Chapter 244 The sky is thundering and the wolves are rushing away

In order to be able to live, in order to have the capital to save your life. Chen Ying decided to open Pandora's box. As for what monsters will be released after the magic box is opened, Chen Ying can't care about it.

After all, the world is big, and I and my family are the biggest. He is no longer alone, he has a family, a wife, a woman and children. In China's political environment, there is a specific law, that is, once a son of heaven and a courtier, when the great Sima general Wei Qing became a general from a slave, but with the fall of the Wei Huo group, not only the Wei Qing family was unlucky, but even Ren An, Tian Ren, Su Jian, Gongsun He, etc. all did not die well.

Chen Ying's generals and colonels are tens of thousands of horses, and there are no less than hundreds of generals who can be counted as descendants.

After appeasing Li Xiuning, Chen Ying began to prepare for the manufacture of gunpowder. The ingredients of gunpowder were a simple formula known to middle school students in later generations, and these things were not rare.

For example, nitrate, which is the most important in gunpowder. Nitrate is a heat-clearing medicine used to vent fire. Of course, it can also be used to treat stomach ruffians, phlegmium, indigestion, edema, edema, mastoma, amenorrhea, and constipation.

It can be said to be an indispensable herb in a drugstore. In addition to the use of miscanthus in pharmacies, like the general fur shops also use nitrate to make skin, any animal fur, once dried, will become very hard, after the nitrate fur, will become white, soft and smooth, elastic.

Guo Luo's movements were very fast, and just on Chen Ying's side, at the location closest to the Yuhe River in the eastern boundary of Chenjiabao, a huge courtyard was transferred to make gunpowder.

As soon as the venue here was cleaned up, Guo Luo sent more than 3,000 catties of manganese in one go. Chen Ying asked people to pour the transported miscanthus into a large bucket, and then add water, just like the original analysis of table salt, first submerge the miscanthus with water, and keep stirring until the miscanthus nitrate is completely dissolved, filtered, remove the residue, and finally get pure miscanthus nitrate, but these miscanthus nitrate is less than 2,000 catties of pure miscanthus nitrate.

Thinking that there were as many as one-third of the impurities in these miscanthus nitrates, Chen Ying couldn't help but secretly smack his tongue, these miscanthus nitrates were not used to make nitrate, but were directly transferred from Datang Boren Hospital, most of them were medical nitrate, either orally or externally, so many impurities, in case he ate a good one, Chen Ying's cold sweat would come down.

He can make money and engage in monopoly operations, but he definitely didn't think about making black money, especially the money of Boren Hospital, Chen Ying immediately ordered: "All the branches of Boren Hospital will stop using it immediately, and all of them will be pulled for analysis and purification, and all the miscanthus nitrate that has not been purified in the future shall not be used!" ”

Sulfur is naturally not pure sulfur, and there are many impurities. Relatively speaking, it is much more troublesome to purify sulfur, but now Chen Ying has a certain foundation and can also borrow it. For example, a vessel for distilling alcohol. To purify saltpeter, it is sufficient to dissolve and analyze, but to purify sulfur, it must be distilled.

Chen Ying had people use a crucible for steelmaking, pour sulfur, and then cover it with a cover for distilling alcohol, under the cooling of the water flow, it is easy to collect sulfur steam, and the sulfur vapor can be cooled by water to obtain pure sulfur.

To make these things, in fact, Chen Ying is just the beginning, and some of the following work is done by people. Now there are no less than 7,000 craftsmen of all kinds who rely on Chen Ying for food, although these craftsmen do not understand what Chen Ying's real purpose is, but they have made pure miscanthus and sulfur according to Chen Ying's requirements.

As for willow charcoal, it's even simpler. Chen Ying simply and rudely vacated a mill to grind the willow charcoal, which was as fine as fine flour, and then used the fine dill (a sieving tool, now disappeared from the lives of the people) to brush off the particles and obtain fine charcoal powder.

The rest of the work is relatively simple. According to the classic golden formula (this really can't be detailed, otherwise it will be unlucky) has become a bunch of new pure black powder, Chen Ying asked people to find egg whites and beat them into the powder and put them in a sieve and kept rolling back and forth, after rolling a column of incense, it became a small particle one by one, and after a sieve, all the particles that leaked out were the size of rapeseed, and Chen Ying was satisfied and began to make his own baby.

Phosphorus pig iron is a disgusting thing, although it is iron, it has a high phosphorus content and a very brittle texture. However, several small iron ores in Chen Ying's hands are rich in phosphate ore and iron ore, and the cost of such iron ore mining is relatively high, and there is no price advantage at all.

