Long chapter.
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Of course gunpowder was found.
But what Xu Sheng found was not the earth’s black powder.
It’s the red gunpowder of this ancient alien world!
It turns out that the black powder of the earth does not exist in this world!
Only red gunpowder!
Here's the thing.
One day.
A big explosion suddenly occurred in a valley in Daxu Kingdom.
Residents in some nearby villages were shocked.
This incident reached Xu Sheng's ears.
He immediately attracted attention.
Because according to local officials' investigations, this was not an explosion caused by a natural disaster, but more like a man-made explosion.
Since it can produce an explosion!
Then there should be something similar to gunpowder!
Xu Sheng was of course immediately excited.
He immediately ordered people to thoroughly investigate the source behind the big explosion at any cost.
What Xu Sheng didn't expect was that the Taoist family was eventually traced.
It turns out that the valley was a place where some Taoists made alchemy.
Xu Sheng was slightly stunned by this.
Because he knew that gunpowder in the history of the earth was actually discovered after Taoist priests made alchemy and exploded the furnace.
First it was used by some people in daily life, then it was used on the battlefield, and then it developed into muskets, cannons, etc.
Xu Sheng actually asked the little Taoist nun before, whether practitioners in this world also make elixirs in the same way? But the little Taoist nun didn’t understand this aspect.
The little Taoist nun has been following Chun Yangzi since she was a child, but Chun Yangzi does not follow the path of alchemy.
So the little Taoist nun didn’t know much about Alchemy.
Most of the practitioners in this world hide their traces.
None of the practitioners Xu Sheng and the little Taoist nun met before were on the alchemy path!
And the emperors in the history of this world did not come into contact with Taoists who made alchemy.
I have never heard of a Taoist priest who made alchemy entering the palace to help the emperor make elixirs to seek immortality. 'Things like that happen.
Therefore, the art of alchemy has not yet become popular in this world.
In short, because of all these, Xu Sheng never thought of going into this area before.
But after this big explosion happened.
Xu Sheng mobilized the whole country to investigate!
Naturally, it didn't take long to find it.
Because the magical powers of the Taoists in this Liaozhai world are not that strong.
They cannot open up a small world, cannot completely hide their physical bodies, and live in an independent space away from the secular world.
Their bodies are still living in the secular world!
These Taoists live in the valley and have been encountered by some villagers and hunters in the mountains.
Because they usually have to go to the city to purchase some supplies, such as various materials they need for alchemy!
Anyway, they were discovered by Xu Sheng.
Of course, Xu Sheng immediately took the little Taoist nun with him and mobilized his army to go together.
Directly surrounded these Taoist priests!
These Taoists were still very frightened when faced with the encirclement of the vast armored army and the arrival of the emperor.
Although they are not fake Taoist priests, they are real Taoist priests with magical powers like the little Taoist nuns!
But if they burst out their mana to fight against the army, even if they just break out, it will definitely consume a lot of their mana.
It may even be difficult to break out.
And if you offend the current emperor, how can you be better off?
Unless you escape to the territory of several other warlords.
Of course, since Xu Sheng changed the Xu family's kingdom to the Daxu Dynasty.
Some other warlords have also followed suit.
Each one of them has established a country or is preparing to establish a country.
For example, the Chu family has also become the Chu Dynasty.
For example, although the Zhao family has not yet established a country, I heard that they are preparing for the founding ceremony.
In short, unless you go to other countries, it will be difficult for you to practice quietly in this country.
After all, these practitioners in the Liaozhai world have no way to make their bodies transcend the world!
The physical body still has to live in the secular world.
That day, Xu Sheng, surrounded by Wuyangyang's army, looked at the Taoist priests who were surrounded and nervously observing in a cave.
"Dear Taoist priests, you don't have to worry."
Xu Sheng used his inner energy and spoke loudly: "I am not here today to take your lives, nor to investigate the great destruction you caused that day, but to ask you for a pill recipe!"
