Chapter 110 Granular gunpowder

As for the remaining seven or eight men, after interrogation, Yu Xiaotian learned that they were mostly merchants or children of rich families in villages or counties along the coast of Fuzhou, or simply merchants. The reason why Zhou Cheng kept them and did not kill them was to wait for their families to buy them back.

So after discussing with Yu Xiaotian and Liu Laoliu and others, they asked the Li family to send the news to their families and inform them that the original ransom would be halved and handed over to the Li family to redeem it.

Although the Li family is not very happy about this, now they have formed a substantial relationship with Yu Xiaotian. This kind of thing is also their responsibility, so they secretly arranged people to do this, pass on the news, and did not come forward as the Li family to collect ransom, so as not to attract someone to report that they Li Family bandits.

However, Yu Xiaotian became interested in one of the young people surnamed Feng, because according to the confession of this young man surnamed Feng, his father Feng Tianqing is a very famous businessman in Guangzhou. As long as Yu Xiaotian sends him back to Guangzhou, he can guarantee that his father is willing to take out 3,000 taels of silver to redeem him.

Previously, Zhou Cheng was captured in a boat in their family. He had sent someone to deliver letters to Guangzhou and asked his father to redeem him with silver, but his father probably did not receive the news, so he was brought here by Yu Xiaotian, so Zhou Cheng had not had time to get the ransom, otherwise Zhou Cheng's ticket would have developed. It took him and his men to eat for two years, but he took advantage of Yu Xiaotian for nothing.

Yu Xiaotian was really overjoyed after knowing it. He didn't expect that the most abundant thing he got from Zhou Cheng's nest this time would be this meat ticket. This young man surnamed Feng alone exceeded the value of all the wealth he had captured from Zhou Cheng.

Knowing that the young man surnamed Feng was a strange place to live in, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the young man surnamed Feng to be the guest and take care of him alone, waiting for the opportunity in the future to send someone to contact his family in Guangdong to redeem him.

With the end of the isolation period of the newcomers and the arrival of various materials and the availability of tools, the project of Treasure Island Water Village also began. Under the command of Li Gouzi, some people dug a deep ditch along the periphery of the stockade with a pick shovel, and then discharged logs into the deep ditch, and then returned the sand and stone. Fill it hard, and in this way, a wooden wall will gradually form.

However, because the island is mostly stone ground, the excavation of deep trenches is very laborious. As a last resort, Yu Xiaotian is not allowed to allocate part of the limited gunpowder reserves for blasting operations in some hard rocks.

And they also have sufficient gunpowder recently. After carefully smashing the saltpeter sulfur snatched in the early stage, Yu Xiaotian used the good charcoal purchased from the Li family to grind it into powder. According to the ratio of the best gunpowder he knew, he mixed it and configured it into usable gunpowder.

However, such powdered gunpowder still makes Yu Xiaotian dissatisfied, because he knows that the proportion of saltpeter sulfur and charcoal is different. When stored and transported, the components with a large proportion will sink, and the light proportion will float on it, which will eventually affect the ratio of gunpowder, resulting in insufficient gunpowder power, and even possible It is impossible to detonate, so the best way to maintain the power of new gunpowder is to make it into pellets.

There are many benefits of pellet gunpowder. In addition to convenient storage and transportation, the most important thing is that it is far more powerful than ordinary powdered gunpowder, which is very helpful for them to play the power of artillery and guns in the future.

Originally, when the Li family was in Xiaotian * saltpeter sulfur, they still had doubts and felt that even if Yu Xiaotian got these saltpeter sulfur, he would not be equipped with gunpowder, because in their opinion, the preparation of gunpowder was only a skill in the hands of a few people, and ordinary people would not know how to match gunpowder. Of.

But what they absolutely can't think of is that the matching problem like * is simply pediatrics for a person like Xiaotian from later generations. I'm afraid that primary school students know how gunpowder is configured in future generations. Not to mention people like Yu Xiaotian, this matter is not difficult for Xiaotian at all.

As for granular gunpowder, it is actually nothing new in this era. Some people have already found the benefits of granular* and mastered the production method of granulated gunpowder. In the Ming Dynasty army, it has also begun to use granulated gunpowder in this era, but it has not been widely popularized. At this time, Europeans also I have mastered the production method of granular gunpowder, but no one thought that people like Yu Xiaotian would make granular*.

Yu Xiaotian's solution to making granular* is very simple. He just spread out the matched powder* and sprayed some glutinous rice pulp evenly on it.

The glutinous rice pulp itself has a certain viscosity. After shaking, it will stick the surrounding powder into particles, and then dry it will form hard particles. After screening, you can get gunpowder of different sizes.

Yu Xiaotian only used this very primitive but very effective method and easily got the pellet gunpowder. After making it, he tried it and found that the performance of this pellet gunpowder was stable, which greatly exceeded the powder gunpowder, and there was little black smoke. After the explosion, it burned very fully, and the smoke also appeared. The state of green smoke.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian tried several times with this kind of gunpowder. As a result, it was found that this kind of gunpowder increased the bore pressure of the gun, and the range and power increased by nearly 30% by nearly 30%. This was very happy.

He specially selected three careful and steady subordinates among his subordinates, entrusted them for the production of gunpowder, and considering safety issues, he built several houses at the southern end of the island to make gunpowder outside the stockade, set up their first gunpowder workshop, and And it was ordered to strictly prohibit fire around the gunpowder workshop, and only allowed production during the day, and no lighting at night, so as to avoid the accident, it triggered an explosion, causing the loss of personnel and property. The gunpowder was immediately barreled and transported to a special underground warehouse for storage for use.

After solving the problem of gunpowder, the progress of the construction project began to improve rapidly. For a while, there was often a rumbling sound on Treasure Island every day. Some hard rocks were blown away in the sound of gunpowder explosion, greatly improving the speed of construction.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian suddenly missed the ordinary cement he was used to in the old time and space. If he had this thing on hand now, how could he take so much effort? After mixing cement and sand, he could easily build a strong fortress, and not He laboriously used these logs to build his stockade.

Unfortunately, although cement production is not very difficult for him, the small Treasure Island does not have any conditions to burn cement by itself. Even simpler earth cement do not have the conditions for production, so they can only use The most primitive way to carry out construction.

Fortunately, they only built a simple village this time, and the construction volume is not very large. Otherwise, with their dozens of labor, God knows when to finish these things.

Even so, the construction of this stockade wall was enough for them to work for nearly 20 days, and at this time, it was the end of the second year of the apocalypse.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the one-foot-high log wall in front of him and couldn't help sighing. He came to this world in a blink of an eye, and half a year passed.

In the past six months, he has turned from a depressed to extreme distress man to a group of leaders with dozens of pirates. If it had been in the old time and space of his life, he would not have dreamed of this kind of thing, and after doing this industry, he found that even if he was a pirate, he was not the first It's so simple to act on the sea, it can be said that every step is risky, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your previous efforts.

And he didn't understand this truth until he worked in this industry for so long. Up to now, he has just had a place to settle down. He can't even explain his future at this time.

However, on the other hand, he has done a good job in the past few months. From the initial 20 people, one big and two small boats, his strength has doubled in a few months, and the ships have also expanded to four. Compared with many peers who have gone to sea to steal, his speed is also quite fast.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but be proud. Anyway, his first kick was kicked out. In the future, as long as he controlled his subordinates, he believed that the road in the future would become wider and wider, and sooner or later he would no longer have to worry about the morning.

A sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded at the gate, followed by the cheers of a group of people. Yu Xiaotian turned around and walked towards the gate.

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