Chapter 239: The Secret of Gunpowder

Inside the sandalwood box was a forty-centimeter-long one-handed musket, which was extremely exquisitely shaped, both the handguard and the barrel were carved with exquisite patterns, and the patterns were also smeared with gold dust. However, the appearance of this musket is a bit weird, not to mention the trumpet-shaped barrel, even the hammer behind it is also very exaggerated, and its shape is a golden dragon with open wings and cracked teeth, which looks and feels very weighty.

The one-handed musket took up half of the box, and at the bottom of the box were rows of small round lead balls, and below the small lead balls were corresponding black cylinders. There are twenty small lead balls and cylinders, and Lorist is excited, the small lead ball should be a bullet, then the black cylinder below should be ******, which is probably the gunpowder of Gelintya.

"This is the short-barreled musket of the Dwarven Kingdom in the Titanini Mountains, and after the Business Alliance and the Dwarven Kingdom reached an agreement last year, the Dwarves were invited to open a Dwarven Shop on Triumphal Avenue in Merent City as an office. I happened to pass by there in the morning, and bought this short-barreled musket, which the Earl must have liked very much. ”

President Chicked laughed and looked at President Peterson, who nodded, and President Chicked said to one of the guards next to him, "Show Lord Count how to use a musket......

The guard stepped forward and saluted before taking the box: "Lord Earl, the musket is the traditional weapon of the dwarves, and it is divided into long barrels and short copper. The short-barreled musket has a range of thirty meters, which is very close compared to our bow and crossbow ranged weapons. But the only thing worth affirming is that it's hugely powerful. For example, it takes at least a hundred crossbowmen to pose a threat to the Great Sword Master, and a musket is even more dangerous to the Great Sword Master within thirty meters. Because the Great Swordsman can block the arrows that are fired at him, but he cannot catch the bullets that are fired at him. ”

The guard first stuffed the black cylinder into the barrel of the gun, then pushed it with a thin iron rod in the box, then put in a small lead ball, also tamped it with a thin iron rod, and finally introduced: "This short-barreled musket is the latest musket in the Dwarven Kingdom, it doesn't need a fire rope, it only needs to open this flying dragon, and then pull the trigger below to fire." However, because of the physical differences between dwarves and us humans, we always feel that this trigger requires a little too much strength for us humans......"

The guard pointed the musket in his hand at the wall twenty meters away, and pressed the plate machine hard, and with a "boom", Lorist was startled, he didn't expect the sound of this musket to be so loud. However, he was immediately pleasantly surprised to smell the familiar smell of gunpowder in the air, which was indeed the smell of gunpowder, but he didn't understand why his previous gunpowder experiments had failed.

"Lord Earl, you see that the power is good. The guard pointed to a small recessed pit in the wall, which was also embedded with deformed buckshot.

Lorist came back to his senses and looked at the small pit on the wall, but he remembered very well, the place where the guards were aiming just now was about a meter away from this small pit, and it was so far away that it was also called powerful?

Lorlist's mind was full of gunpowder, and he couldn't wait to go back and study the secrets of the dwarves' gunpowder. As for the short-barreled musket made by the dwarves, Lorist also took a closer look, which was still attracted by the exquisite golden pattern, and as for the rest, it was full of complaints.

The flared muzzle, the muzzle should be low, and you have to worry about the small lead ball falling out, bad reviews.

The huge handguard with a delicate pattern adds weight in vain, and it is a bad review.

The beak-shaped handle, can it be comfortable to hold?

There is no crosshair, aiming depends on feeling, bad reviews.

The shape is exaggerated, and the weight is not light,...... Don't say it, bad review.

And the trigger below that can only be pulled with force, hehe, this thing is pulled down, and the barrel has to shake three times, so can it still be aimed at the direction, bad review.

Lorist was confident that if he could figure out what the dwarf was firing gunpowder, he would be able to make a better musket than the dwarves, and even the first arquebus would be many times better than this beautiful dwarven musket.

