Queen Flower - Chapter 252

Although Murong Xiling is the husband of the king, she doesn’t really do nothing. Naturally, she went to rectify military affairs with Xiao Yan, so everyone has their own business. Instead, she is the queen, but she is free.

Jiang Lan remembered that the things in the border town were not finished yet, and she saw that the war with the Northland was about to break out. Since she had that idea at that time, she had to try it out. She had already asked that there was no explosives in this world at present. She is a science student. She has studied chemistry and understands the basics. When she sees the heroines of time-travel novels, they are so powerful that they make explosives at will. Why can’t she do it?

Cheng Chen followed her and followed her around the palace until he found a remote and desolate place.

“What is my sister going to do?” Cheng Chen looked at her curiously, and saw that she was holding a clay pot, digging a hole in the ground, and then burying the pot in the soil.

“Well, this, it’s nothing, I’ll try.” Jiang Lan couldn’t explain what she wanted to do, who knows what the result would be, so she tried it first and then said, “Stand farther away.”

She drove Cheng Chen far away, used fully burnt branches as charcoal, crushed it into powder, then took out saltpeter, sulfur, and crushed it into powder. According to the ratio of nitrate:sulfur:carbon roughly 7.5:1:1.5, put it into pottery one after another. After fully mixing the can, she got up and stepped aside, turned back to Cheng Chen and said, “Stand away, cover your ears, and don’t be surprised when you see anything.”

Cheng Chen stood a little further away, looking at her curiously.

Jiang Lan also stood far away with a very serious expression. He lit the branch with a fire stick and threw it in.

She waited with bated breath, even if the amount was small, it should be fine to blow up a clay pot, or it would be fine if it couldn’t blow up.

Jiang Lan was taken aback. No, isn’t that what Sun Simiao did? She squatted down and thought hard, what was the problem?

Cheng Chen held back his laughter and patted her on the shoulder for comfort.

Jiang Lan was quite embarrassed. He had known that he was not so serious just now, and it was a big ugly thing. After thinking for a long time, he finally realized that the problem must be in the nitrate, and the purity was not enough. The content is too small, she did not purify.

Although gunpowder is one of the four great inventions in ancient China, black powder was actually invented in my country. Not yellow powder. Black gunpowder is a mixture of nitrosulfur and carbon, which is a manufacturing method in the physical category, while yellow gunpowder is a compound and belongs to the chemical category. The most critical part of black gunpowder is the content of nitrate. Why is the gunpowder in our country made of firecrackers? Foreigners have become muskets because of the nitrate content. Because the nitrate content is too low, there are too many impurities, and the expansion energy after combustion is insufficient, it cannot be used as a propellant for firearms. Not to mention it’s basically all nitrates, not potassium nitrate.

She couldn’t get potassium nitrate, but nitrate was okay. The top priority is purification. She has already precipitated it in water. It doesn’t seem to work. Then heat and crystallize it, the most common purification method. Put it in the pot. Add water and cook until the nitrate is completely dissolved and fully concentrated, then pour it into a container and wait. After a long time, crystals will be precipitated. As for such pure or not, it is definitely not pure. Try it again.

Jiang Lan immediately went back to find the pot for processing. Although Cheng Chen didn’t understand what she was doing, he cooperated very well. He did what he said.

After tossing for a day, when Jiang Lan was about to fall asleep after bathing, there was a knock on the door.

Xiao Yan stood in front of her, and Jiang Lan remembered the agreement in the morning.

“Be fair, Aman.” Xiao Yan looked down at her.

“So…” Jiang Lan suddenly felt a big headache. She accidentally opened Pandora’s box. Now it’s very difficult to press these devils back. It’s the source of rebellion. .

Xiao Yan’s peach blossom eyes blinked, and she smiled evilly, “So… you are mine tonight.” He picked up Jiang Lan with a big hand, and jumped on the eaves without taking the right path. to the door of his own room.

When he entered the house, he closed the door and didn’t put her down, and the hot and humid kiss rushed up.

Jiang Lan slapped him with his hand, and no longer objected to him, letting him act indiscriminately.

Xiao Yan was so enthusiastic. After so long, he was finally able to let go of his hands and feet tonight and have fun. From now on, he didn’t have to endure it. This is the greatest good news. Open the door, so let’s endure the faint jealousy and discomfort, it’s just an increase in troubles, it’s better to have fun in time.

The moonlight is flickering, the stars are twinkling in the sky, the night wind is slow, the autumn is strong, and the sounds are silent.

However, the room was fiery. On the bed, on the table, by the wall, in various places, limbs were entangled, and all kinds of lewd and extravagant voices intermingled, and Xiao Yan suddenly exclaimed.

Then in the middle of the night, all the oil lamps in the house were suddenly lit, and all of them were brought to the head of the bed, shining brightly until all the oil was exhausted.

When Jiang Lan got out of bed in the morning, she wanted to slash people, dare she practice martial arts for so long, why is that? Fortunately, Yan Zhan was not there, and there was only one Chu Qingcheng left.

