Li Tong said respectfully: "Your Majesty, after this period of continuous attempts, we have made a gunpowder fuse, and conducted tests on the finished firecrackers, and this test was very successful. ”

When Wang Lang heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Take me to see it!" ”

There is nothing difficult about making firecrackers, it is nothing more than putting gunpowder into a sealed paper tube and sealing the ends with yellow mud.

And the firecrackers made with this granulated black powder can no longer be regarded as the category of firecrackers, and this extremely powerful thing can be said to be a bomb.

The hardest part of making firecrackers is the fuse, if you don't have a well-controlled fuse, you want to use gunpowder, you simply think you've lived too long.

Coming to the secret base for the production of gunpowder, Wang Lang saw the fuse produced and looked at it in his hand, which was very similar to the fuse of firecrackers in his impression.

Tearing off a piece and taking a look at it, Wang Lang immediately knew how they did it.

This thing is just a thin string wrapped in gunpowder wrapped in wet paper, twisted into a thin rope, and dried in the sun, which looks very simple.

"Who came up with this solution?" Wang Lang asked.

Li Tong replied, "Your Majesty, this was conceived by a craftsman named Chen Tu. ”

"Which is Chen Tu?" Wang Lang asked curiously.

When Li Tong heard this, he motioned with his eyes for a craftsman to come forward.

"Country. . . Chinese Chen Tu, I have seen Your Majesty! Chen Tu said nervously.

Wang Lang looked at the middle-aged craftsman in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Craftsman Chen Tu, if you have meritorious work in inventing the fuse, you will be rewarded with five hundred yuan!" ”

Chen Tuyan seemed to be unable to believe his ears when he heard this, and stood on the spot.

Li Tong coughed dissatisfiedly and said, "Thank you Your Majesty yet!" ”

Chen Tu came back to his senses and bowed to Wang Lang again and again: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Wang Lang smiled with satisfaction: "The rest of the people will be rewarded with fifty yuan each." ”

When the craftsmen heard this, they were overjoyed, and fifty copper coins could be said to be half a month's worth for them, and they suddenly got this windfall, how could they be unhappy.

Everyone bowed and thanked Wang Lang in unison.

"Li Shilang, go get a firecracker, I'll see the effect of this fuse." Wang Lang said slowly.

"Yes!"

After Li Tong finished speaking, he hurriedly arranged for someone to take out the huge firecracker that was connected to the fuse and was the thickness of a forearm.

"Your Majesty, this firecracker is extremely powerful, please stay away." Li Tong suggested.

The moment he saw that huge firecracker, Wang Lang's eyelids jumped wildly, good guy, this big guy exploded with absolutely amazing power, if you dig a hole in the wall and stuff this thing into it, it will definitely blow up the wall.

Wang Lang also knew that it was dangerous to stay here, so he and the others hid far away, watching the craftsman who lit the fire set it on fire.

When the fuse was lit, the craftsman ran so fast that he didn't dare to look back.

The fuse burned with a "zizi" sound, and after seeing that the fuse was about to burn, Wang Lang subconsciously covered his ears.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and the earth seemed to tremble, and when the smoke cleared, the originally flat ground had been blown out of a shallow crater.

Even if these people had seen the power of gunpowder several times, every time they heard this huge explosion, their hearts would be greatly shocked.

This unparalleled power made them not even believe that they had made it all by themselves.

Wang Lang slowly walked towards the explosion site, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gunpowder.

The shredded paper was scattered and burned to ashes.

"Your Majesty, we have such a divine object, what else in this world can stop us, I believe that as long as such a big firecracker, we can kill the giant python in the jungle." Li Tong said excitedly.

Regarding Li Tong's words, Wang Lang was noncommittal, did he still need to use gunpowder to deal with the beast? This is simply a waste, with the current military strength of the Xia Kingdom, if he goes all out to hunt and kill the beast, he believes that within two years, there will not be a single beast within a radius of a hundred miles.

"Li Shilang, this thing still needs to be improved, this kind of paper firecrackers will be used to open mountains and build roads in the future, but it is still not good to use in the military." Wang Lang said slowly.

Li Tong asked, "I wonder how Your Majesty wants to improve?" ”

Wang Lang squatted on the ground, drew the shape of a grenade on the ground with his fingers, and said: "My idea is this, you make the container with gunpowder into this shape, use wood instead of paper, and ignite the fuse from the handle, so that the soldiers can easily throw it out, it is best to add some copper nails and iron nails and other things to it, which can also enhance some of the lethality, I call this thing a grenade!" ”

After Li Tong listened to Wang Lang's words, he was immediately impressed by Wang Lang's wisdom, he could think of such a wonderful method in such a short time, and he felt in his heart that even a god was estimated to be like this.

"I am really impressed by the wisdom of Your Majesty, and the idea of this grenade is brilliant, so that if a soldier throws a bunch of grenades at the enemy, he will definitely blow them up into the sky!" Li Tong said excitedly.

Wang Lang just smiled faintly at Li Tong's amazement, he knew that any modern person who invented gunpowder would develop in this direction, and there was nothing to admire.

Now that he is the head of a country, he doesn't need to show anything in front of everyone, it makes no sense for him to do that, if there is no threat from the dinosaur people, he estimates that he will not have made such a black technology as gunpowder at all, all this is just for self-preservation.

"Li Aiqing, how difficult do you think this is?" Wang Lang asked.

"According to what Your Majesty said, this grenade is not complicated, the difficult thing is only the container containing gunpowder, I can't estimate this aspect, I have to try it myself to determine its difficulty." Li Tong slowly expressed his opinion.

Wang Lang nodded, very satisfied with Li Tong's pragmatic approach, and said: "You try to do it as much as possible, during this period, I want you to test another use of gunpowder, you have also seen, gunpowder has great power when it explodes, you try to put gunpowder in the cylinder, put some gravel in to see if there can be any new discoveries." ”

He didn't know much about the original musket artillery structure, so he could only give these craftsmen some advice for himself, and then improve it according to what the craftsmen experimented with.

Compared with the development process of gunpowder in that world, Wang Lang's advantage is that he knows what the correct development direction of gunpowder is, which is the experience summed up by countless generations, standing on the shoulders of giants, allowing him to see the scenery farther.