Wu Sangui took the Eight Banners Fushou Paste Seeds presented by Lu Fatzi's hands, and went back to Kunming happily, and the big and small lackeys and jackals, tigers and leopards of Pingxi Wangfu also happily followed back to share the spoils, but Liu Xuanchu knew very well that there were only so many seeds, and there were so many people peeping, and when he returned to Kunming, Pingxi Wangfu had to make a lot of noise, so he was too lazy to go to this water, and under the pretext that the construction of the Nulefeng military camp needed the people of Pingxi Wangfu to preside over the construction, and volunteered to Wu Sangui to ask the envoy to stay in Qujing temporarily.

Although the Nulefeng military camp was proposed by Lu Fatzi, in view of the fact that Lu Fatzi also had an identity as Xiao Mazi who was sent to monitor Wu Sangui's eyeliner, it was really inconvenient for Lu Fatzi to come forward publicly in the construction of the barracks, so considering this, Wu Sangui readily agreed to Liu Xuanchu's request. To Liu Xuanchu's surprise, Wang Shirong also offered to stay in Qujing temporarily and help Liu Xuanchu supervise the construction of the Nule Peak camp, and Wu Sangui immediately agreed when he heard it - Lu Fatzi is Liu Xuanchu's proud protégé, although the master and apprentice joined forces to make the Lefeng camp angry, although they would not join forces to commit fraud and embezzle public funds, but Wang Shirong, who had always been at odds with this pair of masters and apprentices, volunteered to stare here, and Wu Sangui was of course more relieved.

"Mr. Liangchen, as for you?" After sending Wu Sangui's team away, Liu Xuanchu inevitably asked Wang Shirong with a wry smile when he took the opportunity: "Who am I, Liu Maoyao, don't you know?" Do you think that I will join forces with my apprentices to embezzle the prince's building money? It seems that the money for the construction of the Nule Peak camp was directly spent from my student Lu Yifeng, right? ”

"Is Mr. Maoya too cautious? Is that the kind of person I am Wang Shirong? The crow laughed at the black pig, Wang Shirong snorted coldly, and sneered at Wu Sangui's team, who had already gone away, and said with a sneer: "Like Mr. Mao Yao, I also want to stay in Qujing to avoid trouble, otherwise, go back to Qujing to divide the seeds, say the wrong thing casually, give one less person and one more person ten catties and eight catties, and immediately offend people, and I am too lazy to worry about them, it is better to hide in Qujing and wait for the limelight to pass before going back." ”

"Mr. Liangchen is really smart, anyway, when I return to Kunming this time, the prince has a lively place, we don't want to mix and be lively, and it's better not to see the excitement." Liu Xuanchu laughed, and then he realized that Wang Shirong and himself thought of going together.

"But don't be too happy, Maoya." Wang Shirong said coldly: "By the way, please ask Mr. Mao Yao to inform the high apprentices, although this Nule Peak camp is built with two taels of silver from him, but in the future, it will still be deducted from the 50,000 taels of silver he borrowed from the prince, and in the final analysis, it is still the prince's silver, so if he fights the idea of these silvers, or works in vain, and the people and money are in vain, and the Nule Peak camp is still nothing, and the gains outweigh the losses, then I still have to ask the prince to ask him for an explanation!" ”

After that, Wang Shirong turned his head and left, leaving Liu Xuanchu shaking his head in place and smiling bitterly, taking Wang Shirong's bear temper completely helpless.

Wang Shirong's heart is indeed a little smaller, but the ability to do things is not covered, with the help of him and Liu Xuanchu, when he set out to create the Nule Peak camp, Lu Fatzi was obviously much easier, in addition to recruiting people and borrowing slaves from An Shixian to supplement the manpower, Lu Fatzi can wholeheartedly guide the workers to build the blast furnace, and plan to arrange various construction sites, hoard all kinds of useful materials, and the rest of the little bit is not to worry about, and the progress of the project has been greatly accelerated. By the end of October, the camp had begun to take shape, and the temporary construction site near Sanchakou Fort had all been relocated, and all the workers and construction sites had moved to Nule Peak, greatly improving the safety factor and confidentiality factor.

