books44 Chapter 170 Thunderbolt Fireball
Chapter 170 Thunderbolt Fireball
Zhou Lingling is very busy.
Give the things to Xiao Yan, and let his people take care of arranging the craftsmen.
After meeting with her second brother Zhou Yun who also hurried back, she set off for Anbei City early the next morning.
Xiao Yan brought his men back to Liangshui River that night.
After thinking for a long time, Zhou Lingling still didn't ask Xiao Yan about his plans for that position.
Even though there was a voice in her heart telling her that if she asked, the other party would definitely tell her.
On the way back,
Feeling the whistling sound of the wind in her ears, Zhou Lingling thought to herself: She was almost forgetting the Zhou Lingling who wanted her eldest brother to pass the imperial examination, her second brother to become a general, her parents to work hard to make money, and she herself to lie down.
In less than a year, her family first left Zhoujia Village, lived with her maternal grandparents and started selling braised food, then bought a yard and opened a shop.
Later, seeing that a famine was about to begin, she took out new grain and finally chose to cooperate with Xiao Yan and came to the Northern Frontier.
Planting crops, digging canals and wells...
Now that the war has broken out, the crossbow is the most advantageous weapon she can use against the Northern Army.
Of course Fuguier also has hot weapons, but it is simply unrealistic in this era and cannot be mass-produced.
So next, she had to make gunpowder.
A most basic art that brings mankind from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons.
There is also the newly discovered oil and glass craftsmen.
One thing after another kept her busy.
Zhou Lingling has decided to ignore how Xiao Yan will deal with the imperial edict and the third prince, and whether he should become the emperor.
Love it!
...
The Third Prince and Xiao Yan had become enemies as early as last year.
The former used the trap he had laid in the Northern Frontier many years ago to cause Xiao Yan to fall hard, not only being seriously injured but also poisoned.
As long as Xiao Yan survives, he will be sincere in his revenge on the Third Prince.
Most of the secret guards under the Third Prince's command were killed, and he even suffered repeated setbacks in the court, which aroused the emperor's suspicion.
This time he had been planning for several months, from the New Year's Eve banquet to the Northern Barbarians declaring war, and finally he got the chance.
There is an imperial edict issued by my father himself.
If Xiao Yan obeyed the order, he would have to hand over all the military power in the Northern Frontier to him and return to Beijing for trial.
It’s strange to say, there are several adult princes in the court now, and more than one of them can barely compete with the third prince.
But while the Third Prince was dealing with his brothers, his eyes were always fixed on the Northern Frontier.
His ninth brother, the only one who was crowned king at the age of twelve but was exiled to the northern border, was someone he was deeply afraid of for some reason...
Since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, no one who was granted the title of king was allowed to command the military.
Back then, my father ignored the Northern Frontier and ordered the Ministry of War to openly withhold military pay and food supplies from the Northern Frontier.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yan seized the opportunity to gather those scattered soldiers in the northern border and developed them into the powerful 100,000-strong Northern Army.
This made the oldest surviving prince of the Yuan Dynasty, the Third Prince, very uneasy.
Therefore, he would not let Xiao Yan return to Shangjing alive...
If he disobeys my order, then I can justifiably order the Longyou Division to send troops straight to the northern border!
However, when the Third Prince brought the team to Wushuang City to deliver the imperial edict, he did not meet the people who had been arranged in advance.
In the post station,
A man in brocade clothes stood facing the window with his hands behind his back.
Behind him, a masked man in black knelt respectfully on the ground:
"Master, we've searched the entire city, but we haven't found anyone."
The man in brocade clothes turned around, frowning.
"Did you see any signs?"
The man in black shook his head: "I've checked everything, and there's no mark."
"A bunch of idiots!"
The man in brocade clothes was the third prince.
It was dark yesterday when they arrived at Wushuang City.
The person sent by the emperor to deliver the imperial edict this time was not the one they had arranged in advance, which caused many inconveniences along the way.
He could only send people to investigate the city overnight.
Unexpectedly, three groups of people returned empty-handed.
"Send a message over there and ask them to make new arrangements within five days!"
It takes three days to get from Wushuang City to Anbei City, but Xiao Yan is not in Anbei City now.
The imperial edict needs to reach the border, and five days is enough time for them to reorganize...
The man in black nodded and quickly disappeared into the room.
The third prince looked out the window with a gloomy look.
If Xiao Yan hadn't killed so many of his men, he wouldn't have to cooperate with that group of idiots!
However, this also made him more convinced of his intuition over the years -
We can’t allow Xiao Yan to become more powerful.
His stupid brothers are still fighting to the death to get their own people into certain positions.
Little did they know that no matter how they fought in the court, in the end they could not defeat Xiao Yan's 100,000 cavalrymen marching south!
Just when the Third Prince and his entourage had rested and were about to set off for the northern border.
Zhou Lingling also returned to Anbei City.
Qizhu not only found the things, but also had someone bring a basket back to her.
"Look, is this what you want?"
Zhou Lingling looked at the two trays on the table.
There are two stones placed on top.
There was a hint of joy in her eyes: "Yes, this is what I want!"
One saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoal.
This is the raw material for making gunpowder.
The ratio was almost public in her time, which was 75:15:10.
She hurried back home, reported her safety to Chen and Zhou Laoer, and was about to leave with her eldest brother Zhou Chi.
Zhou Chi has been in charge of the canal construction these days, and the fourteen-year-old boy seems to be becoming more and more stable.
When he heard that his sister needed his help with something else, he calmly went to find Brother Tang Jun.
He handed over all the matters in his hands to the two of them, and carefully instructed Sang Lin and the others before leaving with his sister.
Tie Yuan also followed this time.
Qi Zhu still sent those palace soldiers along, and asked the person who found the ore to take them and others to the mine.
According to Zhou Lingling's request, another 200 people were sent to help her mine.
These mountains are not very high.
The altitude is only one or two hundred meters, but Fuguier told Zhou Lingling that these mountains are almost entirely full of mineral deposits.
The place where they discovered oil was not far from these mountains, in the basin on the other side of the mountains.
Zhou Lingling stood on the top of one of the mountains and looked around.
A feeling of being "rich and overflowing" arises spontaneously...
There was a glint of joy in her eyes, which made Zhou Chi's mouth curl up as well.
"Sister, what are you going to use these... mines you mentioned for?"
He knew about gold mines and silver mines, but he didn't know about saltpeter mines and sulfur mines.
So I don't know what to use these for.
Tie Yuan and several palace soldiers were also confused.
But they all knew that Miss Zhou was never the kind of person who acted without a purpose.
What she wants must be useful!
Sure enough, Zhou Lingling said, "I plan to make a new weapon called Thunderbolt Fireball!"
"It looks a bit like a large bitter pill, about... the size of a fist. Just light it on fire and throw it at the enemy. Anyone within ten feet will be hard to survive."
After much thought, she gave her little bomb a cool name!
Fuguier kept clapping in his mind.
"Master! Why not call him the Universe's Super Invincible Thunderbolt Fireball? It's more stylish!"
Zhou Lingling: “…”
She imagined the scene.
As the two armies engaged in battle, the Union soldiers pulled out bombs, facing the enemy and shouting, "You beasts! Let me show you the power of the universe's super-invincible Thunderbolt Fireball!"
Thinking of this, Zhou Lingling shook her head vigorously, trying to clear this image from her mind.
Forget it.
Fireball is her limit.
Fuguier, who was receiving this scene simultaneously, looked regretful: "What's wrong? This is great..."
Zhou Lingling automatically blocked out its words and began to discuss with her elder brother about building a temporary testing site in the mountains.