Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Girl in Red Wishes Jiuzhen
There are suddenly some mutated four-legged snakes in this West Lake, which is a bit harmful to fishermen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Originally, this was nothing, but the people from this green snake village came forward to prevent people from hurting these four-legged snakes, and they also took the opportunity to collect money, which naturally caused public anger.
It's just that don't look at this green snake village in Shuangpu Village, but there are dozens of strong men in it, and they don't know where to learn the method, they can drive these four-legged snakes, but the villages near the West Lake dare not easily move troops.
Therefore, these Zhuangzi hope that everyone will unite to fight against this green snake village.
Li Yingyuan has been cultivating diligently during this time, and finally practiced the Golden Cicada Fist, and he can also deliver a knowing blow. In fact, after the first blow of the mixed yuan fist, the later practice of the golden cicada fist is just a matter of course.
This Golden Cicada Fist is different from the Mixed Yuan Fist, the Mixed Yuan Fist is powerful and powerful, but the Golden Cicada Fist is fast and fierce, but it is a little different from the Mixed Yuan Fist.
It's just that for Li Yingyuan, Jin Cicada Boxing is just an auxiliary, and in order to practice life and death boxing in the future, it is mainly based on mixed yuan boxing.
After hearing about the hero's post while practicing boxing, Li Yingyuan couldn't help muttering that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings, but he was looking for Tao An.
"I've been thinking about something going to happen these days, how about you help me find a few craftsmen who can make firecrackers? The wages are negotiable, and it would be better if I bought some sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal, etc. ”
"It's no problem to find a craftsman or something, but look at your posture, brother, do you want to make gunpowder yourself?"
"The rumors are a little wrong during this time, so it's better to plan early. Why, are these taboos?"
"If you want to say that it is taboo, our Mingjiao is the biggest taboo. Seeing that this world is not peaceful now, there are rebels in the northwest, Tartars in the northeast, and even Dinghai is in trouble with the English, without any self-defense, I am afraid that I don't know how to die.
It's just that I see that you still need to use lead for bullets, don't you need it?" After knowing the power of the musket, Tao An was immediately fascinated by the musket, and he couldn't wait to bring the musket in and out every day, and he didn't shirk it at all.
"Well, it's up to the blacksmith to make lead pellets, and by the way, make me a few iron lumps. Li Yingyuan nodded.
Li Yingyuan was deeply touched by the strength of the British ships and guns in Dinghai, and he read books on the manufacture of weapons, and carefully observed them when the craftsmen of the English army were working, and he had some experience in the manufacture of firearms.
The manufacturing method of English gunpowder was much more advanced and powerful than that of the Ming Kingdom.
Li Yingyuan was never afraid of spending money, so he asked Tao An to help Gu Lai's best firecracker craftsmen, and when someone came to ask, the other party had been making firecrackers for generations and was very familiar with gunpowder production, and even military gunpowder such as artillery strictly prohibited by the government would be made.
The two of them discussed the production process, the formula of gunpowder, etc., and then thought about how to ensure safety, etc., and began to work.
Li Yingyuan wanted to produce a small amount of gunpowder, according to the English, just use laboratory methods to produce a small amount of gunpowder, so there is no need for any bulky machinery, everything is simple.
The purification of sulfur was originally very troublesome, but Li Yingyuan did not intend to waste more time here, so he directly bought hundreds of catties of sulfur, hand-selected the purest from it, and easily solved the problem. Saltpeter and charcoal, naturally, are also used best.
Then the raw materials are finely ground by hand, without cow grinding, so as to ensure that the raw materials are ground more finely.
As for the formula, the ratio of gunpowder nitrate and sulfur carbon in the Ming Kingdom was 80 percent, 10 percent, and 10 percent, while the ratio of nitrate and sulfur carbon in British musket gunpowder was 75 percent, 10 percent, and 15 percent.
The next work is simpler, anyway, if you have money, buy some eggs, use egg whites and other ingredients to make granules of gunpowder and dry them in the shade, this process is very simple, but it is limited to the harmony of gods and beasts, so I won't go into details.
