The warehouse was on fire, which surprised Tongtong!
How could it catch fire?
This charity warehouse is not an ordinary structure! The purpose of the charity warehouse is to provide relief. In other words, if it is not a disaster, why activate it?
Once a disaster occurs, there will be hungry people! If a person is hungry and cares about the law, he will be as ferocious as a hungry wolf.
Therefore, in order to prevent looting, the construction of free warehouses is particularly particular.
Don't underestimate a small charity warehouse. Generally speaking, it is composed of an inner and outer city. In other words, it is basically a 'hui' shape! The outer city is built with rammed earth, and the walls of ordinary small cities are not as thick and strong as it.
When entering and exiting the city, I saw Yicang from a distance. If carriages could pass on the outer city, you can imagine how thick the rammed city wall must be. Anyone who wants to break through Yicang would have to fight a city battle.
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When it was designed at that time, the outer city had a defense system.
The entrance and exit gates had to be dug out from the bottom of the city, so that carriages could be entered and exited. The gate was made of the same material as the city gates in the capital, and was equally thick.
What about the inner city? The inner city is generally built with warehouses and walls integrated into one, which looks like an annular brick kiln. It can be used for both storage and defense. Of course, the inside of the house is connected. The roof can dry food.
, the cloister is convenient for ventilation. There is even a slope on the roof to make it convenient to transport food and to prevent rain and moisture.
It can be said that the construction of earth structure is really very clever.
A good building will not be exposed to the sun in summer and can basically be completely insulated from the cold in winter.
Moreover, there are not many buildings like this that can burn! It does not use many combustible materials, and it is designed to be fireproof.
A fire broke out in a place like this?
Isn't it strange?
Unless someone inside directly burned the food, it would be completely impossible!
Even if you throw an arrow cluster with sparks into it, it won't burn.
Qingya asked: "Do you want to leave the palace?" No rush! This case is not difficult to investigate. Once there is an internal problem in the warehouse, neither the government nor the Ministry of Punishment are vegetarians. Isn't this clear about it?
The eldest prince oversees the Criminal Department and he wants to take a look.
Han Siyuan supervises the prison. He is just curious! The free warehouse can actually catch fire. Compared with the prison, it is hard to say which one is stronger. If you burn the free warehouse today, what about tomorrow? Burn the prison?
He rode a horse and took Han Ye for a walk to see it.
When I went there, I was a little stunned by the situation in front of me. Many people were grabbing food!
Yes! They are robbing food.
The granary seemed to have exploded due to fire. Some of the grains had turned black, but more were scattered on the floor. The roof of the granary was lifted. The guards guarding the free granary were not dead. They deserved it.
He was injured by the huge momentum and the food exploded.
Han Siyuan grabbed a handful of grain scattered on the ground. There were corn and wheat in it. He put it under his nose and smelled it. There was a faint smell of sulfur.
He took part of it, and the eldest prince asked, "What did you find?"
"Why is there sulfur in the righteous warehouse?" Han Siyuan handed the grain in his hand to the eldest prince. He grabbed another handful and smelled it again, and the smell was still the same.
The eldest prince sniffed it gently, and then asked the least injured guard: "The warehouse door cannot be opened easily! Who opened the warehouse door yesterday?"
The guard couldn't help but shook his head, "It has always been guarded by the young men, and nothing has ever happened...and the key is not just one, it is a gate with an iron chain. The key is in the government office. Without the permission of the superior, I dare not open the warehouse."
! Even if you want to dry the grain, you must ask the government office for permission. If you get permission and your Excellency is willing to give you the key, you can open the warehouse."
Deng Sui looked at the intact lock and took it to King Zhao: "Your Highness, please take a look."
The door was burned by fire, but the iron chain and lock were intact.
"No one went in?"
Deng Sui pointed to the scattered bricks and tiles, "There is a small hole on the top to dry the grain, as big as the mouth of a bowl! It is for sweeping the grain directly in after burning. This is basically how grain is put into the warehouse. This small hole usually has a special purpose
The lid is blocked, and after the lid is added, no trace of rainwater will come out..."
What you mean is that people at the top mixed in sulfur powder and maybe other things when they put the grain into the warehouse. Then they hid here, lit a fire and threw it in.
"Yes!" Deng Sui said, "This is the only way to build such a building."
"But if this is the case, this person will not be able to escape and will definitely die." The eldest prince said, "Have someone look at it again to see if there are any dead bodies under the masonry."
After searching, I really found it.
He has long been completely unrecognizable, but based on the characteristics of his body, familiar people can tell that this person is really from the charity warehouse, a helper in the kitchen.
A dead body was found in one granary, followed closely by the other three granaries.
After checking these four people, I found that these four people have one thing in common, that is, they are all orphans! They were all raised in a Salesian home. Later, when they were old enough to work, they were hired. These are also familiar to them.
People occasionally learned about it from their mouths. Others were unknown.
Deng Sui stood in front of Fourth Master and explained the process in detail, "This case seems to have something to do with Tian Guangbo. These four people should be orphans raised by Tian Guangbo over the years. Something happened to Tian Guangbo.