Even when Li Yuan took back the steel workshop in Chen Ying's hand, he did not take back this kind of chicken-ribbed iron ore, because this kind of iron can neither be used as a tool nor as a blade, and it is said that iron is not much stronger than pottery. In the rivers and lakes, there are hard qigong performances, breaking steel plates with bare hands, in fact, most of them use phosphorus and iron as props (except for real kung fu, which Lao Cheng has never seen).

As long as the thickness exceeds three or five millimeters, it will not be easily broken, but the gunpowder can be easily exploded, and under the impact of gunpowder, the iron phosphorus sheet will form a very deadly armor-piercing shrapnel.

In order to keep it secret, the work of purification and analysis is done by craftsmen, but when it comes to the real proportion, it is Chen Ying who operates it himself, and when he gets these granular gunpowder, Chen Ying personally installed a phosphorus iron shell that looks like a melon grenade.

When Chen Ying was a teenager in later generations, he often played artillery battles by himself, which he was very familiar with, first using saltpeter powder to roll into twists, stuffing them into phosphorus iron shells, and then stuffing them with confetti.

In this way, a hand-held bullet weighing about a pound is ready. However, Qinglin is not suitable as a testing ground for hand-held bombs.

Making ten grenade bombs in one go, Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to take dozens of henchmen, one person and three war horses, and go straight to the long twist hill in the southeast of the Jieyu River.

In later generations, the long twist has become a spectacular fertile field, and now it is still a deserted wasteland, and Chen Ying is not worried about being discovered by others.

Guo Luo didn't see the mixture, and he didn't know what was in it, but he was very confident in Chen Ying's medicinal powder, because he saw how to purify those materials, and every method was magical.

Guo Luo and the others galloped on horseback, and after more than two hours, they finally arrived at the long twist.

Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to send people to scatter, after making sure that there were no people within a radius of more than ten miles, Chen Ying began to light the torch, Chen Ying picked up a grenade bullet, put it on the torch and lit the fuse, with the sound of the sneering fuse burning, Chen Ying casually threw the grenade bomb to a mulberry tree with a diameter of more than one foot more than thirty steps away.

The mulberry tree turned pitch black, and four or five pieces ......of bark were blown off the entire tree.

More than a dozen war horses beside Chen Ying were frightened by this loud noise, neighing and struggling, if it wasn't tied to the big tree, I am afraid that the war horses would break free from the reins and run, and Guo Luo was shocked, his mouth was open, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Chen Ying walked to the big tree, observed the power of the explosion, and found that the tree was covered with more than a dozen bullet holes, and these shrapnel had penetrated deep into the tree and disappeared, so it was conceivable that the power was quite sufficient.

Chen Ying saw a stone that was more than 100 catties long, lit the fuse and kept the grenade still under the stone, turned around and ran.

Seeing that Guo Luo was still stunned on the spot, Chen Ying hurriedly dragged Guo Luo and ran into the distance.

With a loud bang, more than 100 catties of stones turned into gravel chips, and the largest one was only a dozen catties.

At this time, Chen Ying's personal guards heard the news, and the nervous guards were around Chen Ying.

Guo Luo slowly came back to his senses at this time, and said dumbfounded: "Lord...... This...... This ......"

"This is the capital I prepared to save my life!" Chen Ying looked at the guards around him and smiled: "You say, is this enough?" ”

Guo Luo said excitedly: "Enough, enough, as long as one is thrown into the enemy's formation, it will definitely explode a large piece!" ”

At this time, the power of gunpowder bullets could be greater than in later generations. Because later generations have adapted to the form of hot weapon warfare, in the process of attacking, the infantry is no longer in a dense formation, and it will definitely not be like in film and television dramas, a grenade bomb can kill a large area.

In fact, in the attack, the distance between each soldier is at least eight meters, usually more than ten meters, a three-person combat team, the combat area is more than 100 square meters, even if it is a six-seven-style wooden-handled hand-held bullet, the killing radius is only eight meters, and the coverage area is only 50 square meters.

But at this time it is different, because with a dense formation, within a hundred square meters, at least one team must stand.

Guo Luo said excitedly: "Lord, with this killing weapon, we can enter the palace at any time!" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "The grenade bomb is actually not omnipotent, of course, I will not use it lightly unless it is absolutely necessary, once it is used, it will be your death and my death!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen said to Guo Luo: "After our people arrive in Chang'an, we will immediately transfer 500 people to form a grenadier battalion, a battalion of 500 people, secretly practice the art of bomb throwing, and be sure to form combat effectiveness in the fastest time!" ”

Guo Luo said: "I am willing to die for the Lord!" ”

Chen Ying was still a little unsatisfied, he lit the fuses of the remaining eight grenade bombs one after another, and threw them on the long twist wall, and for a while, the long twist wall was thundering in the sky, and the wolf ran suddenly.

