The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 223 Fuel and Gunpowder

Jingling and Huarong counties in Nanjun County of Jingzhou belonged to Qianjiang City in later generations, which is a county-level city directly under the central government of Hubei Province.Here is Jianghan Oilfield, one of the top ten oil fields in the country, bordering Hanshui River in the north, Yangtze River in the south, 150 kilometers away from Jiangxia in the east, and [-] kilometers away from Jiangling, the seat of South County, in the west.

The geographical location is very superior, the traffic conditions are also very convenient, and the oil and gas reserves are very large.Of course, with the technical conditions of this era, it is very difficult to even extract crude oil, so it is even more impossible to use natural gas.

Zhang Wu didn't know about the Jianghan Oilfield. He only cared about whether there was a lot of oil underground in Huarong County, and whether it was good to get it up.Because fighting a battle requires a lot of kerosene, it is like splashing water, if the amount is too small, it will not achieve the effect.

After Zhang Wu led people to Huarong County, he saw black crude oil emerging from the ground.

That's it!After Zhang Wu saw the real thing, he finally felt relieved. Since crude oil can be dug out in such a shallow place, it shows that the oil reserves here are very large and easy to mine.

Zhang Wu ordered some people to collect some and set them on fire, and a hot and vigorous flame and thick black smoke rose immediately.

The ignition point of crude oil is not high, even if there is no open flame, it can be ignited when the temperature reaches [-] to [-] degrees Celsius.In addition, sparks from collisions can also ignite.In addition to carbon and hydrogen, unprocessed crude oil contains more than a dozen other elements. If it is directly burned, the black smoke will be relatively large, and the pollution of the environment will be more serious.

But in this era, it seems that there is no environmental protection department. As for the black smoke, wouldn't it be better if it was burned in the enemy's army?

Zhang Wu immediately ordered to designate the relevant areas of Huarong County and Jingling County as military restricted areas, and sent people to explore oil deposits in the restricted area, and set up simple oil wells for excavation.The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion paid for compensation to the people who were included in the restricted area, and reduced or exempted some taxes in the two places.

In order to show that he attached great importance to this matter, Zhang Wu sent the governor's office to join the army and led two thousand soldiers to guard the place, responsible for guarding and mining the oil production area.

I don’t know if Zhang Wu’s character has exploded, or if the goddess of time travel has once again favored Zhang Wu. The fuel problem of kerosene has just been solved here. As soon as he returned to the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, the following people reported that gunpowder After long-term experiments, the workshop finally prepared suitable gunpowder.

Zhang Wu was overjoyed and came to the gunpowder workshop to check.

It was a Taoist named Chen Yang who presided over the gunpowder workshop and conducted gunpowder experiments for Zhang Wu, who was good at alchemy.

During the Han Dynasty, Taoism developed relatively rapidly. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Taoism was used to govern the country. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a very superstitious emperor. .

Taoism during the Three Kingdoms period was even more famous. Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising, was the founder of Taiping Dao, and Zhang Lu, who now occupies Hanzhong, is the leader of the Five Dou Rice Sect.Yu Ji who teased Sun Ce and Zuo Ci who teased Cao Cao were like gods. There was also a very famous Taoist priest named Ge Xuan in this period, who later became one of the four great masters of Taoism in China.

During this period, many famous celebrities believed in Taoism and usually dressed like Taoists.For example, Pang Degong, Mr. Shuijing Sima Hui, Cui Zhouping, and even Zhuge Liang often wear gossip robes.

The invention of gunpowder has a very close relationship with Taoist priests, because one of the ways Taoist priests pursue immortality is to refine elixirs. They have tried various methods to refine various elixirs, and they even dared to eat them and try them.

In this era, it was also fashionable to take some refined elixirs. Guo Jia ate too much and was poisoned and died.

Taoist priests discovered such a medicine when they were refining alchemy. Of course, they were not called Taoist priests at the earliest, but were called alchemists, warlocks or alchemists.They found that when some specific raw materials were mixed together, they easily caught fire when making alchemy, so they named it gunpowder.

Chen Yang is a Taoist priest who is good at refining alchemy. When Zhang Wu asked him to configure more powerful gunpowder, he refused to come, because his goal was not to refine these dangerous things that are easy to explode. The elixir of immortality.

But Zhang Wu doesn't believe that there is really an elixir that can make people live forever in this world. Otherwise, with the status of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the strength of the whole country of the Han Dynasty, why hasn't it been refined?
Although such an unimaginable thing like crossing happened, Zhang Wu would rather believe that there are real gods in the world, and he would not believe in that kind of elixir, maybe he would die faster if he took it.

Therefore, Zhang Wu showed his hand in front of Chen Yang, and used the skill of "calling the wind and calling the rain" in front of him, which immediately convinced Chen Yang.

This is a fairy-like method!Could it be that the governor is also a fellow?

Zhang Wu then told Chen Yang that he had been instructed and taught by the gods, learned the magic of immortals, and now he was instructed by the gods to refine more powerful gunpowder.Zhang Wu also promised that if the refining is successful, he will provide Chen Yang with funds and a place to support his alchemy research.

Therefore, based on the clues provided by Zhang Wu, combined with his own alchemy experience and records in some classics, Chen Yang finally developed a more powerful gunpowder after countless experiments.

When Chen Yang was testing in the alchemy room, the huge explosion made his ears buzz, and he couldn't hear anyone talking for a long time, and the alchemy room was also bombed into a mess. Many people thought it was thunder .

Zhang Wu asked Chen Yang to prepare some gunpowder, and then wrapped it tightly with some animal skins, leaving a long lead wire, like a dynamite bag.He took some people out of the city to conduct experiments, dug a hole in the ground and buried them.

Zhang Wu lit the fuse with his own hands, and then ran away in a hurry, covering his ears with both hands as he ran, just like setting off firecrackers when he was a child.

Others looked at this scene and felt very strange, what is the governor doing?Why do you cover your ears?And why did the Taoist priest brought by the governor cover his ears!

Ma Di was also very curious, but was slapped on the head by Zhang Wu.

"Youchang, quickly cover your ears!" Zhang Wu said.

"Ah? Oh!" Ma Di subconsciously covered his ears. Before he could ask why, there was a loud noise, and Ma Di was shocked even though he was covering his ears.

"Hahahaha, it's done! It's really a success!" Zhang Wu danced happily, then rushed over excitedly to see the situation after the explosion.

The other people were almost out of their senses from the loud noise, as if there were countless villains beating gongs and drums in their ears, no wonder they wanted to cover their ears!

What the hell is this!It was able to make such a loud noise, it was even louder than thunder from the sky, and they couldn't even hear Zhang Wu's words clearly when it exploded.

Wei Yan, Xing Daorong and other generals didn't know what was going on, but Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others were well-informed and guessed something.

(End of this chapter)