Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 241 The advent of explosives
After receiving strong support from Li Er, Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace and set about building a science academy next to the Chongwen Hall.

In the future, the Academy of Sciences will not only study new weapons, but also research technologies related to agriculture and handicrafts.

With the venue, the next step is to recruit people who love scientific research.

After half a year, the Academy of Sciences has recruited more than 60 scientific talents, all of whom have been carefully screened out.

In the past six months, the prince has not been idle, and based on his limited memory, he compiled a scientific research encyclopedia for these scientific researchers to read.

Not only that, Li Chengqian also printed a copy of the agricultural encyclopedia "Qi Min Yao Shu" in the Northern Wei Dynasty and put it in the library of scientists.

And the three great works "Mengxi Bi Tan", "Nongzheng Quanshu", and "Tiangong Kaiwu" were also silently written from memory.

Before time travel, Li Chengqian would read these books when he was bored, so he had a deep memory of these three books.

It is not difficult to write these three books silently, but the difficulty is that although I have read these three books, I can remember most of them.
These three books were written in different years. "Mengxi Notes" was written in the Northern Song Dynasty, and "Nongzheng Quanshu" and "Tiangong Kaiwu" were products of the Ming Dynasty.

The main purpose of the Academy of Sciences is to learn scientific knowledge and engage in scientific debates, which belong to the theory of talking on paper.

The real scientific research experiments are conducted outside of the Academy of Sciences, while agricultural research requires hands-on labor in the fields, with the purpose of increasing food production, such as research on fertilization, water conservancy, and reclamation, and academic reports on this.

Handicraft production technology and process equipment, research and improvement, as well as some experience in production organization.

These must benefit the people and are closely related to life. The combination of theory and practice can make scientific research develop greatly.

The research on explosives was carried out in a large mountain outside Chang'an City, and a hidden place was selected as an experimental base.

After all, this explosive is a dangerous thing. If it is researched in Chang'an City, once it explodes, many people will die and innocent people will be easily injured.

So it can only be transferred to a secret base outside the city for experimental operations.

The students in the academy who are in charge of this area of ​​research must go to the base to conduct practical experiments in addition to studying "Heavenly Creation" and writing feasible plans every day in the academy.

The research on explosives is progressing quite fast. These are the spirits of dedicating everything to scientific research with a passionate heart.

The main thing is that these guys don't know, or even know how powerful explosives are, so they research explosives without any scruples.

In just two months, they experimented at least a hundred times, and the research results are also very remarkable.

In the end, they fiddled with the explosives. As for the power, you can only know by trying it.

In fact, it is very simple to make explosives. You only need to mix sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal in a certain proportion.

It's just that Li Chengqian himself has no experience in this field, so he feels that explosives are difficult to manufacture. These researchers are based on the gunpowder in fireworks and firecrackers to research and improve.

To put it bluntly, it is to increase a certain dose and ratio, so that the gunpowder can produce violently burning substances in a very short period of time, and under the action of a certain amount of external energy, it will explode with its own energy.

Li Er and Li Chengqian came to the secret base today to see the results of the experimental labor.

In the heavily guarded experimental base, on an open flat ground, the scientific personnel put the prepared explosive package in a dug pit.

Cover some items on it, expose the lead wire of the explosive pack, as long as the fuse is ignited, the explosive pack can be ignited.

The researchers explained to Li Er and Li Chengqian what might happen in the future. In fact, they told Li Er that Li Chengqian still knew the power of the explosive package.

"Then let's start!" Li Er said to the researchers.

"Your Majesty, please step back, we will ignite this explosive package right now," the researcher said.

Under the guard of Wang Yuan and others, Li Er turned around and came to the safe area, hiding behind a bunker, while the researchers went to ignite the fuse.

Fortunately, according to Li Chengqian's instructions, they made the fuse very long, which gave him enough time to leave after lighting the fuse.

The scientific research personnel stepped forward carefully to light the fuse, then immediately turned around and ran back to hide in the bunker at a speed faster than that of a rabbit.

As soon as he covered his ears, he heard a "boom", followed by a shaking of the earth, and the ground trembled a little.

Thick smoke was billowing in the distance, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of gunpowder. Li Er was shocked by the loud noise!

A trace of shock appeared on his face, which he didn't care about at first. If he had had this magic weapon when he went on an expedition to Goguryeo, why would he have been besieging the city for so long but could not break through it.

"Go! Go and have a look!" Li Er raised his foot and walked towards the place where the explosion just happened, and everyone hurriedly followed.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses and looked at the big hole that was blown out in front of them. Except for Li Chengqian, everyone including Li Er looked like they had seen a ghost.

"Can this thing be mass-produced?" Li Er asked the scientific researcher regardless of the unpleasant smell in the air.

This is Li Er's intention to attack Goguryeo again. With this kind of magic weapon, let alone one Goguryeo, even if there are ten more, they have to kneel down to Li Er Majesty!
"I'm afraid this is difficult. It's still in the experimental stage, and there are still many unstable factors in it. If something goes wrong, it may not cause failure, but it may cause self-explosion."

"More importantly, this thing is not easy to preserve, and needs to be improved!" The researcher said under Li Chengqian's hint.

He is a member of the crown prince, so he naturally obeys the order of the crown prince. If he doesn't know about it, then he can't tell the truth.

Li Er frowned, somewhat disappointed in his heart, if it cannot be used on the battlefield, no matter how powerful it is, it is useless.

It seems that I have no chance to see the day when Goguryeo is conquered!

"How long will it take you to research to produce a qualified thing?" Li Er did not give up.

He hopes to be able to develop explosives that can be preserved and stabilized as soon as possible, so that he may still see the demise of Goguryeo.

"I dare not hide this from Your Majesty! It's hard to say. It takes three to five years to know how to operate it after one by one experiment." The researcher said.

This is just his rhetoric. The explosive package is not as complicated as he said. In fact, the so-called unstable factors are just an excuse.

Like the explosive packs used for blasting just now, as long as the materials are sufficient, they can manufacture them in large quantities.

It's just that the prince didn't want Li Er to know, so he let him say that.

(End of this chapter)