The progress of the project can be so fast, of course, it is related to the newly developed cement of Lu Fatzi, the temporary construction site near Sanchakou Fort started at night, crushed and calcined the limestone and clay that are everywhere in Qujing, and then added gypsum to grind finely to produce high-quality original cement, which was transported to the Nulefeng camp on the bank of the Niulan River 20 miles away, and cast into concrete cement slabs or used to bond green bricks, building the world's first batch of artificial cement houses, and also laying the world's first artificial cement site.

Of course, because the first batch of cement houses in the world came from Lu Fatzi's hands, this has also become a point that later generations of mites frantically attacked Lu Fatzi - destroying the environment is the culprit of the flooding of the unaesthetic cement forest! At the same time, in the production of concrete cement slabs, in view of the high price and scarce quantity of steel bars, Lu Fatzi cut corners and replaced steel bars with bamboo poles, and produced a large number of bamboo pole cement slabs that were quite strong in the era of cold weapons, resulting in Lu Fatzi becoming the ancestor of the construction industry in later generations, and was worshiped by countless real estate developers and competed to follow suit.

During this period, Lu Fatzi's brother-in-law Shang Zhixin really came to Qujing to visit his sister and brother-in-law once, after repeatedly persuading Lu Fatzi to transfer to Guangdong to no avail, and heard that the seeds of Eight Banners Fushou Paste had all fallen into the hands of Wu Sangui, Shang Zhixin only lived for two days and went to Kunming to find trouble with Wu Sangui. At the same time, the powerful officials who came from other provinces to seek seeds also let go of the poor Lu Fatzi, and ran to Wu Sangui to intercede like a swarm, and the big-fledged and harassed Lu Fatzi finally relaxed, and swore that he would never use hype again, so as not to cause endless trouble, and prevent Xiao Mazi from coveting his 'beauty' and forcibly transferring himself out of Yunnan.

Of course, it is not a matter of trouble and labor, in late October, Lu Fatzi's uncle Qin Xiangchuan finally returned to Qujing from Guangzhou with more than 200,000 taels of silver, completely solving Lu Fatzi's financial problem, and at the same time, Fang Shiyu brought Lu Fatzi twenty Southern Shaolin masters, and the name of one of them is also very familiar to everyone - Hong Xiguan! Lu Fatzi was overjoyed and hurriedly set up a banquet to entertain Hong Xiguan and his party, undressed, pushed food, and desperately bought and won people's hearts, Hong Xiguan and others were also very face-saving, and promised to stay all, or to supplement Lu Fatzi's official team, or in the name of protecting merchants, they joined Lu Fatzi's uncle's Daheng business team of protecting merchants.

At this point, Lu Fatzi's small team has basically taken shape, and the lineup is extremely luxurious, the master Zhu Fangdan, the world's first miracle doctor, the head catcher is Li Tianzhi, the chief soldier of Guangzhou in history, the deputy head catcher is the famous Fang Shiyu, the captain of the caravan is the equally famous Hong Xiguan, and the important thugs are the brothers of the Liu family of the Three Tigers of Guangdong and Xiao Erlang, who is slightly less loyal but undoubted, in addition to the two sons of Lu Fatzi's uncle, Lu Fatzi's cousins Qin Yong and Qin Mo, who are also absolutely reliable and have great prospects for development.

At the same time, Lu Fatzi asked his uncle to find more than 200 children of the Lu family and the Qin family from his hometown of Dali, and formed a team of businessmen to hand over to Li Tianzhi for strict training according to the law of the army.

November 23 of the seventh year of the mite Qingkang Mazi, this is a story destined to go down in history, and it is also a sin that sprouts and is notorious. On the morning of the same day, Lu Fatzi had already made an appointment with teachers Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong to come to the camp of Nule Peak, and went up to a flat grass on the halfway of the heavily guarded Nule Peak.

