"Drive!
Drive!
Zhen Jian suddenly sped up and rushed home, and Ye Qiu hurriedly drove his horse to catch up.
Zhen Jian returned home in a hurry, handed over the horse to the porter as soon as he entered the door, and then shouted: "Someone!
Come!
” Li Yun immediately brought a few nursing homes over and saluted one after another: "What do the shopkeepers command?"
” Zhen Jian said: "You immediately go to the pharmacy to buy sulfur, the more the better, and get some nitrate, the more the better!"
” "Okay!"
Hearing this, Li Yun waved to the public nursing home and took everyone to get the tools.
Zhen Jian asked someone to get some copper basins, hay, wood and other things, and moved them all to the backyard, and next, he was going to start refining fire nitrate.
Soon, piles and piles of dirt were placed in the yard.
Next, he began to make gunpowder, which was very inefficient, so Zhen Jian sent someone to call Li Xianyu to come and let Li Xianyu buy raw materials for making gunpowder.
The night was low, the moon was on the top, the backyard was still brightly lit, Zhen Jian was still busy making fire nitration there, and others were also helping together, and it was in full swing.
Zhen Jian didn't feel tired at all, and finally remembered the formula of gunpowder, and he was even more excited at the moment than playing chicken blood.
I was busy until late at night, and finally used up all the nitrate, and I got more than three catties of fire nitrate, which is really a bit inefficient.
Zhen Jian asked everyone to pack up all the things, take the refined fire nitrate back to the room, and then go to bed, although he slept late, but the next day Zhen Jian still got up very early, got up early in the morning and loaded all the raw materials for making gunpowder into the carriage and transported them to his manor outside the city, where he wanted to try to make gunpowder, now, the most important thing is the ratio of raw materials, as long as he finds the best material ratio, the black powder is successful, this needs to go through many experiments, but the black powder explosion is not small, So he moved to an estate outside the city.
Zhen Jian's manor is actually a vegetable field, with an area of 100 acres, surrounded by high walls, Zhen Jian lived here, and began to study the raw material ratio of gunpowder, which requires him to keep trying, fortunately he is a top science student, this should not be difficult for him.
After nearly half a month of busy work, the open space of the manor was bombed full of potholes, and Zhen Jian finally found the best ratio to maximize the power of gunpowder, black powder, and finally succeeded.
Just when Zhen Jian was immersed in joy, Ah Qi in the Thirteen Taibao came to report that he had just received the news that the war had started in the west, and Nanzhao and Xifan launched a large army to invade Dachu at the same time, and the military was urgent.
Zhen Jian was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly rode back to Beijing, and went to see Ming Guogong as soon as possible.
When he arrived at the mansion of Ming Guogong, the porter replied to him that Ming Guogong was summoned by the emperor to the palace to discuss important matters, Zhen Jian guessed that it must be to discuss military affairs, because the emperor usually rarely summons the two princes.
Ming Guogong was no more, Zhen Jian turned to ask to see Gai Tong, the porter passed the word on his behalf, and it didn't take long for several young people to come to the door to greet Zhen Jian, Zhen Jian saw them, and immediately shouted in surprise: "Gai Qing, Gai Li, Gai Yun, are you back?"
” Seeing that several brothers of the Gai family were there, Gai Qing nodded and smiled: "Well, we have only been back for a few days, and we have been to your house to look for you, but you are not at home." ” Zhen Jiandao: "I've been in the manor outside the city for the past few days, and I'm not at home, it's really good to see you today, by the way, I heard that the army has started in the west?"
” Gai Tong nodded and said, "That's right, the emperor has already sent my grandfather into the palace to discuss countermeasures." ” "......Sure enough," Zhen Jian frowned, "I heard that it was Nanzhao and Xibo who came to Fan this time, I don't know what their troops are and where they have fought?"
” "I don't know."
Gai Qing shook his head and said, "We can't know the specific situation until Grandpa comes back." ” Zhen Jian said: "Then I'll wait for him to come back." ” "Good!"
Gai Qing hurriedly said, "Please come in, come in and wait." ” "Thank you."
Zhen Jian walked into the Ming Mansion with his feet raised.
Gai Qing and the four brothers took Zhen Jian to the living room, served tea and entertained them, talked about Xiangfan's military defense, and chatted and chatted, they talked about the war against the Xiongnu, and naturally talked about Zhen Jian's great achievements.
When it was almost dark, Ming Guogong finally came back, learned that Zhen Jian was coming, and hurried to the living room.
Seeing Ming Guogong, Zhen Jian was also very happy, and immediately stepped forward to salute.
Duke Ming waved his hand to excuse him, walked to the main seat and sat down, and asked, "Are you here for the military affairs in the west?"
” "Yes."
Zhen Jian's head, "Senior Guogong, I don't know what the current situation of the military in the west is?"
” "Alas......"
Ming Guogong sighed, "The situation is very bad, Nanzhao came to attack this time, it must be related to the last time he married the princess, but the reason why they waited until now to make trouble, should have been preparing, secretly contacted Xifan, and came together, Xifan has actually been harassed by the Huns, and can not take the time to attack our Dachu, but last year the Huns attacked Xiangfan, and their vitality was greatly injured, this time they dared to attack in a big way, this time Nanzhao sent 60,000 troops, Xifan sent 150,000 troops, a full 210,000 troops, Although the king of Shu in Chengdu Fulu said that there were 60,000 troops, but it was difficult to defeat the army of Xifan, the king of Shu was killed in battle, the king of Xinshu took the remnants of the army and fled into the White Emperor City, according to the city and defended, the Xifan divided 50,000 troops to besiege the White Emperor City, 100,000 troops continued to march eastward, and had captured nearly 30 cities, plundered everywhere, the grain and grass were endless, and the morale was flourishing. ” Zhen Jian frowned when he heard this, and asked, "Then today, the emperor summoned all the important ministers to discuss countermeasures, what is the result?"
” Ming Guo said: "As usual, we are waiting for the main battle, the civil officials are in charge of peace, and the emperor is doing both, sending troops to resist, and at the same time sending envoys to sue for peace." ” Gai Tong was shocked when he heard this: "This time, you won't send Zhen Jian to sue for peace." ” "This time, I didn't let Zhen Jian be the messenger of peace."
Ming Guogong said with a worried face, "However, Zhen Jian will definitely not be able to be idle this time, every time he goes to war, it is the time to use people, the emperor is ready to send 100,000 troops to intercept the enemy army, Miao Xuan is the commander of the army, Zhen Jian and Gai Qing are the commanders of the chambers, this Miao Xuan ......
But Qin Huan's people. ” (This chapter was originally very long, but it was blocked, and I guess it may have involved the specific production method of gunpowder, so I deleted the section on making gunpowder and resent it again, so it's very short now, please forgive me.) ）