Chapter 333

Upon learning that everything had gone smoothly, they all breathed a long sigh of relief!

Upon learning that Li Yuanba would not stay in Xianyang for long,

Li Si, Xiao He, Zhuge Liang, and Zuo Zuo Zongtang all became desperate!

Finally, they hastily wrote a letter, asking Li Yuanba to deliver it to Facing Ying Su.

Li Yuanba nodded, and then, in a flash, departed!

He still had to go pick up Zhang Liang!

Take Zhang Liang to the Xiongnu!

After descending from the court, Seeing Ying Zheng did not return to his sleeping palace.

Instead, he headed toward the Great Qin Internal Bureau of Works, the Examination Workshop!

Actually... he had not come to this place for the first time!

Rather, he had come many, many times!

Since Facing Ying Su left Xianyang, he had gone to the Great Qin Internal Bureau of Works, the Examination Workshop, almost every night!

Because... this place had brought him far too many wonders!

Paper, tea, porcelain, and also cannons, gunpowder, and so on!

According to Zhao Gao's report, all these things originated from the Examination Workshop!

This place, he said at all costs he must go see!

However... since it was night, Zhao Gao worried about his safety and advised him not to go!

With no choice, he could only endure his patience and wait until the next day!

And when he first arrived at the Examination Workshop, he was stunned on the spot!

It was too big!

It was truly too big!

This building area completely surpassed the standard of the Qin State's Examination Workshop at that time!

Yes!

After several months of expansion, the Examination Workshop had now truly grown to the extreme!

Just the land area alone had reached a terrifying ten mu!

And among them, the largest was undoubtedly the so-called Steel Factory!

Just one Steel Factory reached three mu!

And even more terrifying were the furnaces!

Steel-smelting furnaces fully seven or eight people tall!

Molten iron was poured out from inside from time to time, and there were the sounds of countless workers forging!

And seeing those incredibly exquisite steel products take shape, Seeing Ying Zheng was so shocked his mouth hung open!

He had used a steel sword forged in the steel factory to chop a bronze sword!

With just one strike, he had chopped the bronze sword in his hand into two pieces!

And this steel sword indeed had not even a scratch on its blade!

Such a terrifying weapon made Seeing Ying Zheng's heart tremble with fear!

However, even more terrifying than the steel sword was the cannon!

Although due to the lack of saltpeter mines, gunpowder had almost been cut off, yet... Seeing Ying Zheng wanting to see a cannon fired was still no problem!

Under his command, Dai Xin, having no other choice, had someone pull a cannon out to the city walls of Xianyang and directly aimed the cannon mouth at the small courtyard where Seeing Ying Zheng had previously lived!

Huh?

Why aim the cannon mouth here?

What do you want to do?

You boy have a rebellious bone!

Seeing Ying Zheng was very angry!

Zhao Gao was equally furious!

Finally, under the threats of the two, Dai Xin aimed the cannon mouth elsewhere!

Boom!

With just one shot, a small earthen mound was directly blown flat!

This scene made Seeing Ying Zheng watch with boundless excitement!

If he could possess a few hundred more cannons, what would he fear about Li Yuanba?

If one shot cannot kill him, then fire another shot!

Aim a few hundred cannons at Li Yuanba and blast him to smithereens!

I simply do not believe that even then Li Yuanba would not submit!

Seeing Ying Zheng was excited to the extreme!

He still wanted to fire two more shots, but was stopped by Dai Xin:

"No saltpeter, no black powder!"

"Hmm..."

"What is saltpeter?"

"And what is black powder?"

Seeing Ying Zheng asked curiously!

Dai Xin explained the composition of black powder to him, and also explained to him why cannons could explode and so on!

After hearing this, Ying Zheng could only marvel!

While sighing, Ying Zheng asked Dai Xin all sorts of questions about cannons, muskets, and various other firearms!

After learning the principles behind all this, Ying Zheng couldn't help but exclaim that Dai Xin was simply a genius!

At the same time, he asked the crucial question!

Where could one find saltpeter!

Dai Xin said, "The Emperor has already ordered those alchemical alchemists to search for it!"

"Alchemical alchemists? They went to find saltpeter?"

Ying Zheng was greatly surprised!

He had always thought Facing Ying Su had slaughtered them all, but he never expected they were actually sent to find saltpeter mines!

Yet he still didn't understand why those people were sent to find saltpeter mines!

"Because... in the entire Great Qin, only these people understand saltpeter!"

"They?"

"Why?"

Ying Zheng, like a curious child, asked questions left and right!

Dai Xin said, "Because... they need saltpeter to refine elixirs!"

"Refining elixirs... requires... using saltpeter?"

One sentence nearly choked Ying Zheng to death!

He hadn't known what saltpeter was before, but today he learned.

And those alchemical alchemists actually used saltpeter to refine the Elixir of Immortality for him?

In that moment, he was utterly shocked to death!

Moreover, what shocked him even more was... Dai Xin explaining the origin of the current saltpeter!

It turned out... it was all scraped from outhouses?

"Scraped... scraped from outhouses... to refine elixirs for me?"

149. Li Yuanba: I want to chat with Ying Zheng!

At this very moment, Ying Zheng felt his stomach churn violently, rising with an intense urge to vomit!

He was almost about to vomit up even yesterday's meal!

After all, he had been counting on those Immortal Elixirs for immortality!

These people actually dared to pass off things scraped from outhouses as Immortal Elixirs?