Lieutenant Ferguson's eyes lit up looking at these colorless and transparent powdery crystals that were separated out.

"Boss, the quality of the fire nitrate you made is very good, better than the quality of the fire nitrate we seized from the French!" Lieutenant Ferguson said while dipping a little bit of this powdery crystal with his hand. He licked his tongue, and was twitched into a ball with his bitter face.

　　 Seeing this guy taste the fire salt with his tongue, Ishikuma was also happy, but he didn't care.

　　 This thing is very bitter, and it has a match with Huanglian, but this thing is non-toxic. In Chinese medicine, this fire nitrate is just a kind of medicinal material.

　　Ferguson "pooh" a few times, vomiting the bitter taste in his mouth, and then asked, "Boss, how do you know that this kind of saltpeter can be used to make such a high-purity nitrate?"

　　 Shi Xiong glanced at this guy, smiled mysteriously, pointed at the sky with his index finger, and shut up.

　　 Ferguson immediately made a cross.

　　 "Patrick, take some sulfur and charcoal, and I will prepare some gunpowder in front of the people."

　　 Kuaima asked on the side, "Are you trying to let the people fully understand the importance of the Xiaohe tribe?"

Shi Xiong nodded and said in a low voice, "Yes! The tribes are not welcome to the Xiaohe tribe, so I will find a way to make the tribes pay more attention to the Xiaohe tribe. And the saltpeter produced by the Xiaohe tribe is indeed something we can't do without in the future. , So the people of the tribe must change this concept."

　　Ferguson smiled and said, "Boss, this method of yours is undoubtedly the best way." With that, the boy ran back to the wooden house where he lived.

　　 The process of boiling nitrate is not difficult to master. After Shixiong demonstrated it once, the tribe can basically operate it. After all, the process of making salt is more complicated than boiling nitrate.

　　 In fact, the most critical part of the nitration work is the temperature control. As long as the temperature is well controlled, then high purity nitrate can be produced.

The distiller’s music in the music room has already been turned over for the second time. The temperature is not the most important for the music room, so Shi Xiong took out two simple thermometers from the music room to boil it. Nitrate use.

　　 Whether it is hot water of 75 degrees Celsius or precipitation temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, as long as these two key temperatures are controlled well, then the nitration will be absolutely no problem.

　　 Shixiong just demonstrated it once, and the people of the tribe have already started to get busy on their own.

　　 But when Ferguson got back the sulfur and charcoal, most of the people's attention was attracted by Lord Guardian.

　　 "My people, I know you have a general question in your heart now, that is, what are we doing today for?" Shi Xiong said loudly to the surrounding people.

　　 all the people nodded in unison.

　　 There is nothing wrong with the question asked by Master Guardian, and the people of the tribe have this question in their hearts now. Although it was very tiring to work with the guardian, the final results include refined salt, ironware, agricultural tools for land reclamation and planting, peanut oil that can be used for cooking, and so on.

　　 But the work I did today is different. I have been busy for most of the day, and what I ended up with is such a pile of colorless and transparent fine particles. Some people have already tasted it. Don't want it if you are bitter.

　　In other words, if you can see or not eat this kind of thing that I have been busy for most of the day, it is not as good as salt.

　　 But the guardian lord seems to attach great importance to this kind of fine particles, of course the people have doubts in their hearts.

　　 "My people, have you all seen the firing of a musket? Let me ask, what do you think of the power of this musket?"

　　 "Awesome!"

　　 "It can kill people, much more powerful than a bow, arrow and bone spear."

　　 "The sound is so loud, my cow was shocked when I shot that time."

　　 The question of Lord Guardian has caused heated discussions among the people. The buzzing sound is comparable to the large swarms of mung bean flies in the aqua toilet of China decades ago.

　　 However, no matter how much they talk about, the people who have seen the power of muskets and artillery for a long time are full of praise for this kind of thermal weapon.

　　 Shixiong stretched out his hands and pressed it down, and the people's comments immediately became much quieter.

　　 "You have only seen the power of muskets and artillery, but do you know why muskets and artillery are so powerful?"