After hearing what Xu Sheng said, the few old Taoist priests who emerged from the cave looked at the beautiful little Taoist nun in a Taoist robe next to Xu Sheng, who was revered as Daxu Guoshi.
After these Taoist priests looked at each other, they did let down some of their wariness.
After all, the reason why they practice in the mountains of Daxu Kingdom is actually because of the little Taoist nun.
Although the little Taoist nun actually has no contact with orthodox Taoists.
She has only grown up with Chun Yangzi since she was a child.
Chunyangzi was just a casual Taoist monk.
But the little Taoist nun is a Taoist priest anyway!
Although she practices Taoism and Buddhism, she still likes to wear Taoist robes.
The most important thing is that she has the reputation of being a national teacher in Daxu State and is deeply trusted by the emperor Xu Longsheng. He even has the right to kill first-class dignitaries with his own hands!
Therefore, the Taoist priests naturally believed that the emperor Xu Longsheng was close to Taoism.
Then, an old Taoist priest with a fairy-like spirit, white hair and white hair and a childish face walked out with a fly whisk in his hand.
There he first recited the Infinite Heavenly Lord.
Then he reported his Taoist name: Dan Yunzi.
"It turns out that His Majesty is also seeking immortality! He also knows that our alchemy can pursue immortality!"
Then Dan Yunzi said: "Your Majesty, if you need it, I would like to dedicate all the alchemy skills that I have to your Majesty, and I will live forever with you!"
Xu Sheng looked at Dan Yunzi's expression and couldn't help but think of those emperors in the history of the earth.
They were talented and ambitious at first, and when they were young, they created a great empire or prosperous era!
Later, he suddenly became obsessed with alchemy and neglected state affairs.
Xu Sheng guessed that they might have met an old Taoist priest like Dan Yunzi just like him at this time.
After being fooled by him, he devoted himself to pursuing immortality.
These Taoist priests are powerful Taoist masters like little Taoist nuns.
Not a fake Taoist priest.
It's just that the magical powers of these Taoist priests are not that powerful.
Therefore, these Taoist priests had to submit to the imperial power.
But these Taoist priests dedicated their alchemy skills to the emperor.
In addition, they did have a certain amount of magic power, so they attracted the wise emperor to believe in these Taoist priests and follow them to make elixirs.
The emperor even used his power to collect various alchemy resources and help Taoist priests pursue the method of alchemy.
The emperors also indulged in alchemy refining in the palace for many years, and in the end they didn't know whether they really became immortals or whether they died after taking the elixirs.
In short, there are many such things in the history of the earth.
In the history of the Dayong Dynasty before this world and the Daxia Dynasty before that, Xu Sheng had never heard of Taoist priests entering the palace to help the emperor make elixirs.
Naturally, I have never heard of any emperor in this world dying from taking elixirs while refining them.
Xu Sheng guessed that it may be that the Taoist priests in this world have not yet reached the point of contacting the imperial power.
They are still in awe of the imperial power, fearing that being contaminated by the 'ideology' of imperial power will affect their peaceful cultivation and delay their path to immortality.
In the history of the earth, what if there really were Taoist priests with magical powers? It must have been during a certain period that a certain Taoist priest became so bold that he began to do things that Taoist priests in the past would not dare to do.
Instead of staying away from the ideology of imperial power, he uses alchemy to flatter the "emperor" who controls the "ideology", and then uses the power of "ideology" to obtain resources to help him practice.
It just evolved into that.
And now!
Xu Sheng felt that maybe he would become the first emperor in the world to accept Taoism.
History will be made for him.
Of course, it was impossible for Xu Sheng to give up his imperial power and indulge in alchemy.
If Xu Sheng was not a time traveler and did not have the Book of Eternity, but was just an ordinary emperor, then he would have seen these Taoist priests show their skills, and their elixirs indeed had some extraordinary effects.