In front of Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong, Lu Fatzi asked the craftsmen to take out a few glass bottles with scales and introduce them to them one by one: "Teacher, Mr. Wang, let me introduce to you, the transparent liquid in this glass bottle is called sulfuric acid, which is burned from the green alum commonly found in Yunnan copper mines, that is, the water recorded in the "Yellow Emperor Jiuding Shendan Sutra", and the weight is about one and a half catties. ”

"This yellow liquid, called nitric acid, is dissolved and evaporated with sulfuric acid and saltpeter, I don't know if this thing was made before in China, I learned its manufacturing method in Western classics, and the weight is half a catty."

"This bottle of transparent potion is very similar to sulfuric acid, but it is an oil surname, called glycerin, which is also extracted from my research on Western knowledge, using animal oil and algae ash (natural baking soda), and its waste is the best soap, which can be used for bathing and washing clothes, and I can also let you see it later." Oh, by the way, the weight of glycerin is the same as nitric acid, it is also half a catty, which is a very strict ratio, and it will only be wasted if you mix too much. ”

"The white ash in this small bottle is seaweed ash, and its alkali purity is very high, much higher than that of ordinary plant ash. This thing is used in a lot of amounts, and it can even be dispensed without, this time only half a tael at most. ”

"So what is this?" Liu Xuanchu asked again, pointing to the gray clay in a small glass jar next to the sink.

"This is called diatomaceous earth, and we have a lot of them in Yunnan." Lu Fatzi introduced: "After it is mined, it is necessary to remove impurities, and then crush and calcinate to remove water, and the weight is fourteen taels, which is one-third of the total weight of nitric acid plus sulfuric acid and glycerin. ”

"What's the use of you doing these things?" Wang Shirong asked suspiciously.

"A new type of gunpowder, of course." Fat Lu smiled and said, "I want to use these things to make a new gunpowder that is dozens or hundreds of times more powerful than ordinary gunpowder!" ”

"Gunpowder that is tens or hundreds of times more powerful than ordinary gunpowder?" Wang Shirong was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "True or fake, aren't you joking?" ”

"Whether it's a joke or not, Mr. Wang will find out in a moment." Lu Fatzi smiled and bowed to Xiao Erlang, Xiao Erlang, who had already been instructed, immediately took action, first let people light a fire on the other side of the grass, and then set up a row of thick wooden shields, and invited Wang Shirong and Liu Xuanchu to watch behind the shields.

In fact, as long as you know the principle and safe production method, Lao Nuo brand gunpowder is still very simple, first pour nitric acid into the bottom of the waist soaked in cold water in a glass tank, add a small amount of natural baking soda to neutralize, and then slowly pour in sulfuric acid, stir evenly with a glass rod, and then add glycerin more slowly, and then stir for about ten minutes, after stabilizing, it will become a famous and dangerous nitroglycerin. In the end, the greedy and fearful of death Lu Fatzi used a straw to absorb a very small amount of nitroglycerin as an initiating charge, and then added diatomaceous earth to nitroglycerin.

Putting Lao Nuo's gunpowder into two small wooden boxes, holding a small wooden box, Lu Fatzi smiled so much that he couldn't even close his mouth, while Wang Shirong and Liu Xuanchu looked left and right with another small wooden box, and really didn't understand where the power of this thing was. At their strong request, Lu Fatzi took out a pound of Lao Nuo brand gunpowder and filled it in a thin iron can, put the iron can between two large stones, hung a stone on the top of the iron can, and the rope that tied the stone was pulled out more than half a mile to fix it, and then made a depression in the thin iron can under the stone, poured in the liquid nitroglycerin used to detonate, and finally ran away and hid in a safe place.

