Chapter 262 Black Powder
After three rounds of drinking, Wang Xuanqing, who was hiding and unable to meet, came to see off several drunk royal noble ladies. Before leaving, Princess Jiangdu still repeatedly recited the sentence that was the most resentful thing in the moonlight.
Within a few days, Xu Hao's red bean poems spread throughout the capital, and were praised by some scholars and famous prostitutes from Qinhuai River as another graceful poet after Li Shangyin and Liu Yong and others.
It’s a pity that there are too few poems that have been circulated, so scholars come to Xiaojia Village every day, hoping to meet Xu Hao himself, and to learn more about poetry, songs and essays.
Unexpectedly, Xu Hao did not see any foreign visitors, which made the scholars who were turned away disappointed. Some people now speculate that the red bean word might have been written by Princess Yuning, and the rumors were rumored to be on the ground for a while.
In a hidden flower bush in the bamboo garden, Xu Hao lay on the soft grass, looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, with a leisurely expression.
Mu Ningxue was beside her smilingly, playing with the grass and said, "I have become a great poet. Now the prince will no longer be suspicious of you. It's too late to respect you."
Xu Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Don't laugh at me, look at what the girls at home are like? Isn't it just a song that makes everyone look like a slut? Now that I'm seeing you from afar, I scream."
The husband is famous. As his wife, Mu Ningxue is naturally with Rong. His eyes are drunk. His little feet gently rubbed his husband's calves and said with a smile: "Even I can't help myself, let alone them. Can you write a few more poems?"
"I really don't understand, a poem will make you excited."
Xu Hao laughed and turned over and pressed his wife under him. He countered the perfect little rabbit with his hands, and the fragrance thrusts. He reached out and took off his long skirt and gently stepped forward, as if he was dripping with water.
Mu Ningxue, who was too frigid to guard, quickly bit her red lips for fear of screaming. After adapting to her husband's movements, she angrily hit the man's chest and gasped slightly, saying, "This is outside. If someone knows, I still have the face to see someone."
Xu Hao said disapprovingly: "What are you afraid of in your own yard? The joy of husband and wife lies in constantly trying. Always doing it in the room for a long time at night becomes a routine."
"False theory!" Mu Ningxue simply stopped talking after saying that. She closed her eyes and endured it silently. Her body, which was already moved, was extremely sensitive. Not long after, she was defeated. After about another stick of incense, she threw away her armor again.
The wife's delicate appearance makes people intoxicated. Her slender legs are round and straight without any flaws. She is just about 1.7 meters tall. If she is taller, she will be nicknamed Yizhangqing.
Xu Hao didn't want to conceive his wife too early, so he accelerated his movements and pulled it out quickly, then lowered his head to kiss his wife, reached out to comfort her gently, allowing his wife to enjoy the afterglow after the passion. After a long time, Mu Ningxue opened her eyes and looked puzzled.
Xu Hao said the truth: "It's not good to have a baby too early. I want you to spend a few years carefree, and your family won't urge you. Please listen to me."
"Yeah!" Mu Ningxue nodded sweetly in her heart. Her husband was different for her own sake. "But the conception is given by God. What if I get older in the future?"
Xu Hao smiled and said, "The God's gift is true, but conception is regular. There is no need to burn incense and pray for children. I will teach you later. Although I won't say that it will be a long way to win, it will greatly increase the chance."
Mu Ningxue shook her head and smiled shyly, "I don't want it. You always want to take the opportunity to see that shameful place, or you just coax me into a shameful position."
Xu Hao said speechlessly: "You are good at everything, but you can't let go of sexual intercourse."
"You have to let go and find Zhiqing and Zhiyan. What can they do to compete for favor?" Mu Ningxue got up with a red face and took out a scarf to clean up the aftermath.
Xu Hao said hypocritically: "I did nothing, don't blame the good people."
Mu Ningxue sighed and said, "There are flowers that can be broken and must be broken. They are determined to serve you for the rest of their lives, and it is not easy to get rid of others' hearts."
"Let's talk about it, I don't want you to be irritated." Xu Hao reached out to take the scarf from his wife's hand.
Mu Ningxue hurriedly avoided and said, "You can't touch unclean things as men. Forget it, you two come in."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two pretty girls lowered their heads and showed their heads slowly. Mu Ningxue said angrily: "What are you doing in a hesitant way? I have been peeping for a long time, and now I know I'm sorry?"
Zhiyan deliberately twisted her green little butt and walked to Ningxue first, squatted down to Xu Hao and pulled out a scarf. Zhiqing also deliberately moved slowly to the man without hesitation, with her face being forced.
Mu Ningxue knew that this was pretending to show her, so she simply said, "No need, I'll go back to the room to rinse it. You guys will serve the young master."
"Oh!" Zhiyan curled her lips in disgust when she heard this, and Zhiqing said expressionlessly: "I understand."
Unexpectedly, Xu Hao had already stood up and left without looking back. Zhiqing and Zhiyan were suddenly lost, both listless.
Mu Ningxue felt relieved and headache in her heart, and pondered: "When I have my menstrual period next time, you two will go to serve you together tonight."
Zhiyan said with a bitter face: "But the young master doesn't seem to like us anymore."
