One sulfur, two nitrates, and three charcoals.

Liu Chan naturally knew the formula of gunpowder.

But knowing the recipe alone is not enough.

The quality of the sulfur, the quality of the saltpeter, the degree to which the charcoal is to be ground

These are all factors that restrict the formation of gunpowder.

Military village.

In the big tent of the Chinese army.

Liu Chan sat on the main seat and summoned these ten alchemists and alchemists.

The origin of alchemy is very early, and there is a record of Fang Shi offering immortal medicine to King Jing in the "Warring States Policy".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wanted to "live forever and see for a long time", asked for pills from the people, recruited monks, and personally alchemized.

Since then, alchemy has become a trend and has become popular.

Alchemists have appeared throughout the ages, also known as alchemists.

The purpose of the alchemist is to find the elixir of immortality, and such a purpose is impossible to achieve.

Alchemy has been popular for more than a thousand years, but in the end nothing has been found.

However, some of the specific methods employed in alchemy have merit, and they show the primitive form of chemistry.

What immortality?

Later generations of science and technology are so developed, they can't do this, in this era, still want to use this lead and mercury to create the so-called 'Nine Turns Jindan'?

It is better to use this wisdom of yours and put it on invention and creation.

"I'll wait to see Your Highness."

These ten monks are still confused, and they don't know what Liu Chan brought them here to do.

If you want to talk about alchemy, you have to build a Taoist temple and choose a quiet place, right?

There are many houses under this mountain, not a place of green beauty, you should choose to take the famous mountain, build a Taoist temple, and plate the golden body of the Taoist ancestor, so that you can practice into a nine-turn golden pill, live forever for a long time, and feather the possibility of ascending to the immortal.

"Get up."

Liu Chan helped him out, and the latter got up.

"Your Highness, I didn't know how to summon me to come, but it was to practice the Nine Turns Golden Pill?"

Among the ten scholars, the most famous is Qingxuzi of Yizhou.

This person was originally from a scholar family, but in order to pursue the way of immortality, he sold his family property, escaped into the mountains and forests, and alchemized all day long, in order to seek the slightest opportunity of the immortals.

That's right.

If you want to be a monk, you must either be rich or be able to fool people.

Qing Xuzi's money had long been exhausted in a furnace of pills.

So he took a few boys to Chengdu to try his luck, hoping that someone would help him pursue the great cause of immortality.

When Liu Bei was sick before, he went to sell.

But after Liu Bei took a so-called big tonic pill, his condition did not improve, but worsened, so he regarded this person as a liar and blasted out of the palace.

Just when he thought that the great cause of immortality could not be pursued, Liu Chan wanted to summon the Yizhou Fangshi.

As soon as Qingxuzi saw that the opportunity had come, he hurriedly stepped forward.

It's just that I thought that I would be able to open the furnace for alchemy soon, but I didn't expect to toss and turn a few times, but I arrived at the top of the shooting mountain.

Alchemy

There must be a Taoist temple.

At the very least, there must be an alchemy furnace!

I haven't seen any of these objects in this mountain!

"The immortal path is ethereal, I summoned you here, not for alchemy."

Not alchemy?

Qingxuzi looked disappointed.

He immediately swung his robe, helped the long beard that was almost up to his legs, and said: "Xiao Dao has pursued immortality all his life, if His Royal Highness does not practice the Nine Turns Golden Pill, I will take my leave." ”

After that, this pure void is leaving.

Of the remaining nine people, two of them bowed their hands to Liu Chan and prepared to leave.

As for the remaining seven, they had no intention of leaving.

They don't know whether they practice to become a nine-turn golden pill, but in order to hug their thighs and live a worry-free life from now on, they still care very much.

"Wait."

Liu Chan stopped Qing Xuzi and said with a smile: "I heard that the Taoist chief came to Chengdu this time to ask someone to fund alchemy, what's the matter?" Have you found someone now? ”

Found someone?

Qingxuzi's old face darkened, and he said: "The wind of seeking immortals in Chengdu is not strong, and the poor road has to go to other places to find someone who is destined." ”

Chengdu nobles, most of them are fighting on the battlefield, where will they ask for immortality?

Qing Xuzi's set of theories, in Yizhou, compared with Changyu's Wei Wei technique, it is quite unacceptable.