Then he must not be able to resist the temptation of refining elixirs for immortality.
Of course, now that Xu Sheng knows that many emperors in the history of the earth died after refining and eating elixirs, it is naturally impossible for him to repeat the same mistake at this time.
He wants to pursue immortality, even eternal life!
But Xu Sheng is prepared to rely on his own life of ten thousand lives to climb up step by step until he reaches eternal life.
Although it is not ruled out that Xu Sheng will pursue alchemy in a certain life in the future!
Maybe Xu Sheng is not going to rely on pills to seek immortality for the time being.
After all, the most important thing now is to destroy the Chu Dynasty, unify the world, and capture Hu Xinfeng's child with the best spiritual roots.
Besides, Xu Sheng has no spiritual roots in this life. Does he think that without spiritual roots, he can achieve eternal life by just taking pills? This one might be a little small.
The final result is very likely to be death from taking the elixir.
"It's easy to talk, as long as you give me the recipe I want!"
So Xu Sheng said: "Don't worry, not only will I not harm you, but I will also give you certain preferential treatment!"
"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"
The old Taoist priest was also very pleasantly surprised. He looked at the little Taoist nun next to Xu Sheng: "It seems that Your Majesty is really close to our Taoist sect!"
He even got close to the little Taoist nun and asked her which lineage of Taoist disciples she came from.
But apart from knowing that her master was called Chunyangzi, the little Taoist nun didn't know any other Taoist inheritance at all.
"What? Chunyangzi?"
But the old Taoist priest looked shocked.
Then he talked nonsense with several other veterans.
I don’t know if what I said is true or false.
Anyway, they said that Chunyangzi was originally a Taoist disciple.
It's just that his practice philosophy is inconsistent with his master's.
He was expelled from the master's school by his master.
But Chunyangzi’s seniority is much higher than that of Danyunzi!
"Disciple Dan Yunzi!"
After that, the old Taoist shamelessly saluted the little Taoist nun and said: "Greetings to Master Yun Ling!"
The same is true for several other veterans.
"..." The little Taoist nun was speechless.
Of course, after she became a national preceptor, she didn't encounter Taoist priests who had random relationships with her, so she was not surprised.
It's just that these old Taoist priests today are many times older than her.
This is a bit outrageous.
But the little Taoist nun just glanced at Xu Sheng.
Since old Taoist priests are having random relationships, let them have random relationships, regardless of whether it is true or not.
Anyway, the little Taoist nun also knows the purpose of Xu Sheng's coming here.
Admit it, maybe the old Taoist priests trust them more.
In short, the old Taoist priests and Yun Ling calculated their seniority.
Xu Sheng did not stop them.
Of course, the Taoist priests did not dare to leave Xu Sheng alone.
Soon Dan Yunzi ordered the young Taoist priests in the cave to bring out all their various prescriptions.
"Your Majesty, all our prescriptions are here!"
Dan Yunzi said: "This pill is called Zhuyan Dan. After ordinary people take it, it can delay aging and maintain youthfulness..."
These elixirs were actually recently developed by them to please the imperial power.
In fact, they have already thought about trying to get close to the imperial power.
After all, the little Taoist nun has become a national teacher.
It was because they were trying to refine a new type of elixir that the furnace accidentally exploded.
Originally, it was normal for the alchemy furnace to explode, and it was not something that had never happened before.
But Dan Yunzi and the others never expected that such a big battle would arise this time.
Even Xu Longsheng, the current emperor of Daxu Kingdom, came in person!
However, Dan Yunzi is still very confident in the effect of this elixir.
Although elixirs are not good for the health of ordinary people if they take them too much!
But they don't care about that much. While the effect is good, as long as the toxicity is not so strong.
They want to get the support of the imperial power to light the door!
I no longer want to live in seclusion in the mountains and practice cultivation.
"..."
But Xu Sheng asked Dan Yunzi, "Do you think I need beauty?"
