Chapter 241 The advent of explosives

After receiving strong support from Li Er, Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace and set about building a scientific academy next to the Chongwen Pavilion.

This scientific academy will not only research new weapons in the future, but also research production and agricultural-related technologies, as well as technical research in handicrafts and other fields. Now

that the venue is ready, the next step is to recruit people who love scientific research.

After half a year, the scientific academy recruited more than 60 scientific talents, all of whom were carefully selected. During

this half year, the prince was not idle either. Based on his limited memory, he compiled a scientific research encyclopedia for these scientific researchers to read.

Not only that, Li Chengqian also printed a copy of the agricultural encyclopedia "Qimin Yaoshu" from the Northern Wei Dynasty and put it in the scientist's library.

He also wrote down the three masterpieces, Mengxi Notes, Agricultural Administration Complete Book, and Tiangong Kaiwu, from memory.

Before traveling through time, Li Chengqian would flip through these books when he was bored, so he had a deep memory of these three books.

It is not difficult to write down these three books from memory. The difficulty lies in the fact that although these three books have been read, it is already good to remember most of them!

These three books were written in different eras. Mengxi Notes was written in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Agricultural Administration Complete Book and Tiangong Kaiwu were produced in the Ming Dynasty.

The main purpose of the Academy of Sciences is to learn scientific knowledge and conduct scientific debates, which is a theory of talking about war on paper.

The real scientific research experiments are outside the Academy of Sciences. Agricultural research requires personal work in the fields. The purpose is to increase grain production, such as research on fertilization, water conservancy, and reclamation, and to make academic reports on this. Research

and improvement of production technology and process equipment in handicrafts, as well as some production organization experience, etc.

All of these must benefit the people and are closely related to life. Only by combining theory and practice can scientific research have great development.

The research on explosives is in a hidden place in a mountain outside Chang'an City, which is used as an experimental base.

After all, this explosive is a dangerous thing. If it is studied in Chang'an City, once it explodes, many people will die and innocent people will be injured.

So it can only be transferred to a secret base outside the city for experimental operations.

The students in charge of this research in the academy, in addition to studying "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" and writing feasible plans every day in the academy, must also conduct practical experiments at this base.

The research on explosives has progressed very quickly, all of which are due to their passionate hearts and the spirit of dedicating everything to scientific research.

The most important thing is that these guys don't know, or even know at all, how powerful explosives are, so they study explosives without scruples.

In just two months, they have conducted more than a hundred experiments, and the research results are also very significant. In

the end, they made a pack of explosives, and as for how powerful it is, you can only know it after trying it.

In fact, it is very simple to make explosives. You only need to mix sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal in a certain proportion.

It was just that Li Chengqian himself had no experience in this area, so he thought it was difficult to make explosives. These researchers conducted research and improvements based on the gunpowder in fireworks and firecrackers.

To put it simply, it was to increase a certain amount and proportion so that the gunpowder could produce a violently burning substance in a very short time, and explode under the action of a certain external energy by its own energy.

Li Er and Li Chengqian came to the secret base, and today they were here to see the results of the experimental labor.

In the heavily guarded experimental base, on an empty flat ground, the scientists placed the prepared explosive pack in a dug pit.

Cover it with some items, and expose the fuse of the explosive pack. As long as the fuse is ignited, the explosive pack can be ignited.

The researchers explained to Li Er and Li Chengqian what might happen next, but they were actually explaining it to Li Er, who knew the power of the explosive pack.

"Let's get started!" Li Er said to the researchers.

"Your Majesty, please step back, we will ignite this explosive pack now," the researchers said.

Under the protection of Wang Yuan and others, Li Er turned around and went to a safe area, hiding behind a bunker, while the researchers went to ignite the fuse.

Fortunately, they made the fuse very long according to Li Chengqian's instructions, which gave him enough time to leave after igniting the fuse.

The researchers carefully stepped forward to ignite the fuse, then immediately turned around and ran back faster than a rabbit to hide in the bunker.

Just as he covered his ears, he heard a "bang", followed by an earthquake, and the earth was shaking. Thick

smoke rolled in the distance, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of gunpowder. Li Er was shocked by the loud noise!

​​A trace of shock appeared on his face, which had not paid much attention to it. If he had such a magic weapon when he was on the expedition to Goguryeo, why would he have besieged the city for so long but failed to break through it.

"Let's go! Let's take a look!" Li Er raised his foot and walked towards the place where the explosion just happened, and everyone hurried to follow.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses, looking at the big hole in front of them. Except for Li Chengqian, everyone else, including Li Er, had an expression as if they had seen a ghost.

"Can this be mass-produced?" Li Er turned around and asked the researchers, not caring about the unpleasant smell in the air.

Li Er was thinking about attacking Goguryeo again. With such a powerful weapon, not to mention one Goguryeo, even if there were ten, they would have to kneel before His Majesty Li Er!

"This is probably difficult. It is still in the experimental stage, and there are still many unstable factors. If it is not done well, it will either fail or explode."

"More importantly, this thing is not easy to preserve, and it needs to be improved!" The researchers said under Li Chengqian's hint.

He is the Crown Prince's man, so he naturally has to obey the Crown Prince's orders. Since he does not know about His Majesty, he cannot tell the truth.

Li Er frowned, feeling somewhat disappointed. If it cannot be used on the battlefield, no matter how powerful it is, it is useless.

It seems that I will not have the chance to see the day when Goguryeo is conquered!

"How long will it take you to produce a qualified product?" Li Er said unwillingly.

He hoped to develop explosives that can be preserved and stable as soon as possible, so that he might be able to see the demise of Goguryeo.

"Your Majesty, I dare not hide it! This is hard to say. We need to experiment one by one to know how to operate it. It will take at least three to five years." said the researcher.

This was just his one-sided statement. The explosive packs were not as complicated as he said. In fact, the so-called unstable factors were just an excuse.

As long as there were enough materials, they could produce a large number of explosive packs like the ones used for the explosion.

It was just that the prince did not want Li Er to know, so he asked him to say this.