Han Mingjiang picked up the bowl of water and gulped it down. He put the bowl down, wiped his mouth, and looked on with burning excitement.
“Mother, we have tried the recipe you gave us several times.”
It's either a dud, or it's not as powerful as a double-bang.
I don't know how many times we've tried, but this time it was a success.
You have no idea, Mom, she blew up such a huge hole.
Even a huge tree that a son couldn't hug was blown down.
This power is immense; imagine throwing one into the enemy's lair on the battlefield.
Boom! Let's blow those bastards to death!
Xuan Shen and His Highness the Crown Prince were overjoyed and quickly went to check the data.
I'll ride my horse here as fast as I can to bring you the good news.
Li Lanzhen asked him, "Where are you conducting the experiment? If it's such a large-scale operation, we should be able to hear or feel it."
“We conducted the experiment in the deep mountains and forests, where there are few people and no one can find us or hurt us.”
"Good, that's good. We can't let anyone find out. If the enemy finds out, it'll be even more troublesome!"
Han Mingjiang nodded, "I know, I know."
"Alright, Mom knows. You should go back and wash up and go to bed. Don't tell anyone about this!"
"Mother, don't worry, this prescription is known only to me, Xuan Shen, and His Highness the Crown Prince. Oh, and His Highness the Crown Prince's attendants as well. No one else has been told anything."
Normally, it is the Crown Prince's attendants who record the data.
There were four of us when we went out to do the experiment.
Li Lanzhen turned around and took out a roasted chicken from the cupboard—actually, from her spatial storage—placed it in a large bowl, and handed it to him. "Go home quickly, wash up, and go to bed. This is your reward!"
Han Mingjiang took the large bowl and said with a silly grin.
"Mother, you should go to sleep too. I'm leaving."
Li Lanzhen lay back down on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep even with her eyes closed.
Since Scrophularia established a training camp in the back mountain.
Later, Han Mingjiang and Xue Bao also participated in the training camp.
It wasn't until Xuan Shen asked her if she was willing to let Han Mingjiang lead troops into battle that things began.
She felt a sense of urgency and, after much deliberation, searched her spatial storage for blueprints for cold weapons and recipes for making bombs, a type of firearm.
Li Lianzhen had already learned from Xuan Shen's casual conversations that during this period, when the two armies were fighting, there were no firearms like bombs.
She gave the gunpowder formula to Xuan Shen and also gave them the choice.
They are the indigenous people of this era, and they should know whether or not to use this method.
As for how to use Li Lanzhen, that's no longer my concern.
According to the blueprints for making cold weapons that Li Lanzhen gave them.
Xuan Shen and his team improved siege catapults and enhanced cold weapons such as bows, crossbows, and rockets.
As for the experiments on making gunpowder bullets, it should have taken more than three months.
The recipe that Li Lanzhen received only listed the materials for making gunpowder bombs, but did not include the proportions.
Therefore, they need to keep researching.
Fortunately, fireworks and firecrackers existed in this dynasty. Xuan Shen searched among the people and found more than a dozen craftsmen who made fireworks and firecrackers, and learned their recipes.
It's much easier now that we're back and still researching, experimenting, and adjusting.
It seems like today was a great success!
Li Lanzhen felt a little relieved. She was really afraid that Han Mingjiang and Xue Bao would die on the battlefield.
This is something she really doesn't want to see!
The autumn grass has turned completely yellow, the weather has turned cold, and the first snow has fallen in the mountains outside Peach Blossom Spring.
Li Lanzhen has been going up the mountain with the villagers to collect old goods during this period.
She stopped asking about things in the fields.
When the village tallies work points and distributes grain and silver this year, she plans to tell the village committee to separate the furniture workshop from the village and give it to Li Erhan's family to work on separately.
When they could earn work points, Li Erhan's family would go and earn them; when they couldn't, they would just do their own thing.
In this way, Mrs. Ye no longer had to work so hard; she could just tend to the vegetable garden in the yard at home.
The cotton planted in the space has already been harvested twice. Now, sweet potatoes are being planted. Li Lanzhen plans to deliver this batch of sweet potatoes to the vermicelli-making workshop after they are grown.
She needs to stockpile a large quantity of vermicelli to ensure sufficient supply for future sales.
As for the sweet potatoes and potatoes grown in Peach Blossom Spring, they were left in the village's granary, enough to fill their stomachs for the entire winter.
Li Lanzhen sent a thousand catties of cornmeal to Dunzi Village in Lihua Village. The land in the village was barren, and the yield per mu was not as high as that of sweet potatoes and potatoes grown in Taohuayuan. The yield was less than 4,000 catties per mu. Even so, they were overjoyed.
We'll send more flour and rice before the New Year, leaving extra for Dunzi and Maisui, and a few jin for each of the other servants we buy for the New Year.
Being able to fill their stomachs is already a good thing; we can't let their appetites grow too big. Even the workers in the vermicelli factory eat a mixture of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, rice, and wheat flour.
Thinking of the pears from the mountains of Lishu Village, Li Lanzhen hadn't yet figured out what to do with them. They were sweet and refreshing, but had too much pulp and were small.
In another week, they can be harvested, and then grafting will begin. We hope that the grafted pears will taste better next autumn.
Every day, Li Lanzhen goes shopping for autumn goods in the mountains, and her online space is piled high with them again.
Perhaps she has a space, or perhaps it's an instinct that makes her pick food and put it into her space.
The rooftops of every household were filled with large, round winnowing baskets, from which wood ear mushrooms and various wild vegetables were drying.
For the past few days, I've been going up the mountain to pick wild walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, jujubes, and hawthorns.
The children discussed making more candied hawthorns this winter so they could sell them in Youzhou City and earn money to buy paper and pens.
When the adults learned that Li Lanzhen had agreed, they were grateful that she had given them the recipe for making candied hawthorns so they could earn money. They happily supported the children's idea, so this year every household picked a lot of candied hawthorns.
Time passed by in a flurry of activity until Han Yuemei's wedding day arrived.
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