Zhu Hongsan looked up, and the grove with an acre of land in front of him was full of gunsmoke, which was the wind that had blown the gunpowder smoke over, and the four of them coughed. After waiting for a while, the wind blew away the gunsmoke, and then looked at the grove, Zhao Goudan and Qian Lide Ma Xiaofang were so surprised that their jaws fell. Just look at the small forest of about an acre of land that has been blown up by a small half.

The four of them ran forward to take a look, and there were one small, two large and three large pits on the ground. The small one must have been made of traditional gunpowder, and the pit was basically a shallow pit, less than a diameter and not a palm deep, and the jar was still on the side, and it was blown in half. The other two pits are terrible.

It is a meter deep and has a radius of three meters. The surrounding small trees were also blown away by the air waves, and the iron cans on the ground were nowhere to be seen.

Zhu Hongsan asked Zhao Goudan to walk around looking for fragments, and after a while, Zhao Goudan retrieved five fragments, the farthest one found more than twenty meters away, nailed to a tree. Zhu Hongsan looked at the fragments, the size was uneven, the big one was half the size of a palm, and the small one was as big as a copper coin, Zhu Hongsan looked at it and thought: "This is because there is no prefabricated trough on the jar." ”

Qian Lide stammered: "Big brother, did you make this gunpowder?" This is more powerful than Wu Changwei's earth-shattering thunder. ”

Ma Xiaofang didn't say anything, she was used to seeing Zhu Hongsan's differences in the past few years, and felt that the man she fancied should be like this.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "This is what I did, don't go home and talk nonsense, you all know my identity, just say it." Zhu Hongsan looked at Qian Lide, Zhao Goudan is no problem, Ma Xiaofang admires herself to the point that she can do anything, she can rest assured, the most important thing is this Qian Fat.

Zhu Hongsan regrets this, he knew that the black * gunpowder was so powerful, so he led Zhao Goudan to come, and now there is an unstable fat man, if it weren't for the fat man, he would really have a bad heart in the future.

Qian Fatzi looked left and right, and immediately understood that this was Zhu Hongsan who was not worried about himself, and immediately said: "Big brother, don't worry, I will never talk nonsense, I want to say that my whole family will not die well, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed." Zhu Hongsan knew that this dead fat man still valued his family, and this time it should not be fake to swear by his family.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Let's go back quickly, the sound is so loud, the soldiers in the city will come over to check it in a while." After saying that, the four of them went back to the city without mentioning it.

really let Zhu Hongsan be right, half an hour later, two fast horses came from the direction of Wuchang County, which were the inspection department of Wuchang County. After checking, I didn't find anything suspicious, so I reported it to the truth. The Wuchang County Order did not report it because it could not find any reason.

The four of them separated at the city gate, the fat man went home, Zhao Goudan also said that he wanted to go out, Ma Xiaofang had to go home with Zhu Hongsan and let him tell the story, Zhu Hongsan was still in the mood to tell a story with a bunch of things in his heart, and even coaxed her to go home again, and made an appointment to tell him tomorrow.

After returning home, Zhu Hongsan sat in his room and thought that he didn't expect this gunpowder to be so powerful today, and it seemed that it was almost as powerful as those fireworks in later generations.

You must know that those ceremonial flowers are the products of industrialization in later generations, and the raw materials used are high-purity materials, and there are some unscrupulous manufacturers who add aluminum powder to them in order to increase the power, and it seems that the gunpowder they make is so powerful because of the effect of purifying saltpeter.

After the experiment just now, Zhu Hongsan found that the black * gunpowder is not polished now, and it has no great effect. Polishing is more powerful than non-polishing, but limited, in the future there is a base in large-scale industrialization in the polishing can, now the cost of small batch production polishing is too high.

Just now, the jar was filled with more than eight taels of gunpowder, which is almost a catty, and it is really inconvenient to carry a three-catty jar. Eight taels of black * gunpowder explosion radius in ten meters. Later, the German army in World War II The M24 long-handled hand * grenade charge is 200 grams, that is, four taels, and the M24 charge is ammonium nitrate fertilizer explosive, which is about twice as powerful as black * gunpowder, with an explosion radius of eight meters and a fragmentation radius of 30-50 meters.

And the explosion radius of the black * gunpowder nine taels charge made by himself is six meters, and the power is about the same, mainly because the jar is too heavy. Tomorrow I'll go to the Iron Bull and see if I can make a thinner jar.

Zhu Hongsan went out to see how much gunpowder was left, and at a glance, there were more than five catties left, that is, he could still make five, which was his last life-saving means.