"As long as you help me do something, I will fund you to open ten furnaces of elixir, how about it?"

Do one thing, open ten furnaces of Dan?

Qingxuzi's eyes suddenly lit up.

He was moved.

You must know that the Nine Turns Golden Pill he wants to practice is mainly a precious medicinal material, which is very valuable.

A furnace of elixir costs at least 100,000 yuan.

Ten furnaces.

That's a million dollars.

What a big deal!

"Your Highness said so, and your majesty is naturally willing to accept the order."

Liu Chan smiled and said, "It's not easy to help me do this, let's take a look at what these things are." ”

Liu Chan clapped his hands, and immediately the prince's guards came over with a plate of mineral materials.

There are dozens of them.

"You take a look at it, and then write down on a piece of paper what these things are, and write them out according to their numbers."

Liu Chan this time, naturally, is the ability of these people to test the school.

If you want to eat imperial food under his Liu Chan, it is not so simple, and he has to find out those who are indiscriminate.

"For each mineral, you have ten breaths of time to identify the kind."

After that, ten positions were arranged in the main account of the Chinese army, and paper and pens were placed in each position.

Qing Xuzi immediately laughed and said, "I have been refining pills for more than ten years, but I want to see which gold and stones I don't recognize." ”

After speaking, he sat straight in the first seat.

The other nine people, under Liu Chan's eyes, also chose a place to sit down.

After everyone sat down, Liu Chan waved his hand, and immediately put the mineral materials on the plate in front of everyone.

Qing Xuzi was originally in control, but when the minerals were brought up one by one, he found that there were some things that even he couldn't recognize.

Ten kinds.

Twenty kinds.

Thirty kinds.

They tried 50 kinds of minerals, 10 of which were repeated, just to test their skills.

"Alright, the time has come."

Liu Chan clapped his hands, and Zhang Yu immediately stepped forward to 'collect the papers', and the ten monks who answered the papers, whether they were Qingxuzi or others, were already sweating profusely.

After taking the answer sheets of these ten people, Liu Chan hurriedly looked at it.

Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, white tin, tin, bronze, copper, silver, red gold, gold, red tin, iron, red copper, copper, white gold, gold, realgar, corundum, topaz, jadeite, orpiment.

Liu Chan looked at these people's 'answer sheets', and his brows gradually furrowed.

The ten people in the main account of the Chinese army looked at Liu Chan and frowned slightly, and suddenly gasped for relief.

When even two people stood up and knelt on the ground, their heads banged like garlic.

"Your Highness spares your life, Your Highness spares your life, we are not Fangshi, but farmers, in order to fight for wealth and wealth, we falsely claim to be Fangshi, and ask Your Highness to forgive your sins."

really

I still have to give it a try, if I don't try, how can I catch Mr. Dongguo who is indiscriminately filled with two people?

These two people directly handed over a blank scroll to Liu Chan, which shows that they can't even write.

"Pull it out, and the rod is thirty, to set an example!"

If you want to fight for wealth, you have to suffer the consequences of failure.

The two people shouted for mercy, but Liu Chan turned a deaf ear, and his attention at the moment was already on Qing Xuzi.

"Of the remaining eight people, only the Taoist can write more than twenty correctly."

Being able to identify twenty kinds of mineral materials is enough to prove that this Qingxuzi is capable.

Liu Chan called the names of the three more people and said, "Except for these four people, the rest of the people should all disperse." ”

Of course

People worked hard to come over, but Liu Chan still gave 100 yuan to go over, when they ran away.

The other three who were left behind were all people who could identify saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal.

When these three things were ground into powder, they could still be recognized, and they should be able to complete the task that Liu Chan wanted to give them.

"Come with me."

Liu Chan got up from the main seat and slowly walked out of the tent, Qing Xuzi and the others were puzzled, but they could only keep up with Liu Chan's footsteps.

In the military school yard, a guard had already prepared a fist-sized bag of gunpowder.

Liu Chan picked up the package of gunpowder and opened it, Liu Chan looked at Qing Xuozi and the others, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

Qingxuzi and the others stepped forward to take a look, and one of them also dipped some gunpowder and tasted it on the tip of his tongue.

Hiss!

He gasped and said, "It's a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. ”

Qing Xuzi was also stunned, and then he said a little nervously: "Your Highness, be careful, this thing is violent, and it may hurt people." ”

"Oh?"

