Hao Yizong and his son left with the drawings drawn by Su Hao. Before Su Hao could take a breath, someone came to visit again. This time, it was the old magician Chen Guanyu.
"Master Su, I heard that you were injured when you encountered a strong man in the mountains. The old Taoist has been unable to get around to visit you. I would like to ask Master to forgive you." Chen Guanyu said respectfully as soon as he entered the door.
"It doesn't matter, my injury has healed." Su Hao said, "Old Chen, you said you couldn't get out, what are you busy with?"
Others say that they cannot spare the time to visit, which may be just an excuse, but when Chen Guanyu says this, it is different. In terms of status, Chen Guanyu is employed by Su Hao, and Su Hao is his boss, so what else can he do?
Is there anything more important than the boss's health? Chen Guanyu dared to tell him that he was very busy, so he must have some important results to report to him.
Sure enough, after hearing Su Hao's question, Chen Guanyu took out a small porcelain jar with a smile, handed it to Su Hao like a treasure, and said: "Master, I have been following Master's advice these days.
I ordered the refining of green vitriol oil, and the critical moment came just two days ago. I thought that this was something my master had repeatedly told me to do, and I couldn't give up halfway, so I suppressed my worries about the master until I refined the green vitriol oil.
Come and pay homage to Master."
"Green vitriol oil?" Su Hao was pleasantly surprised. If Chen Guanyu hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that he had told Chen Guanyu to refine sulfuric acid. He took the porcelain jar, opened the lid, and felt a familiar feeling.
The sour smell hit his nostrils. He took a chopstick and put it into the jar, soaking it in the sulfuric acid. In just a few seconds, the surface of the chopstick turned black, which was a sign of carbonization.
"Not bad, good job, Lao Chen." Su Hao said with a smile.
Chen Guanyu said: "Master Su, I'm just busy refining these green vitriol oils, so I didn't bother to visit you. Master, you won't blame me, right?"
"I don't need to be polite." Su Hao said disapprovingly, "You have done me a great favor by refining this sulfuric acid for me. By the way, don't call this stuff green vitriol oil in the future. Just call it green vitriol oil."
It's sulfuric."
"Sulfuric acid? Well, this substance is indeed extracted from sulfur, and it does have a sour smell. It is appropriate to call it sulfuric acid." Chen Guanyu said obediently, "But there is one thing I don't know about Master Su.
This green... uh, what does this sulfuric acid do?"
Su Hao pondered for a moment and said: "Sulfuric acid has many uses, Lao Chen, go back and sort out the steps for refining sulfuric acid, and discuss it with Master Hao to see how to achieve large-scale production. By the way, Lao Chen
, I have something that is a little risky, are you willing to do it?"
"This..." Chen Guanyu hesitated, "Master Su, you are not asking me to do something illegal, are you?"
Su Hao shook his head and said: "How is this possible? I am also a member of the government, so why would I let you do something illegal? I want you to do an experiment. This experiment is a little bit dangerous, so you need to be very careful."
"As a Taoist, I am extremely careful when doing things." Chen Guanyu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he was not asked to do anything illegal, he had nothing to fear. As for the risks of experiments, Taoist priests encountered many risks when refining alchemy.
As long as you're careful, it should be fine.
"The thing is like this, what you are extracting now is called sulfuric acid. If you put saltpeter into sulfuric acid, you can get a new thing called nitric acid. Then, mix sulfuric acid, nitric acid and glycerin to make
Obtain **. When extracting this object, you must be extremely careful, as this object will explode if shaken a little, and it is extremely powerful..." Su Hao said in a low voice.
"Explosion!" Chen Guanyu was stunned, "Master Su, what do you want to do with this thing?"
Su Hao said: "Didn't I tell you? The purpose of my going to Luoshan to do survey this time is to build a reservoir. To build a reservoir, it is inevitable to dig mountains and blast rocks. How can it be done without good methods? This is manufacturing
**Good ingredients.”
Su Hao's words are half true and half false. It is a fact that repairing the reservoir requires **, but Su Hao did not deliberately think about this issue before. He decided to develop **. The fundamental reason was still this time of distress. As a person
Traveler, he understands the advantages of hot weapons over cold weapons all too well. If he had a machine gun and two grenades in his hand in Fuyuan Village, would the bandits from the Scorch Pit be his opponent?
?
Because of this idea, as soon as he returned to the county town, he found the Hao family and his son and asked them to help make a flintlock gun. Now that he knew that Chen Guanyu had refined sulfuric acid, he naturally thought of yellow gunpowder.
sharp weapon.
Nitric acid can be prepared with sulfuric acid; sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and glycerol are mixed in a certain proportion to obtain **; ** is then mixed with sawdust, saltpeter, and calcium carbonate to obtain yellow ** with stable performance. This knowledge was first introduced by Su Hao
I already mastered it when I was in college. In fact, there are skills in the preparation of **. As long as the method is proper, the risk of explosion can be minimized.
He took a stack of paper, wrote out the entire process in detail, and handed it to Chen Guanyu, telling him that he must ensure that no mistakes were made in every step. If a mistake was made, the consequences would be disastrous. Chen Guanyu listened with trepidation.
