"This morning the minister took saltpeter and grinded it, if it was usual, if it was usual..., the king ...... it,"

After Chang Jiang prayed, Xiong Jing quickly rushed to the mansion. When getting off the car, Gong Yin Dao, Gong Xuan, Gong Ji Ji and others immediately stepped forward to tell Xiong Jing the details of the accident, but these people are not young, and they are shorter than Xiong Jing, and when Xiong Jing is about to enter the house, they can't keep up, so they can only chase behind.

Gunpowder is a dangerous thing, so the government has set aside a separate area to build a gunpowder factory, which is managed by the emperor. The explosion just now blew a corner of the workshop, half of the roof was torn off, the thick concrete wall was also blown apart, and the stone mortar of the saltpeter grinding in the field had long since become shattered and disappeared, and only the scorched black and several corpse stumps left behind by the explosion could be seen in place.

"How many dead or wounded?" Seeing the bloody corpse, Xiong Jing's face sank again.

"Your lord, thirteen people died, and more than twenty people were injured." This fat man has a bitter face. Although the factory is not officially named, it is called the Gunpowder Mansion within the Mansion, and he is also known as the Mansion Yin. He was modest, saying that he was just a soup cooker, how could he do Fu Yin.

"It is necessary to give birth to a pension." Xiong Jing sighed. There have been many accidents in the construction of the mansion, but there has never been such a time when so many people have been killed or injured like this time, let alone such an earth-shattering accident that can be heard dozens of miles away.

"What if it was in the past?" Xiong Jing asked again after speaking, and he remembered that the grinding had never exploded before.

"Your Majesty, this has never happened before." He shook his head again and again, shaking the fat on his face and shaking. Because his hands were dirty and his face was touched, the whole person looked like a big fat cat who was stealing food and shaking his head vigorously.

"Not really." Gong Yin Dao and Gong Yi Ji shook their heads after him. All of them had experienced gunpowder grinding and had never experienced anything like this. Gong Yi said: "The minister thought that the saltpeter was too pure. ”

"Why is saltpeter too pure?" Xiong Jing also realized. "Today is the first ......"

"King Yu, today is indeed the first time to grind, in the past it was nitrate purified from nitrate, and today ......" said with a frightened voice, talking about the difference between today and the past. Today, take half a ton of saltpeter with sulfur charcoal grinding, start in the morning, stop at noon, start again when the small move, less than an hour... It blew up. In the afternoon, the minister came here to take a look and instructed them to grind carefully......"

Sweating all over his body, he talked about the details that are different from the usual. In the past, saltpeter was not pure, but now saltpeter is very pure, and the difference is here. Saltpeter is not pure and grinding is not easy to explode, saltpeter is very pure, it is different.

"How's that?" Knowing the cause of the accident, Xiong Jing was a little discouraged. Through high-purity saltpeter, Zaofu avoided the technical bottleneck of nitrate purification, but there was no way to break through another bottleneck. Xiong Jing didn't know that this bottleneck existed until this bottleneck appeared in front of him. Could it be that if you want to mix salt in saltpeter, what is the value of painstakingly looking for saltpeter from 100,000 miles away and transporting it back?

"Or, or ......" said twice, and the Chu Palace chef didn't come up with any other way.

"Or you can order the craftsman to grind it with his own hands, and grind it for a few catties." The grinding is driven by a steam engine, which can grind hundreds of kilograms or even one or two tons at a time, and if the saltpeter is too pure to avoid the explosion, then let the scale of the explosion be smaller.

"Yes." The way to lose the taboo is a way. "Is it possible?"

"Your Majesty, it's okay and feasible." He replied. He looked around the workshop again, and then said: "If you order the craftsman to grind it by hand, this place is too narrow, please ask the worker Yin to give the house again." ”

"No." Gong Yin Dao nodded again and again, and he said to Xiong Jing: "Please don't worry, the king will definitely handle this matter properly." ”

"How's gunpowder? How to ...... gunpowder" is the voice of Nao Cunning, Zhao Huang, and Lan Lu. They were dealing with government affairs in the childish gate, and when they heard the explosion, they rushed to it. Xiong Jing was on the Mixuan Mansion, closer than them, so they arrived late.

"I've seen the king." When the three of them saw that Xiong Jing was also there, they saluted again and again. "Dare to ask the king?"

"The saltpeter is too pure, and the medicinal power is too strong," Xiong Jing replied, which was good news, but unfortunately he quickly turned around, "However, grinding is not lawful, and it was not fried in the past, but now it is exploded." ”

"What should I do?!" The three of them were a little happy when they heard Xiong Jing's explanation, and the explosion just now was felt by the whole Ying, at first everyone thought it was moving, and when they saw a huge cloud of white smoke rising in the direction of the mansion, they knew that it was the sudden explosion of gunpowder.

"Just try them one by one." The method of public loss and taboo sounds effective, and no one can guarantee that it will work until there is no result. "The widow thinks that it is not possible to change the medicine in the short term, so he ......"

Under large-scale production, new raw materials must have new processes, and new processes cannot be achieved overnight, but must be tested and explored little by little. It takes time to explore, and the front line is attacking Chencang Road, and gunpowder is being consumed every day, and it is estimated that when the process is explored, the gunpowder on the front line is almost exhausted. Hope is only on the seamen, the gunboats blockade the bay and do not consume much gunpowder.

If the 100 tons of gunpowder from the gunboat can be transported back and distributed, the Chu army will be equivalent to an additional 300 tons of gunpowder, which is greater than the total amount of gunpowder now, but this can only be done if an effective grinding process is really developed. It is almost June, and before September, we will pull down the Dasan Pass and attack the Guanzhong, at least in September to make new gunpowder, and in July and August at the latest, there must be a feasible grinding process.

