The strongest lord system

Chapter 21 Gunpowder
Pointing to some details on the drawings, Madoran said: "These gun bodies are more difficult to build, and the requirements in many aspects are relatively fine, but we can still do it with our dwarven forging technology, but we don't have enough tools yet. , may take a little time, and the above material..."

Allen said without hesitation: "We are not in a hurry in terms of time, as long as we can make this thing. I will arrange for someone to gather the materials for you."

Madolan nodded and said, "The most necessary thing to make a musket is iron. In fact, these are not the key, the key is the bullet. Seriously, can this thing really have that much power?" Madolan frowned. Frowning, he still couldn't understand this kind of explosion in his mind.

Allen thought for a while: "For iron, although we don't have much iron in Stormwind City, we can buy it, but this bullet..." Allen knew that this bullet needs gunpowder, and the most basic black powder also needs gunpowder. It needs potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur to form three components.

Among the three materials, charcoal is no problem, and sulfur can also be found, but this potassium nitrate!

Madoran also nodded in agreement, and said: "The method of making 'gunpowder' on this blueprint is indeed a bit strange. I know about charcoal and sulfur, but I have never seen this white crystal."

"By the way, speaking of iron, when we were digging the tunnel, we discovered that there might be an iron vein under the mountain range. If iron is needed, we can dig a tunnel for mining the ore after we finish these tunnels."

Allen said in surprise: "Really? There are iron mines down here."

Madoran laughed; "We dwarves are the best in the continent in terms of finding ore."

"That's great, let's arrange the mining matter later, this 'gunpowder'?" Allen's thoughts are still focused on this gunpowder now.

Potassium nitrate!Allen knew that the white crystal-like thing was called potassium nitrate, which he had learned in high school science. If there was no such thing, even if the musket was made, it would be just an iron rod.

"However, I remember my father said that when the goblins made this kind of explosive, they used a lot of snow stone." Madoran recalled.

snow stone?

Allen asked suspiciously: "Snow Stone? What is Snow Stone?"

Madoran thought for a while and said, "Wait for me a moment, I remember a young man who seemed to be carrying a piece of snowstone, I'll show you." As she spoke, Madoran ran into the hole that was being dug. .

After a while, Madoran came out holding a piece of snow-white ore.

Allen's eyes focused on the ore, and suddenly he exclaimed: "Isn't this saltpeter?"

"Saltpeter? We all call it snowstone. The powder it produces is easy to burn. Most people use it as lighting or heating materials." Madoran said holding the snowstone.

Alan took the stone, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, it was all gray and white, and Alan dipped a little powder from it and put it in his mouth.

"Bah" bitter!According to what Alan said about the use of this snow stone, coupled with his own observation, this is saltpeter, which can produce potassium nitrate saltpeter.

Allen pointed to the ore in his hand and asked, "Are there many such ores?"

"There are quite a few, maybe there is only one under this mountain range." Madoran said with a smile.

Allen had the bottom line in his heart, and he said: "Then this gun will be made by you, and the shell of this bullet will be handed over to me, and I will find a way to make it."

"That's good, but the props for forging must also be available."

"Don't worry, everything will be there."

When Allen returned to the castle, the first thing he did was to find the butler Karen.

"Master, what do you want from me?" Karen asked the housekeeper.

Allen said: "Is there any sulfur and nitrate in our inventory in Stormwind City...that snowstone."

Butler Karen thought for a while and said, "No! Master, you want these two things to do. It's still summer and the weather is still very hot. It's better to wait until autumn to store snowstones for heating. As for sulfur, we haven't used it before."

"No, I want these two things for other purposes. Is there any way you can get these two things, the more the better." Allen asked.

Butler Karen thought for a while, and said, "Because our Stormwind City is very poor, there were not many merchants here to do business as early as more than ten years ago. But if you go to the cities next door, there are things like sulfur and saltpeter. There should be a kind of rare ore."

Allen quickly said: "Then you hurry up and arrange someone, no! It's better for you to go in person, or not, the construction of Stormwind City is inseparable from your guidance, Grandpa Karen." Allen kept shaking his head and arranged for Karen to be a housekeeper Go, afraid of delaying the construction of Stormwind City, now the food and management of Stormwind City are all under the guidance of Butler Karen.

As for arranging for other people to go, he himself was a little worried.

"Master, if you are not in a hurry, we can inform some caravans and tell them what you want, and they should deliver it." Butler Karen suggested.

Hearing this proposal, Allen thought it was a good idea, and he asked, "Then how long will it take?"

Butler Karen counted with his fingers, "Well, we will arrange for someone to notify, and then they will arrange for a merchant to come over to inquire about the situation, products and quotations. After that, they will go back to prepare the goods and send them over. The nearest city to us is about It will take 20 days to a month."

"One month! It's too long, I can't wait." Allen directly rejected the proposal. What he lacks most now is time, and he can't waste too much time on such an important matter.

Allen thought for a while, then he patted his head and said, "Then I can only go by myself." After thinking about it, Allen thought that only he had the most time and was the most suitable to go. When employing people, there are only a few of them.

After hearing Alan's thoughts, Steward Karen exclaimed: "How can this work? As the lord of this territory, the lord of Stormwind City, how can you leave Stormwind City, and what if you encounter something on the road? What about danger?"

Allen said: "It's okay! Just because I am the lord of the city, there are some things that I still need to do myself."

"However, your safety..." Butler Karen was still a little worried.

"It's okay, don't worry, I will take some of the recruits as guards." Allen said; "Hurry up and arrange for me a person who knows the route and knows how to do business with caravans."

Butler Karen sighed; "Okay, master, when are you going to leave?"

Allen thought about some things he needed to do, and said, "After I arrange things in the city first, I will set off, about two or three days."

Butler Karen nodded: "Okay, I'll go and arrange some of your itinerary."

"OK.'

This time, he will really go to the outside world to see.

(End of this chapter)