One day, An Ningzhi, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, sent someone to Jinling to look for me.

When I saw it, it was his eldest son An Guangxu, and the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty really gave face.

This man was only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he was already extremely smart and clever.

An Guangxu: "My father has an arsenal, I want to invite adults to take a look." ”

What the? Could it be that the Qing Dynasty also had an arsenal? I didn't want to go, but when I heard this, my curiosity came and I went with him.

An Guangxu: "Why don't you use your car?" ”

Me: "It's too much trouble for people to kick in there." You have a carriage anyway, just make your car. ”

Him: "I don't believe that your car is pedaling in there. My father used to have a car, but then Liaodong rebelled, and Chang'an stopped selling us gasoline, so our car couldn't move. ”

I had to talk nonsense with him, and I didn't get down to business anyway, until we arrived at the Daqing Imperial Arsenal on the east side of Shangjing.

As soon as I lifted the curtain of the carriage, the scene in front of me almost frightened me, and I saw no less than 100,000 people busy in a large open space.

But after a closer look, I made up my mind that they were only making gunpowder, not explosives.

At the Royal Arsenal, there were hundreds of man-made explosives; In the Yanjing Arsenal, there are thousands of man-made explosives; Later, the Chang'an Arsenal was tens of thousands of man-made explosives; And the Shangjing Arsenal, at least 100,000 people - to make gunpowder.

Fortunately, it is made of gunpowder, which is not very powerful, and if it is explosives, no matter how many forbidden troops can't stand it.

I looked at it again and couldn't help but laugh dumbly - they even made gunpowder.

Kong Youzhi, the chief royal scholar of the Qing Dynasty, the president of the Royal University of the Qing Dynasty, the head of Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty, and the great priest of the Qing Dynasty, was wearing a black suit and a white tie, and was directing people to make gunpowder. His black leather shoes were spotless in the filthy arsenal, and his white tie stood out in the crowd.

Kong Youzhi: "Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, sons!" As long as we support the emperor, as long as we work hard, gunpowder will definitely be able to be made well! ”

There were dozens of Confucian scholars around him, holding small notebooks and taking notes.

There were also a large number of people doing things at the scene. On one side, a monk chanting scriptures, wearing a robe, holding a wooden fish, his head is shining brightly, and the ring scar is very conspicuous; On one side, a Taoist priest casts spells, wearing a cyan Taoist robe, wearing a Taoist hat, holding a whisk in one hand and a wooden sword in the other, chanting words, and his beard is very conspicuous; On one side were the cultists, barefoot, dressed in white leaflets, shouting: "We are God, we are the Sons of God, God willing!" ”； While the students kept observing, they observed and said, "We are the truth!" We are the Righteousness! We are science! As long as you work hard, you will succeed! ”； On one side are more Confucian students, who are studying: "Zi said: 'When you learn and learn it, don't you also say it?' Have friends come from afar, are you happy? ’”

Because these people cast a spell, and then the gunpowder explodes, so the gunpowder explosion must be the result of these people's spells, and these people's spells must be the cause of the gunpowder explosion.

Kong Youzhi instructed the workers to pour a bucket of saltpeter, a bucket of sulfur, a bucket of charcoal, a bucket of iron powder, and a bucket of urine into a big pit, and then pasted a rune on it and said, "It's done!" Dry it and you're done! ”

Everyone laughed at him, and the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty next to him, An Ningzhi, shook his head with a wry smile.

Me: "Who said saltpeter, brimstone, and charcoal have to be one-to-one?" You try one nitrate, two sulfon, three charcoal, and don't put iron powder and water! ”

Kong Youzhi: "Who are you?" Oh, I remember, the hypocrite came to take refuge in our Qing Dynasty! Don't talk nonsense if you don't have much knowledge! Saltpeter represents earth, sulfur represents fire, charcoal represents wood, iron powder represents gold, urine represents water, this is gold, wood, water, fire and earth, how to do one less! Do you understand it or not? ”

Me: "Try my method." Why do you put iron powder? It doesn't burn again. Also, what do you put pee for? ”

