"In the past two months, we have blended the purified materials according to the ratio of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal as His Highness said, and a total of forty-seven formulas have been blended, of which twenty-eight have been rejected by experiments, and the remaining nineteen have produced a slight burst reaction, but they are not as powerful as His Highness said." Zhou Gongyi stood in front of Yang Yi, holding a notebook and reading word by word.

It's not that Yang Yi didn't let Zhou Gongyi sit down, but that he had just received a sturdy fifty torture staff, but fortunately, although he was a family of craftsmen, he had also worked as a poor guard in the imperial city for several years, and his body was still resistant.

Yang Yi frowned and took the notebook in Zhou Gongyi's hand, and frowned tightly when he looked at it, wishing that he could now have a computer connected to the Internet, as long as he tapped his fingers twice, he could find out the specific numerical ratio, which would be like now, almost using human life to find out the correct configuration of black powder.

However, even after such a large number of casualties, Yang Yi still knew the importance of the development of black powder, and even if he paid more price, he had to make it upside down.

Yang Yi handed the notebook back to Zhou Gongyi, gritted his teeth and said: "The correct ratio configuration is likely to be in these nineteen mixtures, continue to look for it, and you must not give up!" ”

"Your Highness..."Zhou Gongyi wanted to say something, but finally swallowed the words back, and tightly pulled the notebook back into his hand.

Yang Yi saw Zhou Gongyi's thoughts, and with a thunderclap, hundreds of people who had been with him day and night for more than a year lost their lives, which really shocked Zhou Gongyi's heart.

In fact, it is not only Zhou Gongyi, but now there is a saying in the Wuzhishan Research Institute: everything studied by Wuzhishan is beyond the imagination of any person in this era, this is watching the heavens, God is not happy, so he recruited Tianlei to punish everyone.

Yang Yi stood up, stared at Zhou Gongyi and said, "I know what you want to say, and I know what you're worried about." Now I will tell you that nothing in the Five Finger Mountains is not a heavenly machine, nor is it mine, but a distant country, and the things that have come to me are real, and they have paid a lot more than us when they develop these things. ”

Yang Yi said this is the truth, the great Chinese nation in the previous life, with the blood and tears of the entire nation and the whole country for hundreds of years, really mastered these things that dominate the destiny, Yang Yi and their efforts are just beginning.

"If you remember my words, others can doubt it, but I, Yang Yi, can't doubt it, and you Zhou Gongyi can't doubt it. If we don't do our best to find these things now, we will pay an even heavier price at some point in the future. ”

Yang Yi definitely didn't want to see his own people fighting with other people's spears and cannons with iron spears and copper swords in the future, the price was too great for any nation to bear.

Zhou Gongyi raised his head and stared straight at Yang Yi, he found that Yang Yi's eyes flashed with grief and indignation, which was as if he had seen something very tragic with his own eyes.

Yang Yi was not an angry young man in his previous life, and even a little numb, but as a person who has nothing to do with himself, it is a matter of time, so he must and obliged to drag it in his hands.

Or rather, Yang Yi is actually seeking a kind of self-comfort, there are so many people on the earth, why did God let him cross over? You have to do something right, so that after countless years, if an archaeologist or historian finds out that he is a time-traveler, but he has done nothing, then it is estimated that in film and television dramas, he will become the kind of villain who is hated by everyone.

"Okay, let's put an end to this matter, just do a good job of the aftermath of the accident, don't let the families of the injured and the dead chill, the only thing we can do is to continue to work hard and make results, so that all those who have paid for it will be gratified, that's all."

Zhou Gongyi nodded, he didn't know if he was relieved, and seemed to know that he shouldn't be too hypocritical in this kind of thing, so he changed the topic and said: "Your Highness, in addition to the bottleneck in the research and development of the Black Flame, our other research projects in Wuzhi Mountain have made a lot of breakthroughs. ”

"Huh? Let's talk about it. Yang Yi sat down and suppressed it for several days, it was time to hear some good news.

"There has been a major breakthrough in the trial planting of hybrid rice, and according to His Royal Highness's opinion, we have mixed and cross-planted the rice varieties of Daguang today, and two of them have grown very well so far, and I believe that we can see unexpected harvests in the autumn harvest."

Yang Yiyan's eyes lit up when he heard this, if he could really develop a high-yield hybrid rice, the benefits would definitely be no less than the advent of black powder.

Daguang is an ancient agricultural country, grain is the foundation of the people's survival, is the country's strong dependence, but because of the single variety of grain and the backwardness of the production level, for a long period of history, grain is under a very saturated level.

A war, a famine, or even a swarm of locusts can collapse an entire national system.

A hungry man can do anything, a peasant who has not enough to eat is sometimes even more terrible than a vicious robber, and when a group of hungry people rise up to resist, that power will destroy the world. It is precisely because of this that the peasant revolt became the most feared thing for the rulers of any country and any dynasty in feudal society.

Similarly, when food production increases, it is definitely not just farmers who benefit. In the 21st century of Yang Yi's previous life, China was still a big agricultural country, but why did the state dare to exempt agricultural taxes? You must know that agricultural tax is something that all the rulers of all dynasties and dynasties in the land of China have relied on for thousands of years.

In the final analysis, it is because of the progress of science and technology that grain production has increased substantially. When grain production is raised, there is naturally no longer a need for so many peasants to face the loess and look at the sky with their husbands and husbands, they can go to business, they can go to work, they can devote themselves to other industries. When other industries become large-scale and generate high taxes, the importance of agricultural taxes is greatly reduced until it is reduced to none.

This is a real virtuous circle, and if there is not enough food, it will also bring down other industries, and then the entire national system.

This is the most correct meaning of the phrase "the people take food as the sky". Food is the most central element of any country or region, and it is also the pivot in this virtuous circle.