Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"boom!"

Huge flames shot up into the sky, and a large area of ​​the crowded soldiers was immediately blown over.

At least nearly a hundred soldiers were knocked to the ground.

"No, there's an ambush!"

Azig’s face changed drastically!

on top of the mountain.

Li Yan held the big book in his hand and suddenly dropped it.

"Boys, attack!"

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"

A door was erected on the edge of the cliff without a conscience, and he roared.

Bundles of gunpowder weighing dozens of kilograms poured down!

"Hiss law!"

"Eron~Eron!"

One after another, the old horses and donkeys whose eyes were stabbed by the soldiers had the grease packets on their tails set on fire. Driven by the severe pain, they jumped off the cliff.

The scriptures that Liu Fangliang obtained from Zhu Youjian showed the majesty of the explosive horsemanship.

"Boom boom boom!"

There were explosions everywhere, resounding in the crowd of Qing soldiers.

Hot sparks swept through the surrounding Qing troops.

Groups of black mushroom clouds rose from the valley...

The broken limbs were blown several feet high...

……

Explosions continued.

Of the 2000 Qing troops brought by Azig, less than [-] people rushed out of the valley.

Azig, who was covered in darkness, didn't even dare to turn his head and look.

Even Shang Kexi and Wu Sangui didn't dare to look for this most powerful general of the Qing Dynasty royal family. They just thought about themselves and galloped away.

……

Amid shouts of death, Wu Sangui struggled to get out of the explosion circle.

The armor on his body had long been torn to pieces, and even his roaring ears could no longer hear any sound.

He staggered, running on a rugged road that was high and low.

The soldiers around him have long since disappeared.

Halfway there, Wu Sangui slashed and killed a cavalryman who rushed out.

After snatching the horses, Wu Sangui did not dare to stop and wait for his men to join up, and rushed out of the valley in embarrassment.

I don't know how long I rushed, but I finally saw Shang Kexi galloping forward, escorted by three soldiers.

"King Zhishun, where is the prince?"

Wu Sangui's face was full of anxiety.

If Azig is damaged, even if they escape back, they will not escape death.

"King Pingxi also came out!"

Shang Kexi turned his head and looked around, barely recognizing Wu Sangui from his accent.

After a huge defeat, the two people who were fighting for each other no longer had the intention to battle wits and courage.

Shang Ke said anxiously: "Brother Wu, how can you care so much at this time? Let's go quickly!"

Wu Sangui nodded: "Your Majesty has his own destiny, he must be waiting for us in front!"

……

Li Yan was shocked.

Although he had already expected that the weapons given by Emperor Ming must be extraordinary.

Even the intelligence in the army has already shown that Emperor Ming's new weapon is very powerful.

In fact, Yuan Zongdi repeatedly expressed the necessity of joining forces with Emperor Ming.

However, after all, seeing is worth hearing a hundred times.

Before seeing with their own eyes the power of the weapons developed by Emperor Ming, who would have thought that just by simply changing his thinking, these weapons would have epoch-making power!

Li Yan had already overestimated the power of Emperor Ming's new weapon. However, after this battle, he discovered that the power he had overestimated was less than one-tenth of the power of Emperor Ming's new weapon!

When the valley beneath his feet turned into a sea of ​​fire, Li Yan was so shocked that he couldn't contain himself.

Even when the smoke cleared and the scene of dead bodies everywhere came into view, Li Yan was shocked and speechless.

God!

Are these weapons so awesome?

After the shock, Li Yan felt as if he had fallen into the cold winter of March [-]th.

The scorching sun above our heads turned out not to be scorching hot, but to be bone-deeply cold.

God!

Emperor Ming was able to take out these things and give them to his former opponents for use, which shows that Emperor Ming must have better weapons than this!

Without countermeasures, how could Emperor Ming share such a powerful thing?

God!

Li Yan's eyes widened...

How many good things does Emperor Ming still have?

……

Just after Dashun's defeat in the Battle of Shanhaiguan, Liu Fangliang and Li Yan scored a brilliant victory with the help of weapons provided by Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian is inspecting a newly established workshop.

This is a sugar-making workshop.

There is a saying: "Mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal, add some sugar to make it great!"

The Ming Dynasty had no shortage of black powder.

Even the formula ratio of gunpowder is close to the most scientific ratio.

16:2:3, this is the most scientific ratio when the nitrate cannot be purified to 99%.

Zhu Youjian took out heartless, grenades, bull blasting... and even flintlock guns. He urgently needed to improve his technology.

Under the premise that yellow gunpowder (picric acid) could not be produced in a short time, Zhu You thought of white sugar.

Mix this thing with black powder, and the power of the explosion will be increased several times.

Therefore, there is a folk proverb: mononitrate, disulfide and three charcoal, add some sugar to make it big.

But this white sugar is a rare thing.

Not to mention Zhu Youjian, who only had one and a half provinces at this time, even in the entire Ming Dynasty, sugar was a high-value item.

The lack of sugar cane made sugar production difficult.

The scarcity of output meant that although the sugar industry in the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, the price of white sugar remained high.

Therefore, at the beginning of seizing Nanyang, Zhu Youjian decided to produce white sugar.

However, there was no place suitable for sugar cane cultivation in the territory, which made Zhu Youjian want to make his own sugar - it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice!

……

In addition to sugar cane, which can be used to make sugar, sugar beets can also be grown.

The yield of sugar beets per mu is 9000-jin, and the sugar content is between 10-20%.

In other words, if chemical fertilizers are available in later generations, each acre of sugar beet land can produce more than a thousand kilograms of sugar.

……

Although the sugar production rate of sugar beets is second only to sugar cane...

The time when sugar beet cultivation was introduced to China was also during the Tang Dynasty...

It has been more than 600 years since then.

However, this thing as a source of sugar is a matter of the [-]th century. It was not even until the [-]th century that beet sugar production was developed on a large scale.

Before that, beets were just a vegetable!

People grow it to eat the leaves!

Without breeding and selection, we want to use native sugar beets as a source of sugar...

Not reliable!

And Zhu Youjian was in urgent need of a large amount of sugar.

Just in time, he saw corn.

Since sugar cane and beet sugar are not advisable, Zhu Youjian could only aim at corn stalks as raw materials.

The yield per mu of corn stalks is between 12 pounds and the sugar content is between 15 and [-]%.

In other words, one acre of corn stalks can produce about [-] kilograms of candy.

Of course, Zhu Youjian cannot produce fertilizer for the time being, so the output will naturally not be that large.

However, choosing a general among dwarves...