However, at this time, Lorist's daze fell in the eyes of everyone present, but it became a proof that this earl of Tubaozi from the Northland had never seen the world. A hint of disdain flashed in the eyes of the demonstrative guard, and he put the musket back in place and handed it to Lorlist: "Lord Count, this is your musket, please take it." ”

Lorist took the box and hurriedly thanked President Chicked.

President Chickard laughed, "Since the Earl likes it, that's great." In this way, the puppy can express his sincere apology after offending the earl. By the way, I would venture to ask, how did Lord Earl know President Peterson when he was far away in the Northlands?

Lorist also laughed, "President Chicked, I studied in the city of Morent for nearly ten years in my early years, and I have known President Peterson for a long time, and I have received many favors from him. Later, he went to the Northlands and inherited the title and family domain. Unexpectedly, six or seven years passed in a flash, and this time I came to visit President Peterson. ”

President Peterson smiled and nodded, pleased with Lorlist's watertight answer.

"Oh, I see, I thought the Earl was preparing to open a sea trade route. To tell you the truth, Lord Earl, since you can build a ship that can pass through the shallow sea reef area, are you interested in opening up a sea trade route? If Lord Earl is willing, then the sea transportation can be entrusted to our Chikde Chamber of Commerce, as the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce, which has the largest and largest merchant fleet at sea, we promise that we will not fail Lord Earl's efforts. President Chickold said, staring at Lorlist.

Lorlist's face flashed with ecstasy, followed by hesitation, then helplessness, and finally regret. He seemed to think about it for a long time before replying, "President Chikde, I am very interested in your proposal, but the problem is that our family territory is located on the border of the Northlands, and we have never had any special products, and we can't find any goods that can be traded. To put it mildly, even the food is barely enough to feed and clothe itself.

I'd love to open up a maritime trade route, but I also knew that I would be sorry for your kindness if I let the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce make a trip for nothing. Like me, I spent six or seven years in my family's territory before I received five or six thousand gold merits. This time, I also want to have a good time in the city of Moriente in the name of visiting Mistress Peterson......"

President Chicked did not care about Lorlist's tactful refusal, and said to President Peterson with a smile: "I can't imagine that your little friend is so sincere as an earl, and he is not like those hypocritical nobles, who are overjoyed to hear that our Chamber of Commerce is going to establish a maritime trade route, and talk about his territory in a fanciful manner, when in fact there is nothing. That's a good point. ”

President Peterson also smiled, "I met Locke because of his real city, and he didn't have those noble problems. There is one thing to say, I don't like to deceive people. However, his family territory is indeed a little remote, and there is nothing I can do to help. ”

President Chickold and President Peterson talked for a few more moments before they got up to take their leave, leaving with his third son and his guards. It's just that what Lorist didn't notice was that the third young master Chikde gave him a resentful look when he left, and then left with his father.

Lorist was worried about the gunpowder, and after a few more discussions with President Peterson, he roughly agreed on the date when the monster skins would be delivered to the Viscount of Tebury, and asked the Peterson Chamber of Commerce to purchase large ocean-going merchant ships before he left.

Back at the Crow Tavern, Lorist instructed Dores and Schward to bring some Monster bacon and marinated whale meat to the proprietress Sister Louise to see if these two meat products were popular among the citizens of Molent City. In addition, a small jar of snow salt was given to Chef Mai Fatzi, so that he could try it out, what is the difference between it and the rock salt that is used to using here in Moriente City.

Lorist then went headlong into his room and began to study the gunpowder recipe for the nineteen black cylinders that the dwarven torch was equipped with. After not leaving the room for three days, Josk and Schward quietly opened the door from time to time to see what their adults were doing......

The table was filled with a variety of glass test tubes and a whole set of small equipment for the pharmacist to conduct experiments, and Lorist was grateful for the method of separating the potion he had learned at Dawn College. Even liquid potions can be separated from the general composition, so it is easy to understand the formula for powdered cylindrical gunpowder.

There are seven components of dwarven black cylinder gunpowder, sulfur powder, saltpeter powder, and charcoal powder, the other four ingredients are rosin powder, kudzu starch, egg white, and a white unknown powder.

