Chapter Twenty-Nine: Preparation
Their own people were killed, why didn't they wait for the government to come? Why are they running? And the body was removed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is completely unconscionable.
If it's because I'm afraid of my own revenge, it doesn't make sense. Since you dare to kill yourself, you are definitely not afraid of retaliation.
But they ran, what were they worried about, or what were they afraid of?
A few big men hid mysteriously in the house, and they were afraid that people would hear and see it, which must not be a good thing.
Thinking of this, Wu Yuanqing's eyes lit up.
Could it be that they are afraid of the government?
Yes, it must be!
Only in this way can we explain why they chose to flee after being killed.
That's because they're afraid of the government, and they're worried that the government will find out something that is not good for them.
Who would be afraid of the government?
In addition to the promotion of fighting the small people, there are only two kinds of people who are afraid of the government, one is to do bad things, and the other is to prepare to do bad things.
Who do these people belong to?
Looking at their appearance, they are all so tall and burly, fierce and vicious, they will definitely not be the people of Shengdou.
The tacit understanding between the actions is faintly military, and it is likely to be a person in the army.
it!
He probably killed one soldier himself, and in front of four other soldiers.
Wu Yuanqing felt a chill between his legs.
The sorrow of the balls.
Carrying a gun together, sharing the window together, sharing the spoils together, and prostituting together are the four irons of life.
These are the four most connected people. Those who have carried guns together are comrades-in-arms, and they are people who can give their backs and their lives to the other party.
These people dare to kill the little grandfather of the country, it can be said that they have put life and death aside, such a group of outlaws, provoked a group of people who can come.
Wu Yuanqing felt that he was in trouble, and he was in trouble.
The night passed in a state of panic.
Wu Yuanqing got up early in the morning. Come together, let the housekeeper go to the Assassin's Mansion and tell the Assassin History of his suspicions about those people.
The assassin attaches great importance to this, and he recruited the officials to ask about last night's incident, and compared it with Wu Yuanqing's words, he believed it for seven or eight points.
In such a sensitive period as the prince going to Jinyang, these suspicious people appeared, and such suspicious things made people have to think about it.
If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens.
In order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, Thorn Shi immediately ordered a secret city-wide search for Jinyang City.
After getting the housekeeper's reply, Wu Yuanqing's heart was a little more stable.
But after all, it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others.
Wu Yuanqing decided to make something for himself to defend himself. Call the housekeeper and ask him to arrange for people to purchase alchemy things on a large scale, alchemy furnaces, cinnabar, sulfur, fruit charcoal, saltpeter, realgar, alum, and the like.
After explaining, Wu Yuanqing found the Yang family again and told the Yang family about last night's incident.
Yang is not an ignorant woman, and knows that her stepson's worries are not unreasonable. If those people really want to take revenge, they will definitely not take down people, they will only target these people of the Wu family, Wu Yuanqing Yang is still very relieved about him, and the most worried is Wu Yuanshuang and the three small ones.
Yang called the three little ones to him, told them about the matter, strictly forbade the three of them to go out without permission, and even issued a ban on the concierge, if there is no explanation of their own, the second son and the two young ladies are not allowed to go out, even if there is an explanation, go out with enough guards.
Under a series of orders from the Yang family, the entire Guogong Mansion quickly entered a state of full alert.
The things that Wu Yuanqing wanted were also quickly procured and sent over. There are generally not many of these things on the market, especially cinnabar or something, the descendants of the martial family knew that the little grandfather wanted it, and they were in a hurry, so they simply looted a few Taoist temples and swept away their inventory.
Looking at the things piled up on the ground, Wu Yuanqing was very satisfied.
Getting these things, others thought he was going to alchemy, and even the Yang family came over to ask if he wanted to rely on the immortal magic he learned in his dream to refine the elixir of immortality, and thundered Wu Yuanqing half to death.
Wu Yuanqing naturally didn't want to refine any immortal pill if he wanted these things, and he wouldn't either. He wanted to prepare gunpowder, and the reason why he asked for so many other raw materials, as well as an alchemy furnace or something, was just to hide people's eyes and ears, so that people would not be able to deduce the specific materials he used to prepare gunpowder through the materials he asked for in the future.
What Wu Yuanqing wanted to prepare was black powder, which was one of the four great inventions of the ancestors, and it would not be invented in the hands of alchemists until the late Tang Dynasty.
The gunpowder at the beginning was just an add-on product that might appear after the alchemist alchemy failed. The power is not great, because it is also mixed with sundries such as cinnabar, alum, etc.
In 808 AD, Qing Xuzi, an alchemist of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the "Secret of the Taishang Holy Ancestor Jindan", in which the "Fu Huo Alum Method" is the earliest written record of gunpowder in the world.
Around the end of the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the 10th century, gunpowder began to be used in warfare.
During the Song Dynasty, gunpowder was widely used in the military, and in order to resist the brutal attacks of the Xia and Jin in Western Liao, the Northern Song Dynasty attached great importance to the testing and production of gunpowder and gunpowder weapons.
