The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 42 Devil's Chili
Although those people didn't believe that the explosion that night was caused by thunder, they couldn't be sure what weapon caused it. After all, this kind of thing was too incredible for them.

But on the day they decided, they would definitely attack Fufeng Village, so Su Tang had to take precautions early.

In fact, according to Su Tang's testing and understanding of gunpowder during this period, black gunpowder is far less powerful than she imagined.

The power of a barrel of gunpowder explosion is about the same as that of a large firecracker, and it may injure a few people by surprise. It is impossible to cause casualties in a large area. Even if it is spread, it does not have the power to replace cold weapons on the battlefield.

After all, in the historical knowledge that Su Tang learned in modern times, the Qin Dynasty discovered gunpowder in alchemy. In the early days, gunpowder was used as a kind of medicine. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that humans developed such complex things as thunder and flying guns. firearm.

Those are the changes of dynasties before people gradually mastered the use of gunpowder.

So now Su Tang is not afraid at all that the production of gunpowder will spread and cause irreversible harm to the world, because black gunpowder has low explosiveness and has no such strength at all.

However, Su Tang will still try his best to keep it a secret, because this is the advantage that Fufengzhai currently has, and it is still useful to control the enemy. After all, if it spreads, it would be a bit ridiculous for others to make it and turn around and blow him up.

In order to make up for the disadvantage of gunpowder, Su Tang decided to grow a batch of peppers and use them with gunpowder to increase its power.

Su Tang remembered that in his previous life, he saw a devil pepper in India on the Internet, which was extremely spicy. He heard that this pepper was hot enough to drive away the devil, and it was also confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the hottest pepper in the world.

Some say that devil peppers taste like battery solution mixed with shards of glass and are the raw material for tear gas.

Su Tang wanted to plant a batch of these devil peppers. When the time came, the smoke would be ignited, or ground into pepper powder and thrown out, which would be enough to cause people to temporarily lose their sight, or lose their sight, or even burn their skin. Throwing a grenade is a perfect fit.

When it is not in use, it can also be made into chili sauce. It is a good choice to make seasonings. Of course, it needs to be neutralized with other foods. Otherwise, Su Tang really does not know how many people can make it in this era without chili. Can stand the spiciness of devil peppers.

With an idea in mind, Su Tang asked them to go their own way.

When she brought Yingyue and Jingtuan back, Yingyue was still holding the vase that Yasu made.

"Master, let's take this bottle home." Yingyue asked excitedly.

Seeing the vase shining brightly in the sun, Su Tang had to sigh, girls really like this kind of sparkling things, "Take it with you if you like it."

After returning home, Su Tang saw the green sandalwood tree they had dried outside last time, thinking that he had to make the paper quickly, and then make it into fireworks for sale. If someone asked about the use of the gunpowder, he could come up with a way to confuse it. .

"Can devil peppers be grown this season?" Su Tang asked the system in his heart.

"Peppers are very easy to grow, as long as there is light and temperature, the seeds I choose are all well-cultivated. Now that they are planted, they should be able to harvest a crop before winter comes." The system explained.

"How about the yield?" Su Tang wondered how much to plant.

"After drying, the yield per mu is about two thousand catties."

Su Tang decided to plant five acres of land, which is enough for both food and use, and this time she does not plan to hand over to the people to plant it herself, but hires the villagers to open up wasteland for her and take care of it later, so that all the harvest Chengdu belongs to her.

Pepper is not a necessity for the people. If it is distributed to the people for planting, it will not be much if one-tenth of the tax comes up.

She also wanted to save more reputation points, and plant a wave of high-yielding winter wheat after the sweet potatoes were harvested.

Su Tang looked for a family that looked honest and responsible. A family of five came to take care of the chili planting, and promised to pay them a half a tael of silver as compensation from planting to harvest.

Half a tael of silver didn't seem like much, but if they were a little more frugal outside, it would be enough for their family to live for half a year.

"The village owner doesn't need to pay us wages. Planting these lands is nothing to us farmers. Before the village owner sent seeds, it was enough to take care of food and drink, and you taught us beekeeping. Last time You can earn a lot of money by harvesting some honey and selling it." The old father quickly waved his hand and refused, and they all thought of Su Tang's kindness in their hearts.

"These are two different things. You still have to pay the money that should be given to you. I will let Mr. Li remember it first, and I will send it to you later." Su Tang said quickly, which again attracted praise from the people listening around.

In order to plant the peppers earlier, when Su Tang let Wu Chong have time, he brought a few people to help open up the wasteland, and the progress could be faster.

Su Tang explained the details of planting to them, and left the seeds for them by the way. Looking at the golden seeds in the sack, the family was very happy and wanted to go up and rub a few. This is the special feeling of farmers for seeds.

"Don't touch it." Su Tang hurriedly stopped him. With the spiciness of the devil pepper, it would take a few days to burn the skin after contact. "The seeds of pepper are special. Try to avoid skin contact when sowing, especially if you touch the pepper, do not touch it." Don't rub your eyes, remember that."

In order to make them pay more attention, Su Tang specially asked them to taste a seed each to understand the special nature of chili.

As a result, just one chili seed made their hot tears fly, and they were relieved after pouring water around the bucket for a long time, especially those who had never eaten chili, who were more sensitive to the spicy taste.

"This thing kills people." Chen Xinmu stuck out his tongue, wiped his tears, and said inarticulately.

His three children, Chen Dawa, Chen Erwa, Chen Sanniu, and his wife stomped their feet on the ground.

Those who came to watch saw them tearing up and jumping around in pain after eating only one grain, and then looked at the golden pile in the sack, and hid away like a plague god.

"What is this thing that is so powerful?"

"Eat a small grain and you will be like this. If you eat a few more grains, you will not die."

"I think this must be some kind of secret weapon prepared by the village master. If anyone troubles us, give them a few pills to eat. It will surely make those enemies survive."

"It's just..."

Su Tang was really impressed by their brains, and after careful consideration, there seemed to be nothing wrong with them.

"Village, village master don't worry, we must be careful with this thing called pepper." Chen Xinmu's face turned red.

(End of this chapter)