, sentenced to be executed in prison, these four people seemed to avenge their master. This assumption is reasonable." After saying this, he paused, "But... I still have something that I don't understand."
Tongtong was confused behind the screen. This was like the use of gunpowder, which had not been used in Emperor Gaozong's time! At that time, the so-called 'fire-subdued alum method' was mainly used in alchemy.
□□Well, right! The point is black.
But in fact, Master Sun Simiao used carbonized soap locust and saltpeter sulfur. However, many people did not pay attention to the details of charcoal fire soap locust. For a long time, after the saltpeter and sulfur were mixed, no one found the use of charcoal.
.What is used? It is a medicinal material called Aristolochia.
These three cooperate in a certain proportion, and the explosion is not that powerful.
But later on, where did the private sector develop?
Huang Chao used similar firearms during the uprising, which shows that some people still use them.
Now it was able to blow off the roof of the free warehouse. Although it didn't produce a big vibration wave, it was still incredible.
If you want to ask something, it's not easy to interrupt the other person.
I heard Deng Sui continue: "What I find strange is that, firstly, if this person did this for revenge, it did not achieve the purpose of revenge. The destruction of the warehouse was a loss. But except for himself, there were no casualties.
. I am actually afraid that if this exploded in a theater or somewhere else, how many people would die. When I think about it, I feel more and more that the idea of revenge is open to question."
As he spoke, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "Secondly, if the theory of revenge is open to discussion, then I dare to ask, what is the purpose of doing this? Is the food being robbed by the people and causing trouble for the court?"
The four charity warehouses were quite a lot, but they were not enough to cause any difficulty to the court. After all, the food still went to the people's homes, and it was not really burned.
If the imperial court really wanted to take it back, it would be able to take it back.
Deng Sui said: "Perhaps these four people are not knowledgeable enough. They thought they would be severely damaged. This is just what they thought."
The fourth master pondered for a moment and said to Deng Sui, "Continue to check these four people and see who they have been in contact with recently or where they have been."
yes!
Deng Sui went down and went about his business neatly.
Tongtong then walked out from behind the screen, "Deng Sui was right. This matter is indeed strange."
Fourth Master looked at her: "Can't hold it in any longer? Want to go out?"
I want to take a look and will be back in half a day.
Fourth Master tapped her neck and said, "Wear thicker clothes, it's windy outside the city."
It’s really windy outside the city!
Tongtong stood on the ruins of the inner city of Yicang and looked around, feeling a little shocked in his heart.
She squatted down and looked for brick after brick.
Qingya asked, "Your Highness, what are you looking for?"
Tongtong was speechless and waved her hands to tell the green buds to open up, "Don't block the light."
After a long while, he dug out a brick with a unique shape. It was fired specially so that there would be no gaps in the round holes. On this brick, Tongtong discovered the smell of sulfur, the powder of saltpeter, and...
There are black marks.
This is it!
Someone can use it.
And this black trace is definitely not carbonized soap locust, it is charcoal.
He handed this to Qingya and carefully put it away, then ran to three other places and found similar things. It can be seen that they put these things in through this small hole.
Lin Yutong's heart skipped a beat, feeling that the use of this thing was earlier than the development of history.
According to historical records, when the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, a kind of "artillery" was used, but it was thrown by putting gunpowder in a clay pot or an iron pot, and its lethality was limited.
Later, it was also described in "Gold" that there was a firearm that sounded like thunder and could penetrate armor.
But this is all when the target is small, targeting people rather than cities.
This means that until that time, firearms will not be able to attack the city.
But now this thing has appeared, and its power can be imagined.
So, what brought about this change?
Tai|zu only took a few years to dominate the world. What did he rely on? Tongtong hesitated again and again, but still did not go to the imperial mausoleum to find the two old princes. Instead, he first asked Link to use these special-looking bricks.
Handed it to him: "Daddy, take a look."
Link took it in his hand and was confused for a moment, then his expression changed. He touched the surface of the brick, then raised his hand and smelled his fingers, then his expression became serious: "This is what happened with the fire in Yicang.
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Tongtong asked, "Dad, did Taizu ever use these things to bring peace to the world?"
Link was speechless.
Tongtong squatted down and said, "Dad, my grandfather must have used it before!"
Link put down the brick in his hand and said, "Do you know that your second uncle...does he have any other errands on his hands?"
I don’t know!
"Any place where sulfur and saltpeter mines are found has been tightly sealed." Link sighed: "Not many people know how to make this thing!" After speaking, he added: "But there are always smart people in the world! Back then,
Taizu said, sooner or later someone will spy out! It's just one day later, this thing is too big
The wound is healed. Sun Simiao recorded it in detail in the Book of Alchemy. He used saltpeter, sulfur, and burned sapodilla seeds... As long as you give it a try, you will be able to figure out the way."
, he clicked on this brick and said, "No one else noticed it, but you did it. Why? Because you read the "Alchemy Sutra"."
Tongtong sighed after a long time, and then said, "What dad said is that there are too many people reading the "Alchemy Classic", so it's impossible to tell."