Chapter 33: Gunpowder Blows Up the Mountain

Shanxi coal boss has always been synonymous with 'local tyrants' in later generations.

Xu Yang in later generations, every time he saw the local tyrant coal bosses driving luxury cars, hugging young models, and throwing a lot of money in the news, he was very resentful, and he almost said the bold words of 'he can replace him'.

The result is obvious, Xu Yang is not Xiang Yu, and Xu Yang's father is not Xiang Chao, and if he says otherwise, it is as ethereal as the internal qi being discharged from the body, and the world of the local tyrants still has no intersection with Xu Yang.

The dream that was not completed in the previous life, then use the previous life to complete, dream back to the Tang Dynasty, Xu Yang experienced the feeling of a local tyrant, and now he is not for money, but for the name of 'the richest man'.

The development of coal, driven not only by the progress of industry, it can affect all aspects, the productivity of the ancient people is very low, Xu Yang knows, even if there are more industrial products are a drop in the bucket, the reason is that the means of production are not rich, no one will use a higher level of industrial technology, Marx God once said, only after the great richness of material civilization, human beings will move towards the spiritual level, the ancients said: "Cang is honest and knows the shame." That's exactly what happened.

Today's Datang, after the war, the people have just settled, most of the population has been lost, the cultivated land is uncultivated, and it is difficult to eat enough, to say that the steam engine can be promoted to the entire Tang Dynasty immediately, Xu Yang said that he does not believe it, and now the main task is as Li Er said, to find agricultural high-yield crops from overseas, only to promote the crops, so that the people are fed and clothed, the natural society needs a higher level of production demand, which has been proven many times by the development of human history.

So this time Xu Yang returned to the fiefdom and planned to start Baidu navigation data, the manufacture of sea ships should also be put on the agenda, Niu Jinda in the past few days and three days of the two ends of the road Xu Yang's fief urged when to tell him the secret of sea navigation, Yu Chi Baolin and Cheng Chumo also went to Xu Yang's fiefdom to find Xu Yang several times, the restaurant has now been rebuilt according to Xu Yang's explanation, and the three-foot high seats have already surprised the craftsmen, not to mention the boxy high table.

Xu Yang sat in a carriage and soon left the Mingde Gate and went to his fiefdom.

The section of the Zhongnan Mountain fiefdom is now under repair, and all the lime in Chang'an is transported from Shu Road, which is not only small in quantity but also not high in purity, which is particularly troublesome, so Xu Yang plans to build a limestone factory in the limestone production area on the side of Baqiao, but the farmland on the side of Baqiao is the fief of Changsun's family, and he will not sell anything.

Xu Yang had to find a place with a little more lime near the foot of Zhongnan Mountain to burn it himself, the first batch of cement has not yet been made, even if it is made, it cannot be used to repair the road, Xu Yang has not done a good job in his own mansion now, and the road repair is far away, but because the mountain road is too bumpy, Steward Liu has ordered someone to fill and pave the big pit and soil slope on the road, and now the material is not enough, so it can only be done first.

The hill to the south of the fiefdom Zhuangzi has been completely cut bald, and there is not a single tree left in the bareness, and the three hundred craftsmen are now busy and happy, and they are surprised when they see the architectural drawings given to them by Xu Yang, this kind of two-story all-stone small building, plus a courtyard, a hill can make dozens of rooms, the largest of which is of course Xu Yang's, a three-story small building, enough to climb high and look far away.

However, the bulldozing of the mountain is a troublesome matter, most of the time the craftsmen are using little by little excavation to dig out the flat land on the mountain, as a result, the craftsmen from Youzhou all showed disdainful expressions, listening to the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry said to dig the mountain, one by one all turned their eyes to the old men in white.

Now the gunpowder has been studied by Xu Yang's R&D team very deeply, of course, the price paid is not small, the chemical real room with saltpeter explosives has a total of four explosions in Youzhou, killing five old craftsmen and Taoists, and injuring twelve, these are Xu Yang's craftsmen who have worked hard, as well as Taoist priests invited from the Taoist temple, Xu Yang was particularly distressed when he heard that five of them died, and all the deceased craftsmen were compensated with a thousand pensions by their families, and they were posthumously sealed. The People's Martyrs' medals and titles, all the immediate family members of the family are raised by Xu Yang.

Although they don't know what the title of this 'people's martyr' is, the people of Datang saw that Xu Yang personally set up a monument for these craftsmen, and they felt that this craftsman's life was too worthwhile.

The people of the Tang Dynasty are not afraid of death, but they are very afraid of the death of obscurity, they can live for a hundred generations, and the name that has been left through the ages is the reputation that can only be enjoyed by great writers.

Craftsmen and Taoist priests are now improving the ** more powerful, but also more stable, after all, it is in Xu Yang to explain all the precautions clearly and also lose several human lives, adding egg white to grind saltpeter into powder particles, so that the contact surface becomes larger, and the kinetic energy generated by the instant explosion in the air is enough to destroy the world.

Since Li Er first saw Xu Yang talk about the power of gunpowder, he seems to be unimpressed with this kind of army artifact, Xu Yang doesn't know if Li Er has doubts about what he said, but judging from his attitude of not taking any action, Li Er should really feel that what he said is unrealistic and exaggerates the effect of the Re weapon.

Xu Yang didn't know what to say, gunpowder, a big killing weapon, everything else he said was exaggerated, but only this gunpowder, he didn't have the slightest exaggeration at all, mastering this thing, sweeping the world is really just a flick of a finger, this is the crushing of the era of science and technology, just like the Boxer soldiers bravely danced the big knife in their hands, and it is difficult to stop the sharp guns and cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance, which has nothing to do with courage and wisdom, only with the level of civilization.

And the use of gunpowder is the division of the fourth and third levels of human civilization. You must know that the war of the gap in the level of civilization can only be described by the word crushing.

The craftsman of the Ministry of Industry looked curiously at a young man with a big head and a tall and thin young man who kept looking at something buried in the mountain that needed to be excavated, and wanted to go up to take a look, but they were actually stopped.

"Big head, do you think this mountain in Chang'an is a little harder than our mountain in Youzhou?" The tall and thin young man asked as he planted explosives.

The short and fat young man known as the big head is Xu Yang's Chen Datou of the stone bombing team when he was in Youzhou, the son of a money shopkeeper, known for being good at calculations, and once said that he had read Xu Yang's "Primary School Mathematics" in six days.

The big-headed short and fat young man touched the hard mountain stone and said: "It looks similar to the hardness of the mountain stone in the Maozhuang fiefdom of Youzhou, and almost one pound of three taels of explosives can blow up a zhang wide." ”

When the tall and thin young man heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's try it." ”

The two carefully buried the explosives bag, they had also seen the explosives burst into flames and suddenly exploded, and a living person was blown up into a rain of blood on the spot, and they vomited seven up and eight times at that time, so now every time the explosives are buried, only two people are allowed to bury them, and others are not allowed to watch.

The explosives were buried, and the long lead was led far away, and the short and fat young man hid behind the mountain with the tall and thin young man, waving a small flag, which meant that he was going to light the lead.

The craftsmen in the distance covered their ears with their hands at the same time when they saw the small dancing flag, even Xu Yang.

The craftsmen of the Ministry of Works, who did not know what was happening, stood in a daze, when they saw a bright line of fire burning rapidly in the distance on the mountain, and the destination was the place where the things had just been buried.

"Boom!!" There was a burst of noise between heaven and earth, thousands of birds flew up, and the beasts were shocked to realize that Zhongnan Mountain ushered in the modernization of Xuyang.

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