Gongsun Zheng took it and took a look, and he saw that this book was a volume of gunpowder in the "Wujing General Essentials", and then looked at the fourth year of Renzong Qingli (1044) on the spine of the book, and he was even more surprised, this is the first version of a set of "Wujing General Essentials".

Of course, he also naturally knew that in the first issue of the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", there were firearms preparation methods such as fire cannon, thunderbolt fire, tribulus terrestris fire, poison smoke, smoke, and fire, and there were three gunpowder formulas, because the palm thunder of his Erxian Mountain was innovated by the previous generation of ancestors on the basis of thunderbolt fire.

However, the three gunpowder formulas are outdated at the moment, at least now the palm thunder of his Erxian Mountain does not need to ignite, as long as he throws it hard, it can be triggered when it touches a hard object.

Gongsun Zheng also pointed to the recipe in the book and said: "The recipe in the book is not a good recipe, and many of the materials listed in it are even fakes, so as to confuse the people who have obtained this book but have improper intentions and premeditate to cooperate with the enemy." ”

Huang Jie nodded and smiled: "Senior brother is right, so it is quite difficult for me to imitate this palm thunder, and now I only have three formulas for this palm thunder, which are sulfur, cooked saltpeter and charcoal, which is very powerful!" ”

"Powerful?" Gongsun Zheng was stunned when he heard this, looked at the imitation palm thunder the size of an adult fist in his hand, and wondered: "It's just such a size, how powerful can it be?" ”

Huang Jie smiled: "Tomorrow is fine, why don't you go out of the city and give it a try?" ”

Gongsun Zheng also readily agreed, but also said: "There is one more thing, what do you think of Cai Jing and Uncle Wang's instigation of the official family to set up Taoist officials?" ”

Huang Jie shook his head when he heard this, and said, "At the end of February, I received the Di newspaper. This matter has been done, what do we have to do with it? ”

What the two said. In December of the third year of this government, the official first issued an order to solicit the opinions of the courtiers. If you want to set up the rank of the Dao rank, there are a total of twenty-six ranks, and there are sixteen ranks of Dao officials. The reason for this is said to be because in December of the third year of Zhenghe, the official family dreamed that he was summoned by Lao Jun, saw Lao Jun sitting in the temple, and said to him that you flatter the mandate of heaven and should revitalize our religion.

In the following days, it was promoted by Cai Jing and others. On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of the government, the world was clearly decreed, and the discussion of setting up the rank of the Tao was passed.

In addition, there is another person who has to be mentioned, that is, the Taoist priest Wang Laozhi, that is, the uncle Wang in the mouth of Gongsun Zheng just now. This man was originally a native of Linquan, Puzhou (now Juanchengbei, Shandong), who was originally a scribe in the Jingdong Transit Division, and he claimed to have met Zhongli Zhenren to teach him the key to Neidan, so he abandoned his wife and left home to settle in the fields. And healed people, prophesied blame, and became famous in the rivers and lakes.

In March of the third year of Zhenghe, the official Zhao Ji gave the title of "Anbo Officer". September. He also summoned Wang Laozhi to Beijing, named "Mr. Dongwei", and lived in the first south garden of Cai Jing given by Zhao Guan's family. There are many scholars and doctors. Zhao Guanjia summoned the forbidden middle school many times, and gave it the title of "Guan Miao Mingzhen" in handwriting. In the first month of the fourth year of Zhenghe, he was officially given the number of "Mr. Guan Miao Ming Zhen Dong Wei", and now he is favored.

And according to the information obtained. The twenty-six rank and the sixteenth rank of the Taoist official are all set by him, with the names of Mr. and Priest, etc., and the rank is equivalent to the middle doctor to the general Shilang in the civil officials, but they are not given to the entourage, and they are not allowed to beg for favors.

Let's see that Wang Laozhi is now living in Cai Jing's house in Nanyuan, and Cai Jing is trying his best to promote this rank and rank, so it is not difficult to see that if two people hook up and are embarrassed, they will inevitably commit adultery.

