Hearing Liu Chan's voice, Ma E gently placed the object in her hand on the table, smiled and said: "Your Majesty, good luck."
"You don't need to be polite." Liu Chan walked over to help Ma E up, but a wooden cabinet on the ground caught his eye. He asked in surprise: "E'er, what is this?"
Ma E was stunned at first, but when she looked back at the items in the cabinet, she smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this is an item from Liangzhou, saltpeter."
"When I left Liangzhou, my father asked E'er to take it with me." Ma'e said, "My father said that seeing it was like seeing Liangzhou."
Liu Chan didn't care that much about Ma'e's explanation.
It's just that the father is worried that his daughter will get homesick after marrying far away, so he prepared some items from his hometown for her. Seeing these things may relieve the pain of lovesickness.
But Liu Chan's eyes were already straight at this time.
"Is this saltpeter?" He walked quickly to the cabinet, took a stone in his hand, looked at it carefully before nodding and said: "Yes, yes, yes, this is saltpeter, this is saltpeter."
"Your Majesty!"
Ma E was a little confused and didn't understand what the emperor was doing.
Isn’t it just a piece of broken stone?
"E'er." Liu Chan suddenly asked excitedly: "Where can I collect this kind of saltpeter?"
"Ah???"
This confused Ma Ewen. She said emotionally that His Majesty the Emperor also likes this kind of stone?
"Tell me quickly, where can I collect this kind of saltpeter?"
Liu Chan looked particularly anxious and excited.
"Your Majesty," Ma E said calmly: "These are ordinary stones. There are many in Liangzhou."
"Really?"
This made Liu Chan extremely happy. He said, "Do you know the effect of this saltpeter?"
"Of course I know."
Ma E smiled and said, "Many warlocks use this kind of saltpeter to refine various elixirs." She shook her head and said calmly, "But my father once said that those charlatan warlocks are all
Liar."
That's all Ma'e knew about the effects of saltpeter.
But seeing Liu Chan so excited, she was a little worried.
Because when I was a child, I often heard old people say that emperors of all ages wanted to live forever, so they visited the quacks and magicians in search of the elixir of immortality.
But throughout the ages, those emperors who wanted to live forever did not see any of them really being able to live forever. Instead, they ate the elixirs of the sorcerers and lived longer than ordinary people.
Liu Chan is also an emperor.
He doesn’t also want to live forever.
Therefore, Ma E deliberately mentioned those warlocks, which were all lies. After all, she is now Liu Chan's concubine, and she does not want Liu Chan to be obsessed with the so-called magic of immortality.
However, Liu Chan waved his hand and said: "Using saltpeter to refine elixirs is what a stupid donkey does. If you eat the elixir refined from this kind of material, you will lose half your life or not."
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"Your Majesty?"
Ma E was stunned for a moment, originally thinking that Liu Chan was also interested in immortality.
But after hearing what he said, his current excitement was not because the saltpeter could be used to refine elixirs.
"This saltpeter is a treasure."
Liu Chan was very excited. He turned over the saltpeter in his hand and looked at it several times. This is the raw stone of saltpeter. It has not been refined yet. It does look similar to ordinary stones, or it may only be slightly different in color and texture.<
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"E'er," Liu Chan asked excitedly, "Can you give it to me?"
"Ah???" Ma E was shocked when he heard this, and then he smiled inexplicably and said: "Why did your Majesty say this? E'er is your Majesty's now, let alone just a stone. If your Majesty likes it,
, just take it.”
"Great." Liu Chan was very satisfied, as if he had obtained some precious treasure. After talking to Ma E for a while, he took the saltpeter and went to Xuanshi Hall.
In the Xuanshi Palace, all the serving maids and eunuchs were kicked out by Liu Chan, leaving only Fu'an in the room.
A small copper kettle, with a brazier set up underneath.
Although this saltpeter is available, the unrefined saltpeter raw stone has no different functions from ordinary stones.
While refining the saltpeter, Liu Chan said to Fu'an: "Go to the drugstore immediately and buy me some sulfur. Don't let anyone know."
"No!"
Fu'an didn't know what the emperor wanted sulfur for, but since the emperor wanted it, he had no choice but to go to the street to buy it.
Compared with saltpeter, sulfur is more common now. It was developed a hundred years ago and has become a relatively precious medicinal material. Not to mention big cities like Chang'an, even the relatively small pharmacies on the streets of Chengdu, Xijing,
If you want to buy some sulfur, it is relatively easy.
If you have money, you can buy it.
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This chapter has been completed!