Chapter 63 A Crazy World

Hughes was awakened by a knock on the door.

"My Lord! My Lord, are you there?"

Xius opened his eyes in confusion and was stunned for a while before he reacted. He immediately pulled back the quilt and stood up.

"Alexei? Come in."

The door was immediately opened, and Alexi and Connor entered the room together.

"My Lord, something happened!"

"What happened? Could it be the explosives workshop?"

Alexei's face suddenly turned strange.

"Yes, but it's not just the dynamite workshop, something happened in the soap workshop as well."

Hughes's eyes twitched. Could it be that the explosives workshop had exploded, sending the soap workshop into the sky as well? Then the farming plan he had worked so hard to start would be ruined.

Seeing Hughes's increasingly dark complexion, Alexei quickly spoke up: "It wasn't an explosion, it was some other accident. Uh, I don't know if it can be called an accident."

"Please sit down first and talk slowly."

“That’s right.”

Because the recruited craftsmen were not very reliable, Hughes finally decided to close the nitroglycerin workshop.

But all this was not explained in detail to the craftsmen. They only knew that the process they had practiced for a long time was put on hold.

The craftsmen discussed it and decided that their craftsmanship was not up to standard. They wanted to give it one last try to prove their worth to the lord.

"Wait, why are they doing this?"

"Because you gave too much money."

Considering the danger of preparing nitroglycerin, Hughes paid the craftsmen a very high salary, as much as five rios a day.

Although they are just rehearsing the process now, he feels that this state will not last for a few days - either they will start production or close down.

Therefore, Hughes did not set a new salary specifically for these days' work.

The craftsmen who were receiving inexplicably high salaries did not want to give up this seemingly simple job, so they got together. "They got together and made nitroglycerin." Alexey looked strange.

"Don't they have the materials?"

"There really were no materials when we were rehearsing the process, but the workshop was closed, so I shipped all the materials here. They were all sealed up anyway, so it would be convenient to put them here if I need them later."

"You know, we don't have enough people to arrange a vigil."

Xiu Si rubbed his forehead and said, "Okay, I will recruit some soldiers for patrol recently, but it's a good thing to build it, so I'll just warn them."

"No, sir." Alexei looked strange. "What they made was not nitroglycerin, an explosive."

"It's not nitroglycerin?" Hughes was stunned, then frowned: "The process I gave is to prepare sulfuric acid and nitric acid from sulfur ore. Is there a problem with the catalyst that caused the reaction to fail?"

"No, it's not that the preparation failed, but that it was successful."

Hughes looked at Alexi in confusion. "Look at what you are talking about?" "They didn't make nitroglycerin, an explosive, but nitroglycerin, a heart disease medicine!"

Now Hughes understood. He nodded and looked at Connor: "Do you still have the candy Nora gave you? Bring some over!"

It seemed that he was exhausted and then contaminated, which made him a little confused.

Aren’t nitroglycerin, the explosive, and nitroglycerin, the heart medicine, the same thing? They are both nitroglycerin!

"No no, I'm not contaminated, and I'm not crazy, I'm normal! I'm sober!"

"So the world has gone mad?"

"Come with me, I didn't dare bring that thing to the manor."

Although he didn't understand what his clerk was doing, he followed Alexei out of the house.

There was a pile of things on an open space not far away, and several servants were guarding them.

Alexei walked over, picked up a bottle and handed it to Hughes.

Zeus picked up the bottle and shook it carefully from side to side. Inside was a slightly viscous liquid with a yellowish color.

It doesn't look like the purity is particularly high, but it is indeed what nitroglycerin should look like.

He slowly pulled out the cork, placed the bottle not far away, fanned it lightly with his hand and smelled the odor.

A strange fragrance.

There seems to be no problem. This should be nitroglycerin? Hughes looked at Alexi with suspicion.

Alexei said nothing. He took the nitroglycerin, dripped some on the paper, picked up the hammer and smashed it down -

There was no movement at all.

Hughes opened his eyes wide.

He took a little more and spoke a few words to the servant next to him. After a while, the servant brought a brazier.

A few people moved away and threw the bottle of nitroglycerin in.

The flame burned, but there was still no reaction.

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Xius looked down at the bottle in his hand, hesitated for a moment, then took a little and smeared it under his tongue.

A strange sweetness exploded in the mouth, followed by a burning sensation, which was not too serious because the amount was not large.

Waving his hand to tell Connor who was approaching not to worry, Hughes felt it carefully.

After a while, he felt a throbbing pain in his forehead, which was a sign that his blood vessels were dilated by nitroglycerin, and was also the effect of its heart disease medicine.

Hughes: “.”

Hughes: “???”

Hughes: “?!?!?!”

What do you mean, nitroglycerin that won't explode? Nobel spent his whole life researching something, and it was so easy to come up with it?

Damn, all these craftsmen under his command could win the Nobel Prize? Hughes was completely shocked. He looked at the bottle in his hand and felt that his worldview was impacted.

"Lord Hughes, that's it. I don't know what's going on."

Xius was silent for a while, then suddenly shuddered, and a bad idea came to his mind.

"You just said that there are problems with the soap workshop too?"

"Yes."

Alexei kicked the box under his feet. "In our soap-making workshop, we never told the craftsmen what they were making."

"But we didn't keep it secret, so some workshops knew it was for cleaning, and some didn't. They knew it was made from olive oil through various cooking processes, so they guessed it was a food."

"So, some workers ate it secretly."

"It shouldn't be a big deal if you eat the soap, right? If it's not too much."

"Yes, but I mean"

Alexei picked up two bars of soap from different boxes, handed them to Hughes, and then picked up two more for himself.

"This is soap for cleaning, and this is soap for eating."

He put the two pieces of soap into his mouth and started chewing.

Hughes also took a bite.

One piece was slippery and greasy and tasted disgusting.

A piece of it has a fresh fragrance and is very delicious, tasting like a fruit cake.

"My Lord, I have inspected the entire workshop, and I can guarantee that the preparation process of these two soaps is exactly the same."

The soap slipped from Hughes's hands and fell into the dirt.

(After sixty-three chapters of preparation, we are finally here. After so long of preparation, the world view is finally unfolding!!)

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