Qing Xuzi's words made Liu Chan raise his eyebrows.

"You've ever done this?"

Qing Xuzi shook his head, nodded again, and said: "Sulfur, arsenic and other poisonous gold and stone medicines, before use, often use the method of cauterization to "subdue", "volt" means to subdue. Causing toxicity to be lost or reduced is a process known as "fire".

There is a secret recipe for fire in the trail, called 'fire alum method', two taels of sulfur, two taels of nitrate, and three and a half coins of aristolochia. The right is the end, mix well. Dig a pit and put the medicine in the tank and the ground. Put the cooked fire together, the marble is large, put it inside, and the smoke gradually rises. That's the fire.

Once, for some reason, I used this method of ambushing fire to blow up my alchemy furnace, and it cost me more than 100,000 yuan to build a new alchemy furnace. ”

The ambush destroyed half of his Taoist temple, and the boy killed one person.

If he hadn't gone to the mountains to collect medicine at that time, I am afraid that he would have died in the Taoist temple.

Therefore, when I saw this object, I couldn't help but feel fear in my heart.

"You're right, this thing is indeed violent, if the recipe is right, you can open the mountain and break the city, kill the enemy and destroy the country."

As he spoke, Liu Chan wrapped the bag of gunpowder, inserted the fuse, and said to Qing Xuzi: "Everyone, take fifty steps back." ”

Fifty steps?

The four of them looked at each other, but they had to obey Liu Chan's order and took fifty steps back.

"Ignite this."

Liu Chan said to the 'researchers' who had brought back from Longshan Xingtai.

Immediately, he took fifty steps back, and then hid in the hut that had been prepared in advance.

"Everyone, listen to this dragon~"

I saw the man light the fuse and run away.

Hiss~

The fuse burned, and after about ten breaths, only a bang was heard, a loud bang rang out on the ground, and then thick smoke billowed in.

Qing Xuzi and the other four monks showed a look of horror on their faces.

"This, this. Is this a thunderbolt? ”

Liu Chan laughed and said, "It's the thunder, but I prefer to call him gunpowder." ”

Gunpowder?

Qingxuzi was stunned for a moment.

"Sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal are ground into powder, and when they are mixed, they have such power."

Qing Xuzi's face was pale, and he obviously hadn't come back to his senses yet.

Liu Chan said disapprerovingly: "When it comes to this power, it is still very inferior to what I expected. ”

How bad is that?

Qing Xuzi said: "This is only a small bag, the power is like this, if it can weigh a hundred catties, I am afraid that the city gate can be blown open." ”

Liu Chan shook his head again and said, "It's just that it has no momentum, and the power is insufficient." ”

As he spoke, Liu Chan brought the four of them to him.

Sure enough, I saw that the school yard was already blackened with gunpowder, but a small hole was broken in the middle, and the wooden tables placed around it were still standing in it with a straight waist and never wavering.

"It's a little less powerful."

The momentum was so big before, Qing Xuzi thought that the power could open the mountain!

But now I come up and take a look, and I see the power!

But that's about it.

"Do you know how I got this gunpowder recipe?"

How to get it?

Qing Xuzi was curious in his heart, and immediately asked, "Could it be that there is a monk who taught it to His Highness?" ”

Liu Chan shook his head, pretending to be mysterious: "There is an immortal preaching in a dream, he said that if there is chaos today, the people are not living, he hopes that I will stabilize the luck of Kyushu, and then stabilize the order of the three worlds of people, gods and ghosts, so he passed on me a few immortal methods, this gunpowder formula is one of these immortal methods." ”

As a person who has seen many immortals in later generations, he came up with a set of novel theories to fool this Qingxuzi, and Liu Chan has no pressure at all.

Immortal law?

Qing Xuzi was stunned for a moment, and then immediately showed ecstasy.

"Your Highness has really received the immortal law?"

Liu Chan nodded and said, "He passed on my three immortal methods, one of which is the technique of Qimen Dunjia, and this gunpowder is one of the secret recipes. ”

Three Immortal Arts?

Qing Xuzi was suspicious at first, and then he came to his senses.

No wonder His Royal Highness has fought many times, and he can win a hundred battles, it turns out that there are immortals to help!

"Since Your Highness has received the Immortal Law, how can you not make gunpowder?"

