616 Chang'an Fever (Medium)
Suning is definitely not worried that he will be punished, but will be rewarded for this incident, because this explosion has proved that the gunpowder made by Li Tai can blow up a room, although I don't know what that amount is, but after all, it is a breakthrough, isn't it? The early alchemists concocted the elixir that could blow up the alchemy furnace, and the alchemy furnace should be made of bronze, which means that the power of gunpowder is not as small as imagined.
Of course, with gunpowder without cannons, it still doesn't work, when the artillery is officially mature, with gunpowder shells, this can be regarded as the first dawn of the firearms era, the cold weapons family, finally ushered in a trace of temperature, this temperature, is really hard-won...... Didn't you see that Li Tai was injured by this trace of temperature?
The Song Dynasty began to develop gunpowder weapons and could not form any powerful attack force, until the middle and late Ming Dynasty gunpowder weapons can be regarded as a threat to the nomads, Qi Jiguang in the north to guard the frontier when the idea of joint operations of the large corps, there are a lot of firearms troops involved, the Ming army of the entire army of firearms ratio has reached more than 50 percent, Yuan Chonghuan can achieve the victory of the battle of Ningyuan is also indispensable to the help of Hongyi artillery.
The Ming army's use and attention to firearms far exceeded that of the Qing army, and the Qing army basically stopped the research and development of firearms after entering the customs, and finally came out of a Dai Zi and was filled with the army, but the Qing army was blown up by the artillery of the foreigners, and the muskets at that time were really not to the point where they could suppress the archery army, but the power of the artillery was too great. Therefore, the Qing army was completely defeated, and it was not until the invention and large-scale use of repeating rifles during the American Civil War that the cavalry completely fell into decline, and it is not difficult to understand why the Mongol horse team of Seng Lingqin was completely wiped out.
The national fortune of the Qing Dynasty was too poor, in 1840 when the Western musket had not yet developed to the era of the bead gun, so the oppression of the cavalry was not too great, from the time Lin Zexu made a countermeasure to the British army is to transform the new artillery instead of the musket can be seen, the British army is strong is the ironclad ships and strong artillery, not the musket.
The Spencer repeater during the American Civil War was a change from the strong pressure on the cavalry, and after that. The cavalry began to fall behind. The Qing army became more passive at this moment, and the cavalry, which originally had some effect, was directly swept into the garbage heap.
Suning has always believed that the importance of muskets was not as important as artillery in this period, in the era of the most primitive arquebuses and muskets, that is, the Ming Dynasty. It's not very useful at all. The Ming army was armed with muskets and was defeated by the Manchu Eight Banners. Even the muskets of the flintlock era could not suppress the cavalry, but once they entered the age of machine guns and automatic rifles, the cavalry was completely a living target.
Suning didn't feel that when he was alive, he could see a scientific and technological worker from the Tang Dynasty excitedly holding an automatic rifle or machine gun to show him. But Suning very much hopes to see quite powerful artillery in his lifetime, and it is a breech gun, not a breech gun, in that case, the Tang army will be even more invincible, invincible in the field, and the siege war directly uses artillery to smash the city wall, isn't this what the Japanese army did in the first place?
There was a loud bang in the palace, so that Suning heard the voice of hope from the future, Li Tai really did it, really did it, and did not disgrace his teacher's life? Hehehe, this kid really has a hand! Attaboy! Well done!
Suning hugged Li Ruihan and kissed her several times, smiling and telling her that this is a great thing, really a great thing, Li Ruihan's face turned pale, and he stroked Suning's forehead vigorously for fear that he would lose his mind, Suning had no way to explain, so he had to call the messenger to rush to Chang'an together, and told Li Ruihan to let her stay at home obediently, and she would definitely be able to come back today, even the Liu family and the Wang family ignored it, so excited!
Rushed into Chang'an City, rushed into the palace, and directly entered Li Tai's palace, ignoring everyone's weird expressions, Suning entered Li Tai's bedroom and shouted: "Qingque!" You really did it?! β
As soon as Li Tai saw Suning coming, he didn't care about the injury on his right arm, sat up and shouted, "It's done!" And it did! Put it in an alchemy furnace and ignite it, and it really explodes, do you see that room? It's all collapsed, and the power is really great! It's too big! β
Suning suddenly felt that everything he had paid had been settled, Li Tai was so powerful, and just wanted to praise him a few words, he heard Li Erma's angry reprimand: "Presumptuous!" I asked you to teach the Green Sparrow to read, not for you to teach the Green Sparrow to do these dangerous things! Now that Qingque is injured, you actually ignore it? Is there a teacher like you?! Do you know how dangerous it is in the palace? How dangerous would that be? What are you guilty of?! β
Only then did Suning find that Li Erma XiΓ was sitting aside, and Empress Changsun was also sitting aside, staring at herself very unkindly, Suning immediately realized that this matter had not been reported to Li Ermaxi and Empress Changsun, and Li Tai was their heart, how sad it hurt him this time? Also, he was the main envoy, and then the director Li Tai was injured, so it is estimated that he will be cleaned up by many ministers, right? Especially those who don't like themselves......
Suning felt that he had to strike first, so he pretended to look around cautiously, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and the minister has to do this, and ask Your Majesty to let all the irrelevant people leave, well, the queen had better leave too, this matter is too important." β
Li Erma's stomach was about to erupt, but seeing Suning's stern appearance, and he had to get rid of the irrelevant people around him, what kind of big deal was it? This kid has always been very cautious in doing things, which can be seen from the secrecy decree, is it really something unspeakable, so he and Qingque are secretly doing it? What is it that makes him do it at such a cost? He should know what kind of impact Qingque's injury will have on him, Rui Han is still pregnant, he won't be so ......
