Chapter Seventy-Two: The Tang Version of the Earth Bomb
Regarding the open and secret battle that happened on Xing's birthday, there is no rumor in the outside world, even the people in Zhen's mansion who know about this matter will not have more than two hands, as for the people involved, they are even more silent, as calm as before, Zhen Qian is still so low-key, as if he is about to be forgotten by the Zhen family, and occasionally when he is mentioned, he also scoffs, and people who can't see it are upset for Zhen Qian, and those who want to see the excitement hope that Zhen Qian can take a hand, and more people are hanging high and unconcerned about themselves.
At this time, I don't know where the news came from, Zhen Qian was about to prepare to separate from the second room of the Zhen family.
For a while, the Zhen family was in an uproar, and some said that the news was false, and as the eldest son, the brain was kicked by a donkey. But someone patted his chest and fought hard, Zhen Qian's brain was broken at all, and staying in Zhen's house was also a waste. Some people also peeled off the cocoon to analyze the reasons, thinking that Zhen Qian was treated unfairly by the Zhen family, and his biological mother was born, and his stepmother naturally regarded it as a thorn in the flesh, so it was better to leave the Zhen family as soon as possible.
Of course, more people are holding the mentality of watching the excitement and not thinking about the big deal, and they inquired everywhere about the authenticity of the rumors, but the criminal family denied it, and smashed a few cups, vowing to arrest the mastermind behind the slander of the mother and son and send it to the government for punishment. As for the person who wanted to inquire about Zhen Qian, he was told that he was not at home and had already gone out to visit friends.
can be the protagonist on the cusp, but at this time, he leisurely hid in the valley of the Qin family to escape the heat and enjoy the coolness.
After entering the dog days, the temperature in Zhending City is extremely hot, it is said that it has already been hot to death, as for how much the temperature has reached, Zhen Qian himself can't say, anyway, the towering city walls on all sides isolate the air flow from the outside world, and the entire Zhending City is like a huge steamer, much like a miniature version of the greenhouse.
After that incident, the criminal steward became much more well-behaved and brought some ice cubes to Zhen Qian, but there were not many ice cubes in the Zhen family's ice cellar, and although the resentful criminal steward did not deduct the ice cubes, he would not give more. For Zhen Qian, who is used to blowing air conditioning, this kind of summer is too difficult, and he can't wait to soak naked in ice water every day to be comfortable, so he decided to use this time to go to the valley for a summer vacation.
Regarding the news of the separation of the Zhen family, Zhen Qian didn't care, and he didn't want to know, this was just a signal of temptation released by the Xing family, wanting to guide the public opinion of the Zhen family.
On this day, Zhen Qian walked out of Zhen San's bamboo house with a yawn, with a tired look on his face, it has been five days since he has been in the valley, since he has not slept all night for three days, he has long been eager to find a place to sleep well, but in this matter, Zhen Qian is not at ease with anyone except himself.
Zhen San followed Zhen Qian and walked out, with an extremely excited expression on his face, and he didn't see any tiredness at all.
"Father-in-law! Will it work out this time? ”
Zhen San is seventeen years old this year, he turned out to be Song Yi's grandson Song Xu, and now he has become Zhen Qian's adopted son.
Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, the ideal formula is fifteen, three and two, but when I was about to do it, I found that the particles and purity of the raw materials were not ideal, this was also the first time that Zhen Qian made dangerous goods in his previous life and this life, and it was false to say that he was not nervous, but the first earth bomb only left a piece of charred black on the ground, and there was not even a cannon to open the door in later generations.
But this first muffled thunder hoisted Zhen San's interest, and at the same time, his admiration for Zhen Qian rose to an unparalleled height, and even Zhen Qian, who had always thought he was thick-skinned enough, had a fever.
At this time, Zhen Qian really found that it was much more difficult to create a Tang version of the earth bomb than he thought. That is, thanks to the information bombardment in the media in later generations, Zhen Qian, who is not a chemistry student, understands a little bit of the basics of black powder, and if he really lets himself study yellow powder, I don't know if he can touch the threshold before he dies.
The first step is to grind, then to purify, and after removing impurities, we also need to try to make the raw material into uniform granules, so that the power of the explosion can be maximized.
But it's easy to say, but I found that I didn't even have the right tools to do it, so I could only do it while thinking of what I wanted to make up for it, and I needed to find a whole copper sheet and spread it on the table, connecting the ground with copper wires, in order to prevent static electricity from the clothes on the two people, the two of them went into battle shirtless and waited sincerely, so they were careful and cautious, or because of the negligence of the two, it almost caused the first illegal operation safety accident in Datang, and almost let the two go to heaven on a dirt plane.
It is said that the ignorant are fearless, and before he saw the explosion of the earth bomb, Zhen San was indifferent to the sharp weapon claimed by Zhen Qian, and thought that Zhen Qian was preparing to refine the pill, so he almost moved the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun.
In order to prevent possible accidental injuries, Zhen Qian designated the deepest third of the valley as a quarantine area, and no one was allowed to enter.
As for Zhen Qian's behavior of hiding as soon as he arrived in the valley, the people around him didn't pay much attention at first, but then the roar from the depths of the valley from time to time made people restless, if it weren't for Xiaozhu and Xiaomei sending food over every day, I really thought that there was a peerless beast hidden in the valley or something.
There is a strange and mysterious atmosphere in the valley, and no one can say anything even if you want to ask, so you can only deflate in your stomach. Sometimes Carpenter Lu and Blacksmith Lin would be called into the depths of the valley, and when they returned, they would hide in their rooms and secretly build something strange, and they would not talk about the discussion around them, as if they had not heard a loud noise coming from the depths of the valley.
Zhen Qian knows that his IQ is higher than his hands-on ability, but now he is chasing ducks into the sedan chair, and his ideas must be turned into reality.
After three days and three nights of countless proportional adjustments, under the final determination of the existing conditions and technology, the Tang version of the homemade bomb finally had a prototype, which is an iron lump the size of a melon, and the lines on it have been carefully polished by the Lin blacksmith, which can be scattered and split to cause additional killing effects when exploding.
The eight innocent fat sheep that were used as the test subjects were firmly tied to a wooden stake, two meters away from the explosion point, this power seemed to be a little close, but the power of black powder was only so great, and it was obviously unrealistic to have any extravagant hopes.
A few Wang family trilogues who never knew what Zhen Qian was playing were invited to the scene, and the two little girls also came over to join in the fun, as well as Zhen Er and Song Yi, a few people who didn't like the excitement were also pulled over, and they didn't even know what Zhen Qian was going to do with such a big formation today, a group of people stood behind a row of waist-high sand, and stretched out their heads to see what Zhen San, who couldn't suppress his excitement, was doing.