"I only know the formula, but the materials used in this formula, the details of it, I don't know, and I need you to work together."

Qingxuzi nodded.

"I wonder how powerful this gunpowder is, Your Highness?"

If it's TNT, a little bit can blow the gates open.

But thinking that this was black powder, Liu Chan thought for a moment and said, "A hundred catties of gunpowder can blow up the city gate." ”

The rice has to be eaten bite by bite, and the power of this black powder can break through the city gate during the siege, and Liu Chan is already satisfied.

Qing Xuzi thought for a moment and said, "Poor Dao is willing to try it." ”

Liu Chan applauded: "The specific materials used in gunpowder, I also hope that the Taoist chief will record them, of course, the most important thing is that these three raw materials can be manufactured on a large scale." ”

Qingxuzi touched his long beard, but his brows furrowed slightly.

"Charcoal is relatively easy, but sulfur and saltpeter are hard to come by."

Charcoal can be fired.

But natural sulfur is not easy to obtain.

"Shennong's Materia Medica" has a saying: sulfur can turn gold, silver, copper, iron and strange things, mainly from the Western Regions volcanic area to get sulfur, the rocks next to the mountain are scorched, and the flowing ground is solidified for dozens of miles, that is, stone sulfur also. However, in the Central Plains, if there is pyrite, it can be fired from Nirvana. ”

The so-called nirvana is black coal-bearing pyrite.

The Western Regions is now a place beyond the reach of Liu Chan's whip.

It can only be exchanged for sulfur through the merchant alliance.

But if you want to make it on a large scale, you naturally have to find pyrite.

In Yizhou, there are a few iron mines, but they are not pyrite, and Liu Chan does not know.

"I'll arrange the search for pyrite right away."

If the power of gunpowder is raised and can be mass-produced, the military strength of the Han army will immediately be raised to a higher level.

"It's saltpeter, and there are a lot of them in Yizhou."

Qingxuzi said with a smile: "Nitrate and salt are the same mother, and the moisture under the earth is steamed, and it is now on the ground. Those who are close to the water and the soil is thin become salt, and those who are close to the mountains and the soil is thick become nitrate. It is called "nitrate" because it enters the water, that is, nitrate.

North of Changhuai, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated, that is, in the living room, sweeping the floor every other day, and a little can be taken for refining.

Where the three nitrates are the most: those who come out of Shu are called Sichuan nitrate, those who are born in Shanxi are commonly called salt nitrate, and those who are born in Shandong are commonly called soil nitrate.

When the nitrate is scraped and swept away, it is soaked in water in the tank for a night, and the filth and miscellaneous things float on the surface, and when it is taken away, it is then put into the kettle and poured into the water for refining. The nitrified water is dried, poured into the vessel, and after a night, it is formed into nitrate.

The one who floats above it is called mango nitrate, the man elder is called horse tooth nitrate, and the one who is obscene under it is called simple nitrate. If you want to remove impurities and return to purity, you can refine. Put a few pieces of laiphane into the same cooking, pour it into a basin, and form snow after the night, then call the pot nitrate. ”

Seeing this Qingxuzi talking eloquently, Liu Chan confirmed in his heart that this Qingxuzi is indeed a talent, and the matter of gunpowder may really be able to make a breakthrough in the hands of this person!

As a leader, this big and round cake naturally has to be drawn for him.

"Sulfur production, saltpeter production, charcoal production, it will be a long time to work, if the power of gunpowder comes up, the problem of raw materials is solved, in Yizhou, you choose a mountain, I will build a view for you, for you to find longevity."

After speaking, Liu Chan said mysteriously: "There is one of the immortal methods that the immortal taught me, which is about immortality. ”

Hearing this, Qing Xuzi immediately became excited.

"Your Highness really?"

Liu Chan made a small face and said: "I, the heir of Gong Liu, have never deceived others in my life. ”

Taoist temples will be built.

You can also go after immortality.

The Immortal Immortal Method does exist.

I can't just make it up.

But

If you want to change this immortal method, you have to be a cow and a horse for me.

Now that the gunpowder has been developed, it's time for you to work on something else.

Mining in the mountains, gunpowder firearms, cannons in red clothes.

You old arms and legs, don't you create a few more good things for my heir Liu, and you still want to find immortality?

Capital Zen thought so.

(End of chapter)