Saltpeter and sulfur materials are all ready-made, and after Liu Jinli knew that Zhao Tianyou was an expert, he no longer had the intention of fooling and deceiving people. and Zhou Yuan and Zhou Yuan took two young men, and quickly made the first pot of gunpowder, which was quite good according to his standards.

His original intention was to invite merit and reward, and compared with the initial gunpowder effect, it would not cost a few hundred silver rewards, after being broken by Zhao Tianyou yesterday, he hurriedly made a qualified product to prove his ability.

"Leader, look at the current gunpowder, how black this color is, it's definitely a first-class good thing! If this is to the Lin'an Military Mansion, then the stewards dare not say that our things are bad! Liu Jinli was holding a large pot made of red clay, and there were seven or eight catties of finished gunpowder that had been fried.

"Well, yes, yes, the color of the gunpowder is very positive, it seems that the materials you bought are good! Lao Liu, Lao Feng, have they made the cast iron billet? "The blacksmith old Fengtou's crucible stove is not in the village, but is built under a stone wall at the foot of the mountain. Zhao Tianyou began to want them to improve the arrows of the bow and arrow, but because the construction period of the furnace was a bit long, and the mold of the cast iron arrows was not done, it was delayed.

"Not yet, Lao Feng is stubborn, and the stove is not satisfied, he won't start the fire. But Zhao Jiaotou, I told him about the triangular iron block you asked me to prepare, and the mold can be cast when it is ready. ”

It was evening again, and the first cannon with two and a half pounds of gunpowder and cobblestones was placed in the open space in front of the ancestral hall, and four wooden planks one zhang high stood one zhang away. This time, only Meng Wenshan was holding the white-haired one-eyed Meng Ziyan, and Meng Shuirou stood behind Zhao Tianyou, waiting for the cannon battle of the experiment with excitement in his heart.

"Zhao Jiaotou, the imperial court has made a similar thing, it used to be called thunder, and it can be released with a trebuchet, also called a stone cannon." Liu Jinli has worked in the ordnance supervision for more than ten years, and he has seen a lot of things, but at that time, the technology was closed and nothing was passed on. He was only the manager of the gunpowder workshop, and he could only participate in the work of the gunpowder workshop, and he could not come into contact with the practice of thunderbolts, thunderbolts, and iron-shelled mines.

Zhao Tianyou smiled slightly and said, "It's all your credit, Lao Liu!" Keep up the hard work to get the gunpowder recipe right! Let's test this power today, if you succeed, you two will be indispensable! ”

Because there are more charges, there are dozens of hard pebbles in it, and it is gunpowder with improved raw materials, which is much more powerful than the fire dragon released last time. To be on the safe side. Liu Jinli deliberately left the fire twist three feet long, and after lighting it with incense, he could still have enough time to dodge.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the bamboo tube shattered suddenly, white smoke flashed at the same time, and the small stones that flew out hit the wooden plank. A few small pebbles also flew out from the gap in the wooden planks, and they flew dozens of steps away before falling to the ground, and some flew over the wooden planks and hit the brick wall outside the entrance of the ancestral hall, stirring up a puff of dust and smoke.

"Wow! It's successful, it's amazing, God bless big brother, it's really amazing! Meng Shuirou was the first to rush over, and saw that the four wooden planks had been smashed out of many small pits by stones, and several stones were quite powerful, and half of them were embedded in the wooden planks.

Meng Wenshan was also very excited to help Ziyan, who was in tears, the fire dragon Mencius Yan did not see it with his own eyes last time, but the power of this big firecracker was deeply experienced, and everyone understood that this firecracker was ringing in the crowd, how lethal it was.

"Sect Leader Zhao, how about watching my thunder?" Liu Jinli smiled and was very happy in his heart, although this method seemed to be only available under the mention of Zhao Jiaotou, but wasn't the person who finally implemented it himself, and of course the credit was the greatest.

Of course, Zhao Tianyou was not satisfied, but he couldn't put it on his face, so he could only squeeze out a smile and say: "Master Liu, you have made a great contribution, I will help you ask for a reward immediately!" ”

In his opinion, this big firecracker is really loud, according to the standard of firecrackers, this is no problem, the sound is loud enough and scary. But what I want to do is a grenade, it is to kill people, this is a powerful stone that can break a hole, but it is never fatal, and it is difficult to even seriously injure people.

Throwing this bamboo grenade out, you also need to consider the ignition time and weather factors, and the enemy picks it up and throws it away or escapes, and the lethality that can be caused is too limited. However, this explosion opened the prelude to the gunpowder equipment of the Meng family's fishing village, and the patriarch of Meng Wenshan seemed to have more confidence, and he did not mutter about Cao Jian's matter in front of Zhao Tianyou.

In the blacksmith workshop at the foot of the mountain, Old Man Feng had just drunk two glasses of old wine, bowed his head to the wind stove that was not too satisfied, and poured the third glass of wine in his hand on the ground.

"A few of you are kneeling behind me, kowtowing to the old ancestor, bless the disciples with a prosperous fire, and create a lot of heirloom soldiers!" After kowtowing three times, Old Man Feng said to an apprentice: "Go and ask the people of the Meng family, what is the sound of thunder, don't come back to sleep if you don't understand!" ”

Old man Feng, a blacksmith, is also a man with a story, unlike Liu Jinli, he is a Huai man who has been striking iron for a living. At that time, he was famous as a master craftsman, and he spent his whole life studying how to improve the process of ironmaking and the technical research of improving the performance of ironware.

However, the reason for the exile to Quanzhou is also because of the war, Kublai Khan said that the Yuan soldiers before the Khan were extremely ferocious and did not leave a living mouth, and everywhere they went, as long as they could pant and speak, all of them would be killed, robbed and burned.

There were hundreds of people in the Feng family's blacksmith workshop, and they couldn't bear to see the ancestral furnace destroyed, so they raised their knives and grabbed to fight with the Yuan soldiers, and finally ended up with the blacksmith shop. Old Feng Tou was only in his thirties at the time, and he was one of the inheritors of the blacksmith skills selected by the Feng family, and he was pierced in the chest by a knife and did not die, and only woke up two days later and crawled out of the pile of bones.

He fled all the way to the south, and after settling outside Quanzhou City, he still made a living by striking iron, and opened a furnace to accept apprentices for free, and taught skills without concealment. Old man Feng thought that if he taught one more blacksmith, he would be able to make a few more quick knives for the Great Song Dynasty and arm a few more soldiers to kill the enemy, so he never cared about and retained his ancestral skills.

Over the years, he has received countless apprentices but has not made much money, and his small income has also been used by him to improve iron-making technology. However, he has not had much contact with Zhao Tianyou recently, because of the problem of the stove, there has been no ignition, and he is naturally embarrassed to ask any questions to the owner.

However, the loud noise out of thin air just now aroused the curiosity in his heart, so he sent someone to ask for clarification.