Chapter 167 (1/2)

Looking at these colorless transparent granular crystals, Lieutenant Ferguson's eyes brightened.

”Boss, the quality of this kind of Glauber's salt you made is very good. It's even better than those Glauber's salt we seized from the French!” While speaking, Lieutenant Ferguson dipped a little bit of this powdery crystal in his hand, licked it with his tongue, and then was sucked into a ball by his bitter face.

Looking at this guy actually using his tongue to taste mirabilite, the stone bear was happy, but he didn't care.

It's very bitter. It's like Coptis, but it's non-toxic. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is a kind of medicinal material.

Ferguson ”bah” a few times, spit out the bitter taste in his mouth, and then asked: ”boss, how do you know that this kind of saltpeter can be used to make such a high purity of nitre?”

The stone bear glanced at this guy, with a mysterious smile, pointed to the sky with his index finger, and shut up.

Ferguson immediately made a cross.

”Patrick, you take some sulfur and charcoal, and I'll make some gunpowder in front of the people.”

Kuaima asked: ”are you trying to make the people fully understand the importance of Xiaohe tribe?”

The stone bear nodded and said in a low voice, ”yes! The minority people don't like Xiaohe tribe, so I will try to make them pay attention to it. Moreover, the saltpeter produced by the Xiaohe tribe is really something we can't do without in the future, so we must let the people change this concept. ”

Ferguson said with a smile: ”boss, your way is undoubtedly the best way.” Say, drop this sentence, this kid ran back to the wooden house where he lived.

The process of boiling nitrate is not difficult to master. After a demonstration by the stone bear, the clan can basically operate it. After all, the process of making salt is more complicated than boiling nitrate.

In fact, the key to boil nitrate is the control of temperature. As long as the temperature is well controlled, it can boil high-purity sodium hydroxide.

Now the Daqu in the room has already passed the second time. The temperature is no longer the most important thing for the room, so Shi Xiong took out two simple thermometers from the room to boil nitrate.

Whether it is 75 ℃ hot water or 30 ℃ precipitation temperature, as long as these two key temperatures are well controlled, then there is absolutely no problem in boiling nitrate.

The stone bear just demonstrated once, and the people of the tribe began to be busy.

However, when Ferguson brought back the sulfur and charcoal, most of the people's attention was attracted by the guardian.

”My people, I know that there is a general question in your mind now, that is, what are we doing today?” The stone bear said loudly to the surrounding people.

The ethnic people all nodded in unison.

It's OK for the guardian to ask this question. The people of the tribe have this question in their hearts now. In the past, it was very tiring to work with the guardian, but the final results were refined salt, iron ware, farming tools for planting, peanut oil for cooking, and so on.

But today's work is not the same. I've been busy working for a long time, and what I finally ordered out is such a pile of colorless and transparent fine particles. Some people have already tasted it, and they don't want it.

In other words, if you can see if you can eat this kind of food after working hard for a long time, it's better than salt.

But the guardian seems to attach great importance to this kind of fine particles. Of course, people have doubts about it.

”My people, you should have seen the scene of firing muskets, right? Let me ask, what do you think of the power of this musket? ”

”Very powerful!”

”It's much more powerful than bow, arrow, bone and spear to kill people.”

”It's very loud. My cattle were scared when I shot that time.”

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The problem of guardian adults has aroused heated discussion among the ethnic groups. The buzzing sound is comparable to the large group of green bean flies in the dry toilets of China decades ago.

However, no matter how much we talk about it, the people who have seen the power of muskets and artillery for a long time are full of praise for this kind of thermal weapon.

The stone bear stretched out his hands and pressed them down, and the people's voices were much lower.

”You only see the power of muskets, but do you know why muskets are so powerful?”

”I know!” A young voice rang out. The stone Bear looked and found that he was the little grandson of the chief stone maker of the family.

This little guy is not old, only in his teens, but he is very popular. The people call him ”little stone” affectionately. This little guy seems to be very interested in hot weapons. He almost follows the rabbit's mouth like a follower every day, because this little guy knows that with the rabbit's mouth, they can see the magnificent scene of shooting all day long, and they can also smell the nice smell of smoke

”Because of the powder! Once the gunpowder in the barrel is ignited, it will send out a huge bang, and then the bullets in the barrel will go out. It's very powerful to hit the tree with one eye. ”

Xiaoshi's words caused a burst of laughter from the people around him, but they all knew that this little guy was right. The main reason why this gun is so powerful is the black powder.

”Little stone is right.” The stone bear smiles and draws a big thumb at the little stone, and makes the little stone smile happily.

”But do you know how the powder was made?” Stone bear asked again.

All the people shook their heads.

”In fact, what you have just done is to extract a very important raw material for gunpowder. In order to make powerful gunpowder, this kind of raw material is essential. As you can see, the most important raw material comes from the Xiaohe tribe. It can be said that without the saltpeter mined by the Xiaohe tribe, we would not be able to make gunpowder ourselves. The fireguns and artillery we captured from the French would become firesticks, which are useless at all. ”

When the people heard this, they were silent.

”So, my people, please stop hating Xiaohe tribe. There is no hatred between us and them. They are almost the same as us except for the identity of a chekasa. Why should we hate them? ”