The artillery general invited by Yun Chao is called Lin Lei, a red-faced man.
If it weren't for the pockmarks on his face, he would be considered a handsome man.
Gunpowder fields have been built.
It is said to be a gunpowder field, but it is actually a gunpowder workshop.
Hearing that Yun Chao was coming, Lin Lei came out with a dozen of his disciples to greet him.
Among the dozen disciples, only two were brought by Lin Lei from Dongping Mansion, and the others were assigned to him by Yun Chao.
If it weren't for the fear that Lin Lei wouldn't be able to accept it all of a sudden, Yun Chao could assign him dozens of apprentices.
"Master Ling, how is the development of the new gunpowder I told you about last time?"
Yun Chao also gave some opinions on the development of gunpowder.
For example, monosulfide, dinitrate, and charcoal, or mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal.
Well, Yun Chao really can't remember the specific ratio.
I only know specious formulas.
As for whether it was the mass ratio or the coefficient ratio of the chemical equation, Yun Chao didn't know. Anyway, there was a professional like Lin Lei, so he would just leave it to him to study.
"Master Yun, you are so powerful. You even know the formula of gunpowder. According to the proportion you mentioned, the power of gunpowder has indeed increased a lot!"
Ling Lei was just an ordinary cannon general. The preparation of gunpowder relied entirely on the experience passed down by his master. The requirements for making firecrackers were not high, as long as they could go off, so the power of the gunpowder was very average.
According to the proportion provided by Yun Chao, Lin Lei experimented for a while and produced black powder that was close to the standard.
Because he did not expect the power of the new gunpowder, one of Ling Lei's apprentices was injured. Fortunately, the injury was not serious. Apart from leaving some scars, he was not disabled.
"Master Ling, let me see the power of the new gunpowder."
Ling Lei took several large firecrackers, walked to an open area, pressed a piece of stone on one of the firecrackers, and lit the cannon with a stick of incense.
After a while.
There was a bang.
A piece of stone as big as a palm was blown up until it flew up to half a person's height!
Seeing this scene, Yun Chao smiled.
It's not because of the power of the firecrackers, but because it reminds me of some interesting things from my childhood in my previous life.
A group of naughty children used firecrackers to blow up bottles, boxes, and... toilets.
Especially bombing the toilet is the most interesting.
It's not the kind of toilet that flushes. If you want to blow it up, blow up the dry toilet.
Especially the kind where the cesspit is in the toilet.
It's no fun to explode in the air. You have to wait for someone to go to the toilet, then throw the lit firecrackers into the cesspool through the wall.
After the bang, there was one or more yells, not to mention too much!
Of course, the men's restroom is not open to bombing, as it is easy to get beaten.
Some men are so unethical that they would rush out and hit someone without even lifting their pants. They are not civilized at all.
If you want to blow it up, pick the women's restroom.
Lesbians are still very gentle. Although they sometimes curse, there are very few people who come out naked. Even if they are fucked ten times, not one person will come out.
Seeing the smile on Yun Chao's face, Lin Lei and his disciples were very happy.
It seems that Mr. Yun is quite satisfied, otherwise he wouldn't smile so obscenely... brilliantly!
"Well……"
Seeing everyone's strange looks, Yun Chao quickly put away his smile: "Master Ling, you did a good job. However, I feel that there is still room for improvement in your power. If you try it a few more times, I believe you will succeed!"
The firecrackers made by Lin Lei are not as powerful as the firecrackers Yun Chao played with in his previous life, and there should be room for improvement.
Of course, Yun Chao still has a secret recipe that he hasn't revealed yet.
After the gunpowder formula is perfected, he still has ways to continue to increase its power.
…
After leaving the gunpowder workshop, Yun Chao devoted himself to scientific experiments again.
It's spring now.
Spring is blooming, and the animals are here again...
Uh, I got the wrong script. It should be the season when flowers are blooming.
Yun Chao is going to get the soap out now.
The Dawu Dynasty was relatively backward. There was not so much technology and hard work. There were no artificial flavors. If you wanted to make soap, you had to collect a lot of flowers.
Flowers are not easy to preserve. If you don’t take advantage of the blooming season to get soap out, you will have to make soap after the flowers fade.
Yunchao didn't want to waste a lot of manpower and material resources making soap.
That thing is easy to use, but compared with soap, it is obviously not a luxury product, and it requires volume to make money.
Who would pay a high price for laundry items? No matter how rare they are, they can’t be sold at a high price. There were so many slaves in the Dawu Dynasty, wouldn’t it be fun to work with them?
Soap is different.
Among those rich and powerful ladies, big girls, and pretty widows, who doesn’t want to be fragrant?
The fragrance exuding from the body can attract not only her own husband, but also the husbands of others. I believe that few women can resist.
There were also brothels everywhere during the Dawu Dynasty.
There are so many girls here who specialize in attracting men. Even if you think about it with your buttocks, do you know how vast the market for soap is?
Yunchao is not worried about not being able to sell, but is worried about not having enough raw materials.
Of course, it can't be too showy. Yunchao plans to test the waters in Qingyang County first.
Don't underestimate Qingyang County, a small county. It should be no problem to earn several thousand taels of silver a year, or even tens of thousands of taels.
What, a few thousand taels of silver is too little to see?
Then forget it, kill yourself, and be reincarnated.
If you travel through time to a prince or even an emperor, you can do whatever you want!
…
Making soap is not difficult, it is nothing more than a saponification reaction of oil and caustic soda.
Experiment a few times and you'll get the finished product quickly.
There is no shortage of fat in Yunchao. After eating so many big fat pigs, Yunchao has been stocking up on lard for a long time and has been waiting for this day.
Caustic soda is sodium hydroxide.
Yun Chao can use trona stone to refine edible alkali, and naturally can also make caustic soda.
Soda ash and slaked lime produce sodium hydroxide.
When you are busy, time flies by the fastest.
Before I knew it, several days passed by.
On this day, Yun Chao was teasing several beauties to test the effect of soap.
Wu Er, who stayed behind in the county town, suddenly came to Wolong Village.
"Brother Chao, Huang Tongpuan from Dongping Mansion is here. He wants to see you and says he has something good to say!"
Yun Chao was so happy that he didn't want to wait for a few girls to get clean, put on their clothes and run away.
Don't get me wrong, it's to put on official uniform, not to lift pants.
Riding a horse, Yun Chao arrived in Qingyang County in a flash.
After this period of renovation, the road from Wolong Village to Qingyang County is much easier to walk.
Although the main part is still a dirt road, all the big holes and ditches in the past are gone.
Yunchao even had people pave gravel on some critical sections of the road, and then lay lime on them to prevent the roadbed from collapsing.
The roads from Sanshui Town and Woniu Town to Qingyang County have also been renovated.
Even the roads between the two towns and villages were briefly repaired by Yun Chao.
The money spent on road construction is not in vain, as it greatly reduces travel time and improves transportation efficiency.
Many people along the route who initially felt that road construction was useless have changed their minds after experiencing the benefits.
In the past, they often said that there is no point in repairing this thing. It costs so much money to buy a few kilograms of grain to eat.
What is often mentioned now is what Yun Chao once said, if you want to get rich, build roads first!
