I am the king of the dead

Chapter 29 The real black powder
Zhu Qiyu is very skilled at memorizing this formula, and there is absolutely no problem with this ratio.

Yu Qian frowned and thought about it for a long time and said, "Your Majesty, even if it is lit, it can only burn fire. What's the use of making such gunpowder?"

Zhu Qiyu blinked. He had heard of this ratio, but he had never understood what this ratio represented.

He originally wanted to say that he would do it on the spot immediately, but considering that Yu Qian had been a military officer for more than ten years, Yu Qian was extremely professional in the military field.

After Zhu Qiyu repeatedly observed the production method of gunpowder in the gunpowder preparation camp of the military camp, he finally realized that making gunpowder is really not an easy thing.

For example, for those who boil nitrate, the Daming Ministry of War has set up a nitrification camp in Tongzhou.

The nitrate consumed by one cannonball of a general's artillery requires a person to boil the nitrate for three years, so there is a saying that "a thousand days of boiling nitrate is not worth one cannon of the general".

For example, the charcoal needs to be ground into powder, but after this grinding, it has to be sieved to become a uniform powder before it can be used.

And the production of sulfur was done by prisoners or prisoners. Zhu Qiyu glanced at it from a distance, and those people's eyes were swollen.

But Zhu Qiyu also knew the process of making gunpowder. He took boiled niter, sulfur, charcoal powder and some common additives and returned to the palace.

The school field was the original garden of the Prince Yu's Mansion. After being simply cleaned up by Xing'an, it became Zhu Qiyu's testing ground. His flintlock gun was not made overnight, but after several improvements, it was suitable for use.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu was in front of a small scale, and he began to mix black powder according to that formula.

After making it, he tried to ignite it. As Yu Qian said, a small flame was burning quietly and appeared in front of Zhu Qiyu, mocking him silently...

Zhu Qiyu is very sure that there is no problem with the small balance he designed. It is definitely not a problem with the ratio, but a problem with his formula.

Zhu Qiyu ignited some black crystals again, and without exception, they were all burning slowly, with a few exceptions, the water was too large to ignite at all.

After all, so much toner, it's strange that it can't be burned, and there is a stench of toilet paper being ignited.

After he ignited all the black crystals, he finally knew that he had failed.

Zhu Qiyu was silent for a long time, took out the paper, and began to write and draw. Since the formula is not a mass ratio, it must be a molar ratio.

He took out the knowledge in his memory and started the second deployment.

After he made it and dried it in the shade, he carefully took out the gunpowder powder and started the experiment.

When he was about to load it into the pistol, he suddenly thought of Nobel, the father of explosives, who killed his younger brother.

"Xing'an, get a match." Instead of pulling the trigger, he chose a more secure method.

steady.

The match was very long, Zhu Qiyu and Xing'an hid far away, the flames squeaked towards the fire gun, followed by the sound of the explosion and after the blast, the copper fragments shot out in all directions, with the sound of the howling wind, plunged in On tree trunks, window rails and tiles.

The first handgun that Yu Qian gave him was shattered like this.

Zhu Qiyu and Xing'an were far away, and they watched this scene dumbfounded, the power was outrageous.

"Is this a success, or is it a failure?" Zhu Qiyu watched this scene in a stunned manner. He had no idea that black gunpowder would have such great power.

"Success... so." Xing'an looked at Zhu Qiyu dully, swallowed and said, "It's like the roar of thunder."

Zhu Qiyu walked into the side hall in a sluggish manner, which was the small experiment he was tinkering with. This time, he took a little bit of homemade gunpowder powder and the gunpowder powder provided by the Ministry of War, and conducted the experiment carefully.

The gunpowder powder of the Ministry of War, after the match rope is ignited, most of the gunpowder is actually blown away, that is, the combustion wave is slower than the shock wave of the deflagration, and the gunpowder powder is scattered. Carbonization phenomenon, the whole cupronickel is black.

As for his homemade gunpowder powder, after the match rope is ignited, the burning wave is faster than the shock wave. After the detonation, the burning trace is very small, and there will be no residue. The burning traces left on the copper plate, the smell of gunpowder smoke Extremely strong.

The contrast was quite stark, and he was sure he had succeeded.

"Your Majesty, the princess said it's time for dinner, yes..." Xing'an cautiously walked into the side hall and asked in a low voice.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, and he whispered, "Send it here, I'm thinking about it."

After Zhu Qiyu had eaten, he fiddled with it for half the night before he understood the purpose of adding these things.

He stayed in the study during the day, and in the side hall at night, fiddling with gunpowder. Finally, after a roar, Zhu Qiyu walked out of the room with a dark face and asked Xing'an a few words.

There are many palaces in Daming. These palaces belong to various palaces, such as Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, Cining Palace, etc. The management of these palaces is divided into twelve prisons, four divisions and eight bureaus.

Among them, the Bureau of War of War is specially responsible for the production of firearms, and there are many workshops in the Bureau of War of War.

He handed the written formula to Xing'an, let it produce a batch of new gunpowder, and fill the gunpowder according to the amount he wrote.

In particular, the number of reloads for the long guns, the sub-and-mother guns, and the general cannons can only be less but not more.

Too much...and it blows up.

"Your Majesty, the princess asked the minister to ask, are you still sleeping in the study today?" Xing An took the formula and asked in a low voice.

Zhu Qiyu asked him to take the formula and go to the War Bureau to do a little more to repeat the test. If there is no problem, he will hand it over to the three major factories of the Ministry of War to make new black powder.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "There is still a little scrutiny to be approved, and I still have state affairs to work on."

He didn't lie. As the military preparations entered the capital, there was an endless quarrel in the court over the appointment and removal of generals at all levels of the Tenth Regiment Battalion.

Yu Qian insisted on filling the leaders and management teams of each battalion with the remaining [-] sergeants in the capital, especially the management team, so that the old would lead the new.

For senior officers, it is the army's EIA promotion, which is equivalent to pulling out the roots of the nobles.

However, Xun Qi always insisted that the Jingying was subordinate to the five military governor's mansion, and it was necessary to select people from the concubines and the princes and princes.

The result of the noise was that the two lists were placed in front of Zhu Qiyu, which seemed to be decided by him.

It really depends on how he chooses.

(End of this chapter)