Chapter 262: Black Powder
After three rounds of drinking, Wang Xuanqing, who avoided seeing him, came to see off several drunken royal nobles, and when he left, the county lord of Jiangdu still repeated the sentence that was the most invincible and resentful of the moon.
Within a few days, Xu Hao's red bean words spread throughout the capital, and were praised by some Shilin people and Qinhuai River famous prostitutes as likely to be another graceful poet after Li Shangyin, Liu Yong and others.
It's a pity that there are too few poems in circulation, and there are readers who come to Xiaojia Village every day, hoping to meet Xu Hao himself, to learn poetry and songs, and to get more good works.
Unexpectedly, Xu Hao did not see any outsiders, which made the closed-door readers return one after another, and some people speculated that the red bean word might be from the hand of the county lord of Yuning, and this rumor was in the air for a while.
In a hidden flower bush in the bamboo garden, Xu Hao lay on the soft grass, looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, looking leisurely.
Mu Ningxue smiled beside her, played with the grass and said: "I have become a big word, now the prince and grandson will no longer be suspicious of you, and it is too late to respect you." ”
Xu Hao smiled bitterly: "Don't laugh at me, look at what the girls in the family have become, don't you just make a song, and everyone looks like a nymphomaniac?" Now that the old man sees me, he screams. ”
Her husband is famous, as a wife, Mu Ningxue is naturally and honorable, her eyes are drunk, her little feet gently rubbed her husband's calves, and said with a smile: "Even I can't help it, let alone them." Would you like to make a few more poems? ”
"I really don't understand, a poem can make you emotional."
Xu Hao turned over and pressed his wife under him, counterattacked the pair of perfect rabbits with both hands, fragrant, stretched out his hand to remove his long skirt and gently straightened up, like a fish in water.
Mu Ningxue, who was caught off guard, hurriedly bit her lip for fear of screaming, and after getting used to her husband's movements, she beat the man's chest angrily. Panting slightly, he said, "This is outside, if someone knows about it, will I still have the face to see people?" ”
Xu Hao said disapprerovingly: "What are you afraid of in your own yard, the joy of husband and wife lies in constantly trying, and it has become a routine to always do it at night in the room for a long time." ”
"Fallacious reasoning!" Mu Ningxue simply stopped talking after speaking, closed her eyes and silently endured, her already emotional body was extremely sensitive, and it didn't take long for her to be defeated, and after about another incense stick, she lost her armor again.
The wife's delicate posture is intoxicating, and her slender jade legs are round and straight without any flaws. The height of 1.7 meters is just right, and if you are taller, you will be nicknamed Yizhangqing.
Xu Hao didn't want to impregnate his wife too early, so he sped up his movements and quickly pulled out, then lowered his head to kiss his wife, stretched out his hand to gently soothe him, and made his wife enjoy the afterglow after the excitement, and Mu Ningxue opened her eyes for a long time with a puzzled look.
Xu Hao said honestly: "It's not good to have a child too early, I want you to live a few years carefree, and the family will not urge you." Listen to me about this. ”
"Hmm!" Mu Ningxue nodded sweetly and obediently in her heart, her husband was different for her own sake, "Can you conceive from God, in case you get old in the future?" ”
Xu Hao smiled: "What God has given is true. But conception is regular, there is no need to burn incense and ask for children, and I will teach you in the evening, although I don't say that I will hit every shot. It can also greatly increase the odds. ”
Mu Ningxue hurriedly shook her head and said with a smile: "I don't want it, you always want to take the opportunity to look at the place where you are ashamed, or you just coax me to make a posture of being ashamed." ”
Xu Hao said speechlessly: "You are good at everything." It's just that you can't let go of the sex. ”
"It's okay to go and find Zhiqing Zhiyan, what can't they do in order to compete for favor?" Mu Ningxue blushed and got up, took out a silk scarf to clean up the aftermath.
Xu Hao said solemnly: "I didn't do anything, don't wronged good people." ”
Mu Ningxue sighed and said: "There are flowers that can be broken straight and must be broken, they are determined to serve you for a lifetime, and it is not good to cold other people's hearts." ”
"Besides, I don't want you to have a bad heart." Xu Hao reached out to take the silk scarf from his wife's hand.
Mu Ningxue hurriedly dodged and said, "Unclean things can't be touched as a master, forget it, you two come in." ”
As soon as the words fell, the two pretty girls lowered their heads and showed their heads, Mu Ningxue said angrily: "What are you doing with twisting and pinching?" I've been peeping for a long time, and I'm embarrassed to know this? ”
Zhiyan deliberately twisted her green little buttocks and walked to Ning Xue's side first, squatted down with her back to Xu Hao and pulled out a silk scarf, and Zhiqing also deliberately moved slowly in front of the man unwillingly, with a forced face.
Mu Ningxue knew that this was pretending to be for herself, so she simply said: "No need, I'll go back to the room and rinse it myself, you will serve the good young master." ”
"Oh!" Zhiyan pursed her lips in disgust when she heard this, and Zhiqing said expressionlessly: "Got it." ”
I didn't want Xu Hao to stand up and leave without looking back. Zhiqing and Zhiyan suddenly lost their souls, and they were both listless.