"Everyone, please keep your eyes open, don't blink, let's witness the moment of miracle happening!" With a shout of incomparable wind, Lu Fatzi personally slashed the knife and cut the rope with a knife, and the stone hanging at one end of the rope fell to the ground with a sound and accurately smashed on top of nitroglycerin............

"Boom!" There was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the entire Nule Peak seemed to be shaking from the roots, and the gravel and dirt were flying all over the sky, although Lu Fatzi and the others were hiding half a mile away, they were also shaken and shaky, and their standing was unstable, and their whole body was drenched with gravel and mud.

"Ouch!" It was also retribution, and later the first explosion that brutally killed countless Qing Dynasty soldiers and was known as the three good brand gunpowder, a fist-sized stone flew out more than half a mile away, and smashed it on the forehead of the fat man Lu impartially, smashing the fat man Lu Fat Man howled like killing a pig, and a big bag quickly bulged on his forehead.

Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong were in no mood to pay attention to what kind of pitiful appearance Lu Fatzi had been smashed into, as soon as the smoke of gunpowder cleared, they rushed to the explosion site with several craftsmen, and what made them stunned was that the two pieces of bluestone weighing more than 100 catties used to test the power were blown to pieces on the spot, and the gravel flew out more than half a mile away with the center of the explosion point, and was scattered all over the ground, and the iron cans used to hold the new gunpowder did not even have a little slag left, only some iron powder and iron filings were deeply trapped in the explosion pit more than a foot deep, and it was almost impossible to find.

"Oh my God! How powerful is the gunpowder of Westerners?! It's really tens or hundreds of times more powerful than our gunpowder! Wang Shirong was the first to shout with a blank face.

"Mr. Wang, this kind of gunpowder is the first one I researched, and there is no one in the West." Fat Lu shamelessly protested.

"Three good!" Liu Xuanchu suddenly hugged Fat Lu and shouted frantically: "We have hope!" There is hope! With this thing, the prince has hope, and we have hope! ”

"It's just that ignition is too troublesome, but it can be used to blow up the enemy's city wall, but I'm afraid it can't be used on the field battlefield." Wang Shirong said very regretfully. At the end, Wang Shirong suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Lu, is this thing expensive?" How many times more gunpowder? ”

"Of course, the current cost is expensive, but after mass production, it will definitely be cheaper, and it should not be more than twice as much as ordinary gunpowder." Lu Fatzi replied seriously: "As for the detonation problem, this point does not have to worry about the teacher, Mr. Wang, I immediately began to study the detonator specially used to detonate, and when the time comes, it can not only be used on the battlefield, but also on the flowering shell, so that ...... We all hate those people for having a good drink! ”

Wang Shirong opened his mouth to stammer, and after a long time, Wang Shirong twisted his face and said, "Lord Lu, you are indeed a priceless treasure given to us by God in Pingxi Palace!" ”

"Miyoshi, detonator, the detonator you said!" Liu Xuanchu hugged Lu Fatzi excitedly and shook it, yelling: "Hurry up!" Get it out for me! I'm going to take it back to Kunming and let the prince see with his own eyes how powerful your three-good gunpowder is! Let the prince make it, let the prince make it more! ”

"Teacher, don't worry, Kunming City can't be built in a day, these things have to be done slowly." Fat Lu said: "First of all, of course, I want to make a detonator, so that the prince can see the power of the new gunpowder and strengthen his confidence." Then I had to find a way to produce this gunpowder in large quantities. Then I'll have to work on artillery and propellants, and then I'll have to ....... ”

"And then what?" Liu Xuanchu couldn't wait to ask.

"And then, of course, mortars and gas bombs." Fat Lu replied with a smile: "With detonators, new gunpowder and propellants, I hope to make a mortar that can be carried on the back by one person, but the power is far above the Hongyi cannon!" In addition, there are poison gas bombs, and I am at least sure that I can make two poison gas bombs, which can kill the enemy invisibly! With these things, who else in the world can be the opponent of our Pingxi Palace?! ”

(To be continued)