Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 380
Sure enough, Ziying's next words confirmed Jiang Da's conjecture that King Qin really had a "soft spot" for these filthy things.

"Quick, immediately take Gu to the dirt mountain where the feces were stored before."

For Ziying's order, Jiang Da's heart collapsed, but facing the supreme commander who controlled the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, Jiang Da had no room to refuse.

On the abandoned Shit Mountain, basically the whole mountain is densely packed with large and small shitholes. If the shelter built on it collapses and lacks signs, you will accidentally fall into the covered area. In the shit hole of the upper layer of soil.

And this kind of thing has not happened before.

Reluctantly confessing a few words to his deputy, Jiang Da disappeared from the eyes of all the sergeants along with His Royal Highness King Qin under the envious eyes of all the sergeants.

"This Jiang Da must have been smoked from his ancestral grave. He was able to receive the favor of the King of Qin. Maybe he will be prosperous in a few days."

"This time, Jiang Da is still reluctant to arrange for us to come here to deliver feces and urine. If he knows that he can meet King Qin, I'm afraid those village chiefs with some background will rush to come over!"

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It's just that Jiang Da couldn't be happy at all at this time, because unfortunately he... fell into... the shithole...

Every time the team of excrement and urine is transported in different waves, the location of the digging is also very arbitrary, and it is there when I think of it.

And although there are some orders that need to build some simple shelters on it to prevent the excrement from being washed out, the extent to which it is built is up to each team.

Some of the looser ones collapsed long ago, and I don't know where they were blown to.Then these shitholes, covered with a thin layer of soil, become natural traps.

After struggling to crawl out of the pit, Jiang Da silently moved a lot away from Ziying and Xia Ke.

One of the reasons is naturally that he has an extremely mellow smell on his body now, so he naturally dare not get too close to the majestic King Qin, lest he collide with the King Qin and his concubine.

Another reason is that King Qin's behavior at the moment is quite crazy!

I saw that Prince Qin didn't care about his status and dignity, and actually picked up some unknown white substance from the ground on the side of a shithole with a straw shed, put it gently in his mouth, and then seemed to have lost his mind. The same has been constantly giggling.

According to Jiang Da's understanding, these white things must be emitted by the excrement and urine in the excrement pit, and it is the "essence" of excrement and urine, or why it is only found near the excrement pit.

"Husband, is there any important use for these white things?" Seeing Ziying's state, Xia Ke covered his mouth and nose, and leaned forward to ask softly.

As for Ziying, it is not an exaggeration to say that Xia is the person who knows him best. After all, Xia Ke has followed Ziying since he was in Raoyang, and was assigned by Du Ling back then to protect him personally.

He knows that his husband seems to have endless "wisdom" in his mind, and some seemingly ordinary things can often have unexpected effects on him.

Before, Xia Ke had never seen Ziying being so crazy about something, which was enough to show that these white substances were definitely not as simple as they appeared on the surface, and must be of great use.

"This is a gift from the gods and a token from the devil." Ziying looked at the white powder in his hand and said, "If used well, it is a powerful weapon for the country. If used poorly, it is the source of turmoil."

"Of course, this is only an important part of it. To really play a role, it needs to be refined, and the other two things must be matched."

The white substance in Ziying's hand is naturally not the essence of excrement, but nitrate.

In the corners of toilets and pigpens in rural areas, in some places where the rain cannot reach, a white crystal will slowly form, and these crystals are nitrate.

After simple refining, it becomes another substance-potassium nitrate.

Potassium nitrate alone is nothing, but if potassium nitrate is mixed with sulfur and charcoal in a certain proportion, then he has another name-black powder!

The reason why Ziying didn't try to prepare gunpowder before is because he didn't have much time to research it, and the second is because he didn't have enough potassium nitrate source.

Moreover, Daqin has always been invincible in various battlefields, Ziying has never had much sense of urgency, and has always been cautious about whether to let gunpowder be released in advance.

Before he has enough ability to keep the secret of gunpowder, once this demon is born early, Ziying really can't guess whether it is right or wrong.

However, in this uninhabited land of South Vietnam, all problems are solved.

With the addition of gunpowder, Ziying can resolve the war in South Vietnam as soon as possible, so that he can return to Xianyang in time and try to reverse the change in the sand dunes.

Now that he is the supreme commander of the Southern Expedition Army, as long as he is properly protected, the secret of gunpowder can definitely be controlled in a small area.

Moreover, now I have a large number of Momen elite craftsmen on hand to assist, and solved the most difficult problem of the source of potassium nitrate.

That's right, Ziying plans to reach out to the dung mountain for potassium nitrate!

Originally in this land in the south of the Lingnan, the water vapor was humid, and Ziying never thought that he could find the raw materials for making gunpowder here.

However, in order to prevent the excrement from flooding the camp, Qin Jun gave full play to his own subjective initiative. While covering the excrement pit with soil, he also built a simple shelter.

Lots of organic matter, good air circulation on the mountain, shelter from direct sun and rain—perfect conditions for nitrification.

So in Jiang Da's eyes, these are shitholes, but in Ziying's eyes, they are fields of nitrate soil.

Hundreds of thousands of troops have stayed here for so many years, how huge is this volume!
It wasn't until this moment that Ziying realized that he had been smirking by the cesspit for a long time. He straightened up and took a look at Jiang Da, who was avoiding his own filth from a distance. Ziying said in a good mood:

"Go back and wash it well, go to the Gufu, I have an important task for you!"

After saying that, he took Xia Ke and left the mountain in a hurry, and he had to take a bath immediately when he went back. At this moment, Ziying felt that his clothes were full of the smell of stool, which was so strong that he couldn't let it go away.

As for the clothes on her body, don't worry about it.

And Jiang Da, who was standing far away, was overwhelmed with ecstasy when he heard Ziying's words.

After the promulgation of the military merit system, every Qin army has a dream of relying on military merit to win the title of glory.

In addition to fighting the enemy bravely on the battlefield, being able to get the appreciation of the superiors to perform some tasks that play a special role in the war, such as sneak attacking grain and grass, is a shortcut to obtaining the title, and the risk is often low.

Listening to King Qin's words, I am going to ascend to heaven!

(End of this chapter)