Dreaming back to Chang'an City 168 Tang Ping's first "cannon" in the Tang Dynasty
"Li Tai, you go downstairs to find Lao Cui, there are still firecrackers left today, ask him to hang them for you."
"Whoa!" Li Tai put away his notebook and happily ran down to find Lao Cui.
"Cheng Chumo, you go down to find Wang Tieniu, there are still iron pipes left for decoration."
"Whoa!" Although Cheng Chumo didn't know what the experiment was, he knew that it must be interesting.
"Li Bai, ask your sister Xiaoluo for two bottles of Coke, and you want to pull cans."
"Okay!" Li Baixiu also ran down.
The opening ceremony, which was originally arranged, was directly interrupted because of such an emergency.
Many passers-by who were attracted by the sound of firecrackers were talking.
"Is this a new restaurant?" This belongs to the pure melon-eating masses.
"It looks like it's so, hey, this name is still called Xihelou, it's a bit interesting!" It's a bit of a culture, and I know what Xihe and Wangshu mean.
"But can't this be opened? I also said try it! "It's a potential customer.
"Shopkeeper, what do you think they are doing?" The running hall of Wangshu Building, which was originally startled by the grand opening on the opposite side, also gathered.
"How do I know?" Shopkeeper Wang glanced at the few runners around him: "What are you doing idle?" When people open, we don't have to do business? Do you want to eat today? If you want to eat, why don't you hurry up and pull the guests for me? ”
A few runners hurriedly ran out, and a few of them shouted with flexible brains: "Hey, uncles, this restaurant restaurant, first drink and then eat, everything else is empty, today we are Wangshulou nine-fold big reward, and there is also a Huaiyang celebrity chef invited from Huaiyang, he cooks food, that is, the emperor of Dongyue and King Zheng said that it was good!" ”
Operating a restaurant, the flow of people outside the store is a very important factor, this intersection is usually crowded, and today it is attracted by the firecrackers of Xihelou.
Originally, if Xihelou could open for business at this time, many people in the crowd would probably want to go in and try it.
But now the inside of Xihe Building suddenly became quiet, and those who originally wanted to eat could only turn their heads and enter Wangshu Building.
Shopkeeper Wang looked at his face and was about to crack with a smile, he was frightened by such a big battle between Beixi and Lou, but now it seems that he is just making a wedding dress for himself.
On the other side, in the quiet Xihe Building, Tang Ping commanded Wang Tieniu and Li Tai.
"Cut this pipe a little shorter, yes, it's about that long. And then this end is sealed, it must be sealed. ”
"Li Tai, you broke the firecrackers like this, do you see it, these black ashes are gunpowder, and they are all carefully collected together."
Then Tang Ping took out the finished Coke can: "Also, whoever can use this hammer to make a few small projectiles can just make them into small round balls." ”
"Let so-and-so come!" Wei Chi Jingde stood up, with an iron tower-like body, taking the can handed to him by Tang Ping with one hand, and blocking the hammer handed to him by Tang Ping with the other.
With two clicks, the can was flattened by him.
Then pull a piece directly with your hands and rub it in your hands like plasticine.
In the blink of an eye, the cans just now turned into a few small projectiles mixed with silver and blue.
Then Wang Tieniu's side quickly made an iron pipe that was sealed one by one and left only a small hole, and Wang Tieniu also made a shelf for it with waste wood and fixed it.
Li Tai and Cheng Chumo also made a small pile of gunpowder.
In fact, Tang Ping did this thing with Li Shan and Gou Shaoqun when he was a child, that is, he used the gunpowder in the firecracker to make a small cannon.
It's just that at that time they used bamboo tubes, but since there are iron pipes here, of course iron pipes are better.
He inserted a lead into the small hole that had been reserved, and then made a funnel out of paper and shook all the gunpowder powder into it.
Compared with the caliber of the iron pipe, he stuffed the soft mud found by Li Bai into it, and poked it with a chopstick until he felt that all the gunpowder in it had been compacted.
A few of the small projectiles that Yu Chi Jingde pinched out were selected and put in.
During this whole process, everyone watched him operate without making a sound, only Li Tai took out his notebook again, and brushed with a ballpoint pen and didn't know what to record.
Up to now, a whole small earthen cannon has been ready, but whether it can sound or not, and how powerful it is, Tang Ping is not very clear.
On the edge of the fourth floor, there is a curtain that shades the sun, and when the sun is high, it is lowered, and people sitting by the window will not feel hot.
At this time, Tang Ping had already asked someone to put down the curtain and put the muzzle of the small earthen cannon he had just made against the curtain, otherwise how could he see the effect of putting an empty cannon?
After thinking about it, he asked Li Bai to go downstairs and get a bottle of wine, put it on the fence on the fourth floor, and then closed one eye and pretended to aim.
In fact, this standard is completely unnecessary, because his improvised earthen cannon has almost no progress to speak of, and the projectiles in it are still shotguns, so he can only pray that after the general direction is right, there will be a blind cat that meets a dead mouse and crashes into the wine bottle.
"Tang boy, are you okay?" Wei Chi Jingde wiped the sweat from his forehead, he was a little impatient to wait.
"Alright, alright!" Tang Ping waved his hand to let everyone retreat behind him, this Tang Dynasty's first shot, who knows what the result is?
If you hurt someone here, you're in trouble.
Carefully lit the exposed lead with a lighter.
The lead whispered with a spark, getting shorter and shorter, and everyone's eyes moved with the small spark.
Finally, all the leads exposed on the outside of the iron pipe were burned.
"Why didn't you respond? Even the fart can still be heard! Wei Chi Jingde muttered quietly.
Then before he could finish speaking, there was a loud bang, which startled everyone.
This sound is much louder than the firecrackers downstairs just now, and several people are relatively close, and now their ears are buzzing.
Then everyone saw that the bottle placed on the fence suddenly became torn apart, and the reason why they did not hear the sound was only because the sound of the little earthen cannon just now was so loud that it drowned out the sound of the bottle breaking.
And then the curtain was punched out with several holes.
The small earthen cannon on the table here has been turned over on the table because there is only a shelf of waste wood.
Wei Chi Jingde and Cheng Zhijie ran to the edge of the fence, and after taking a serious look, they gasped.
Just because a hole the size of a finger was punched out of the solid wood fence, and if you look closely at the smoking hole, there is a charred black flat thing in the hole.