Iron Dynasty

The warm wind floated, blowing the golden waves of wheat in the fields.

Zhujia Village, which is close to the wheat fields, was hot at this time, and every household was busy looking for fire nitrate in their own cesspools.

Zhu Wuliu ran the fastest. At this time, he already had a large amount of white powder in his hand. He carefully searched the kennel at home. Zhu Wuliu carefully wrapped the white powder and immediately went to Qingzhou City. went.

Zhu Wuliu, go take a look first. If you can really sell it, we'll go.

Yes, you run fast, we will wait for you to come back.

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Many people in the village are digging, and many people are watching. The people who have suffered so much do not fully believe in the government office.

Although the farm orders and the production team brought them some benefits, the deep-rooted impression of the government office in their hearts was difficult to change for a while.

They are afraid that they are just giving away things in vain.

Zhu Wuliu's footsteps did not stop. His brother Zhu Sansi was in the army. He believed in the current Qingzhou government more than others, and the current King Qi.

Holding the white powder tightly, Zhu Wuliu arrived in Qingzhou City and went directly to the government office.

At the entrance of the government office, a boy of the same grade as him seemed to be waiting for something. Zhu Wuliu hesitated and stepped forward and asked, Is there a purchase of fire nitrate here?

This young man is Lu Tong's subordinate. In order to identify the fire, Lu Tong sent the surplus people to the prefectures to be responsible for the acquisition.

That's right. The boy said in surprise.

So far, no one has come to pay saltpeter here, and this young man is the first.

Zhu Wuliu breathed a sigh of relief, handed the fire nitrate over, and said, I just found so many.

There was a scale in front of the boy, he weighed the things that Zhu Wuliu brought, and said, It's five taels in total, because you are the first, His Highness said, the saltpeter brought by the first hundred people is twenty. Wen Yijin purchases to encourage capital, this is ten pennies, take it well.

When the ten copper plates arrived, Zhu Wuliu smiled happily.

At this time, the teenager said to Zhu Wuliu, By the way, there is another way to get more saltpeter, do you want to learn it?

Think! Zhu Wuliu agreed without hesitation, the temperature of the copper coins in his hand made him wholeheartedly believe in the Qingzhou government.

The boy nodded, and told Zhu Wuliu the method of digging out the old soil and mixing the grass and tree ash to make fire nitrate.

Zhu Wuliu nodded and immediately returned to the village.

At this time, seeing Zhu Wuliu coming back, many villagers gathered around and asked, Wu Liu, how is it?

The copper coins in Zhu Wuliu’s hand lit up, “I just said that our Highness will not deceive the people, and the people from the government office said that the first 100 people who go there will be purchased for 20 cents per pound.”

As soon as these words came out, the people surrounding Zhu Wuliu immediately ran away. When they got home, they picked up the saltpeter at home and ran to Qingzhou City.

In an instant, hundreds of people seemed to be driven away by dogs.

Zhu Wuliu smiled, holding the copper coins in his hand, thinking about how to use the money he earned?

At this time, the news that Huo Nier could really pay back the money spread out, and more and more people joined in the search and production of Hu Nier.

The first batch of saltpeter arrived after a half-month shortage of materials for the chemical laboratory in the workshop area of ​​Qingzhou City. Although the saltpeter had a strong smell of urine, it was generally better than nothing.

His Royal Highness, you are really amazing. You solved the problem of saltpeter like this. Hehe, the king of Shu still wants to take advantage of His Highness. Now it seems that he will have nowhere to sell this saltpeter in the future.

Lu Tong was almost fainted by a sack of saltpeter, but he still danced happily.

Xiao Ming smiled bitterly. If he could use normal saltpeter, who would go to the cesspit to find it.

And this is not a long-term solution. After all, the formation of saltpeter also takes time. After all, this folk method of extracting saltpeter cannot replace the saltpeter mine.

This time, he disclosed this method of soil salt, one for emergency, and one for disgusting the king of Shu.

When the people of the entire Great Yu Kingdom know how to get saltpeter, he will see where the saltpeter in this Shu area is sold.

Now that there is enough saltpeter, we need to prepare as much gunpowder as possible. Xiao Ming ordered.

Regarding the King of Shu, his letter to Chang'an has not come back, and he does not know how Xiao Wenxuan will deal with this matter.

But in any case, he passed the hurdle for the time being.

There is enough gunpowder, and now he will think about how to achieve the task of throwing the gunpowder can.

Xiao Ming has his own thoughts on this powder jar, and weapons are never single on the battlefield.

This artillery was used to deal with catapults and to kill enemies farther away, but this gunpowder pot was different. It was to kill the barbarian army who gathered under the city and climbed the ladder.

And the power of this clay pot is that it can be filled with a large amount of gunpowder. If the gunpowder explodes, it is just a shock wave, which can make the barbarians turn their heads. This is different from the linear killing of artillery, but it belongs to range killing.

In view of the shortcoming of the clay pot being fragile, Xiao Ming prepared to wrap a thick layer of straw on the outside of the pot and bundle it up layer by layer.

As long as a small catapult is erected on the city wall at that time, the long-range artillery can be fully realized, the catapult is within 200 meters, and the short-range coverage of the throwing of the soldiers allows the barbarians to enjoy the feast of gunpowder anywhere.

While thinking about this crazy defensive tactics, Xiao Ming went to the equipment department. Chen Qi is very busy now, but there is nothing he can do. This matter has to be left to him...

At the same time in Chang'an, a group of unwelcome people arrived in Chang'an City.

These people were barbarian messengers from the Golden Horde. Their arrival broke the calm atmosphere of Chang'an City. From the first-rank officers to the people of Limin, everyone was spying on the purpose of these barbarian messengers.

And this will also mean that in the future, the Great Yu Kingdom and the Golden Horde will be at war and peace.

Three envoys, please go to the inn to rest for a while. Tomorrow, His Majesty will summon three envoys from afar.

The messenger responsible for entertaining the barbarians was Zhao Xing, the minister of Honglu Temple, and Honglu Temple was in charge of handling the affairs of foreign messengers in the Great Yu Kingdom.

Tomorrow! Today we are going to see your emperor, which has delayed our important affairs, be careful dog head!

The barbarian envoy who came this time was tall and tall, with his hair draped behind his back, with tiny braids hanging down on both sides, golden rings on his ears shimmering with cold light, his face dark and stern.

With him were two guards in leather armor and felt hats, and it was one of the guards who made a rude remark at this time.

Zhao Xing was a little frightened when he was drunk.

This barbarian tribe is very powerful, and the officials of Chang'an's upper and lower ranks are very arrogant, and Zhao Xing is of course one of them.

This is when he saw this barbarian messenger, his legs trembled and his mind was flustered, for fear of making these barbarian uncles lively.

Master messenger. Zhao Xing said with a flattering smile: Xiaguan is also conveying the emperor's will. It is really incompetent. I also ask the three adults to forgive me. I will arrange wine and food for the three adults right now, can I?