Chapter 180: Gunpowder [I]

After the choking smoke, Li Cunhuan shook his head helplessly, only to see that the whole body plate armor was gray and white mixed with a little gray and black, as if it had been scorched by fire, but Li Cunhuan could see at a glance that it was just the smoke attached to the surface of the plate armor, and the lethality was simply negligible.

"What is this made of?" Li Cunhuan asked with some dissatisfaction.

"If you return to the general, it is made by the fire machine method, and there are also ancient methods, a total of two kinds." A craftsman beside Zhao Chao said cautiously.

"He's the main craftsman in charge of **!" Zhao Chao added on the side.

"What is the difference between this method and the ancient law?" Li Cunhuan tilted his head, glanced at the other party, and asked indifferently.

The craftsman bent down slightly, showing a very restrained appearance, "Back to the general's words, the Fire Machine Method was accidentally discovered by the Great Tang Xianzong Yuan and the Three Years Alchemy Immortal Chief. The ancient method is the sulfur fire method pioneered by Gaozong Yongchun in the first year. ”

"Getting to the point!" Li Cunhuan urged with some dissatisfaction.

"Yes!" The craftsman hurriedly replied. "Today's gunpowder is generally made by the fire engine method invented in the Xianzong period, made of saltpeter, sulfur, and aristolochia, and there is also an ancient method, that is, the sulfur fire method of the Gaozong era, the formula is similar, all saltpeter, sulfur, but the last material is soaphorn."

Aristolochia Li Cunhuan doesn't know, but Li Cunhuan is clear, he uses it every day, and soap horn is an ancient soap. It is to use a kind of fruit and branches called saponaria tree to boil into juice, and then use a mold to hold it, to be solidified, this is natural soap, called saponaria.

But what stunned Li Cunhuan was that he had heard what soap could be **, but to be honest, he didn't know anything except saltpeter for gunpowder, but today he knew another thing, that is, sulfur, what aristolochia and soaphorn are definitely wrong.

"Stop making this gunpowder!" Li Cunhuan vetoed, in his opinion, making this kind of gunpowder is simply a waste of his money.

"Ahh This time, not only the craftsman, but even Zhao Chao was shocked and depressed at the same time.

Although Zhao Chao didn't know what caused Li Cunhuan to veto the production of gunpowder, he knew that his hopes of returning to Youzhou were dashed.

And the craftsman also said that his cleverness angered Li Cunhuan, what profession in this era, he paid attention to keeping his hands behind, don't teach the apprentice, starve the master to death. Therefore, although the craftsman just now said the formula for gunpowder, he did not say how many doses were needed, so even if other people knew the formula, he was not worried, and it would be difficult to make gunpowder without a dose.

Li Cunhuan didn't pay attention to what the two of them thought, he walked over, picked up a piece of powder in his hand, and muttered: "It definitely won't be the soaphorn and that aristolochia, so what will it be?" ”

Li Cunhuan rubbed the powder in his hand, his eyes looked at the powder in his hand a little blankly, the pink and white powder slowly floated to the ground from between his fingers, and suddenly became a color that Li Cunhuan was familiar with, it was like the color caused by playing with firecrackers when he was a child.

Li Cunhuan hurriedly squatted down, and the frightened Sha Eucalyptus thought that something was wrong, and hurriedly rushed out with an arrow. "Stop!" Li Cunhuan stretched out a hand and stopped Sha Yuke.

The tip of his right finger slowly stroked the surface of the soil, and the expression seemed to be caressing the lover's white and tender skin, but the gray-black ground had nothing to do with the lover's white and tender skin.

"Yes, it's carbon!" There was a touch of realization in Li Cunhuan's eyes, these toners were the ashes that fell from the burning of the arrow target just now.

Seeing this familiar color, Li Cunhuan finally knew what the last material was, which was carbon! He also slowly remembered that the black powder seemed to be made of saltpeter, sulfur, and toner.

"Start immediately**, don't use that aristolochia, soaphorn, use the lighter method**, use toner instead of aristolochia! Make it right here! Li Cunhuan said with some excitement.

Zhao Chao, who had a lot of ups and downs, was really full of infinite vitality, and those craftsmen quickly moved in materials and tools, in fact, the tools were very simple. A stone bowl with a stick, a stove, an iron pot, a delicate little scale, a set of weights, several ceramic plates of various sizes, several keys of various sizes, and a pair of tweezers.

Tools are easier to find, if it is still troublesome to say what medicinal materials are needed, don't forget what kind of place this is, saltpeter and sulfur have long been prepared, charcoal is the main material for weapons made by the ordnance supervisor, and someone will soon move in.

Li Cunhuan even rolled up his sleeves and went down in person. He also said something that no one could understand. "Attention, what you want to grind turns into powder! That's how good it burns! ”

"Well, there is so much smoke from every explosion, there must be a lot of saltpeter! Seventy percent saltpeter for the first time! Well, half of sulfur and half of saltpeter! Li Cunhuan commanded excitedly on the side.

Although Zhao Chao and these craftsmen felt that Li Cunhuan was making trouble, they used Li Cunhuan's money, not to mention that the power was there, and no one dared to say a word. Soon the materials for black powder were prepared, but just as Li Cunhuan was about to mix, the craftsman in charge of ** stopped Li Cunhuan and said, "General, black powder is not made like this, he needs to be fried in an iron pot." ”

Li Cunhuan really didn't know if there was such a process, but he was not a person who didn't know how to pretend to understand, so he nodded and hurriedly flashed to the side, to be precise, it should be seventy or eighty zhang away. He knew that the improved black powder was definitely more than twenty zhang (sixty meters) away. And this stir-fry is not a verbal name, it seems that it is really fried like a vegetable copy, and it is a raging fire below! In case a spark fell into the gunpowder that was being fried, Li Cunhuan shuddered at the thought of this.

It seems that not only Li Cunhuan knows about this situation, but even the craftsman knows that he is very careful, and he is fried by hand, like fried tea. The movements are slow and fast, light or heavy.

Soon, the craftsman took a long breath and took the iron pot out of the furnace, and it was only now that he was truly relieved. Carefully pour the gunpowder evenly into a ceramic.

This time, he picked up a big bamboo tube and prepared to put it inside, Li Cunhuan waved his hand and said, "No need for this!" ”

"What do you do with the general?" Zhao Chao asked suspiciously.

Li Cunhuan asked someone to bring a drawing, he carefully drew a drawing, and asked, "How long does it take to make it?" ”

"It will take three days at the earliest!" Zhao Chao said honestly.

"Okay! I'll give you three days! Li Cunhuan immediately clapped his head.

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