Mu Ningxue said angrily: "Do you want me to think of something for you? If you don't want to be an old girl for the rest of your life." After that, he shook his sleeves and raised his feet, leaving the two girls looking at each other with aggrieved expression.
Xu Hao went to the study outside, and saw Zhou Peng touching his beard and shook his head to ponder. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Stop thinking about it, I don't know how many pounds I have, Brother Zhou?"
Zhou Peng pondered: "Although I have never seen the poem written by my wife, I dare to conclude that this red bean lyrics is definitely not a woman's work. As the saying goes, "A man should look at him with admiration for three days after leaving. With your skills, you may not be able to write poetry. This lyrics must have been written by you."
Xu Hao said: "Whoever did it? No one admits that it is what I did? You are really unreasonable."
Zhou Peng raised his beard in anger and said, "Do you know the meaning of a noun? It has already given you a place among the famous scholars in the scholarship and is highly praised by thousands of scholars and daughters of the boudoir."
Xu Hao said disdainfully: "Which scholar doesn't have many excellent works? Who is the minister in the court who is not an expert in writing poetry and lyrics?"
"That's right." Zhou Peng said earnestly: "So adults have great prestige in the minds of scholars, and they are not respected wherever they go?"
Xu Hao smiled and said, "I know what Brother Zhou means, that I want me to continue to work hard to gain greater fame in order to become a great man of this dynasty, right?"
"Yes, how can such a great talent be wasted in vain?" Zhou Peng nodded.
Xu Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Famousness cannot be used as a food, forget it, let's talk about serious things."
Zhou Peng sighed regretfully, but he also knew that Xu Hao had a noble identity and no fame. However, after this incident, he had the reputation of Shilin and would understand the benefits in the future.
Zhou Peng stopped talking nonsense, so he didn't believe that Xu Hao could resist writing a better masterpiece, so he said: "That day, when it came to nitro water, which was the sulfuric acid you mentioned, I used this method to refine sulfonate water. Thirty taels of nitro water and eight taels of sulphonate water, it boiled, and it stopped for about one stick of incense. There was nothing special about it after mixing it in gunpowder."
"Well, just keep experimenting."
Xu Hao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart. He knew what it means to add sulfuric acid to sulfur, but this matter cannot be said easily.
However, Xu Hao asked in confusion: "Didn't the whole process explode suddenly?"
Zhou Peng said: "No, the Taoist priest carefully mixed into a kind of gold and water, saying that this is the secret that the Taoist sect does not pass on."
Xu Hao said intimidly that Taoist gold and water were probably the ancient version of the stabilizer. It seems that ancient Taoist priests had many accidents when refining elixirs.
Zhou Peng continued: "In addition, there is the black gunpowder you mentioned. After thousands of times changing the formula, I used 43 and a half pounds of net salt, 5 and a half pounds of net salt, 8 and a half pounds of willow charcoal, and stewed the charcoal in a hurry. Every time I stewed it at 8 o'clock, I had to grind it after it was done.
The gun medicine needs to be ground at six o'clock and the gun medicine needs to be ground at three o'clock. After grinding, the pressure plate will be removed. Each plate will be pressed, and the total number of thirty-nine pieces will be removed. After pressing, the fine ones will be used to make the gun medicine. After rolling, the light will be removed, and then the fan will be removed. The dust will be removed. The roasting will be cleaned and the tide will be removed. Each tide will take two days. Then it will be shiny with lead powder and put it in a bottle."
After hearing this, Xu Hao smiled and said, "Blessed by our ancestors, our Ming Dynasty can lead the world for five hundred years!"
Zhou Peng said: "It happened that Fengyang was going to dig a hill to open the canal, so he tried it for a hundred kilograms. Unexpectedly, half of the hill collapsed and injured several people. The military weapon bureau did not dare to hoard a large amount of it, for fear of blowing up the yamen. After the black gunpowder was stuffed into the musket and stuffed with projectiles, it increased the range by more than three times."
Xu Hao nodded with satisfaction. Now it was time for good news to be heard from Peking. Or if he had gone there, he would personally support the experiment. What he wanted to invent was naturally the flintlock rifle that crossed the flintlock rifle in one fell swoop.
What is lacking now is not technology but modern standard production process and various production tools. Xu Hao, who has been working as a fitter for five years, is not very clear about what to do. In short, he has to take one step at a time.
There are many difficulties in flintlock rifles. The principles of barrels, locking devices and firing devices are not difficult. They are difficult to make under existing conditions. They may require more than ten or twenty years of continuous exploration and improvement.
Zhou Peng said again: "Fengyang is refining iron and copper methods. I want to use the method of twisting and spiraling you mentioned, but I have never been able to do it."
"Take it slowly and don't worry." Everything is done without a single word. Even if Xu Hao has rich theories, it is not OK to say and do it.
Zhou Peng suddenly said, "Your Majesty repeatedly attacked Mobei, and it seems that he had damaged the previous dynasty, but I know that the foreigners will make a comeback soon, and all dynasties are like this. The young master worked hard to improve the firearms for the purpose of defending the border in the future?"
Xu Hao said, "It's hard! Without the pain of skin-cutting, most of these powerful weapons will be left to the shelves by the court. Without effective inheritance, when someone remembers it a hundred years later, he may not be able to find a craftsman who is skilled in this way. Who knows?"
Chapter completed!