"Before August, the builder must know how to grind the new saltpeter." Xiong Jing looked at Gong Yin Dao, Gong Yi Ji, and Gong Xuan, and used an order tone, this is the latest deadline.

"The king, the minister thinks it's too late." The production of military merit is related to military strategy. Nao knew Xiong Jing's plan, and when he heard his orders, he had to point out the omissions.

"How not?" Xiong Jing looked at him.

"Since it is a new drug, there should be a shooting table for the new drug, otherwise how can the gunners use it." Nao Cunning reminded.

Gunpowder must have stable raw materials and stable processes in order to have a reliable shooting meter; With the gun shooter, the charge can be accurate and hit the target accurately. New drugs replace old drugs, and new shots naturally replace old ones. August to September is only one month, and the manufacturing and shipping time has to be removed during this period, which is simply not enough.

"Not yet." It's not that the shooting table Xiong Jing did not take into account, but there is simply no time to experiment with a new drug injection table. "When the new drug is issued, you can give a rough shooting table, it doesn't have to be too detailed, and the cannon will make adjustments when it is used."

The first batch of gunners had all graduated, and Xiong Jing could only hope that they would use the new medicine correctly. Nao also felt Xiong Jing's helplessness, and had to nod and say, "Chen Zhiye." Then he withdrew from the mansion with Zhao Huang and Lan Hao.

Xiong Jing was the only one on the carriage back to Dongcheng, and when he was alone, he could think about what the queen mother had just said.

Knowing her son Mo Ruomu, Xiong Jing's plan Concubine Zhao is clear, at least part of it. This part is very inappropriate in her opinion, because Mi Xuan was sent by Mi Xuan, and Mi Jian was the empress dowager of Qin, and her strategy was the same as her own, which was to influence the direction of the enemy country's government through the next generation of kings.

Under normal circumstances, this effect has little effect on the Chu State, and the effect on the Qin State is even greater, but it is not so great that it is infinite. The Qin State has Qin laws, and officials are engaged in accordance with the laws; The Qin State has a Xiangbang, and the Xiangbang is in charge of the state and may not completely obey the words of the king. Before the rabbit dies and the dog cooks, the bird hides the bow, before the world is dominated, the king of Qin still has to rely on Qin law and courtiers, and these people can still influence the government.

The abnormal situation is that the state of Chu is like the state of Zhao, and the doctors of the Zheng dynasty who check and balance the monarchy no longer exist, and at this time, the king of Chu decides everything, which will naturally be affected by his relatives; The abnormal situation of the Qin state was that the Qin state eventually dominated the world. Now that the Qin state has destroyed all the kingdoms, does the Qin law still have to follow? Do ministers still have to respect and listen to their opinions? From a practical point of view, it is completely unnecessary. Because the goal has been achieved, Qin Law can be changed, and the minister can be despised.

It doesn't matter how the Qin State is, the Chu State is really dead like the Zhao State, is it really feasible to hand over the restoration of the country to a woman who was born and grew up in the Qin State? The meaning of the queen mother is not feasible because she is a Qin woman.

If you don't hand over the restoration of the country to Mi Xuan, who else can you hand it over? Win South? Ying Nan is definitely not good, and Ji Yu is certainly not good, Fei Kejia is gentle and considerate, knowledgeable, and reasonable, and is the most popular among all the women, but a woman like her is only suitable for being a virtuous queen in peacetime, not for being a queen of the king.

Ba Lu basically doesn't have to think about it, she is too naïve; Su Yue is very quiet, but she is the daughter of Yue, or the granddaughter of Yue Junkai, after the death of Yue, he occupied the place of Huiji, if he was not an old fox with oil on all sides, he would have been swallowed by Huang Xie who was sealed in Wu Land.

"I've seen the king." The carriage traveled to Xiaoyi in the south of the city, and when Xiong Jing saw Mi Xuan again, he found that her eyes were swollen.

"It's the queen mother who is not good." Xiong Jing looked at her and said with pity. "The queen mother married into the state of Chu after the Battle of Changping, and now the state of Zhao is dead, she hates the Qin people......"

"Woo woo......" Xiong Jing didn't persuade him, but he cried again as soon as he persuaded him. She threw herself at her husband and sobbed while crying, and cried for a while before arguing: "My surname is Mi, and I am from Chu, no, no... It's not Qin Ren......, woo woo ......"

"Yes, yes. You are a Chu person, a Chu person! It's not a Qin person, it's not a Qin person......" Xiong Jing patted her back and nodded repeatedly. Mi Xuan cried for a while, and after a while, she stopped crying, and Su Bai said: "Xuan'er is guilty, she shouldn't cry in front of the king." ”

"Ugh." Xiong Jing pulled her up and hugged her into his arms, and said hatefully: "You are not guilty, I was wrong." ”

"Is the king rice?" Qi Xuan, who was trying to get back to normal, broke free from Xiong Jing's embrace and asked with a forced smile. When her husband came home and she cried before he could eat, she felt guilty.

"Not hungry." Xiong Jing shook his head, before returning to Xiaoyi, he had already thought of the alliance with the Qiang people in a dozen days, as well as the offensive against Dasanguan launched in September.

The military is a good medicine for solving political problems, and even internal political problems can be passed on through foreign wars. The biggest problem in front of Chu and himself is to defeat Qin, which is the root of solving the problem. The problem with the Qiang people is also an offshoot of this fundamental problem, as well as the contradiction between the wife and the queen mother.

Xiong Jing didn't think about how to resolve the contradictions, he was thinking about how to stabilize the Chuqiang Alliance, especially how to break through the Great Dispersion Pass.

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