"Your Majesty, you don't need it, but the ladies in your harem do, right?"
Dan Yunzi smiled slightly and said: "There is also this pill, called the Rejuvenation Pill. Your Majesty, you have over a thousand beauties in your harem now, and the number of children you have given birth to in the past few years seems to have exceeded two thousand? Over the years, your Majesty, I am afraid that at night, You have enough strength, right? But if your majesty can take this pill, then you can control three women in one night, no problem!"
"Three girls in one night, are you kidding me? Do you look down on me?"
Xu Sheng shook his head and said: "It seems you haven't heard? I have been keeping more than ten women every night for these years?!"
Although Xu Sheng is telling the truth, because he has a little Taoist nun, dragon blood, and the Great Pure Land Sutra, he is not like an ordinary man at all!
But Dan Yunzi and others obviously did not know the existence of Buddhist secret scriptures such as the Great Pure Land Sutra.
"..." Therefore, Dan Yunzi's face stiffened slightly when he heard this.
All the Taoist priests also had twitching faces.
It was obvious that they all regarded what Xu Sheng said as bragging.
However, as Xu Sheng was the emperor of the dynasty, Dan Yunzi and other Taoists certainly did not dare to expose Xu Sheng's lies.
"Your Majesty, would you like to take another look at this elixir? This elixir is called Hercules elixir. After taking this elixir, a person's body can gain huge strength in a short period of time!"
Dan Yunzi smiled and said: "It just consumes the potential and causes certain damage to the body."
The side effects of this elixir were quite obvious, so he said it directly.
After all, this kind of elixir is not for nobles, but for some cannon fodder on the battlefield.
These pills were all prepared by Dan Yunzi and others to please the imperial power.
"It's easy to talk, as long as you are really capable and can contribute to the country."
Xu Sheng also saw something at this time. Of course, he did not reveal the intentions of the Taoist priests. He just said: "If your Taoist sect is in our Daxu Dynasty, you will get all kinds of preferential treatment! I have a good impression of the Taoist sect." , after all, I am able to ascend basically thanks to the help of the national master."
When Xu Sheng said this, Dan Yunzi and other Taoists were also overjoyed.
"Of course."
But then Xu Sheng changed the topic again and said: "This time I am here, the pill recipe I want is not the ones you have brought out now."
Of course, while saying this, Xu Sheng reached out and took all these pill prescriptions and stuffed them into the pockets of the men next to him.
"..." Dan Yunzi was speechless.
"What I want is your recipe for blasting the furnace!"
Then Xu Sheng stopped testing the Taoist priests and said directly: "How did you cause the big explosion in the valley before? I want you to record and report everything, including the proportions of the ingredients of any materials. , must be carefully recorded, including the order of your alchemy, and every detail must be recorded! And you must reenact it for me and explode it again!"
"ah?"
Dan Yunzi and other Taoist priests were all stunned: "What do you want is the recipe for furnace explosion?"
They didn't expect that in order to please the imperial power, they worked hard to develop some new elixirs but failed to please Long Yan.
Instead, Xu Sheng asked for their explosive formula.
Of course, later, Dan Yunzi and others explained that the previous furnace explosion was indeed an accident.
That is their failed work.
They didn't mean to blow up the furnace at all.
Of course, they did come here to practice alchemy because after Xu Sheng made the little Taoist nun a national master, they saw that the folk customs in Daxu Kingdom had become closer to Taoist priests.
"What I want is your failed work!"
Xu Sheng said with burning eyes: "Recall, Taoist priests, please carefully recall how you set up the furnace at that time?"
"..."
The Taoist priests were speechless.
In the end, of course, the Taoist priests reenacted the furnace explosion incident.
In the process, Xu Sheng was surprised to find that the alchemy materials they used were different from some gunpowder materials he had vaguely known about in the history of the earth.
But think about it, they are two worlds after all, and this is not the history of the earth.