　　 "I know!" A tender voice rang, and Shixiong glanced around and found that it was the grandson of the chief stonemason in the clan.

　　 This little guy is not very old, he is only ten years old, but he is very cute, and the people in his tribe kindly call him "Little Rock". This little guy seems to be very interested in thermal weapons. He will follow the rabbit’s mouth almost every day like a stalker, because this little guy knows that following the rabbit’s mouth they can see the splendid shooting scenes and smell it. A good smell of smoke

"That's because of gunpowder! Once the gunpowder in the barrel is ignited, it will make a huge bang, and then the projectile in the barrel will be shot out, hitting the tree can make the tree an eye, but incredible."

　　 The words of the little stone caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding clansmen, but the clansmen all knew that this little guy was right. The main reason why this gun cannon is so powerful is because of the black gunpowder.

　　 "The little stone is right." Shixiong smiled and gestured to the little stone with a thumb, and smiled with joy.

　　 "But do you know how this gunpowder is made?" Shi Xiong asked again.

　　 All the people shook their heads.

"In fact, what you did just now was to extract an extremely important raw material for gunpowder. If you want to make a powerful gunpowder, this raw material is indispensable. And you have also seen that the most important raw material is From the Xiaohe tribe, it can be said that without the saltpeter mined by the Xiaohe tribe, we would not be able to make gunpowder by ourselves. The muskets and artillery we captured from the French would become fire sticks, which were useless at all."

　　 all the clan members were silent when they heard this.

"So, my people, please stop hating the Xiaohe tribe. There is no hatred between us and them. Except for the identity of a Chekasha, they are almost the same as us in other aspects. Why do we Want to hate them?"

After that, Shi Xiong sighed, looked at the silent people around him, and then said, "Forget it, I'm afraid you won't be able to turn the corner when I tell you this. Then I will use practical directions. Show me how important the Xiaohe tribe is to our tribe! I hope that you will not treat the people of the Xiaohe tribe like that after you understand the relationship."

　　It is not difficult to make gunpowder, but the difficulty lies in the purification process of sulphur and sulphur.

　　 In the past, Shixiong likes to read online novels. In many novels of overhead history, it is said that the protagonist began to build after a certain dynasty. This Shixiong agrees very much.

　　 After all, the protagonist has accumulated hundreds of years or even thousands of years of knowledge accumulation. This kind of golden finger does not need to be used for nothing. This is also the welfare of the traverser.

　　 The problem is that whenever he sees the protagonist scrape the white "wall hair" from the corner of the old house, he directly mixes it with sulfur and charcoal to make gunpowder, and the stone bear laughs.

　　 It is true that the white "wall hair" on the corners of the old house is indeed saltpeter, but even the saltpeter needs to be purified after it is scraped off, otherwise it is directly used to make gunpowder, and the gunpowder made can only be used for firecrackers at best. If you want to make real military gunpowder, this kind of white "wall wool" is still far away.

Whether it is the white wall wool or the nitrate produced in the saltpetre, or the saltpeter excavated from the saltpeter mine, it must be purified before it can be used as military gunpowder, otherwise the gunpowder produced can only be used Listen to the sound.

　　 The saltpeter without purification can only be called saltpeter. And only the purified saltpeter can be called fire salt!

　　 Even if you purify it once, it's like the work that Shi Xiong did just now. Then the gunpowder made from this purified gunpowder will be many times more powerful, so that it can reach the standard of military gunpowder.

　　 Of course, if you purify it again on the basis of this kind of fire, then congratulations, the power of the gunpowder you make will be even greater.

　　 The purified high-purity fire nitrate and sulfur are the basis for making powerful black powder.

　　 As long as you have high purity nitrate and sulfur, then making gunpowder is not difficult.

　　 It's like Shixiong making gunpowder now, but it's actually very simple.

After the charcoal is crushed, it is mixed with the purified sulphur which is already powdery and the purified sulfur seized from the French in proportion, and then these three raw materials are put into a wooden trough together with thin wooden sticks. Stir, but also need to add a bit of high distilled spirit.

　　 Of course, you must be careful when stirring. After all, these three things are not dangerous if they are not mixed together. Once they are mixed and stirred, as long as a little spark appears, then the end must be a "boom".