Mu Ningxue felt relieved and had a headache in her heart, and muttered: "The next time I come to the menstrual affairs, the two of you will go to serve together at night." ”
Zhiyan said with a bitter face: "But the young master doesn't seem to like us anymore." ”
Mu Ningxue said angrily: "Do you want me to think for you?" If you don't want to, you'll be an old girl for the rest of your life. After speaking, he threw off his sleeves and raised his feet and left, leaving the two girls looking at each other with aggrieved faces.
Here, Xu Hao went to the outer study, and saw Zhou Peng touching his beard and shaking his head in contemplation, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't think about it, I don't know how many pounds or two weeks my brother is?" ”
Zhou Peng groaned: "Although I have not seen the poems written by Mrs., I dare to conclude that this red bean word is definitely not a woman's work, as the saying goes, Shibei should be impressed in three days, with your skill or poetry is not caught, this word must come from your hand." ”
Xu Hao said: "Who does it, no one admits that I did it?" You guys are unreasonable. ”
Zhou Peng raised his beard angrily and said, "Do you know the meaning of the appearance of a noun?" It has already made you have a place in the Shilin, and is highly respected by thousands of scholars and boudoir daughters. ”
Xu Hao said disdainfully: "What reader doesn't have a few masterpieces?" Who among the ministers of the DPRK and China is not an expert in poetry and lyrics? ”
"Exactly." Zhou Peng said earnestly: "So adults have great prestige in the eyes of scholars, where can they not be respected? ”
Xu Hao said with a smile: "I know what Brother Zhou means, is it for me to continue to make persistent efforts to become more famous in order to become a generation of this dynasty, right?" ”
"Yes, how can such a great talent be wasted?" Zhou Peng nodded.
Xu Hao smiled bitterly: "Fame can't be eaten as a meal, forget it, let's talk about serious things." ”
Zhou Peng sighed regretfully, but he also knew that Xu Hao's noble status was not uncommon, but after this incident, he could be regarded as having a reputation in Shilin, and he would eventually understand the benefits in the future.
Zhou Peng stopped talking nonsense, and he didn't believe that Xu Hao could not bear to write more masterpieces, so he said: "That day, when it came to nitrate, it was the sulfuric acid you said, and sulfuric acid was refined by this method. ”
"Well, just keep shiyan."
Xu Hao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, he knew what sulfuric acid and sulfur meant, but this matter could not be said easily.
However, Xu Hao asked suspiciously: "Didn't you suddenly explode during the whole process?" ”
Zhou Peng said: "No, the Taoist priest carefully mixed in a kind of gold water at that time, saying that this is the secret of the Taoist sect. ”
Xu Hao secretly said lucky, that Taoist golden water is estimated to be the ancient version of the stabilizer, it seems that there were many accidents when the ancient Taoist priests were refining the elixir.
Zhou Peng continued: "In addition, there is the black powder you mentioned, after thousands of changes in the formula, forty-three and a half catties of net nitrate, five and a half catties of net sulfur, and eight catties and three taels of willow wood charcoal, and its charcoal was simmered in the rapid fire. It's good to simmer at eight o'clock every time, and you have to study it when it's done.
The gunpowder should be ground at six o'clock, and the gunpowder should be studied at three o'clock. After grinding, press the pressure plate. Each plate is pressed, a total of thirty-nine. Pressed and then rolled, rolled fine to make gunpowder. After rolling, go to the light, and then go to the fan after the light. Fan the dust and bake it. There is a difference between one tide and one and a half tides, and each tide takes two full days. Then light it with lead powder and put it into a bottle. ”
Xu Hao smiled after hearing this: "Ancestors bless, I can lead Shijie for five hundred years!" ”
Zhou Peng said: "It just so happened that Fengyang was going to dig a hill to open up the canal, so he took it and tried it for a hundred catties, who knew that half of the hill collapsed and injured a few people, and the bluffing Ordnance Bureau did not dare to hoard a large number of people, for fear of blowing up the yamen." When the black powder was filled with pellets in the musket, the range was more than tripled. ”
Xu Hao nodded contentedly, now that there is good news from Beiping, or when he goes to personally support the experiment, what he wants to invent is naturally a flintlock pistol that crosses the arquebus in one fell swoop.
What is lacking now is not jishu but the modern standard production process and various production tools, and Xu Hao, who has been a fitter for five years, is not very clear about what to do, in short, take one step at a time.
There are many difficulties in flintlock pistols, the principle of the barrel, locking device and firing device is not difficult, it is difficult to make it under existing conditions, and it may take more than ten or twenty years of continuous exploration and improvement.
Zhou Peng said again: "Fengyang is smelting wrought iron and copper method, and I want to use the zigzag twist and turn method you said to improve the mold, but I haven't been able to get the essentials." ”
"Take your time and don't rush." There is no one-size-fits-all solution, even if Xu Hao has a wealth of theories, saying and doing are completely different things.
Zhou Peng suddenly said: "Bixia has repeatedly made northern expeditions to Mobei, and it seems that he has crippled the previous dynasty, but I know that the Fanren will soon make a comeback, and all dynasties have been like this. Childe painstakingly improved firearms for the purpose of defending the border in the future, right? ”
Xu Hao said hesitantly: "Difficult! Without the pain of the skin, there is a good chance that such a powerful weapon would have to be shelved by the imperial court. There is no effective inheritance, and after someone remembers it a hundred years later, they may not be able to find a craftsman who is proficient in this way, who knows? ”
Zhou Peng was stunned. (To be continued......)