The Might of Gunpowder
In the Great Tang, catching fish could not be done with a net, so it could only be done with fishing.
Fishing was a very test of patience. Lin Fei was twelve years old and was in the active stage. In terms of patience, he could not compare to people like Wei Zheng. That was why he did not even think about it and casually said that he would take Lin Fei as his master if he lost.
Li Shiming also thought so, which was why he agreed to Lin Fei's unreasonable condition of choosing the princess himself. Otherwise, it was always the princess who chose others. Why would others choose the princess?
However, they did not know that Lin Fei had long understood Wei Zheng's tricks. He had no intention of competing with him in patience. He did not have Wei Zheng's patience. He sat on the ground and slowly waited for the fish to take the bait. What he wanted to do was to clean up all the fish in the pond without leaving any dregs for Wei Zheng.
The match began. Li Shiming brought everyone to a fish pond in the palace. Wei Zheng sat by the side and waited for the fish to take the bait with a hook that he had prepared beforehand.
Not only was Wei Zheng patient, but his fishing skills were also very good. Not long after, he had already caught three fish. Lin Fei had not started fishing yet and had been watching Wei Zheng fish from the side.
"Are you planning to admit defeat?" Wei Zheng frowned and said to Lin Fei. Although he knew that he had won for sure, he did not like his opponent to admit defeat directly. This would affect the sense of accomplishment after winning.
"No hurry, no hurry. You should catch a few more first.”Lin Fei waved his hand indifferently.
When the officials saw Lin Fei's appearance, they all laughed. They all said that Lin Fei knew that he was bound to lose, so he did not even dare to compete and was prepared to admit defeat.
Lin Fei ignored the mockery of the officials. He let them act tough first. They would be embarrassed later.
After a while, Lin Fei asked the guards for a piece of papyrus. He wrote on it: sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal ash, and other materials needed to prepare explosives. He also added oilcloth, bamboo tubes, white sugar, and more than ten other things. Then, he had to hand them over to the guards and let them prepare these things for him.
Lin Fei was going to prepare explosives. Why did he add more than a dozen irrelevant materials? It was because he knew the power of explosives. After today, explosives would definitely be an important weapon of the Tang Empire. Therefore, he did not want too many people to know the formula of explosives, so he added more than a dozen materials to confuse some people.
The guard took the paper from Lin Fei and asked Li Shiming. After Li Shiming agreed, he went to prepare.
After a while, the guard returned with the things and handed them all to Lin Fei.
After Lin Fei took everything, he asked Li Shiming to find him a place where no one was around. He wanted to prepare explosives.
Li Shiming glanced at Lin Fei. He didn't know what Lin Fei wanted to do, but he agreed readily. He wanted to see what this child could do.
Li Shiming agreed. Immediately, a guard brought Lin Fei to an empty room. Then, the guard consciously retreated, leaving Lin Fei alone inside.
After confirming that there was no one else in the room, Lin Fei began to prepare the explosives according to the recipe in the Encyclopedia.
Two hours later, Lin Fei returned to the competition venue with a waterproof explosive bag.
Wei Zheng saw that Lin Fei had nothing else other than the big bag in his hand, so he mocked,"Are you going to use this thing to smash the fish to death?”
Lin Fei ignored him and said to Li Shiming,"Emperor, please let everyone watch from afar. The thing in my hand is very powerful, I'm afraid it will hurt everyone.”
"What about Wei Zheng?" The others were here to watch the show. There was not much difference between standing far away and watching close up. However, Wei Zheng was a participant. He had already left, so why was he still competing like this?
"This is very simple. After I blow up the explosives in my hand, all the fish in the pond that are not killed by me will be Lord Wei's.”
Lin Fei said that the rest of the live fish would be Wei Zheng's, but he knew that after the explosive bag exploded in the pond, there would be no more live fish in the pond. In order to give Li Shiming a big blow, he had prepared ten kilograms of explosives.
Although his explosives were not as powerful as in the future due to the materials used, it was not a problem for them to be killed by all the fish in a pond.
"Minister Wei, what do you think?" After all, this was Wei Zheng's match, so Li Shimin still asked for Wei Zheng's opinion first.
"I have no problem!" Wei Zheng agreed.
Wei Zheng agreed, and Li Shimin had no more questions. The officials didn't dare to say anything more and left with Li Shimin.
Soon, Lin Fei was the only one left within 200 meters of the pond.
He took out a match from his pocket. This was the first thing he had prepared after coming to the Great Tang. Because the flint of the Great Tang was too difficult to use, he had made a batch of matches according to the Encyclopedia.
After lighting the explosives with a match, Lin Fei quickly threw the explosives into the pond and ran desperately towards Li Shimin. In order to give the Tang officials a shocking scene, he deliberately cut the fuse short, so he had to run desperately.
Just as Lin Fei ran to Li Shiming, a shocking explosion came from behind. Then, the entire palace shook. Because Li Shiming and the others were close, the shock was even stronger. This made some officials lose their balance and fall to the ground.
The officials who were still standing were not any better. Their mouths were wide open as they looked at the mushroom cloud that was slowly rising in the direction of the pond.
"This…" Li Shimin was the only one who was calm, but he still couldn't say anything.
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