Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Chen Shao followed him and walked towards Renzi Cave, asking, "What did you find?"

Kang Tian was not so sure, but said very carefully: "There are saw marks on a section of supporting wooden beams in the ninth alley of Xinzidong."

Chen Shao quickened his pace.

Xinzidong Jiuxiang is a rescue passage dug from the corresponding position of Renzidong Jiuxiang. After Kang Tian found saw marks on the original supporting wooden beams, he immediately drove the miners out and protected the scene as much as possible.

The rescue passage was not large. Chen Shao took Fu Jiu's torch and followed Kang Tiangang ten steps inside when he saw a sudden flash of light that instantly turned into a flame with a dark red base and a blue-green outer edge. Without a second thought, he immediately pulled Kang Tian out of the rescue passage.

After a while, a black smoke rushed out following the two people.

When they reached the outside of the passage, they scattered instantly.

And the torch immediately returned to normal after leaving the rescue passage.

Looking at the black smoke that had dissipated and the torches that had returned to normal, Chen Shao's expression was solemn.

The flashing flames are caused by excessive charcoal dust in the air.

The base of the flame is dark red, which means the nitrogen dioxide in the air exceeds the standard.

The flame has a blue-green outer edge, which means that the hydrogen sulfide content in the air exceeds the standard.

Putting all these together, the first thing that came to her mind almost instantly was: gunpowder!

After taking a look at the rescue passage, Chen Shao ordered the stunned Fu Jiu, "Go and invite General Gu over!"

Fu Jiu said "Oh" and left, looking back every few steps.

Soon, Gu Feiyan came over. Seeing her grim expression, he hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

Chen Shao gestured to her: "I'm not sure yet. Go to the location ten steps from the rescue passage and see if our judgment is the same."

Gu Feiyan stretched out her hand to grab the torch from her hand, but Chen Shao dodged and said, "You can't bring torches."

So cautious? Gu Feiyan entered the rescue passage suspiciously but vigilantly, taking each step very slowly. When she reached the tenth step, she smelled the increasingly strong special odor in the air, and her expression gradually became solemn.

After taking a few more steps forward, feeling the surging gastric juice and the gradually stinging pain in her head, Gu Feiyan stopped and slowly stepped out, saying to Chen Shao, "Gunpowder!"

"It seems that our judgment is the same." Chen Shao glanced at the miners in the distance and asked Kang Tian, ​​"Did the miners who participated in the rescue here earlier show any unusual symptoms?"

Although Kang Tian did not know what gunpowder was, when he heard that there were saw marks on the supporting wooden beams here and came to check, he suffered from headaches, vomiting, and dizziness as soon as he went deeper into the tunnel. When he also considered the several miners who fainted inexplicably before him, or also complained of headaches and vomiting, he guessed a little bit.

Not daring to hide anything, Kang Tian told the whole story.

After hearing this, Chen Shao immediately instructed Chan Yi, "Put ginger slices and garlic paste into the mouths of all the poisoned people. Just hold it in your mouth, no need to swallow it. Then use silver needles to prick the Ren Zhong and Nei Guan acupoints, and moxibustion the Zu San Li acupoint."

After a pause, he continued, "Don't let them participate in the rescue in the future. Let them rest for a few days and recover as soon as possible. Also, let Shuyu go down the mountain to invite some skilled women to help take care of them."

Listening to her arrangements, Kang Tian's expression was slightly disturbed. After she finished making the arrangements and watching Chan Yi walk away quickly, he asked, "What is gunpowder?"

"Gunpowder..." Chen Shao looked at Gu Feiyan for a few times before saying, "If used well, it is a weapon to defend the country and a tool that can save miners time and effort. If used poorly, it will lead to the situation we are facing now."

Kang Tian nodded as if he understood, but didn't ask any more questions.

Chen Shao did not explain too much. From Gu Feiyan's sinister expression, she already knew that gunpowder had not yet appeared in Datong where they were. It was known that Sun Guishan was a member of the princeling party of the previous dynasty, and the iron mine in front of them was managed by Sun Guishan's younger brother Sun Guihe. What the appearance of gunpowder in the iron mine meant was obviously self-evident.

Chen Shao didn't know how to comfort him, so he simply said nothing and continued to ask Kang Tian: "Before you found the saw marks on the supporting beams, did you find any people or corpses around, or anything suspicious?"

"There is a corpse." Kang Tian pointed to the back of Renzi Cave.

There were too many corpses dug out, and the elite soldiers were unable to deal with them in time, so they formed a long line.

Chen Shao said: "Take me over there to have a look."

The body had just been dug out and was at the end of the line.

Chen Shao walked around the corpse, illuminating it from head to toe with a torch, and focused on the corpse's hands.

Although she had not yet entered the deepest part of the rescue channel to see the scene, from the reaction of the torches and the symptoms that the miners described by Kangtian, it can be inferred that the explosives did not complete the explosion process.

Why the explosion didn't complete? Maybe it was God's will. Looking at the smashed head of the corpse, Chen Shao's gaze fell on the corpse's hands again.

The hands of the corpse have been stained black by the ore. If you pull them carefully, you can still see some gunpowder powder.

Handing the torch to Gu Feiyan, Chen Shao searched the corpse for a while and took out a broken jade pendant.

It is the fourth type of jade.

The identity of the corpse seems to be not low.

Chen Shao searched again and found nothing that could prove his identity. He stood up, took the handkerchief handed to him by Fu Jiu, wiped his hands, and returned to the rescue passage.

Gu Feiyan asked: "Go in?"

Chen Shao frowned and said, "Let me think about how to get in first."

Without a gas mask or protective clothing, and without knowing how much gunpowder was in the passage, how could one protect himself...

"Don't think about it, I know." What kind of poisonous gas had he not faced during training or military exercises in his previous life? It was just gunpowder that had not exploded yet. Gu Feiyan hurried to the military tent and wrote down a list. After showing it to her, he handed it to Kang Tian, ​​"How long will it take to prepare these things?"

Kang Tian took the list and looked at the three layers of ginger-soaked linen, pig bladder oxygen storage bags, double layers of ramie cloth with river sand in between, crystal flakes embedded in leather frames, copper crowbars and tweezers, and bamboo ventilation pipes with a diameter of one foot. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "I have never seen or even heard of these things before. Although I can't guarantee how long it will take to prepare them, I will do my best as long as I can."

Gu Feiyan said readily: "Okay."

After Kang Tian left, Gu Feiyan looked at the broken jade pendants in Chen Shao's hand and asked, "Should I write a letter to your sixth brother and tell him about the gunpowder?"

Chen Shao stared at her intently: "Do you know how to make gunpowder?"

Gu Feiyan raised her eyebrows slightly: "What do you want to say?"

Chen Shao stared into her eyes and asked, "Does your army already have weapons loaded with gunpowder?"