Kong Youzhi: "No! There is no iron powder, no urine, so it is easy to catch fire. Only by using the yin and yang method of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, with yin and yang, can we prevent it from catching fire. Catching fire is a mistake! ”

Me: "Who said fire is a mistake?" Ignition is success. ”

Kong Youzhi: "But our goal is alchemy, you have burned out what kind of pill to practice!" ”

Me: "Just kidding! Don't you make gunpowder? The alchemy of even hair. ”

Kong Youzhi shouted: "Gunpowder is alchemy, alchemy is gunpowder!" You are bold, you are rebellious! We are here for the emperor's alchemy, every child of a big family is born to eat this, how many years have it been, no one has ever eaten my pill and said that my pill is not good! ”

I thought to myself, "! Whoever eats your pill is dead, and of course no one says you're bad! You have refined this pill and killed many people in Liaodong. ”

I said, "You can't try." ”

Kong Youzhi: "No, you must not try!" This was handed down tens of thousands of years ago, and changing a little bit is a rebellion! ”

An Ningzhi, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty on the side, came over to play a round: "Okay, okay, he just said, and he doesn't have to do that." ”

Kong Youzhi, the chief royal scholar of the Qing Dynasty, the president of the Royal University of the Qing Dynasty, the head of Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty, and the great priest of the Qing Dynasty, left in a huff.

An Ningzhi said to me, "Let you see the smile." Those are all waste. ”

I said, "It's nothing, I've seen a lot of this kind of people, and the people of Daming are more mentally retarded than them." ”

He took me on a tour of the arsenal.

Those people worked very hard, but unfortunately they did it wrong.

Before leaving, I said a few words to Prime Minister An Ningzhi.

Later, I regretted talking so much, I was always too vain, I couldn't help it.

I said to him:

"Everything you have learned before is wrong, and you have to forget them all and push up from the most basic truth.

The material of gunpowder is one nitrate, two sulfonate and three charcoal, in fact, it does not have to be one nitrate, two sulfonate and three charcoal, because the raw materials are different in different places, you can master it yourself, and try to increase or decrease it by one percent each time.

Also, you can't have a big mouth and a small belly, you can try making it into a thin and uniform cylinder.

Also, don't forget to engrave a rotating scratch in the barrel, so that the accuracy is high and the distance is long.

The last thing is that muskets should not be fired on horseback, but you should stand on the ground.

The accuracy is not high, and it is even more uncertain on the horse. ”

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A few days later, An Ningzhi, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, actually came to me in person, and he said: "You are too powerful! In just a few words, the gunpowder I made was much stronger than before, and the musket was much more powerful than before. My musket used to hit a hundred meters, but now it can hit two hundred meters! In the past, it was impossible to wear the chain mail of the cavalry, but now, both layers of chain mail have been pierced! I'm still experimenting with bombs, and it's working well. I'm even working on a bomb that is planted in the ground, and as soon as the other party comes over, it will automatically explode! ”

You're really good, aren't you? I just said a few words, you even invented mines?

An Ningzhi continued: "I'm still working on an artillery piece that can fire a large iron ball for several kilometers! I'd like to put explosives in the ball, so it's even more powerful, but I don't know how to detonate it, would? ”

I said, "No." ”

An Ningzhi continued: "I also ordered that all the people in the arsenal should no longer pay attention to the five elements of yin and yang, or any things of the gods, Confucianism, Taoism, and gods, just experiment with them casually, as long as they can improve, I will immediately crown him as a scholar." I even kicked the cadets out of the arsenal. ”

I thought, "! Can you toss less, and when you invent real explosives, I'm afraid the Holy Land will come and blow you up. ”

I said, "Oh. ”

Prime Minister: "Do you want to be the chief scholar of the Qing Dynasty?" Although I don't have much power, I still have this ability. That waste surnamed Kong, not only will it not be at all, but it will also delay us. ”

Me: "No, I'll just talk nonsense, I won't do anything." ”

In short, after some pushing, I finally coaxed him out.