Chapter 18, New Ideas
"Have you encountered a difficult situation?"
The person who spoke was an old lady carrying a bamboo basket on her back. The huge bamboo basket was pressed against her back and her waist couldn't even straighten.
After being suddenly interrupted, Yuan Chenming raised his head blankly. It was difficult to make a smile, but he changed into a respectful saying: "Old grandma, how did you see it?"
"Sit there curled up, don't you tell me!"
The old lady smiled kindly, and the years left heavy marks on her face: "Young man, you are an uneducated country lady. But you know that people encounter many bumps and bumps in their lives, and you can't fall and stop climbing up.
I have suffered hardships and said I have been tired, and I always have to live my life. Don’t be sad anymore, want to have something happy, stand up and continue walking.”
After saying that, the old lady carried a bamboo basket and walked slowly along the rugged ramp.
Yuan Chenming sat in the same place and thoughtfully. The old lady's words were simple and she said something was reasonable.
I remember someone once said: Who would have thought that the eighteenth floor of hell, and the last floor is the human world. If you don’t believe it, look at the gods in heaven, and you will be demoted to the earth if you make mistakes.
He also deeply agrees with the suffering, hardship, and becoming negative.
But from another perspective, the world may be heaven. When a god is bound by the rules of heaven, he can do nothing.
Being a mortal, without the constraints of rules and regulations, you will have the freedom to do things.
You have to face various difficulties when doing things, and solve all the difficulties on the road and achieve the fruits of success. That kind of joy is difficult for people who have smooth sailing to experience.
It's just a grenade, it can really stump him.
With an optimistic perspective, Yuan Chenming felt relaxed as if he had become an immortal. He wanted to call the old lady and thank her for her advice.
It was only then that I noticed that the old lady's bamboo basket was full of yellowed autumn vegetables.
He hurried up and wanted to carry the old lady's back.
"No need for a young man. You see, you are a student, and you are weak and inappropriate."
How could Yuan Chenming look at an old man who could be his grandmother and walk on the mountain road with such a basket of things on his back?
"I'll try it, try it."
A bamboo basket of vegetables pressed on the back was like a mountain. Every step forward had to use great power.
After about a hundred steps into the village, he walked for three minutes, with beans of sweat covering his forehead.
It is hard to imagine how the old lady's dry and thin body carried back this bamboo basket of autumn vegetables.
After a few breaths, he said, "Grandma, let me slow down first, I won't believe it. Today, I must deliver this basket of vegetables to you."
"Don't be anxious, take your time." The old man smiled kindly, muttering.
As he walked and stopped along the way, Yuan Chenming discovered that when he met the curious warriors in the past, his eyes were incorrect today.
It was a look of looking at one's own people, as if at this moment, the soldiers regarded him as their own people, rather than a guest who had lived in a few days.
Two other soldiers came forward to ask if he needed help, but he was very proud of his face and refused to do this little thing alone.
Half an hour later, I carried the autumn vegetables to the old lady's house. He was fluttering and drank the bowl of water the old lady brought him, and his heart was particularly sweet.
Isn't this what he can do?
After a while of rest.
Yuan Chenming came out of the old lady's house and happened to meet Wang Desheng who came to find him.
"Where have you gone? I'm looking for you!" Wang Desheng's face was full of anxiety, and he stepped forward and grabbed Yuan Chenming's hand tightly, as if he was afraid of running away.
Knowing someone's virtue, he really thought that the great scholar ran away in anger.
If someone hadn't told him that the big scholar was here, he would have pulled out the entire company and searched all over the mountain.
After a breath of relief, he said, "Sulphur, I have asked someone to go find it at any cost. Go back with me and wait with you.
If no one brings the sulfur back tomorrow, I will tell the team leader to delay the time.
You can’t deny your hard work these days because of natural disasters.”
This is the only way that Wang Desheng thought of. In order to retain talents, he was willing to do so.
How could Yuan Chenming not know about the instructor’s heart?
He looked at the instructor gratefully, "Actually, I thought of a lot when I calmed down. It was just a joke bet, and it was not embarrassing to lose.
As long as our stuff is done well, the soldiers can better kill the Japanese with it, and they will earn all the face they lost."
"It seems that I'm too worried. It's good that you can think like this." Wang Desheng was obviously relieved. His political work experience was not very effective in putting it on someone.
You can only use the method of empathy to bring closer and deepen your feelings.
Yuan Chenming did not notice the emotional changes of the instructor. He suddenly felt inspiration when he was drinking water just now and remembered a new explosive - fertilizer explosive.
One nitrate, disulfide and three charcoal are the formula for black gunpowder, and they are also the most widely circulated.
Among them, more than 2/3 of the used nitrate account for a proportion of nitrate, but is this only one use?
No, as he mentioned before, it can be used to make leather and ice cubes. In fact, it also serves as a fertilizer.
In 1659, German scientist Grauber produced ammonium nitrate for the first time, with a slightly lower nitrogen content than urea, but more stable, so it is mainly used as a chemical fertilizer and can also be used to make laughing gas.
In the early years, pure ammonium nitrate could be used as chemical fertilizers, but later it did not work. The main reason was that nitric acid and other substances could turn into explosives.
In the 316 major case, the criminals used ammonium nitrate explosives, causing more than 100 deaths, causing a sensation.
In the early years, there were also small workshops who bought this thing as fertilizer, processed it into explosives privately, and sold it to mine owners, making several times the huge profits.
However, ammonium nitrate has a dangerous characteristic - it is not resistant to high temperatures and starts to decompose at 160 degrees, which is equivalent to catching an open flame.
I secretly did this in private, and by accident, my whole family ascended to heaven.
Sometimes I hear that a certain fertilizer plant exploded. It doesn’t have to be too strange, it may be because of the production of this thing.
If the quantity is large enough, for example, 2100 tons, and 900 tons are added, the power of the explosion is like a small atomic bomb, and it is not a problem to flatten a city.
Don't ask him how he knew, the biggest bomb in Texas City, USA after World War II.
With an indescribable loud bang, the 600-meter-high mushroom cloud spread 240 kilometers away.
The glass in Houston, 60 kilometers away, was shattered; two unlucky sightseeing planes were "blown" off the wings by shock waves and crashed...
The final count was nearly 6,000 casualties, accounting for 1/4 of the population of the entire small city.
It’s all fragmented time-hunting news that made him remember so much.
In fact, after thinking so much, he finally wanted to try whether he could make this explosive and temporarily replace the black gunpowder and fill it into the grenade.
He doesn't know whether it will succeed, but it's better to try it than sit down!
He told Wang Desheng what he thought, and Wang Desheng also agreed quite well. Anyway, having something to do is better than being furious.
Today, we are having a show of friendship and publicity teams. Don’t go to watch it?
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Warm reminder: Manufacturing and transporting explosives will violate the criminal law.
Do not imitate unless you travel through time.
It’s not that I’m nagging, it’s that this is really dangerous. When I was writing, I also specifically checked the formula of ammonium nitrate explosives, but I didn’t find it.
Chapter completed!