So Xu Sheng is still acceptable.
He regarded this as a unique setting of this world.
Of course, what surprised Xu Sheng even more was that many of the materials used by these Taoist priests to make alchemy were available everywhere.
Not hard to find at all.
There is no need to search the ends of the earth.
Fast forward a few days!
"boom!"
Seeing another big explosion occur in the valley.
"Okay! This is it!"
Xu Sheng was very happy about this: "This is what I want!"
"..."
Dan Yunzi and other Taoist priests, old and young, were quite speechless when they saw Xu Sheng blowing up the furnace in front of them. They were so happy that they were almost crazy. They looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
Because they haven't thought that Xu Sheng would want to apply it on the battlefield.
After all, no one in this world has done this before.
"Fellow Taoist priests!"
After that, after Xu Sheng was happy, he couldn't help but walked over, patted Dan Yunzi on the shoulder vigorously and said, "You will have great achievements this time!"
"Your Majesty, what?"
Dan Yunzi and others naturally took the opportunity to make demands.
"Don't worry! I will reward you for your merits! If you have made such a great contribution, you must be rewarded greatly!"
Xu Sheng said: "Come on, the weather is so hot, what are you doing standing around? Bring the iced fruits to all the Taoist priests!"
"..."
"Fellow Taoist priests, eat, this is what I have given you, ice-cold fruits! It's delicious, a special treat for the royal family!"
"..."
Dan Yunzi and other Taoist priests were speechless.
Is this the grand prize you're talking about?
What they want is not some iced fruit.
Of course, Xu Sheng couldn't just be rewarded with iced fruits in the end.
After Dan Yunzi and other Taoists proposed that they want to build Taoist temples in Daxu country to spread Taoism, and they also want Taoist priests who become monks not to collect taxes, etc.
Xu Sheng thought about it and agreed.
Just like what the emperors in the history of the earth promised to Daomen.
Dan Yunzi and others were naturally very happy.
But Xu Sheng didn't care about them.
Just let them preach, it doesn't matter, Xu Sheng may become a monk and practice Taoism in the next life anyway.
after.
Xu Sheng returned.
Then, Xu Sheng searched for talents related to various military scientific research across the country and formed a military research group.
Let his men specialize in studying the explosion caused by the Taoist priests' alchemy on the basis of the elixir recipe used by Dan Yunzi and others to explode the furnace.
Until another half year later.
Only then can this explosion be truly and stably controlled.
Stable gunpowder was produced!
Xu Sheng finally saw the gunpowder of this world for the first time.
But the gunpowder in this world is actually red, not black!
After all, the refining materials are different from those on earth, and the color of the refining gunpowder is different, so there seems to be nothing incomprehensible.
But the functions and effects of these red gunpowder are similar to the black gunpowder in the history of the earth.
They are almost the same material existence.
that's enough!
Xu Sheng didn't care so much about the others.
Of course, although the red gunpowder is already available and can be mass-produced.
However, Xu Sheng still did not directly launch a war, and drove his army to attack the Chu Kingdom to capture Hu Xinfeng.
Because the materials for refining red gunpowder are very common.
Not to mention that Daxu's domestic economy has just recovered, and it is not yet suitable to restart the war.
Just say that if a war is launched directly now and red gunpowder appears in this world, is it possible that red gunpowder will repeat the mistakes of the previous kerosene bombs?
For example, there are smart people in Da Chu!
The kerosene bombs back then were deciphered by some smart people from the Chu family.
Within a short time, it was imitated.
So Xu Sheng has to learn a lesson now!
He wants to be stable!
Red gunpowder alone is not enough!
The technical threshold is not high enough!
Therefore, Xu Sheng was not in a hurry to start a war.
Instead, they completely blocked the news of the emergence of red gunpowder.
Continue to invest funds and manpower, and let Daxu's domestic talents study day and night.