As soon as he thought of this, Li Erqi obviously realized that it was not for nothing that Suning did this, so he waved his hand. All the palace guards withdrew one after another, and the eldest grandson queen was stunned: "What is so important?" Can't even I know? It's about Qingque, Your Majesty, please allow the concubine to stay. β
Li Er nodded: "The queen is not an outsider, and it is also involved in family affairs at this time, you kid give me a reason, don't worry about leaking secrets, if you can't say a reason, even if I let you go, tomorrow's impeachment of you can be piled up in the sky!" Even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't escape severe punishment! Hum! β
Li Erma's eyes widened. Quite angry. Suning swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and was about to speak, but Li Tai began to defend Suning: "Father, mother." My son just said it. This is the development of gunpowder. Quite an important thing, this thing has been successful, and that's a big credit. It's not a bad thing! β
Empress Eldest Sun said angrily: "Qingque, shut up! Don't you think you're okay if you're hurt, you don't know it's going to explode? How dare you deal with such a danger alone? How did Pinsuri mother teach you? When you're healed, you won't be able to escape punishment! β
Li Tai closed his mouth in a daze, and gave Suning a helpless look, Suning saw that Li Erma XiΓ had not spoken, and knew that there was still a drama in this matter, and the final decision was still in the hands of Li Erma, and there was nothing to do if he persuaded him, and now there were only four people in the whole room, which was very safe, so to speak.
"Your Majesty, the queen, the minister, and the green finch are actually developing a new type of weapon." Suning said.
Empress Changsun frowned and didn't speak, while Li Er Majesty asked, "What weapon?" It's not a small power to make that house like that, right? β
Suning nodded and said, "The minister called it gunpowder." β
Li Ermaxi and Empress Changsun both wondered: "Gunpowder? β
Suning explained: "A long time ago, the ancestors knew in the course of the war that there are two things in the world that can cause the greatest losses to the enemy's army, no matter how sharp the sword and how powerful the chariot can not compare to these two things, but helplessly, no one can control these two things, they can only be used, but they cannot be controlled, that is, water and fire."
But where the ancient military everyone, all do not know the power of water attack and fire attack, not proficient in the strategy of water attack and fire attack, the battle of Chibi Cao Cao was defeated by Zhou Yu's fire attack, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were wiped out, it is a rare defeat since Cao Cao ruled the world, the battle of Jingzhou was banned and flooded by Guan Yu Seventh Army, but also in the ban life has not lost the battle, the power of water attack and fire attack can be glimpsed from this, but water attack and fire attack is difficult to master, according to local conditions, especially water, we can not always change water out of thin air, where is there water above the desert?
So the minister began to think about the fire attack that could be carried out at any time, as long as it did not rain, the fire attack was very powerful, and after the minister found that the oil ignited by the fire could not be extinguished with water, the idea of the burning tank was born, and the battle against the wingmen, the power of the burning tank was revealed, how huge is that? The 30,000 bureaucrats were wiped out, and the scene made the ministers feel uneasy now.
Later, the minister paid more attention to the fire attack, looking for a way to increase the power of the fire attack, but he had been unable to do it, knowing that one day when the minister and Sun Daochang chatted, Sun Daochang inadvertently talked about the Taoist liars when the alchemy, the Dan furnace sometimes exploded inexplicably, shattered, causing a lot of casualties, although they said that this was the price paid for refining the elixir, but the minister thought that Sun Daochang's refining of health pills had never exploded, and these liars caused explosions from time to time, which must not be accidental but inevitable.
Where is the reason, it should only be found in the materials of alchemy, the minister asked Sun Daochang to look for this information in the ancient books, and finally found that saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, these three things, every time there is an explosion of the Dan furnace, there must be these three raw materials in it, this must not be a coincidence, the minister took these three things to do the real thing, according to the formula recorded in the ancient books, mix it well, add it, and make gunpowder, and sure enough, it was found that the gunpowder mixed together burned particularly violently, It is very different from ordinary firewood, but it does not explode.
Chen thought that when there was an explosion, these things were placed in the alchemy furnace, and the alchemy furnace was closed, if the rest of the medicinal materials were discarded and these three things were put in, would the same situation happen?
Chen got a small alchemy furnace from Sun Daochang, got some gunpowder and threw it in, and directly lit it and covered it, but after a while, he heard an explosion, and the lid was blown into the sky, although the alchemy furnace was not damaged, but Chen guessed that the reason why these things exploded was because they were placed in a relatively sealed place.
And the reason why it didn't explode was because the amount of gunpowder was too small, and the Dan furnace was larger, so the minister tried to use a smaller container for realization, but the minister also had a lot of things, and he would not be called by His Majesty to do some things, and not long ago he entrusted this matter to Qingque, and asked him to improve this kind of thing that can be exploded, and warned Qingque to pay attention to safety, be sure to stay away from the real place, have someone to help, and don't get it in the palace, the result ......"
Suning looked at Li Tai, most of these things are indeed true, except that Suning has not done it himself, but Suning still has the number of jΓΉ, and directly handed over the number jΓΉ to Li Tai, told him to pay attention to the main points and some other things, and explained the usefulness, Li Tai entered the battle with a light in his eyes, Suning did warn Li Tai, Li Erma could see from Li Tai's face that Suning was not lying.
But what does this have to do with new weapons? (To be continued......)