Two newly built large courtyards located on the right side of Xuanwuli Street in Dashiyongfang are the newly established Royal Academy of Engineering and Ordnance Department of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ordnance Department and the Royal Academy of Engineering are responsible for manufacturing and the other is responsible for R&D, they are closely connected with each other, and now they are mainly R&D.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao put the two institutions together to facilitate discussions by technical officials on both sides, that is, two signs are hung in the same place.

This also facilitates scholars, officials and engineers of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences to conduct experiments and conduct research.

This house was originally the residence of Wang Jimo, the former right minister of the Ministry of Rites, because there was a huge pond in his courtyard and the garden was actually a small coal mine.

Moreover, it is far away from the downtown area and is in the city, which will not affect residents' lives and produce noise or other hazards (such as explosions) and will also facilitate protection and blockade.

So after it was confiscated, it was modified by Zhu Youxiao to the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Ordnance Department.

The Royal Academy of Engineering can be said to be doing everything, and the projects are very complicated, ranging from soap, glass, springs, mirrors, etc. to cannons, four-wheeled carriages, guns, etc.

As long as the Emperor Zhu Youxiao thinks of any project, he will hysterically create a lot of information and hand it over to the Royal Academy of Engineering for work.

Now there are no less than a hundred so-called Ming future technology products placed in the Royal Academy of Engineering project display, such as a watch and a box of toothpaste, a toothbrush, a zipper, a model photo, a PSS gun without bullets, and even a model of a passenger aircraft.

Every official or scholar who visits the Royal Academy of Engineering will come here first to take a look, just as strange as we look at science fiction models.

However, Sun Yuanhua, the doctor of the Ministry of Works and the head of the Royal Academy of Engineering, was no longer surprised at this time. He even developed immunity to some of the exposed models photos sent by His Majesty. Instead of responding to the reaction when he saw these things, he wanted to go home and immediately go to his concubine.

As the chief of the hospital, Sun Yuanhua naturally had his own laboratory. His laboratory was an independent courtyard that was once in and was filled with various artillery and gunpowder.

At this time, he was wearing a white coat designed by His Majesty himself and weighing the old doctor with a small scale between a pile of medicine powder, and he was also talking about how much sulfur and how much saltpeter were.

But just when he was relieved to match the new gunpowder formula, a loud bang suddenly came from the laboratory of Song Yingxing, who was the next courtyard (actually just an independent courtyard), and then it sounded many times.

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he was so scared that the weight in his hand fell to the ground. He hurriedly ran out and shouted, "What happened? Did he hurt his life?"

Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Artificial Department of the Ordnance Department, also hurried over: "Is something wrong again? Ask you to be careful, don't you believe it. Sulfur and saltpeter should be separated and shaded and fire-proof!"

These two big guys couldn't help but worry. Since the Ordnance Department and the Royal Academy of Engineering have been developing heat weapons since their establishment, from gunpowder to steel smelting and gun manufacturing, the risk factor is already high. And just a few days ago, a craftsman affiliated with Song Yingxing accidentally exploded when he was developing concentrated nitric acid with saltpeter and green alum (sulfuric acid). The gunpowder on the side was also detonated. The craftsman was killed on the spot, and Song Yingxing was also fainted.

After Zhu Youxiao found out, he directly denounced Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua, and personally formulated the laboratory management rules, and gave generous pensions to the craftsman.

But this incident also made Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua realize that doing these miscellaneous studies is not easy to do economics, and sometimes they may lose their lives. Therefore, the sudden explosion now makes them unhappy.

Other technical officials and craftsmen also rushed over and prepared Song Yingxing to open the laboratory so that they could know what was going on.

According to regulations, each academician's independent laboratory is a place with strict security. Except for the person in charge of the laboratory, that is, the academician and his craftsmen or students, who can enter, no one is allowed to enter.

Therefore, these people could only wait outside, but Sun Yuanhua, who was really worried about the safety of the people inside, had to come forward and bow to the Jinyiwei who was guarding the laboratory door:

"I don't know what happened inside, can I let my official and Mr. Bi go in first?"

"Your Majesty's strict orders are the important place for military aircraft. Without the introduction of the laboratory or the introduction of the people inside, no idle people are allowed to enter!"

Although the Jinyiwei who was guarding here also heard the loud noise just now, they, who had always been well-trained, did not give any advice to Sun Yuanhua and others.

However, at this moment, the door of Song Yingxing's laboratory suddenly opened, and a black face appeared in front of everyone, and the brim of its hat was even more burnt, with a strong smell of burnt protein.

Even this man had several big holes burned in front of his official uniform, but the man was very happy. As soon as he came out, he laughed at Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang and said, "Two Shangguans, Song is not talented, so he has completed the task of improving the flowering bullets by His Majesty!"

As he said that, Song Yingxing pulled Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua and others in. When they saw that the ground was full of chaos, there was a large stove that was two people tall in the center, and there were some crooked glassware on the side.

These glassware (actually test tube measuring cylinders, etc.) were expensive in this era, and they were all purchased by Zhu Youxiao through the system to do experiments for them.

But now Song Yingxing has placed these things at will, and the whole package is filled with some dark and viscous liquid. It has to be said that it is really a waste of resources.

"Please see everyone!"

Song Yingxing pointed to dozens of pigs who had been killed by bombardment, probably filled with various iron pieces or were shocked to death:

"I only fired the flowering bullets twice with the newly made Ming Youth Tang (Joe Wang Tang) and Sun Yuanzheng. All of these dozens of pigs were killed. Then I ordered people to shoot twice in a row. The Ming Youth was not exploded! It seems that the more advanced seal that Your Majesty said has been made by me!"

Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokanglian said congratulations, because this means that Song Yingxing will receive another bonus of 500 taels, and his subordinate officials and craftsmen will also receive rewards ranging from 200 to 100 taels.

However, Song Yingxing, who didn't even care about the glassware given by His Majesty, did not take any bonus seriously. After working hard for several months, he couldn't wait to take the two of them to see his latest development bullets.

Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua walked over and saw that there were wooden pipes with one or two ends. The wooden pipes contained the newly equipped slow-burning gunpowder from Sun Yuanhua's experimental group, and there were symbols that only Song Yingxing and his team members knew about. In addition, there was a red-burned iron box next to it.

The two of them didn't understand what the thing he had made was. When asked carefully, Song Yingxing also made excuses for the reason that the matter was only known by His Majesty.

But Song Yingxing sighed and said, "It's a pity that we can only use Ming cannons, and we still exploded when we shot the sixth time."

Looking at the dead pigs all over the ground, Bi Maokang hurriedly comforted him: "It's already amazing, you can report good news to Your Majesty."

Sun Yuanhua picked up a piece of iron ball that had been blown up and said, "I'll leave it to Sun, but Brother Song, do you have to slaughter the dead pigs all over the ground immediately and invite everyone to have a meal?"

"We have to carry people down to clean and stew. There are dozens of heads. We probably can't finish them. We plan to send some to the military camp. It happened that Eunuch Liu from the Imperial Horse Prison has been looking for the butcher to buy meat all over the city these days."

As Song Yingxing was speaking, a small yellow door ran over and said, "Song Yingxing, Your Majesty has something to ask, how is your steel smelting going? I don't want to keep relying on the blacksmiths to knock and beat. In addition, if it has popped up, let's put other experiments first."

"Please tell Your Majesty that the flowering bullet has effect, but I have not yet achieved the effect of what the small blast furnace said by Your Majesty, and I still don't understand what the reducing agent and dynamic balance are. I also want to ask Your Majesty to take time to tell me."
Chapter completed!