In ancient times, gunpowder was made by a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrate in a certain proportion. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most difficult thing is to make fire nitrate, now Liu Yuanshan has extracted fire nitrate, charcoal has ready-made, and the last thing left is sulfur.

Sulfur exists in nature in many ways, some in the form of iron sulfide and some in the form of other sulfides, which is quite complex to prepare.

But fortunately, sulfur still exists in nature as elemental conditions, and Liu Yuanshan's technical conditions cannot extract sulfur, so he can only find elemental sulfur in nature.

Generally speaking, there will be some amount of sulphur near the crater, and the size of the vein depends on luck. In ancient China, the official production of gunpowder was basically carried out by looking for elemental sulfur ores.

It is impossible to buy this kind of thing on a large scale, and even if it is bought, no one will sell it, and Liu Yuanshan's only possibility is to take people to the Shennong Mountains to explore and find it by himself. Anyway, the mountains of Shennongjia are continuous, there is no shortage of mountains, so many mountains, you can find a volcano that has erupted before, as long as there is an extinct volcano, you will always find sulfur mines, it's just a matter of time.

A few days later, Liu Yuanshan sent spies to monitor Zhao Wangzhuang to report to him on the mountain, saying that the Zhao family had not only bought a lot of rapeseed oil from outside during this time, but also bought a lot of clay pots.

These cans were not distributed to the villagers to collect urine, they were used by Zhao Shiheng to hold the stirring soap.

After hearing the news, Liu Yuanshan confirmed that the Zhao family was making soap in their own right.

If you want to make it, it won't be on my head if something happens to me anyway.

With this attitude of not caring about himself, he took a dismissive attitude towards Zhao Wangzhuang's research, and spent more effective time on the study of flintlock pistols.

A few days later, Han Laotie finally finished manufacturing the trigger assembly of the entire flintlock pistol and brought it to Liu Yuanshan to see.

Liu Yuanshan had never played with a gun before, so naturally he couldn't see one, two, three, just simply compared it with the drawings, disassembled the trigger components made by Han Laotie, compared them with the drawings one by one, and found that the discrepancies were very small, which could basically be said to be tailored according to the drawings.

Liu Yuanshan was still not at ease, so he asked Han Laotie to assemble the trigger assembly, flicked it back and forth a few times, and asked him, "Do you think this thing can be used?" ”

"It works, it's better than the things of the Divine Machine Battalion!" Han Laotie's eyes lit up, and he replied very confidently, anyway, he used to be a craftsman in the army, and he had a lot of contact with these things, so he could naturally see the good and bad at a glance.

"However, young master, the little old man doesn't understand a little!" Han Laotie took the trigger assembly and flipped it, pointed to one of them and said: "It stands to reason that the fire gun should have a fire rope, why do you have an iron clamp here so much, so that you can't ignite the gunpowder in the medicine box, how can you beat people?" ”

Liu Yuanshan smiled slightly, he didn't understand anything else, but he still understood this slightly, this is the difference between a flintlock pistol and a firecracker.

The flintlock pistol is lit by a piece of flint, which collides with steel at high speed to produce sparks, and relies on sparks to ignite the gunpowder to fire, without the need to use flint to ignite the arquebus, and then use the fiery rope to ignite the gunpowder, which is too slow.

Otherwise, what else do you need to do with the trigger, wouldn't it be okay to just make a medicine pool?

"Okay, now that the trigger assembly is ready, let's start making the barrel!" Liu Yuanshan told Han Laotie how to make the barrel, and then designed a drawing for Song Qiu, asking him to make a solid wood butt from hard jujube wood.

The plan was being realized step by step, and the rifled flintlock pistol was still a few key things to use.

Liu Yuanshan was obscene, while thinking about the next work, in order to ensure that the gun can be used normally, at least the following conditions must be met: first of all, flint, this is not difficult, the common people use a lot of flint, you can get it casually; The second is gunpowder, and now there is no brimstone, but people can go and get some gunpowder from the firecrackers; In addition to this, there is one most crucial thing that has not been produced: the carving knife.

A carving knife that depicts the rifling of the barrel.

Things always have to come step by step, after all, you can't eat a fat man in one bite!

The words are divided into two ends!

The Zhao family's rapeseed oil has finally arrived!

Zhao Shiheng was very happy, and asked Zhao Yuan to clean out a small courtyard where the subordinates lived in the mansion on the same day, and sent the stinky feces and urine, rapeseed oil and other items into it along with various containers and jars.

Anyway, the Zhao family occupies a huge area, even if the small remote yard stinks a little, it can't affect the normal life of other people. Zhao Shiheng got up in the morning and began to enjoy flowers and birds, and he was happy every day.

In comparison, Zhao Yuan was more forced, he was assigned the task of making osmanthus soap, and he organized people to enter the small courtyard early in the morning to start the formal trial production work.

How Liu Yuanshan produced osmanthus soap, he only looked at the general process from a distance, and knew that rapeseed oil and urine were mixed together for two hours, and then it was molded into shape, but he didn't know what the specific ratio of oil and urine was.

This can only be groped and taken slowly, not in a hurry.

Zhao Yuan is also a person who can endure hardships, and he is eager to make meritorious contributions to the family, not only does he not leave the small courtyard day and night, but sometimes he even goes into battle in person, and he can mix him with a stirring stick.

But when the whole courtyard was tossed by him and smelled everywhere, he didn't make a piece of osmanthus soap, and even, it was impossible for this urine and rapeseed oil to be stirred together?

He experimented with almost all kinds of ratios, from 10 to 10 in oil, but he never had a clue.

Could it be that the method is wrong?

No way!

Zhao Yuan shook his head, that day he personally watched the whole process of the production of the two little girls, there could be no mistakes, there was absolutely no problem with this raw material!

So what's the problem?

Craft!

If you can't do it, it's not a problem with raw materials, it's definitely a problem with the process, no, you have to go up the mountain again, and secretly see if there are other processes when making this osmanthus soap.

But his desire to go up the mountain was soon denied by him. The Liu family didn't know if it was because of the leakage of secrets to prevent him, anyway, now that he wanted to go to Qianning Temple, someone stopped him at the intersection halfway up the mountain, and he couldn't go up. In full view of everyone, even if he can go up the mountain, Zhao Yuan estimates that he can't see anything.

Since I can't go up, I can only ask which link went wrong.

The hard work paid off, Zhao Yuan sent people to visit Liujia Village for two days, after paying a lot of silver and energy, with the help of "well-wishers", he finally understood the reason why he couldn't make osmanthus soap.

The man told him that when making osmanthus soap, it is impossible to mix rapeseed oil and feces and urine together in cold dressing, and it must be heated, and it must be mixed while heating. (To be continued.) )