Of course, Xu Sheng proposed the general direction he wanted them to research in to the people who had now turned from the research team into the managers of the institute.
Of course, let them use red gunpowder and "steel technology that is more advanced than anywhere else" to make muskets and the like.
"What? Your Majesty? The explosive power of this red gunpowder is so powerful! Do you want us to stuff it into a small iron pipe?"
When Xu Sheng first proposed it, the old man in the research institute protested very strongly: "How can this be done?"
I feel like Xu Sheng, an outsider, is directing an insider!
Xu Sheng was not very angry at the old men's reactions.
Because now Xu Sheng is making demands on them.
It's like a project manager on Earth making demands on programmers.
Programmers' protests are understandable.
After all, if you want to realize the requirements in the end, programmers need to implement them bit by bit!
They may even have to pluck out several locks of their hair to do so!
"Your Majesty, this is simply impossible, you are making things so difficult for us!"
One of the old men even said shamelessly: "It's better to just chop off my head!"
"This is what I want, no matter what you do, no matter what the cost. I want you to make it!"
However, Xu Sheng didn't buy it and said directly: "You really can't do it? If you can't do it, fine, I will chop off your head! Let someone else run this research institute!"
"No, no."
The old man immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am joking. Your Majesty has your orders, and I don't dare to disobey you!"
He is just bargaining like a programmer facing a project manager.
Now that Xu Sheng, the project manager, is not retreating, he naturally can only give up when things are good and try to achieve them.
After all, Xu Sheng is not an ordinary project manager, but the emperor!
In short, these people naturally had no choice but to obey orders in the end.
The Science and Technology Military Research Institute established by Xu Sheng started research in full swing.
To achieve Xu Sheng's requirement of "using gunpowder as a source of propulsion, getting it into a gun barrel, and finally firing a conical thing called a bullet at an extremely fast speed."
The cost of research at the Military Academy is not small.
Many scientific researchers were unfortunately injured or disabled in the explosion, and some even died directly.
The financial investment paid by the national treasury is also very large.
Fortunately, Daxu's domestic economy is not bad now.
Xu Sheng did not hesitate to invest in this.
But it’s not like you just invest money blindly and forget about it.
Xu Sheng usually pays most attention to this military research institute!
When he had nothing to do, he ran to the Military Research Institute.
Go keep an eye on their research progress!
Keep an eye on the old men at the Military Research Institute and put them under a lot of pressure!
Everyone's hair is visibly getting thinner year by year.
Of course, these researchers at the Military Academy worked so hard, and Xu Sheng did not hesitate to give them honors!
Those who have made contributions will be granted the title of national scholar.
Their family members also get certain advantages in studying, joining the army, buying houses, etc.
So these people work very seriously and hard.
After all, who would dare not be serious about a key project that the emperor of the day is personally focused on?
In short, just like that, time continues to flow forward.
Another ten years have passed in the blink of an eye!
It has been more than ten years since Xu Sheng ascended the throne!
After all these years of research, Xu Sheng's musket was finally created!
It's just that it hasn't reached the level of gun craftsmanship in the world before Xu Sheng traveled through.
It is only equivalent to the muskets of the Qing Dynasty in the ancient history of the earth.
Two shots!
It’s like using gunpowder!
These muskets have already been secretly equipped in some of Xu's secret armies.
Of course even so!
Xu Sheng obviously felt that this was enough to crush any army of cold weapons in this world.
But he still didn't take the initiative.
But continue to be steady.
I want people from the Military Academy to continue research and improve the art of muskets!
However!
did not expect!
But the Chu family no longer gave Xu Sheng time.
It took them more than ten years to finally refine the strongest army in the cold weapon era that Wumu had envisioned in his military book before his death, and that even Wumu himself had not developed!
Therefore, the Chu family, no, it is now the Chu Dynasty, and it is born again with confidence!
I want to sweep across all directions and unify the world!
(End of chapter)
