Xin Chang's face was a little strange, it stands to reason that Cao Chong's age should be interested in Wenchen military generals, how could he ask a shopkeeper a question alone.
Xin Chang shook his head and looked at the fat man in front of him, his face was a little complicated.
To be honest, he brought him here because he was a distant relative, otherwise, with the cheap status of a businessman, An could meet Cao Qigongzi Xin Fugui was also confused, and then he was flattered.
Childe actually asked me a question, I must seize such an opportunity Xin Fugui can be seen from his name, the so-called name of wealth and nobility is no different from Ergou and Cuihua, as a distant relative of the Xin family, Xin Fugui is not happy.
In addition to being well fed and warmly dressed, in the eyes of these scribes and generals, their status is worse than that of slaves So Xin Fugui looked at Cao Chong with a smile on his face, looking as humble as he looked, as humble as he was.
"Childe, the villain has a saltpeter shop, don't talk big, in the capital of Xu County, my shop, said to be the biggest, and no one dares to say a word, but the villain is short of ice at home, and the villain will immediately send some saltpeter."
Saltpeter, also known as flame nitrate and potassium saltpeter, is an important chemical raw material, and in Cao Chong's high school career, he has listed the equation about calcium nitrate more than once.
Of course, during the Three Kingdoms period, there was only one use for saltpeter Ice making Saltpeter poured into water, due to its dissolving and endothermic properties, will freeze the water, in the current July heat, saltpeter is a hot item Cao Chong waved his hand and suddenly asked a question.
"Then how much saltpeter do you have in stock?"
Although Xin Fugui had some doubts in his heart, since it was Cao Chong who asked, he naturally knew that everything was endless.
"It's about hundreds of pounds" Hundreds of pounds Cao Chong's eyes lit up, hundreds of catties, if it was made into gunpowder, how much would it take Xin Fugui thought that Cao Chong was too little, and hurriedly said: "If the son is not enough, he only needs half a moon for the villain, and he can transport some saltpeter from Dingbian."
Cao Chong shook his head, as soon as he heard saltpeter, he immediately remembered gunpowder, you must know that the power of gunpowder is definitely a bug in this era.
A gunpowder explosion, even if it can't kill many people, but its sound is like opening the world, coupled with the general superstition of this era, this explosion is not the wrath of heaven A bag of black powder exploded, and the enemy's morale was basically dispersed And the army without fighting spirit is a group of lambs to be slaughtered, Cao Chong thought carefully in his heart, but his eyes were already away from Xin Fugui "Brother-in-law, please" "Please" Xin Chang undoubtedly has him, for Cao Chong's several questions, he thought that Cao Chong was really short of ice, after all, Xu Tian was not as good as the Prime Minister's Mansion, with Cao Chong's identity, it is estimated that there is no ice to use.
Communication is what everyone needs, and it is even more so when it is added to Cao Chong now.
The few people Xin Bi chose for himself are very distinctive, for example, this Yang Chao, who is a low-level military general in the army, got up from blood and fire. befriended him alone, and basically gained the loyalty of nearly a thousand people behind him The other one is the famous scribe Daru in Xu Du, who may not be able to bring substantial benefits to Cao Chong, but he is also urgently needed by Cao Chong in dealing with internal affairs.
The people sent by Xin Bi this time can be said to have come at the right time, sending charcoal in the snow But Cao Chong also has a touch of vigilance in his heart The Xin family can bring so many things to himself, which means that his status will become higher and higher in his own group.
This point has to be guarded against Interests are interdependent, and while you rely on his strength, you are bound to be affected by it, and by Cao Chong's side, Cao Pi is a living example.
The support of the family is an advantage for him, but it is not a constraint But Cao Chong really needs the help of the Xin family now, and he doesn't care about this, he only needs to find a family to balance him in the future, and this problem can be solved After chatting in the east and chatting in the west, Xin Chang finally left The purpose of his trip itself is to introduce people to Cao Chong, and helping Cao Chong is naturally the ostensible purpose.
The deep-seated purpose is not much different from what Cao Chong thought.
The Xin family hopes that the people around Cao Chong will be members of the Xin family as much as possible, and this is their ultimate goal.
"Brother in law, go well" "Cangshu don't leave it at that" Cao Chong nodded, and suddenly said to Xin Fugui: "Shopkeeper Xin, why don't you send some saltpeter over today?"
Xin Fugui was stunned for a moment, looked at Cao Chong's courtyard, thought that Cao Chong was hot, and nodded hurriedly.
"The villain will get some for Childe right away" Cao Chong thought for a while, and suddenly said: "There are many insects and ants in this Xu Tian, add some sulfur to it."
Sulfur is really, in fact, it is a Chinese herbal medicine, which is recorded in the Danfang Identification of the source, sea medicine and materia medica, and its use is to repel mosquitoes, plus to treat some typhoid diseases.
"Whoa" These two things are not difficult to do, one is available in ordinary pharmacies, and the other is in his own shop, so Xin Fugui patted his chest and agreed After an hour or two, Xin Fugui, who was sweating profusely, hurriedly ran over with an object wrapped in gray cloth on his back and put him in front of Cao Chong.
"Childe, ten catties of saltpeter and one catty of sulfur, have you seen enough?"
Cao Chong glanced at Xin Fugui appreciatively, then sent him out and put the bag of things in the house.
Cao Chong began his tinkering career As a science student with perfect marks in theory classes, Cao Chong lacked hands-on ability.
Just getting three packets of gunpowder, Cao Chong was already disgraced, and it took at least half an hour.
Long Zhi on the side looked at Cao Chong curiously, thinking that Cao Chong was a teenager and playing with mud "Okay Ryuji, put this thing on, I'll go out and try it later" "Whoa" Although Long Zhi and Cao Chong have only been together for a day, they can also be said to be immune to many of Cao Chong's unusual actions.
Perhaps, this is the way of life of genius After Cao Chong briefly freshened up, he moved two horses out of the stall and walked out with Long Zhi.
"Childe, where are we waiting?"
whence Nature is a place where no one is Fortunately, the population density was not large in this era, so Cao Chong easily found a sparsely populated hillside and decided to experiment here.
"Bring those three packets" Cao Chong took the three explosives bags and pulled out a long yarn to act as a lead.
One of the explosives packets was placed in a groove on the hillside, and the lead was unfolded, three or four meters long.
Three or four meters away from the explosives pack, Cao Chong took out the fire source prepared in advance and looked back at Long Zhi.
"Next, no matter what happens, don't panic" Long Zhi didn't understand what Cao Chong meant, but he still nodded subconsciously.
Igniting the fuse, Cao Chong pulled Long Zhi to a folded slope more than ten meters away from the explosive bag before stopping.
Eyes, but intently watching the lead shorten little by little.
"Blindfolded" Long Zhi looked confused, but he still did as Cao Chong instructed.
When it arrived, the fuse burned to the explosives bag.
Cao Chong's heart tightened, and he secretly prayed in his heart that this explosive bag would not explode too loudly, otherwise it would not be good to attract the attention of Xu Tian's defenders.
It turns out that Cao Chong thought too much The fuse burned to the explosives bag, only to ignite the spark.
From a distance, it looked like a flame, but it didn't make a sound.
Not to mention the explosion: