Chapter 5 Make your own gunpowder, fried fish
After a night of hard work, a load of sea salt turned into a bag of refined salt wrapped in oilcloth. This bag of salt is worth the price of a lot of salt, and this bag of salt is more than 20 packs, of which the profit can be imagined.
Although everyone is too tired to straighten up, they are still too happy to close their mouths.
Li Bosheng wiped the sweat on his forehead and patted the soil on his chest. When he was on fire just now, his chest was full of grass and wood ash.
Suddenly, my hand touched a hard thing and hurt my front chest.
"Look at my last name," Li Bosheng patted his forehead and said, "I went home last night and looked for it myself. I brought the sulfur, saltpetre, and charcoal left from my original alchemy. I forgot it when I was busy just now."
"Do you have it? That's great!" Zhang Yang patted Li Bosheng on the shoulder. Come on, take it out and show me."
Li Bosheng put his hand into his pocket and took out an oilcloth bag.
Open it and have a look, and the colors inside are different. The yellow block is sulfur. And the white crystalline one is saltpeter, and the large black piece is charcoal.
"Well done!" Zhang Yang said. But the amount is too small. The more I need, the better. Pay more attention to it and see where these things are.
"Okay, but what's the use of so much sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal? How many elixirs can be refined? Li Bosheng asked.
Alchemy? I don't have that spare time. Besides, even if these things are refined into some elixir, I dare not eat them. I used to eat milk with melamine, the hair and blood soaked in chlormlin, and the pork containing clenbuterol. Isn't it enough?
It's still an alchemist. I don't even know this. These things are naturally black gunpowder.
In troubled times, a gun is the king of grass. If you want to survive at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is impossible to do without a weapon for self-defense. If you want to gain an advantage in this era of cold weapons, it is natural that what you have learned in your major can be useful. If you have a Maxim heavy machine gun, one person can sweep the whole Yuan Dynasty cavalry.
According to Zhang Yang's original intention, he actually wants to get some smokeless gunpowder. When black gunpowder is used, a stream of black smoke, accompanied by many small non-decomposable solid particles, will cause a lot of inconvenience. But after thinking about it for a long time, it is still the simplest to make black gunpowder. Let's solve the problem of whether there is or not first!
Zhang Yang looked at the lumpy raw materials and suddenly came up with an idea.
"Do you want to eat fish?" Zhang Yang asked.
"Of course I want to." Everyone said that it's usually a light meal, and it's good to be able to eat enough. At most, you can have a pork meal during the Spring Festival.
Although it is relatively close to the river, although everyone is a boat, everyone is limited to boating salt.
There is no fishing net, and I can't fish. Every time I look at the fish swimming around the boat, although I really want to make a tooth sacrifice, I can't help it. In the water, it's the world of fish. It's too difficult to catch fish.
"You help me grind these things into pieces, and I'll catch fish for you." Zhang Yang said.
"Really?" Several people still don't believe it.
"How can you doubt your big brother? Hurry up and do it!" Zhang Yang said.
Although they have been working all night, they are all exhausted, but when they think about the fresh fish, everyone is refreshed. Each of them took a piece and put it on the edge of the pot.
Shi De and Shi Yi each took a piece of yellow, and Shi Xin took a piece of white.
Li Bosheng picked up the remaining black pieces.
Each of the three people made a trick, pinched it with their hands, smashed it with a stone, and ground it with a bun. Finally, under the stimulation of the fish, it all became powder.
"No, grind it again. It has to be made into a powder like flour." Zhang Yang said.
"Do you still have to grind?" Everyone really doesn't want to do it anymore.
"Aren't you going to eat fish?" Zhang Yang asked rhetorically.
Everyone is speechless, continue to grind! This time, I had to use a round rolling pin and finally crushed it into small particles.
" OK, now let's see if I do magic." Zhang Yang said.
As the old Chinese saying goes, it is said that one nitro, two sulfur and three charcoal, but after countless practices, this proportion is not the best. As mentioned in the college textbook, the best proportion is 75% of nitro, 15% of sulfur and 10% of carbon.
Zhang Yang carefully mixed the three raw materials evenly according to this ratio. Although it is not much, it is also about two catties. This black gunpowder is enough for himself to use several times.
In fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, there was already black gunpowder used in the military, and there were fireworks among the people, but it was not very popular. None of my brothers knew that there was such a powerful thing in the world.
"Go, take the flint and go out with me." Zhang Yang said.
"Where are you going?"