I thought about it several times in my mind, and finally understood what I should do.
"However, it is illegal to make gunpowder privately." Chen Guanyu thought of another important issue.
Su Hao said: "I am a hundred households in the army. If I ask you to make gunpowder, how can it be considered privately made? Well, you go to my hundred households to find a secluded place to make it, and put your alchemy furnace and other things into it.
Move over there. By the way, stay far away from the soldiers’ residences so as not to accidentally injure my men.”
"As ordered..." Chen Guanyu was speechless. Su Hao was afraid that he would accidentally injure the soldiers when he was making a coup. Aren't he also afraid that Chen Guanyu himself would be inadvertently injured? But now he has fallen into Su Hao's trap.
Pirate ship, it’s not easy to think about it. You’d better ask for your blessings.
"This matter is very important, Old Chen. I can't find anyone else who is proficient in alchemy, so I can only leave it to you. How much money is needed to do this experiment? You can pay it yourself. I will give it to you after it is completed."
What do you think about the reward of 100 taels of silver?" Su Hao began to lure him with benefits.
Chen Guanyu said hypocritically: "Old Taoist, I am working for Master Su, so how dare I mention any bounty? When Master Su feels that I have done a hard job, I will just reward him with a few small coins."
"Don't worry, I won't treat you badly." Su Hao said.
Chen Guanyu put away the experimental guide written by Su Hao and left confidently. Su Hao called two soldiers and asked them to accompany Chen Guanyu to the Hundred Households and choose a remote corner to set up a laboratory. Su Hao
I was really worried that Chen Guanyu had failed to do something well and caused the explosion. If there was an explosion in the county town, Su Hao really couldn't afford it.
Not to mention Su Hao's busy work, Fang Mengjin came out of Su Hao's house in disgrace and returned to the county government office. As soon as he saw Han Wen, he relayed what Su Hao said to Han Wen exactly.
Hearing this, Han Wen became furious and said: "This Su Gaizhi is so ignorant of praise. Is my daughter, Han, unable to get married? Do I have to give it to him?"
"Master, calm down." Fang Mengjin advised, "In my opinion, Su Hao also has his own reasons. After all, Lu Xiuer and he have been engaged since childhood. If the engagement is canceled now, I'm afraid that
A joke."
"This kind of marriage contract with a child bride in the countryside is also broken if it is broken. Besides, we didn't ask him to abandon Lu Xiu'er, we just took Lu Xiu'er as his concubine. If Su Hao can become famous in the future, the same will happen with Lu Xiu'er as his favorite concubine.
You can have good food and clothing," Han Wen said.
Fang Mengjin said: "Proprietor, you are so concerned that you are in trouble. This is because you are greedy for the marriage of a wealthy family and abandon the old marriage contract. According to the law, you must be severely punished. If someone reports it, not only Su Gai will be punished, but Dong will also be punished.
Lord, you will also be implicated."
"This..." Han Wen took a breath. Before, he had only thought about marrying Han Qian, but had not seriously considered the issue of Lu Xiuer. Now that Fang Mengjin said this, he felt that his thoughts were too big.
It's too simplistic. Lu Xiu'er and Su Hao had an engagement before. If he forced Su Hao to break the engagement with Lu Xiu'er and marry his daughter, it would feel like taking advantage of his power to force the marriage. Such things are not allowed by the people and will not be investigated by the officials, but
If someone is caught, it will be a big deal.
"Mr. Fang, in your opinion, how should this matter be handled?" Han Wen asked.
Fang Mengjin said: "At this point, we can only hurry up and find a young man stronger than Su Hao for Miss Qian'er so that she can take her mind away from Su Hao. I feel that I might as well put the stakes into perspective.
Miss Qian'er made it clear that it was impossible to let her know that this matter was impossible, so she gave up."
"I'm just afraid that Qian'er will be obsessed with it." Han Wen sighed.
Fang Mengjin said: "Qian'er is still young, and it is inevitable to have some girlish feelings. As long as she is allowed to calm down for a while, she will slowly think about it. However, during this period of time, she must not be allowed to go again.
Met with Su Hao."
"That's all we can do." Han Wen said, thinking that his daughter would be sad for a while, he couldn't help but hate Su Hao again, and said: "This Su Gaizhi is the same, he is already engaged, but he still wants to provoke my family.
Qian'er, you are really abominable!"
"This...well, it is indeed extremely abominable!" Fang Mengjin could only follow the Korean words. In fact, in his heart, he felt that Su Hao was really a typical example of being shot while lying down. It was obviously Han Qian herself.
I ran out to listen to Su Hao's lectures, and then went with him to explore wells and do surveying. This caused such an emotional debt. How could I blame Su Hao?
While the two were talking, they suddenly heard a commotion outside, and a subordinate rushed in and reported to Han Wen: "Master Magistrate, something happened. All the students from the academy gathered at the yamen gate, saying they wanted to repay the blood debt!"
"Blood debt? What blood debt!" Han Wen suddenly stood up. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)