"What? Talaya personally led the team to experiment with 'explosive mining' in the copper mining area of ​​Zicao County?"

As the sun sets, the big tent winds up. Shulot paused suddenly, his heart tightened. Surprise appeared on his calm face, and there was a hint of worry hidden in the surprise. After counting breaths, he threw down the quill in his hand, and slapped it on the table angrily!

"Damn it! Use gunpowder to open mines and test it yourself? This stupid woman who is not afraid of death! Who taught her such a dangerous method?!"

Hearing His Highness's questioning, the chief guard Eckart's expression froze, and he didn't know what to say for a while. He lowered his head and remained silent, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

He has served the high priest for many years, and he knows that Talaya, the director of the divine revelation, is the potter girl who was led by the high priest seven years ago and brought people into the mansion in a low-key way. But at that time, His Highness seemed to be acting on a whim, and did not really have anything to do with the other party. But now, listening to His Highness's tone... yes, since His Highness can safely hand over the Divine Enlightenment to the other party, the relationship between the two must be extraordinary! ...

Eckart's thoughts drifted away, as if realizing something. After a while, Xiulot also froze, showing embarrassment.

Because, he suddenly remembered that just over half a year ago, he received a letter from Talaya and discovered a new type of granular gunpowder! After receiving the letter, he was very happy for a while, imagining the power of granulated gunpowder, and wrote a large reply letter eloquently. In the reply, it was also mentioned that after the power of gunpowder increased, new uses could be expanded, including mining, road construction, clearing river reefs, and building reservoirs...

"Cough! Cough!"

After a few breaths, Xiulot coughed twice. He looked a little slow, reached out to take the letter from Talaya, and checked it directly.

"Dear Your Highness! In the past six months, I have experimented with several new uses of gunpowder as you told me, and I suddenly felt a brand new sky unfold before my eyes... I was in the Black Rock City mining area, using 6,000 gunpowder. They used a catty of new gunpowder and experimented with the first copper mine blasting, which completely collapsed two tunnels! At that time, the whole mountain was shaking, the miners were terrified, and thousands of people ran and shouted, almost triggering a riot. ..”

"Although some ore was mined from this terrible underground blasting, the risk is too high! After thinking about it, I decided to blast and mine in the open-pit mining area in the future. Last month, when the rainy season passed, I took The priests of the Gunpowder Division opened mines at the open-pit copper mine in Zicao County. Two large-scale explosions consumed seven or eight thousand catties of gunpowder, and the amount of copper ore that exploded was hundreds of thousands of catties, worth two thousand The excavation volume of many people in one day!..."

"Your Highness, your divine enlightenment guides me! This is indeed a mining method beyond everyone's imagination! However, it consumes too much gunpowder. The grains of gunpowder consumed in this round of mining, from sweeping nitrate, Making nitrate, burning charcoal, mining sulfur, blending gunpowder, and then adding water to make granules requires about one or two thousand people to work a day... However, I believe that as long as more reasonable calculations are made and a more suitable explosion point is selected, It can effectively reduce the consumption of gunpowder and enhance the power of blasting!..."

Seeing this, Shulot rubbed the center of his brows, pondering for a long time. Obviously, the production efficiency of Union gunpowder is not high enough, and the cost of enlisting miners is very low. This kind of explosive mining cannot show too obvious cost advantages for the time being, but the upper limit will be very high in the future.

"My only Highness, the application of the new type of gunpowder is really as vast as the sky! And you are the most dazzling sun in my sky... In recent months, I have also tried to blast small hills, so that The road from the mall to the mining area of ​​Black Rock City has become smoother. I also agreed with Yin Ezpan of Apa County to bring a professional gunpowder priest to help him clear the mountain pass and build the flower and fruit city to Apa city The 150-mile county road..."

"As for Yinetalik in Zicao County, he hopes that the Gunpowder Department can send people to study the dredging of the 160-mile river between Alto City and Crow Town. I'm not sure about the blasting on the river, and I'm going to wait until the water level in the dry season At the lowest point, try to blast the reef out of the water..."

After reading Talaya's letter, Shulot frowned and felt uneasy. But the new use of these gunpowder is closely related to the construction of the kingdom's grand plan, which is very important. Thinking of this, Xiulot could only sigh and whisper to himself.

"Over the years, you've done a good job, and I've always noticed it. You don't have to work so hard for me! I don't feel comfortable entrusting others with the affairs of the Divine Enlightenment Institute..."

Two steps away, the head of the guard, Eckart, stood with his head bowed. He stared at his nose and his heart, as if he hadn't heard anything.

"Lord God bless!"

Shulot prayed softly, then looked at the second half of the letter. Here, Talaya describes the latest developments in the production of gunpowder in the Gunpowder Division.

There is no shortage of sulfur and charcoal in the kingdom. In the preparation of gunpowder, the most critical thing is "nitrate". In addition to the nitrate sweeping, nitrate showering, and boiling nitrate that have been used in saline-alkali land, the Shenqi Institute has also explored the method of concentrating urine in cities and towns to produce urine nitrate. It's just that this "tasteful" method is not skilled enough, not efficient enough, and not pure enough.

In the past year, what has really increased the production of gunpowder is the mining of nitrate in the bat cave in the southwest mountains. The power of the kingdom is expanding to the southwestern mountainous area, and large-scale reclamation is also going on in Apa County. Many bat caves in the mountains were discovered by the villagers who opened up wasteland, and reported to the missionary priests in the villages, and then reported to the Divine Enlightenment Institute.

The nitrate soil accumulated in this tropical cave has a huge stock and high purity, which almost doubled the production of gunpowder by more than half, reaching 16,000 catties per month! And such an increase in gunpowder production has also given Talaya, the director of the Gunpowder Department, the confidence to conduct various blasting tests~lightnovelpub.net~ all kinds of "Boom! Boom! Boom!"!

"Your Highness, I have personally been to the bat cave to see the craftsmen digging nitrate... Some craftsmen lived in the cave, and they even caught the bats in the cave as food..."

The wind fell in the big tent, and the sky became dark. Seeing this passage, Xiulot was shocked. Immediately he took up his pen and wrote a reply to Talaya.

"Talaiya, you must pay attention to stay away from the scene of the explosion and conduct commands from a distance. For each blasting plan, you must appoint a person in charge of the scene. And yourself, you must keep a distance from the scene. I use the sun's In the name, I command you, and must not be disobeyed!..."

"Also, remember! Use the smoke carefully to drive away the bats in the cave, and minimize contact with them, especially not to eat them. The Lord God once gave me enlightenment. Bats are her favorite creatures, with tiny and terrifying curses attached to them. Believers are not allowed to hunt and eat!..."

"Finally, I leave you with a research topic... That is to cooperate with the Black Rock City mining area to study how to dig tunnels and blow up the solid city walls... Remember, be careful, keep your distance, and don't have any accidents!"

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