Husband-in-Law: Reborn Peasant Girl Busy Farming

Chapter 549 Improving Gunpowder
After a comfortable dinner, Tang Yue drank a few more glasses of wine, and his body was already shaking when he left the table. After the rest of the people were full, they put down their bowls and chopsticks one after another, and each went to his own business.

They said they were doing their own thing, but they still gathered in groups of three or four. Some enjoyed the cool in the front yard, some chatted in the backyard, and some even caught crickets in the garden with the lights on.

The weather was clear during the day and cloudless at night. The night wind was breezy, carrying the remaining heat. Tang Luoyu, Ke Ran Chai, Jin Xiaohua and others moved bamboo chairs to sit in the yard to enjoy the shade, shaking round fans while drinking Freshly made sour plum soup.

Xue Lince went back to the study alone. He has a lot of affairs, and he hasn't dealt with them completely today.

The lamp was on in the study, and he took off his majestic and stern official uniform, and put on a simple and elegant dark blue shirt, with a grass white belt around his waist, his hair was scrupulously tied up, fixed with a plain silver hairpin and a white jade hair crown, A shadow with broad shoulders and narrow waist was cast on the ground, with a cool and calm aura all over his body.

Not long after he sat down by the desk, he heard someone knock on the door, and after answering, a familiar figure walked in.

The visitor was none other than Jing Shan.

"Brother," Xue Lince was a little surprised, got up to greet him, and put a stool for him to put it across from him, "What's the rush to come here at this time?"

Jing Shan shook her head, "It's not a big deal, it's getting late, I hope I didn't disturb the house."

Xue Lince laughed lightly, "If there's anything else, just sit down and let the two of us talk in detail."

After finishing speaking, he closed the book just now, and filled a cup of hot tea for Jing Shan himself.

Jing Shan seemed to be hesitating, she was silent for a while before taking the teacup, and then she fell into speechless silence again, as if she was thinking about how to speak.

The candlelight flickered, and the shadows of the two brothers kept shaking on the wall. After a while, Jing Shan raised his head, with a very serious expression on his face.

"Did you use black powder when you went south to rehabilitate?"

Xue Lince's brows twitched. It has been a long time since this matter happened. Moreover, the method of making black powder has been handed over to the emperor himself. Why mention it now?

Doubts are doubts, but he still told the truth.

"Exactly," he frowned, "Because the rebel attack was too fierce before, if we didn't take extraordinary measures, the city would surely fall immediately, so I had no choice but to make this decision. After returning to Beijing, the gunpowder method All have been handed over to the emperor."

Seeing that he was a little nervous, Jing Shan spoke out to comfort him, "Don't worry, I didn't hold you accountable, I came here specially for my brother just to ask, did you make this black powder by yourself?"

Xue Lince nodded, "Exactly, it's just that troops were used in the process of collecting materials."

"So that's how it is," Jing Shan lowered her eyes halfway, and kept using the tea lid to brush off the foam on the tea water, as if talking to herself, "Now I feel relieved."

Xue Lince was at a loss when he heard it, and his mind became more and more confused, so he couldn't help asking: "Brother, what happened?"

Jing Shan paused with his hands, and when he raised his head, most of the serious expression on his face had faded, "Don't worry, it's not a bad thing, I came here this time to ask you if there are other uses for this black powder method?"

This question stopped Xue Lince.

"Other methods?" He held his temples in confusion, "Aren't you talking about fireworks?"

"No, no." Jing Shan put the undrinked hot tea on the table, stood up, and put his hands behind his back, "You saw it when you went south, if the enemy used trebuchets and ladders, The battle of defending the city will be extremely difficult. Since we have a powerful weapon called black powder, why not make it better? If we can improve its effectiveness and power, wouldn’t it be much less difficult to encounter foreign enemies in the future? Soldiers casualties?"

Xue Lince heard it in his ears, and was both surprised and relieved in his heart.

The cousin of the original body has unusual vision and pattern, and unexpectedly realized the truth that technology is the primary productive force of human beings at this time.

When he was in a daze, Jing Shan had already talked a long way, "If this gunpowder can be made more effective and easy to carry, and can be carried by every soldier, wouldn't everyone be walking black powder? What kind of gunpowder will we deal with? Isn’t the rebels out of town easily captured?”

As soon as he spoke, his normally indifferent face flushed with blush.

After a while, he found that Xue Lince did not answer, and his voice stopped abruptly, "Lin Ce, what do you think?"

Xue Lince was wandering in space, and suddenly felt a little shudder in his heart when he was named.

It's not that he doesn't want to develop it, it's just that hot weapons such as guns and cannons are already regarded as dimensionality reduction strikes in the ancient situation. He is afraid that breaking the delicate balance among countries will cause the situation to collapse like a mountain.

The hands hanging on both sides of the body slowly tightened, and some fine sweat leaked from the palms. He was silent for a long time, and still planned not to tell about the hot weapon.

"Brother really has a fantastic idea," he added with a smiling face. "It's just that Lin Ce's intelligence is limited. Previously, he only improved the gunpowder on the basis of the original one to ease the urgent need of soldiers approaching the city. Now he is at the end of his rope."

Jing Shan didn't notice his strangeness, but nodded slightly, "This matter is indeed unprecedented, if you are forced to improve, it is indeed a difficult task for others."

As he spoke, he raised his head again to comfort him, "Tonight, I will treat you and my brother as if we were talking casually. Don't take it to heart, and you don't need to devote yourself to studying alchemy books. I have other considerations about this matter."

Hearing this, Xue Lince breathed a sigh of relief.

The moon has already risen above the branches, Jing Shan couldn't stay any longer, so she said a few homely words and left.

Hearing his footsteps disappearing from his ears, Xue Lince sat back in his seat slumped, with mixed feelings in his heart, just staring at the flickering candle in a daze.

After an unknown amount of time, there was another knock on the study door, but before he could answer, Tang Luoyu walked in carrying sour plum soup.

She is wearing a golden red long dress today, her hair like a waterfall is combed into a gold ingot, and there are just right jewelry inserted between her temples. Because she is pregnant, the pink nails have also omitted the application of rouge, and no powder has been applied on her face. , but it is more bright and moving, just like a hibiscus emerging from water.

"I knocked on the door for a long time, but I didn't hear your answer. I thought you were asleep."

She scolded, came in and put the sour plum soup on the desk, and saw a stool by the table, she knew that a visitor had come before, "Did brother come here before?"

Xue Lince smiled dotingly, got up and poured a bowl of sour plum juice, but instead of drinking it himself, he handed it to her, "Miss Bingxue is smart, I can't hide anything from you."

(End of this chapter)