Ever since he exchanged the secret recipe for sweet gunpowder and bleached sugar, Zheng Kezang felt that he was about to take off.

Because among these two secret recipes, the most needed ones are sugar and sulfur.

The little Yizhou Island lacks everything except sulfur and sugar.

Yizhou Island is one of the main sugar producing areas in my country and has a long history of sugarcane cultivation. Therefore, Yizhou Island is known as the "Sugar Cane Kingdom" and the "Oriental Sweet Island".

Compared with Fujian on the opposite coast, Yizhou Island has a warmer climate and more rainfall. Both plains and hilly areas are suitable for sugarcane growth.

As a result, the sugarcane on Yizhou Island grew strong and tall, which brought high additional income, and soon spread throughout Yizhou Island.

On the other hand, Yizhou Island is located at the extinction boundary of the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate. There are many volcanoes, earthquakes, frequent crustal activities and unstable geology here.

When a volcano erupts, it releases a large amount of gas, dust and water vapor, which contains a large amount of sulfur dioxide. After a long period of accumulation, sulfur is formed.

Sulfur is not only the main raw material of gunpowder, but it can also form sulfur dioxide through combustion, and the main function of sulfur dioxide is bleaching.

In short, Eunuch Li will arrange the little things right away.

Next to him, Eunuch Li was astonished that the 15-year-old Zheng Jianguo, who had only read books about sages since he was a child, actually knew how to make sugar. This was a good craft. Looking at the snow-white sugar, Eunuch Li knew that this sugar house would be great in the future.

"Zheng Jin, Zheng Yin listen to the order. From today on, I will appoint you as the stewards of the Tangliu. There can be no mistakes here, otherwise I will test you."

He had been to Nanjing once before he traveled back in time. At that time, Zheng Kezang was filled with regret when he looked at the remaining ruins.

Song Yingxing of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Tiangong Kaiwu": In the north, people push wheelbarrows behind them and donkeys drag them in front of them; in the south, wheelbarrows are pushed only by the strength of one person.

Rockets with a range of more than 12 kilometers can also be made. When such bombs encounter high temperatures or strong vibrations, they will burn and explode.

Eunuch Li received a secret mission from His Majesty the Supervisor: to purchase a sugar house (an ancient sugar workshop), and then select a few loyal domestic slaves to take good care of the sugar house. He would be of great use.

"Your Highness, do you need me to buy a few more sugar houses?" Eunuch Li said excitedly.

With sweet gunpowder, his homemade improvised grenades can also be used.

After hearing this, Eunuch Li knew that the supervisor wanted to do business. Is this possible?

Of course, how did the Zheng family get rich? Ahem, this may start with zero-dollar purchases on the East Asia Sea. It’s too long, so I won’t go into it.

"I'll do it now." After the snow candy incident, the old eunuch Li Zhongjie was convinced by Zheng Kezang. As soon as he heard that it was effective, he felt that there was something novel again.

Next, he planned to memorize the knowledge of civil engineering in his previous life, maybe it would be useful someday.

White sugar, which seems harmless to humans and animals, can actually be made into explosives with the power of a nuclear bomb under certain circumstances.

"No need for the moment, Li Banban, I will give you a new task now. You go recruit craftsmen around Dongning Mansion. It will be enough to recruit about one or two hundred people. Understand the priority of gunpowder and gunpowder, and then buy a small workshop.

Along with a batch of gunpowder and this snow candy, I will find it of great use." Zheng Kezang said thoughtfully.

Just mix some sugar into black gunpowder and the power of the explosion will be doubled.

Two brothers, Zheng Jin and Zheng Yin, stared at the white sugar in Zheng Kezang's hand. They swore that they had never seen such white sugar in their entire lives.

There was no cement in the Ming Dynasty, but it had progressed relatively, using masonry for foundation treatment. However, this time, the foundation of the monument still used wooden pile composite foundation.

Because the soil on Yizhou Island is soft, it is more suitable for wooden piles. Yingtian Mansion, which is the Ming Palace Museum in Nanjing, uses this kind of foundation structure.

It turns out that the Yingtianfu Forbidden City has been invaded by war many times, and the damage was most serious twice. Once when the Qing army entered the pass, the greedy Eight Banners soldiers were frightened by the majesty of the palace.

Just after giving the instructions, Zheng Kezang suddenly remembered that he had been busy with infantry drills and sugar during this period, and had forgotten one of the most important things!

Even though the construction of the monument to his heroes has already started, he hasn’t had time to check out the construction status yet. The spectacle is the main business!

The first task given by the system is actually very friendly. Generally speaking, the monument is not a huge project and does not occupy a large area. The main difficulty is that it requires a large amount of high-quality marble and a professional carving master.

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"Also, for the key step of turning sugar into white, you must arrange for trustworthy workers to work. Don't let this secret get leaked. Work hard. When the time comes, I will be rewarded heavily." Zheng Kezang patted the two brothers in an arrogant manner.

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After the sucrose is fumigated with sulfur, special pure white sugar can be obtained.

Why is the Forbidden City in Yingtianfu so dilapidated?

In supermarkets in many countries in later generations, there is a quantity limit on the purchase of white sugar, because buying a large amount of white sugar may be used to make bombs and rockets.

"Yes, Your Highness Jian Guo!" The two bosses were very arrogant. They were the slaves of the Yanping Palace. How pitiful they were, they finally managed to survive!

From now on, this precious sugar house is their lifeblood.

It has to be said that the wisdom of the working people is infinite. The earliest unicycles can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, the structure of unicycles in the south was basically the same as modern ones.

The construction site on the outskirts of Dongning Prefecture is in full swing. Some workers are working hard to move bricks, and some are pushing wooden wheelbarrows to transport soil.

As the saying goes, forewarning will lead to failure, and failure to do so will lead to failure. Zheng Kezang made a profound self-examination and had no time to worry about the spectacle project these days. As a result, today he saw that the civilians had already started laying the foundation.

On the battlefields of the Middle East in later generations, there was a bomb master named Sheikh Omar. He once mentioned to reporters that the bombs he made could be used to make ordinary hand grenades depending on the dosage of sugar.

If natural rubber can be obtained, Zheng Kezang will immediately improve the tires of the unicycle. After all, he will probably have to deal with this thing in his life.

Sugar is an important fuel additive because of its high density of energy and high calories.

Fortunately, although the population of Yizhou Island is small, there are still a few carving masters who can do it, otherwise Zheng Kezang would be really helpless.

Thinking of the Nanjing Forbidden City that had almost disappeared in later generations, Zheng Kezang clenched his fists and looked in the direction of Yingtian Mansion.

They immediately carried out a devastating transformation. They demolished the main hall and converted it into a government office, military camp or private house as a place for the bannermen to live.

In 1699 AD, Kangxi ordered that the well-preserved palace parts of the Yingtianfu Forbidden City be dismantled and transported to Fayu Temple in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang to build the Nine Dragon Guanyin Hall.

The caisson on the top of this magnificent hall is engraved with the pattern of nine dragons coiled and competing for the pearl. It is the original structure of the Nine Dragons Hall of the Ming Palace. Such a symbol of the supreme position was originally strictly prohibited for people to transgress, but Kangxi did not

It was deliberately placed in the Guanyin Hall to show the revered status of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

But this respect is demonstrated by the relics of the Ming emperor's palace, which also shows a certain contempt for the Han emperor by the foreign rulers.

Fortunately, he still has time, and Yingtianfu Forbidden City can still be rescued!
Chapter completed!