There was nothing to say all night, and when they came together the next day, Zhu Hongsan went to find Tie Niu. When I saw Tie Niu in the blacksmith shop of the Iron Family, I found a secluded place and asked: "Tie Niu, can you make a thinner jar, preferably as thin as a kettle, and the jar was a little bigger a few days ago, can you make it half smaller than it?" ”

Tie Niu said: "The copper line, how thin and thin it is, but the iron one can't work, the jar made for you weighs three catties, and it can make two catties at most, and it can't be done if it's small." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Okay, you just make it thinner, so that you have to add a few slots to the outside after you make it," Zhu Hongsan took out the schematic diagram of the M24 wooden-handled hand * grenade he drew in later generations, pointed to the warhead in front and said: "That's it, you try to do it, make five first, the largest one should be twice as big as this one, and you should do as much as you can for the small one." After speaking, he took out ten taels of silver and said, "Then, this is wages." And how did you learn about chain mail that I told you last time? ”

Tie Niu took the silver and said: "I am learning, the process is not complicated, but it is labor-intensive." ”

Zhu Hongsan patted Tie Niu on the shoulder and said, "Study hard, you will find that you will definitely be able to use it in the future." When will the jar be ready. ”

Tie Niu thought for a moment and said, "Ten days, I'll send you home." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded. On the way home, Zhu Hongsan saw that it was snowing again. It's already February, and it's already snowing in Huguang in the past. In the south, it is still like this, and the north can be imagined. Zhu Hongsan looked up at the sky, and the weather in Xiaoice River was getting worse and worse.

I have seen it on the Internet before, on December 15, the ninth year of Chongzhen, it rained and snowed in Hainan for three days and nights, the trees withered, and people and animals froze and died. "In the tropical regions of Hainan, people can freeze to death. This time, the Xiaoice River will not ease until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, which means that it will last for more than fifty years. Zhu Hongsan thought that he might have to go through the Xiaoice River period for the rest of his life, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

There are also many theories in later generations during the Xiaoice period, the most widely spread is that at the beginning of the European Age of Discovery*, Europeans brought some European viruses to the Americas and killed Indians in large numbers. The Indians were still farming in slash-and-burn farming, that is, first burning a forest and then planting the land.

The next year he burned another forest. After the Indians died in large numbers, no one burned the forest on a large scale, resulting in the thinning of the carbon dioxide layer floating over the northern hemisphere, which could not form a greenhouse effect, leading to the Xiaoice period in the northern hemisphere.

At the same time, there was the potato crisis in Britain and Ireland, where millions of people starved to death at one time. Ireland's pitiful population base nearly wiped out the country, resulting in the occupation of the territory by England. There was also the wheat crisis in Poland, which also starved millions to death.

In China, due to Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the state originally collected taxes in kind, but Zhang Juzheng changed them to cashiers. The vast grain fields of Jiangnan Lake are planted with cash crops, high value-added crops such as silkworms or cotton and linen. This is nothing in the case of grain self-sufficiency in the north, but with the arrival of the Xiaoice River, a large amount of wheat in northern China was frozen to death, and affected by the poor transportation roads in the country, grain in the south could not be transported to the north, plus the southern landlords planted a large number of cash crops, seeing the grain production in the north reduced, a large number of grain prices were raised.

The civil uprising began with SX, which had no canal transport, and the mass starvation of people to one place immediately caused devastating damage to the fragile natural economy of the local area, and immediately created more hungry people. And the weakness of China's rule over the grassroots since ancient times has led to the inability of the central government to deal with and understand local affairs in a timely manner.

Various reasons have caused a vicious circle, coupled with the self-righteous Chongzhen, which adds fuel to the fire. If the emperor is as eloquent as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di and others can still control the situation, or Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Youji, Zhu Zaiyuan and others, knowing that they are nothing, they all listen to the minister, as long as the minister does not come to snatch my throne, I will do whatever I like, and I will fight crickets and play with women in the palace.

But Chongzhen thought that he was an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, but in fact, he didn't do as well as Zhu Zaiyuan and them, he wanted to take care of everything, and he couldn't manage anything well. The eyes are high, let the minister work, kill you if you make a mistake, you don't have any responsibility, it is really unreasonable for Daming to produce such an emperor without perishing.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and wanted to go home slowly, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Ma Xiaofang standing at the door of his house, with a pair of slender hands and skin like jade, reflecting the snow, and his black hair was as transparent as transparent.

Zhu Hongsan saw Ma Xiaofang's mood perk, and the unhappiness just now was swept away, and he thought: "Since I have come to this era, at least I can let the people I love and those who love me be wronged, and I will go down this road for them." ”

Ma Xiaofang saw that Zhu Hongsan couldn't come over, her face turned red, and she smiled: "What, stunned?" Am I pretty today? ”

This time, Zhu Hongsan really said from the bottom of his heart: "Xiaofang, you are so good-looking." ”

Ma Xiaofang lowered her head and whispered, "Idiot." ”

Zhu Hongsan opened the courtyard door, let Ma Xiaofang in, and let him into his house. A pot of charcoal was lit, and after a while, the house was as warm as spring. Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Xiaofang and said, "Why are you here, you still want me to tell you a story?" ”

Ma Xiaofang said: "Can't come if you don't listen to the story? I really came to you today for something else. ”