Chapter Seventy-Five: The Association Triggered by the Explosion of the Rod

From Li Yuanba's aesthetic point of view, just short of this vertical crown, Zhao Jingjing can switch freely between handsome men and beautiful women, of course, this is also thanks to Zhao Jingjing's excellent innate conditions, so she can dress like anything.

Zhao Jingjing, who restored her daughter's body, no longer has the image of the handsome boy before, her long black hair is scattered to her hips, a standard classical melon seed face, her big eyes are clear and deep, her eyes are like autumn water, and there seem to be water waves rippling in it; The straight bridge of the nose faintly has the heroism of a man; The ruddy cherry lips, although slightly thin, give people a seductive. Confused feelings.

To be honest, I am used to seeing those modern people with heavy makeup, or those artificial beauties who went around the country of sticks and transformed gorgeously after returning to China, and when I first saw this natural beauty who restored his daughter's body, Li Yuanba had already begun to swallow his saliva.

Forcibly throwing out the unhealthy picture in his mind, Li Yuanba stepped forward to help Zhao Sanpao, and motioned for Xia'er to help Zhao Jingjing up, and said: "Sanpao, since you sue me about this matter, then I naturally won't stay out of it!" You can rest assured, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, no matter who is involved in the case, even if it is a relative of the emperor, old. The son can also pick off the skin on their bodies and gnaw off two catties of meat! ”

I don't know if it's because of the beauty, or if the sense of justice in my heart suddenly bursts, anyway, this time Li Yuanba was ruthless.

"Lord ......"

When Zhao Sanpao heard this, he was a mess of emotion, and he was about to kneel down again.

Li Yuanba hurriedly supported him and said: "Three cannons, as the so-called man has gold under his knees, and he kneels to his parents when he returns to heaven!" I, Li Yuanba, can't afford such a gift from you? Well, then, didn't you say that you would give me this life of yours? Well, I now order you to be the chief of the Wuwang Mansion, and after tomorrow I will notify the officials, and after the documents are issued, I will arrange you into the Zuo Wuwei, and in the next two months, you will practice with the soldiers in the Zuo Wuwei, and after two months, what position you can climb to depends on your own ability! ”

"This, thank you Lord Wang!"

has become a person in the Wuwang Mansion, Zhao Sanpao is no longer hypocritical, anyway, from now on, his life belongs to Li Yuanba, what Li Yuanba says is what he says, he will do whatever Li Yuanba asks him to do, and even let him die, he will not frown.

"Okay, Jingjing, don't cry, these courtyards will be for you to live in the future, don't worry, I will let you see with your own eyes how that dog official Cui Rong died!" Li Yuanba comforted Zhao Jingjing twice, patted his chest and made a promise.

Zhao Jingjing didn't speak, but bowed her head slightly to express her wishes.

"Okay, some things are said, and the mood is naturally comfortable, come, don't put on a bitter and hateful appearance!" Li Yuanba clapped his hands, and in order to adjust the dull atmosphere, he pointed to the ashes left over from the burning bamboo pole just now, and said, "Three cannons, what did you burn just now?" ”

"Back to the prince, this thing is called a blasting rod! It is only burned during the New Year, in order to have an auspicious picture and ask for a blessing for the coming year. Zhao Sanpao pointed to the ashes and introduced:

"Lord Wang, in the past four years, Sanpao has been running around with his sister, and even after the Chinese New Year, he is still running for a living. This year, I wanted to make my sister happy, so I made a few blasts. I didn't think about it, but I made a noise to the prince, and asked the prince to forgive me! ”

"Burst rod?" Li Yuanba muttered a sentence in his mouth, but he quickly searched in his mind: "Tang's "Persona" recorded, 'Li Jin is in the center, and the neighbor Zhongsuo's house is haunted by the mandrill, and he is in the court with bamboo on fire every day. ’”

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized: "Oh, it turns out that this thing is called a blasting rod, isn't this the same as the cannon fire set off during the New Year in later generations?" Wait......"

Suddenly, Li Yuanba's expression changed, and he remembered a few 'gadgets' he was thinking about on the way to the palace in the afternoon, and said in his heart: "Maybe you can add another one." ”

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Here, Zhao Sanpao saw that Li Yuanba was in a daze, and he was sure that Li Yuanba had never seen this thing, so he said: "Lord Wang, this blasting rod is very easy to make, you wait a while, I'll make a few more and give you a sound!" ”

As he spoke, Zhao Sanpao ran to the two porcelain basins and began to tinker.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were no splendid fireworks and firecrackers in later generations, so during the New Year, I just stuffed some saltpeter into the dry bamboo poles to burn the bamboo poles to ward off evil spirits.

At this moment, although Xia'er was whispering to Zhao Jingjing, her attention had already been on the tools that were making the zuò blasting rod.

In addition, the thing that Li Yuanba just thought of really needed to be preliminarily confirmed, so he laughed and said, "Three cannons, you do it slowly, let me see how you make a zuò blasting rod!" ”

"Good!"

Zhao Sanpao didn't think much about Li Yuanba's words, and after answering, the movements in his hands slowed down.

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In fact, the process of making a bamboo pole is very simple, that is, a bamboo pole is cut into many sections every three sections, and then the compartment at both ends of a bamboo pole is dug up with a knife, and then some saltpeter is filled into it, and then it is stuffed little by little, so that a blasting rod is freshly baked.

However, Li Yuanba did not see what he wanted in these two porcelain basins,

Looking at the saltpeter placed in the two porcelain basins, Li Yuanba frowned and asked: "Three cannons, why did you choose to use saltpeter instead of gunpowder to make this blasting rod?" ”

"Lord Wang, isn't saltpeter just gunpowder?" Zhao San paused for a moment and continued: "Since I learned this thing from the old housekeeper at home, it has been filled with saltpeter. The power of making zuò's blasting rod in this way is not very powerful, but the sound is loud enough and the safety is very high! ”

Li Yuanba scratched his hair with some annoyance, and said, "Three cannons, haven't you seen that kind of black, spark-like powder at all?" That thing is far more powerful than saltpeter! If you think about it, there is no black. Gunpowder and this kind of thing? ”

Gunpowder, also known as black. Gunpowder, its invention originated from alchemy, the earliest like the old Taoist Sun Simiao, there was a "Danjing internal sulfur method", used to "volt" sulfur, arsenic and other poisonous gold and stone medicine.

Although Sun Laodao is still suffocated in the mountains, he also has heirs and disciples? It stands to reason that the Tang Dynasty should already have black by now. Gunpowder, no reason, right?

After listening to Li Yuanba's question, Zhao Sanpao thought about it very seriously for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "Lord Wang, there really isn't!" Because even this saltpeter is a controlled product, if there is anything more powerful than this saltpeter, then the imperial court will not be able to sell it to us ordinary people! ”