Seeing that Huang Jie didn't care, Gongsun Zheng frowned and said: "However, the master said that this matter cannot be said to be able to promote my Daomen, nor can it be said that it can defeat my Daomen, so I came to ask my junior brother's opinion!" ”

When Huang Jie heard this, he also closed his eyes and recalled the past strange dreams, but he didn't find any relevant information, so he also said: "Senior brother, don't you think that this matter will be related to the major events in ten years?" ”

Gongsun Zheng nodded and said: "The major events in the past ten years are not only related to the rise and fall of the world, the blessings and misfortunes of all people, but also closely related to the rise and fall of our Daomen. ”

Huang Jie pressed his head and temples, and he was also embarrassed: "I'm just afraid that my senior brother won't believe it, to this day, I haven't heard from my family's master, and I still remember that before my brother went to Liaodong, he said that soon there would be a Taoist brother to cover him, but now I haven't seen it anymore." ”

Gongsun Zheng frowned when he heard this, and asked with a straight face, "Is this serious?" Zhu Zhenren really didn't send anyone? I'll take care of it! ”

Thinking about it, Gongsun Zheng said again: "There is one more thing, junior brother, do you really want to go to the meritorious test?" ”

Huang Jie smiled silently, and said to Gongsun Zhengtian: "Eat tea!" ”

The next day, Huang Jie invited the four elders of the Sun family, Sun Li, Sun Xin, Yang Zongbao, Zhang He, Zhu Gao, Hua Tong, Hu Ren and others to accompany Gongsun Zheng to Wanhuang Lianzhuang.

Huang Jie's imitation of the palm thunder, the shell is divided into two halves and tenoned after being cast with pig iron juice, about half a minute (0.5 cm) thick, and then sealed with iron juice, which is filled with one catty and six taels to make granular gunpowder the size of a grain of rice, and wrapped in mulberry hemp paper mixed with gunpowder to make a medicine twist, usually the thunder body and the medicine twist are separated and packaged, and the medicine twist is cut and installed according to the situation when used.

At the beginning, Gongsun Zheng handed over the genuine cannon to Huang Jie, and taught him to dismantle and study it early, but Gongsun Zheng came this time and asked for a whole twelve from Luo Zhenren, so he also asked him to put one to see the power first.

I saw that Gongsun Zheng chose a wooden human-shaped target, stood seven or eight feet away and threw it hard, and the egg-sized genuine palm thundered on the wooden target and exploded with a "bang", the sound was also loud, and there were five-colored smoke coming out.

After the smoke cleared, I saw that a shallow pit the size of a sea bowl had exploded on the wooden target, and the power of this cannon was actually good.

Replaced Huang Jie, he simply put his imitation palm thunder in front of the wooden target, cut off a foot-long medicine twist, lit it, and then rushed to the crowd, and shouted: "Retreat!" Withdraw! Hurry back to thirty feet away! ”

Everyone saw that he didn't look like a joke, so they also retreated according to his words, and then watched from a distance as the medicine twist slowly burned out, and then first saw that the iron ball suddenly burst open after a flash of firelight, and then heard a loud "boom" in the dazzling flames, and then saw that the sky was full of flying rubble, which naturally made everyone dumbfounded!

After the smoke passed, I saw that there was only a shallow pit about two feet in size on the ground where the explosion occurred, but the wooden target inserted on the side was completely gone, and when I was stunned, the flower with the best eyes opened his mouth and pointed to the distance and shouted: "Look! The human target is shattered! ”

Everyone hurriedly walked in to take a look, and the target made of wood was not blown away far, but it was blown to pieces by the power of the explosion, and it was cracked into seven or eight pieces.

Huang Jie picked up a piece of broken wood, pointed to the square piece of broken iron embedded in it, and smiled at Gongsun Zheng and the others: "Didn't you ask what the warp and weft lines on the thunder body were for when you came, but now you can see it?" ”

Everyone gasped when they saw it, only Uncle Sun Qi laughed and said, "Okay!" Such a sharp weapon is best used to defend the city and deal with cavalry, and it can take down a large area at once! ”

Gongsun Zheng was also dumbfounded, and said: "If such a sharp weapon is already there, why worry about killing that bone!" (To be continued.) )