"Of course I'm going to catch fish."
"Catch fish like this? Catch it by hand? Shixin asked in disbelief.
"Of course not." Zhang Yang looked around, and there was an old broken urn in the corner of the wall.
"Shixin, take this with you." Zhang Yang pointed to the broken urn.
"Take this twist again." Zhang Yang poured a small ignition medicine on the remaining window paper just now, rolled it up and made a cannon twist.
"Tsquir?" Shi Xin looked at what Zhang Yang had in his hand. Why does the eldest brother suddenly do so many strange things?
Push open the dilapidated door, and it's already dawn. A round of red said that it is slowly rising in the sky.
Zhang Yang took a breath of fresh air and was in a good mood. He strode to the river.
When he was in college, Zhang Yang quietly took the gunpowder for the experiment with several classmates and ran to the people's heart to fry the fish. As a result, he blew up the floating garbage into the sky, and there was no fish the size of a thumb.
It's different now. There is no pollution. The river is clear to the bottom, and a flock of fish are wandering happily in it.
Looking at the fish inside, what came to Zhang Yang's mind was the pot of boiled fish floating with red peppers.
I've been here for almost a month, and I haven't even seen any meat. The bird has faded out of my mouth for a long time. Eat some fish to supplement!
Zhang Yang opened the package on his chest and carefully poured the gunpowder into the urn brought by Shixin.
You can't pack too much gunpowder, otherwise, several people present will have to be reimbursed with a bang.
It was loaded for about four taels. Zhang Yang stuffed the twist in, exposed it to the outside, and grabbed a few more handfuls of sand and put it inside.
"Firestone!" Zhang Yang stretched out his hand behind him.
Suddenly, something feels wrong.
Shixin has begun to hit the flint. The spark of this flint just ignited the twist.
Damn it, I want to kill everyone!
Looking at the smoky flames, everyone was looking at it curiously and didn't know that a big disaster was coming.
Zhang Yang didn't have time to think about it. He grabbed the urn and threw it into the river with all his strength.
Then, he shouted, "Get down!"
With that, he did a demonstration first, fell forward, lay on the ground, and put his head in his hands.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and even the ground felt trembling.
Damn, why is it so powerful!
I felt a little hot pain on the back of my hand. It may be the explosion just now, which blew up the urn, and the fragments flew to scratch myself.
I didn't eat fish, so I was honored first.
How many of your younger brothers? Is there anything wrong?
"Brother! A lot of fish!" A voice suddenly sounded in Zhang Yang's ear.
Zhang Yang opened his eyes and was shocked.
On the sparkling water, a layer of dazzling white light floated, shaking up and down with the water.
That's a fish! The fish that was blown up!
"Crime! Sin!" () Zhang Yang said that he wanted to hit three or five fish to relieve his desire, but this explosive bag was thrown down and dozens of fish were blown out. It can only be said that there was no pollution in this era, and the growth of the fish was too vigorous.
"What are you still doing? Go down and fish for fish!" Zhang Yang said.
"There is a fish to eat!" Several people took off their coats and jumped into the water.
A piece of fish was thrown ashore.
Zhang Yang picked up the fish together and soon became a small pile.
I can't eat all the fish by myself, so I'll give it to the salt workers in the salt farm! Their days are very difficult. Let them improve their meals, Zhang Yang thought.
All the fish were fished up, and everyone's hearts were like drinking honey.
There is no need to tell me. Everyone has begun to make straw ropes. Use the straw rope to put the fish's mouths and hang them together.
Most of the fish were stunned. After a while, they began to jump around. However, they had left the water and were destined to become a delicacy on the table.
A small number of fish that were affected by the fragments of the urn or the sand were also carefully washed clean, no longer bleeding, and worn.
"There are so many fish that we can't finish it ourselves. I decided to give one fish to every family in our village." Zhang Yang said.
"Yes, many people haven't eaten meat for a long time. I agree." Shi Xin said.
Everyone expressed their approval.
Li Bosheng didn't say anything, but his heart was even more surging.
He saw the fried fish just now and remembered it in his heart. In his hands, several common alchemy raw materials have become such powerful things. If they are used on people, they are big killers. When did Zhang Jiusi learn so much knowledge? What's more valuable is that he also has a chivalrous heart. With so many fish, he immediately decided to give it to everyone, just like the timely rain in the Water Margin.
Unfathomable, this person will definitely stand above ten thousand people! Such an idea suddenly came to his mind.