　　 Ishikuma prepared a small amount of gunpowder this time, but he was also very careful in handling it. Shixiong had never made black gunpowder in his previous life, but he knew the whole process of making gunpowder, and the purified gunpowder looked very good, so even if it was the first time he made gunpowder, he did it quite smoothly.

　　 There is no illicit agent. It doesn’t matter. There are turkeys in the tribe. Take a turkey egg and take the egg white from it as an illicit agent.

In fact, the effect of egg white as a secret agent is far better than castor oil, but no matter what kind of poultry eggs, people are not enough to eat. The secret agent used to make gunpowder is a bit too luxurious, so people later Only then did they develop castor oil as a private agent.

　　 After adding the egg whites to the well-stirred raw materials, continue to stir slowly, and soon, the powdered gunpowder will become granular.

　　 This granular gunpowder is the final product.

　　 Of course, the gunpowder is not finished at this point. The ignition powder needs to be air-dried. After it dries, it will be an excellent black powder.

　　 Although the weather is dry and cold today, the humidity is very low and the sun is not bad. So Shixiong found a corner leeward to the sun, and opened up these granular gunpowder stands on a stone slab to dry them. After lunch, the gunpowder can be used in the afternoon.

　　 Of course, while making gunpowder, Shi Xiong did not forget to make a fuse.

　　 In fact, the fuse is very easy to make. As long as there is gunpowder, then making the fuse is a matter of course.

　　 Major Hank left some low-grade distilled spirits for Shi Xiong when he left. Although he drank some of these liquors, he still kept some.

　　 These low-end distilled spirits are not too low, they can be used when disposing gunpowder, and they can also be used when making fuse.

　　 Take out some of the black gunpowder before adding the egg whites, then dissolve it with this distilled spirit, then soak a piece of fine twine in, and then take it out and dry it together with the granular gunpowder. When the gunpowder is dried, the twine used as the fuse is also dried.

After having lunch, the 　　 people gathered again in the small square in the center of the tribe. Because Shixiong has always emphasized eating three meals a day, the tribe is now gradually implementing three meals a day.

　　 Although the lunch is very simple and the amount is not large, it is still lunch at any rate.

　　 Shi Xiong looked at the gunpowder in the air, and found that the gunpowder was all dried, so he found a small clay pot.

　　 This jar is very small, about the size of a person's fist, and not very shaped. The crooked one looks more like a child's graffiti.

　　 In fact, this small pottery pot was really made by a child-Hongyun made it by herself when she learned how to make pottery from women in the tribe when she was a child. According to Hongyun's memory, she was only eight years old when she made this pottery pot.

Hong Yun said that she made several clay pots of this size, but she didn’t know where they were lost. Only this small clay pot was left at home by her ~lightnovelpub.net~ and Shixiong found it out. .

"My people, gunpowder can be shot or cannon, but do you know that this gunpowder can make another weapon with the same power? And this kind of weapon can show the true power of gunpowder. Now, I Just make such a weapon for you, and let you see the true power of this gunpowder."

Three or twos of black powder was poured into this small clay pot under the gaze of the tribesmen. There was also a handful of iron scraps in it. Then the mouth of the pot was sealed with mud, and a small hole was pierced in the middle of the mud. The fuse was inserted, and a simple earthen black powder grenade did just that.

　　 "This is a new type of weapon. Don't look down on this weapon, but it's amazing!" Shixiong said, while placing this earthen grenade in the position he had prepared.

　　 This place is in the big coking pit, but the walls of the pit have been protected by an inch-thick wooden board-this is a masterpiece of the old wood family.

　　 When Stone Bear put the earthen grenade into the bottom of the pit, the long fuse stretched out.

"Quit all fifty steps, squat down, no one is allowed to stand, otherwise it deserves to be blown up!" Shixiong shouted loudly, and the tribe began to retreat, laughing and retreating, and then they continued to stand. Watching with arms folded there.

　　 "All squat down! Whoever dares to stand, I will throw him into this big pit!" Shi Xiong cursed a few words, and these people all squatted down, but one by one was still laughing.

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