In 1044, Zeng Gongliang wrote the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", which recorded three gunpowder formulas and a variety of gunpowder weapons, with illustrations, which is the world's earliest record of the process of making hot weapons.
China was the first country to invent and use gunpowder in warfare, but unfortunately, it was European countries hundreds of years later that really carried gunpowder forward.
Originally, Wu Yuanqing didn't think about making gunpowder. He thinks that it is actually good to fight with cold weapons, although it looks like it is bloody, but at least it will not be like the later generations, which may cause the destruction of the world at every turn.
But now, his family may be remembered, which makes Wu Yuanqing very insecure.
Your own life may be threatened, so what delays in the invention of gunpowder and the consideration of slowing down the emergence of hot weapons are all left behind.
Black powder was actually very common in later generations. As a weapon, Wu Yuanqing saw the earthen gun in his uncle's house when he was a child, that is, the black powder and steel balls used, and the gun he made.
Later, the national ban on guns was taken away, and the guns were no longer visible, but the firecrackers and fireworks were still there. Firecrackers, in particular, are often played during the Chinese New Year. Most of them were heard, and some of the fuses were broken, or they didn't sound, so they were taken apart and lit to see the sparks.
I like the smell of gunpowder when it's lit.
Sometimes, they will also take it to the river to blow up the fish, the power is not great, and some people will configure explosives to play by themselves, Wu Yuanqing has seen others configure explosives, and he has followed the person to blow up the fish several times, but later the person played with it once and blew up his arm.
With one hand missing, the man stopped frying fish, and a few years later, when Wu Yuanqing saw him again, he switched to fishing with a fishing rod.
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To prepare black powder, only three raw materials are needed, saltpeter, sulfur, and fruit charcoal.
Why fruit charcoal, naturally because fruit charcoal is the best in charcoal, even for heating in winter, the powerful people use fruit charcoal at home, and it is also the best effect when used to configure gunpowder.
The mass ratio of the three is 75::10:15.
This ratio, Wu Yuanqing learned from the person who blew up his hand, and later checked on the Internet, and the best ratio of black powder is like this.
First, grind saltpeter, sulfur, and fruit charcoal into a fine powder, and then mix them according to the ratio.
In this way, when mixed together, it is already black powder, and the power of ignition is not small. But in order to increase the power, they also have to be granulated.
For granulation, Wu Yuanqing chose to use the egg white of the egg as the raw material.
Egg whites bind gunpowder powder together, and then sift through a sieve to separate the gunpowder according to the size of the particles, and screen out the particles of a certain diameter.
The result is basically formed gunpowder, but in order to be truly used as a weapon, it needs to be loaded into something like a grenade.
For gunpowder to be truly powerful, it must explode in a confined and confined space. It's like gunpowder of the same quality, wrapped in it, and the power of it in the open ground is completely different.
If it is wrapped in it, it can blow up to the sky, and even injure people, but if it is directly spread on the ground, it will be nothing more than a puff of smoke and a little spark, and it will never have the slightest lethality.
Wu Yuanqing chose three kinds of packaging materials for gunpowder, one is a bamboo tube, like a grenade with a wooden handle, and the other is that Wu Yuanqing plans to ask the blacksmith shop to make a batch of iron shells like grenades in later generations, and there is another that Wu Yuanqing wants to make with paper.
It's like that, except that it's not two separate layers of gunpowder, it's just one layer.
Originally, Wu Yuanqing thought that under the ancient production technology, the paper at this time was also of inferior quality, not only thin, but also poorly flexible.
Who knows, when I crossed over, I found that the paper at this time was better than the paper of later generations, and it is no wonder that some paper can be used as a tribute to the royal family.
Originally, Wu Yuanqing used this kind of paper when he was ready to go to the toilet, but it turned out that the quality of this paper was indeed very good, but it was very smooth, when he wiped his buttocks, not only his hands slipped, but also his buttocks slipped.
I can't say it anymore, it's disgusting to say it again.
Although the paper is slippery and cannot be used as toilet paper, it has no problem using it as an explosives bag.
It's not very powerful, wrong, that's just because of its small size.
A small casual person who dares to put a dollar basically dares to put it, people who put five yuan will be nervous when they put it, and there are not many giant people who dare to put it for ten yuan.
The diameter of 10 yuan is the thickness of an adult's small arm, and the sound is earth-shattering, anyway, Wu Yuanqing didn't dare to put it in his later generations.
After a hurried meal at noon, Wu Yuanqing rushed back to his house again.
In the afternoon, the urgently made iron shell was also delivered. Bamboo poles are available at home, and they are cut into sections according to the bamboo knots. The paper tubes are all rolled up, too.
The granulated gunpowder was also dried, and all that was left was to fill and then install the fuse, and seal it completely.
Wu Yuanqing really couldn't think of any good sealing method, so he simply tied the bamboo pole and iron with iron bars, even if it was sealed. The paper tube is simpler, direct and the same, sealed with mud and paper rolls.
After everything was installed, Wu Yuanqing looked up and was startled, okay, the ground of the small half of the room was full of explosives, if this Nima accidentally lit it, I dare not say more, at least the yard around it is about to fly into the sky.