Datang romantic little landlord

Although he was the one who made the gunpowder at the beginning, following Li Wangyou, in Niu Wu's perception, the purpose of gunpowder was to make explosive poles and fireworks.

Now that Jiulong County is facing a huge crisis, does your husband still have the heart to play with these things?

Hearing this, Li Wangyou was so angry that he almost kicked him twice.

"Pig brain, who told you that I want to explode the pole?"

"That is to make fireworks? Could it be that Mr. Lang wants to shoot fireworks into the night sky to warn the outside world?"

Li Wangyou was almost pissed off by this uneducated stuff, and didn't bother to continue explaining.

"Go as soon as you are told! Remember, collect as many as you have, and bring them all... Well, all of them will be shipped to the county government! I need it urgently, and you must not neglect it. This is related to whether Jiulong County can hold it!"

Li Wangyou originally wanted to talk about transporting it to the hostel, but then he thought about it, gunpowder is such a dangerous thing, it is safer to transport it to the county government to make it.

"Here!" Seeing that Li Wangyou said very seriously, Niu Wu knew that his husband was not joking, so he trotted to inform Dugufeng to collect supplies.

After Dugufeng got the notification from Niu Wu, although he was suspicious, he didn't dare to neglect.

When he heard that Huxian Gong wanted to collect these things, it was related to the defense of the city, so he quickly led the yamen servants to collect these three materials from all over the city.

Charcoal is simple, even if it is not enough, you can order someone to build a kiln to fire it at any time.Sulfur is also reluctant, after all, sulfur has many uses, whether it is used as medicine or to repel insects at home.

Even paper mills require sulfur to bleach paper.

In Jiulong County, there are also papermaking workshops.

Dugufeng led a group of yamen servants to collect sulfur everywhere, and collected all the sulfur stored in various medicine shops, paper mills, and private households in the county, and made up a lot.

Only nitrate, but not much was found at all.

Nitrate can be used to boil cooked leather, but there is no workshop for tanning leather in Jiulong County.

Saltpeter is used as medicine, mainly to treat dampness and skin diseases, but the dosage is not large, so there are not many saltpeter in stock in the medicine shops in the county.

Dugufeng searched all over the city, but he could only find less than a catty of saltpeter.

After Li Wangyou learned of this, he also frowned.

To make black powder, the amount of saltpeter is much more than that of sulfur. Now that Jiulong County is besieged by the Liao people, where can I find saltpeter?

If there is not enough saltpeter, that is, potassium nitrate, this gunpowder will be a fart!

Didn't he really have no dragon-slaying skills, no dragon to kill him.

After Su Changqing learned of this, he originally expected that Li Wangyou would make gunpowder and kill all directions and save the people of Jiulong County, but he didn't expect that because of the problem of raw materials, he was hit directly.

"Wangyou, what should we do now? Without enough nitrate, it is impossible to make black powder."

"Do as much as you have. If it doesn't work, you can only use it as a trump card and use it at a critical moment."

Li Wangyou was also very depressed. With less than a catty of saltpeter, he couldn't make much black powder, not to mention that the power of black powder was not very great, so the effect would be even more limited.

It can only be produced, and it will be caught by surprise to see if it can scare those "ignorant" people.

After all, when the black powder exploded, the sound and flames produced were quite astonishing.For Liao people who have never seen explosives, it will definitely scare them.

Li Wangyou was very unhappy and ordered Niu Wu to grind out the charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter first, and then prepare the black powder first.

How to make black powder, Niu Wu is more skilled than Li Wangyou.

After all, this guy is very lazy. After researching how to mix and make black powder, he left it to the two brothers Niu Wu and Niu Yong to manage it.

After sending Niu Wu to the county government office to prepare gunpowder, Li Wangyou stayed in the hostel in a somewhat dispirited mood, continuing to think about any other surprising ways to win.

When he was thinking hard, he felt a pain in his stomach, so he quickly got up and went to the latrine to pay his respects.

The huts of the hostel are relatively clean.

But Datang's toilets, no matter how clean they are, are limited.

Needless to say, the taste is unavoidable anyway.

Moreover, the floor and corners of the hut, even though they were often cleaned, were still covered with layers of white crystals.

Li Wangyou squatted in the hut, looking at those white crystals in his eyes, a flash of lightning flashed across his mind, making him stand up immediately.

Immediately, Li Wangyou squatted down again... Mo Dan, I forgot what I was doing, and almost got my pants wet...

Li Wangyou dealt with the funeral in twos and twos, like a whirlwind, he rushed out of the hut with his trousers in his hands.

"Zhang Dalang, Zhang Erlang! Hurry up and find Dugu Mingfu!"

The two brothers of the Zhang family saw that their husband was so anxious that he didn't even have time to tie up his trouser belt, so they didn't dare to ask any more questions, so they hurriedly turned to look for Dugufeng.

Not long after, Dugufeng who got the news rushed to the hostel, but he was dumbfounded when he heard Li Wangyou's words.

"Grandpa? Are you really kidding me? At such a time, let the officials mobilize the people in the city to scrape dirt from the huts and pigpens? Why, why?"

Li Wangyou squatted in the hut, and when he saw those white crystals, what he thought of was "scraping the nitrate".

When he was a child, he heard from the elders in the farm that there was still a popular trade in the countryside in the old society, called boiling nitrate.

Every morning, people in the village would carry a basket and scrape nitrate soil from the walls of toilets, pigpens, and old houses in the village. After processing, they would boil out nitrate and salt for sale.

Li Wangyou didn't know when the technique of scraping nitrate soil and boiling nitrate appeared. It was recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Ming Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty certainly did not have such a method of extracting nitrate.

The nitrate used in Datang is all extracted from natural nitrate.

In Jiulong County, there is naturally no saltpeter mine, but there are toilets, pig feet and old houses everywhere. The main thing is to mobilize people to scrape the nitrate soil, and the problem of restricting the production of gunpowder is easily solved.

But Su Changqing can understand this matter, but Dugu Feng is really hard to understand. The dignified founding county magistrate, at such a time, wants to mobilize the whole city to scrape those white crystals next to the hut. Isn't this full of food?

Does this Hu County Duke have any special hobbies?

Dugufeng slandered in his heart, but he didn't dare to refuse, so he could only bite the bullet and agree...

892 Scaring People to Death

Dugufeng, the county magistrate of Jiulong County, is obviously a cadre.

Even though he didn't understand why the people in the city were asked to scrape those white crystals, but because Li Wangyou said, "This matter is related to the survival of Jiulong County", he carried it out seriously.

So in Jiulong County, from the octogenarians to the Mengtong, they all carried baskets on their backs and squatted at the base of the walls of the huts, pigpens and old houses to scrape off those white crystals.

In this regard, the people in the city complained quite a lot, who would go to those dirty and smelly places to get these things that don't know what to use.

What's more, the deadly sword of Damocles hangs above everyone's heads. At this time, letting everyone do these unknown things naturally aroused complaints from the people in the city.