Chapter 274: A Cold Sweat
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“It was the gunpowder.”
A few days ago, snow had begun falling in Qingzhou, covering the land in a thick, unbroken white blanket. It was now the season for admiring the snow.
In his free time, Xiao Ming often sat in the tower of the Prince’s Residence, quietly working on writing educational materials.
“Gunpowder? So that means there was nothing wrong with Chang’an’s bronze cannon?” Pang Yukun asked with concern.
“It was both fine—and not fine,” Xiao Ming replied calmly.
From the moment he introduced cannons, he had anticipated others would try to copy them.
And since the Machinery Department in Chang’an was capable of producing fire lances—very similar to cannons in design—it showed they already had a mold-based production method.
So, replicating a cannon using that technique wasn’t hard. In fact, in real history, the Ming Dynasty rapidly copied European firearms like the folangji and red-coated cannon.
Imitation was inevitable.
That’s why Xiao Ming had released an export version of the cannon. He sold it while deliberately hiding its full capabilities—misleading others into thinking this was what Qingzhou’s cannons were truly like.