"Yamachō, this firecracker is so powerful when it explodes. Have you ever thought of using it against your enemies?"
Yunshan Villa. Li Zexuan had just sent off Pang Feiji when the bearded guest arrived. The moment the bearded guest sat down, he asked such a strange question.
Li Zexuan's heart moved. He raised his head to look at the bearded guest and asked, "Mr. Zhang San, why would you have such an idea?"
"Yesterday, Cheng Chumo used that firecracker and almost injured me. Last night, I thought of a problem. If Yamachō's firecracker was even more powerful, wouldn't it be able to threaten some of the Jianghu experts?"
The bearded guest was silent for a moment before he said expressionlessly.
Li Zexuan did not expect the bearded guest to think in this direction. Wasn't the firecracker he was talking about equivalent to modern firearms?
"It's like this! In fact, as far as I know, there is a weapon that works in a similar way to firecrackers. It has something similar to a hidden weapon hidden in it, and this hidden weapon can be propelled by a material. Its speed is not inferior to that of an ordinary grandmaster. This weapon has very low requirements for the user. Ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts can easily use it! I call this weapon a firearm! "
Actually, the firearm he was talking about was a gun.
China was the first to invent gunpowder. However, it was initially used to make firecrackers. Foreigners were inspired by gunpowder and made guns. Li Zexuan felt that when he led Tang Dynasty's industry to a certain level, guns and cannons would definitely be made.
The bearded guest was even more shocked. He did not suspect that Li Zexuan was lying or exaggerating. Previously, when he saw the detailed sea map, it already proved that Li Zexuan had some kind of ability to know everything. Therefore, when he heard Li Zexuan describe a firearm, his first reaction was not suspicion, but shock! If the firearm Li Zexuan said really existed, then the matter would be more serious than what he was worried about last night!
"Firearm? Yamachō, in this firearm, does it also use the black powder from firecrackers? "
"That's right! But I call that powder gunpowder! Different uses would lead to different formulas for gunpowder. Correspondingly, the power of gunpowder would also be different! The gunpowder in the firecrackers is the least powerful type of gunpowder! "
Li Zexuan said indifferently.
He understood that because the bearded man was highly skilled in martial arts, it was inevitable that he would be somewhat arrogant. Now that he had instilled a bit of knowledge on firearms into this bearded man, perhaps it would give birth to a trace of reverence in his heart!
"The least powerful one!"
The bearded man's pupils constricted. At this moment, he felt that he was like a frog at the bottom of a well. "Right! A few months ago, the Serpent Spirit Mountain was destroyed overnight. Yamachō, did you use those so-called firearms? "
Having been in Chang 'an for so long, the bearded man had already investigated everything about Li Zexuan, so it was not surprising that he knew about the Snake Spirit Mountain.
The corner of Li Zexuan's mouth twitched. Was he shooting himself in the foot? Originally, he wanted to 'open the eyes' of the bearded man and make him feel some reverence. He did not expect the bearded man to hit the nail on the head and guess the real reason for the destruction of the Serpent Spirit Mountain!
The inside story was top secret at the moment! Only he and Li Er knew about it!
"More or less!"
Li Zexuan gloomily gave an ambiguous answer.
The bearded man sucked in a breath of cold air. He was really frightened by the power of the firearms described by Li Zexuan. A powerful Jianghu sect was actually annihilated just like that. In the face of firearms, a person's bravery seemed so weak at this moment!
"Sigh! Doesn't that mean that all the hard work we put into practicing martial arts in the winter and summer is all in vain? In the end, we can't even compare to an ordinary person with a firearm? "
The bearded man suddenly let out a long sigh, and his aura became much more depressed.
Li Zexuan was stunned. Only then did he understand the true purpose of the bearded man's visit today. It turned out that this bearded man was almost hurt by the fireworks yesterday, causing his martial arts heart to suffer a blow!
"Haha! Mister Zhang San's words are wrong! "
Li Zexuan pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "Firstly, practicing martial arts is not for the sake of fighting with others. Mister Zhang San's martial arts understanding shouldn't be so shallow for you to have such great strength today.
Secondly, practicing martial arts can strengthen one's body and even prolong one's life. A person's life is short. What could be more important than living for another two years?
Thirdly, although firearms are powerful, normal firearms will not be able to hurt a martial arts expert of your level! Furthermore, if both parties have firearms, a martial arts expert will definitely be much better at using firearms than an ordinary person! Furthermore, when faced with firearms, a martial arts expert will obviously have a higher chance of survival compared to an ordinary person.
Fourthly, if Tang Dynasty can really create firearms in the future, it will only be in the hands of the imperial court. The commoners will definitely not have them. Martial arts practitioners who abide by the law will not have to worry about the threat of firearms!
Therefore, in conclusion, martial arts practitioners will have an advantage whether or not firearms exist in this world! Mister Zhang San, there is no need for you to doubt martial arts! "
The bearded man seemed to have understood something. After a moment of silence, he stood up and clasped his fists. "Looks like I'm wrong! I'm a few decades old, but I can't see through things as clearly as Yamachō. I'm ashamed! Since that's the case, I won't disturb you any further! Goodbye! "
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the door.
Li Zexuan shook his head helplessly. What the Bearded Guest did today actually made him feel quite refreshed. A peerless expert could actually see the threat from the firecrackers. This kind of unique eyesight, there was no one else like him!
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When it was close to noon, Pang Feiji returned with a few bags of materials. Li Zexuan inspected them, then went straight to the backyard to do his experiments.
He wanted to create real fireworks, fireworks of different colors and shapes!
In order to achieve this goal, he had to add something to the fireworks!
In fact, every modern firework was made up of a "pod", and each pod could be called a star. These stars had a diameter of about 1 to 1.5 inches (3 to 4 cm). In a firework explosion, the atoms of each star would absorb energy, and when they lost the excess energy, they would produce light. Different chemical substances would release different amounts of energy, thus producing different colors of light.
For example, when sodium nitrate was heated, the electrons in the sodium atoms would absorb energy and become excited. When the electrons transitioned from a high energy level to a low energy level, they would release about 200 kilojoules per mole of energy, which was the energy of yellow light.
This was known as the flame reaction in chemistry.
When different metals were burned, the light they emitted was different. For example, calcium's flame reaction was the red color of bricks.
Copper's flame reaction was blue, and potassium's flame reaction was purple. There were also many other metal elements that had their own unique colors.
Now that he knew the color of the flame, he could understand how the colorful fireworks were made. In fact, different metal elements were put into the fireworks according to different proportions. After the fireworks were ignited, they would produce different flame reactions in the sky and emit different colors of light.
As for how to control the flame shape of the fireworks when they exploded in the sky, the person who made the fireworks had to arrange the positions of the metal elements according to a certain order!
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