Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 383 The Northern Emperor Xuanzhu
Once the thief ship is on board, it is not so easy to get off.

When faced with dung mountains, these soldiers wanted to kill Jiang Da.

This impulse climbed to the top after one after another people stepped on and fell into the cesspit by mistake, causing Jiang Da to often feel the chill behind him...

Although full of dissatisfaction, an order is an order, and this is an order from the Supreme Commander King Qin, so he can only follow it honestly.

In the evening of that day, the first batch of more than ten trucks of nitrate was transported back to Lingling City.

Under Ziying's order, what Jiang Da and others brought back was not just white crystals, but a thin layer of soil on the top of the cesspit and swept them back together.

Moreover, the accumulation of several 10 people over the years is not a small amount. Jiang Da and others only obtained this amount by cleaning up part of a small dung mountain.

Naturally, Ziying was not stingy with these "warriors". He went to their camp to encourage them that night, and sent two fat pigs as a reward.

At dinner, the sergeants gulped down the delicious broth. In fact, apart from the richer taste, this job is not so unacceptable.

At least His Royal Highness King Qin seems to really attach great importance to this matter. As long as His Royal Highness attaches great importance to it, there will be hope for success in the future. It is nothing to suffer a little now.

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After obtaining these dozens of carts of nitrate, Ziying immediately marked out a confinement area in his mansion and transported the nitrate into it.

Around this area, heavy soldiers were arranged, and no one could be allowed in without his own permission.

In the end, more than ten loyal masters of Momen were mobilized to participate as assistants.

When Jiang Da and the others returned from transporting the nitrate the next day, they saw that Ziying was so prepared to go to war, no matter how dull they were, they understood that it might not be easy to make these things by themselves.

When all the preparatory work is done, Ziying's great cause of cooking salt will begin.

Xia Ke, who followed him out of curiosity, watched as Ziying ordered someone to fetch some nitrate soil and add it to plant ash, and then poured it with water to form dozens of pots of nitrate water.

Then set up more than ten large pots and began to boil the nitrate water, and did not order to stop until more than half of the water was boiled.

Immediately, it was filtered with sackcloth, and when the water temperature was not so hot, it was filtered again with precious silk.

When the filtered nitrate water cooled, white and almost transparent crystals appeared from it.

Not only Xia Ke, but also the master craftsmen of the Mohist sect who personally participated in it were also shocked when they saw this place, that other things could really be boiled out of these soils.

It's just that everyone looked at these white things and didn't know what they were.

Only one person fell into contemplation when he saw these relatively rough potassium nitrates.

This person's name is Huang Gong, and he came from Linzi Momen's headquarters. Apart from being a master of all kinds of organs and numerology, he concealed his identity on the surface as a doctor.

He reached out and took out some crystals, put them in his mouth and tasted them lightly, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"It turned out to be the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu?"

Hearing his words, Ziying also looked over in surprise, did saltpeter already exist in the Qin Dynasty?

If you really already have it, it would be really unnecessary for me to spend so much effort to boil the nitrate soil.

"You know this thing?" Ziying asked hastily.

"Hui Juzi, I do know this thing. It's called Beidi Xuanzhu. It is said that it is produced in the southwest. It can dispel all kinds of stones and can be used as a elixir. It is also called 'dispelling stone'."

As soon as Mr. Huang introduced it, Ziying felt as if he had eaten a lump of poop. It took him so much effort to produce the crude product of potassium nitrate. Make jokes like this too.

"Then go and bring a thousand catties to Gubu immediately, it will be of great use to me," Ziying ordered.

Since this thing is ready-made, there is no need to boil it bit by bit, and it is enough to start preparing gunpowder on a large scale.

However, Ziying's words made Huang Gong's face twitch, and he didn't respond at all.

"Juzi, the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu is a holy medicine in the world. Ordinary doctors may not know it at all. Its price is very expensive, dozens of times that of gold. A thousand catties of Beidi Xuanzhu, not to mention tens of thousands of gold. There is a price but no market.”

With Huang Gong's explanation, Ziying finally felt better. It turns out that there are not many things.

"The giant is able to refine the Northern Emperor Profound Pearl from the soil, which is really the ability to turn soil into gold!" Huang Gong sighed: "And these Northern Emperor Profound Pearls are several times purer than those that can be seen on the market. "

After listening to Huang Gong's explanation, Xia Ke and the rest of the masters of the Mo sect finally realized how valuable these things made by Ziying are.

According to Huang Gong, the things in these dozen or so large pots are probably worth hundreds of gold.

At this moment, Ziying also understood the status of Nitrate.

Now that nitrate has flowed out, someone may have discovered saltpeter ore. The reason why there is such a shortage of nitrate in the market is that the refining technology of nitrate is still relatively backward, and it may be just some naturally formed high-purity saltpeter.

The second is that it is possible that the owner of the mine did it deliberately, with the purpose of grabbing huge profits.

Since the purchase was not going to work, Ziying could only continue to ask for potassium nitrate from the stool.

After ordering everyone to keep it secret, Ziying arranged to continue heating and melting the impure potassium nitrate in water, and went through the process of filtering and coagulating.

However, although the finished product was much better than the last time, Ziying was still not satisfied. It wasn't until the third time that the finished product was ready for use in Ziying's opinion.

After working so hard and working hard for a whole day, we only got about ten catties of pure potassium nitrate.

"The efficiency is too low!" Ziying couldn't help sighing.

Xia Ke curiously took these potassium nitrates and looked around, and asked: "Husband, are these things really as powerful as you say?"

Ziying stopped Xia Ke's slender waist with his hands, yawned and said, "With this thing, I'm afraid the speed of digging the canal will be faster."

After finishing speaking, regardless of Xia Ke's struggle, he hugged Xia Ke by the waist and walked towards his bedroom.

"But this king is indeed more powerful than these things..."

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With my own demonstration yesterday, the master craftsmen of Momen have already been familiar with the process of potassium nitrate extraction, and now their daily task is to continuously extract potassium nitrate in nitrate.

Due to the limited raw materials obtained every day, Ziying has not expanded its scale, and the potassium nitrate that can be produced every day is only about ten catties.

Moreover, sulfur and charcoal, the other two substances needed to configure gunpowder, are relatively common now. Ziying has already ordered people to go out to buy them, and he must be back in a few days.

When the three things come together, it is the day of the birth of gunpowder.

(End of this chapter)