Chapter 323: The Spirit of the Jungle (23)

If Xu Xuzheng's memory is not biased, Wang Gong Gunpowder Factory should be a Tianzi No. 1 Ordnance Powder Factory established in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), which is more than 200 years old (1626 in the sixth year of the Apocalypse).

After more than 200 years of development, the scale of Wang Gong Gunpowder Factory has been expanded again and again, and finally it has become a super-large gunpowder arsenal with more than 30 resident craftsmen and more than 100 guards and guards, which can produce more than 100 catties of gunpowder per day and 2,000 catties of gunpowder in the warehouse.

But how could this factory, which covers an area of more than 700 acres and has more than 400 houses, become a pile of broken bricks and tiles in a few days?

And what's going on with this big pit in front of me that is 200 feet in radius and still emitting black smoke out?

On that day, Xu Xuzheng stood in front of the big and deep pit and looked left and right for a while, and finally identified the huge pile of rubble under his feet, which covers an area of hundreds of acres and is more than two feet thick, through a crooked-necked willow tree two miles away, which should be the former Wang Gong Gunpowder Factory.

And which part of the gunpowder factory was before this big pit...... Xu Xuzheng is not clear, it is nothing more than taking advantage of his position (Jinyiwei is a high-ranking military attache and can be equipped with firearms for self-defense), and he came to the pharmaceutical factory to get a few medicines here in the moon.

As for what medicine Xu Xuzheng obtained from the gunpowder factory, and who did he give it to...... After all, the current environment is that the eunuch party is in power, not only the commander wants to tie up the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian, but also these small banners who try hundreds of households to make friends with the eunuchs in the imperial city.

Because Xu Xuzheng was more obsessed with the cultivation of Danding, he was close to Wang Bingyan, the chief of the incense of the Divine Palace Supervisor (in charge of the sprinkling and cleaning of the Royal Taimiao Temple and the purchase of sesame oil), and from time to time he brought the elixir fairy prescription he bought from the people to communicate with this Wang Chief.

This 'medicine' taken from the gunpowder factory is naturally a frequent customer in the alchemy furnaces such as saltpeter and sulfur that the craftsmen of the pharmaceutical factory use little by little water (soaking combustible minerals in water and grinding them and then drying them in the shade...... The word 'fire' is taboo in the gunpowder factory, and all items related to fire must be called by different names.

It is also a coincidence that if you talk about how many people in the world are most obsessed with Danding Fangjutsu, the first place must be those cultivators who are bent on ascending to immortality; And this second, most of them are those eunuchs who are in the palace and are not in perfect health.

It is said that during the reign of Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a giant eunuch named Tong Guan, who not only lived to the age of seventy-two that ordinary eunuchs could not count on at all, but also that this master could continue to live...... He was executed by the Qin Sect because of the defeat and loss of power!

The most astonishing thing is the description of his appearance in the "History of the Song Dynasty": (Tong Guan) has more than ten beards under the chin, and the muscles and bones are thick and strong like iron, not like a castration.

When the eunuchs actually got to the point of growing beards, there was no one in ancient and modern China and abroad.

It is rumored that Tong Guan also had no beard at first, until he later led an army to attack Qingtang Prefecture in Western Xia (now Xining, Qinghai), and obtained an immortal prescription from a party nobleman, so as to train an elixir to obey, and then the dust roots were revived and beards under the chin.

For a eunuch with incomplete limbs, whether he can become an immortal or not is secondary, the key is to take his 'baby brother' back alive, so that he can live a normal life for a few days.

So, Xu Xuzheng and Wang Bingyan hit it off: In the future, Lao Xu, you will take advantage of the convenience of entering and leaving the palace at any time to bring us medicine and goods, then our family will share with you the classic Dan Decisive Immortal Prescription collected from the palace over the years.

From now on, the two of us will work together to refine the Dan, and refine it in the same way as the formula on the Dan Decision; Let's see if Lao Xu is lucky, let's fly to the sky first, or our ancestors will be resurrected from the dust.

"Look at Wang Gongchang's ghost appearance right now, I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to come here to get medicine for others. The land of right and wrong cannot be stayed for a long time, or is it ...... Hey? ”

Just when Xu Xuzheng was about to take advantage of the opportunity to leave quietly without anyone around, he suddenly felt that the crooked-necked willow tree two miles away suddenly reflected a reflection unique to metal utensils.

As a brocade guard who has been lurking in the shadows for a long time, Xu Xuzheng is all too familiar with the reflection of the metal reflected in nature: it is the reflection of the hidden person accidentally exposing the sharp blade of the sword he wears to the sun.

"Wang Gongchang, who came to a ruined factory with a sharp blade, snooped, is this person friend or foe?"

As a veteran brocade guard, Xu Xuzheng knows that the best way to keep the other party a secret is to stop breathing.

Under the crazy instigation of this poisonous snake-like thought, Xu Xuzheng raised the firewood knife in his hand, and rushed away in the direction where the flash came.

As mentioned earlier, Xu Xuzheng's feet are strong and light, but he rushed to the crooked neck willow tree after only twenty or thirty breaths.

However, what awaits Xu Xuzheng is not a life-and-death struggle...... The crooked-necked willow tree has sparse branches and leaves, and at a glance, you know that there is no way that there can be a person hidden on this tree.

But on the crooked-necked branch of the willow tree, which was about four feet above the ground, there was a magpie's nest the size of a water scoop made of branches...... The metal reflection that Xu Xuzheng saw before was reflected in the magpie's nest.

Driven by curiosity, Xu Xuzheng leaned in front of the tree and lifted his feet, stretched out his hand to the empty nest of the magpie that had long since disappeared, and suddenly found a ...... with only a bare seat left at the bottom Gold ring?!

Looking at the half-drawn ring in his hand that was polished enough to reflect people, Xu Xuzheng resisted the urge to throw it to the side of the street, and casually carried it in the inner pocket of the half-used robe that was taken off from the old man in the tailor's shop.

"If you want to put it aside, we don't bend down to pick it up if we throw it at our feet; At the moment, there is no eldest son around, so let's keep this piece of gold by my side...... Oops, how did I forget this stubble? ”

Xu Xuzheng, who was rushing to Wang Gongchang to look for the relics of the immortals, couldn't help beating his chest in frustration after he pounced on the crooked neck willow tree.

Just knocked on his chest twice, Xu Xuzheng suddenly remembered something: "It seems that He Shu and his family still have a female dependant who survived the tragedy of the house collapse...... Then he buried the man under the rubble for the second time. ”

"It's broken, it's broken! More than two quarters of an hour had passed at this time, and the man's life was still there......"

In this way, the panicked Xu Xuzheng rushed like crazy, and went straight to the courtyard of He Shu's house.

As a brocade guard who licks blood every day, Xu Xuzheng actually doesn't care about the life or death of one or two people.

Or to put it another way, the woman he buried under the rubble would have better suffocate like that.

But if this person still has a breath, he must be tightly locked under his Five Finger Mountain, and every word and deed in the future must be done according to the strategy granted, and he must not tell the matter that he Xu Xuzheng brought two henchmen to knock He Shu's bamboo pole today.

Otherwise, Xu Xuzheng would not be able to explain to his boss where his two subordinates went.

Maybe it was the girl who was killed.

When Xu Xuzheng panted and picked up the pile of rubble in He Mansion, He Shu and his wife, an envoy and the two small flag officials brought by Xu Xuzheng were already cold and stiff, only the pretty maid named Su Juan covered her mouth and nose tightly with a purple silk handkerchief, lying under the rubble and gasping slightly.

Is there really a living mouth?!

What to do with you......