So when Chu Qingcheng stood in front of her, she had no choice but to go with him.

He didn’t say much, and just asked why Xiao Yan got up in the middle of the night to light the lights, until dawn. This matter can’t be hidden from anyone. The palace staff at night saw it, and they were all puzzled. Could it be some kind of eccentricity? Is it for some kind of fun? Only Murong Xiling remained silent and his attitude was clear.

Jiang Lan’s head turned white in worry, and it really wasn’t easy to mess with. Chu Qingcheng was too sensitive, and he couldn’t hide it from him at all.

As a result, the oil lamp in Chu Qingcheng’s house was bright until the lamp oil was exhausted, and his beauty picture became more enchanting from then on.

Jiang Lan now finally understands that everyone is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and immediately put up the free card. She decided to work for three days and rest for four days. She is the queen and she has the final say, as long as it is fair.

The new queen didn’t get up until three days in a row, which is really a joke, only one person can’t laugh.

Xia Henqiu’s expression was flat, and the occasional smile showed no warmth in his eyes, and there was a bit of vicissitudes and silence between his eyebrows and eyes.

Jiang Lan sometimes met his eyes, and always read a kind of helplessness and bitterness in his eyes. She turned her eyes away silently. In fact, she didn’t know what to do? What should I do with Xia Henqiu? She didn’t want to hurt his heart, and she didn’t want to hurt anyone else.

Shangguanhong is very sympathetic to Xia Henqiu, so she hates her behavior very much. Jiang Lan is a casual person and has never been a queen, so Shangguanhong dares to speak out, “Your Majesty, why are you unwilling to accept Xia? Xiang? He’s so in love with you.”

Jiang Lan shook his head and said bluntly: “There are too many people to bear.”

Shangguan Hong burst into laughter in her stomach, but she held back her face. She also knew what happened in the past three days. Maybe those men were a little cruel, but this was also what she forced others to do, who asked her to let others hang So long? There is a chance of revenge.

“It won’t be like this for a long time, don’t worry.” Shangguan Hong said, “Besides, the law stipulates that the lower limit of a woman’s husband-in-law is 5, and Your Majesty should lead by example.”

Jiang Lan nodded, “That’s right, but the decree says that the lower limit of a woman’s husband and wife’s life, I have time.” She was not that stupid, but she thought of this issue at that time, otherwise she could sign it?

Shangguan Hong was speechless, and after a while, he said, “What do you think about him?”

Jiang Lan lowered his head, “I don’t know, I don’t want to think about it.”

Shangguan Hong was helpless, this queen is actually an ostrich, and she can’t wait to get into the mud whenever she encounters emotional matters. Probably because she was a woman of the Celestial Dynasty, she could never pass this threshold.

Poor Xia Henqiu can only be free and blessed.

Jiang Lan decided not to think about it, the future is too difficult to say, and she doesn’t know what will happen to her in the future, but no matter what, Xia Henqiu is at least innocent, and this is the guarantee for his future.

Alas, let’s do things. If you have something to do, you won’t be thinking blindly.

She continued to do her experiments, and the effect was better, but without high-quality nitrate, it was delusional to want the great power of explosives. Even if there is an explosion, the ratio of equivalent to effect is not very good, and it does not meet the requirements of war, and it is just a fireworks. After pondering for a long time and purifying it repeatedly, she found that the mixture of nitric acid and sulfur that she obtained was better to use as a burning agent. Although she could not make explosives, she had a good fire support, and the materials were easy to carry. Just grind them into a powder, and they burn well, which is an excellent arsonist. In fact, this is recorded in the Three Kingdoms. When Wu State attacked Shu State, they used boats to load thatch. The soldiers each held a piece of thatch, which contained sulfur and nitrate, and brought their own fire. The fire was ignited downwind, and the fire spread 700 miles. The Shu army was defeated, forcing Liu Bei to retreat to Baidi City. Now that she has processed it like this, it is naturally better to use. It is not a problem to burn some food or grass, and it can also be smeared on the tail of the arrow to make a rocket.

Jiang Lan thought about it later and felt that it was a lucky thing to be unable to make gunpowder. If the era of cold weapons turned into the era of hot weapons, more people would die. This is her original intention. War should be for peace, and Xiaoxi is Right, something that is not a product of the times shouldn’t be there.

Jiang Lan hung up the war-free sign, and Cheng Chen stood guard at the door of her room in the evening, and the No. 1 light bulb started to work again. The three men were embarrassed. Fortunately, there were a lot of things during the day, and they separated a lot of thoughts, so they could wait for the next round of her “work yesterday” with peace of mind. And Jiang Lan also started to make arson in large quantities. She thought that maybe it might come in handy one day.

A few days later, the military newspaper said that Ma Zheng had completely controlled the army that offered the land and was leading the army back to Huicheng.

Then bad news followed. The Civil War finally broke out. Yan Zhan’s army was actually attacked by Murong Jian. The specific situation of the battle was unknown. Although the losses were not serious, Yan Zhan was injured. The first defeat in my life.