Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

After Shi Miao finished explaining, Yu Chong nodded, agreeing with the other party's point of view.

However, they cannot solve this problem for the time being, because they need time to continuously research and experiment on the purification problem, but what they lack most now is time.

The Huns were about to move south and they could not try again for the time being. They needed to make more gunpowder and send it to the border as soon as possible.

"That's it for now. Next, we need to speed up the production of gunpowder and defeat the Huns first."

Shi Miao felt a little reluctant when he heard Yu Yuan say that he would not try to study gunpowder for the time being.

Although his living conditions were a little worse during the days he lived in the yard, his food was very good.

Not only were there soy products that people have been discussing a lot during this period, but there were also fried chicken and stir-fried vegetables, which made his mouth drool with oil.

After only a few days of eating delicious food, he has decided that if the diet can remain in this state, he is willing to risk his life every day to make this explosive.

Shi Miao is not afraid of making gunpowder now. In fact, as long as he is careful, it is not as dangerous as he thought. He is afraid that after he stops making gunpowder, the delicacies he likes to eat will also be gone.

Another thing is that he is not as obsessed with alchemy as his master, but he is very interested in gunpowder that can split rocks and blow up pits.

At first he did it with the mentality of saving his life, but now he has made making powerful explosives his life goal.

Being able to eat delicious food and do what he likes, Shi Miao is very satisfied with his current life and even hopes to continue his research.

But he was a prisoner to begin with, and it was already good enough for him to be able to keep his life, eat delicious food, and not do heavy work. How could he dare to express his own opinions? He just did whatever Yu Chong said.

So in the following days, he and some other people began to make gunpowder day and night, trying to make more in a shorter time.

I did this for three or four days, and suddenly one day some people came into the yard.

As a fairly successful con man, Shi Miao had a certain vision.

When he saw Yu Chong inviting people in with an extremely respectful attitude, and then saw the aura of those people, he immediately realized that these people should be higher officials than Yu Chong.

Realizing this, he did not dare to step out and obediently knelt down with the others. When the officials said they wanted to test the power of gunpowder, he followed them out.

As soon as he reached the door, he saw a man younger than Yu Chong, sitting on a chair with a pale face. Next to him was a young man with outstanding temperament, who handed the cup in his hand to him.

The young man took a few sips of water and spoke in a somewhat unhappy tone when he saw them come out.

"Your Majesty, I said I can ride a horse with Jiang Huai, why do we have to take a carriage? I really can't ride in a carriage here, I will get carsick!"

The middle-aged man walking in front of the crowd sighed: "Do you think I don't want you to ride a horse? If it weren't for your safety, why would I do this?"

"Oh, if I had known this would happen I wouldn't have come."

"You are the only one who has seen gunpowder before. How can I know how they make it if you don't come?"

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Shi Miao could no longer hear what the young man and the middle-aged man said next. All he could hear were the words "Your Majesty" and "I".

Isn't Your Majesty the emperor? Isn't "I" the emperor's self-proclaimed title? In Daxia, only the emperor can be called that. The emperor dares to call himself that. No one else dares!

Thinking of this, Shi Miao's legs went weak and he knelt down. He thought the person coming was at most a higher-ranking official, but he didn't expect it to be His Majesty himself.

He was an ordinary citizen whose parents died when he was young, a liar who made a living by lying, and he never thought that one day he would meet the emperor.

He felt fear, panic, and indescribable pride in his heart. A man like him actually got to see the Emperor!

The sound of Shi Miao kneeling down was so loud that the two people who were talking immediately turned their eyes to him.

"Is this Shi Miao?"

"Your Majesty, he is Shi Miao."

Normally, after the superior introduced himself to the emperor, the subordinates should kneel down and worship the emperor. However, at this moment, Shi Miao was so affected by the huge surprise and shock that his brain was no longer working.

He heard Yu Chong's words, but he didn't react immediately to what the other party said.

"Shi Miao!"

Yu Chong didn't expect that this man who was quite calm and smart in front of him would be dumbfounded when he heard the title of His Majesty.

He was about to call out again when he saw Jiang Qi waving at him and walking up to Shi Miao.

"Are you Shi Miao?"

With the little rationality he had left, Shi Miao finally reacted after hearing Jiang Qi's words.

He kowtowed several times, saying, "I greet your majesty!"

"Okay, no need to be so polite. I heard that you used to follow your master in making pills?"

"Your Majesty, I have realized my mistake and will never dare to make pills again."

Jiang Qi was very satisfied with Shi Miao's ability to understand the situation: "Well, it's good that you know your mistakes. Although you can't make pills, you can still make gunpowder.

I came here to see the gunpowder you made. If it is good, I can exempt you from punishment and even consider letting you become an official."

An official? How could a liar like him be an official? This news shocked Shi Miao again. Fortunately, his daze was short this time. He quickly came to his senses and kowtowed a few more times.

"Your Majesty, I will do my best to make more powerful gunpowder for you and will not let you down."

The conversation between Jiang Qi and Shi Miao opened Jiang Tuan's eyes, and even his motion sickness was relieved a lot.

He knew that the ancient people had a natural filter for emperors. Some people even sincerely believed that the emperor was the son of heaven and the son of dragon, and they worshipped and respected him immensely.

It's just that he had never seen it in person, so he didn't have much feeling about it.

After he arrived in Daxia, most of the people he met were either ministers, palace slaves, or princes and princesses.

Those people were in awe of Jiang Qi, but perhaps because they had seen a lot or had received systematic training, their awe of him was not beyond his imagination.

The last time he looked at the waterwheel, he saw people kowtowing towards the direction of the Great Xia Palace, and he felt that he could understand it.

If he lived in ancient times when people were hungry and cold, and someone gave him food and drink and allowed him to live a good life, he would kowtow to the rebels, not to mention the emperor.

And Shi Miao's performance today was the first time that he directly felt the emperor's influence on the people.

Just knowing that it was the emperor and just speaking a few words to the emperor, he was so excited that he almost fainted and was willing to swear allegiance to him until death. This was really amazing.

He used to think that some people in history would bow down to famous kings, princes, generals and ministers, which was a bit exaggerated. Now he knows that it is not an exaggeration, but he does not understand the psychological state of ancient people well enough.

That kind of excitement was definitely much more exaggerated than when some fans see their idols.