples, there is no problem at all.

Although the Ming Dynasty had strict restrictions on the religious circles, the Sangha Lu Division and the Daolu Division were only subordinate institutions of the Ministry of Rites after all, and they were in charge of the Taoist books in Fujian, and they stretched out their hands and sent them away...... That's not even a problem.

So when the time comes, the front hall collects some incense money, and the back of the hall digs a basement called "Danfang", which is used to make gunpowder...... Isn't it a beauty yet?

Of course, it's not that you can't open a small workshop, and you can sneak a little gunpowder out in private, but that's also risky, and now Yang Shangjing of Huangyan County is true to his words, but Huang Chengke, who has been pretending to be a deflated eggplant, may not be convinced, if he stands behind him and gives him a shot, he will cry and cry.

"Although saltpeter and sulfur are not prohibited things, they cannot be purchased in large quantities, so as not to arouse the alarm of outsiders." Uncle Zhong tapped his fingers on the table, his face was slightly embarrassed, the three raw materials of gunpowder

Yang Shangjing was silent for a moment and nodded: "It's not difficult, the sulfur will be purchased at home, and every time it is sent in small batches with the ship, it will be enough, as for saltpeter...... On the grounds of making ice in the hot summer, it is enough to ask the nobles of Nanjing to help buy it, and when the Taoist temple is erected, there will always be some lead, mercury, realgar, sulfur, saltpeter and other substances to refine the elixir, but it will not cause too much trouble. ”

Anyway, at this stage, it is a small workshop to do it, explore the process and the like, the production capacity is limited, and too many raw materials are not used, if you want to expand the production capacity, either he will be the governor directly in one place, and the regime and military power will be grasped with one hand, or he will only wait for the change of the civil fort, and the whole Ming Dynasty will be in chaos when the assault will be made, as for now, Yang Shangjing does not expect to give each of the one hundred and fifty new Ding a few ceramic grenades.

After all, the ceramic grenade should be equipped with explosives, black powder and explosives are completely two different things, as far as the lethality of black powder, plus the pitiful amount contained in the grenade, even if the prefabricated fragments, the lethality that can be achieved is very limited, Yang Shangjing estimated that the lethality after the explosion is worse than a small steel cannon in the hand after five hundred years, and it may not be able to penetrate a thicker clothes.

"If that's the case, it's easy to say." Uncle Zhong nodded, and then sighed, "The young master is well-read, it's good, but this craftsman's business is just like a businessman, it is really a cheap business, and you must not do it yourself, so as not to insult Sven." ”

Obviously, this is another misunderstanding of the source of this formula, but Yang Shangjing will not explain it: "Uncle Zhong rest assured, Jian has his own sense of proportion." ”

So the two of them sat down separately and began to write letters to their families in Nanjing and Fujian, Yang Shangjing's current status and reputation in the rivers and lakes, it is no problem to mobilize some resources in the family, so when Uncle Zhong ghostwrote for him, his tone was also quite casual, and Yang Shangjing's letter to Xu Shangyong in Nanjing was much more careful in wording.

Just when Yang Shangjing put down the last stroke, a soapy voice came from outside: "County Zun, the county government came to ask for a son surnamed Xu to see, and he didn't hand over any stickers, only said that there was something important to discuss." ”