I made Daqin a prosperous world

Chapter 146 Black powder, let's conquer it!
The fight and quarrel between Zhao Yun and the others added a bit of anger to the Hou Mansion.

It took half a day for Li Yu to enter the back garden. The poor Zhang Deli came back from the back kitchen and needed to report to Li Yu, which made Li Yu realize that it was getting late.

And the puddles of burnt black marks on the ground seemed to tell others what Li Yu was busy with this afternoon.

That's right, Li Yu is starting to develop gunpowder, which is the most traditional black gunpowder.

Saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur, these are the three things Li Yu has been tinkering with all afternoon.

It's a pity that the ratio of black powder has always been slightly different from Li Yu's imagined effect, and these small discrepancies have prevented Li Yu from finding the root of the problem at all.

Li Yu got up, sighed and said: "It seems that I can only let Lao Feng start to explore. As for how long it will take to achieve the best ratio of black powder, it depends on the level of Daqin craftsmen."

Thinking of this, Li Yu just raised his eyes to look at Zhang Deli and the cook beside Zhang Deli.

Seeing this, Zhang Deli quickly introduced: "Master Hou, this is our Chef Zhao from Shiweiju..."

"Zhao Si."

……

Zhang Deli and Liu Neng looked at Li Yu in surprise, the former was surprised while the latter was excited.

Zhang Deli didn't expect that Li Yu, who was busy with everything, would remember a cook and even call out his name in person.

The cook Zhao Si didn't expect that he, as a mere commoner, could remember his name for a big man like Xian Junhou.

What the two of them didn't know was that when Li Yu paid a lot of money to hire a chef, when he saw the name "Zhao Si" on the list, he almost burst out laughing.

Li Yu naturally remembered such a deeply rooted name.

"You don't have to be too nervous. You are on duty for me. As long as you do your best, I will naturally treat you well."

As soon as Li Yu said this, the cook Zhao Siwen felt kind, and the nervousness in his heart dissipated a lot.

Then he stammered a little: "Elder, don't worry, my lord, Steward Zhang has already explained to the younger one when he came, and the younger one will definitely not let the adult down."

Li Yu smiled, then waved his hand to let Zhang Deli figure it out, while he had more important things to do.

Regardless of how late it was getting late, Li Yu hurriedly packed up a few cans of materials for making gunpowder, and then asked Zhao Yun to drive the carriage straight to the outskirts of Xianyang.

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On the outskirts of Xianyang, Foundry Division.

There is still that familiar and special pungent smell floating in the air.

Li Yu entered the workshop with his mouth and nose slightly covered. As expected, Feng Yansheng, the "Model Worker of the Great Qin Dynasty", was really staying in the foundry department.

Seeing the notification, Feng Yansheng stood up to greet him, and said with a smile, "Master Hou, why are you here?"

Li Yu looked at the items on the table, and joked with a smile: "Old Feng, it's not good for you to spend your days in the market, don't you think your mother-in-law doesn't care about it?"

Hearing this, Feng Yansheng looked around and saw that other craftsmen and officials were busy, so he said in a low voice with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the wife at home is really tough, and this is the reason for the lower officials Get out of the way."

Before Feng Yansheng could speak, Li Yu allowed Li Yu to think too much.

Li Yu looked at Feng Yansheng with some sympathy and said, "By the way, I don't know how many people are in Mr. Feng's family."

Hearing this, Feng Yansheng gestured with three fingers, and said: "I don't like having wives and concubines in groups, so I only have three children."

Li Yu grinned and teased me: "I don't think Mr. Feng doesn't like it."

Feng Yansheng's old face blushed, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Junhou, a man who has not yet married, how can he gossip about other people's family affairs like this?"
Then he coughed a few times in embarrassment, changed the topic and said: "It's been a long time, my lord, I haven't seen Lord Hou come here personally, I remember the last time I came, it was when I came to build the Qin Ren Liannu."

Hearing this, Li Yu couldn't help but lamented that time flies like an arrow, and time flies like an arrow, so he sighed: "Yes, it's been a long time in the blink of an eye, and the craftsmen in your company are still so busy."

"The foundry department is able to have the weather it is today, thanks to Lord Hou."

Isn't the weather like this all the time?

Li Yu was puzzled, so he asked, "Why did you say that?"

Feng Yansheng glanced at the busy craftsmen, and said with a smile: "The craftsmen in the foundry department have long been accustomed to the current process of manufacturing standard equipment and coins. It is this inherent process that has caused many craftsmen to lose their own ideas.

And such a situation can also be said to be a bottleneck period for craftsmen.It is precisely because of you, Lord Hou, that you brought technologies and even blueprints that they had never thought of seeing before, that allowed them to break through their inherent ideas and break through the bottleneck. "

"Perhaps it seems that the officials are flattering you, but it is indeed because of Lord Hou that the foundry department has undergone new changes."

Feng Yansheng's heartfelt confession made Li Yu feel a little bit of success, and an indescribable emotion filled Li Yu's heart.

So much so that Li Yu sighed in his heart: Bringing tangible benefits to others and making them deeply feel the different things I bring, is this the so-called sense of accomplishment?
But in any case, humility makes people do good, Li Yu grinned and said: "Perhaps the so-called process production imprisoned their thinking divergence, and what I did was to help them unlock the shackles and let them imagine It's just research."

"Divergent thinking? What does this mean?" Li Yuyi accidentally said a word from later generations, which caused Feng Yansheng to ask with a puzzled face.

Li Yu immediately laughed and said, "It's nothing interesting, it's just imagination."

Only then did Feng Yansheng nod his head, looked at the clay jars on the table, and asked, "Master Hou, what's in the jars?"

Li Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and then smiled mysteriously: "Do you still remember the forged steel pipe I asked you to develop a while ago?"

Feng Yansheng's eyes lit up, and he said immediately, "Could it be that there is some connection between the two?"

Li Yu then patted Feng Yansheng on the shoulder and said: "I'm not afraid to tell you, Lao Feng, if this thing is successfully developed and launched, its achievements are far from Liannu, comparable to Qin Ren, and even in the three-piece set of Yuma." above."

As soon as Li Yu's words fell, Feng Yansheng's expression suddenly changed, and he was stunned with a buzzing head.

Liannu, Qin Ren, those are Feng Yansheng's proud works, they are far from comparable?
Its achievement is even above the stirrup, the horseshoe, the saddle...

Grandma has such a leg, Master Hou said that this must be something, so that these miraculous objects are incomparable, and even eclipsed.

Feng Yansheng was so shocked that he couldn't find words to describe it. He could only stare dumbfounded at the pots on the table.

And as Feng Yansheng's mind continued to diverge, Li Yu could even hear his gradually heavier breathing.

"Master Hou...don't be so tricky anymore, let's conquer it!"

(End of this chapter)