After experimenting, Lorist has learned that the effective ingredients in the dwarves' gunpowder are the three kinds of sulfur powder, saltpeter powder, and charcoal powder that he is familiar with, plus the unknown white powder, rosin powder, and kudzu starch are actually useless, and the function of egg white is to condense various powders into a cylindrical shape.

What made Lorist anxious was that he really couldn't figure out what that white powder was, and without it, the gunpowder would have no effect. Lorist tried to get some white powder and ask someone, only to find that he had studied all nineteen cylinders of gunpowder.

After thinking about it, Lorist called Schward in, and asked him to instruct the maid of the tavern to bring him bath water, and ordered a large meal, and after taking a bath, he asked Schward for a rental carriage, and took the box containing the dwarven musket and went to the Boulevard de Triumph.

Lorist had heard from President Chicked that the dwarves had opened an office on Triumph Avenue. The rental carriage quickly took Lorist and Schward to their destination, and when they got out of the carriage, they saw a tall and somewhat strange building made of various boulders.

Okay, it's a bit strange to have a stone hill on the busiest shopping street in the city, but it's not surprising that it's a shop for dwarves, and the dwarves of the Titagini Mountains are used to cave dwelling, and they don't feel safe enough when they're not in a cave.

Passing through the door of the store, which looked like a hole, there was a dim staircase in front of him, and the staircase turned downward, and Lorist realized that the space in the stone hill made of dwarves was not large, and the real shop was a large space dug by dwarves underground, although the light was not very good, but there were still many curious customers in the dwarf shop.

Approaching the dwarf's counter, which resembled a wine cabinet, a red-bearded dwarf looked at Lorist as he placed the box on the counter, and asked, in a strange lingua franca, "Is there anything I can do for you, sir?"

Lorist looked at the dwarf in front of him curiously, which was not the same as the dwarf image he had seen in the film and television in his previous life. The dwarf in front of him was a humanoid, as evidenced by his almost square size. There are many places in the same place, hobbies of digging holes, striking iron, blacksmithing, drinking, and great strength, but according to legend, every dwarf is a very shrewd businessman, and merchants say that you must be cautious and cautious when dealing with dwarves, otherwise you will be easily fooled if you are not careful. This is not related to the legendary honest dwarf Feng Ma Niu.

"Hello, I would like to ask, do you sell matching ****** here?" Lorist opened the box, revealing a musket and a small bare lead ball.

"It's like this, my kids took this musket as a toy, and they got the ****** into the basin, so ...... You see, that's what it was when I found out. Lorist feigned embarrassment.

The red-bearded dwarf in front of him had a mocking look in his eyes: "Sir, we have heard the same excuse nearly a hundred times in a month, and in fact we don't care about your secret to cracking the gunpowder. We have ****** sell what you want, but the price is ****** one Kingford......"

Lorist pointed to the same box on the counter, "Sorry, I heard you right, this short-barreled musket you sell sells for thirty-five goldfords, why is it so expensive for ****** alone?"

"Because this ****** is unique to us dwarves, and you humans can't figure it out. Without this ******, this musket would be just an expensive children's toy. So if you like to buy it or not, we dwarves don't care. "The dwarf's red beard is curled.

Lorist knew very well that he couldn't get that white powder out of the dwarf's mouth. I had to pay twenty goldfords to make up for the twenty ******, and the dwarf also generously gave a small lead ball to make up for the bullet that was fired.

Walking out of the dwarf's shop, Schward wondered: "My lord, you have been studying this dwarf's gunpowder for the past three days, and you have forgotten our original purpose of coming to Moriente City......

Lorist knew that his disciple was accusing him of not forgetting his business, he smiled and touched Schward's head: "You don't understand, Schward, this dwarf's gunpowder is a great discovery, as long as we master the secret of gunpowder, our Norton family will be able to sit back and be invincible from now on......"

"Isn't this gunpowder used for muskets, I don't think the dwarven muskets are so powerful. Schward muttered, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Look, my lord, there is also a musket hanging in the shop over there, and it is bigger than the dwarven musket......

