Chapter 159: Pit hunting

"Outside Liu, how powerful is this artillery?"
Xiao Ming's voice passed through the smoke of burning gunpowder to Liu Chuang's ears, which made him despair.
Can King Qi, who possesses such a murderous weapon, be defeated? This idea flashed in his mind and was soon broken.
In front of the city gate, Liu Wei heard a hoarse begging for mercy, and the fear of death passing by made him almost crazy.
"I think now Liu Wei would be more willing to tell the source of gunpowder, but if you still want to die decently, I will give you this opportunity." Xiao Ming's voice, Gu Jing Wubo, seemed to have a chance to win.
Liu Chuang laughed lowly, he was defeated, and the moment the artillery exploded, fear filled his whole body.
"The formula for this gunpowder was uploaded by the ancestor of my Liu family." Liu Chuang said decadently, "I hope that King Qi can give me a whole body."
The superstition prevails among the people of Tai Yu. The people all believe in the theory of reincarnation. Many people believe that only a complete body can reincarnate again. Therefore, the whole body is a vicious curse here.
The potholes within half a meter of the city wall made Liu Chuang understand that if the gun went down without breaking one arm and one leg, he would probably be beaten into meat.
"I'm asking where the saltpeter comes from." Xiao Ming asked, this is what he really cares about now.
Regardless of whether or not the King of Shu is in the middle, the problem that Xiao Ming faces now is the shortage of gunpowder materials, which will cause him not to have enough gunpowder to deal with the barbarians.
"Hey, if your Highness wants it, you can go to the cesspit to dig." Liu Chuang laughed.
Frowning, Xiao Ming was disappointed after all. He thought that Liu Chuang and others were in control of the location of the saltpetre mine, but he did not expect it to be the saltpeter obtained through this method.
He waved his hand and said to Niu Ben: "Kill all, leave them a whole body."
Niu Ben nodded and gestured to Lu Fei and Luo Xin.
The two understood, the blade flashed, and Liu Chuang fell into a pool of blood.
The surrounding soldiers looked cold and indifferent, and it was not a pity that a thousand people of this kind died.
Test fired the artillery and at the same time solved the siege of Wubao, it was time to retreat to the city.
Now Xiao Ming must find a way to solve the problem of saltpetre. Now it is impossible to find the saltpetre mine immediately, but Liu Chuang's words made him determined to look for saltpetre from the pit.
Asking Chen Fu to the cement to Cangzhou City himself, Xiao Ming said to Niu Ben: "Old General, although the Liuzhou tyrants have been destroyed, many remnants are still in trouble. I hope that the Old General will go to encircle and suppress the six states, so as not to bring disaster to the six states."
"His Royal Highness, this matter can be handed over to the last general. It is my duty to raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them." Niu Ben said with a fist.
Xiao Ming nodded. Zhan Xingchang was supposed to be responsible for this matter, but the barbarian went south and broke his plan. Now Zhan Xingchang is mainly responsible for the repair of Cangzhou City.
After stopping the soldiers and returning to the city, more than ten days passed in order to encircle Liu Chuang and his gang, but at least the artillery test was successfully completed, and then the Equipment Department could fully produce artillery.
And he has to continue to solve the saltpeter problem. This artillery is one of them. He also needs a lot of bulk gunpowder to make gunpowder cans.
Originally, he still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that Liu Chuang knew the location of the saltpeter mine, but now his hope was shattered.
However, he was not without gain. At least Liu Chuang proved that it is feasible to make nitrate and re-manufacture gunpowder, and this nitrate pit is underground, but the amount is very small.
But now the mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are. When they returned to the palace, he immediately called Lu Tong over.
"There is saltpeter in the Mao Keng?" Lu Tong blinked his eyes in disbelief.
For Xiao Ming, there are still many ways to extract soil nitrate in the science and technology library, and the principles are very clear.
Generally speaking, the soil near pig pens and toilets in rural areas often contains a lot of organic matter.
After the organic matter decomposes, nitrifying bacteria will generate nitric acid.
Nitric acid further reacts with arsenic, calcium, and magnesium in the soil to produce potassium nitrate and its calcium-magnesium nitrate, which is called nitrate.
Generally speaking, the content of potassium nitrate in the fluffy white mold that precipitates on the soil walls of pigsty and toilets is high, sometimes as high as 75%.
I told Lu Tong about the formation principle of saltpeter. At this time, Lu Tong nodded slowly if he had an understanding.
"This method is a bit more troublesome, but it can only be done now? Let's pass this difficulty first, let's talk about it." Xiao Ming said.
If he could use saltpeter mine, no one would go to the toilet to find saltpeter. He was forced to do it.
In addition to directly looking for saltpeter on the surface of the pit and pigpen, Xiao Ming also asked Lu Tong to dig out the old soil and plant ash under the toilet to cook, so that saltpeter crystals can also be extracted.
"His Royal Highness, this is no problem. When you say this, I remember that there is this kind of thing on the pit of my house, but it is a little too small, and how many pits are needed." Lu Tong asked.
Xiao Ming already had an idea in his heart, and now he can only mobilize the masses of people.
Asking Lu Tong to go back to prepare the utensils, Xiao Ming asked Fan Zeng to come to the palace, and he personally wrote a manuscript for the newspaper.
The content of this manuscript is to mobilize the people to find the fire nitrate from Maokeng and give it to the local government. Anyone who provides fire nitrate will cost one cent per catty.
The next day, the news was immediately circulated with the newspaper, and reporters from all states were dispatched at the same time, down to the county and the village to convey the contents of the newspaper to the people.
"The white hairs in this pit can still be sold for money?"
In Zhu's village, Zhu Wuliu asked the person who had just finished reading the newspaper in surprise.
His elder brother Zhu Sansi has gone to Qingzhou City and successfully entered the Qingzhou Army. Now there are still eldest brother Zhu Yier, Zhu Xiaomei and him at home.
Now that the food can be harvested immediately, the family is full of hope, but his family is still very poor before the food is harvested, but it must have been much better before.
And after Zhu Sansi entered the Qingzhou Army~EbookFREE.me~ the local government office sent a stone of grain and a piece of cloth to the family.
These things made many people in the village enviable, and no one would have thought that the military government would also send food to eat. In the past, they were directly arrested and served as soldiers.
Because of this, many hesitant people in the village joined the army, because every time the government sent something home, it was a glorious thing with a bright face.
In addition to his second brother, his eldest brother is now unloading and loading goods on the wharf exclusively for merchant ships.
In the past six months, the number of merchant ships going to and from Qingzhou Wharf has increased suddenly, and many people are needed to carry goods. Naturally, the wages have risen again.
Zhujia Village is not far from the dock, and most of the young men in the slack season go to the dock.
Compared with the eldest brother and the second brother, Zhu Wuliu has been at home helping to look at the fields at home, but he also wants to make some money.
Therefore, he was immediately moved.
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