Chen Ying laughed and turned around and returned to the clear forest.

By the time Chen Ying returned to Qinglin, it was already late at night.

Chen Ying had just entered the door, and He Yue'er said with a worried face: "Chen Lang, the princess is sick!" ”

Chen Ying was stunned, Li Xiuning's physical fitness has always been good, how could he get sick?

Chen Ying was anxious and asked, "When is it?" ”

He Yue'er hurriedly said: "Just after the princess came back from Chang'an City, the princess didn't let the imperial doctor see the disease, just half an hour ago, she coughed up blood......

Hearing this, Chen rushed to the bedroom.

In history, Pingyang princess Li Xiuning covered the world and staged the legend of women who did not let their eyebrows go, but the cause of her death is not seen in the history books. Neither the "New Tang Book" nor the "Old Tang Book" recorded the cause of her death, and it is said that Li Xiuning did not have any hidden diseases, nor did she have any hereditary diseases, until February of the sixth year of Wude, and a stroke suddenly appeared in the history books. And the reason why this is recorded is mainly because her funeral is different, and it was buried with a military ceremony.

"The front and rear feathers are advocated, the big chariot, the building, the squad sword forty people, and the tiger armor." At that time, the ceremonial officer put forward an opinion that the propaganda used by women to bury them was inconsistent with the ancient ritual system, and Li Yuan retorted to him, "Advocacy is military music, in the past, Princess Pingyang always came to the battlefield in person, took the lead, beat drums and sounded gold, and served military affairs, how could there have been such a woman from ancient times to the present?" What's wrong with a military salute to bury a princess?" So he made an exception to bury Princess Pingyang with a military salute, and according to the so-called "Mingde has merit and is called "Zhao", and Princess Pingyang is "Zhao".

Chen Ying thought of this, and suddenly his heart ached like a knife, could it be said that Li Xiuning was worried about Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin fighting each other because of his confrontation with Li Yuan, and he didn't want to see Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's brothers fratricidal, worried about becoming ill, and died without medicine?

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The Chenjiabao building complex with four floors high and five floors away is majestic and magnificent, especially at night, a lamp is lit in each corrugated on the eaves, the candle flame is shining, looking from afar, it is like a golden flying dragon soaring in the night sky of Miao.

From the main gate to the backyard, you need to pass through the courtyard of Qijin, and walk more than 500 steps along the road. Although Chen Ying is fast, He Yue'er is faster.

Watching Chen Ying rush towards the backyard, He Yue'er put away Luo's skirt, jumped onto the high platform, moved up and down between the eaves, and disappeared after a few ups and downs.

He Yue'er stepped forward and entered the bedroom.

At this time, Li Xiuning was lying on the bed and let out bursts of coughing sounds.

He Yue'er pushed the door in and said, "Princess, Chen Lang has returned!" ”

Li Xiuning frowned and said, "You go and tell him that I am not feeling well, and it is inconvenient to see each other today!" ”

A maid hurriedly went out of the house to stop Chen Ying.

But it was too late, Chen Ying came to the corridor outside the bedroom, and asked the maid, "How is the princess's health?" ”

The maid hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not very good, the princess hasn't eaten for a day, and the imperial doctor has prescribed some medicine, and she doesn't take ......"

Chen Ying sighed: "I'll go in and see the princess!" ”

The maid stood in front of Chen Ying and said, "Her Royal Highness the princess ordered, she is not feeling well, please come back!" ”

Chen Ying's face turned cold: "Get out of the way!" ”

The maid didn't move.

Chen Ying was anxious, and stretched out his hand to push the maid, the maid's feet seemed to have roots, and they couldn't move when they pushed it, Chen Ying frowned, and tried hard again, but still didn't move.

Chen Yingdao: "Get out of the way!" ”

The maid bowed her head and remained silent.

Chen Ying turned around and yelled at Ashina Smo: "Ashina Simo, this handmaid will be given to you as a wife!" ”

Ashnasimo laughed and said, "Thank you, Lord for your generous gift!" ”

The maid was so frightened that Chen Ying pushed the door in.

looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Sanniang, why are you so troubled!" ”

Li Xiuning smiled bitterly: "Chen Lang, I'm just uncomfortable!" ”

Chen Ying walked up to Li Xiuning, stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around her shoulders, and said with relief: "It's okay, everything is with me!" ”

When Li Xiuning heard this, his mouth opened and closed, and his eyes were like pearls with broken threads: "Chen Lang, slaves are so bitter!" ”

Chen Ying actually can't see a woman crying the most, let alone his own woman crying.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "The bell still needs to be tied to the bell, it seems that the king of Qin and the prince must have a good talk!" ”

PS: I owe a chapter yesterday, a big chapter of 4,000 words today, and there will be more in the evening!