Daming: Start with an Altar of Luck

Chapter 14 The advent of granular gunpowder (for collection)

"Mr. Wu Qian, the gunpowder has arrived. Come here to fetch the gunpowder for Mr. Wu Qian. Let Mr. Wu see if there is something wrong with the gunpowder in our military battle bureau." Seeing the gunpowder coming, Yu Yu immediately turned to the people around him He ordered, and soon one person fetched the firecracker and handed it to Yu Yu.

"His Royal Highness, although I dare to guarantee that the gunpowder and firecrackers produced by Bingzhan Bureau are qualified, there is still a certain risk in watching. Please move, Your Royal Highness." Yu Yu first explained to Zhu Biao, otherwise If Zhu Biao had an accident in the military battle, he might not be able to cut off even if he had ten heads.

"Okay." Now Zhu Biao is still an ordinary person. He doesn't want to die before he leaves his home. With the Altar of Luck, as long as Da Ming gets better and better, he will become stronger and stronger in the future, but he can't be at his weakest. accident.

Then a craftsman brought a firecracker to Wu Kai, Wu Kai took it directly, took a certain amount of gunpowder from the gunpowder barrel just brought over, filled it into the firecracker, then ignited it, aiming at the experimental target on the school field .

"Boom~" A puff of thick smoke spread out from Wu Kai.

After the smoke cleared, Wu Kai had already walked to the school target to check the hit situation.

"How? I said that every barrel of gunpowder transported from the Bingzhan Bureau is qualified. It is definitely because of the wrong way of storage that the gunpowder cannot be fired normally." Ban Zhu's voice sounded again.

"However, we all preserved it according to the method you said, there is absolutely no difference." Wu Kai was also confused at this time, but the gunpowder he brought was really not effective.

"Okay, it has nothing to do with the war situation, nor you. Ban Zhu, go and see the difference between the gunpowder brought back from the barracks and the gunpowder you just prepared." Zhu Biao walked in and interrupted directly their quarrel.

"Huh?" Ban Zhu was a little confused, who is this, speaking in such a loud tone.

"Ban Zhu, don't pay homage to His Highness the Crown Prince yet." Yu Yu reminded from the side.

"Cao Min Ban Zhu, I pay my respects to His Royal Highness, Cao Min, Cao Min." Ban Zhu suddenly remembered that just now Wang Qi came to him and told him that some nobles from the palace had come to fight the war. The gunpowder in the bureau was unqualified, and he forgot about the nobles in the palace in a fit of anger.

"Okay, pardon your innocence, get up."

"I have thanked His Royal Highness on behalf of Ban Zhu, and don't care about Ban Zhu's crime of disrespect." Seeing Ban Zhu who didn't know what to say, Yu Yu directly thanked His Royal Highness on Ban Zhu's behalf.

"His Royal Highness asked you to take a look at the gunpowder brought by Mr. Wu Qian, you go and take a look!" Yu Yu tugged on Ban Zhu, and Ban Zhu came back to his senses.

"Grassmen obey." After speaking, Ban Zhu came to Wu Kai's carriage, and when he saw the gunpowder barrel of this carriage, his face was a little ugly. After all, although he did not configure the gunpowder himself, many of the people who participated in the configuration were made by his class. disciple.

Coincidentally, Ban Zhu opened the barrel of gunpowder that Zhu Biao had opened before, and after looking around, Ban Zhu felt that there was no problem with the gunpowder, both in terms of color and smell, but why the effect was not working.

"Wang Qi, bring the firecracker." Since you can't see the difference, let's experiment and see if the effect is extremely poor as Wu Kai said.

"Bang~" There was another puff of smoke, and when the smoke cleared, Ban Zhu had already squatted in front of the target, looking at the wooden target without traces, he was a little confused, although he knew that this had happened before, but after all It was a minority, so Ban Zhu didn't take it seriously, he just felt that the gunpowder was not well preserved in the barracks, which caused the gunpowder to be damp and could not be fired smoothly.

But just now Ban Zhu looked at it, and the gunpowder did not appear to be damp, and it was well preserved, but the power after firing was not as good as normal gunpowder.

"Why is this?" Ban Zhu muttered as he walked towards the target.

Yu Yu was having a headache at this time, and the temper of these old men came up again. Once you are fascinated by something, it doesn't matter whether you are a prince or an emperor.

"class."

"Ai, Mr. Yu, it's all right, this is the kind of talent that this palace needs."

Just as Yu Yu was about to reprimand Ban Zhu angrily, Zhu Biao stopped him with his hand. Then Zhu Biao walked to Ban Zhu's side and looked at the ugly Ban Zhu with great interest.

Zhu Biao felt that he had picked up a treasure. In ancient times, there were not many craftsmen with scientific research spirit.

"Do you want to know why the power of gunpowder will decrease without being damp?"

"Well, do you know why?" Ban Zhu raised his head immediately after hearing Zhu Biao's words, and remembered that this was His Royal Highness after seeing Zhu Biao.

"His Royal Highness, do you know why?" Ban Zhu's eyes were full of curiosity.

"Well, take a closer look, is most of the charcoal powder on the top surface of the gunpowder barrel?" Zhu Biao directly pointed out the reason.

Hearing what Zhu Biao said, Ban Zhu ran directly towards the gunpowder barrel. Ban Zhu didn't pay attention to this before, but this time he found out under Zhu Biao's reminder that the outermost layer was indeed mostly charcoal powder, but he couldn't see it without careful observation. not come out.

"Because of the turbulence during the transportation of gunpowder, sulfur powder, charcoal powder, and saltpeter powder were separated from each other. The lightest charcoal powder must be on the top layer of the gunpowder barrel. Before, you may have prepared qualified gunpowder, but after the turbulence , the gunpowder is layered, and naturally becomes unqualified, although it can be used normally, but because of the different proportions, the power will inevitably decrease."

Zhu Biao continued.

"Yes, it must be like this. No wonder the farther the gunpowder is transported from Yingtian, the more generals in the army will find trouble after returning from the battle. Yes, the bumpy transportation caused the gunpowder to be separated."

The one who just showed a smile then froze on his face, "But this problem can't be solved. It is impossible to carry these raw materials separately and wait until the battlefield to deploy them. First, there is too little time. Second, gunpowder is very easy to be affected by the weather. Inclement weather makes deployment even more impossible."

"Not bad, not bad." Hearing Ban Zhu's words, Zhu Biao secretly sighed in his heart that he was indeed a seed for research.

"Otherwise, let's get some gunpowder today, so as to save trouble next time, and the sun is also good today, with a small amount of configuration, it should be able to dry in more than an hour." Zhu Biao looked up at the sky. It's really good, and it's warm when it shines on people.

"Old man Ban, have you ever thought about making the gunpowder into granules, so that there will be no stratification during transportation?" Zhu Biao guided and said.

Granular gunpowder is not a big secret. It is like a layer of window paper. No one has pierced it before. Once it is pierced, it will soon be understood.

"Your Highness, you mean to turn the gunpowder into a solid? But that's right, why didn't I think of that? You just need to sieve it through the finest sieve, and then dry it." Ban Zhu became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Wang Qi, bring me some wine."

And Zhu Biao was also very surprised, he just mentioned a grain of gunpowder without even mentioning the method, the old man in front of him seemed to understand.

"Yes, master." Wang Qi quickly ran towards the workshop.

(End of this chapter)