After making it, the gunpowder is much stronger than the gunpowder on the Ming side, and it is not much different from the English gunpowder, but it is a little worse in storage performance such as moisture-proof and long-term storage, but Li Yingyuan did not think about storing these gunpowder for a long time.
Regarding the manufacture of lead pellets, even if Li Yingyuan does not say it, the blacksmiths of the Ming Kingdom also have thousands of methods to make lead pellets of specified specifications.
Li Yingyuan was impressed by the grenade of the English people, and this thing was much simpler to imitate than a musket, and he easily asked the blacksmith to make hundreds of them according to his own requirements.
In the end, he tested the power of gunpowder and calculated the ratio with lead pellets, for these, the firecracker craftsman was several times more familiar than Li Yingyuan, and quickly helped him make it.
The gunpowder used by the Ming Kingdom was only scattered in a small barrel, and the shooter himself needed to extract it according to experience during the war, and then put it in the firearm, which naturally had a lot of trouble, and it was far less troublesome than the English people who directly wrapped the quantitative gunpowder in paper and distributed it to the soldiers.
This kind of paper was originally to be specially made, so that when the bullets were fired, they would also be shot out of the barrel together, and the outside should be covered with grease so as not to get wet in the rain, but Li Yingyuan was not willing to pursue the details at this time, he just used good mulberry paper, and anyway, he did not pursue the level of these villagers to play the level of real soldiers.
Originally, the bullets of the English army were very cheap, and the price of 10,000 rounds of ammunition was less than ten taels of silver, but with Li Yingyuan's method, it was immediately more than ten times more expensive.
In short, if you are careless, you can make tens of thousands of bullets, plus more than two hundred grenades, which is enough to fight a war of thousands of people in the Ming Kingdom.
With these things at the bottom, Li Yingyuan was suddenly angry, and felt that no matter what problems he encountered, he could overcome them with strength.
After the musket bullets were released, the shooting level of the villagers in Shuangpu Village increased sharply, but Li Yingyuan was worried that there would be too many guns and too much wear and tear on the barrel of the musket, so he restrained himself.
When the date of the gathering as stated in the hero's post was approaching, Li Yingyuan and Tao An took a few villagers on the road in advance.
Li Yingyuan himself brought a short sword, a pistol, and a demon sword "Muramasa", and Tao An and the others carried two spears, knives, guns, sticks, etc., and each of them also brought five or six grenades, which could be regarded as armed to the teeth.
At this time, wars broke out frequently, and the government's restrictions on civilian firearms were much looser, but everyone still wrapped their spears with cloth, so as not to make it difficult for officers and soldiers to explain.
The people of Shuangpu Village had no intention of pinching the point to Zhujiazhuang, and arrived near Zhujiazhuang the day before the party date, and everyone did not go in, but only sat down to drink tea at the tea shop outside Zhujiazhuang, and saw that someone had already dialed it in.
When the rest was almost over, they discussed whether to go to Zhujiazhuang or find a store to live in the neighborhood, and saw a group of young men and girls riding horses in the distance, with hunting dogs and bows and crossbows, as if they had just returned from hunting.
Led by a young girl, dressed in fiery red, only fifteen or sixteen years old, bright and moving, almost everyone's attention was attracted to the past, and the person next to him introduced, Li Yingyuan knew that the girl's name was Zhu Jiuzhen, and she was the daughter of Zhu Changling, the owner of Zhujiazhuang, who initiated the hero post.
However, when the group reached the vicinity of the tea shop, a young beggar appeared and tried to cross the road, and when he saw that the young men and girls were riding too fast, he was in a hurry to dodge.
This time, he dodged himself, but the horse on which the girl in red was riding was frightened, and the man stood up, causing the girl in red to fall from the horse.
The hound, who followed beside him, saw that his master was injured, and without saying a word, he pounced on the beggar, his sharp teeth shining in the sun.