Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

Wu Zhenhai and Kang Yunxiang, who were about to retreat to settle their men first, frowned and exchanged glances, seeing confusion and puzzlement in each other's eyes.

"Chemistry...Chemistry Department? Master Zhang?"

"Flame-proof clothing?"

The two of them struggled to understand this short but extremely confusing sentence, but ultimately failed to detoxify it.

Chemistry Department: Hmm, this is a word I’ve never heard of before.

Fireproof clothing: literally means clothing that can prevent fire - don't clothes catch fire easily? It's not enough to be afraid of fire, how can we be fireproof?

But when the two were confused.

Wang Jinnian, their current and future superior, had his eyes lit up, his face lit with excitement. "Oh? They're really fast! Hurry and invite them in! Your Majesty is truly wise! The conditions in our Firearms Department are getting better and better!"

Although the safety factor of muskets has been improved by many levels now.

But after all, we are dealing with flammable and explosive things.

Fireproof clothing for them.

No, I am not important.

The person who reported received Wang Jinnian's instructions and turned to leave. Wang Jinnian rubbed his hands with anticipation, obviously a little excited and impatient.

"What Chemical Department, what flame-resistant clothing... ? Lord Wang seems to attach great importance to and look forward to it?" Kang Yunxiang whispered to Wu Zhenhai.

Wu Zhenhai stared at the man's back, pondering for a moment before shaking his head. "I don't understand, but Taoist Master Zhang Yuqing... could he be the younger brother of Zhang Yuchu, the Heavenly Master of the Zhengyi Sect? Rumor has it that he has the potential to be the next Heavenly Master?"

Being reminded by Wu Zhenhai.

Kang Yunxiang also remembered and nodded in a low voice, "It's him! He was ordered by His Majesty to come to Yingtian Prefecture last year. He was highly regarded by His Majesty and was recruited into the Alchemy Department to make elixirs for His Majesty."

"That's a master! Who knows if he can really make an elixir of immortality?"

"Didn't I just tell you? You're here to deliver... fireproof clothing. What does that have to do with alchemy? I don't understand. This Alchemy Department is really weird."

The two of them were talking in low voices.

I couldn't help but feel curious.

Although the two of them now knew the core secrets of the Firearms Department, they had never been exposed to the so-called "chemistry" and still had little idea of ​​the entire Alchemy Department.

In their view.

The Alchemy Department is a cover for His Majesty to secretly develop his own power. But at the same time, after all, he once recruited many alchemists, Taoist priests, alchemists... and other talented people with such fanfare, and everyone knows that there are quite a few of them.

If the purpose of finding alchemists is purely for cover-up, it would be enough to find a few symbolic people. Why is it necessary to find so many people?

Could it be that they were also trying to train these Taoists and alchemists into sharpshooters? They were good at cultivating the Dao and refining elixirs, but they couldn't handle these kinds of fighting and killing, right?

From this perspective.

In this alchemy department, alchemy must still be done.

Holding the supreme power in the world, which emperor would not want to live forever?

Therefore, even though Wang Jinnian once arrogantly complained, "Who among the serious people still makes elixirs?", they subconsciously thought that perhaps Wang Jinnian, as the manager who holds the most powerful weapons, was just contemptuous of these Taoists and alchemists who had different beliefs and could not work together.

While the two were talking curiously, the man from before came over with a middle-aged Taoist priest in a plain grey robe. It must be Taoist Master Zhang Yuqing from the Zhengyi Sect.

Behind the other party, there were people pushing several carts full of things.

Zhang Yuqing politely lowered his eyes and nodded. "According to His Majesty's instructions, the first batch will prioritize all our alchemy personnel. Therefore, a total of 3,000 fireproof suits were produced this time. We don't have many people in the Chemistry Department, so we kept 200 for ourselves. The remaining 2,800 were sent to the Firearms Department."

After saying that, Zhang Yuqing ordered people to lift the cover on the cart.

Revealing neatly arranged fireproof clothing.

This number was given to him by Zhu Yunhuan, and it was of course very suitable - just enough to supply the original 500-plus people in the Firearms Department plus the two new thousand-household personnel.

However, the principle of this batch of fire-resistant clothing is that it is made of ordinary cotton cloth that has been specially impregnated, and it looks no different from ordinary cotton clothes in appearance.

Kang Yunxiang curled his lips. Although his mind was full of questions about the scene before him, he did not interrupt. He only whispered to Wu Zhenhai, "Is this a fireproof suit? When I heard the name, I thought there really was clothing that could resist fire."

Wu Zhenhai narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not dare to make a direct assertion like Kang Yunxiang.

After all, he had already witnessed the weirdness and unusualness of this alchemy department.

As soon as Kang Yunxiang finished speaking, Zhang Yuqing smiled faintly and said, "Although you and I both belong to the Alchemy Department, the rules set by His Majesty cannot be abolished. Lord Wang will count the quantity, inspect the results, and sign before the handover is completed."

Zhu Yunhuan had indeed established strict procedures and rules for such an important and confidential place as the Alchemy Department, based on the following basic management practices of later generations. First, to clarify responsibilities and powers, second, to leave traces to prevent unauthorized transfers, and third, to ensure quality...

So Wang Jinnian didn't bother to be polite with him.

He nodded directly and said to the person next to him, "It's the same as before. We will conduct random inspections according to the proportion, test the results, and count the quantity."

The people around were all familiar with the situation and didn't think it was strange: "Yes, sir."

Immediately afterwards, someone counted and checked the fire-resistant clothing brought by Zhang Yuqing, and ignited it to test its fire-resistant performance.

The fireproof clothing that was randomly selected for inspection was quickly burned by the torches one by one - close to the flames but not burning! !

Wu Zhenhai and Kang Yunxiang, who were standing silently by, were confused again...