Lorist looked up and saw that Schward was pointing in an arms shop, and a huge musket hung from the inside of the shop, which looked like a spear from a previous life.

"Let's go, let's take a look. Lorist said.

"Adults are welcome. The salesman at the door of the store had sharp eyes and recognized Lorist's aristocratic status at a glance.

"My lord, our starlight weapons have always been known for their noble quality and elegant taste, whether you want to find a handy weapon or give it as a gift, we can meet your requirements......" the salesman began to introduce.

Lorist stopped and was standing under the huge musket: "This musket is also for sale?"

The salesman was stunned for a moment, then saw the box in Schward's hand, and suddenly realized: "My lord, this musket is an artifact, and it was with this musket that the famous hero lord Chimric used to shoot down the two-headed evil dragon Chimera that ravaged the human settlements seven hundred years ago. However, by now, this musket artifact has become useless and worthless. ”

Lorist pouted, liar, it's a miracle that the musket of seven hundred years ago can be handed down, not to mention the handguard, even the barrel has long been rotten, it is obviously a copycat imitation, and it is used to attract customers in the store.

But Schward was curious: "Why do you say that this musket artifact is worthless?"

"Because there is no ******!" replied the salesman, "The hero lord shot down the two-headed dragon of the Chimera seven hundred years ago because he had a good friend of the dwarves who not only helped him build this musket, but also provided him with three copies of gunpowder, so this musket artifact can be used for its work." But then there was no gunpowder, and this musket artifact was useless, not even a burning stick. ”

"These dwarves are so hateful, why don't you continue to provide gunpowder for firing. Are you afraid that we will also make a gunpowder shot?" said Schward, hatefully.

The salesman laughed: "In fact, we have long known the recipe for gunpowder, sulfur, charcoal, saltpeter, starch, rosin, fire quartz and egg white, the dwarf's head has been as stubborn as granite for hundreds of years, and this recipe has not changed. Unfortunately, even if we knew, it wouldn't be of much use. There are no saltpeter mines in the human world, this saltpeter is only found in a few hundred meters deep in the mountains, and only those dwarves can dig it, without saltpeter mines, we can't make gunpowder ...... at all."

Lorist was stunned, without saltpeter mines, it would be impossible to make gunpowder, but the batch of black powder that he made last time failed to test needed nitrate, wasn't it that he collected from the corner of the wall?

However, Lorist was now interested in the fire crystal powder mentioned by the salesman, and he asked, "What is fire crystal powder?"

The salesman replied: "My lord, fire crystal powder is the powder ground into fire crystals, mainly used by the forging master to increase the temperature of the flame during forging, let me take a look, we just bought a small bag of fire crystals from the adventurer in our store two days ago, I will look for where to put it." ”

Soon the salesman took out an old leather bag and poured out a few red crystals the size of a little finger from it.

"My lord, this is the fire crystal, which can usually be found in the ashes of the crater. This is the treasure of the forger, and the sprinkling of fire crystal powder into the furnace at the critical moment of forging can greatly increase the temperature of the flame and make the forging successful. ”

"Oh, thank you, it's the first time I've seen Fire Crystal. Lorist looked at the red crystal-like object in his hand.

The salesman laughed: "My lord, this thing is useful for the blacksmith, and there is no other use, it's normal that you haven't seen it and heard of it." ”

"Is this in the dwarf's firing gunpowder?" asked Lorlist.

"Yes, this has long been confirmed by Professor Bob of Daystar Academy, a single batch of firepowder contains about 10 percent of 100 powders, but as much as 50 percent saltpeter powder makes it impossible for us to make the same firepowder. I remember that last year Professor Bob published an article in the daily newspaper Morent about the composition of the firing gunpowder, which caused a sensation in the city of Morente. "The salesman has a very good memory.

Lorist took out a few Kingford and gave one to the salesman first: "This is the reward for your excellent service, I am very satisfied." Can I buy a few Fire Crystals, though?"

"Of course, my lord, this bag of twenty-three fire crystals, and two golden fords are enough for my lord. The salesman replied respectfully.

...... (To be continued.) )